Sima Xin returned to Nanling yesterday afternoon, and with him came some generals of the Grassland Dispatch Army, and after they returned, like other people who had returned from other places, they went to Miyagi to meet Lu Zhe as soon as possible.

It has become a rule to see Lu Zhe as soon as he returns from other places, which is nothing more than the intention of "greeting the saint and asking for peace" at the first time, mostly to show deference. In the middle of the meeting, they will report their experiences outside, talk about what they have seen and heard, and chat about some strange and new things.

Lu Zhe is very welcome to talk to him about what he has seen and heard in the distance, which is different from the boring words recorded in the history books, you can't see it with your own eyes and listen to it with your ears, the things described will be clearer, and you can also ask in time when you encounter something curious.

In fact, the history of China has rarely recorded anything other than "the world", and even if there is, it is only a vague mention of three words and two sentences, and some of the more clearly written descriptions are bizarre and bizarre, making people look like they are reading a strange novel such as "The Classic of Mountains and Seas".

The history of China is more focused on the interior, recording large and small historical events, recording a small number of civil and military figures, and the rest are more inclined to focus on the royal family, so that all the history of China is like a record of the life of the royal family.

What do you wonder the most? In many cases, Chinese history is only qualified to write history by the victors, and there is also the habit of "hiding for the venerable" and "hiding for the sage", and it is very rare to record some things that the people in power have done, so many things on the historical record have been modified, and many of them are graffiti built on a large background. What do you mean? It's about setting up a framework and then choosing some characters, and writing a story like an alternate history novel.

"The king is already asking people to integrate the records, summarize the previous historical records, and ask the communist general to pull hundreds of carts of bamboo slips back from Xianyang for this." Xu Yan said as if he was talking about strangeness, and the expression on his face was slightly complicated: "It is mainly for the history of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and it has been until the twenty-eighth year of the First Emperor, that is, the history before the chaos in the world. ”

The car is moving forward steadily. Xu Yan and Xu Yang sat in the car, and Xu Yan's eldest son, Xu Hui, rode a tall horse to follow the carriage.

Xu Yang is a member of the Xu family, not a branch of Xu Yan's main family, but a side branch of the Xu family. He knew very well why he was valued by the patriarch Xu Yan, and he also knew why he was qualified to ride in the same car with Xu Yan.

Lü Zhe gave an order to compile the historical records before the pre-Qin period in antiquity, that is, to pass on some of the things that happened in history to future generations as practically as possible. Originally, he also wanted to have someone compile a book of "Qin Huang Ji", that is, to write a record of the life of the first emperor, but there was no news later.

Speaking of which, no matter how you say it, Lu Zhe is also the beneficiary of the chaos in the world. If there was no chaos in the world, there would be no current achievements, so how should I write "The Chronicles of the Qin Emperor"?

If you write the First Emperor badly, it's better not to write it. If the First Emperor had been written better, wouldn't it have made the old nations bad in some way? No matter how Lu Zhe is, he is one of the main figures who made the Qin Empire disappear. After thinking about it carefully, Lu Zhe decided not to slander it, and to record it in a true way, but after all, now that the empire is just beginning, some things can still be avoided.

The rewriting of historical records has been until a few years before the establishment of the Han Kingdom, so many people who are still alive now will be written into it. In the early days of Xu Yan's arrival in Nanling, a civil official who participated in the historical record came to his house, and the person who came came to ask Xu Yan to verify some things about the former Qin State, which made him depressed and embarrassed. I thought something was going to happen.

Later, it was confirmed that there was no such thing as destroying the family and destroying the clan, but the embarrassment was really unavoidable, and Xu Yan also began to worry about the evaluation of himself by history, after all, he had served as a prominent official of the Qin Empire before. It is indispensable to become one of the people who did nothing when the Qin Empire collapsed in history, and even led the army to vote for Lu Zhe in the back, how could he not feel embarrassed?

"My nephew has sniffed the news. The king did not have any target. Xu Yang really asked Lu Zhe in person, and it won't be so straightforward when chatting, it's just a side-knocking method. He saw his uncle raise his eyebrows, and continued: "Many of the records have been burned, and many of the records have been vacant. The people in charge of writing were looking for people everywhere for verification, and they came to their uncles, such as King Qin, King Zhao, King Wei, Han Hou, Chu Marquis, ...... General Meng Tian, Dr. Wang Juan, Kui Lin Shangshu, ......Chen Yu, Zhang Er, Zang Di, Han Guang, ......, and many other people were all looking for them. ”

Xu Yan's expression became a little relieved. Why does he attach importance to Xu Yang's nephew? Isn't it because Xu Yang can talk to today? This nephew of his own had a deep friendship before the rise of today's son, Xu Yang, Li Liang and today's son are still sworn brothers, it is a matter of time before such a relationship soars, if he doesn't pay attention to it, his brain will really be broken.

"Hmm." Xu Yang was a little relieved: "The king invited you to go hunting in the suburbs together, you have to prepare well." After a pause, he glanced at the eldest son who was riding a horse outside the car, and hesitated for a moment and still didn't say the words after all.

"Yes. Li Liang will also go with him, and the accompanying ......" Xu Yang said this, but Xu Yang interrupted him.

"Don't talk about the details, the king is close to you, it is a blessing and a burden. There are some things that need to be kept silent. "Xu Yan really attaches importance to Xu Yang, and he is trying his best to teach what should be taught. He was silent for a moment and asked, "The Empire is forming a firearms unit, and you will be transferred to lead one?" ”

Everything comes naturally, and many times some inventions are not not technical enough, but lack some creativity, such as understanding that bronze can become a qualified artillery body, but before the artillery was developed, no one knew that they had not thought about making artillery.

There was gunpowder in China very early, some warlocks in the pre-Qin period in ancient times were studying the elixir and poured out the gunpowder, and it was very common to hear the alchemy refining to the fryer in the mouths of some alchemists, but the gunpowder was not used in the military until the Song Dynasty.

Until the Song Dynasty, gunpowder did lack explosive power, even if gunpowder was used in the military in the Song Dynasty, the power of gunpowder was very small, and the facts proved that gunpowder was also differentiated.

Research on gunpowder. Since Lu Zhe ordered the research, it has been more than two years to develop gunpowder that is qualified for military use, but the explosive power of gunpowder in the early stage is like that, and it is still the particle gunpowder that is poured out to increase the explosive power of gunpowder.

The development time of artillery and firearms is less than that of gunpowder, not that artillery and firearms are less difficult than the development of gunpowder, but because the two types of research are two different systems. Gunpowder is related to chemistry, and there is no rigorous system of chemistry in China, and it seems that there was no element table before the Republic of China ~ China. Artillery and firearms are related to machinery and metallurgy, but China has long developed in machinery and metallurgy, and there are some gaps in chemistry. On the basis of studying artillery and firearms, there is at least a little.

"Yes, my nephew's order has come down, and he has been ordered to command the firearms unit of a school." Something too detailed, Xu Yang didn't say.

In fact, he didn't even understand what the firearms unit was all about, but he literally knew that he would command 5,000 firearms troops, 3,500 flintlock pikemen, and 1,500 artillerymen.

After thinking about it, Xu Yang continued: "Li Liang's order has also come down. He was also transferred to the firearms unit. ”

Xu Yan didn't actually know what the firearms unit was, but his position was destined to tell more information. Among the various information, he learned that the research alone has been carried out for no less than ten years, and the amount of manpower and material resources invested in related research is unimaginable. It wasn't until the new ordnance was developed that it seemed that he was still drunk that night, which was something that had never happened.

Oh, it's not a secret thing that Lu Zhe got drunk that night. Just because many civil and military officials at that time were summoned to Miyagi in the middle of the banquet, there was no need for special listening.

"The king rarely lost his temper, but it was ...... to learn that the new ordnance had been developed" The car stopped. Xu Yan looked out through the car window, and there was a lot of traffic outside, and he quickened his tone: "You and Li Liang were transferred to the firearms unit, which is the king's attention." Han Xin, the king's only foundation, will accompany the envoys to the Central Asian countries this time, and he will inevitably be transferred to the firearms unit after returning. Cherish the opportunity! ”

The place where the car is parked is obviously a very popular place? In fact, it is normal to have a high level of popularity, and there is a commercial street and a food street on the right, and the largest central park in Nanling is in front of it, so it is needless to say that the popularity brought by it is needless to say.

After getting out of the carriage, Xu Yan turned his head to look at the Central Park, where there was a sea of people, where the greenery was quite good, and there was also a group of statues.

"What my uncle hopes most now is that in this life, he will be able to make statues by order of the king and place them in the palaces and parks throughout the empire." Xu Yan had an unconcealable longing on his face: "It's not for its own glory, it's for the family, for future generations......"

Xu Yang needs to be separated from Xu Yan here, and he will go to the east side of the city with his brother Xu Hui, where he will meet Li Liang, and then go to the military camp in the suburbs together. He saw the longing on his uncle's face and understood it very well: "Yes, who in the empire doesn't want the king to order the statue to be made?" ”

"Uncle will only be knighted this time, this is the most regrettable thing for uncle!" Xu Yang's longing expression turned into distress: "In the final analysis, it was my uncle who was too late to serve the king and the empire, and missed the best opportunity. ”

That is also the distress of many people, there was a period of time when there was enough attention to make meritorious achievements, but they did not serve under Lu Zhe at that time. In the eyes of many people, many of the people who are currently or about to be knighted are just lucky, and if they compare their abilities, some people who have not been knighted are no worse than them.

"It's too difficult to get a knighthood in the empire......" Xu Yan said and nodded to Xu Yang and his son Xu Hui: "You guys go, uncle should hurry up a little time, otherwise he will be late." He was invited to a banquet, which was a banquet for the imperial generals, and almost all the commanders of the lieutenant generals were present.

It's really not easy to get a knighthood in the empire, on the one hand, Lu Zhe doesn't want the nobles of the empire to become rotten things, and on the other hand, there are fewer and fewer opportunities to get meritorious deeds that match them.

The group of people who obtained the knighthood in the early stage, they only had that kind of opportunity in the rise stage of Lu Zhe, after all, Lu Zhe, who was still weak at that time, faced a large number of enemies. On the road to Lu Zhe's rise, too many enemies were destroyed, and when there were fewer enemies, there were fewer places where he could build meritorious deeds. This state of affairs is a good thing for the Empire, but it is a bit of a pity for some who are desperate for merit.

Xu Yang and Xu Hui stayed where they were, waiting for Xu Yan's team to completely disappear at the corner of the street before turning over and getting on their horses together, and they were just about to ride their horses into the avenue, but they heard a commotion.

The empire has been in place for several years, and it has become a habit for people to walk on the road and consciously divide the way, and those who do not have this habit will also have a special guard on duty to maintain and supervise the smooth flow of the road to correct it.

The commotion ahead is due to the fact that some people did not follow the traffic instructions to cross the road at will, and one person seemed to have been hit by a horse-drawn carriage?

"Lift the person away and put them on the side of the road." Ji Bu, who was dressed in regular clothes, stood by and watched, the steward of the prefecture had already checked the injured beforehand, and the person who was hit by the carriage and had only suffered minor injuries.

The traffic violator was a bearded man with blond hair, and his companion was yelling at the crashing wagon, and because of the language barrier, no one could understand what was being shouted.

Because it is a prosperous area, there are many soldiers on duty, many soldiers on duty watched the whole process, and many passers-by also saw it, and it is clear that it is the people who intervene in the road to cause the traffic accident. Those Hu people obviously didn't understand the situation, they just yelled and screamed, and even tried to hit Ji Bu's location, and even Hu people took out a dagger from their arms, which complicated the originally simple traffic accident.

"Those uncivilized apes, where do you think this is?" Xu Yang actually didn't see Ji Bu, but if Hu Ren was just shouting, he even showed a sharp weapon, he would definitely be in bad luck.

Since the Hu people shouted and shouted, there were a lot of soldiers on duty who gathered in the past, they were going to deal with traffic accidents, they didn't think that those Hu people actually took out sharp weapons, and they were just about to take action but heard someone shouting "protect the general", and they were slightly stunned for a moment but saw the other side draw their swords to meet them, and when the soldiers on duty came back to their senses, they had already seen that the Hu man who rushed the fastest had been cut down to the ground...... (To be continued......)