Daqin: Zulong's Traveling Frog

Chapter 8 One Small Step, One Giant Leap
In the eighth year of the Qin Dynasty, a letter was brought to Xianyang by a scout and delivered to the main hall of Zhangtai Palace.

As soon as he stepped into the main hall, the scout raised the parchment high up, plopped and knelt down on the ground: "Your Majesty, there is a secret letter!"

Seeing Qin Wangzheng nod slightly, Xi stood up, picked up the sheepskin scroll, and placed it respectfully on the bronze case.

Qin Wangzheng's eyes were cold, and he glanced at the parchment tightly tied with Sedge string.

In order to prevent people from taking it apart secretly, a layer of red ink pad will be pasted on the place where the rope is knotted.

After confirming that the envelope had not been stolen, Qin Wangzheng untied the string, and slowly unfolded the parchment, revealing the clearly visible small script.

"Your Majesty, the Quyuan plow has been promoted in Chaoshi, and the efficiency of villagers' farming has been significantly improved. I hope that Your Majesty will promote this tool to facilitate the people and benefit the country throughout the country and benefit the people!"

Qin Wangzheng smiled lightly, but his heart was as excited as the rough sea.

Thanks to Xiaozhinu, Quyuanli, which has benefited the world, was able to popularize the experiment.

At the same time, Qin Wangzheng is also looking forward to it more and more. If Quyuanli is promoted to the whole country and spread to thousands of households, Daqin will have abundant grain, grass and products, so why worry about the world's prosperity?

The curved shaft plow has epoch-making significance and is a major breakthrough in seeding technology.

But the rapid advancement of productivity is not limited to sowing, but also irrigation, harvesting and many other aspects.

Moreover, while agriculture is developing, military, medical, animal husbandry and other aspects need to go hand in hand and develop together.

After thinking for a while, Qin Wangzheng made a decision: If the harvest in Chaoshili increases by more than [-]% during the autumn harvest, the tools will be spread throughout the country!

Suddenly, an eunuch stepped into the hall: "Your Majesty, the Prime Minister begs to see you!"

Qin Wangzheng looked at Ying Yang, took a deep breath, and exhaled heavily: "Xuan Prime Minister has entered the palace!"

Lu Buwei dragged his aged body and suddenly stepped into the palace gate.

Qin Wangzheng got up from the emperor's couch, supported Lu Buwei into the hall and knelt down, and asked, "Yafu is a rare visitor!"

The reason why Lu Buwei was honored as the sub-father by Qin Wangzheng was because he had helped Zi Chu ascend to the throne step by step.

[Note: Zi Chu is King Qin Zhuangxiang, the father of Qin Wangzheng. He was a different person at first, and later he was adopted by Empress Dowager Huayang and renamed Zi Chu]

Lu Buwei's talent in the government of Qin was also obvious to all. He assisted King Zhuang Xiang to govern the country in an orderly manner and helped Qin expand its territory and become a powerful country.

The number of followers under his banner reached an astonishing [-]. Lu Buwei also ordered his followers to organize and record what they saw and heard, and this was the later "Lu Spring and Autumn Annals".

Lu Buwei smiled, and cupped his hands to the King of Qin, saying: "I heard that your majesty invented Quyuanli yesterday, so I came here to visit and find out."

Qin Wangzheng's eyes were deep, his eyes were fixed, and he said coldly: "Any disturbance in the palace can't escape the wise eyes of Mr. Xiangguo!"

The implication of this sentence is, Lu Buwei, you know too much!
Lu Buwei was slightly taken aback, Qin Wangzheng immediately smiled, broke the embarrassing situation, and said lightly: "Yafu, when the lonely king was fishing today, he accidentally discovered the mystery of fishing, so he immediately summoned Qin Mo to build a superb Quyuanli!"

Qin Wangzheng didn't mention Xiao Zhinu, but flicked his sleeves and ordered Rang Xi to take out a coarse cloth jacket and a fishing rod.

After everything was ready, Qin Wangzheng whispered a few words to Xi. Xi frowned, not understanding Qin Wangzheng's rude request.

Just like that, without taking into account the surprise in Lu Buwei's eyes, Xi plunged the fishhook deeply into his jacket, slid it lightly, and made a stabbing sound.

Lu Buwei raised his brows with a look of disbelief on his face. After a short silence, he suddenly realized: "Your Majesty is quick in thinking, I am ashamed of myself!"

It takes time and effort to tear the clothes apart with brute force, but it is easy to cut through the shorts with a fishhook.

The straight-shaft plow is like brute force, while the fishhook is the curved-shaft plow. There seems to be no difference between the two, but in fact they are very different.

Lu Buwei couldn't help but sigh with emotion that Qin Wangzheng has subtle observations, meticulous thinking, and quite the style of governing.

An ordinary person would definitely feel sorry for himself because the fishhook tore his clothes. However, Qin Wangzheng not only did not feel depressed, but discovered the principles, applied inferences to other cases, and applied reasoning in life.apply it to agriculture.

Although it was only a small step forward, the breakthrough in agriculture was a giant leap.

After Lu Buwei gave a brief explanation, his happy expression was full of surprise, and he re-examined the politics of the King of Qin.

In the happy understanding, Qin Wangzheng is young, and he only needs a few words of flattery to get Qin Wangzheng's grace.

Unexpectedly, the king of Qin would have insight into autumn. In the eyes of Qin Wangzheng, even a tiny detail can become a tool to benefit the country and the people.

In other words, Xi, even if he found that the curved fishhook could cut clothes, he didn't know how to use the fishhook and invented the Quyuanli.

A smile appeared at the corner of Lu Buwei's mouth, and he said with a free and easy expression: "Your Majesty has keen vision, superb insights, and can make precise judgments. What a blessing to the Qin Dynasty!"

A few days ago, Lu Buwei heard that King Qin still had a childish heart and ordered the eunuchs in the palace to find food for a frog.

I thought it was a joke, but after learning that the news was true, the smile on Lu Buwei's face gradually disappeared.

Lu Buwei was worried that King Qin's politics would lose his ambition, and he only knew that he was leisurely and contented in the imperial garden, and gradually lost his ambition to annex the world, and burned the accumulation of Qin's sixth generation.

But when he learned that Qin Wangzheng was to specialize in the study of Qu Yuanli, Lu Buwei's hanging heart finally let go.

After watching Lu Buwei go away, Qin Wangzheng sat in front of the bronze case, recalling the scene of the little child slave jumping around in his mind.

Not seen for many days, Qin Wangzheng's mood is like a river breaking its embankment, rushing non-stop, and his longing for the little childish slave is getting deeper and deeper.

The importance of the Quyuan plow is self-evident, and what kind of benefits will the specialties of Xiaozongnu bring to Da Qin?
While Qin Wangzheng was contemplating, the system's prompt echoed in Qin Wangzheng's mind.

[Ding, the little child slave has returned from his trip and brought special products, please check it with the host]

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