Zhao Weiwang in the Warring States Period

Zhao Dan shook his head, looked at the room with black smoke in front of him, and said to Mao Sui, "Go in and save people quickly."

Accompanied by the sound of coughing, a figure suddenly rushed out of the room that was still emitting black smoke. The whole body of this person was pitch black, and even his hair was scorched by the high temperature. Staggered and fell to the ground.

Before the others could react, this guy suddenly let out a burst of laughter.

"Found it, finally found it!"

Zhao Dan stepped forward and asked very gently: "What did you find?"

The black-faced man smiled and said, "Finally, according to the formula explained by the king, I found the ratio that can make it explode. Who are you?"

Zhao Dan said with a smile: "The widow is your king."

When walking out of the gate of this alchemy workshop, Zhao Dan's footsteps became extremely brisk.

After five years of uninterrupted experiments by the alchemists of Zhao State, and with the support of Zhao Dan's seven-character secret recipe "sulphur, saltpeter and charcoal", when a total of 36 alchemists died of various accidents, No.30 Seven alchemists finally successfully explored a stable gunpowder ratio.

After witnessing two gunpowder preparations and explosions with his own eyes, the alchemist named Shi Jian became Zhao Guo's next doctor, and the alert level of the alchemy workshop was instantly raised to the same level as the king Zhao Dan.

Although the power of this gunpowder is actually very unsatisfactory, which can be seen from the fact that it didn't even kill Shi Jian who was close at hand, but the gap between yes and no can be said to be very large.

As long as it is slowly improved, ranging from three to five years to as many as ten or eight years, gunpowder that can be used in the military should come out.

This is Zhao Guo's real black technology!

Zhao Dan is very satisfied with the results of this workshop.

Chapter 6 and One: Lu Buwei's Victory (Third)

A carriage passed slowly on the street in Xianyang.

Although half a year has passed, when Lu Buwei, who was sitting in the carriage, looked around, he could still see the trauma that the war brought to the city half a year ago.

Even on the most prosperous street in Xianyang City in front of Lu Buwei, there are still many ruined mansions in front of Lu Buwei.

Through the broken walls, Lu Buwei could even see the neat and grand houses in this mansion.

They are completely deserted now. A few wild dogs looking for food ran through the mansion, seeming to be biting each other because of a few bones picked up from nowhere, and the barking of the dogs startled a few A little bird perched on a tree, chirping and flying into the sky.

Lu Buwei withdrew his gaze and shook his head slightly.

After this catastrophe, it will take at least ten years for Xianyang City to return to its former state.

The deserted mansion that Lu Buwei just passed belonged to the former Qin Guowei. According to the investigation afterwards, this Qin Guowei was very dissatisfied because he was replaced by Lu Buwei, so he secretly colluded with Zhao Guoren and gave Zhao Guoren a token , which eventually led to the fall of Xianyang City under the cooperation of the Zhao people.

What made all the high-level officials of the Qin State even more angry was that the former Wei Wei disappeared without a trace with his family after the destruction of Xianyang City. He had apparently evacuated with Zhao's army incognito.

In order to vent his anger, Zhao Zichu, the Prince of Qin who returned from Anyi, issued an order to drag all three clans of the Weiwei to the vegetable market and abandon the market.

In addition, Zi Chu also strictly ordered the old intelligence leader of Qin State "Hou" to mobilize all the dark forces in Zhao State, and must find out this damned traitor.

"It's all useless work." A sneer appeared on the corner of Lu Buwei's mouth.

Only Lu Buwei knew where the former Wei Wei, who had been a scapegoat, died.

The poor Wei Wei and his whole family, wife and children were all killed by Zhao Jun immediately after the city was broken, and buried in the back garden.

If I read correctly, what these damn wild dogs just fought over was actually a human arm bone, right?It has been such a long time, there is no bone marrow in it for these wild dogs to suck.

Couldn't these Zhao soldiers have dug the pit deeper and cleaned up the end?

The carriage drove away from the deserted mansion and continued towards the Xianyang Palace in front of it.

If the previous Xianyang Palace was as beautiful, majestic and dignified as Mrs. Huayang, the queen of the Qin Kingdom, then the current Xianyang Palace is like Mrs. Huayang today, with a swollen face, dull eyes, and even the beginning of the temples. White hair appeared, and deep wrinkles appeared at the corners of the eyes, like an out-and-out old woman, it was unbearable to look directly at.

Zhao Guoren almost moved away everything that could be moved, even the two thick copper push rings on the gate of the palace city were removed from the gate by Zhao Guoren and transported away. It is bare and cracked, and it seems that it is still telling everyone who passes by the shame of the time.

Fortunately, Zi Chu can be regarded as a general-minded monarch. He was not in a hurry to rebuild this majestic palace, but used all the funds he could raise to restore people's livelihood.

But money doesn't buy everything, at least not in this day and age.

No matter how much money Qin has, it is impossible to buy even a stone of grain from Zhao or South Korea.

Under such circumstances, the past winter was a very cruel torment for Guanzhong.

Even with the food aid from the land of Bashu, the output of the land of Bashu at the moment is not enough to supply the consumption of millions of soldiers and civilians in the entire Guanzhong. At least [-] Qin people died of freezing and starvation in the past winter, and the injured were even worse. countless.

Li Bing, the prefect of Shu County, is said to be excavating a large-scale water conservancy project on the Minjiang River. According to the memorial presented by Li Bing, the project called Dujiangyan will be completed in at most two years, and the grain output in the land of Bashu will increase. Therefore, it has advanced by leaps and bounds, and at most ten years is enough to supply the entire Qin State with the two counties of Bashu.

Lu Buwei was somewhat skeptical about this matter.

However, Lu Buwei did not go along with the opinions of those who hoped to transfer Dujiangyan civilians to Guanzhong for restoration and construction during the court meeting, but firmly supported Li Bing's request to continue to build Dujiangyan.

Let the people of Qin invest more manpower and material resources in this stupid Li Bing who can only brag with his mouth, and consume more national power.

Lu Buwei thought very optimistically.

Handan has also sent feedback. In three years' time, when Zhao Heng, the prince of Zhao, ascends the throne, a woman named Li will become the wife of the prince of Zhao.

In addition, there will be a young man named Li Ling who will become the right-hand man of Prince Zhao.

Li family, Lu family; Li Ling, Lu Ling, they sound very similar, so similar that Lu Buwei feels very happy.

The spring sunshine fell from the sky, shining gently on Lu Buwei's body. The palace gate was in front of him, and Lu Buwei subconsciously straightened his body.

Still need to work hard.

Half an hour later, Lu Buwei and other Qin ministers gathered in the main hall of Xianyang Palace, and had an extremely heated debate over the request for help carried by an envoy from Yan.

"We must send troops to the east of the river immediately, and contain Zhao from the rear!" No matter when and where, Yangquan Jun Michen's voice is always the loudest one. This Qin Xiangbang waved his hands, looking very imposing:

"In today's world, Han Weiqi has been willing to be Zhao's running dog, and only Chu and Zhao have turned against each other. If they refuse to rescue Yan now, then wouldn't Daqin lose an ally on the road against Zhao?"

Mi Chen's words reverberated in the hall, and what he said was filled with the indomitable momentum of the old Qin people, which won the approval of many Qin ministers.

Lu Buwei knew it was time for him to go out.

So he coughed and said slowly: "Mr. Yangquan, are you trying to make Daqin drain the last drop of blood?"

Lu Buwei's words immediately met Mi Chen's glaring glare, and the Xiangbang of the Qin Kingdom stared at Lu Buwei firmly: "I don't know what the Weiwei has to say?"

If eyes can kill, then Lu Buwei should have died several times.

Lu Buwei was completely unmoved by Mi Chen's gaze, and said slowly:

"Last year, the Battle of Hedong was defeated, and now Xianyang and Guanzhong are in the midst of a thousand wastes waiting to be rebuilt. At this moment, instead of taking advantage of Zhao's conquest of the East to quickly recover the national power, instead of using swords for the sake of Yan, thousands of miles away, Mr. Yangquan, is this the best suggestion you put forward from the standpoint of Daqin as Xiangbang of Daqin?"

Lu Buwei's voice was not high at all, but every word and every word was like a knife, and he stabbed at Mi Chen.