But in the study room of Xianyang Palace, the lights were as bright as day.
The person who came to visit late at night was Lu Huanzhi, one of the subordinates of Yama Luo, whom he had met last time when he came to Xianyang.
The two parties had been moving around quite a lot recently. Lu Huanzhi was introduced to the study. After seeing the ceremony, he said: "My King Yama has learned that in the Three Realms, there is a ripe peach fairy root, which is a gift of the Human Emperor. Therefore, he sent me to ask about it and wanted to ask for it."
Take two."
It turned out that I came here smelling the peaches... the information was quite good.
Lu Huanzhi added: "King Yama ordered me to bring many rare treasures in exchange for fairy peaches."
Zhao Huaizhong said: "I plan to use the Yin soldiers under your king's command to do something. You go back and tell Yama that if it is feasible to borrow the Yin soldiers, I will allow him to ask for the fairy peach."
"I wonder how many Yin soldiers the king wants to borrow?"
Lu Huanzhi was a little surprised that Zhao Huaizhong would request to borrow Yin soldiers.
As far as he knew, the Human Emperor had a million-strong army and was in charge of the center of the vast land of China. He was very powerful. Why did he need to borrow Yin soldiers?
"A fairy peach borrows 50,000 Yin soldiers. Go back and ask Yama how much you can borrow."
Lu Huanzhi asked nervously: "I dare you, I would like to ask the Human Emperor to borrow the Yin soldiers. How much will it cost? When used up... will they all be returned?"
"The amount of consumption is still uncertain, but at most it will not exceed half. You should return it when you use it up." Zhao Huaizhong said calmly.
So Lu Huanzhi left Xianyang in a jittery manner, drove the underworld chariot and horses, traveled thousands of miles, returned to the underworld, and reported the matter to Yama Luo.
Borrowing Yin soldiers, Zhao Huaizhong planned to use Yin soldiers to garrison the terracotta warriors...
If this combination is feasible, Zhao Huaizhong will push the soldiers to attack the demon clan, and there will definitely be losses in the process.
Because of its experimental nature, there are uncertainties.
Therefore, Zhao Huaizhong was reluctant to use his own soldiers, so he used the Yin soldiers under Yama Luo's command to test it.
Later, I plan to release the terracotta warriors to confront the monsters to see the effect.
After Lu Huanzhi left, Zhao Huaizhong went to the morning court.
The ministers began to report on matters under their jurisdiction.
Qinjing’s second sowing this year is now underway.
Qin Kingdom is currently experiencing demon troubles externally, but things are improving internally.
In addition, Qin Gang completed the second national border area measurement and census after unifying the six countries.
This national border measurement was conducted by Zhang Cang, the chief mathematician of this era, who participated in the calculation and presided over the measurement.
Historically, after Qin unified the six kingdoms, its land area was close to four million square kilometers, which was almost two-fifths of the territory of China in later generations.
However, according to this calculation, the actual land area of Qin was obviously much larger than that of the same period in history.
The extra part is the change brought about by the unblocking of the ends of the earth and the growth of the earth's veins in recent years.
This change is becoming more and more obvious and faster.
In the history of Chinese dynasties, the period with the largest land area was the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, they conquered all the places they could and even defeated the Roman Empire's coalition forces. The whole of Europe was shaken and the Christian world was in panic.
The Yuan Dynasty also defeated the Crusaders in Western Asia.
If it weren't for the natural chasm blocking the road, Yin heading southwest would have had to kneel down at that time.
Its land area directly under its jurisdiction is two or three times that of later generations, and it is undoubtedly the largest country in ancient times.
At this time, when the size of the country's border was mentioned, Zhao Huaizhong was also agitated. He felt that the territory in his hands was too small and was not conducive to the depth.
In addition, during this period, Zhao Huaizhong began to implement the farming system in Qin.
Tuntian was originally an agricultural collective farming system organized and operated by the governments of successive dynasties after the Han Dynasty in order to obtain military supplies or tax grains.
The advantages of the farming system are that it is highly organized, has a large area of arable land, uses advanced farming methods, has high labor productivity, and has a high fiscal revenue rate, which can further enrich the country and strengthen the army.
Great men of later generations also said that an army should be used as two teams, which can not only fight, but also farm and engage in production.
This is the reason why the production department was born later.
Promoting the farming system can reduce the double burden of farmers in this era on raising the army and the army itself.
Last time I came to the world, I saw Zhao Huaizhong going to the fields in person. It was him who was promoting the implementation of the farming system.
In this era, the role of the army was to fight, and there was no such thing as farming.
From generals to soldiers, there is a lack of attention and awareness of farming and reclaiming wasteland, and there is even some resistance.
Zhao Huaizhong relied on his strong prestige among the Qin army to take the lead, weaken the resistance of the Qin army, and then promote the implementation of the farming system.
After repelling the demon tribe, he also planned to expand the territory of Qin to the north, incorporate parts of Inner Mongolia into the country, add horse farms, and further promote the farming system.
At the court meeting, the ministers and Zhao Huaizhong discussed various state affairs.
"According to His Majesty's order, a total of twelve additional temples have been built in various places outside the Baiguan Hall. It is expected to introduce sages and great saints, and hundreds of schools of thought will be among them." Lu Buwei said in the memorial.
This is what I hope to implement the last time I came into the world.
This is a development and promotion of the theories of various schools of thought. It is the essence of a period when the source of Chinese thought was the most glorious and diverse, and a hundred schools of thought flourished. Through the array of mind power, it allows the public to have a broader and more open understanding and choice.
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The advantage of doing this is that it no longer stifles hundreds of schools of thought and causes a certain level of thinking to solidify or even regress.
Of course, this is just an expectation.
When implemented in detail, there is great resistance and many disadvantages.
Legalist ministers including Han Fei, Li Si, etc. all stood up to oppose it, believing that this was not conducive to stability and rule.
At this stage, it is more appropriate to promote it step by step, selectively inviting hundreds of schools of thought to the temple for people to pray, communicate through the mind power array, and increase the population base for spiritual practice.
By the time it was morning, the light rain had stopped, but the sky was still a little cloudy.
In mid-July, there was a bit of coolness after the rain.
Zhao Huaizhong came to the Ministry of Construction on the outskirts of the city again.
Lao Sikong is working hard on casting the fifth bronze figure.
Starting from the fifth bronze figure, thunder often fell from the sky and struck the bronze figure during the sacrificial process.
The fifth bronze figure seems to be a very special pass, with many obstacles, lightning disasters often occur, and the progress is very slow.
Glutinous rice antler
But this time Zhao Huaizhong came here not to see the bronze man.
More than a year ago, he obtained the construction drawings of a large bronze ship after a sacrifice.
For more than a year, Lao Sikong mastered the casting of traditional items such as bronze figures and ordnance.
Ji Mo and other Mo family members, together with Zou Yan's students Ye Qi and Yue Qing, including Chang Lai's Zhang Cang from the Department of Building Materials, were busy casting iterations of ships imitating the Human Emperor's Boat, as well as this giant bronze ship.
Due to Zhao Huaizhong's emphasis on building materials, the Department of Building Materials has been expanded many times in recent years, and currently has a large scale of tens of thousands of people.
Years ago, the Earth Fire Cave was also repaired, and the fire patterns were re-engraved to increase the fire power and the cave area.
At this moment, there are more than thirty large casting pits in the Earth Fire Cave and the Sky. The fire slurry inside is red and boiling.
In addition to the fifth bronze man being cast, who was rising and falling in the middle casting pit, the surrounding small casting pits were all casting revolving crossbows and other ordnance.
Further away, in several newly expanded large casting pits, the components of the bronze ship are being quenched and released.
People in the Materials and Construction Department perform their duties and are busy everywhere.
When Zhao Huaizhong came to investigate, Ji Mo came forward to report: "Your Majesty, according to the drawings, the main part of the bronze-armored giant ship is nearly completed, and it will be loaded along the coast in the next stage."
The bronze armored ship was too large, so it was smelted by separate casting and then assembled.
The main body of the dragon is the skeleton of a giant sea beast found in the North Sea of Fairyland.
Use it as a frame, carve the pattern, and reinforce it with copper grout in some parts.
Zhao Huaizhong came to a casting pit to investigate, and there happened to be a skeleton of an alien animal that was in the process of grouting.
A stripe path is carved on the animal bone, and then the copper slurry burned into molten iron is poured into it, and slowly flows along the lines on the bone. When it solidifies, a copper slurry incantation will be generated.
On the bones filled with copper slurry, the unsolidified incantations flickered, and strange forces flowed, flickering on and off.
"When the copper ship enters the water, I will go over and take a look. In the next stage, we will increase the production of the cursed crossbow on the copper ship scroll and move it to the Great Wall, so it can be used for border defense."
"No!" Ji Mo and others responded.
It was already afternoon when Zhao Huaizhong returned to Xianyang Palace from the Ministry of Materials and Construction.
He took out the map of Qin and Qin's surrounding territories from his study and looked at it.
After continuous exploration in recent years, the surrounding geographical conditions of this era have been clarified. To the north of Qin is the Xiongnu.
After the Xiongnu were defeated, Qin would take over this part of the land as long as the demon tribe was defeated.
Parallel to the east of the Xiongnu were the remnants of the Donghu, and further east were the Fuyu, which became Northeast China in later generations. This period was the embryonic period of the first Fuyu regime.
To the west of the Xiongnu and Qin territories are the remnants of the Yuezhi who were defeated by the Xiongnu, as well as Wusun and part of Loulan. Further to the west are the city kingdoms, that is, the kingdoms of the Western Regions.
Most of these areas are occupied by monsters.
In addition, there were three or five other small countries surrounding Qin, but they were not powerful enough to compete with Qin.
The current priority is to defeat the demon clan's undead demon soldiers, and then expand Qin's territory and bring more lands under Qin's rule.
When Zhao Huaizhong looked at the map, he said to Lu Buwei and Wei Liao who were summoned to the palace:
"I have raised the Great Wall within the territory to protect the safety of the people. It is difficult for the demon clan to cross the Great Wall. They may attack our Qin territory from the southern coast. We must be on guard against it."
Lu Buwei and Wei Liao agreed in unison.
The short court meeting was over, and Wei Liao and other ministers retreated. Lu Buwei stayed at the end and did not rush to leave. He smiled and said: "A guest from the minister's house recently went out and found a strange thing in the mountains of Shu County. I came here to offer it to you."
His Majesty."
Outside the palace, a servant brought in a bamboo basket.
There were two cute and naive pandas in the bamboo basket, they were chubby and not yet mature.
The cat bear is the giant panda of later generations.
"The wild nature of these two iron-eating beasts has been suppressed by the divine incantation sent by me. They can be used to entertain the prince, princes and concubines." Lu Buwei said with a smile.
Zhao Huaizhong smiled: "Prime Minister Lu is interested."
"I don't dare." Lu Buwei bowed and said.
Zhao Huai centrally thought that Zhao Ji and his younger brothers and sisters would run around the palace and tear down the house all day long. They would probably like it very much if they had two more pandas as playmates.
It was evening, and Zhao Huaizhong carried two pandas and walked to the back of Xianyang Hall.
Xiongnu.
In the palace of White Wolf City, a boy of only seven or eight years old with a dark face was sitting on the highest throne of the Huns.
This young boy was the eldest son of Luotangman and the second hanyu of the Xiongnu in history, Maodun.
Historically, it was under his leadership that the Xiongnu expanded their territory, unified the grasslands, and reached a heyday.
But the prosperity of Qin in this world changed the trajectory of many things.
The Maodun in front of me was only seven years old. The Huns had already gone through several ups and downs. At one time they were close to unifying the grasslands, and then they rapidly declined and were on the verge of collapse.
As the eldest son of Luutaman, Maodun became the successor to the throne of the Xiongnu after his death.
In history, he was actually not favored by Luotuanman. Luantuanman preferred the heir of a beloved concubine, and even wanted to kill Modu for a time, but Modu in turn attacked his father and hacked him to death.
Became the king of the Huns.
This shows how ferocious this man's mind is.
At this moment, there was a strong Hun man standing behind Maodun, with piercing eyes. He had a tough temperament that had been tempered by the strong winds of the grassland for a long time, and his eyes were like those of an eagle.
This man was about thirty years old, and he was also from the royal family of the Luotang clan, and his name was Luantangqu.
He is a rare warrior and general of the Xiongnu. He is also the only remaining 50,000 elite leader of the Xiongnu to guard the royal capital.
The Xiongnu suffered great changes, but Modu was able to successfully ascend to the throne at a young age, thanks to the support of Luotiangqu.
At this moment, in front of the two people, there was a demonic aura, and a hazy but tall figure emerged from it.
"Since you, the Huns, have chosen to obey our demon tribe, the tribes on the grassland will still be led by you. The Xiongnu King is young, so for the time being, you, Luotiqu, will be responsible for supervising the affairs of the Xiongnu.
Within one month, we will hijack all the grassland tribes and donate blood and food to our clan." The voice of the figure in the demonic aura was deafening and could not be refused, and it disappeared after the words were spoken.
Luotianqu and Modun performed the ceremony together, respectfully paying respect to the disappearing figure.
Ps: There is an obscure but very interesting hidden thread buried in this chapter, has anyone discovered it?