Back to the Warring States Period as Zhao Kuo

Belly said happily: "Have you seen it, Junhou?

Now that the power has been increased, our gunpowder is fully capable of blasting through the city walls of Handan! "

Zhao Kuo calmed down for a long time, showed a big smile, and patted Fuzhen's shoulder hard: "Very good, very good, you did a good job in this matter!"

Not far away, Xu Li, Li Si, and Han Fei were already dumbfounded.

Li Si murmured, "What did I see just now?"

Xu Li also murmured: "Such a huge boulder, how can you say that it is gone?"

Han Fei's stuttering seemed to become more serious: "God, miracle!"

There is no doubt that this gunpowder explosion has greatly shocked the three of them.

Zhao Kuo, who happened to hear the three people's words, couldn't help laughing: "You are wrong, this is not a miracle, this is science!"

Gunpowder officially has practical significance, which is of course a huge improvement for Zhao Kuo.

The city walls of Handan can be blasted, so Daliang, Linzi, and Xianyang are naturally no problem!In fact, this is also due to the fact that this era still belongs to the "ancient of ancient times". If it goes on for hundreds of years or thousands of years, and the quality of Huaxia city construction in the Song and Ming Dynasties has improved, only real explosives and Cannonballs can blow through the city walls.

The only pity is that Zhao Kuo put away his smile and told the four confidantes present: "This matter must not be mentioned, understand?"

The four of them nodded at the same time. Everyone is not a fool. Of course, this kind of secrecy is understood.

Li Si couldn't hold back his excitement, and said, "Your Majesty, when will we use this gunpowder in war?"

Zhao Kuo was silent for a while, then said: "At least it will not work until after this Marquis seizes power."

Yes, even though he has such a big killer, Zhao Kuo still can't use it immediately.

This is an incomparably powerful hole card, but if the Queen Mother knows about it, the Queen Mother will definitely kill Zhao Kuo without hesitation.

Because with gunpowder, the queen mother and Zhao Guo don't need Zhao Kuo, a famous general who has won all battles!Li Si and Han Fei are both smart people, and they immediately understood what Zhao Kuo meant, and they couldn't help but feel a little regretful: "Well, can it be that we have invested so many resources, but in the end we can't use them?"

"Who said it can't be applied?"

Zhao Kuo laughed: "I'll tell you the truth, I don't actually plan to use this kind of weapon on the Chinese people."

Conquering the six countries to rule the world, with Zhao Kuo's military ability and commanding level, can't it be done?

The reason why he devoted himself so much to giving Fuzhen a large amount of resources to produce this powerful version of gunpowder is to expand the territory of the Chinese people in the future.

The Western Regions, Grasslands, Southern Man, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and even Central Asia, West Asia, Egypt, Eastern Europe, there are too many places that Zhao Kuo needs to conquer.

The most difficult part of conquering a territory is of course attacking the city.

The siege of cities one by one is a waste of time!The emergence of this powerful version of gunpowder is the best solution to this difficulty.

Now that such a powerful gunpowder has been researched, how powerful will the gunpowder be at that time when Zhao Kuo dominates the world and officially goes to other regions of the earth in a few years?

At this moment, Zhao Kuo seemed to have seen the scene many years later. He saw the cities of those foreign races crumbling under the explosion of gunpowder. Countless warriors of the Huaxia Army rushed into the city wielding knives, guns, axes and axes. Kuo conquered new lands one after another, and expanded China's prestige to new cities one after another. Zhao Kuo took a deep breath, and slowly said to the courtiers present: "This time, what we have harvested is infinite possibilities!" s future!"

Chapter 338 Zhao Kuo wants to make paper? (Please subscribe and ask for tickets)

For Zhao Kuo, the birth of the enhanced version of gunpowder will not only ensure that China will completely suppress all other nations on the earth by force for a long time in the future, but also has a powerful hole card for Zhao Kuo now.

When people are in good spirits on happy occasions, Zhao Kuo rewarded him with a lot of honesty, and told the other party to take a bath within three days and repair his personal appearance. The confidant left the courtyard of the Mo family.

Li Si couldn't help sighing: "My lord, with such a weapon, even if the queen mother really wants to take some action in the future, we will have no fear."

To put it bluntly, if the queen mother really dares to do something to Zhao Kuo, Zhao Kuo can also directly use gunpowder to send her to heaven!Han Fei also smiled and said, "Not only the queen mother, but even the entire Da Zhao army, we don't need to be afraid in the future."

If it is said that Zhao Kuo had never had the confidence to counter the military power of the entire Zhao State by force before, then from today onwards, Zhao Kuo has completely possessed this power.

It is no exaggeration to say that in this era of cold weapons, this is a super trump card comparable to a nuclear bomb!Zhao Kuo was in a good mood and said with a smile, "That's natural.

But we still need peace and peaceful evolution.

Hey, isn't that Xun Kuang Xunqing? "

A group of people approached from a distance, and the leader surrounded by a group of students was Xun Kuang, the grand priest of Zhao Guoxue Palace and the current head of Confucianism.

Xun Kuang also saw Zhao Kuo, and hurriedly saluted Zhao Kuo: "I have seen Lord Wu Xin!"

The students around Xun Kuang were shocked when they heard this, and they all saluted Zhao Kuo: "I have seen Lord Wu Xin!"

Zhao Kuo laughed and said, "Xun Qing, you don't need to be polite, you should all get up."

Many students got up and looked at Zhao Kuo very curiously.

If you want to select a "most popular" person in the Zhao Kingdom, Wu Xinjun Zhao Kuo is definitely the best choice, what Xiangbang Pingyuan Lord, and even the king of Zhao Guo Zhao Yan are completely unable to compete with Zhao Kuo in this respect on a par.

Young, handsome, omnipotent, he is ordered to turn the tide when he is in danger, defeat the powerful enemy who has suppressed the Zhao State for decades, and save the fate of the Zhao State from the fire and water.

In the folk, Zhao Kuo has long been a legend among legends!Li Si and Han Fei naturally wanted to go forward to salute their mentor Xun Kuang at this time.

Xun Kuang looked at Zhao Kuo and said with a smile, "Mr. Wu Xin came to the academy today, why didn't he tell the old man, so that the old man could bring someone to greet him."

Zhao Kuo waved his hands and smiled, "What did Xun Qing say? Ben Hou just came to the academy to visit some old friends on a whim. Why do we need to spend so much trouble?

By the way, where is Xun Qing going? "

Zhao Kuo found that whether it was Xun Kuang himself or the group of disciples behind Xun Kuang, all of them were carrying burdens and looked like they were about to travel far.

Xun Kuang said with a smile: "It will be the second anniversary of the opening of the school soon. This old man wants to take these disciples out for a walk, to have a study tour, to see the changes in Da Zhao in the past two years, and to broaden their horizons. Prepare for the coming ceremony."

This sentence sounds a bit weird, but Zhao Kuo immediately understood the meaning.

Excluding the mountain opening ceremony more than a year ago, at the first anniversary ceremony last year, Zhao Guoxue Palace specially launched a debate contest of "a hundred schools of thought contend".

All schools of thought can send their favorite disciples to participate in this debate competition. The winner of the debate competition is called the "No. [-] Scholar" and is recognized as the number one student in the academy.

Last year's No. [-] scholar came from Confucianism, and this year Xun Kuang obviously wanted to take the students out on a study tour before the competition, make up for a good lesson, and strive to defend the title.

Zhao Kuo said with a smile: "Then I wish Xunqing and Confucianism good results this time."

The two were chatting and laughing, and suddenly an exclamation sounded, which attracted the attention of both of them.

It turned out that a student accidentally dropped the bamboo slips in the bag on the ground, and now he was picking up the bamboo slips in a hurry, with a distressed and reluctant expression on his face.

Looking at this situation, Zhao Kuo couldn't help but think of the way he loved books when he was studying.

Seeing that both Zhao Kuo and the mentor noticed him, the student's face flushed red, and he hurriedly bowed and said, "The student is rude, please forgive me, sir."

Zhao Kuo waved his hands with a smile and said, "It's okay.

This slip of yours is so precious, what is written in it? "

The student hurriedly presented the bamboo slips with both hands, and said, "Returning to the Lord, I will study the study notes for the past two years in the academy."

Zhao Kuo spread out the bamboo slips and found that it was indeed some notes as the student said, but the content recorded in these notes is too little, only a few hundred words?

It is no exaggeration to say that Zhao Kuo took more notes in a morning class in his previous life than this student took two years of study notes.

Moreover, the bamboo used to make bamboo slips also costs money, not cheap!Zhao Kuo thought of this, raised his head subconsciously, and glanced at the Confucian students in front of him.

Sure enough, most of the students' luggage has that kind of hard protrusion, which looks like carrying bamboo slips and slips to study.

Study tours these days are still physical labor.

After a moment of silence, Zhao Kuo said: "The content that can be recorded in this bamboo slip is still too little.

How about this, when you come back, Benhou will give you a new thing, and keep it for you to record more content, it is no problem to memorize a thousand words a day! "

The student froze for a moment, and then showed a joyful expression: "Your Majesty, do you really mean what you say?"

Zhao Kuo laughed loudly and said, "Is there any joke in what Ben Hou said?

Naturally it is true!Moreover, this kind of thing will be a hundred times lighter than the bamboo slips. At that time, you will not only be able to take these hundreds of thousands of characters on the bamboo slips to study, but you will be able to take tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of characters to travel. Study Tour! "

This thing is not simple, isn't it just making paper!On a piece of paper that is one meter long and one meter wide, even if it is written with a brush, hundreds or thousands of characters can be written casually.

Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of words, isn't it just a paper book?

The student was overjoyed and saluted Zhao Kuo deeply: "Thank you, Mr. Wu Xin!"

When the students left, Xu Li, who had been by the side, said softly, "Your Majesty wants it." Zhao Kuo nodded and said with a smile, "Yes.

Ben Hou's papermaking technique has been developed for so long, it's time to spread it out! "

Zhao Kuo didn't know that the encounter and conversation between himself and this group of students soon reached the ears of someone who paid close attention to Zhao Kuo.

"I went to Mo's house, and then there was a strange noise in Mo's house, suspected of thunder?"

Han Xuwei stroked his beard and sighed with some regret: "If it's Tianlei, why can't it kill Zhao Kuo, the scourge?"

After thinking for a while, Han Xuwei suddenly smiled again: "A thousand words a day?

Can you carry tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of words to study abroad?

The bamboo slips with so many characters can’t fit in a room, so why does he want the students to carry a room to study, hahahaha, what a joke! "

Han Xuwei couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"No, the old man has to find an opportunity to expose this braggart in front of the queen mother and the king, and then we will see how he will confess to the queen mother!"

Han Xuwei thought about it, showing a gloating expression.

Chapter 339 Ben Hou makes paper, not for money but for fairness

The matter of papermaking is simple and easy to say, but difficult to say.

The reason why it is simple is that anyone, as long as he is not a fool, can make paper by himself in any paper-making workshop for ten days and half a month.

It's hard to say, but of course it's because there are actually quite a lot of steps in papermaking.

Paper, this era has already appeared in both the East and the West.

But whether it is the silk paper that is popular in the East or the parchment that is popular in the West, only a small number of big nobles like Zhao Kuo can have the financial resources to use it.

Why Cai Lun is recognized as the creator of papermaking is not because Cai Lun is the first person to make paper, but because Cai Lun is the first person in the history of the earth to reduce the cost of paper to the point where ordinary people can afford it .

There are nine steps in Cai Lun's papermaking process. They are cutting hemp, washing, liming, boiling, boiling, pounding, pulping, paper making, paper drying, paper exposing, and then a piece of Caihou paper is officially produced.

Of course, Zhao Kuo had never made paper in his previous life, but he had watched paper-making documentaries and had rich experience in reading and traveling through history. In addition, there were enough manpower and craftsmen in his mansion, so it only took seven days to complete the process. A new stack of three-foot-square paper was placed in front of Zhao Kuo's desk.

Looking at the stack of papers in front of him, Zhao Kuo couldn't help but frown.

Compared with the extremely white paper of later generations, the paper made by Zhao Kuo is obviously a lot yellower.

Compared with Zhao Kuo's calmness, Li Si and Han Fei in front of Zhao Kuo were completely sluggish.

Holding the paper in his hand, Li Si couldn't help trembling all over, and said in a trembling voice: "Master, Lord, can this kind of paper really be used for writing?"

Zhao Kuo smiled, picked up the brush in his hand, and swished a sentence on the paper.

If you don't accumulate steps, you can't reach thousands of miles; if you don't accumulate small streams, you can't form rivers and seas.

After finishing writing, Zhao Kuo put down the brush and said with a smile, "Look, how about it?"

It has to be said that Zhao Kuo's calligraphy attainments are quite average.

Although he was a time traveler, Zhao Kuo in his previous life did not have much chance to practice brush calligraphy. After time travel, he would fight every day, let alone calligraphy.

But even so, Li Si and Han Fei were still extremely excited, holding the paper and whispering.

"Really can write!"

"Master, brother, you can write, write many, many words!"

"Yes, this piece of paper can at least write hundreds, no, thousands of characters! Bamboo slips, a piece of wood can only write less than fifty characters!"

At this moment, Li Si and Han Fei burst into tears.

Of course, these two people are not unaware of silk paper, but the high cost of silk paper is also prohibitive.

Nowadays, just using some broken mesh and hemp as raw materials can produce paper with the same writing effect as silk paper. How can these two people not be excited?

Suddenly, Li Si and Han Fei knelt down towards Zhao Kuo at the same time.

Zhao Kuo was stunned for a moment, then said: "You are?" Li Si raised his eyes that were still wet, and said very emotionally: "Jun Hou makes paper, benefiting all scholars in the world.

For the sake of the world and all scholars of future generations, I would like to thank you for your great kindness! "

Li Si and Han Fei bowed respectfully and bowed to Zhao Kuo three times.

Before the advent of the Internet, paper was the most important carrier of human knowledge.

Compared with bamboo slips and bamboo slips, paper can be said to be a second-killer in almost all aspects, whether it is portability, record volume, storage time, etc.

The reason why many ancient books from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period and even earlier times have not been handed down is because they are all recorded in bamboo slips, which not only remain unchanged, but are also very vulnerable to war.

Imagine, if the enemy army breaks through the city, the house is full of precious bamboo slips, and it is impossible to find a few carriages to take these bamboo slips and escape for a while.