Destiny Only Han

Chapter 110 Entry!

Bashang, the camp of the Chu army.

In the early morning, a four-wheeled carriage with a bright red flag, escorted by dozens of riders, slowly drove into the camp of the Chinese army.

The side door opened, and Liu Ying jumped out of the carriage and tiptoed into Liu Bang's handsome tent.

Counting the day before yesterday, he hasn't come back for three full days!

It's just that he probed his head and found that Liu Bang was also not in the big tent, which made him a little relieved.

In the past few days, he moved the graves of the first emperor's children around Xianyang, and won countless praises for Lao Liu, especially those from the Qin family with the surname Ying, who were even moved to the point of tears.

Well, they are well aware of how the first emperor treated the families of the six kings.

It's just that in Liu Ying's eyes, these people don't have many days to live...

When the people of Chu were torched, they felt sorry for the scorched earth.

This is what makes Liu Ying feel painful.

He clearly knew the disaster that was going to happen next, but he was powerless to stop it. He could only stand on the shore and watch the innocent victims wailing in the water...

Among the allied armies of the princes, there are those who hate Qin, and there are countless people who want to take advantage of the opportunity.

In this case, let alone Liu Ying, even Liu Bang himself can only be helpless!

After all, the coalition army has 40 people. If the appetite of these 40 hungry wolves cannot be satisfied, the entire Guanzhong land will become a ghost!
"Anyway, those who live in Xianyang City are not ordinary Qianshou. Since they are living with the blood of the people, at critical moments, they should sacrifice themselves for the people..."

Liu Ying shook her head helplessly, he could only try to convince himself with such words.

No matter how hard it is for the rich and right in the city, Xiang Yu will be charged with the crime... Thinking of this, Liu Ying slowly forgave herself, and her mood became bright again.

He turned around and walked into his tent. In the corner of the tent, he saw a piece of white paper.

This is the branch of the privet tree cut from Huhai's grave, and the white object on it is the secretion of the white wax worm.

Liu Ying thought for a while, and asked people to prepare a clay pot for cooking, two buckets of water, bamboo tubes, rushes and other utensils.

He is ready to start making candles.

But before that, there is another important thing.

That is to carefully buckle off some small bumps on the top of the branches that look awkward.

This is the egg case of the wax worm, full of larvae ready to hatch.

Well, in fact, raising white wax worms is similar to raising silkworms, but they are not as cute as silkworm babies.

After wrapping the egg case, Liu Ying looked at the ceramic pot with a diameter of about one foot that the guard brought back, and sighed helplessly.

Insect wax has a very low melting point and only needs a little heating to melt.

Therefore, the easiest way to collect insect wax is to throw the branches directly into hot water, wait for the insect wax to melt, and then take out the branches.

But Liu Ying looked at the branches in her hands, which were generally more than two feet long, so she could only use manpower to process the branches to a suitable length.

At noon, it was finally done.

Liu Ying poured the finished product liquid into the bamboo tube, then peeled off the outer skin of the rush grass, twisted a few strands and inserted them in.

"Just wait for the wax to cool and solidify, then remove the bamboo tube, and the candle is ready!"

He recalled the steps repeatedly, and came to a conclusion that just worked.

But that's enough.

Before unlocking the oil refining technology and extracting paraffin from crude oil, such candles will undoubtedly bring about earth-shaking changes in society.

Take a very simple example.

In the agricultural society, the Chinese pay attention to 'men farming and women weaving', that is, men go out to farm, while women weave at home and sell money, and the two sides jointly support a small family.

However, compared with men's farming, women's weaving is not too laborious, so they can actually do weaving all the time except for housework and sleeping time.

It's just that in ancient times, after the sun sets, the night will be plunged into darkness, and you can't see your fingers.

And many weaving girls with ingenuity and ingenuity will choose to light a stick of incense on the loom, so that with the help of the flickering light, they can work for a few more hours.

In this way, we can weave as much cloth as possible, sell it in the market for money, and use it to pay the court's taxes. If some are left by chance, they can be used to supplement the family.

The so-called people who are covered in silk and silk are not silkworm farmers, which is probably the case.

But this also created another problem, that is, excessive eye use, coupled with malnutrition, many women's vision becomes blurred when they reach middle age.

If this goes on for a long time, people will be blind before they die.

So if there are enough cheap lighting tools, firstly, these women can save their eyesight, and secondly, they can improve work efficiency and increase GDP...

As for Liu Ying, after the end of the struggle for hegemony between Chu and Han, the population in the early Western Han Dynasty was conservatively estimated to be two to three million households.

And among them, even if only 100 million households buy the candles he made, and only consume one candle per month.

With all the sand forming a tower, even if Liu Ying earns a net profit from each candle, it is at least a million dollars a month!

Converted into a year, it is more than 1000 million yuan!
Liu Ying remembers that during the heyday of the Western Han Dynasty, the annual income of the entire country was only 70 billion yuan.

As for being imitated?

Haha, in fact, the most feared thing is being imitated!

Liu Ying had the first-mover advantage, and the Han Dynasty had no anti-monopoly law. After he established the channel, all imitators had only two paths.

Bankrupt or join.

At that time, while suppressing suppliers, exploiting consumers at the same time... Liu Ying controlled the expression on her face: "I don't like money, really..."

Sitting on the spot for a while, he silently peeled off the bamboo tube, and got a few candles as white as jade, as thick as an arm.

"Try one first."

Liu Ying took out a piece of firewood from under the stove and lit the candle. In an instant, the flickering candlelight sprinkled the entire tent.

It is much easier to use than oil lamps, and it has no smell... Liu Ying secretly thought about it for a while, and decided to pack the remaining few lamps and send them to Zhang Liangxiao and others.

Well, it's mainly to brush favorability.

After all, there is no love without a reason in this world.

Liu Ying stood up and ran to Liu Bang's tent. He was going to see if there were any nice boxes in Liu Bang's place.

The aroma of wine is also afraid of deep alleys, and packaging is also a science.

It's just that before he took two steps, he saw a horse galloping towards him from outside the gate.

What happened... Liu Ying scratched her head and followed the knight to Cao Shen's tent.

In Liu Bang's absence, Cao Shen and Zhang Liang are responsible for all matters in the army.

When he walked to the door of the tent, he heard Cao Shen's voice that was an octave higher.

"what?"

"Hangu Pass is fighting?"

…………

Nanyang County, Wan County.

Lu Zhi was sitting in the main room, and Liu Le was embroidering beside her, holding an embroidery needle with her stubby fingers, her eyes were wide open, and her face was full of reluctance.

Lu Shizhi came from outside the courtyard, took off his feet and walked into the house.

"Uncle!"

Liu Le threw down the embroidery stand, opened his hands and rushed towards Lu Shizhi.

Lu Shizhi hugged her around twice, frowned and said, "Why are you getting fat again, what if you can't get married in the future?"

Liu Le's smile froze, the gleam in his eyes disappeared, he slowly slid down from Lu Shizhi's arms, and walked out the door somewhat desolately.

Just as she was about to step out of the door and run towards Xinsheng, Lu Zhi said without raising her head:
"Come back, if you don't finish embroidering the handkerchief today, don't even think about going anywhere!"

"Mother, am I not your cutie anymore?" Liu Le turned her head, coquettishly, trying to get away with it.

Lu Zhi didn't pay any attention, just looked at Lu Shizhi and asked: "Aren't you working on a large farming order in Yangdi? When did you come to Wan County?"

Lu Shizhi sat down beside her: "It's not your precious son!"

"He wrote to me saying that my brother-in-law had already conquered Guanzhong, so he asked me to come to Guanzhong to meet him as soon as possible, and bring all the things we built in Yangdi, such as Quyuanli, columbine carts, small carts, etc. take away……"

Lu Zhi asked a little amusedly: "Will the King of Han succeed?"

Lu Shizhi shook his head and said, "It doesn't count what he said! Not only that, I also spent a little money to quietly bring out craftsmen who know how to make those tools..."

Lu Zhi felt more and more funny, covering his mouth and laughing unabashedly.

Lu Shizhi waited until her laughter died down, and passed the bamboo slip beside her: "When I came to the house, I happened to meet my elder brother's guest Guo Meng, who came to deliver a letter, so I just took it."

Lu Zhi took it: "Whose letter is this?"

Lu Shizhi said with a smile: "Who else can be, of course it is your precious son!"

Lu Zhi hastily opened it, struggling to make out the crooked handwriting on the bamboo slips, which looked like earthworms crawling around.

But soon, her eyebrows slowly raised up, and Kazilan's big eyes were full of murderous intent.

Lu Shizhi quietly moved away, so as not to become a blowing bucket for his elder sister.

This worry-free old thing!Sure enough, men are all big pig's trotters... Lu Zhi's fierce eyes swept over the other big pig's trotter beside him, stood up abruptly, and walked out.

Lu Shizhi asked curiously, "Sister, where are you going?"

Without turning his head, Lu Zhi left two words: "Enter the customs!"

But before that, she plans to go to Cao Shi and Qi Ji to talk about the past, just like Liu Ying once said to her, united front!

…………

Bashang, the camp of the Chu army.

It was also late at night, except for the sound of fighting, the whole barracks was silent.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, more than a dozen ointment lamps were burning brightly, illuminating the tent as bright as day.

Liu Bang sat on the main seat, with an annoyed look on his face.

He already knew the news that the defenders of Hangu Pass would collapse without a fight. At this moment, Xiang Yu was marching towards Xianyang City in the starry night with an army of hundreds of thousands.

In the tent, Zhou Bo, Fan Kui and others were gearing up for a big fight, while Zhang Liang, Xiao He and others were full of contemplation.

Liu Ying sat on the outermost side, raised her hand suddenly, looked at Liu Bang and asked, "Father, when you sent troops to defend Hangu, did you drink?"

Liu Bang asked curiously, "How do you know?"

As long as there is a cephalosporin... Liu Ying shook her head and said nothing, seeing Liu Bang clenched her fists desperately, suppressing the urge to beat him up.

(End of this chapter)