Heirs of the Seven Swords of the Qin Dynasty

Chapter 1609 Technological Breakthrough

"That doesn't sound good...Brother Gu, aren't you in a hurry?" Zhang Liang asked with a smile after hearing this.

"What's there to be anxious about?" Gu Xun pinched a piece of dried fruit and stuffed it into his mouth. "There are a full 200,000 border troops in the North. Even if Meng Tian can't mobilize them all, he can at least spare half, plus three more With ten thousand gold fire cavalry, the wolves will be defeated sooner or later."

Wolves are a problem, but not a big one yet.

According to the history that Gu Xun knew, its real development should be during the Chu-Han struggle for hegemony and the early Han Dynasty.

During that time, the entire Central Plains was in silence. From the deserts of the Western Regions, to the northern grasslands, to the cold lands of Liaodong, no one had time to take care of it. They allowed the wolves to grow and develop wildly, and eventually evolved into the huge Xiongnu Empire, and in turn, Suppressed the Central Plains Dynasty.

What Meng Tian has to face at this time is a wolf tribe that has just started to gain momentum, and at best can be regarded as a 'young child' who has just learned to walk.

With the ferocity of the empire's tiger and wolf divisions, coupled with Meng Tian's own military prowess, it was only a matter of time before the wolves were repelled and the land of Henan was retaken.

As for what to do next... Just take it one step at a time. Gu Xun doesn't believe that he can completely rise the wolf clan when he is specifically staring at them!

If it doesn't work out, he'll just go and shoot Maodun to death... If he does this, he has to be safer this time and shoot his entire family to death!
  "Where are you? How is the situation at Little Sage Village?" Gu Xun asked Zhang Liangdao in turn.

Zhang Liang shook his head, "There's nothing to say."

"The Little Sage Village is a target of public criticism. There is no way to take the initiative to attack. We can only use tactics and tactics to block it... Senior Brother has been mainly copying books with many disciples recently."

Whether it was due to the unification of writing mentioned by Fusu during his last visit or the book-burning order that would be issued at any time, Fu Nian and the others were forced to back up a large number of books in the library.

Especially those rare and rare copies. If this matter hadn't been hidden, Fu Nian would have copied hundreds of copies and found places to hide them all over the world.

By the way, the reason why the library contains mostly slips and insufficient backup is mainly because paper is expensive.

Another one is that the threshold for copying books is too high, or the threshold for being able to read and write is too high... Of course, the students of Xiaoshengxian Village can definitely achieve this threshold, but there are only a few hundred people in this dignified Confucian holy land. Being able to do it says it all.

The inscription on the bamboo slips is even more complicated.

Fu Nian cannot exploit the students of Xiaoshengxian Village without any bottom line, even though copying books can be regarded as a learning process.

The reason why Fu Nian was able to start backing up his book collection on a large scale this time was actually because he had the full support of Liusha.

There is no shortage of paper in quicksand.

Facts have proved that during the two thousand years of China's feudal dynasty, the level of scientific and technological development was generally ups and downs, and there was really not much progress because it was always regressing.

Although papermaking did not mature with printing until the Tang and Song Dynasties, Gu Xun still developed it in the third century BC.

Of course, he didn't make it, it was the craftsmen he found.

Under the heavy reward, there must be brave men, and the same is true in terms of technology. With the temptation of Gu Xun's large sum of money and the help of some specious suggestions he provided, the relatively mature papermaking technology came out ahead of schedule.

It was almost the same as before when he helped Qi State further optimize its salt production technology.

But this time, Guxun completely blocked this technology and prevented it from being spread. There was no special reason. He just thought that it might be used later, so he did not plan to promote it for the time being.

When the world is truly stable, it will not be too late to popularize it.

Well... movable type printing was also developed.

It was just movable type printing in Gu Xun's knowledge. He didn't know if it was different from the one in the Song Dynasty. After all, this thing was only mentioned in history books and was not taught in physics and chemistry students. Of course, it doesn’t matter, as long as it works and is easy to use.

It's just that he hasn't provided printing technology to Xiaoshengxian Village.

Now that the net is closely watched, it is not appropriate to make too much noise in Little Sage Village. It is okay for everyone to copy books. After all, Fusu has made a request before, but making too much noise will easily attract extra attention.

However... it doesn't take too long, Gu Xun will provide further help to Little Saint Xian Village.

Zhao Gao can't stay too long.

The Spring Festival Ceremony did not require his special participation as a eunuch, but he had to accompany Ying Zheng during his eastward tour.

Moreover, Sanghai is not very safe for him now - something happened to Fusu, and he is now somewhat afraid that Gu Xun will strangle him to death.

Li Si was gone, and there was no one to mediate. He didn't dare to bet on whether Gu Xun would take the bait, and he would definitely have to leave as soon as possible.

"Tell Fu Nian later and tell him not to worry. There will be a surprise for him in a few days."

"Surprise?" A look of curiosity appeared on Zhang Liang's face, "Brother Gu's surprise is really a bit curious."

Zhang Liang never knew much about these technical matters. He only learned about the papermaking technology in Liusha after Gu Xun provided paper to Xiaoshengxian Village. Naturally, he could not guess that the surprise Gu Xun mentioned was printing technology.

Fortunately, he had always been calm. Although he was curious, he was not in a hurry to ask Gu Xun to translate for him.

"Hehe, you will know when Zhao Gao leaves." Gu Xun did not reveal it to him now, but only gave an approximate time.

"Speaking of Zhao Gao... Luo Wang's supervision of Xiaoshengxian Manor has been gradually weakening recently." Zhang Liang nodded when he heard this, turned over the surprise article for a while, and talked about Luo Wang.

Gu Xun nodded and replied, "Definitely, his manpower has been gathering in Dongjun, and since he is about to leave here, he will definitely leave only the most basic surveillance force."

There must be more people in the trap, much more than the Shadow Guards, or even quicksand, but the stalls for the trap are also large, and even the leader Zhao Gao cannot mobilize all the people.

The snare has long ceased to be the snare of the empire, but at the same time, it is not the snare of Zhao Gao.

"After Zhao Gao leaves, let the quicksand people carefully sift this area of ​​Songhai and remove all the traps."

Gu Xun planned to take the opportunity to clear the Songhai area so that Liusha and Xiaoshengxian Village could cooperate more easily.

"Being so deliberate...will it arouse some suspicion?" Zhang Liang asked a little doubtfully.

"Doubts don't matter, as long as they can't find evidence, it's fine." Gu Xun didn't care about this.

The closer he gets to the eastward inspection tour and the closer he gets to Songhai, the less Ying Zheng will think about other things.

He wasn't tampering with the mirage, so it wouldn't be a big problem unless Zhao Gao could find some substantial handle.

But Gu Xun has decided to let Sanghai become Luo Wang's "insulated zone" after Zhao Gao leaves until Ying Zheng's eastward tour.

It's hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. If there is no one, let's see what you can find!
  After Gu Xun said this, Zhang Liang stopped trying to persuade him.

It's not something worth discussing in itself. Since Gu Xun dares to do this, he is confident and there is nothing to say.

(End of this chapter)