History Live Broadcast: Show Zulong At The Beginning Of Hu Hai's Usurpation Of The Throne

After taking the elixir, Ying Zheng put away the remaining three elixirs.

And promise to all the ministers that the remaining three elixirs will be used in the future to reward the ministers who have made great achievements for the Great Qin!

When the ministers heard that there would be a chance to get the elixir of life in the future, everyone felt extremely excited!

Wang Ben rubbed his hands together excitedly, and said passionately,

"Great! When we attack the Xiongnu and conquer Yazhou in the future, this Marquis will be the first to invite His Majesty to fight!"

Meng Tian refused to accept,

"I have always been the one who defended against the Huns! Of course I should be the one who attacked the Huns! You can't rob me!"

Seeing that the two were already fighting for the future war, Ying Zheng laughed and stopped them, saying,

"You two lovers, don't fight! There will be plenty of opportunities for you to make contributions in the future! Haha!"

After appeasing all the ministers, Ying Zheng can go to the palace!

And Fusu, Li Si, Xiao He and others also resumed their busy work!

Time passed day by day without knowing it, and soon the entire city of Xianyang was filled with paper produced by the paper mill!

And quickly promote it to the whole Daqin!

The common people are all very excited to use such cheap and novel paper!

"The paper invented by the imperial court is really a good thing! It is very convenient for writing and keeping accounts!"

"Hahaha! No one in my family knows how to write! But this paper can be used in my family! It is comfortable, clean and hygienic for wiping buttocks!"

The people were talking about it.

The imperial court also discarded the bamboo slips and wooden tablets in the past, and all memorials were replaced with the best and most suitable paper for writing!

With paper-written memorials and taking the elixir of life, Ying Zheng no longer has to worry about reviewing hundreds of catties of bamboo slips every day!

On this day, the court meeting.

Sitting high on the throne, Ying Zheng looked at the officials and ministers below, and asked,

"Dear dears! What's the start today?"

Xiao He stood up and said,

"Report to Your Majesty! I have something to announce! Recently, the cotton harvest in the 400-acre experimental field has been bumper! A total of 400,000 households have harvested cotton. Please give your Majesty instructions for the next step!"

Hearing the number reported by Xiao He, all the officials and officials widened their eyes and opened their mouths in shock!

Wang Ben: "I'm so good! The cotton seeds brought back from the fairyland unexpectedly harvested so much cotton at once! The yield is really astonishing!"

Meng Yi: "Yes, yes! So much cotton! How many cotton 090 clothes and quilts can be made!"

Meng Tian: "The harvested cotton seeds should be enough for several counties to plant?"

Ying Zheng also had a look of surprise on his face, he stared at Xiao He and asked,

"Great! Xiao Aiqing! Have you asked someone to make some cotton padded clothes?"

Xiao He nodded and said,

"Reporting to Your Majesty! I did have some cotton-padded clothes made by someone! Please take a look at them, Your Majesty!"

After Xiao He finished speaking, several servants entered the hall immediately carrying trays, and on the trays were several layered cotton clothes!

Ying Zheng's eyes widened in surprise, he didn't bother to call the waiter to bring up the cotton-padded clothes, he went down directly, picked up a cotton-padded coat on the tray, stroked,

"Wow! Wow! Let the widows see how warm this cotton coat is!"

After Ying Zheng finished speaking, he put on the padded coat, and as soon as he put it on, he felt his body heat up!

After a while, it was so hot that my forehead was sweating!

All the officials and ministers were amazed and praised one after another,

"Look! Your Majesty is sweating so quickly!"

"You must know that it is autumn now! Although it is not as cold as winter, it is still very cool! Your Majesty was so hot that he was sweating shortly after putting on the cotton coat, which shows that the cotton coat is very effective in keeping warm!"

"Yes, yes! It is indeed the cotton from the fairyland! What a treasure!"

Hearing the discussions of the officials and ministers, Ying Zheng laughed and took off his cotton coat, overjoyed and said,

"The warming effect of this cotton-padded coat is no worse than the mink fur that I wear in the winter! Great! Xiao Aiqing! You tell the widow, "How many catties of cotton does it take to sew a cotton-padded coat like this?"

Xiao Hedao,

"Reporting to Your Majesty, such a padded coat needs three catties of cotton! A quilt needs thirty catties of cotton!" (Note: One catty in Qin Dynasty is about half a catty today.)

When Ying Zheng heard the words, his eyes lit up and he said,

"Oh? If that's the case! The widow ordered you to open a garment factory! Recruit a group of tailors! Make all the 400,000 catties of cotton into cotton clothes! This winter, the widow will distribute all these cotton clothes to the world who can't afford dog fur clothes for the winter people!"

Hearing what Ying Zheng said, Xiao He should immediately say that!

Hundreds of officials and ministers repeatedly praised,

"Your Majesty is very kind to the poor people in Daqin!"

"Yes, yes! One coat needs three catties of cotton, and 400,000 catties of cotton can be used to make hundreds of thousands of coats! This means that this winter, hundreds of thousands of poor people will be saved from the cold!"

Everyone knows why Yingzheng made all 400,000 catties of cotton into cotton clothes instead of a quilt!

Because, these 400,000 catties of cotton can't make many quilts at all!

Every winter in Daqin, many people who could not afford to wear dog fur clothes froze to death!

These poor people feel good to be alive!

Therefore, making all 400,000 cotton into cotton clothes can save more lives than making cotton quilts...

Hearing the admiration of the officials and ministers in the palace, Ying Zheng returned to the throne, raised his hand with a smile, and the scene immediately returned to silence!

"In addition, Xiao Aiqing, you should spread the cotton seeds harvested in these 400 acres of experimental fields as soon as possible, and teach the common people how to grow cotton! Tell the common people the FAB of cotton!

After this winter, next year, the widow will let this snow-white cotton bloom all over the land of all counties in Daqin!

The widow will let the people in the world, no one will freeze to death because they cannot afford to wear clothes for the winter!"

Sensing Ying Zheng's benevolence and love for the people of the world, Xiao He bowed his hands excitedly,

"The emperor's grace is mighty! This humble minister takes orders!"

After arranging the cotton matter, Li Si also stood up at this time and said to Ying Zheng,

"Your Majesty! My minister has something to announce!"

Ying Zheng looked at Li Si in surprise, and said,

"Oh? Prime Minister, what do you want to start?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty! You asked me to set up a steel factory, smelt steel, build a weapon factory, and forge steel weapons. I have done it! And it has been successfully put into production!"

The ministers were shocked when they heard this!

Ying Zheng's eyes were even brighter, and he stood up from the throne all of a sudden, saying,

"Oh? The prime minister finished it so quickly? That's great! Hurry up and take the widow and all your lovers to the steel factory!"

Li Sidao,

"Here!"

The steel factory was established in the eastern suburbs of Xianyang City!

Yingzheng rode Wang Huan, followed by hundreds of officials, and under the protection of the Royal City Imperial Army, he headed for the eastern suburbs in a mighty way!

Before reaching the eastern suburbs, Ying Zheng, who was on top of Wang Yu, saw at a glance that there were more than a dozen iron-making blast furnaces towering into the sky like sword towers in the eastern suburbs!

Ying Zheng, who glanced at the [Steel Smelting Method], naturally recognized it, but the officials and ministers behind them all showed shocking expressions, and said one after another,

"My God! What are those dozens of towers? We have never had such a tall building in Daqin!"

"Isn't this too spectacular?!"

Ying Zheng smiled and turned his head to look at all the officials and ministers, and said to Li Si who was accompanying Wang Huan,

"Prime Minister, come and tell all my loves what those towers are!"

Li Siying said hey, turned his head and said to the ministers behind him as he walked,

"Colleagues, those high towers are called iron-making blast furnaces! As the name suggests, they are specially used to smelt steel! When you arrive at the steel factory in a while, everyone will be able to see how steel is made!"

While talking, Ying Zheng and all the officials and officials soon came to the steel factory and entered the iron-making workshop!

The workers are pushing wheelbarrows full of iron ore, unloading them by the furnace, and there are special workers who use shovels to shovel the iron ore into the furnace for smelting!

Seeing the busy scene of the workers, Ying Zheng said with bright eyes,

"Prime Minister! The furnace in our iron and steel factory can smelt (acaf) so much iron ore at the same time! After one day, no matter what, you have to smelt 200,000 catties of steel, right?"

(Note: In the Qin Dynasty, 1 catty was about half a catty in modern times. Two hundred thousand catties was about 50 tons.)

Because Qin Shi's iron-making technology was backward, not only the quality of the iron smelted was not good, but also the output was very low...

In addition, [Methods of Iron and Steel Smelting] does not specify how much steel can be produced by an iron smelting furnace.

Therefore, Ying Zheng preconceived and based on Qin Shi's iron-making technology, roughly estimated that with the scale of this steel factory, twenty square households of steel should be able to be smelted in ten days!

This is already very impressive in Daqin!

Li Si stared at Ying Zhengdao with a bewildered expression when he heard the words,

"Your Majesty! How much do you say? Two hundred thousand catties of steel?"

Seeing Li Si's bewildered expression, Ying Zheng was stunned for a moment, and immediately came to his senses, nodded in a sudden realization, and said,

"Oh! The widow knows! The quality of this steel is comparable to that of ordinary iron! Its output is a little lower than that of ordinary iron, which is justifiable!"

When the other ministers heard the words, they all nodded in agreement,

"Yes, yes! After all, steel can make a sharp magic weapon like [alloy saber]! It's normal to have a lower output!"

"It makes sense! It makes sense! You can smelt high-quality steel with low-cost iron ore, even if the output is lower, it's worth it!"

Hearing what Ying Zheng and the officials and ministers said became more and more outrageous, Li Si was completely dumbfounded, looking at Ying Zhengdao,

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty!"

Ying Zheng looked at Li Si in surprise, and all the officials and ministers also looked over.

Li Si continued,

"Weichen dare to correct you. According to the iron and steel smelting technology obtained in the fairyland, the daily output of our iron and steel plant yesterday was 4.5 million catties!"

Hearing the number reported by Li Si, Ying Zheng trembled as if he had been struck by lightning, and stared at Li Sidao with wide eyes.

Prime Minister... Prime Minister! How much did you just say?"

Li Si groaned, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, stared at Ying Zhengdao,

"Report to Your Majesty! 4.5 million catties!"

When Ying Zheng heard this, his eyes were bigger than a bull's!

The surrounding officials and officials all dropped their jaws in shock, opening their mouths so wide that they could swallow a big goose egg!

Everyone stared at Li Si in a daze, as if they couldn't believe their ears!

Feel dumbfounded!

Four hundred and fifty thousand catties!

It is more than 20 times more than Yingzheng's estimated output!

Converted down, it can be more than 1,000 tons!

Such a number is beyond the imagination of Yingzheng and the officials!

And this is just a steel factory, and it is in the early stage of establishment, and the workers are not yet proficient in ironmaking technology!

How about opening more steel plants?

Isn't Daqin's steel output an astronomical figure?

No, no, no! The steel output of 4.5 million catties a day is already astronomical for Yingzheng and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, as well as for the entire Great Qin Dynasty and the entire world in this era.

Numbers!

It can even be said to be a myth!

"Is this the amount of steel that can be smelted using the [steel smelting method] from the fairyland? Isn't this too exaggerated?"

"So much steel can be produced in one day! How many steel weapons can we make?"

All the officials and ministers sighed in disbelief.

Wang Ben even showed a surprised expression, staring at Li Sidao,

"Prime Minister! Such a high output of steel! Wouldn't our Daqin be able to forge a large number of steel weapons soon?"

Li Si nodded and said,

"Your Majesty is right! Now I have asked the best blacksmith in Xianyang City to forge several steel weapons, and they are currently in the weapon factory next door!"

Ying Zheng's eyes lit up when he heard the words,

"Oh? Prime Minister, hurry up and ask someone to bring a forged steel weapon! I want to see if this steel forged weapon is really comparable to Meng Aiqing's [Alloy Combat Power]

select!"

Li Si quickly responded and said yes!

Because the weapons production plant is right next to the steel plant, someone soon came up with a steel sword!

This is a simple and simple sword!

Ying Zheng took the sword and drew it out with a majestic one!

Immediately, the sword light flashed, and I saw that the entire blade of this precious sword was as bright and smooth as a mirror, which could clearly reflect a person's face!

"What a sword!"

Ying Zheng exclaimed in admiration.

All the officials and ministers also looked at the sword in Ying Zheng's hand, and they all praised,

"It is indeed a good sword!"

"This is the best sword I've ever seen in my life!"

Wang Ben also saw the extraordinaryness of this sword. He stared straight at the sword in Ying Zheng's hand, swallowed his saliva, and boldly said to Ying Zheng,

"Your Majesty! Can I ask Weichen to try the power of this sword?"

Ying Zheng looked at Wang Ben in a little surprise, seeing the strong longing in Wang Ben's eyes, he laughed and said,

"If Marquis Tongwu likes this sword, I will reward you! Just try the power of this sword!"

With that said, Ying Zheng put the sword back into its sheath and threw it at the main meeting!

Wang Ben's face was full of joy, he quickly took the sword thrown by Ying Zheng, and said joyfully,

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

After thanking him, he drew out his sword, played with it a few times overjoyed, looked at Meng Tian, ​​and said with a hey smile,

"Hey, hello! Lao Meng! Do you dare to compare swords with Benhou? Benhou wants to show His Majesty and ministers the power of this steel sword!"

Meng Tian immediately refused to accept,

"Why don't you dare? I'll tell someone to go back and get my [Alloy Saber]!"

Hearing this, Wang Ben hurriedly said,

"Hey? Swordsmanship! What's the matter with asking someone to go back to get the knife? Let's talk about it! When will you get it back? Use this one!"

As Wang Ben said, he immediately took off the bronze sword at his waist and threw it at Meng Tian!