Early the next morning, Ying Zheng was not greedy for Wenwen Township. He called Li Si and went straight to Jingyao.
"Sir." Ying Zheng approached Li Si and lowered his voice and said, "I have been thinking about the dense stone last night. Since the stone is so strong, wouldn't it be better to use it to build cities?"
Li Si shook his head slightly and said: "Although the dense stone is good, it is not easy to make. It is a waste to use it to build the city. Besides, if you want to expand the city again, it will be even more difficult."
"What about building fortifications?" Ying Zheng still didn't give up.
"This can be considered," Li Si said. "However, Wei Chen still feels that using it on ordinary defenses is still a bit wasteful."
Li Si emphasized this point again and again, which shows that the creation of this dense stone is really not easy.
Ying Zheng said thoughtfully: "Speaking of fortifications, I think of a kind of fortification that can prevent the raids of the barbarians from the north."
Li Si turned around, his tone slightly surprised: "What the king said was the Great Wall built by Zhao State on the northern border?"
"Yes." Ying Zheng nodded and said, "It is said that as early as Shang Yang's reform, Shang Yang proposed to follow the example of Zhao State and build the Great Wall on the northern border to prevent raids by barbarians of various ethnic groups. Unfortunately, it was not adopted by the late king. Maybe it was adopted because the Qin State was too poor at that time."
Li Si nodded and said nothing, seeming to be thinking about something.
Ying Zheng continued: "I think this proposal may not be undesirable. After all, we will have to conquer the Six Kingdoms in the future. If the barbarians from the north take the opportunity to attack, it will indeed be a trouble."
"I have to say." Li Si smiled slightly, "The king is really considering things more and more comprehensively, but regarding the secret stone, the master still needs to come, because if you want to make the secret stone, it seems that you need a very strange method. thing."
"Oh?" Ying Zheng asked anxiously, "What is it?"
"Wei Chen really doesn't know this." Li Si shook his head slightly and said, "However, if you expect that the hot volcanic magma can be condensed into dense stone, it must be an extraordinary thing."
"Becoming an Immortal in One Step"
Ying Zheng lowered his head, imagining what could condense lava into stone, and the idea of meeting the old man in white again became more urgent.
However, the old man in white's request to take sole control of the king's power was not yet known when it would be realized, and Ying Zheng couldn't help but feel a little melancholy in his heart.
Not long after, we arrived at Jingyao.
The two brothers, Second Watch and Third Watch, were still guarding the door. Zhao Gao and Li Si accompanied Ying Zheng through the door.
There were a few temporary tents in the open space, where temporarily collected sulfur, saltpeter, charcoal, bamboo knots, etc. were placed.
For safety reasons, they were placed in different tents, and a ditch was specially dug around them.
When we arrived at the lobby, there were about a dozen porcelain bowls filled with colorful paints of different colors on the long table in the middle.
There are about a dozen wooden barrels placed next to them, which are also filled with colorful paint.
Jingyao's work efficiency is really not false.
"Your Majesty, please take a look." Jing Yao said with cupped hands.
"So fast?" Ying Zheng said in surprise, "It was done overnight."
"Actually, that's not necessarily the case." Jing Fan said, "It's just that I added some pigments separately. For some colors that I couldn't find, I found some fruit juice and mixed them. Although it didn't meet the standards of the colorful paint on the warriors and warriors, But it must be used as a mark, so there’s nothing wrong with it.”
"That's right." Ying Zheng smiled and said, "But we must prepare enough quantity. I have already ordered people to prepare a lot of dry food and water. This time, I will not come out unless we find out where it is."
"Yes, Your Majesty." Everyone said in unison.
Ying Zheng gestured to Zhao Gao, and Zhao Gao came over with a cloth bag. After opening the cloth bag,
He took out a scroll from it and placed it on the long table.
"This is the "Chinese Character Library" compiled by the people I ordered." Ying Zheng said as he opened the scroll, "Most of the patterns we found are written in Chinese characters, and the craftsmen of the Jingjia Class come from all over the world, and the characters are unique. If they are different, it will bring great obstacles to the study of the drawings.”
"Not bad." Jing Fan nodded and said, "Master Li helped translate the previous drawings."
Ying Zheng looked at Jing Fan and said, "Well, in order to solve this worry, I have decided that all members of the Jing family class will learn Chinese as quickly as possible from today on."
"This..." After hearing this, Jing Fan scratched the back of his head in confusion.
"What, are you having difficulty?" Ying Zheng was a little confused by Jing Fan's reaction.
Before Jing Fan could speak, Tian Yi next to him spoke first: "Your Majesty, we have been learning crafts from our masters since elementary school. We still cannot recognize all the characters of this country. How can we learn the Chinese characters? .”
Ying Zheng really didn't expect this. The craftsmen in the Jing family class are all skilled craftsmen of the world, but they have also been learning crafts since childhood. If they didn't need to see some patterns to make things, they might not be able to read a single big word.
However, Ying Zheng did not want to change his plan, and joked with a smile: "I thought that there was nothing in this world that could trouble the Jing family class, but unexpectedly, before it started, the two class leaders backed down. "
Jing Fan couldn't bear the pressure from King Qin and immediately said: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, no matter how difficult the matter is, it will not be difficult for the brothers in Jing's class."
"Haha, this is a bit bloody." Ying Zheng said with a smile, "However, this craft is taught by a master, so of course this word needs to be taught by a master."
Jing Fan and Tian Yi looked at Li Si in unison.
"Sir, I don't have time to teach you how to read here. Besides, he is not enough on his own." Ying Zheng said, "I asked Sima Jie to send some scribes from various countries who live in Wen Lei to teach you."
Jing Fan nodded and said, "That's good. Wen Lei Ju is also home to scholars from all over the world, so it must be more convenient to teach."
"It's just that when you are studying, don't be impatient." Ying Zheng said with some worry.
"Don't worry, Your Majesty. Deputy class leader Hetian, the undercover minister, will take the lead and will make sure that the Jing family class will learn all the Chinese language as quickly as possible." Jing Fan said, patting his chest.
"Yes, Your Majesty." Tian Yi also added, "If we make some objects, we will not be ambiguous. If we learn some words, we will not be ambiguous either."
Ying Zheng smiled and nodded, and said, "That's good. Then you can make arrangements immediately, and then we can go directly to King Wu's Mausoleum."
Jing Fan and Tian Yi bowed their hands in agreement and left the room to make arrangements for learning Chinese characters.
In just one stick of incense, the two of them were back with everything they needed to go to King Wu's Mausoleum.
Ying Zheng led everyone to the tomb of King Wu of Zhou again.
Although he was fully prepared this time, Ying Zheng still didn't have much confidence in his heart. After all, the letter left by the old man in white did not indicate how many secret rooms there were.
Entering the stone gate outside King Wu's Tomb on the fourth floor again, the torch changed from blue to white, but this time there was no smoke.
It seems that the mechanism can only be opened once.
Everyone moved forward and came to the first secret room. Sure enough, the traces of the charcoal ash that had been rubbed with torches were very blurred. No one must have been here before.
Could this secret stone still clean itself up?
Ying Zheng didn't pay much attention to this and ordered someone to mark it with red paint. Then he chose the stone door on the right and entered the next secret room.
The structure and layout of this secret room are exactly the same as the previous one, except that there are not two stone doors leading to the front, but
Three.
Ying Zheng couldn't help but feel a little thumped in his heart.
Could it be that the number of these stone gates is increasing one by one?
If this were the case, wouldn't there be more mazes in number, and they would also be more complicated.
Li Si walked to the front of the stone platform with a calm expression and calmly opened the stone lid.
Sure enough, there was still a bronze book inside.
It wasn't until Li Si took out the bronze book from the stone platform that Ying Zheng ended his thinking and walked to Li Si.
After taking the bronze book, Ying Zheng placed it on the ground, took out the black iron snail, and opened it to read.
I saw the word "Lianshan" written on the cover.
Ying Zheng quickly picked up the bronze book and looked at it carefully, confirming that it was "Lianshan".
This is a heavenly inheritance left by Dayu in the world.
Ying Zheng suppressed the urgency in his heart and looked around at the people in Jing's class.
The craftsmen's eyes were staring directly at the bronze book, with expressions of surprise on their faces.
Ying Zheng put the bronze book into the box, handed it to Tian Yi, and said, "Put it away for me and take it back to the palace."
"Yes, Your Majesty." Tian Yi carefully took the bronze book and put it into the cloth bag he carried. But the bronze book was very heavy, so Tian Yi tied the bag into a knot and put it on his shoulder.
Ying Zheng looked inside the stone platform again, and there was a small tripod made of dense stone inside.
This small cauldron is different from the previous one. It is the style of another cauldron. Presumably, the various styles of this nine cauldron will be stored in different secret rooms.
After looking around again, everyone followed Ying Zheng to the next stone door on the right after confirming that there was nothing else.
"Your Majesty, should we choose the one on the right?" Jing Fan asked.
Ying Zheng nodded slightly and said, "Let's go to the right. If we walk randomly, I'm afraid it will be even more chaotic."
"What color should be used to mark it?" Jing Fan asked again.
"Still use red." Ying Zheng said, "The line on the far right is all red."
"Okay." Jing Fan agreed and motioned to the craftsman holding the red paint to mark the stone gate.
Ying Zheng opened the stone door on the right again and stepped in.
The secret room in this room is still the same size and layout. There are three stone gates on the opposite side. The difference is that the stone gates are arranged on three stone walls, far apart.
It was still Li Si who walked to the stone platform and opened the lid.
But this time, the stone platform was indeed empty, with nothing in it.
"It seems that not all rooms store things." Jing Fan sighed.
Ying Zheng didn't say anything, because only he and Li Si knew why there was nothing on the stone platform.
What was once stored here should be something taken from the first three floors.
Ying Zheng did not stop and then came to the stone gate on the right.
Just like that, I walked down one stone door after another.
I keep coming to new secret rooms and discovering new things.
Most of the books stored in the stone platform are ancient books. Except for the "Lianshan" book, which is in the style of a bronze book, the rest are bamboo slips or cloth. It seems that they are all painted with paint.
And these ancient books mostly record things about the Shang Dynasty.
It’s no wonder that the tombs of the early Zhou Dynasty contained items from the Shang Dynasty.
I don’t know how many secret rooms I passed along the rightmost route. When I entered the stone door again, the scene in front of me changed.
On the left side of the crowd, there seemed to be the other two of the three stone gates, and the stone gate opposite seemed to be the side from which they had come in.
Li Si took the lead in arriving at the stone gate opposite, and sure enough, a red mark came into view.
Sure enough, he turned back.
