Drive the RV back to Datang

Chapter 418 Chapter 429: Visiting Japan to sell knives
"My lord... why did you make such a strange request?" Wang Cheng looked puzzled.

Li Hao smacked his lips and said: "This kind of sword created by this king is intended to be sold to the people of the Japanese country. You also know that the people of the Japanese country admire the swords of our Tang Dynasty, but they are short in stature, and our Tang swords are too heavy. , They don’t want to take advantage of it, so this king tailor-made this kind of sword for them.”

"That's why!" Wang Cheng suddenly said when he heard the words, "My lord is really thoughtful. The blade of this Tai Dao is lighter and has an increased curvature, making it easier to chop. It is really suitable for the short Japanese people. I believe the Japanese people will like it very much." , As for the prince making such a request, he must be afraid that they will use this knife to deal with us Datang?"

"You have a good brain." Li Hao said with a smile, "Okay, let's not talk nonsense, just tell me, can you do what I want?"

Wang Cheng nodded and said: "Go back to the lord, yes, I don't know which part of the blade the lord plans to tamper with?"

Li Hao took back the blueprint from his hand, drew a stroke with a pencil on the blade ten centimeters above the handle, and said, "Here, three inches away." After speaking, he handed the blueprint to Wang Cheng.

Wang Cheng took a look at the blueprint, nodded and said: "The villain will definitely live up to the trust of the prince."

Li Hao happily asked: "How long does it take to make a sample?"

Wang Chengdao: "Soon, tomorrow will be fine."

"So fast?" Li Hao stared in surprise.

Wang Cheng smiled and said: "My lord, with the metallurgy method you provided, it will be very fast if you want to forge a weapon. Even if you need a hundred blades, you can do it tomorrow."

Li Hao happily said: "Then get ten handles first, tomorrow the king will test it himself, hurry up."

"Yes! The villain retire!"

When he thought that he was about to be able to cheat Japan, Li Hao felt excited for no reason, so excited... he didn't sleep well all night.

Early the next morning, Wang Cheng came with two young blacksmiths, each holding five swords in their arms.

Li Hao met them in the courtyard, and Wang Cheng smiled and said, "My lord, all the ten katanas you want are ready. Since it is time-consuming to make exquisite scabbards, we only made the blades and handles."

"Well, it's fine, the scabbard is not important." Li Hao took a Taidao from a young blacksmith, and saw that the sword was wrapped in a thick cloth. Li Hao removed the cloth, and suddenly revealed the exquisite blade. The neat rows of quenching patterns are indeed very beautiful, and it makes people feel chills down the spine. In a word, the appearance is very good.

Li Hao pointed to the place ten centimeters up from the hilt of the knife, and asked, "Wang Cheng, is this the weak point?"

"Return to the lord, yes." Wang Cheng said with a look of satisfaction, "My lord, this weak point is specially made, and it will not affect the chopping. It will only break if it is hit hard from the side of the blade."

"So miraculous?" Li Hao was a little surprised when he heard that, if that was the case, the craftsmanship was indeed very clever, so he looked around in a blink of an eye, and saw a small jujube tree in the courtyard, he went up and chopped it down.

"My lord, don't do it! This knife hasn't been sharpened yet!" Wang Cheng yelled anxiously, for fear that he would injure his wrist or arm, but it was too late, and Li Hao had already chopped it off with one blow.

With a sound of "click", the jujube tree snapped, and Wang Cheng and the two young craftsmen were stunned. What kind of strange force is this? A jujube tree with the thickness of an arm can be cut off with an unsharpened knife. It is a jujube tree Yeah, jujube wood is very strong.

In their stunned eyes, Li Hao swung his knife and struck the jujube tree sideways. It happened that the blade with the hilt ten centimeters upward hit the jujube tree.

Li Hao's eyes lit up immediately, and then he walked back with a happy smile, and praised happily: "Good! Good! Good craftsmanship! Master Wang is really good at craftsmanship! Hahaha!"

Wang Chengqian said with a smile: "My lord, the prize is too much. It's not worth mentioning."

"How can this be a trivial skill." Li Hao waved his hands, "This king will tell Lu Yun and ask him to reward you heavily."

"Thank you, my lord!" The three of them saluted happily.

Li Haodao: "No courtesy, Wang Cheng, within half a month, I will build this five-thousand-handled Taidao. Remember, what the king wants is an exquisite finished product, the one that looks good, and the If you have sharpened the blade, make it sharper, and if you do it well, you will be rewarded, not only you, but all blacksmiths will be rewarded!"

"Yes!" Wang Cheng excitedly accepted the order.

After Wang Cheng was sent away, Li Hao called Lu Yun again and asked him to start preparing for going to sea and go to Lingnan Road to buy a lot of supplies, especially rice. The rice needs to be old rice, because he can't wait to go to Japan to make money Now, Chenmi, it should be sold to the Japanese people, and the price is ten times or twenty times, feed them, and then provide them with weapons, and then fight civil strife.

Ten large ships sailed to Quanzhou Harbor, and then Lu Yun led people to buy rice everywhere. No new rice, only old rice, because it is cheap. Last year, the Tang Dynasty had a good harvest, and there was Zhenguan rice. Now there is no shortage of rice in Lingnan Road, and the price of rice It has been lowered, and no one cares about Chen Mi, half buy half free.

Lu Yun quickly bought [-] shi of rice, and bought some porcelain along the way, filled all ten large ships, and then returned to Liuqiu. When he returned to Liuqiu, the five thousand swords were ready.

According to Li Hao's request, Wang Guo sharpened the Taidao. It is very sharp. It is exquisite from the handle to the blade, and the scabbard is even more exquisite. Although the wood is ordinary, it is carved with exquisite patterns and lacquered. It looks like a handicraft, and the appearance is absolutely nothing to say.

It just so happened that the shipyard had three more large Galen ships leaving the factory. Li Hao immediately ordered that, together with the three new Galen ships, a total of thirteen ships go out to sea and head to the country of Wa.

After preparing for three days, all the materials were loaded on the ship. Li Hao took [-] newly trained Xuanjia soldiers to the sea. Due to the bad wind direction, the speed of the ship was not fast. Fortunately, there was no big storm along the way. A month later, Li Hao's fleet successfully arrived at Waguo Island.

The place where Li Hao and the others landed on the island was relatively desolate, not even a fishing village, but it didn't matter, Li Hao quickly determined his location, and then sent out a flying pigeon to send a message to Shengu Liu.

Five days later, someone came. It was the two brothers Wang Shi and Wang Lei that Li Hao had sent to protect Shengun Liu. These two guys were also special forces.

Li Hao inquired with them and learned about the current situation of the Wa Kingdom. The emperor of the Wa Kingdom is currently in power. This is not an ordinary emperor. This is the first female emperor in the history of the Wa Kingdom. Yes, she is the same as Wu Zetian , is a female emperor, and the method of ascending is also very similar. First be the empress, and then the emperor. be opposed to.

In the 16th year of Zhenguan, Emperor Huangji ascended the throne, which coincided with a severe drought in the country of Japan. Rumors began to spread in the middle school, saying that Emperor Huangji ascended the throne, and the sky was angry and did not rain. Voice, although the Wa country is a barbarian, but it is very talented to learn the tricks of Tang gods and ghosts.

Just when Emperor Huangji was most helpless, Shengun Liu came to Wa Kingdom. Li Hao had specially studied the history of Wa Kingdom, and knew that Wa Kingdom would be drought this year, so he asked God Gun Liu to establish his relationship with the Emperor of Wa Kingdom and Wa Kingdom by praying for rain. The status in the hearts of the people, the way of debut is very similar to that of Li Hao, both of which are to manage natural disasters.

According to historical records, in 642 A.D., on August 8, after Emperor Huangji prayed to the sky for rain, there was loud thunder and heavy rain, and it rained cats and dogs for five consecutive days. Promised, and prayed for rain on that day, Shengun Liu dozed off for a long time on the rain-seeking platform, and then the rain came, so Shengun Liu was awesome, and was regarded as the guest of honor by Emperor Huangji.

Then the god stick Liu helped Emperor Huangji point out a few silver mines at will, and the emperor immediately regarded the god stick Liu as a god, and named him a national teacher, with a detached status.

Although the god stick Liu begged for rain and quelled the rumors, there are still many voices against Emperor Huangji in the country. Some forces secretly gather to wreak havoc, sometimes attacking the government, robbing silver mines, or mining silver mines. Although the silver that was produced was all minor troubles, it also caused Emperor Huangji a lot of headaches. Since the silver mine was mined, a lot of silver has been robbed, and some silver mines in remote courtyards have been harassed by those people every day. Some miners were killed and had to give up mining. Abandoning mining also had a purpose. Emperor Huangji wanted to take advantage of those rebel forces when they were mining silver mines. However, those rebel forces who are thieves and thieves can get the news in advance every time and run away far away.

Here is the credit of brothers Wang Shi and Wang Lei. They were the ones who informed these rebel forces in advance, and they didn't need to meet with these rebel forces. Just throw a dart and clip a note to achieve their goal.

The target of Li Hao's trade this time is the rebellious forces. He wants to make these rebellious forces grow stronger and cause the entire Japanese country to be in chaos. The more chaos the better.

So Li Hao and the others boarded the boat again, and sailed northward along Waguo Island for another three days, and landed at a place to the north of Waguo Island, which was also a deserted place, but after two days of going ashore, they found those rebel forces.

Those rebel forces were a little shocked. They had always been hiding very tightly. Even Emperor Huangji couldn't find where they were, but now they were found by a group of businessmen from the Tang Dynasty. Could they not be shocked?

In fact, this was nothing to Wang Shi and Wang Lei, who were special soldiers. They had already followed Li Hao's request and secretly made a clear distinction between this group of rebel forces.

The leader of this group of rebel forces is called Aoki Xinbingwei, and he is a very cautious person. After all, they are rebels and live a life of licking blood. It is impossible to be careless.

This time it was Wang Shi and Wang Lei who were in charge of connecting with Aoki Xinbingwei. When he heard Wang Shi say that the merchant fleet of Datang wanted to sell supplies to them, he was moved, but his cautious personality prevented him from immediately agreeing.

Wang Shi then threw out a bigger temptation, the Tang caravan could sell him weapons, very sophisticated weapons, Aoki Xinbingwei was shocked when he heard this, he couldn't believe how the merchants could sell weapons.

Then Wang Shi and Wang Lei showed the ten swords brought by Aoki Xinbingwei. When Aoki Xinbingwei saw such a beautiful and sharp sword, his eyes lit up immediately, and he couldn't put it down. He took it out in his hand and waved it left and right a few times Finally, he slashed on the coffee table with a knife, and a corner of the wooden coffee table was cut off immediately, and the cut was as neat as a mirror.

Aoki Xinbingwei was so excited that his breath became short of breath: "Good sword! It's a precious sword! Where are the merchants from Datang?"

(End of this chapter)