Early the next morning, Li Si brought the "Agricultural and Grain Classic" and the Chinese Character Library to Ying Zheng's study and placed them on the desk in front of Ying Zheng.
"Your Majesty, all the proofreading has been completed. This scripture is all written in Qin script and can be read through."
Ying Zheng looked at Li Si in surprise, unable to believe that this was true.
"Complete it so quickly?" Ying Zheng picked up the Qin version of "Agricultural and Food Classic".
"Well, I haven't slept all night again." After saying that, Li Si stretched.
Ying Zheng looked into Li Si's eyes and asked suspiciously, "But I haven't noticed that there are bloodshot eyes in your eyes. You look good too."
Li Si smiled and said, "If the king takes the red pill that Master gave the king for a long time, he will be like a humble minister and will not feel sleepy even if he has not slept all night."
"Does it really have this effect?" Ying Zheng asked.
"Of course, the red pill can actually be used to identify relatives by dripping blood, but it is only a side effect." Li Si said with a smile.
"But the senior only gave me one bottle and asked me to take it for three years." Ying Zheng said with some embarrassment, "I used some when I recognized my relatives with blood, but now it seems that I can only take one pill a month."
"Wei Chen still has some, enough for the king to take one pill in three days." Li Si said.
"That's good." Ying Zheng said happily, "I will just take one pill now."
Ying Zheng walked into the inner room, found a small medicine bottle, and took a red pill.
"Your Majesty, according to the method introduced in the "Agricultural Food Sutra", raw grain seeds can be sown now." Li Si said.
Ying Zheng picked up the Qin version of "Agricultural and Grain Classic", opened it, and asked, "Is the content in it easy to understand?"
"It's all knowledge about growing food, which grains are suitable for which climate, soil quality, water quality, etc.," Li Si said.
Ying Zheng nodded: "Since the regions suitable for cultivation of grain seeds are different, we should select them by region, and then classify each original grain seed by region."
"In this case, each place can only cultivate grain seeds suitable for this place." Li Si added.
"The people are here to classify the cereals. The teacher classifies the climate, soil quality and other conditions of each place, and then distributes the cereal seeds to various places for cultivation." Ying Zheng said.
"You can make a chart from this to mark where each grain is distributed," Li Si added.
"That's it." Ying Zheng said with a smile, "When Sima Hong comes back, we will discuss with him and I will cultivate grain seeds in his fertile fields."
"The Sima family has a lot of property, and there are fertile fields in various places, so it is a good choice." Li Si said.
Ying Zheng put away the "Agricultural and Food Scripture" and said, "We will discuss these matters when we come back. Let's go and see how the imitation of the pottery figurines is going."
Li Si bowed his hands and stood up to accompany Ying Zheng out.
Ying Zheng wanted to quickly enter the second floor of King Wu's Tomb, after all, the things inside were too tempting.
When we came to the pottery kiln, the craftsmen were busy.
Seeing Ying Zheng coming in person, the craftsmen put down their work and knelt down to pay homage.
Ying Zheng waved his hand and motioned for everyone to stand up and talk.
The foreman Jing Fan stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, are you here to check the status of the imitation of the pottery figurines?"
Ying Zheng nodded and said: "Exactly. I have been busy with many things recently and have not been here yet. You brothers have worked hard during this period. I will give you more rewards."
As soon as they heard about the reward, the craftsmen were so happy that they couldn't help but smile.
"Your Majesty, we work day and night, not for reward." Jing Fan said.
Ying Zheng smiled and said, "That's what you deserve. How are things going?"
"Back to the king, we broke a pottery figurine and processed its fragments in various ways in order to analyze the composition of the blank and the manufacturing process used to make the pottery figurine at that time." Jing Fan said, "Currently, we have analyzed It’s almost the same.”
"Is it difficult to imitate it as it is?" Ying Zheng asked with concern.
"The production process is not difficult. In addition to the elusive special weatherproof coating on the surface, the composition of the blank should still lack some raw materials, so the toughness of the currently fired samples is not enough." Jing Fan analyzed .
"Do you know what materials are missing? I will find a way for you." Ying Zheng asked.
"The common people feel that there should be a lack of something that has a binding effect." Jing Fan said, "And the easiest thing to collect is resin."
"Resin?" Ying Zheng asked, "How much should I use?"
"If you don't need to imitate a lot and just find out the proportion, there should be as many as a water bowl, which is enough." Jing Fan said.
Ying Zheng nodded and said, "Leave this matter to me. After collecting it, send someone over immediately."
Jing Fan cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty."
"As for the special paint on the surface." Ying Zheng paused and said, "You don't have to worry about it. After I get it, you can just paint it on."
"The common people obey the king's orders," Jing Fan said.
"If anything happens, send someone to notify me in time." After saying that, Ying Zheng turned around and left with Li Si.
The craftsmen prostrated themselves to the ground again.
It wasn't that Ying Zheng didn't want to stay a little longer, he was just anxious to collect some resin.
The Tao Kiln is not in the city. If you want to go back to the city, you have to go through the west gate.
As they approached the city gate, a group of people appeared in the distance, rushing towards the west gate.
When the team got closer, Ying Zheng recognized the leader.
The person walking at the front was none other than Sima Hong.
The team behind were the Meng family's family members and palace officials. It turned out that Sima Hong was escorting the Meng family members just back outside Xianyang City.
Sima Hong also saw Ying Zheng and urged his horse to run over.
After rushing to Ying Zheng, Sima Hong got off his horse, knelt down on one knee and saluted, saying, "Sima Hong has seen the king."
Ying Zheng also quickly dismounted, helped Sima Hong up and said, "Senior Sima, there is no need to be polite."
Li Si also dismounted, cupped his hands and said, "Li Si has met Senior Sima."
Sima Hong bowed his head to Li Si, and then said to Ying Zheng: "We buried Old General Meng. When we were returning, the Meng family and his son were worried about something happening in Xianyang, so they went back to the city first, and asked me to escort the family members back, but it turned out to be unexpected. Meet the king at the gate of the city.”
"I went out of the city to handle some private matters." Ying Zheng said, "It's a coincidence that I met Senior Sima escorting the Meng family members back."
"Your Majesty, have the Meng family father and son returned to Xianyang safely?" Sima Hong asked with concern.
"I came back two days ago. Thanks to them coming back in time, otherwise..." Ying Zheng said with a wry smile, "It's really difficult for me to deal with what happened in the past few days."
"Did something happen?" Sima Hong asked anxiously.
"This is not the place to talk." Ying Zheng said, "Get on your horse, I will go back to the Meng family with you."
Sima Hong responded and the three people got on their horses.
The Meng family members and palace officials also followed. Sima Hong said a few words, and everyone followed Ying Zheng to the Meng Mansion.
Ying Zheng ordered Li Si to return to the palace first and told Zhao Gao to lead some people to collect some resin.
Li Si returned to the palace, and Ying Zheng and Sima Hong walked side by side at the front of the team.
Along the way, Ying Zheng briefly told Sima Hong what had happened in the past few days.
Sima Hong's expression kept changing, either frightened, angry, worried, or anxious. It wasn't until he heard about blood recognition that his heart calmed down a little.
Unknowingly, they were approaching Meng Mansion.
The housekeeper of the Meng family had already sent the palace servant back to the Meng Mansion to report that Meng Wu and Meng Yi were waiting outside the door.
Meng Tian was not in the mansion because he was busy quelling the rumors among the people.
Meng Wu and Meng Yi stepped forward and saluted: "Your Majesty."
Everyone dismounted.
Ying Zheng smiled and said, "I went out to the city to deal with some matters. When I came back, I happened to meet your family members returning to the city at the city gate."
Sima Hong also smiled and said, "Yes, what a coincidence."
"I would also like to invite the king to come into the palace to speak." Meng Wu stepped aside to get out of the way, made a gesture of invitation, and then said to Meng Yi, "Yi'er, go and help settle your mother and others."
After Meng Yi responded, he walked towards the convoy at the rear.
Ying Zheng and Sima Hong followed Meng Wu to the living room.
The living room was restored to its original state, no longer the scene during condolences.
After the three of them sat down, Meng Wu spoke first: "Your Majesty, some of the remaining masterpieces in the city have been seized. After interrogation, the confessions are basically consistent with the information obtained at the court meeting."
Ying Zheng nodded and said: "In this way, even if there are still fish that slip through the net in the city, they will not dare to act rashly. When the army defeats the rebels, they will lose their value."
"Will the search in the city continue?" Meng Wu asked.
"Let's stop for a moment." Ying Zheng said, "The first priority now is to appease the people and prevent them from being deceived. Moreover, Fan Yuqi will not only do this in Xianyang. The next goal is to appease the people. The entire Great Qin."
Meng Wu cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty is thoughtful, but this matter still requires Lu Xiangbang's cooperation."
"Presumably Lu Xiangbang has already done this." Although Ying Zheng was wary of Lu Buwei in many places, he was still quite confident in Lu Buwei's ability.
Ying Zheng looked at Meng Wu and Sima Hong, then said, "I have something else I want to discuss with you two."
"Just as your Majesty orders," the two men responded in unison.
"I want to cultivate a batch of grain seeds to enrich the national treasury." Ying Zheng's voice was very soft, as if he was afraid of being heard by outsiders. "When the national treasury reaches a certain level, he will march eastward and pacify the world."
Meng Wu and Sima Hong were both shocked.
Meng Wu asked in confusion: "Could it be that the grain seeds mentioned by the king can produce more food?"
Ying Zheng nodded and said: "Currently, I do have grain seeds that can produce more food. I have even collected the methods and methods of planting them. I just need to cultivate more of these grain seeds." .”
"Wonderful!" Meng Wu's eyes lit up after hearing this. A person who leads an army certainly knows the importance of food.
Sima Hong lost his composure and asked, "What kind of grains did the king mention?"
"There are many." Ying Zheng seemed quite calm. "There are all kinds of grains, and each grain is divided into five elements. My idea is to classify each county according to the different climate and soil quality, and then divide the final Breed to adapt to the grains that grow here.”
The two nodded repeatedly, imagining different types of seeds and what they would look like when grown.
"But..." Ying Zheng changed the subject, "This move must be carried out in secret at present, and Lu Xiangbang must not be informed of it."
"What does the king mean...?" Meng Wu vaguely guessed something.
"What I want to ask is whether I can ask Senior Sima to help me run this matter and cultivate it in the fertile farmland of the Sima family." Ying Zheng looked at Sima Hong and said.
"I have already made it clear that if the king needs anything, just give him the order. There are many fertile fields in the Sima family, which are suitable for cultivating various kinds of grains." Sima Hong said sincerely, "But in the future, the king should not follow the example of my elders." It’ll be good if it’s proportionate.”
"Haha, that man will appoint you as the Grain Supervisor, and you will be solely responsible for cultivating new types of cereals." Ying Zheng said with a smile.
"That's not what I meant." Sima Hong was about to kneel down, but was stopped by Ying Zheng.
At this time, Meng Yi's voice came from outside the door: "Father, the family has been settled."
Ying Zheng motioned for Meng Yi to come in and talk.
"You come in too, the king has something to tell you." Meng Wu said.
After Meng Yi entered the door, he stood to the side.
"Before, I told you to let Meng Yi supervise the management of military supplies. Now let him be Lord Sima's deputy." Ying Zheng said.
Then Ying Zheng told Meng Yi the general plan for cultivating new grain seeds.
Then, Ying Zheng told several people about the new policy of promoting new grain varieties that Li Si had told him before.
The three people were dumbfounded.
