Da Qin: At the age of six, I beat Qin Shihuang at the beginning

Chapter 24: Who is the mysterious man?

After Zu Long calmed down, he summoned an eunuch with his hand.

I wasted a lot of time just now, and I didn't even prepare the materials Qin Mu asked for.

He asked the eunuch to send an order to prepare the chariot, and he wanted to go to the foundry to inspect it himself.

After a while, a chariot decorated with dragon patterns was ready. Zulong got on the chariot and headed straight for the foundry.

Daqin's bronze casting technology is very mature, which benefits from the continuous development of the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

With the increase of copper mining and the improvement of casting technology.

Bronze gradually developed from sacrificial vessels to various uses.

Weapons, containers, seals, farm implements and more.

The more advanced copper smelting technology also allowed brass to gradually replace bronze as the currency material.

Of course, ironware had already appeared in this period.

It's just that the amount of iron ore mining is not large.

At present, ironware is mainly used as a weapon.

After arriving at the foundry, Zu Long called the best craftsman and explained Qin Mu's request.

Supervised by the emperor himself, the craftsmen cast more than 100 small seals in no time.

The pig iron carving knife was forged by a blacksmith on the spot, and it was completed quickly.

Put everything into a package, and Zulong left by car.

When approaching Qin Mu's gate, Zu Long stopped the vehicle and walked over by himself.

"Mu'er, I've prepared what you want!"

He waved the package in his hand, and the metal collided with a crisp sound.

"I took a hundred bronze seals first, if not enough, I can get more."

Qin Mu came up to meet him: "It's just a demonstration, it's enough."

"If you need it in the future, it's not too late to talk about it."

He asked Dian Wei to end the burden in Zu Long's hands.

Originally, Zulong was holding the heavy package, but in Dianwei's hands it seemed to be weightless, and he lifted it up easily.

"Okay, should you tell me what this is for?"

After they sat down, Qin Mu took out a small seal from the package.

The size is just right, and there is still warmth in the hand.

It seems that Zulong really put his heart into it, and actually found someone to cast so many temporarily.

Qin Mu knew that the bronze casting process was complicated, and it was really difficult for Zulong to finish it so quickly.

Take out the carving knife again, it is hard and sharp, and it looks like it was made by an old blacksmith.

very good!

The reason why he specifically wanted bronze seals and iron carving knives was also particular.

For normal movable type printing, wooden movable type, copper movable type and pottery movable type can be used.

The cost of wooden movable type is low, but the ink is easy to rot and deteriorate after long-term soaking.

The price of pottery movable type is low, but Daqin's pottery firing technology is not up to standard.

Copper movable type was originally made of brass, which is expensive but has a long service life.

Now Daqin has bronze, which can just offset the cost problem.

Of course, copper movable type is generally cast directly after engraving the mold.

But isn't there no condition now, so Qin Mu specially asked for a pig iron carving knife.

Just to be able to engrave on the blank stamp.

"Father, I need one more book."

"Book? I didn't bring this with me."

A book weighs at least fifty or sixty catties, and no one carries books with them.

Zu Long thought for a while, and waved towards the distance.

A guard trotted over.

After Zu Long ordered a few words, the guards left at a gallop.

When the guards arrived at the palace, they found Qin Shihuang's personal eunuch out of breath.

He never brought eunuchs with him when he went out to Qin Mu's house.

Otherwise, this identity might be exposed on the spot.

"Eunuch Zhao, His Majesty asked me to come to you to get the book."

"Take a book? What book?"

The guard scratched his head: "This... His Majesty didn't say..."

The eunuch sighed and shook his head: "You boy, why are you so rash in your work. If you don't get what His Majesty wants, how will you end up?"

The guard begged: "You are the one who knows His Majesty best in this palace. Please help me with a set of books that His Majesty likes."

The eunuch squinted at him: "The study room, the A-character bookshelf, is the one on the third floor."

The guards ran over immediately, carried a large pile of bamboo slips weighing more than 70 kilograms on their backs, and ran back.

Along the way, people from all walks of life in the palace pointed and pointed, and the guards just pretended to be out of sight.

The guards also knew that Daqin's books were too heavy, and they usually moved them with carts or horse-drawn carriages.

Where is someone running behind their backs?

However, this is the book His Majesty wants.

At first, he felt that he was a little slow on the road.

It would definitely take time to find carts and carriages.

If His Majesty is made to wait anxiously, wouldn't it be the end of the game?

It didn't take long for the matter to reach the ears of the ministers.

Lees House.

"Li Xiang, what has happened recently, Your Majesty?"

"Yes, His Majesty has been out of the palace frequently these past few days. Last time I went to look for His Majesty, but I couldn't find it after waiting for a long time!"

"Li Xiang, you are usually the most trusted by His Majesty, can you tell us something?"

Li Si kept a straight face and said nothing.

These old fellows know to ask here if they don't inquire about it themselves!
Your Majesty has not summoned me once in the past few days!

He vaguely guessed that Zulong's recent frequent visits to the palace might have something to do with the mysterious person mentioned last time.

However, the identity of the mysterious person has not been found out for a long time.

And Zulong went out of the palace frequently.

A sense of crisis emerged in Li Si's heart.

Does Your Majesty no longer trust me?

Did that mysterious person go ahead and slander me under His Majesty...

Zhao Gao's house.

"My lord, why did Your Majesty suddenly take books out of the palace?"

"That's right, His Majesty had a whim the day before yesterday, what kind of imperial examination system is going to be implemented, it's simply ridiculous!"

"My lord, you are accompanying His Majesty, and you must be well informed. What's going on?"

Zhao Gao looked gloomy.

He was indeed a popular person around the first emperor.

Before that, no matter whether it was traveling eastward or going out of the palace in micro-clothes, he was always accompanied by Zhao Gao.

However, since the trip to the palace with Wang Jian a few days ago, His Majesty has become a different person.

In the past, Qin Shihuang was so majestic that he would never see any fluctuations, which made people fearful.

But now, in just a few days, Zhao Gao saw Zulong smile and sigh several times.

Zhao Gao did not dare to say these things.

He knew that most of these people around him gathered because they saw that he was favored by Emperor Shi Huang.

Once they know that they are in danger of losing power, they will immediately disperse.

"By the way, who did I ask to check the identity of the mysterious person the day before yesterday?"

A thin man walked over from behind obediently.

"My lord, it's only been two days..."

"Is there any progress!"

"My lord, after three days, my humble position will definitely be..."

Zhao Gao grabbed the bronze wine bottle beside him and smashed the man's head to the point of bleeding.

"Trash! Pull it down and kill it!"

There was sarcasm on everyone's face, they didn't even know how to lie about the Warring States Period, how dare they come to curry favor with the magistrate?
Wang Jian's mansion.

In Xianyang City, all the great nobles gathered here.

The Wang family has served the King of Qin for generations, and up to Wang Jian's generation, there are two princes of one family.

Moreover, both father and son were deeply favored by the first emperor.

Therefore, the nobles regarded Wang Jian as the object of crying.

(End of this chapter)