In the huge courtyard, craftsmen are working everywhere.

Perhaps because of staying by the fire for a long time, these craftsmen looked red all over their bodies, strong in body, and stronger than Zhao Kuo. Zhao Kuo stood here, watching the craftsmen being busy. The craftsmen here were all Qin Mo. Lu Buwei distributed the courtyard to Chi, and asked Chi to summon the outstanding Qin Mo from all over the Qin State, and then told them the latest Wang Ling.

The Qin King's idea was to let them break away from production and devote themselves to developing more practical things for the Qin State.

However, there are not many craftsmen who can gather together. He only summoned more than forty people. These more than forty people are outstanding disciples in Qin Mo. Over the years, all Qin Mo has done is to constantly cultivate more craftsmen. They cannot absorb these craftsmen, because the Mozhe is not an craftsman organization, but an academic faction. Craftsmen alone are not enough to become the Mozhe, and they need to accept the ideas of the Mozhe.

Qin Mo's academic achievements have long declined, and even the core disciples do not know the words. People like this obviously have no way to do academic research. They can only realize their ideals through the technology in their hands and assist Qin to end this unsightly war. When they first arrived in Qin, they also brought a lot of advanced technology to Qin, but Qin did not allow technology to be privately hidden. The Mo people could only choose to teach others and had to teach them.

When all the technologies are leaked, the Imperials lose the conditions that can be used to ensure their status.

They gradually became the lowest-level craftsmen, and there was no difference from other craftsmen. If they had to tell them their differences, it was probably that they were not concerned about titles, but the people in the world. This is why the Mo people from the other two sects did not recognize Qin Mo very much, because they no longer looked like an academic sect. How could a group of craftsmen who only knew how to make tools be called a school?

Influenced by Qin State, Qin Mo's pursuit was no longer to develop more novel inventions, but to improve agricultural tools and weapons, how to make tools more quickly and save raw materials more, which has become the direction that Mo people have studied. Zhao Kuo felt that it was a bit inappropriate to let a group of inventors do these things. However, not all Mo people can make so many amazing inventions like Mo Zi.

After gathering these ink masters, he studied carefully in the courtyard. Lu Buwei did what he said. No matter what he needed, he could deliver it to him as quickly as possible. He asked for a lot of wood, including all kinds of trees. He also asked for some fishing nets and cloth, and asked for twenty strong young people to help him. Zhao Kuo saw many discarded bark, branches, and even leaves in the courtyard.

He vaguely remembered that paper was made through bark, fishing nets, cloth and other things. Mat accepted his suggestion and tried to make it with these things. He tried many methods, including beating, roasting, soaking in water, etc. After constantly experimenting with various woods, Mat stared at a plant, bamboo. He found that soaking these bamboos with lime water can make the bamboo soft and almost appear like mud.

He was wondering, if this thing was dried, would it be possible to form paper?

He did do this, but in the end, the experiment failed. When he mashed the bamboo into a paste and then dried it, the paste was directly broken and broken. Not to mention writing, even if it was written, it would break it even after picking it up. The mallet thought that they might add other things to increase the degree of solidification, so more and more tests he had to conduct. Zhao Kuo often came here to see how the mallet was progressing.

At this moment, Zheng State, who had just been appointed and removed from the prime minister and was responsible for water conservancy projects, proposed that Qin State could build a channel and use this channel to irrigate large areas of Qin State's arable land. According to his estimate, he thought that it could irrigate more than 40,000 hectares of arable land. This sentence was really scared by the King of Qin, forty thousand hectares? So how much project volume should this channel be?

The King of Qin asked Lu Buwei about his thoughts.

Lu Buwei believed that for this matter, you can ask Li Bing, the prefect of Shu County. He was the only one who was good at water conservancy in Qin. He should know the pros and cons. The King of Qin ordered Zheng to write a detailed plan and the materials needed in all aspects. Zheng immediately left Xianyang and rushed to Beishan, Jingyang, Sanyuan and other areas to conduct a field investigation again. Zheng was a very typical old-fashioned engineer.

He probably only had his own project in his eyes, and the manpower and materials he used were not in his plan. All he wanted to do was do the project he wanted to complete, and other things were not in his consideration. He absolutely did not agree to slightly change his plan in order to save manpower and material resources. If the construction was to be started, it had to be done and done well. Only Qin State could accept him for a person like him.

Because Qin itself is like this, people from different classes do different things and don’t interfere if they are not their own jobs. Zheng’s thinking is quite in line with Qin’s values. After a five-month field investigation, he finally came up with a detailed book of strategies, which detailed the areas where the channels are to flow, the areas where they can irrigate, length, consumption, and more detailed project content.

The King of Qin sent the bamboo slips to Shu County and asked Li Bing to check them out.

No country will rush to start a major project like this, unless it can be verified and the results can be determined, and this is even more so in Qin. If Zheng casually takes out a plan to start Qin, it would be impossible, because Qin also has people who are good at water conservancy construction and officials who have been engaged in water conservancy for a long time. These people can see the general direction of the plan and the expenses in it.

If the cost is too much and cannot bring more than the cost, such projects are absolutely not allowed.

Zhao Kuo vaguely remembers that in history, King Han sent Zheng to build water conservancy for Qin, which required the Qin State's strength to make Qin busy with labor service and could not attack the six countries. Zhao Kuo now felt that King Han's actions were too stupid. If Zheng State asked him to come up with a plan that would not benefit Qin State and would only consume other national strength, then Qin State would not have started to build it at all.

Because the Qin people were not fools, it was not just Zheng who could engage in water conservancy in the world.

If Zheng State had taken out a project that could allow the King of Qin to temporarily put aside the conquest of the six countries and would rather spend huge manpower and material resources to complete, then how good is such a project to Qin State? This is self-evident.

In South Korea, the country is probably because of its bad feng shui, and some unwise kings have been produced continuously.

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"King, no...King...You can send soldiers to welcome the people in the five cities of Zhao State, let these people come to Yan State, and enrich the strength of Yan State. This is OK. Because the people of Zhao State voluntarily ran to Yan State, and even if the King of Zhao knew, there was no way to send people to attack Yan State and take those people away, because they could run once and then continue to run again. This is completely unreasonable."

"But if you send soldiers to garrison these cities and turn them into land of Yan State, then the King of Zhao will definitely send people to attack Yan State. I heard that if you pass the level with others, form an alliance, give five hundred gold to the king to drink, the messenger turned back and tear up the covenant, enter their city, and take away their land. This is inauspicious and cannot be won!"

"I ask you not to send people to Zhao's city. We can take the people away and leave the empty city to Zhao people... I heard that Zhao's country is busy with reforms, but the people defect, and they will not attack us. With these people, it is also a great benefit to Yan State. We can migrate them to Liaodong, give them arable land, and let the Hu people there become our people as soon as possible..." Jiang Qiu knelt in front of the young King of Yan and begged.

King Xi of Yan looked a little irritable. He was very angry. He looked at the Jiang Qu in front of him and accused him: "My father, King Wucheng, sent Li Fu and others to attack Zhao State, and used hundreds of thousands of soldiers and millions of stones of food, but he could not capture a city and not bring any benefits to Yan State. After I ascended the throne, I could obtain five cities out of thin air without spending my troops. The hundreds of thousands of people of Zhao came to serve me because of my kindness."

"How can you persuade me to give up these cities?"

"If I asked you to attack Zhao on weekdays, can you capture five cities for Yan?"

Jiang Qu was stunned and continued, "King, Yan State is not strong. If King Zhao sent Lian Po to attack Yan State, how should Yan State resist him? You have been in trouble with Zhao State for several cities today. If the Zhao people kill Yan State, what should we do?" The King of Yan sneered, he shook his head and said disdainfully: "I heard that after Ma Fujun left, the people of Zhao State were panic and the soldiers had no will to fight. How could you conclude that Yan State would fail?"

He also said: "The State of Zhao is now the weakest time. If the King of Zhao insists on going to war, I will not be afraid of him. Moreover, as you said, Zhao is busy with reforms and has no power to attack Yan."

The general Ju Xing said seriously: "King, the former General Lejian once said: Zhao is a country that fights from all sides, and his people are familiar with military affairs and cannot fight." The King of Yan became even more angry when he heard this. He said: "As a general of Yan, how can you praise Zhao? Do you also want to betray Yan like Lejian?"

Ju Xun didn't say anything anymore and shook his head helplessly.

The King of Yan looked at them coldly and said, "I will personally bring the soldiers of Yan State into the city. If Lian Po dares to fight, I will cut off his head!" As he said, the King of Yan got up and walked towards the palace gate. Shocked the Qu, hurried forward and tightly pulled the seal belt around King Yan's waist. He said anxiously: "My king must not go there in person. The war is dangerous, and your son is not an adult!"

King Yan was furious and kicked Jiang Qu. Jiang Qu, a thin old man, could not withstand such an attack. He immediately fell to the ground and could not breathe. Ju Xun hurried forward to check the situation of Jiang Qu. After King Yan kicked Jiang Qu over, his eyes were full of disgust and said disdainfully: "Cowardly old thief!" After saying that, he left the place without looking back, and Jiang Qu gasped and said with tears: "I'm not for myself, I'm for the king."

"Master, don't go... don't go."

Ju Xing grabbed Jiang Qu's arm and helped him up. Jiang Qu gasped in pain. Ju Xing said angrily: "Even the common people in the countryside will not attack people older than him. You are the same age as his eldest father, he treats you like this..." Jiang Qu hurriedly stretched out his hand, pulled him, and said seriously: "Please go to Zhaodi and prepare for the battle. I am really worried that Lian Po will destroy Yan State..."

As Jiang Qu expected, when King Zhao learned that King Yan had led his army to Zhao State and accepted the cities that surrendered to him, he was furious and immediately ordered Lian Po to raise an army and attack Yan State.

When the King of Yan heard about it, he took the Drama Honor as his general and led the Yan State's side troops to fight against Lian Po.

Ju Xing did not send troops, and was waiting for Lian Po to come in Wusui, but the King of Yan thought that his behavior was to be afraid of Lian Po and asked him to send troops immediately. Ju Xing had no choice but to take his soldiers to the hinterland of Zhao State. The King of Yan led a side army behind him. In Zhongren City, both sides encountered each other. Lian Po personally drove a chariot and rushed into Yan State's central army, dividing the main force of Yan State into two, encircling them separately, and cutting off contact.

However, the King of Yan, who was marching in the rear, hurried back to the army with his side troops because of fear.

Fortunately, he was defeated and fled to Wusui with his remaining soldiers. Lian Po raised his troops to pursue him. The Yan army was like a frightened flock, constantly fleeing, and Lian Po was chasing him. The war went on very quickly, without even any ups and downs. It was completely a unilateral crushing by Zhao. When the elite troops who fought with Qin for many years, when they fought with Yan, even if they did not have the high-pitched fighting will as before, they still beat the troops temporarily recruited from various places to flee.

General Lian Po's war bravely and properly commanded was not something that he could stop.

The war between the two sides failed at the moment of contact. Lian Po just used a charge and killed the Yan army in chaos. The soldiers threw down their weapons and ran away. Juxiao had no way to control them, and the soldiers could not execute several orders from Juxiao, so Juxiao could only watch his army collapse at the touch. As for the side divisions in the rear, they had long disappeared.

In this way, Lian Po drove the flock of sheep and rushed to the capital of Yan State.
Chapter completed!