The Heavens: A Qing, the Yue Girl at the beginning

"If you have time, you might as well come to our White Deer Sword Academy to have a look and understand the sword marks left in the mountains..."

After silently paying the remaining compensation, the silver-shirted swordsman with a sad look on his face seemed to have made a decision and sent a bronze medal engraved with antlers, indicating that their sect did not care about the fiasco of the sword fight. On the contrary, more I want to form a good relationship with Zhao Qing.

Being easily defeated by a young junior, Bailu Sword Academy's original plan to use the power of Shipin to become famous and revive the sect has come to nothing. Under normal circumstances, when encountering such humiliation, the loser will commit suicide on the spot, and this is the end of the relationship. It is not uncommon to have a life-or-death feud.

However, for these swordsmen, whose real age is at least fifty and as much as two hundred, in the battle between Wu and Yue more than ten years ago, after the Wu army won, they hunted, rounded up, and plundered the Yue people hiding in the mountains. Only retreat after the losses cannot keep up with the gains;
The benevolence of Fu Chai and his wife refused to listen to Wu Zixu's advice and destroy Yue in one fell swoop. Naturally, it was not because he was really that stupid, but because the Wu army had already razed the capital of Yue in this battle, causing casualties in the core area of ​​Yue to reach as high as [-] to [-]%. According to common sense, in a hundred years, It was impossible to reorganize the forces to fight against Wu.

Although it seems to be more advanced than the Yue Kingdom and has been influenced by the ritual and music culture of the Central Plains, the upper-class aristocrats of the Wu Kingdom have always had the tradition of human sacrifice. This can be seen from the incident of Teng Yu, the daughter of Helu. There is no such backward custom. The Yue people are very different from each other, and their actions are much more cruel and tyrannical.

Especially after Wu Zixu conquered the capital of Ying and allowed the Wu army to rape and plunder in revenge, after this opening was made, the spirit of the Wu people in this regard greatly increased. After the victory, they always wanted to do evil and vent their anger, and it was difficult to return to the original way of Sun Wu's army. Strict state.

As a relatively outer mountain range of the Kuaiji Mountains, Bailu Mountain has a larger population than the inner part of the mountainous area. It was also one of the hardest-hit areas that suffered plunder at that time. At that time, the entire sect was torn into pieces and tried its best to hide. There were numerous corpses in and out of the mountains, and the blood feud was forged. , a hundred times deeper than a mere defeat.

Some hid in the depths of caves and starved to death for several months. Others were discovered by the Wu army and thrown into mountain swamps to drown. After being captured, ordinary Yue people who were deemed weak and unfit to be slaves were gathered together and massacred. The buildings built are even more shocking.

After such a catastrophe, the entire Yue Kingdom suffered heavy losses. Although it has recovered economically, the number of backbone warriors is still less than half of what it was before the war. In total, among the hundreds of Yue, it can only surpass Fujian Yue, South Vietnam, etc. The tribal alliance type country may not be able to win over the two feudal kingdoms of Xiou and Wenlang.

In the eyes of everyone in the White Deer Sword Academy, if Zhao Qing could learn something from them and grow into an important figure in revenge against Wu in the future, then this would not only have the effect of making a name for himself, but also be regarded as indirect revenge, so he would not dislike this move. The position changed so quickly that an invitation was extended to her.

Sensing the hopes and expectations in the hearts of this group of people, and the merciful bows and thanks he received before leaving, Zhao Qing also had many thoughts, and realized the feelings of these Yue people who had personally experienced the catastrophe and seemed to have emerged from the past. Carrying deep hatred.

Even deep in the Kuaiji Mountains, the small village she was in was so abandoned that only a mother and her daughter remained. From this, it can be seen that if Wu Jun's raids continued for a while, she might not be able to survive and grow up. When you get up, there is a high probability that you will die in infancy.

From this perspective, Gou Jian was willing to take great risks to enter Wu and become a slave, and to deal with Fu Chai and Wu Zixu, thereby saving countless Yue people from danger. It can indeed be regarded as a great virtue and kindness to relieve the people. He was given the title of King of Yue.

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After a while, Zhao Qing, who was thoughtful about this, rode with Zheng Dan and hurried towards the Wei family's house. Along the way, he saw foreign hotels one after another, lined with high-end hotels on both sides. Each of the walled courtyards covers a wide area and can accommodate thousands of envoys.

When foreign Vietnamese from remote areas go to Kuaiji to do business, they have no way of finding a way out in a short period of time. They are unfamiliar with the place and are often bullied by local people.

Therefore, with the permission of the Yue People's Office, the Baiyue countries such as Qianyue, Yangyue, Minyue, Ouyue, Cangwu, Nanyue, Xiou, etc., all set up special embassies in Fuyangli as a special foreign exchange zone. It can be used for business negotiations with Vietnam, and can also accept help from many people of the same tribe.

As an important place for Yue people to make friends outside Kuaiji City, this area is usually bustling with cars and horses. It is extremely lively and often has traffic jams.

But when Zhao Qing and Zheng Dan sped away from the road in front of their door, countless foreigners who had learned about the battle just got out of the way in advance, crowded on the wall to peek at their heroic appearance, and admired them. Incessantly, a feeling of reverence arose.

Obviously, the impact of defeating everyone in the White Deer Sword Academy so easily is not just as simple as being famous in the Yue Kingdom. After a few months, the reputation will spread far and wide to Baiyue, spreading to nearly a million people from Kuaiji to Jiaozhi. vast area.

When the two of them arrived at their destination, it was already nighttime, and the lights from the distant houses gave off a hazy light under the refraction of raindrops, just like the stars in the night sky. It could be vaguely distinguished from the outlines of light and shadow. The size of this courtyard is still larger than that of the previous embassies.

Without checking the invitation, the guard at the gate of Weishi Manor consciously opened the door, took the initiative to hold up a special giant umbrella with a diameter of several feet to protect from wind and rain, and led the guests deep into the manor.

Although the area here is large, the buildings are quite sparse, and there are no large landscapes such as rockeries or lakes. Instead, most of the area is filled with colorful exotic flowers and plants, at least thousands of varieties. Many of them are plants that Zhao Qing has never seen before.

You must know that she once browsed hundreds of thousands of books in the Sui Dynasty library, including many records of plants and flowers. However, there are still most of the varieties that cannot be classified and identified. It can be seen that a considerable part of the flowers and plants cultivated here should be from the main world. It is unique and has magical effects.

It seems that this manor, which is thousands of acres in size, should be a breeding base for special flowers and plants. I don't know if it is related to Weiyu's invitation.

In order to prevent Weiyu or others from lurking in danger during this dinner, Zhao Qing, while observing and collecting information about these flowers and plants, also quietly flicked more than a dozen small ice beads into several ponds where lotus plants were planted. Inside, it transformed into the shape of an ice lotus seed and sank into the depths of the mud at the bottom of the pool.

These Xuanbing lotus seeds together formed a multiple monitoring array, and contained an appropriate amount of metallic deuterium charges, which were connected to her mental fluctuations through the cradle system and could be detonated at any time as a back-up for her arrangement.

After bypassing these ponds, the group finally came to a small courtyard with a pond, stacked stones, planting trees and flowers, and a quiet environment. Inside, there is a spacious pavilion supported by dougongs and rich hanging facade layers. The hall is enough to amaze any first-time visitor.

The whole building is upright and elegant, and it borrows scenery from the pool outside. Sitting in it, you can see the ripples of the pool, reflecting the shadows of trees and clouds, which has the charm of the hall in the pool and the pool in the hall.

"You two came just in time. The crab roe soup in the tripod has been simmering for two hours. The spiritual energy and soup in the soup blend with each other, and the flavor is excellent. Please come to the banquet to taste it."

When Zhao Qing came to this gorgeously decorated banquet hall and sat down at several banquets separated by bead curtains, Weiyu, who behaved like a playboy in Kuaiji Martial Arts Academy, also led a group of maids from another door. He walked in through the curtain and introduced quietly through the curtain.What is striking is that this Weiyu is much thinner than what she remembered, and looks rather malnourished. It is suspected that he has practiced some extremely consuming quick success techniques. When Zhao Qing secretly used his mind to When the telepathic signal was detected, it encountered a barrier of strange force.

As he spoke, a maid immediately placed three tripods and two guis, as well as 簠, Dun, Dou, dagger, chopsticks, Zu, Yi, Zun, and Jue, on their respective banquets for Zheng Dan and Zhao Qing. There are a series of tableware that conforms to the etiquette such as goblets, and there are several rows of maids playing music, singing and dancing on the side.

However, even though Zhao Qing was not very familiar with current rituals and music, she quickly realized that the singing and dancing skills of these maids were only barely adequate, far inferior to those of the previous maids. The Wei family, which was once prominent, is now in decline.

Zhao Qing had already inquired about the news before coming here and communicated with Zheng Dan on the way. Zhao Qing knew very well that Weiyu was deeply threatened by his uncle in the past and had been hiding himself. Now that Weiyang is dead, it is very likely that he will rise up. He did not underestimate the other party.

Speaking of which, although the various tableware placed at the banquet looked no different from bronze, showing a greenish-yellow color and solemn shape, in fact, it was celadon made to imitate bronze and came from the ceramic technology of the time. The most advanced Yue kiln.

As for the staple food served in Ding Gui, in addition to the crab roe soup specially introduced by Weiyu, there are also grilled fish, steak, mutton skewers, deer breasts and other delicacies that look little different from those of later generations. It attracts spiritual energy and helps in spiritual practice if eaten.

Different from normal history, the bronze ritual vessels used by upper-class nobles for banquets basically have practical functions such as heating, insulation, and reducing the escape of vitality. They are essentially low-grade magical vessels, and the materials contain spiritual materials. The cost of bronze, that is, black copper and black tin alloy, is usually very high.

To this day, Zhao Qing has almost figured out that any Gang Jin warrior who cultivates the fire system can melt metal into iron. It can be seen that the current productivity can fully produce iron tools in large quantities, but bronze tools are still rampant, and bronze weapons can be seen everywhere, becoming Mainstream reasons:
To put it simply, when it comes to factors related to the vitality of heaven and earth, bronze ware currently has unique advantages compared to iron ware.

As we all know, different types of metals have different levels of hindrance to the vitality of heaven and earth. For example, high-density metals such as lead, mercury, gold, etc., if the vitality of heaven and earth and the true energy and gang energy want to penetrate through, it will take more energy. energy;
This is also the reason why Zhao Qing used vessels made of lead glass to store evil energy, so that the Evil Emperor's relics could be isolated and sensed by the mercury liquid.

For bronzes, which are generally made of three metals: copper, tin, and lead, each metal has its own unique properties and functions:
Copper, among these three metals, mainly plays the role of storing vital energy.Just like in a circuit component, the capacitor plays the role of storing electrical energy, providing a steady stream of energy for the operation of the entire circuit.

In bronze weapons, this characteristic of copper is fully utilized. It can store a large amount of vitality energy tightly and release it instantly during battle, delivering a fatal blow to the enemy.

Tin, among the three metals, mainly plays the role of regulating the fluctuations of different vitality.In circuit components, inductors play a role in regulating current fluctuations, and tin plays a similar role in weapons.

It can keenly perceive and regulate the fluctuations of vitality energy released from copper, making its output effect more precise, powerful, coordinated and orderly.

Finally, there is lead. The main function of this metal in weapons is to hinder the flow of vitality.In circuit components, resistors block the flow of electricity, and lead plays the same role in weapons.

Through methods such as diversion and pressure division, it can effectively control the flow direction of the vitality inside the copper-tin alloy, so that each attack can be carried out according to the predetermined route, and it plays the role of condensing and compressing energy.

There is no doubt that the current manufacturing process of mid-to-high-end bronzes is the most cutting-edge secret technology for people below the Six Qi Realm. Even if a warrior with no background collects enough materials for casting, the best he can do is produce a low-grade treasure weapon.

At the level of the treasure weapon, the material of the bronze has reached the level of black copper, black tin, and black lead. Its own strength and hardness are not much different from those of high-purity black iron. It can even be replaced with aluminum bronze on the edge to defeat the opponent;
If multi-layer casting is used to control the distribution of various metals to form a complete vitality channel, which can amplify the power, even though the craftsmanship is extremely complicated and sophisticated and cannot be produced by those without relevant skills, it can still be better than the Black Iron Soldier. The blade has one advantage and two advantages.

As for the black iron utensils, the mixed first nature is insufficient. Even if the relevant energy channel technology can be developed, it will never be able to catch up with the bronze craftsmanship that has thousands of years of history in terms of complexity in a short time. Therefore, it is relatively rare and valuable. Not as good as bronze utensils.

As for the ordinary bronze utensils used by civilians, they mainly come from the accompanying products when the big forces mine black copper and black tin. After all, if you want to breed spiritual-level metals, naturally, mining areas rich in such metals have a better chance.

"In the time of Hexu, stones were used as soldiers; in the time of Huangdi, jade was used as soldiers; in the time of Yu's cave, copper was used as soldiers." In ancient times, there were countless treasures in the world, which can be extremely luxurious and are now more valuable than black copper. Thousands of times the amount of mysterious jade material was carved into jade weapons in large quantities.

You must know that most of the various mysterious jade that are superior to the spiritual jade white jade have a vitality reserve of more than a hundred times per unit volume. Their hardness is even comparable to that of a semi-divine weapon. If the cost is not too high, it is definitely the best. The first choice for making weapons.

In Zhao Qing's opinion, in the main world, if iron wares replace bronze wares in the future, it is probably because the mining volume and reserves of black copper and black tin are limited, and lower-cost materials are needed to replace them. The mining of jade was almost exhausted, leading to the transition from the Jade Age to the Bronze Age.

The country of Yue was ahead of other countries in the Central Plains in all aspects, and its porcelain-making technology, which had been initially developed as early as the Shang Dynasty, was an inferior alternative to spiritual bronze ritual vessels, using a small amount of spiritual soil and spiritual sand and ordinary materials to make them. become;

When the cost is much lower than that of bronzes of the same level, by incorporating vitality runes into the glaze, although the original lethality is lost, some or even all of the functions of ritual utensils can still be achieved.

Ordinary porcelain, mid- to low-level ritual-level porcelain, various natural materials and earthly treasures obtained from foreign trade with Vietnamese, giant aquatic beasts hunted in coastal areas, and thousand-year-old trees and ten-thousand-year-old sacred trees cut down south of Kuaiji Mountain are all Today, the main items of Vietnam's foreign export trade have driven the prosperity of Kuaiji City.

Looking closely at the material strength of these imitation bronze celadon, Zhao Qing also unexpectedly discovered that this advanced technology seems to have something in common with his original synthetic black iron. They both belong to the category of artificial spiritual materials, coupled with the vitality talisman. Texture technology will have extremely broad prospects.

It was the first time she saw these porcelain instruments that were commonly prescribed by upper-class nobles. While studying the mysteries, she tasted the dishes on the table. She felt really good. At the same time, she also heard Weiyu's brief explanation of the reason for this banquet. illustrate.

"So, what you mean is that you want to invite a few of us to become the image spokespersons of the 'Weishi Makeup Powder' you developed?" Zheng Dan glanced at Zhao Qing through a layer of bead curtains, and the same The two women, Yue Bo and Xuan Bo, who were attending the banquet, asked in surprise.

... (end of this chapter)