In the East China Sea, an old man in green clothes stopped outside a small fishing village. The old man has nothing but a flute in his waist and a jar of wine in his hand.
Looking at the dilapidated village, the old man's eyes were full of emotion and nostalgia, and he also recalled the passing years.
In a blink of an eye, so many years have passed.
"I'm afraid that in a few years, this village will cease to exist."
The old man stood outside the village for a long time, then turned and walked towards a nearby grove, but stopped after walking a few steps.
"Come out!" the old man said in a deep voice.
As the old man's voice fell, two men wearing coarse clothes walked out of the small forest in front of them. They had the same face, the same height, strong body, bald head, and a simple expression on their faces. Like a simple man in the mountains.
However, the long knife on the shoulder filled the two with a chilling aura.
"Lu Pinghai, the eighth in the world, my two brothers have been waiting for a long time." The two spoke at the same time, their voices were a little muffled.
Lu Pinghai looked at the two without moving his eyebrows.
Ancient people rarely appear in several other countries. They ran here specially, and it is unknown who ordered them.
"Your Majesty said that I want to exchange Lingyuan Pill with you, and the conditions are up to you." The two continued.
really.
Lu Pinghai suddenly realized that it was Qi Zixiao.
"Tell Qi Zixiao, I don't want anything, you guys go back." Lu Pinghai shook his head.
"Your Majesty said, if you don't agree, I will come to you personally." The two said, the empress actually said that if you don't give me, I will beat you to death.
But if he said that, Lu Pinghai might turn his face on the spot.
No matter what, he is number eight in the world, how can he allow other people to threaten him like this.
"Then let Qi Zixiao come and find me." Lu Pinghai laughed loudly, and walked past the two of them without even looking at them.
Although Qi Zixiao is the fifth in the world, and there is Hongwu who is the ninth in the world, but he is not necessarily afraid of them.
As the number eight under heaven, he must have his own confidence. Never played, who knows what will happen
Qi Zixiao turned out to be the seventh, didn't he also kill the fifth Hua Sanliu
How can I have no cards at all.
"Lu Pinghai, do you really want to offend our Majesty for a Lingyuan Pill?" The two turned around, their hands already on the saber.
"Although Qi Zixiao is powerful, she won't let the old man give up her things to others with just one word. Let the two of you leave today for Qi Zixiao's sake, don't be desperate." Lu Pinghai snorted coldly, and his sleeves turned With a flick behind him, the sleeves stretched a few meters like spirit snakes and rolled directly around the handles of the two swords.
"Clang!" The two long knives came out of their sheaths and slashed towards the sleeves, but suddenly there was a strong push on the knives from the sleeves, and the two long knives directly slashed at the two's own necks.
"Roar!" The two lowered their heads at the same time, their swords staggered and slashed at each other's sleeves on the hilts, and then cut nothing.
The sleeve let go of the knife handle like a living thing, and hit the chests of the two of them hard. The two of them backed up uncontrollably, and stopped after taking seven or eight steps. Blood flowed from the corners of their mouths.
"Huh?" Lu Pinghai let out a light snort, even a master who had just reached the God Wheel level couldn't take this blow, let alone a direct blow to the chest, and the two of them could still stand there.
It's just that the two people sent out have this strength, and the Gu Clan really has a lot of masters.
"Cultivation is not easy, I will let you off today." Lu Pinghai left a sentence, and his figure disappeared into the forest.
The two looked at each other, turned and left.
Since the two of us are not his opponents, then we have to go back and tell the general about Lu Pinghai's refusal.
Lu Pinghai entered the forest, came directly to the body, and finally sat down on an open space.
My old friend has lived here for decades, and now I can't even find the grave.
But that's okay, no one will bother him.
Even with my eyes closed, I knew where he lived.
"I'm back to see you again..." Lu Pinghai opened the wine gourd, took a sip himself, and sprinkled some on the ground.
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Ren Baqian looked at the silver mirror in his hand, and at the several craftsmen and Jiao Zuo in front of him who were asking for credit, "It took you a few days to make such a silver mirror reaction? How stupid are you? Smarter than you!"
Black-faced man is the name of wild boar.
"Two days!"
Ren Baqian squinted at the craftsman who answered the conversation.
"Even if you give these things to a black-faced man, you can make them in two days."
Several people shrugged their heads down and listened to the training silently. A row of tall and burly men stood there with their heads bowed like a wall.
Ren Baqian rambled on for a long time before finally saying: "Each person will be rewarded with ten liang of silver, and the monthly rate will be increased by one level."
Although these people are hopelessly stupid, they did it anyway. What should be scolded should be scolded, and what should be rewarded should also be rewarded.
"Thank you, sir!" Everyone smiled immediately.
Ten taels of silver covered their monthly bill for more than two months, and if the monthly bill was increased by one level, that would be a lot of money.
"Let's all go down." Ren Baqian asked the craftsmen to go down first, and then gave Jiaozuo the main things to do next.
At this time, the most important thing is the concave mirror and the flat mirror, which are used to make solar furnaces. After these things are completed, the Damoshan iron mine can be solved, and then the caravan can be sold to other countries to collect money.
For the next period of time, Ren Baqian would go to the glass factory every morning, return to the palace at noon, and practice martial arts in the afternoon.
After the glass and silver plating were settled, things went a lot smoother. Although the current production speed of the glass factory is not fast, it is much faster than when it was first started. Mirrors already filled two rooms.
After that, Ren Baqian led his people to make square shelves with wood and rattan in the glass factory every day, and the shelves were also concave.
Then the mirror is fixed on it.
A few days later, at noon, a convoy of hundreds of people came out of Lancheng and headed straight for the glass factory outside the city.
But instead of entering the newly built brick house, he went to an open space next to the glass factory.
At this time there stood a wooden platform, and on top of the platform stood a huge shelf six meters high and twelve meters wide, on which a concave mirror was fixed, which shone white from a distance, making people People can't open their eyes, and many people put their hands over their eyes to block the white light.
The empress got off the chariot, behind her were Shi Qing, Zhehai, Tu Wan, Tong Zhenye, Qin Chuan and other six officials, as long as they had nothing to do, they were all pulled by the empress.
Everyone also guessed in their hearts what the empress wanted to see so many people.
Seeing the tall shelf and some distorted scenery reflected in the concave mirror above, Shi Qing, Zhe Hai, Tong Zhenye and others immediately knew what it was, and they actually made it, but they didn't know what it was. It's not like Ren Fucheng said, if it is, then it's a great joy.
The others looked at the large mirror in front of them with curious faces.
"Is that a mirror?"
"I don't know what it's made of. It doesn't look like a bronze mirror, but it's so bright."
"But it doesn't look like it's moving. Look at the stone in the mirror, it's all deformed."
"Hey, look at the person reflected in the mirror, his body is so short, I laughed to death."
The empress looked at a large mirror in front of her for a moment, and then said to Ren Baqian: "It's time to start."
Ren Baqian's expression was very relaxed. After such a long time, he finally made this. Now is the time to show.
Hope those idiots don't screw it up.
After he said hello, thirty guards who were in charge of his arrangements ran to one side and carried out thirty mirrors that were two meters long and one meter high, and then put them down on the ground facing the shelf.
Then someone lifted out a four-meter-long iron pillar with a thick bowl mouth and stood it on the ground.
Ren Baqian walked in front of the thirty flat mirrors, adjusted the angle of one of them, and reflected the sun's rays onto the concave mirror on the shelf, and after the concave mirror was focused, it shone onto the top of the iron pillar.
As he adjusted the angle, others also began to adjust with his movements, and Ren Baqian helped everyone adjust the mirror from time to time.
At the beginning, many people put their eyes on him, but as the empress, Shi Qing and others stared at the top of the iron pillar, more people also cast their eyes on him, suspicious, what can they see in this way? .
But immediately, they were startled.
The top of the iron pillar suddenly burst into flames for no reason.
You must know that this is an iron pillar, and everyone is not blind. Judging from the footsteps carrying this iron pillar and the situation of standing up, it must be an iron pillar. But how could the iron pillar catch fire
What surprised everyone even more happened. The top of the iron pillar was not only on fire, but also melting. Dark red molten iron flowed down the pillar.
Soon, the top of the iron pillar lost a section.
Not only those who saw it for the first time were shocked, even Shi Qing and others were also surprised.
Last time it was just a disc, and a hole was burned into the steel knife.
Now it is directly melting the iron rod as thick as the mouth of the bowl, which is more than ten times and a hundred times more difficult.
Therefore, when they saw this effect in person, several people were shocked.
"The old minister congratulates His Majesty and congratulates me. It is a great achievement for Cheng Ren to make this thing. In a hundred years, I will no longer worry about iron deficiency." Shi Qing said loudly with a happy face.
Following his opening, everyone also reacted, saying the words of congratulating His Majesty.
Although they didn't know what was going on, they could understand one thing, the iron pillar with the thick mouth of the bowl was melted directly.
Then, the Damoshan Iron Mine will soon have a steady stream of fine iron ore mined, and it will no longer be trapped by the lack of ordnance. This is indeed a happy event, a great happy event.
And the biggest hero in this incident, Ren Baqian, has also raised his status in many people's hearts.
Before His Majesty said that he would be allowed to run a school, students with average talents in the family could be sent there, but everyone didn't take it seriously, and many people didn't even think about it.
When His Majesty asked about it later, he said that although the disciples in the family were not talented enough, it was enough to concentrate on practicing martial arts.
But from the current point of view, this person really has some skills.
A disciple with average talent at home might as well send it to see what they can learn.