Siheyuan: I decide the fate of the world with my medical skills

As a censor, he was the one who initially investigated the case. However, he failed to identify the mastermind behind the incident, and ended up slaughtering nearby residents and disposing of the meteorite. ...Your Majesty, have you discovered anything from this? ...Feng Quji showed a thoughtful expression, then picked up a scroll of bamboo slips and announced: "This is a written report submitted by my general Ren Xiao not long ago. You can read it yourself."

"Follow the historical example of Bashu... awarding titles to local leaders as 'Prime Ministers of the State' and 'Prime Ministers of the State', so that local people can govern their own affairs and outsiders can manage their own land?"

Bang!

Feng Jie knocked the bamboo slips on the desk, his brows furrowed, "Your Majesty, what is the purpose of this action? You are testing the attitudes of our feudal lords! I heard rumors before that Your Majesty had asked about the health of the former Prime Minister Wang Wan!"

"Is this true?" Zheng Guo asked.

"Of course. I have spies inside the palace. I instructed the Grand Secretary Shusun Gong to use this method to find Wang Wan."

Yao Jia nodded and confirmed: "This group of Confucian scholars are indeed not dead, and they are trying to mislead Your Majesty to implement the Zhou Dynasty ritual system!"

"I believe Your Majesty has made up his mind. You all remember that Your Majesty was reprimanded because this incident touched upon the former imperial power and was forced to be sent to the Northern Frontier Army to serve as a military supervisor!" Feng Jie said passionately.

Yao Jia sighed deeply, "If only I had listened to Mr. Li's invitation and met him in Lishi."

"Ah?" Feng Jie turned around and suddenly asked, "Back then, Li Si also invited you to go with him?"

"Oh, right. The letter only said that the late emperor was seriously ill and might not be able to recover, so I was asked to go to Lishi to discuss matters to be dealt with." Yao Jia nodded. "At that time, I vaguely sensed some signs, but I never expected that they would keep the news of his death a secret..."

"If we could have discussed it together in Lishi at the beginning, things would not have turned out like this..." Feng Jie said regretfully, shaking his head.

"Talk less, let Zheng Guo listen carefully and don't have any wild thoughts!" Feng Quji stopped him, signaling Zheng Guo to look straight ahead, as if he was sleeping soundly.

Then, "Regarding the written report handed in by Ren Xiong, how will we decide its fate?" Yao Jia started to talk again.

......

In a sparsely populated valley in Mangdang Mountain.

A young girl wearing ragged coarse clothes and carrying a bamboo basket was staggering through the woods.

Although her clothes showed some signs of age and repair, they could not conceal her plump figure and beautiful face.

"Liu Ji..." She walked to the entrance of a cave and shouted.

"How did you find me?" A man with a dirty face, almost like a primitive man, leaned out of a small cave.

Behind him were a dozen tall and thin men with faces as rough as the mountains.

"You should know that a strange vision appeared in the sky where you are, and when I saw this vision, I knew how to get here!" The woman looked at Liu Ji and conveyed the words with her voice.

In the Hanzhang Hall of the Imperial Palace, Fusu bid farewell to the bright-eyed Zhao Ji, and set off for Lantian City accompanied by Langzhong Ling Meng Yi, Shilang Meng Ying, and Li Cheng, and escorted by a thousand guards.

The night before, at dusk, a report from Gongshu Shi, a member of the Gongshu clan, arrived, stating that he had built the required iron furnace on the bank of the Ba River according to the blueprint, and had also built a hydraulic system. The reason for the speed was that Fusu dispatched a thousand prisoner workers who were originally used to build the royal mausoleum in Mount Li to mine ore in various places in Xianjing, and then transported it to Lantian City by water along the way.

It was against this background that the Right Prime Minister specifically raised his doubts to Hanzhang Palace.

As a well-educated person, Fusu's best way to deal with such accusations is to sincerely accept the mistakes and never look back. Facts will eventually prove who is right!

He also reviewed the relevant files of the Dongjun meteorite incident, as well as some hidden ones, and came to the conclusion that the father and son of the Feng family might have dual identities or personalities. For example, when the news that the county magistrate surnamed Liu privately released the slaves was reported back to the Right Prime Minister's Mansion, it disappeared like a piece of mud thrown into the sea, without a sound or trace.

In the carriage, Fusu waved the bamboo slips beside him. The wheel driver, Yang Xi, who was in charge of the Central Carriage Office, turned around and said to him, "Your Majesty, the Prince Gun of the Imperial Clan requests an audience."

Eh? Instead of going to Xianjing, what is he doing here? So Fusu put down the bamboo slips in his hand and said, "Let him get in the car."

"Ok!"

Soon after, the carriage stopped, and Gongzi Gun, who was wearing a long black dress, entered the carriage and bowed before sitting down. Then, he asked, "Where is Zong Zheng going?"

The young man, with a hint of worry, explained that he was visiting his wife who was ill. "So, what are you doing here, Your Majesty?"

The other party seems to have a beautiful and intelligent four-year-old girl. It seems that he has a lot of feelings for this cousin! In this era of low medical standards, a slight symptom can take away life! Fusu sighed in his heart.

Then he said, "I'm going to Lantian to visit the iron foundry!"

Ah? Cast iron? ... Gongzi Gun frowned slightly. He had heard the Right Prime Minister tell him that he would recruit people from the prisoners to build the mausoleum. Could it be that... He asked, "Your Majesty, can you let me go with you?"

The other party's question caught his attention: "Eh? You want to give up visiting your family?" So he smiled and said, "Sure." Then he asked another question: "Your Majesty, please get off the carriage and tell your family to go to Shang County on their own."

You said you were going to Shang County? "Is this the situation of General Qi Wei?" asked Fusu.

Gongzi Gun replied with a puzzled look on his face, "Yes, it is true." "How did you know that?"

"You said you were going to visit Shang County, I guessed it almost." Fusu said perfunctorily. I thought to myself: Could that 14-year-old, beautiful and virtuous niece be the Lady Qi who was cruelly treated by Empress Lü and turned into a human pig? It's really pitiful! Since Prince Gun is willing to please me, then I will give him a chance. I will be very happy to bring Lady Qi into the palace in advance and let her become a lolita. According to the "Records of the Grand Historian", Lady Qi is proficient in dancing... Well, let's deal with it according to this idea.

"After you finish watching the iron smelting, would you be willing to accompany me to visit the former Shangyu area?" Fusu found a reasonable excuse to camp in Shang County at night, and at the same time to inspect the defense situation of Wuguan.

It was after listening to Li Shiqi's strategy that Liu Bang passed through Wuguan and entered Xianyang, eventually leading to the Qin Empire. "This is my long-cherished wish, I dare not ask for any reward!" Gongzi Gun jumped out of the carriage, clasped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, please go ahead, I will arrive later."

"beep!"

Upon learning that Fusu and his entourage had arrived at the old camp in Lantian, the sentry blew a heavy horn.

after awhile.

Thousands of soldiers, dressed in various costumes but wearing uniform black armor on the outside, lined up outside the military camp.

The person currently in charge of the Lantian Old Camp is General Yang Xiong.

"It's just as you said, the reputation is well-deserved!" Fusu got out of the car, gently helped up Yang Xiong who bowed to him in respect, and patted his broad shoulders affectionately.

"Your Majesty, you are too kind!" Yang Xiong seemed both frightened and flattered. After the First Emperor became emperor, he attached great importance to etiquette and was not willing to have too close contacts with senior generals like himself.

The left school commander Gong Shugui came to report, "Your Majesty, according to the blueprint, we have built an iron smelting blast furnace on the bank of Bashui River. The required raw materials, such as ore, coal powder and coke, are ready."

A few minutes later, following Gong Shugui's report, on the bank of Bashui River, 10,000 Lantian soldiers, under the command of Yang Xiong, deployed their troops tightly in an area of ​​ten miles in radius, forming an impenetrable safety circle.

A moment later, Fusu saw a model of the new blast furnace built strictly according to his instructions.

The main body of the iron-making blast furnace is a tower-shaped structure, with a maximum diameter of three meters. The bottom is equipped with reinforced supports to prevent the risk of collapse and cracking. Its walls gradually thicken from top to bottom, with a thickness of about 0 centimeters at the bottom, and the core part of the interior uses a new type of fired heat-resistant bricks. The vents are cleverly designed, and there is a water wheel fan on the side to drive the wind. In order to further improve the efficiency of iron-making, Fusu specifically ordered the public rail to build a set of materials driven by two donkeys on the other side. The system includes a small path to climb up and a loading car with an open bottom. After the small vehicle rises to the top of the blast furnace under traction, the lock fixed at the bottom of the vehicle will be hooked by a hook to open the loading hole, followed by the release of a large amount of coal and ore raw materials pouring into the blast furnace.

At the technological level of the time, this innovative combination was already an extremely advanced process.

Compared with a large vertical furnace, once the operation of a blast furnace starts, it is a long process and will not stop easily. Fuel and ore raw materials must be continuously supplied, and its iron production capacity is much higher than that of a vertical furnace.

In order to support the supply of resources needed for blast furnaces, the boatmen transporting goods on the Weishui and Jingshui rivers were almost always busy.

In addition, Fusu opened the Shaofu treasury and took out a large number of huge timbers originally intended for the construction of the palace, and mobilized the craftsmen of Neishi County to work hard to build inland transport ships.

This is not only to improve the efficiency of transporting iron ore and fuel, but more importantly, the byproduct of iron ore smelting - iron slag, can actually be used as the basic raw material for producing cement! Fusu stared at the blast furnace standing by the river and asked, "Are the operators familiar with the process?"

The reply was: "Your Majesty, we have rehearsed it many times and everything is perfect!"

"In that case, let's get started!"

At the command, "Understood!" Then, the public transport track moved to the vicinity of the blast furnace and ordered in a loud voice: "Action now!"

At his order, nearly a hundred workers immediately began to work: preheating the hot air furnace, opening the shield on the water row, ensuring the smooth flow of water in the canal, adding a large pile of coal to the oiled and burning firewood. With the injection of heat and the continuous input of raw materials such as iron ore and coke, billowing flames and thick smoke spewed out of the furnace. "Is this the iron smelting that the emperor wants to show you?" Gongzi Gun, who was standing aside, opened his eyes wide and stared at this spectacular scene in amazement.

Meng Yi and others standing aside also showed surprise on their faces.

"Yes, but what we are forging now is pig iron, which is fine for making ordinary iron pots or farm tools. There is still room for improvement in performance. Really high-quality steel needs to be obtained through forging or further refining..."

While socializing with Prince Gun, Fusu was thinking about what this early batch of iron could be used for.