Zhao Weiwang in the Warring States Period

Chapter 525 The Shaken Chunshenjun Huang Xie (third update)

A few days later, at Chunshen Jun's residence.

Sitting in the study, Huang Xie was not in a good mood.

In the past year, although Huang Xie gained a firm foothold once again because he led the attack on Handan, he was also under pressure because of Chu's defeat of Qin on the western front.

Generally speaking, the current situation of the Chu State Ling Yin is not much better than that of a year ago.

As the top big families in Chu State, Zhao, Jing, and Qu's three major families never let up on Huang Xie's actions to hinder him. The position is pulled down.

Perhaps because of exhaustion, Huang Xie's head is basically white now, and there are not a few black hairs to be seen.

Sitting in the study, Huang Xie sighed to Li Yuan, who was both a confidant and a close friend in front of him: "I wish I could slaughter all the members of Zhaojing Qu's family!"

Li Yuan was taken aback by Huang Xie's words, and hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, be careful with your words."

Huang Xie sneered, and said, "Now the Zhaojing Qu family wish I could die violently on the street. Everyone in the country knows about this. If that's the case, then why should I cover it up?"

Li Yuan shook his head and persuaded earnestly: "Your Majesty, the Zhaojing Qu family has been operating in the country for hundreds of years. Even if you are a great talent, you have only served as Ling Yin for a few years. Confrontation? Moreover, in the opinion of my ministers, there is no need for your majesty to resist the members of these three families at all."

Huang Xie froze for a moment, and said, "Why?"

Li Yuan smiled mysteriously, and said: "Your Majesty, have you forgotten that whether you can overthrow Your Majesty is not something that can be decided by the Zhaojing Qu family. The real decision maker is our current King of Chu! "

Huang Xie snorted sullenly, and said: "Of course I know that the king is the most important person, but the problem is that the king has been slandered a lot by those three families, and he has already alienated me."

Li Yuan smiled and said: "That's right, the situation is indeed the case at a rough look, but your lord actually has a chance to turn things around, doesn't he? As long as your lord can make contributions to the state of Chu, then the king will naturally turn his opponents around." Your Majesty's impression is that the slander of the Zhaojing Qu family has been thrown aside."

After a pause, Li Yuan deliberately lowered his voice again, and said, "Furthermore, Your Majesty has forgotten that there is Mrs. Li in the palace who can speak well for Your Majesty."

Mrs. Li, the most beloved wife of King Yuan of Chu, gave birth to Lin'er for King Yuan of Chu. She is second only to the queen in the current harem of Chu State.

For some reason, after Huang Xie heard Mrs. Li's name, the expression on his face suddenly became very strange.

After a long while, Huang Xie said: "Madam Li spoke well of me in front of the king, of course I know, but that matter"

Li Yuan hastily made a silent gesture, and said softly: "Your Majesty, you must be careful that the partition wall has ears!"

It's strange to say that Huang Xie, who was not afraid of the eavesdropping by Zhaojing Qu's family just now, shut his mouth very obediently this time, and said after a while: "Then what can you do to reverse the situation?"

Li Yuan thought for a while, with a hesitant look on his face, he hesitated to speak.

Seeing this, Huang Xie immediately urged: "Speak quickly."

Li Yuan let out a sigh of relief, as if he had made up his mind, and said softly to Huang Xie, "Your Majesty, in fact, the reason why I came here today is that I have something to tell my Majesty."

Huang Xie said, "What's the matter?"

Li Yuan lowered his voice again, and said softly: "Your Majesty, there was a man named Lu Buwei the day before yesterday, who claimed to be the internal history of Qin, and came to visit our country in secret as the envoy of the King of Qin."

"What?" Huang Xie's eyes widened in surprise, and he suddenly looked at Li Yuan suspiciously, and said, "Why did the envoy of the Qin State come to you? Could it be that you and the people of the Qin State colluded?"

At this moment, a killing intent flashed through Huang Xie's eyes very clearly.

Li Yuan saw this murderous intent in his eyes, felt awe-inspiring in his heart, and immediately called out to Qu: "Your Majesty misunderstood, the reason why the envoy of the Qin Kingdom came to the minister was precisely because he hoped to use the minister to ask him to see you. .”

Huang Xie's expression relaxed slightly, and he said, "The envoy from the Qin Kingdom came here, could it be that he wants to form an alliance with Da Chu?"

Li Yuan nodded and said, "Exactly."

Huang Xiehe let out a sneer: "This King Qin is too whimsical! Is there any possibility of an alliance between Qin and Chu?"

Li Yuan hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the envoy of Qin State said that as long as Da Chu is willing to form an alliance with Qin State, then Qin State is willing to return all the territories south of Wuguan to Da Chu!"

As soon as this sentence was said, Huang Xie's face immediately changed slightly, but he shook his head immediately, and said: "The people of the Qin country have always been trustless, so how do you know that this is not an excuse to deceive the Great Chu?"

Li Yuandao: "Your Majesty, in fact, I think that the words of the envoy of Qin State are very likely to be true."

"Oh?" Huang Xie raised his eyebrows and said, "Why is that?"

Li Yuandao: "Your Majesty, why did the Qin State dare to deceive the Great Chu in the past? It is nothing more than that the Qin State is already strong enough, even if it fights the Great Chu, it is fearless. But now that the Qin State is declining, if it dares to deceive the Great Chu, Then Great Chu only needs to unite Zhao and Han to attack Qin, and Qin will definitely lose. So how dare Qin deceive Great Chu?"

Huang Xie stroked his beard, nodded slowly after thinking for a long time: "That's the truth. But you also know that if I propose an alliance with Qin, the Zhaojing Qu family will be the first to jump out and fight against me." , How should this be done? And even if there were no Zhaojing and Qu families, there must be a lot of people in the Great Chu who oppose the Qin-Chu alliance."

Li Yuan suppressed his temper and persuaded: "Your Majesty, why not think about it, even if there is no such thing, wouldn't the Zhaojing Qu family not oppose you? What you need to worry about now is not the opposition of the Zhaojing Qu family. Instead, make some achievements as soon as possible to get the King's approval!"

Huang Xie still hesitated: "Even if you want to make achievements, you don't necessarily have to fight against Zhao Guo? You must know that Zhao Guo is an ally of the Great Chu, and now Zhao Guo has a strong army, and there is no one in the world."

Li Yuan shook his head and said, "Your Majesty's words are absurd. I dare to ask you, if you don't attack Zhao State, how can you make contributions? Han and Wei are now allies of Zhao State, and Qin State has Lord Wu'an Bai Qi Sitting in the town, Qi State has also defeated Junshang. For the current plan, Junshang only has a chance of even Qin attacking Zhao Fang, otherwise, he can only sit and wait for the Zhaojing Qu family to press on step by step, and finally hurt Junshang. It's a killer!"

Li Yuan's remarks were extremely sincere and reasonable, and finally moved Huang Xie.

This Lord Chunshen gritted his teeth and said: "In that case, then you should bring in the envoy of the Qin Kingdom. I will talk to him first, and when I have a chance in two days, I will bring him a secret Enter the palace to meet the king!"

Chapter 526 (fourth update)

When the undercurrent was surging in Chencheng and the spearhead was alluding to Zhao State, in Handan City hundreds of miles away, the monarchs and ministers of Zhao State still knew nothing about it.

Zhao Dan is in a very good mood today.

The papermaking technique that was ordered a few years ago has finally begun to show breakthroughs after several years of hard work by the artisans of Zhao State.

A piece of paper that looked yellow and rough was placed in front of Zhao Dan.

Papermaking, known as one of the "Four Great Inventions of China", has played a great role in the progress of civilization in China and even in the whole world.

In front of Zhao Dan stood two paper craftsmen, these two craftsmen came here specially to introduce papermaking to Zhao Dan.

Since ancient times, Chinese working people have known how to raise silkworms and reel silk.In today's Warring States period, the handicraft industry of making silk floss from secondary cocoons has become quite popular.

At this time, the method used by the working people to deal with the second cocoon is called the method of floating cotton. The basic points of the operation include repeatedly beating to smash the silkworm clothes.

In addition, in ancient China, lime water or plant ash water was often used to degumming silk and hemp. This technology also provides inspiration for degumming plant fibers in papermaking.

This method of fluffing and degumming has played a great role in reference for the artisans of Zhao State in the process of papermaking.

The piece of paper in front of Zhao Dan was obtained by the craftsmen of Zhao State through Zhao Dan's introduction, combined with the above method, repeated experiments for several years, and improved countless steps.

According to the craftsmen, this piece of paper is made from raw materials such as bark, hemp, cloth, and fish, and is finally made through processes such as crushing, pounding, frying, and baking.

The raw materials of this kind of paper are easy to find and cheap, and the quality is much improved compared to silk paper.

This is actually the "Caihou paper" created by Cai Lun in history.

It takes about four steps to make this kind of paper.

The first is the separation of raw materials, that is, the raw materials are degummed in lye and dispersed into fibers by retting or steaming.