Molested Zulong at the beginning

"Only when the people in our Central Plains, everyone has clothes to wear, everyone has meat to eat, one person does business, farms, and the whole family lives without worry."

"And to achieve this step, the Maurya Dynasty, a large granary with fertile arable land, a transfer station, and a base for providing corvee labor, are an indispensable part of the future westward march on the only way to go through the Maurya Dynasty."

Yu Ji looked at Bai Su who was speaking confidently, her vermilion lips parted slightly, her beautiful eyes were full of surprise.

Throughout the ages, I don't know how many kings and courtiers have waged wars for the purpose of fighting between kings, ministers, generals, or to glorify their ancestors.

But the reason why Bai Su did this was for the entire Central Plains, whether it was the princes or nobles, or the common people of the nine states of the Central Plains, would benefit from it.

This kind of vision, this kind of mind, is worthy of the reputation of folk sages and famous ministers through the ages.

After pondering for a long time, she suddenly said: "My lord wants to go west, so there must be a lack of someone who is good at fighting. I don't know if Yu'er has the opportunity to be a vanguard commander?"

Bai Su was stunned for a moment, and said with some hesitation: "Xiang Yu, if General Xiang wants to participate in the Western Expedition, it would be great, but she has always been hostile to me, and she does not want to work for Da Xia, so it is difficult for her to leave the mountain. what."

Yu Ji raised her head, and looked closely at Bai Su with her beautiful eyes: "Leave this matter to me, I will definitely find a way to persuade Yu'er to go west together, not for anything else, just for the sake of my lord's affection." The heart of the world."

"Yeah, that's really nice."

Bai Su excitedly stopped Yu Ji's slender waist, and carried her around the room.

This expedition has always been a matter of extremely high risk, and the general commander may not be able to take on such a heavy responsibility.

If Xiang Yu is willing to march west, then he has no worries.

After all, running thousands of miles has always been Xiang Yu's strong point.

And Mao Dun is superb in cavalry, and if the two join hands, there is nothing to be afraid of.

Yu Ji couldn't help exclaiming, her white lotus-like jade arms subconsciously hugged Bai Su's neck, seeing the smile on Bai Su's face, she was slightly taken aback, and a smile could not help but appear on the corner of her mouth.

Ever since she followed Bai Su, she has received a lot of care and has never had any chance to repay her.

Now Xiang Yu can be given a chance to perform, allowing her to fulfill her long-cherished wish of being the world's number one general when she was a child, and also solve her husband's heart disease.

For her, this is really a good thing that has the best of both worlds.

Chapter 390 The third door is always open for adults

"Ding, get a copy of the steam engine manufacturing process."

Bai Su was taken aback, this was the first lottery draw after many months, and he thought that it was the same as in the past, all the draws were snacks and toys that were useless for entertainment, but he didn't expect that they would be sold out this time.

It's not just ordinary stuff.

After all, the status of the steam engine is as important as gunpowder, papermaking, and the compass.

Even better than the latter.

After all, papermaking facilitates the dissemination of knowledge, adding more education, and gunpowder is a weapon that has always been used in warfare.

And the steam engine is something that fundamentally changes productivity.

I remember there was a joke that there are only two things that human beings have done since ancient times, one is throwing stones, and the other is boiling water.

This throwing of stones refers to the fact that the stones at the beginning became spears, longbows, and then evolved into crossbow arrows, trebuchets and so on.

And the beginning of boiling water refers to the steam engine.

No matter how it evolves in the future, the essential principle is just how to boil water more efficiently.

This shows the importance of the steam engine.

This is really sleepy, someone came to deliver a pillow.

At the beginning, Bai Su was still thinking about how to effectively control Xianyang after the Maurya Dynasty was conquered in the future.

After all, it was too far away from the Central Plains. It would take three to five months to rely on post stations and couriers to deliver the news.

Although it is easy to establish a stable rule for ten or twenty years with the strong national power and strong prestige of Great Xia today, but when the new king ascends the throne in the future and the prestige is not enough, it will be easy to cause accidents.

But with this steam engine, everything is different.

Since then, the Central Plains has used this as a basis to greatly improve the efficiency of transportation. At that time, no matter whether it is to transfer troops from the Central Plains to counter the rebellion.

It will be easier and more convenient to transport the cotton and grain from the local autumn harvest back to the Central Plains to stabilize prices in the Central Plains.

Bai Su thought of this, without too much hesitation, after putting on a coat, he walked all the way towards the Shaofu.

Shaofu, inside the Moqi Prison.

Mo Xun was wearing a blue skirt, sitting in front of the table, gently wiping off the sweat from his forehead, and let out a long sigh of relief.

These days, she has been studying how to mass-produce gunpowder to make weapons that can be easily carried and equipped in the army.

After several months of research, there are finally some results.

Some are mixed with iron pieces, and the explosion has its own splash and armor-breaking effect, which is used to deal with cavalry on the battlefield.

In addition, based on the experience of digging canals and blasting mountains all the way, it specializes in blowing down city walls for use in sieges.

Although she advocates the concept of universal love and non-aggression, she is unwilling to make these battlefield killing things, but when she thinks of what Bai Su once said, dignity only exists on the edge of the sword, and the range of a bow and crossbow is used to measure the territory.

She couldn't help but sighed a long time.

As the adults said, if you want not to kill people, you must first have the sharpest sword in the world.

Otherwise, you will be empty-handed, even if you are full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, it will not be convincing at all.

Mo Xun's slender jade fingers slid across the patterns on the table, and he murmured: "The weak call for help, the strong save themselves, and the strongest can save others. Only relying on the Mohism's philosophy of loving all living beings is doomed." Not long term."

"Perhaps, only the biggest villain like an adult can suppress the pack of wolves that surround you. In a room full of monsters like this, let the country of the Central Plains live in peace and the borders remain peaceful."

Thinking back on all the contacts she had with Bai Su for so long, she couldn't help being filled with emotion.

I remember that when I met Bai Su for the first time, she felt that he was a frivolous and unreliable guy who had no grace at all.

However, during the contact period, I learned about the papermaking technology and porcelain invented by Bai Su, and saw with my own eyes that Bai Su was not afraid of danger, and went to the front line to fight against smallpox in person, and defeated natural disasters with manpower for the first time.

Her impression of Bai Su gradually changed.

Although he looked very frivolous on the surface, once this man got serious, the talent he displayed made her stunned, and her heart couldn't help beating violently.

And after listening to Bai Su's ideas about diplomacy and national defense, she gradually realized that she had begun to admire and yearn for this man.

I have to admit that under Bai Su's dazzling brilliance, her proud talent seems to have become dimmed.

Even unconsciously, the figure of this man was imprinted in her heart.

This talented person is often attracted by more talented people, just like a moth seeing a light, she couldn't help but want to stay by Bai Su's side and follow him all the time.

Mo Xun's slender fingers slowly traced the pattern on the table, and couldn't help muttering: "I don't know what he is doing, my lord."

"Giant."

At this time, a Mohist disciple came over.

Mo Xun paused and asked casually, "What's wrong?"

The disciple clasped his fists and replied, "Lord Bai is here."

Mo Xun was stunned: "Which Lord Bai?"

The Mohist disciple replied honestly: "Which other Master Bai is there, of course it was made by Daliang, Bai Su, Master Bai, hey, what's wrong with you, Juzi?"

Mo Xun, who was lying on the table with her chin resting just now, sat up suddenly, her white jade hands subconsciously lifted, and the black hair scattered between her brows couldn't help asking.

"How do I look now, is my hair a bit messy, is it going to look bad?"

She didn't know why, but when she heard the news that Bai Su had arrived, she suddenly became nervous for no reason.

The Mohist disciple couldn't help being taken aback seeing his giant's abnormal appearance.

After all, Mo Xun usually looks like a scientific research girl. She seldom cares about her appearance, and always only has research in her eyes, just like a doll without emotion.

It was the first time the Mohist disciple had seen her nervously caring about her appearance like a girl in Huaichun.

The Mohist disciple was stunned for a moment, and immediately replied: "The giant is beautiful and heavenly, how can there be times when he is not good-looking."

In a sense, he was right.

Mo Xun was wearing a blue underskirt, her jet-black hair was pulled up high, and she wore a light hairpin, and her waist was tied lightly, outlining her slender willow waist.

Although she was dressed plainly, without any accessories, and without rouge and gouache, her beautiful face was the most beautiful decoration, and the dignified and elegant bookish aura on her body made people's heart skip a beat.

"yes……"

Mo Xun heaved a long sigh of relief when he heard what the Mohist disciple said. After lightly brushing the hair between his eyebrows in front of the mirror, he said, "Go and invite your lord to come in."

"Yes……"

The Mohist disciple cupped his fists and retreated.

After a moment.

A sound of footsteps came from far to near.

A young man in a white robe opened the door and walked in, with a frivolous smile on his face: "Tianzi, I'm sorry to bother you at this late hour."

Mo Xun shook her head slightly, then raised her head slowly, her beautiful eyes were straight, she looked at the familiar figure in front of her, her white and beautiful face, and couldn't help showing a faint smile:

"My lord, you don't need to be like this. The door of the Mo Qijian is always open for your lord."

Chapter 390 Fourth, a woman's breasts are too thick, and her mind is ugly

Mo Xun handed a written memorial to Bai Su, and said, "My lord, this is the gunpowder you ordered."

Bai Su took the memorandum, looked at the contents above, and couldn't help praising: "As expected of a giant of the Mohist school, but in such a short period of time, so many achievements have been made, which is really admirable."

Mo Xun shook his head slightly: "My lord is overrated. I just tried and summed up my experience based on the idea put forward by my lord. This is the biggest problem in identifying the direction in the vast forest."

"As for how to get out of the dense forest, it's just a matter of time."

However, even though she spoke very modestly, the corners of her mouth could not help but curl up slightly. Obviously, she was very pleased with Bai Su's praise for her achievements.

Seeing her reaction, Bai Su couldn't help but smile, and didn't point it out.

After pondering for a moment, he said: "After the gunpowder is ignited, it can explode with amazing impact in a sealed space, giant... You said that if you put an arrow in a tube made of fine iron What kind of scene will it be if the gunpowder is ignited?"

Mo Xun couldn't help being stunned, she had never thought about this question before.

But in theory it's possible.

After all, if you put some iron pieces in a small clay pot, it can be splashed out, and the iron pieces can be pierced into tree trunks and stone walls.

What would it be like to make rows of iron pipes and ignite gunpowder at the same time to let the arrows shoot out like a torrential rain?

This is simply subversive.

After all, most longbowmen on the battlefield today need four or five years of training, and gunpowder is extremely convenient to use once it is made.

After simple training, as long as they know how to place and light a fire, a recruit who has just joined the army can display the lethality that those longbowmen who have experienced many battles can unleash.

This is simply the principle of using workshops to produce things, to continuously produce sharpshooters who can travel through hundreds of steps.

The key to the problem is how to make a suitable iron pipe and the amount of gunpowder.

Mo Xun bit his index finger lightly, and said in thought: "There is a lot to be done about this matter, my lord, I will call the disciples of the Mohist school to study it."

Bai Su hurriedly stopped Mo Xun who was about to leave, and said with a smile: "There is no rush, I am here for another matter."

Mo Xun was taken aback for a moment, there is another thing?

Bai Su smiled mysteriously, and took out a set of blueprints that he had already drawn from his bosom.

Mo Xun frowned slightly, looking at the thick stack of drawings in Bai Su's hand, he couldn't help but ask, "Master, what is this?"

Bai Su put the blueprint on the table, said with a smile: "This is a more interesting thing. It's called a steam engine. It's a small toy that I figured out in a flash when I was boiling water in front of the stove. You come and see."

Mo Xun took the blueprint with a dazed look on his face.

The structure of this thing looks extremely complicated, involving smelting, mechanics, and firing. Various strange parts are piled up together, which looks very bloated and complicated.

It's completely impossible to see what this thing is for.

After looking at it for a long time, she couldn't see any clues, so she couldn't help asking: "My lord, what is this thing for?"

Bai Su didn't explain directly, but asked a question: "Have you heard of the fairy tales in folklore?"

Mo Xun nodded slightly, and said, "I've heard a few, why don't you use a horse to pull a cart, just sprinkle a few paper dolls, and you can make a sedan chair travel thousands of miles a day."

"A woman who raised silkworms and weaved cloth was forced by her stepmother to weave [-] pieces of cloth in one night. When she couldn't cry, she met a fairy and breathed a sigh of relief, and countless mice and birds flew in to help her. The cloth was woven overnight."

"My lord, these are just things of gods and ghosts. Why do you suddenly ask these things?"