[Chapter 3 today, please order first. 】

 "it is good!"

 After Yu Ji danced, Xiang Yu smiled and clapped his hands in praise.

 "Zhu Feng Xiangluan, what a good dancer!"

 Long Qi and others also clapped their hands in praise, and they were not stingy with their praise.

 They praised Yu Ji, on the one hand because Yu Ji's dancing skills are really beautiful; but they also wanted to take this opportunity to gain more favor from Xiang Yu.

 "Ha ha!"

 Xiang Yu was also very happy to hear the praise of Yu Ji from his subordinates.

 "Concubine Yu, come over and drink with me."

 Xiang Yu waved at Yu Ji.

 "Overlord, Yafu please see me."

 After a while, a guard came in outside the palace and reported to Xiang Yuhui.

 "Yafu is here, please come in."

 Xiang Yu knew that Fan Zeng must have something important to come to him in person, and he respected Yafu, so he didn't dare to neglect.

 It is right that Xiang Yu dotes on Concubine Yu, but it is not to the point of extravagance and lust.

 Furthermore, Concubine Yu knew her identity very well, and never let Xiang Yu delay her official business because of herself.

 "Overlord, Yafu must have something important to discuss with you, so Yuji stepped back first."

 "No, it's fine for Yuji to stay."

 "No, Concubine Yu should step back, otherwise Yafu will be angry again when he sees me."

 Yu Ji said softly.

 "This..., well, you go back first, and I will go to you after the king and Yafu finish discussing the matter."

 Seeing that Yu Ji was so persistent, Xiang Yu had no choice but to agree.

 The reason why Ji Yu didn't want to stay was because she didn't want Xiang Yu and Yafu to quarrel.

 During this period of time, Xiang Yu loved Yu Ji so much, and his father, Fan Zeng, was very dissatisfied. Fan Zeng didn't like Yu Ji at all.

 Fan Zeng is not a young man like Xiang Yu. He is over seventy years old, not only dislikes beautiful women like Yu Ji, but is even very wary.

 He was worried that Xiang Yu would be confused by the beauty around him like King Zhou of Shang and King Zhou You did before.

 Therefore, when Concubine Yu appeared beside Xiang Yu and was favored, Fan Zeng's attitude towards Concubine Yu was very indifferent and wary.

 Several times, Xiang Yu and Fan Zeng discussed matters, and Xiang Yu asked Yu Ji to stay with him, but Fan Zeng scolded him on the spot.

 It is also because of this that Yu Ji is a little afraid of this gray-haired Yafu now.

 Concubine Yu walked out of the palace, just in time to meet Fan Zeng who was staggering in, and hurriedly supported Fan Zeng.

 "Yafu, I'll take you in, and I'll come out later."

 Yu Ji explained with a smile, worried that Fan Zeng would get angry again.

 Faced with Yu Ji's kindness, Fan Zeng looked at her coldly, but this time he did not lose his temper and snorted coldly: "It's good that you know.

 Men talk about masters, women don't meddle in it, and don't pester the bully all the time if you have nothing to do.

 The overlord is a person who does great things, so don't be too affectionate, I only say this once, you have to remember it.

 If I find out that you make Bawang not enterprising and do not do business properly, I guarantee that you will never see Bawang. "

 "Yes, Yuji remembers Yafu's teachings."

 Concubine Yu was aggrieved by Fan Zeng's reprimand, but she still responded with a smile.

 "Well, send me in."

 Fan Zeng saw Yu Ji's good attitude and was very satisfied, so he said.

 "Ah."

 Hearing that Fan Zeng agreed to let him take him in, Yu Ji's eyebrows beamed instantly, her eyes turned into crescent moons, she was very happy.

 Seeing Yu Ji with this kind of heart, Fan Zeng actually likes her very much. This girl is well-behaved and considerate.

 Fan Zeng may not care about Yu Ji's appearance, but he is quite satisfied with Yu Ji's kind heart.

 "Yu Ji, Yu Ji, I hope this is your true side, but don't be a witch like Daji.

 Yafu is so strict with you, it is also for the sake of the overlord, I hope you don't blame Yafu. "

 Fan Zeng thought so in his heart at this time.

 After Yu Ji helped Fan Zeng into the palace, she left with a smile.

 Xiang Yu was also very happy to see that Fan Zeng agreed to let Yu Ji come in with his help, which showed that Fan Zeng's attitude towards Yu Ji was changing.

 At this time, for Xiang Yu, Fan Zeng and Yu Ji were his closest people.

 One is like a father and the other is a wife, Xiang Yu naturally does not want the two of them to disagree.

 "Yafu, what's the point of coming here in such a hurry?"

 Xiang Yu asked.

 "Well, of course there is something important.

 The first thing is that the spring plowing is coming, and the Overlord will prepare for it in the next few days, and will participate in some spring plowing ceremonies. "

 People in this era attach great importance to spring plowing. The monarch of every country must personally participate in the ceremony when spring plowing begins.

 "Okay, this matter is under Yafu's arrangement."

 "The second thing is that the overlord asked the craftsmen to make the stirrups and iron weapons, and they have already made them.

 Today I brought it to Bawang to see. "

 As he spoke, Fan Zeng signaled to a guard behind him.

 The guard immediately took a step forward and opened a box carried by two guards next to him, revealing the stirrups and some iron spear heads and long swords inside.

 "The stirrup has been built, my lord, take a look."

 At this time, Xiang Yu also rushed down and picked up the stirrups.

 "Well, it looks similar to the one on the Baoqin cavalry, but the workmanship seems to be a lot worse."

 Xiang Yu looked at the stirrup in his hand, and said with a slight frown.

 Immediately, Xiang Yu picked up another iron long sword, and looked at the long sword with holes on it, his face darkened.

 If the quality of those stirrups is much lower than that of Daqin's, then these iron long swords are completely different from Daqin's iron longswords.

 "Can this long sword work? Why is it so different from Baoqin's side?"

 Xiang Yu said dissatisfied.

 "It can't be helped, this is already made by our best craftsman in Pengcheng, and I also found out that it is indeed not as good as Typhoon's.

 I asked Master Gu Yu, and he said that Baoqin made these iron weapons well.

 On the one hand, the craftsmanship of the craftsmen is good, and more importantly, the iron materials they smelt are much better than ours.

 The iron materials we smelt contain too many impurities, and the weapons we make are like this.

 I asked Master Gu Yu to forge iron weapons for us as well, but the iron weapons forged were not at all comparable to those of Baoqin.

 Master Gu Yu said that the main reason is that our iron-making technology is not yet mature.

 Moreover, it would take a long time for us to smelt iron materials, which is simply not enough to make too many iron weapons and equip our soldiers on a large scale. "

 Fan Zeng also said helplessly.

 After the Battle of Hangu Pass, Xiang Yu still obtained some stirrups and a large number of iron weapons from the Qin army.

 Needless to say, Xiang Yu had been paying attention to the stirrups for a long time, and it took a lot of effort to get one.

 Regarding the usefulness of stirrups, Xiang Yu was very pleasantly surprised after experiencing it himself. He finally knew that Wei and the cavalry of the Qin Army could hold blades with both hands, and rushed across the battlefield.

 On the battlefield, they also found that the iron weapons in Qin Bing's hands were much easier to use than the bronze weapons in their hands.

 After their bronze weapons collided fiercely with Qin Bing's iron weapons, they were easily broken, but the iron weapons were not.

Chapter 106 Blank paper is not so easy to make

 106 Blank paper is not so easy to make

 Therefore, Xiang Yu, who returned to Pengcheng, immediately asked Fan Zeng to summon outstanding craftsmen from the Wuyue area to make stirrups and iron weapons for him.

 In this era, ironware has already appeared, but because the technology is not yet mature, it has not been fully promoted.

 But now Xiang Yu obviously didn't want to lose to Da Qin in terms of weapons, and instructed Fan Zeng: "Yafu, pass on the order of this king to recruit all craftsmen from across the country to Pengcheng.

 This king will give them everything they need, so that they must forge weapons that can rival the iron weapons of Tyranny as soon as possible.

 I don't believe that if all the craftsmen are gathered together, it can't be made. "

 "fair enough."

 When Fan Zeng heard Xiang Yu's order, he also nodded in approval.

 From these iron weapons of Daqin, Fan Zeng not only saw Daqin's huge lead in iron smelting and forging.

 At the same time, Fan Zeng understood that this mature technology of iron smelting and forging ironware, when applied to the people's livelihood, would also bring great convenience to the people.

 Therefore, Fan Zeng also realized that it was very necessary to master the mature iron-smelting technology as soon as possible.

 Afterwards, Fan Zeng left Xiang Yu's palace and immediately issued an order to recruit all craftsmen who could smelt and forge to Pengcheng in the fiefdom of the Overlord of Western Chu.

 Even Fan Zeng wanted to recruit more craftsmen from other Fifteen Route princes.

 So he sent someone in the name of Xiang Yu to send an order to these princes to recruit craftsmen from their territory.

 It's just that these princes are not fools, how could they give all the craftsmen in their territory to Xiang Yu.

 Therefore, they also responded to Fan Zeng's order.

 Reluctantly send some craftsmen to Xiang Yu, deal with the matter, the craftsmen who are really good craftsmen, these princes all keep them for themselves.

 During the Battle of Hangu Pass, it was not only Xiang Yu who noticed the iron weapons on Qin's side, but also other princes from all walks of life.

 Ever since, in the fourth year of Emperor Qin II, the princes of all walks of life in the entire Huaxia land have launched a large-scale research on iron smelting technology, which has advanced the promotion of iron ware by a lot of time.

 Turning his gaze back to Xianyang, in March, Xu Feng was also busy with spring plowing in Guanzhong.

 Fortunately, with Zhuge Liang in charge of the overall situation, Xu Feng didn't bother too much.

 "Your Majesty, in order to welcome this year's spring plowing, I have asked the Ordnance Bureau to make tens of thousands of iron farm tools and distribute them to the people in Guanzhong.

 All these agricultural tools were sold to the people at cost price, and according to His Majesty's instructions, after the summer harvest, the people can use grain to pay for the price. "

 Zhuge Liang was reporting to Xu Feng.

 "Well, that's right, it can reduce the pressure on the common people. How about farming cattle?"

 "Returning to Your Majesty, the number of cattle in Guanzhong is about 1."

 "No, this number is still too small. In the future, cattle will be used for farming, and the number of cattle raised by the common people must be increased.

 You go back and draft an announcement. From now on, I, the people of Daqin, whoever raises a cow can be exempted from [-]% of land tax.

 By analogy, three cows are the upper limit, and this order is valid for two years. "

 Xu Feng felt that in Daqin, to vigorously promote cattle farming, it is necessary to increase the number of cattle raised by the people.

 "Well, Wei Chen remembered."

 Zhuge Liang also strongly supported the promotion of cattle farming, which represents the progress of productivity and can allow the people of Daqin to cultivate more land.

 At this time, in Daqin Guanzhong, ironware has been fully promoted and used. After all, Daqin has mature iron smelting technology,

 The forged iron farm tools are very durable.

 And after Xu Feng issued this order, he believed that within two years, the number of cattle raised by the people of Daqin would definitely increase several times.

 At that time, every common people will be able to use cattle to plow the land, and then the common people will be able to cultivate more land, and the imperial court will also be able to reap more land taxes.

 "Okay, Prime Minister, I will leave the matter of spring plowing to you.

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