Daqin: Zulong's Traveling Frog

Chapter 144
"Young Mansion Zhanghan, I order you to confiscate all the weapons in the world, transport them to Xianyang City, the imperial capital, and cast them all for sale!"

Qin Wangzheng turned his back to Zhang Han, his eyes bursting with fierceness.

Although it was a light sentence, Qin Wangzheng's tone was cold, and Zhang Han's back was already wet with cold sweat.

Although Zhang Han didn't know Qin Wangzheng's purpose for doing this, he still suppressed the panic in his heart and said calmly: "Promise!"

A few days ago, Qin Wangzheng had a strange dream.

He dreamed that the sky changed drastically, the sun and the moon lost all light, and ghosts and gods appeared one after another, opening their bloody mouths and about to swallow Qin Wangzheng. Qin Wangzheng suddenly woke up and broke out in a cold sweat.

When Qin Wangzheng panicked, he ordered the alchemists from the land of Yanzhao to come to Xianyang City, the imperial capital, to interpret his dream.

The explanation of the land of Yanzhao said: "Your Majesty will rule the world and ascend the throne as the emperor. The whole world is called the first emperor, and he is the co-lord of the world."

"However, undercurrents are surging within the empire. The royal families and nobles of the six kingdoms of Shandong and the foreign barbarians from the north and south are all ferocious beasts. They are all peering at Xianyang with the intention of encroaching on the Central Plains!"

After Qin Wangzheng listened, cold sweat broke out on his back, his clothes were already wet after a while, and the bamboo slips on his face became solemn
The restoration forces of the Six Kingdoms and the alien races in the north and south are undoubtedly a fatal blow to the Central Plains!

Especially for Qin Wangzheng who had just ruled the world, it was like a nightmare, entangled in Qin Wangzheng's heart.

However, the alchemists from the land of Yan and Zhao also gave a solution to the political affairs of the Qin Dynasty, admonishing: "Your Majesty annexed the four seas and recovered the nine states. There should be no more wars in the world. Why doesn't your Majesty follow the example of King Wu of Zhou and let Nanshan go to collect the weapons of the world?" "

Qin Wangzheng's solemn expression gradually subsided, he nodded slightly, and looked at the alchemist in front of him again, and learned that the two were Hou Sheng and Lu Sheng, and asked them to work in the Shaofu to cooperate with the Shaofu Zhang Han in handling the matter of confiscating the world's weapons.

But Qin Wangzheng's dream was lifted, but Zhang Han was facing the most difficult problem.

Although Zhang Han didn't know the number of weapons in the world, but seeing the huge number of armies in the Seven Kingdoms, he knew how huge the number of weapons in the world would be, at least tens of thousands!

It is not easy to confiscate such a huge amount. It is inevitable that there will be private collections among the people, and some people will use violence to obstruct them.

What makes Zhang Han even more difficult is how to destroy the weapons in the world, and what items will they be melted into after they are destroyed?
Qin Wangzheng resolved the conflict, but left the new problem to Zhang Han.

Zhang Han successively brewed three ideas.

The first plan was naturally to melt and cast all the weapons in the world into agricultural tools, and distribute them to the people and soldiers in the frontier for farming.

However, the number of these weapons is huge, and the number of brewing farm tools may exceed the budget. How to arrange the excess farm tools.

Even if it is built according to the number of troops, after the weapons are distributed, there will be many royal nobles who will make trouble. After collecting all the weapons in the world, they will secretly make weapons.

When this method was spoken to the officials in the Shaofu, it was opposed by many people.

After all, no one can guarantee that the royal family and nobles will sell and profit from it, and no one can guarantee that the remnants of the Six Kingdoms will not buy from it, secretly forge weapons, and fight against Qin!

The second plan was to imitate the Nine Tripods and permanently control Xianyang, but Zhang Han rejected it in his mind before he could say it out loud.

The Qin Dynasty unified the six kingdoms and ended the rule of the Zhou Dynasty. If Jiuding was cast again, wouldn't it mean that the Qin Dynasty violently invaded the Zhou royal family, and wouldn't there be a reasonable excuse for the restoration of the Six Kingdoms in Shandong?

What's more, Qin Wangzheng unified the world, established the first peace through the ages, and was collectively called the First Emperor. Could a mere Jiuding be able to carry the achievements of Qin Wangzheng?

The way out for the third plan is: cast six giant whales more than ten feet long, and place them in the Lanchi Waterscape of Lanchi Palace for viewing.
As soon as Zhang Han said it, he was opposed by everyone, so Zhang Han had to come up with a reasonable solution again.

The Qin law is well-structured and well-organized. Therefore, after the Qin Wangzheng issued the imperial edict, weapons from all over the world were continuously gathered in Xianyang Wangcheng.

Seeing the weapons coming in a steady stream, Zhang Han was nervous for a moment, and he didn't know what to do with the weapons. He had to pile them up first.

Many of Qin's weapons were scrapped, and the weapons of the six countries in Shandong were far from those of Qin. Swords, spears, and offensive and defensive equipment were basically destroyed.

Forced to do so, Zhang Han could only disassemble and dispose of them in different categories. After making a decision on the melting and casting of copper and iron, he proceeded to melting and selling.

More than a month later, more than [-] soldier craftsmen have sorted and disassembled the weapons, and the number is astonishingly large!

Zhang Han couldn't make up his mind for a while, so he could only temporarily sue Qin Wangzheng and let Qin Wangzheng make a decision.

Destroying the world's weapons, Qin Wangzheng's intention is naturally to rush into the treasury in case of accidents.

However, according to Zhang Han's report, the weapons of the six countries have basically been scrapped. How to use them again, might as well destroy them all?
When Lu Sheng and Hou Sheng saw that Qin Wangzheng was confused by this, he stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty's achievements have far surpassed King Wu of Zhou, so Ma Fang Nanshan can only follow suit, not copy it!"

"Now that His Majesty has confiscated the weapons of the world, why not melt them all!"

"Casted into twelve golden men, you can sit firmly in the world and deter the remnants of the six kingdoms and the barbarians of other races!"

After Qin Wangzheng heard about it, he was very addicted, boasted about Lu Shenghousheng, and then issued an edict to Zhang Han: "Melting weapons to make twelve bronze men?"

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the technological level of iron-making had made certain progress, but the quality of the iron was very poor, and a large number of impurities in it could not be removed, so it was very brittle and had poor toughness.

Although hard enough, it is easily damaged, and it is not enough to make weapons.

After more than 1000 years of development in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the bronze refining process has almost reached the peak of human beings.

The performance of the bronze weapons made is no less than that of some high-strength alloys of later generations. Not only is the toughness good, but the sharpness of the sword is still amazing even after 2000.

Even so, South Korea has mastered pure natural iron ore, and Yiyang is a natural mining city, so South Korea has the reputation of "all the strong bows in the world come from South Korea".

Therefore, Korean ironware was hardly damaged.

It's a pity that the number of natural ironware is limited, and it has basically been developed by South Korea. It is difficult to find good iron ore in South Korea!

Qin Wangzheng also felt sorry for this. If he could really control the iron mines in Yiyang, South Korea, the combat effectiveness of Qin's soldiers could be increased several times, significantly improved?

Therefore, Qin Wangzheng came from the land of Han and Chu, preserved the well-crafted ironware, and ordered Qin Mo to imitate it, but Qin Mo was only good at wood and bronze wares, and knew little about iron wares, and the imitated iron wares were far inferior to Han and Zhao. China's iron is sharp!
While Qin Mo was worrying about the ironware, Qin Wangzheng, who was far away in Zhangtai Palace, suddenly heard the news of the return of the little childish slave in his mind!

(End of this chapter)