Is this a godsend?

Then use this high-grade fine cloth to go shopping in places like Dongyi, and even trade directly with barbarians. After all, Gebu is soft and sweaty, suitable for barbarians in the hot Chu region.

Of course, this thing was really invented by them, and it was quickly developed in the later history. The manufacturing technology of the Central Plains was quickly surpassed by the development of the South. In later generations, the most famous Gebu was produced in Hunan and Jiangxi. .

However, at present, the barbarians do not have the money to make such things as fine looms dedicated to Gebu. Even Zishou is completed after a long period of research on the basis of Zhou Cheng's samples, and at present, the largest weaving machine The field is the female relatives in the palace - after all, normal craftsmen really can't make such smooth cutting and twisted iron pieces with strange force.

In fact, the scope of improvement of Zishou is not much, that is, a pedal is added, so that instead of raising the hand to pull the scraper every time, the shuttle walks once, stepping on the pedal, and automatically scrapes the threads together. Thanks to Xiao Lian for his help.

Otherwise, he would not be able to do it with the modern knowledge that he has almost forgotten in the past four years, but Xiao Lian is different. She has the memory of the knowledge that has been almost forgotten by her children. In other words, it is a living encyclopedia-only Limited by what Zi Shou had learned, he was able to transform this simple loom to replace the Gebu making tools at this time.

At the same time, it can also be used to weave burlap. To be precise, the five types of hemp grown in the Central Plains can be used for weaving. However, the machinery and raw materials are surprisingly expensive, so don’t have such wonderful ideas. The popularity is limited to the Royal Palace of Modu. Inside.

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The meaning is not blown up, the source is blown up:

Zhou Lang's ingenious plan to secure the world, lost his wife and lost his army:

In the eighth year of Emperor Xin's reign, Zhou Bo wanted to marry a daughter to join the merchants, and he used his concubine as a substitute for the examination. The son Ji Fa then conspired to trap Shang, and baited him with alchemists. Shang Wang Minghui recognized it as a trick. For revenge, Wang Fuzhi refused to invite him.

In the ninth year of Emperor Xin's reign, the king took Zhou's daughter in Lutai Garden, and asked for revenge again after the test, but the king still refused. The test was worried and became ill. A righteous man visited the king at night, drew his sword and stared at her. Brother, you should not take it lightly if you want to seek your superiors.

The king didn't say anything, and the righteous man went forward with his sword, saying: "If my rebellious actions will not stop in the ears of the court."

The king said: "How is this?"The righteous man killed himself.

In the tenth year of Emperor Xin's reign, the king held a banquet at Lutai. Seeing the awe-inspiring presence of the princes and guests, he also heard that Uncle Zhou invited him to be the Marquis of Jin and called him back for examination. He defeated the Zhou army, made Kao the uncle of Zhou, made his son the Marquis of Jin, and captured him and imprisoned him in Yu.

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Chapter 49 Modern nomads live off the grid

"Dang! Dang! Dang!" The bronze hammer smashed on the red-hot metal bar. Every few hits, it had to be put into the furnace for heating. New blacksmiths who were not familiar with the forging process could barely forge some metal pieces.

In the past, they were only good at casting technology, and they were quite proficient in various pouring techniques. Unfortunately, when encountering things like iron that needed to be forged, their craftsmanship and experience were completely useless, and they could only try a little bit.

Fortunately, Zishou didn't let these "official slaves" craftsmen make any strange things, but just made simple plowshares and hoes, which were used to replace farm tools for his serfs directly under Wangtian, thereby further reducing manpower loss.

Therefore, when the tribute team from Chudi finally climbed the long road and entered Modu, the first thing they heard was the clanging sound resounding throughout the city, as well as the wrought iron rods and lumps of sponge iron pulled by ox carts. , This is the iron ore that Zishou has saved for more than two years, all of which are used up at once.

And the small iron mines that can be mined nearby have also been completely mined out. Well, it is not accurate to say that the mined out is not accurate. The ore blocks have also been finished, and the rest are stuff that need to dig mine tunnels.

The only fortunate thing is that the taste of iron ore in this era is amazingly good. Although it may not be as good as those in Europe, compared to the iron ore mined by later generations, it is considered a top-notch rich ore, with a grade of about 40~ Around 60, of course, maybe this is the only rich ore on the land of the Central Plains. After he runs out, future generations should be ready to climb the blast furnace technology.

Ironware was almost impossible to popularize in the Shang Dynasty. The main reason was not the smelting technology, but the fact that the ore was not easy to produce. The stability of iron ore in nature was much smaller than that of copper mine, and copper mine was still possible. If you find rich ore on the bare surface, you can dig it out with stone tools, but most of the iron ore is distributed underground, and it is very hard and scattered.

It is completely different from the large ore blocks in Europe, and a considerable part of these iron ores cannot be used and processed at all. In the end, all the iron ores saved by Zishou were smelted into iron smelting After wrought iron rods, there is less than five tons. This is the amount that has been saved for several years, and it is still lucky to find a small rich ore.

In the future, one year, if the entire business environment can smelt 200 jin of iron, it will be regarded as a great progress in the industry, and such occasional small rich ore, in this era, the probability of exploration is still very low, even if it is explored, it is not guaranteed. There are roads to mine.

The little ore in his hand was carried out by slaves using a basket on their backs, and the speed of accumulation and smelting can be imagined.

And bronze is similar. Copper and tin are relatively easy to mine, but only relatively speaking, slaves still use wicker baskets to pan out little by little. Losing his father's life savings, he is really a fighter in the faint king.

"Hey!" The quenching material mixed with urine and strange things came into contact with the metal to create a smelly smoke. The craftsman took out the workpiece and threw it on the wooden platform aside. After a while, the servants naturally took it away and used it to make it. Iron farm implements.

Not to mention the small nobles, the big nobles didn't get much, so they could only be made into plows. As for the hoes, a few were made and placed in the palace, as a tool for occasional planting.

Although the plow consumes a little iron, it can be used in conjunction with ox plowing. In this era, a plow equipped with an iron plowshare and two steers is like driving a super large combine harvester in modern times. Pulling the wind can form an agricultural dimensionality reduction blow to other nobles.

It's a pity that it cannot be popularized. This bit of iron will be seized by the king of Shang to make weapons. Since it may be a god, then if you want to push it with a mortal army, then you need an elite direct subordinate king. division.

This bit of steel is in his hands. First, he will take the refined iron and forge about 20 refined steel swords from the king of Shang and give them to senior officers of the commander-in-chief level. 500 one-foot-long inferior steel spears and swords are mounted on strong wooden poles more than 3 meters long, with brackets at the end, and shields are used to deal with the impact of chariots.

In order to prepare for the autumn hunting and clean up the large beasts and giant beasts (elephants/rhinoceros) that appeared due to the reclamation of wasteland, these weapons and newly repaired bronze spears are inserted on the wooden frame outside the workshop.

Zishou specially arranged for the envoys from Chu to enter from the south, so that they could see the Chinese returning home with the distributed weapons, and the little nobles who were asking the armor master to repair their armor in the yard.

As for the great aristocrats and the chariot workshop in Beicheng, it is impossible for the envoys from Chu to enter the city in a circle. As for the Western Zhou Dynasty, they entered from the Xicheng District of the King of Shang, which is Guanfang District.

If the envoys from Chu land saw a scene of enthusiastic preparations for the battle, as well as the dry food prepared by every household for autumn hunting and hung on the door frame and under the eaves, most of them were smoked fish, because the most indispensable thing for reclaiming wasteland is all kinds of dry branches , exactly matching the catch income, smoked into smoked fish.

"Dayi merchants are really rich, and God is full of wisdom!" The head of the barbarians who was pressing a prison cart covered with black cloth was stunned and looked at the scene of swords and halberds like forests, mountains of rice and seas of fish. Most of the barbarians had tattoos on their backs. Large and small blue and black patterns of ferocious beasts are tattooed on their bodies with paint mixed with animal blood and medicinal materials. They believe that these patterns can bring them the power of ferocious beasts.

The hair is tied into small braids by straw ropes. This kind of braids can be well coiled on the top of the head to avoid prickly heat on the neck caused by the hot and humid climate in the south. Of course, since the heat is not as hot as in Egypt, there is no shaved head. Necessary, and no bronze knife to shave the head.

"What if this large army comes at us?" Some barbarians were also worried. Although they thought they were brave, they only had stone and wooden weapons in their hands, and only a few bosses had bronze weapons. It was really difficult to break through the armor. .

If the Southern barbarians were only worried and fearful, then the nobles and warriors of the Western Zhou Dynasty in the convoy escorting huge tribute and dowry from the west gate were purely afraid and shocked.

Outside the Guantiefang, on the wooden frame, rows of spears and swords with a one-foot-long blade flickered coldly. They were just buckled on round wooden sticks, and had not been equipped with long wooden handles and short handles for infantry combat. Even so, different from the warm light blonde and blue bronze weapons, the silver-gray cool luster of iron, especially steel equipment, is more suitable for weapons. Just seeing those blades makes people feel a chill rise from the soles of their feet .

"What kind of weapon is this?" At this time, whether it is a dagger or a spear, the warheads are very short, not only because of the waste of bronze, but also because of the bronze casting technology, it is difficult to cast long sections without problems.

However, forged steel equipment does not have this problem. The only problem is that the warhead is too heavy, so Zi Shou asked to add a counterweight to the tail for balance, and it is composed of small nobles with alien blood who have amazing arm strength. Guards to use.

Because the blade is a foot long, it can not only stab, but also chop, and on the chariot, it only needs to use the fence of the chariot as a support to smoothly cut off the heads of the pawns at both ends of the chariot.

"The weapons made for the king, these are all inferior products, and the king will keep them for rewards." Bo Yikao who came to meet him was much calmer. In order to avoid the constraints of the list of gods, the weapons Zishou forged for himself were much more terrifying than these things. So, when he saw the forest of steel swords, he was unmoved, and even wanted to laugh: But that's it!

The Fengshen List does not allow the use of divine swords to destroy river embankments and other infrastructure facilities, and the destruction or transformation of the natural world is also restricted to a certain extent. At the lowest power, otherwise the curse will activate.

Zishou tried the curse of a slight violation, which was probably equivalent to mild angina pectoris. He was sure that if he took one more step, he would die directly from pain or from symptoms such as myocardial infarction.

However, I didn't say that it can't be used for production and construction. To be honest, this is not a loophole, because the purpose of signing the Gods List is to limit destructive power rather than limit creativity, but construction is much more difficult than destruction.

For this reason, Zishou had to use this method to forge a substitute weapon for himself on the battlefield. Although the first and second gears can be practiced all night to kill people on the battlefield, but the third gear and above cannot be used to blow up mortals casually. , and Xiaolian's first and second gears are not as easy to use as this kind of steel weapon.

It is not the relationship between sharpness and lethality, but the braking ability. To put it simply, Xiao Lian and Cheng Ying are too sharp. If he wants to cut people, it is best to use these two swords. If he wants to cut people from the chariot If it is to poke up and down, or to attack by throwing, the long weapon he forged is more useful.

"The king of Shang is so hardworking, can it be said..."

"Don't worry, this is the ear of Qiushou." Bo Yikao said calmly. The more sharp weapons the King Qiushou displayed, the less he wanted to fight. If he wanted to fight, these sharp weapons would be hidden. In the palace garden, not in front of the messenger.

Of course, this kind of display is indeed a deterrent. Not wanting to fight and not being able to fight are two different things, which means that if there is a real fight, these weapons will indeed fall on Cheng Zhou.

"Please be sure to show me Cheng Zhou's obedience."

"Young master is serious." The little nobleman who took the lead in Cheng Zhou bowed his head and saluted, "Your Majesty sent such a heavy gift for you to use, because you have this intention."

Lu Shangding's strategy is to win the favor of the Shang first, then replace the concubine with a concubine to eliminate the hidden dangers of the Zhou Dynasty, and then use pearls, jade, alcohol, and beauties to make friends with the Shang King and his servants. good thing.

This is the real way to delay time, and first take off the anti-thief mask on your face, and after mixing with the ranks of the princes of Shang, then slowly draw it-in Lu Shang's words: "Your Majesty, are there three armies? Ji Chang: "Nothing"

Then he asked, "Are there any princes on the king who are willing to respond to foreign policies?" Ji Chang hesitated for a while. If there must have been before, but now that the King of Shang is so generous in throwing coins, it is very vague whether there is such a thing. In the end, he can only let Reason prevails, "what is and what is not"

Lu Shang nodded when he heard the words, this Ji Chang did have the foundation to understand the Lord, that is to seek truth from facts, what any monarch needs most is this kind of rationality, instead of being stubborn for face, although the external attitude can be swollen. Pretending to be a fat person, such as the king of Shang who has lost a dime in his pocket, but when formulating national policies, don't take it seriously.

"Your Majesty, should there be a Shang attendant?"

"Nothing."

"Then, my lord, do you have rice grain and shellfish coins that have been fighting for several years?"

If there is "nothing", who would be anti-business? Isn't Xiqi's own small kingdom well managed?As long as the door of Tongguan is closed, besides being unable to proclaim himself emperor here, the joy of field hunting is like the emperor.

"Your Majesty, there are no soldiers of the three armies, no internal response to the court, and no external support from the princes. There is no rice, grain, and weapons in the warehouse. Why call it rebellion!" Lu Shang's meaning is very simple. So ordinary and confident to put on the mask of a traitor?

"At this time, your majesty should act as a form of obedience, and regard yourself as an obedient minister of the Shang Dynasty, and then secretly contact the princes, obey the barbarians far away, practice moral government internally, wait for the rice and grain to be accumulated, and have both armor and armor, and internally use beauties and wine to command the princes and close ministers of the Shang Dynasty. They are all addicted to it, and only when the king speaks, can we set up the banner of anti-business!" Simply put, it is not a problem to bring an anti-thief card now.

"Can……"

"Shang's troubles are nothing more than Zhou Qi. If there is no matter of Qi waiting for enlightenment, the emperor will have to rebel." Because this is really not pretending to be obedient, the king of Shang will be soft-handed, and when the time comes, he will directly seize the title. What should I do if I drive Cheng Zhou further west to Longyou?

However, if there is something about Qihou, then this matter is not so simple. Although Qihou was also entrusted by the king of Shang to deal with Cheng Zhou, it is a good idea to let it be sandwiched between Shang and Dongyi. However, it also means that the matter of Dongyi will slow down a little bit, and Qihou will develop.

"But in 20 years, Qi will become a big problem for Shang, and the king of Shang must conquer Qi!" Even if you can fight, you will suffer a lot.

Moreover, relying entirely on martial arts to subdue the merchant army of the four fields, as long as they lose one battle, it will be like a landslide and tsunami. The speed of decline of the whole country is no less than that of Daxia who lost Mingtiao, and it will collapse in an instant.

"If Cheng Zhou becomes Shang's great enemy at this time...then Shang can gradually conquer the land."

One of the most important reasons why the King of Shang did not give priority to forming a Zhou Dynasty is that the broken terrain of Tongguan is really not convenient to use military means to fight over. turn.

Dongyi didn't have time to trouble him at the moment, but it also meant that Qihou Qi couldn't be suppressed. Ziqi was about to occupy Linzi. Although it was a lone army going deep, it also meant that he had really nailed Dongyi. The territory with Laiyi has firmly established itself in Shandong.

Of course, this also means that the time for Zishou to pick peaches is approaching, just because he has no heirs and no reliable manpower to garrison Qi, the other princes are not at ease. , any unreliable prince can accumulate the power to be a traitor there.

Another reason is that Ziqi and Dongyi are still fighting, consuming both sides' strength at the same time, and it is too early to intervene, so Zishou specially put out these sharp weapons to intimidate Cheng Zhou and Nanmanzi not to give them to him. Do things.

At this time, no matter who the merchant army is fighting against, according to the marching speed and preparation speed of this era, it means that they will miss the peach picking in Qidi or let Ziqi take a breather. Picking peaches in the future will require a greater price and effort.

Mo Du said, "Your Majesty, the envoy of Chu is asking to see you with a tribute."

"Xuan!" Zishou put down the wooden slip in his hand, and there were a few white pills in the plate beside him. These were obtained from Bo Yi's confession. He didn't eat them, but they were placed in the most conspicuous place.

Every now and then, he took one to feed the pigs and dogs in the backyard, showing that he had taken the elixir, and rewarded the alchemist and Bo Yikao at the same time, waiting for him to bring some poison out for himself as an excuse.

Although both Jianghou and the fox said that the medicine was harmless, and that it contained honey, ginseng and other medicinal materials, Zishou became more vigilant and refused to eat it. The more harmless his harem felt, the more he The more afraid you are, it means that others use this as bait and it is easy to poison yourself.

In the end, when he really refused to listen, Zi Shou could only press the two "culprits" on the couch and beat them up with a stick. This matter was completely resolved when the medicine continued to last.

"These wives are really disobedient if you don't need to beat them hard with a stick!" After being beaten with a stick until foaming at the mouth, more air was emitted and less air was breathed in, the women in the harem finally stopped worrying about what medicine Zi Shou would take. Talk more.

"Your Majesty!" The envoy from Chu Land was much more polite than last time, and that was of course. No one was rude when they saw a group of tough men repairing Jia Ge and preparing dry food.

"What good things did you bring this time?"

"I brought the sharks from the South China Sea, three sets of pearls, five carts of grass kudzu, and three pieces of gold." To be honest, the tribute was quite humble, but Zishou didn't take it seriously. "Six looms and fifteen pieces of grass cloth" The grass cloth was ramie cloth, but the loom was a bit surprising. The envoy of Chu bowed down overjoyed, and Zishou waved his hand to express that he didn't care.

If he bestows the loom, will Chu land develop?Yes, but this is his purpose. Firstly, Chudi can imitate it, thereby improving the textile industry and handicraft industry. Secondly, it can exchange cloth for grain and tools, further increasing the development speed of Chudi, so that people close to the merchants Prosperity and richness of the land - that's his purpose!

If the neighbor is not richer, why would he grab it, right?Besides, it is probably impossible for sheep to eat people, but ramie cannibalism is not slower than sheep cannibalism, and changing rice to mulberry is even more murderous stuff.

Especially in this era, Chudi had looms and began to imitate weaving cloth, and traded a large amount of grain and poor-quality fishing nets that were not easy to preserve with cloth to support themselves, and then planted a large amount of ramie and developed handicraft industry.

This will not only accumulate amazing wealth, but also mean that their agricultural development will seriously lag behind, and even few people are serious about farming. Even after they learn how to spin and weave linen fishing nets, they can catch fish to make up for it. food problem.

Chudi will not see any problems, but will only see endless benefits, and let Zishou's reputation as the insane king and faint king be more resounding, but when they become rich, Zishou will give them Take a lesson, that is, when you don't have a steel-like army, there is no difference between being rich and courting death!

Not to mention, at that time, as long as the merchants don't want your cloth and ramie, it depends on what you eat and use. In this era, the south is hot, and the demand for clothes and fabrics is not as great as that in the north. There is endless consumption of cloth , enough to make Chu land wither instantly.

And once the Manzis rushed out of the southern woodlands and hills where they depended for a living, and entered the Huaihe Plain, they would be sent to die. Zishou only needed to defend the fortified city and kill all the brave warriors like the Manzis on the battlefield. The rest are cowards who surrendered as soon as the army drove past.

This was much easier than forcibly attacking Chu land and fighting the barbarians in the miasma-filled hills, swamps, and woodlands. As for those hiding in the ravines, Zishou also arranged excellent siege tactics for them.

That is, the strategic focus is to focus on the clean water sources and salt mines in Chu, and then block these ravines, organize troops to enter, and put half-decomposed corpses directly into the water sources, waiting for the plague to break out!

You can also choose to drive all the patients in and turn them into living sources of biological weapons infection, and then wait for the people inside to rush out to seek death, or wait inside to die, and after they are all dead, wait three to five years , and then enter the epidemic area, or just set fire to the entire epidemic area.

This is the unique skill of the Mongols to break through the strong city. They use trebuchets to throw corpses in. Things like trebuchets are quite simple. Zishou made a few simple trebuchets in the official square. It is a bit difficult to throw large stones into the city. , but throwing rotten corpses or something into it, and performing the classic tactics of the "Undead Scourge" is no problem at all.

And once all the people inside died, it meant that Zishou's artifact restriction would be lifted, because he was only clearing away the plague residue. According to the agreement, this was an unlimited and even encouraged behavior.

And the trebuchet is not a divine weapon. Although many components are cut with a divine sword, it is really not a divine weapon, and it is not on the forbidden card list at all—just kidding, half of the rules of this list of gods are based on the divine sense information he was drawn from. Is there any loophole he can't find in the constructed one?

Even if those great gods who planned behind the scenes really blocked the content of his spiritual thoughts, the loopholes in the rules formulated by these great gods are bigger than Zi Shou's, and it is easier and more convenient to exploit.

[PS]

There is still a power outage, and we continue to change places.

I feel like I am about to become a nomad of the new era, where others live by water and plants, while I live by grid.

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It's still a change, it's not my fault, it's God's fault!

Chapter 50 Can biologists stay out of it?

The wooden prison cart was delivered to the steps of the palace. Two barbarian warriors pierced under the black cloth with sharpened wooden spears, causing a rustling sound. As the leader in front pulled down the black cloth and opened the prison cart, the inside was exposed. The so-called "merman" came.

"Well, this should be the snake lady, right?" Zi Shou touched his chin, "Did they catch the wrong thing?" Su Bing also showed a suspicious (true) expression, thought it over and said, "This It seems to be a member of the Soaring Snake Clan, not a mermaid, although they look a bit... resembling."

"Will there be children of mixed race?" Zi Shou asked curiously.

"No, for example, if my Tushan family and the Qing family's Luanniao are married, there is a [-]% probability that the child born will be the one with the stronger divine blood. That is to say, there will be no flying white fox clansmen left." Su Biao explained.

"However, abilities can be inherited from both parents. Therefore, it is very rare to give birth to a member of the White Fox tribe who has the ability to communicate with a consonant. Therefore, most people of different races will not intermarry."

They will only intermarry with humans, because humans do not have any supernatural powers, but they can learn some superficial spells, which means that children born with humans will completely inherit the abilities and characteristics of other races.

On the other hand, it can also prostitute the natural intelligence and endurance of human beings. Therefore, in theory, aliens like to intermarry with humans, but this will bring about the defect of blood being diluted at a high speed.

"So that's it, that is to say, they really caught the wrong thing." Zishou nodded, and told these barbarians from Chu land later. Why don't you call this kind of thing that lives in Yunmengze area sharks?

Inside the wooden prison cart, a girl with a snake's tail was terrified to avoid the wooden spear piercing the gap, squirming outside a little bit, and was afraid of the openness and unfamiliar places outside, which made the barbarian warriors shout and drink With strange screams, finally, driven by the lit wooden spear, he finally left this small safe space.

A few strong vines bound her hands, a part of her body, and a snake tail. Six barbarian warriors pulled the rope tightly, making it impossible for the girl who was trying to break through to run away to escape smoothly. In the end, she was half-legged on the ground exhausted, Make a threatening hiss.

"This little tiger tooth is very cute." There are two pointed teeth exposed in the cherry pink mouth, and the tongue is not like a snake letter, but a normal human tongue, um, yes, if you grow a letter, It doesn't make sense for her to have a long nose. After all, snakes need to rely on snake letters and vomeronasal organs to judge smells, and this guy obviously has a normal nose, so there is no need for snake letters.