There has been no laughter in Qutai Palace for a long time, but in these few days, King Zhao Zheng of Qin smiled every day. The ministers didn't know what happened, but the king was happy and always a happy event. Only Changping Jun Xiong Qi was secretly paying attention to it. He knew that this was definitely not a happy event in the harem, but it must be a victory for Qin to win the six countries.

His judgment was completely correct. More than half a month later, a team of boats arrived in Xianyang from the Wei River. The boats were equipped with more than 20,000 sets of Chu armor, more than 20,000 giant iron spearheads, and more than 20,000 giant iron short swords.

The Chu army soldiers used the five-foot-long giant iron sword at the beginning. For individuals, the five-foot-long sword is of course powerful, but in the military formation, the five-foot-long sword is inconvenient to use, and it is easy to hurt their own people by accident. Therefore, after the Three Years War, the swords of the soldiers were all changed to two-foot-five-inch (Chu rule, 56.25 cm) long short swords, and only Yushi retained the five-foot-long sword.

Of course, the honorary scholars can also wear a four-foot-6-inch long sword (103.5 cm) like other nobles. This is two inches shorter than Zhu Ao's sword and four inches shorter than Xiong Jing's five-foot-king king's sword. Level, this is something that the Chu State under the ritual system is trying hard to reveal.

Ideally, the armored soldiers would also be equipped with a huge iron-covered wooden shield weighing less than five kilograms. But this is an ideal situation. They are covered with armor, holding a spear, a shield hanging on the neck, and a short sword hanging on the waist. The armored soldiers' equipment totals more than 30 kilograms, and it is difficult for ordinary people to carry such weight to fight. However, the Operations Division and some generals stubbornly believe that the armored soldiers must be equipped with shields, because after the spear is broken, the spear can become a sword and shield.

The spears that do not need to be marching in the column can be completed for a year at most. Eighty percent of the training is not the barbarian spear, but the queue. However, the swords and shields that can use swords and shields cannot be trained even in three years. Like the archer, this requires training from a young age.

Weapons are an extension of military combat ideas, but sometimes weapons can also determine combat ideas in turn. When Wei Liao saw more than 20,000 sets of soldiers placed in neatly, he did not have any joy. He did not understand the tactical thoughts and military system of Chu. He just took out one of the huge spears and looked at it, and said with some emotion: "The iron smelting technique of Jing State has been improved again."

Zhao Zheng and he went into the warehouse to inspect and seize more than 20,000 sets of armor obtained. He didn't understand tactics and didn't know smelting. Seeing Wei Liao's feelings, he asked curiously: "Why did Wei Qing say that Jing's iron smelting technique has been improved?"

"The huge spears of Jing State a few years ago may have fine sweat on the surface, but now there is nothing." Wei Liao was indeed a careful person. When the treasury officials found the huge iron spears of the Chu army that they had seized before, they could indeed see fine sweat on them.

"Why?" Zhao Zheng's attention to iron smelting continues. Every time he bathes in the scars on his hips, he reminds him of the power of the giant iron.

"I don't know." Wei Liao shook his head. The phenomenon he mentioned was actually the converter deoxygenation.

Zaofu is a magnetite steelmaking with the lowest thiophosphate content, so there is no problem of desulfurization or dephosphorization. In the case of converter blowing, it is often excessive oxygen, so it needs to be deoxidized. The result of not deoxidizing is to be refined into boiling steel. Boiling steel is still steel, and the most fear is that it is not even boiling steel, which is refined into boiling slag. The deoxidation problem has always plagued Zaofu's converter production. Fortunately, converter steelmaking in history has had various twists and turns (deoxygenation, and high thiophosphate content cannot be made into steel). The final solution is to add mirror iron to smelting.

Mirror iron is actually an iron ore containing manganese. There is a saying that without manganese, steel cannot be made. The manganese deoxygenation in the converter is to use manganese in iron ore. Xiong Jing at least remembers how to write a mirror of a mirror. The meaning of a mirror is that the cross-section of the iron ore is as bright as a mirror. Mirror iron is not difficult to find, but the mirror iron not only contains manganese, but also contains sulfur and phosphorus. If the thiophosphate content is too high, steel cannot be refined. So the building house is exhaustive and finally found the available mirror iron.

What Wei Liao saw was just a subtle change on the surface of the Jupiter. This reform was indeed a major advancement in the Chu iron smelting technology. However, Zhao Zheng obviously did not pay attention to this change as he did. He looked at the soldiers and armor in the arsenal and raised his hands with his hands, laughed and said, "After today, my Qin Dynasty will also have a Jupiter Army."

"I congratulate me!" Zhao Gao hurriedly congratulated each other when he saw the opportunity, without any ambiguity. However, Wei Liao remained silent and had no intention of being happy.

"I got more than 20,000 yuan from Jing people. Why is Wei Qing unhappy?" Zhao Zheng looked at Wei Liao with a little blame in his tone.

"Please look, king." Wei Liao pulled out a short sword, and there was a thin inscription near the sword grid.

The inscription is really small, Zhao Zheng read the words on it to Guang: "The king defeated Linzi's year of punishment and the month of Yi, Shouying, the craftsman and the sword. The sword of the soldiers, 0149544..."|

The year when the king defeated Linzi was the year before yesterday, that is, the 14th year of King Zheng of Qin, and the 14th year of the Qin Dynasty, the 15th year of the Qin Dynasty, and the 15th year of the Qin Dynasty, was cast by a craftsman named Liang. The number of the sword was 0149544.

Zhao Zheng knew the meaning of the number, which was to track down the whereabouts of the weapon. With this number, the sword could be found when it fell into anyone's hand. Understand this point, he pulled out two short swords, which were also numbers on it, namely "zero-149545" and "zero-149546". Looking at the giant armor, not to mention the giant armor, even the girdle armor has numbers.

He finally understood what Wei Liao meant. The number of soldiers sold to Hu Shang must be recorded. Anyone who uses these soldiers will know who intercepted and killed the Hu Shang caravan in Baidao, and this is exactly what Qin wants to conceal.

"Why?" Zhao Zheng gasped and threw all the huge armor in his hand to the ground.

"If the king asks for the Hu horse, this weapon will never be used." Wei Liao said. He was mentally prepared for this, but before he saw the real thing, he still had a slight fantasy that the Chu State would not encode the inscriptions of the inscriptions of the troops sold outside the world.

"Unable?!" The joy in Zhao Zheng's heart instantly disappeared.

"The National Guard has been wrong!" Zhao Gao saw that Zhao Zheng was unhappy and quickly interrupted. "The soldiers and armor are all in our Qin army. How could the Jing people know the number of inscriptions on it? Even if they know, they can be said to have seized the Zhao people."

"I dare to ask the king to take back the others." Wei Liao bowed again, and he was really hard to say something. When Zhao Zheng asked others to take back twenty steps, he said: "I only realized last year that the enemy may be in the main bedroom of Qutai."

Zhao Zheng was shocked when he heard this, "This, this... is it true?"

"It's true!" Wei Liao was worried about this: "Last year, Yang Duan and his troops were the number of horses and the number of grains and fodders, Li Mu knew all of them. Only Yan Chao, the State Wei Mansion, the Shao Mansion, and the Prime Minister's Mansion."

"There are also civil servants in the ward." Zhao Zheng narrowed his eyes, his eyes full of murderous intent. The matter of the National Wei Huan Shi had already lost all his face. Unexpectedly, another spy appeared beside him now. "Is this Zhao Hou?" he asked, and his mind began to think about who might be.

"The four countries have merged into an alliance, including Zhao Hou, Qi Hou, Wei Hou, and Chu Hou." The four countries have merged into an alliance. Although they don't know the inside story, Wei Liao must have included the alliance of the four countries' marquises. Most of the Qin State valued the ministers and officials from the six countries. There are many ministers and officials born and raised in Qin State, but there are not many. In the past, Qin State could divide the various countries, but now it is different. The four countries are united more and more closely and cannot be divided at all.

"If our army uses this armor, the Marquis will definitely know. He steals one or two and shows them to Hu Shang, and the interception of the matter will be defeated." Wei Liao continued. "I heard that General Xin Sheng's words, our cavalry surrounded us, and the enemy cavalry still died. This Qin horse is like a thousand-mile horse. The king sent an envoy to go west to ask for a horse. If he blames people for this, the thousand-mile horse cannot obtain it."

Wei Liao was a mature country. Although the news of Qin was tightly blocked, it was actually only tight to the Guizhou heads at the bottom. The upper class was full of guest officials from the six countries, and these guest officials could easily expose the matter. Therefore, a choice between military armor and war horses: if you want to use these military armor, you will definitely not be able to obtain a thousand-mile horse; if you want a thousand-mile horse, you will definitely not be able to use these military armor.

Wei Liao's meaning was completely clear. However, the Qin army suffered from the loss of military armor against the Chu army. The defense effect of the stone armor was not good, and a pair of stone armor would take a year of labor. Although the Yan State's refining skills were available, folding and forging not only consumed manpower, but also consumed charcoal very much. Although more than 20,000 sets of military armor were not large, if there were ten people and one armor, they could equip more than 200,000 troops, and this army would definitely play a role at important moments.

Zhao Zheng's face was gloomy and calm. Suddenly, he even suspected that Wei Liao was a spy from the Six Kingdoms. Only the spy from the Six Kingdoms would tell him not to use these weapons. Fortunately, this was just a change of thought, and soon he remembered a six-foot-eight-inch thousand-mile horse. Six-foot-eight-inch men were three inches taller than the Qin Dynasty. If the Qin army had such a horse...

"If you don't use this armor, what should you do?" Zhao Zheng looked at the rows of soldiers in the arsenal, with a hint of helplessness.

"If you don't use this armor, you should sink into the river." Wei Liao bowed and told me. "When the Hu Shangshu people suspected me in the future, you can ask him to look around the arsenal. Although I don't have a huge armor, I have silk, so I can silk..."

Wei Liao didn't say that silk was fine, but Zhao Zheng was even more unhappy when he talked about silk. "Since last year, the Rong people abandoned my silk."

"Why?" Trade is a matter for the Shaofu, and Wei Liao had never heard of Rong people not wanting silk.

"The people of Jing traveled to the West, and sold silk at a low price. The Hu merchants did not transport silk because they did not benefit. All the silk and silk of the Rong merchants were sold to Hu merchants. If the Hu merchants were not lucky, they would definitely abandon my silk." The Rong people did not want silk and silk last winter. After nearly a year of investigation, Lang Sheng, the young minister of Shaofu, finally figured out the whole story. "This is the plan of the Jing man!" Zhao Zheng slapped the wooden frame with a palm and said hatefully.

"What should I do?" This time it was Wei Liao's turn to be shocked.
Chapter completed!