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It was the middle of January, and on a boat by the water, a girl in a white dress leaned on a carved lacquered railing, enjoying the spring sunshine.

The water has long since melted away, but when the beauty reaches into it and makes a splash, her sensitive skin can still feel a burst of coldness.

Under Ji Ying's training, Wei's demeanor has completely become a noble lady, and she has a fresh and refined temperament.

Not only that, but under the pampering of Zhao Wuxian, after a few years of good life, the skin around her body is as white and soft as a shelled chicken, and she is not ashamed to show it in the red tent and in the dim candlelight. Only these hands were a little rough because of the fatigue of being a concubine in her early years, so she often felt ashamed of herself and hid them in front of the gentleman intentionally or unintentionally.

But for her brother Xing Ao, she has nothing to hide, she will gently use them to tie his hair in a bun and smooth the folds on his clothes, but this year to do these things, she has to stand on tiptoe.

The seven-foot-tall young man didn't understand his sister's intentions, but was just talking about the heavy tasks entrusted to him by Zhao Wuxian, the journey he was looking forward to along the way, and the prospects after arriving in Wu Guo.

"We will first go from Pushui to Dayeze, and then swim from Jishui to Huai and Si, go down the river, pass through the Xudi Jizi hanging sword, watch the group Shu remnant wind, float in the river, Zhenze, and stop at the big city of Gusu."

Thinking of the magnificent mountains and rivers that he could see with his own eyes on the road, Xing Ao's young man was a little excited. But Wei became more and more worried, and her fingertips kept wrapping around the bag prepared for Adi: "Don't he know." It's not three or five years to come back, it's ten years. Or even twenty years, or even a lifetime? ”

In order not to let the tears of parting fall, Wei turned her face away, and she saw some farmers and fishermen's children playing by the water on the other side of the riverbank. Only a few months after the war, it is still common to find armor floating on the shore and heads sunk in the mud and sand. But because of the stability of order under the control of Wu Xian, even the thieves have disappeared, so these children have also resumed their previous frolic.

The youngest of them was no more than five years old. The eldest is nine or ten years old, half girl, half boy, all with a hairstyle with horns hanging down, and it is impossible to distinguish the gender when diving naked into the water. Vi heard them splashing water on each other, snorting and drinking in a shrill voice. The little ones ride on the shoulders of the older ones and push each other in waist-deep water, trying to knock each other down, whenever they fall. The water splashes, always accompanied by loud laughter.

Although the clothes they had placed on the shore were very rudimentary, if not any, they looked so happy. A scene of laughter and laughter. The younger brother Xing Ao was not a few years older than them, but now he had his hair tied up in a bun and wore the clothes of the crown. It's about to travel thousands of miles to a strange and terrifying land.

This is Zhao Wuxian's decision. It is also Xing Ao's best future in the future, Wei doesn't dare. There will be no complaints, but there will be no anxiety.

Xing Ao didn't notice his sister's distraction, and was talking with his eyebrows: "When I arrive in Wu Kingdom, I will follow my uncle to meet the prince of Wu Kingdom, the gentleman instructed, in addition to contacting Duanmuzi's caravan, if you have the opportunity, you might as well learn Wu from Yanling Jizi, train martial arts with the doctor, and then ask Sun Wuzi for advice on military strength, but be careful of the Daxing soldiers......"

Those unfamiliar names Wei didn't care, it only upset her.

So she interrupted her brother's words: "Ao, I heard that the land of Wuyue is humble and wet, and her husband died early......"

She expressed her worries, a few days ago, the typhoid fever epidemic in Xilu, the sister and brother escaped under Zhao Wuxian's care, but she still had lingering palpitations about the scene of the dead all over the city. The epidemic in the south is even more worrying, the people of the Central Plains are full of imagination and fear of the south, miasma, barbarism, man-eating barbarians, and poisonous insects and beasts are rampant, and most of the Zhuxia people, Wei has this impression of Wu Yue, and regards it as a daunting path.

"After you go, you have to pay more attention to your diet, don't eat and drink, don't get drunk and full at night, and don't sleep naked because of the heat and stuffiness of your four bodies, otherwise you will not be able to eat and drink, and you will get sick before the overdue month, at that time, don't talk about any fame and responsibility, it would be good to be able to save your life!"

Xing Ao could only agree, but then he also comforted his sister and said: "Sister, in fact, the land of Wuyue is not as wild as you imagined, and the pattern of Gusu Dacheng is not much different from Xintian and Taoqiu, that is, there are more rivers, and it is not as convenient as taking a boat by car." In recent years, many people from the Central Plains and Chu have also gone to Wu to join the country, and most of them are living well, and the atmosphere of Xu Di is no different from that of Qilu. Thousands of years later, the land of Wuyue will be impregnated with Chinese customs, and it may become a comfortable place for small bridges and flowing water, poems and books and forgetting to fight, and gardens all over the place. ”

Wei didn't believe it, and spat on him: "Nonsense, you haven't been to Wuyue, how do you know how clearly." ”

Xing Ao replied seriously: "These are all said by the gentleman!" The gentleman has never been to the country of Wu, but the sage can know the world without going out, and the gentleman is such a person! ”

These words successfully made Wei laugh, since she was rescued in the burial pit, she had a kind of blind trust in Zhao Wuxian, since he said so, it must be reasonable, and her worry disappeared a lot.

She still didn't spare her brother, and blushed and instructed: "You are not young, I don't know when you will be able to return, if you meet the woman you like, let your uncle be the master and marry you, so as to continue the bloodline of my clan." But there is only one point, I heard that most of the women in Wu Di also have tattoos and carvings, they are shirtless on weekdays, barefoot, only with a waist of cattail, and their temperament is fierce and fierce, you are not allowed to find this, and you can't be a concubine! “

……

"I'm not allowed to marry a tattooed daughter? Hey, I'm not interested in that kind of woman. ”

Standing on the dock at this moment, thinking about my sister's entrustment yesterday, Xing Ao was a little funny. Uncle Qu Wuji has already treated him as his own nephew, and often holds him at his hand, during which he also said that after arriving in Wu Kingdom, he will say a family business for him. Maybe it's the daughter of the Dazai family, and Sister's worries are unnecessary.

Speaking of which, now Qu Wuji is listening carefully to Zhao Wuxian's story! It just happened to be related to tattoo carving and the custom of stomping feet.

Zhao Wuxian talked eloquently: "There are people in Xilu who are good at weaving, and their wives are good at weaving. The two of them heard that Wu Guojun was wise and virtuous, and wanted to migrate to Wu. A neighbor said to the Lu people. If he moved to the kingdom of Wu, he would be poor. Lu people asked why? The man replied, 'Shoes are woven so that people can walk with them, but the people of Wu walk on their feet.' So no one needs it; The white silk is made into a crown belt to make people wear it, but the Wu people rarely use the broken hair vertebrae. With the expertise of your husband and wife, how can you run to a country that does not need them? What the neighbor said, my uncle thinks there is some truth? “

"That's right, China Yiyue, the people of the five directions, all have sex. Immovable. Broken hair tattoos, foot carving inscriptions are the customs of the people of Wu Yue, the clothes are suitable, and the Lu couple who weave shoes and cloth go to Wu Land, but they are afraid that it will not be of much use. ”

Qu Wuji's answer Zhao Wuxian had already expected it, so he shook his head: "This is not true, in the story I know, the people of the Nalu country asked him back, and he said that he had arrived in a country that did not need our expertise. We can guide the Wu people to wear shoes and hats, they are more versatile, how can they be poor? ”

"Uncle and think about it, when I didn't communicate with Zhuxia a hundred years ago. What does the country of Wu look like? The land is vast and sparsely populated, slash-and-burn farming, and there is no writing. There are no armies and chariots, and there are towns and cities to gather. But what about the current state of Wu? Is it after the construction of the big city of Gusu. More and more foreigners went to the state of Wu, and more and more people practiced the bird seal script. People imitate the customs of Midsummer, and more and more people wear shoes and hats? ”

"That's right, it's true......" Qu Wuji thought about it, it seemed that this was really the case, and this was thanks to Qu Wu, the ancestor of his Qu clan.

"So my uncle doesn't have to worry about no one in Wu Guo using paper, no one cares about it for a while, so we can use it, the profit of this thing is not much lower than porcelain, and it can also play a role in promoting education. I don't dare to say it to others, Yanling Jizi must need this thing! Why don't you take a boat back and try it? ”

Qu Wuji was convinced, and Zhao Wuxian managed to stuff a shipload of unsalable paper into the envoy group of the cameo caravan. Xing Ao admired it on the side, and secretly said that he had gone to Wu State, and he had to do a good job of doing business for the gentleman.

The nobles of Wu need Xilu's porcelain and beautiful silk, while Zhao Wuxian urgently needs the abundant copper and tin resources in Wu, as well as strategic resources such as leather and feathers, which are forbidden to take out, but through Qu Wuji's relationship, he can definitely get some!

As for the people who were familiar with water warfare that they wanted before, it seems that they are no longer urgently needed with the submission of Onozawa Thief. However, Xing Ao knew that Zhao Wuxian's strategy after that was to control the waters of Pushui, Jishui, and Dayeze, and even wanted to open a canal connecting Pushui and Jishui, connecting the two major water systems near Yuncheng, so that ships loaded with porcelain and other goods could easily go to Taoqiu, and then go west to Xinzheng and south to Shangqiu......

So he decided to start this matter as soon as he arrived in Wu State, there are not many others in the land of Wu Yue, and it is not easy to find people who are skilled in water sex and boat warfare?

Xing Ao was thinking about it, but saw Zhao Wuxian beckoning to him, as if he had something to tell him.

……

"Have you said goodbye to your sister?"

Because he was outside, Xing Ao didn't dare to be as casual as usual, and replied respectfully: "Only, my sister instructed a lot of things and prepared a bag for me." ”

"Good, I have something for you too." After Zhao Wuxian finished speaking, he untied the Shaoyu sword at his waist and solemnly handed it over to Xing Ao.

"Gentleman, this!" Xing Ao was startled, then became excited, and quickly knelt on the ground, lowered his head and took the sword.

After the red and black carved scabbard was removed, it was seen that the style of the sword was simple, about two and a half feet long, about a quarter of a foot wide, and the ridge was concave between the two sides, oblique from the wide, and the front was narrow. The thick grid is inverted and concave, the lattice is decorated with wrong gold inlaid turquoise animal face patterns, and the round sword jewelry cloud thunder pattern, and the two edges are extremely sharp.

The people of Wu gathered around to see the excitement, Qu Wuji also watched the eyes on the side, this is the sword cast by the ancestor of the Qu family Wuchen in Wudi, after several generations of transmission, it fell into the hands of Zhao Wuxian "for safekeeping".

Now, is this sword finally going to return to the hands of the descendants of the Qu family?

"Gentleman Yinuo, the horse is hard to chase, I said before, this sword will be returned to you sooner or later!"

The ancients believed that the sword was spiritual, although there was no exaggeration of the giant sword sneaking into Chu against the current because of the disgust of King Wu's lack of virtue, but because Shaoyu had drunk blood in recent years, the darkness that had been buried for a long time was swept away, and turned into a dazzling blue-gold brilliance.

Looking at the old guy who has been with him for three years, Zhao Wuxian, who has always been able to afford to let go, is also a little reluctant.

But Zhao Wuxian also told himself not to pay too much attention to it, the bronze age will always pass, and a standard iron ring head knife in the Han Dynasty in later generations can beat countless bronze sharp weapons.

What's more, in the land of Chu and Wu Yue, delicate iron swords seem to have begun to appear!

Hearing about it, Ou Yezi made the ultimate of five bronze swords: Zhan Lu, Chun Jun, Shengxie, Fish Intestine and Juque.

But he was also invited by the king of Chu to dig Ci Mountain, drain its stream, take the iron in the mountain, and make three iron swords, saying: Longyuan, Tai'a, Gongbu! Zhao Wuxian remembered that the iron sword of the Spring and Autumn Period of the Chu State was unearthed in later generations, and it may have originated here!

It is said that they sharpen and sharpen their edges, which can break the dragon boat in water and cut the rhino armor on land!

Judging from the information that Qu Wuji inadvertently revealed, there were still many craftsmen in Wu Guoneng who smelted iron and forged swords, which gave Zhao Wuxian infinite hope.

Although he came from later generations, he only knew that iron tools, with their superiority and mass production, would sooner or later replace bronze weapons, and this stage lasted from the Spring and Autumn Period to the early Han Dynasty. However, he did not know the process of smelting iron and steelmaking in later generations, and it was not clear how iron tools, especially iron weapons, should be forged, and he only knew the term "hundred steel knives".

There are very few copper and tin in the Lu State, but there are many mountains of iron, especially in the newly occupied territory of Zhao Wuxian. The raw materials are available, and there are craftsmen who can make iron ore, but craftsmen who can make iron weapons are nowhere to be found. He could only find a way to make tens of thousands of iron hoes first, and popularize the inferior iron farm tools.

In this way, Xilu's productivity will be doubled, but the temptation to make the transition of the army from bronze and leather armor to iron is extremely high, so Wuxian is extremely eager for Wu Guoneng's craftsmen who can smelt iron and forge swords.

If Xilu had Ou Yezi and a sword forging craftsman like Mo Yezi, who was a skilled swordsmith, the specious information in Zhao Wuxian's mind might have been completed and realized with their hands, thus greatly improving the level of iron smelting and quantifying the forging of iron weapons......

But when he asked deeper, Qu Wuji was very taboo.

Because this is a secret of the State of Wu! Ou Yezi and the cadre Mo Ye had entered Wu and left Wu, and also took away the Juque Sword, which had already made King Wu furious. And Sun Wuzi and Daxingren Wu Zixu also attached great importance to this, and all craftsmen were strictly controlled, and their skills were never passed on, only for the royal family to cast swords. Although Qu Wuji dared to take the path of Dazai to get some copper and tin for Zhao Wuxian, he did not dare to fight the idea of smelting iron and forging sword craftsmen.

So I'll have to figure it out myself......

Zhao Wuxian brushed away all kinds of emotions, and said in a deep voice to everyone: "This sword has been with me for several years, I have carried it through several large and small battles, killed dozens of people, and beheaded nearly 100 armors, and I have never insulted the sages. I once said that the best robe for cavalry is your own war horse, Ao, you have also become an adult, as a martial artist, the sword is your third arm, you have to use it to kill the tiger and cut the Jiao, protect your uncle and King Wu, but you can't insult it! ”

These words not only made Xing Ao agree, but even Zhuan Boyu was enthusiastic when he heard it, and he applauded continuously, holding the fish intestines and screaming.

So unlike the family affection when bidding farewell to Zhao Ying, the departure of the Wu envoy finally turned into an impassioned farewell party, except for the people who drove the boat, no one was drunk.

In this warm atmosphere, when he was about to board the boat, Zhao Wuxian grabbed Xing Ao again and whispered cordially in his ear, making the young man sober up instantly.

"Ao, after you go to the country of Wu, you must do whatever it takes to find one or two craftsmen who can forge and forge iron swords and send them to Xilu!" (To be continued......)

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