Father, I really don’t want to be the emperor

Ning Fan must get this bracelet no matter what.

Perhaps having inherited the memory and body of his predecessor, Ning Fan had strong emotions towards this jade bracelet.

Ning Fan stared at the jade bracelet in the fourth prince's hand and found that he was crying unknowingly.

Seeing Ning Fan's reaction, the fourth prince was very satisfied, and his expression became more and more arrogant.

"Where did you get this jade bracelet?"

Ning Fan stared at the fourth prince indifferently.

If the Fourth Prince Ning Xiao plans to use this jade bracelet for blackmail, Ning Fan feels that the brotherly friendship has come to an end.

"How else could it come here? Could it be that I stole it?"

"Your mother, Concubine Yurong, entrusted me to take care of you before she passed away. This jade bracelet was given to me by her."

Ning Xiao sneered.

Ning Fan looked directly into Ning Xiao's eyes. How could there be any emotion in his eyes?

A prince cannot live in the palace, but Ning Fan remembered that when his mother, Concubine Yurong, passed away, Ning Xiao did live in the palace, because at that time, Ning Xiao was weak and sick and needed to be raised in the harem.

This may be the reason why Ning Xiao was able to see Concubine Yurong before she died!

"Then what do you mean? You want to take it and give it back to me?"

Ning Fan had calmed down and stared at Ning Xiao calmly.

"Back then, your mother did ask me to take care of you. You and I are brothers, and as an elder brother, I did take care of you! But times have changed, and now you, Ning Fan, can no longer figure out who you are, so I plan to take good care of you for your mother and concubine. Teach you how to be a good person."

A cold flash flashed in Ning Xiao's eyes.

Compared to brotherly love, the chair in the palace was what Ning Xiao was most passionate about.

Ning Fan and Xiao Lingxi are getting closer and closer. This is a provocation to Ning Xiao, which Ning Xiao will never allow.

So in Ning Xiao's heart, Ning Fan is not a brother, but his enemy who competes with him for the throne!

"Fourth brother, this is my mother's relic. You are not joking about it. Give it to me. I will be very grateful to you."

Ning Fan's tone was calm.

"For you? Of course!"

"However, you have to fight with me! If you can defeat me in public, then what's the point of me giving you this jade bracelet?"

Ning Xiao stared at Ning Fan with dark eyes, not hiding the murderous thoughts in his heart.

"If I don't agree, will you destroy the jade bracelet?"

Ning Fan's eyes revealed a bit of helplessness.

Ning Xiao burst out laughing when he heard what Ning Fan said.

He picked up the jade bracelet with his hand, played with it in his palm, then stared into Ning Fan's eyes and said coldly: "Destroy it? I won't. I'm not as heartless and unrighteous as you think."

"But if it accidentally falls to the ground and breaks, you can't blame me."

"Okay, I promise you!"

"Tell me, how and where to compete?"

So Ning Fan had no way out, he had to agree.

"In three days' time at the West Campus, we will have a sword duel. I will invite Xiao Lingxi to watch the battle! I want her to know that the last time you won, I was just opportunistic! And you are no match for me at all."

Ning Xiao left behind a word, turned around and left.

Once the goal has been achieved, there is no point in staying.

Looking at the back of the fourth prince Ning Xiao, Ning Fan showed a bit of pain in his eyes.

The struggle for imperial power has always been the most cruel.

Brothers fight to the death.

Even if Ning Fan wanted to stay out of the world, it was no longer possible.

"Your Highness, you must not!"

"The fourth prince's swordsmanship is very powerful. He is a close disciple of swordsman master Cao Mengqiu!"

Ergou was so frightened that he broke out in cold sweat. He grabbed Ning Fan's sleeve and refused to let go, for fear that Ning Fan would be killed.

The fourth prince was chopped into pieces with a sword.

"Swordsmanship?"

Ning Fan shook his head: "Maybe he is really powerful, but I am not afraid at all."

"Your Highness, you really can't try it, you will die easily."

Ergou was about to cry.

"You bitch, you really expect me to lose? We haven't even competed yet, and you know I'm going to lose?"

Ning Fan lightly kicked Ergou.

Now he finally understood why the fourth prince Ning Xiao couldn't help but come to provoke him. It was all because of Xiao Lingxi!

I took Xiao Lingxi to Qingmeizhuang to visit the cement production process. The fourth prince probably found out about it and made him jealous.

"Let's go to the other courtyard with me."

Ning Fan raised his feet and walked towards the door.

There are more than a dozen master blacksmiths in the courtyard, all of whom were transferred from Qingmeizhuang.

Ning Fan provides good food and drink every day, and earns five taels of silver every month. For these hard-working blacksmiths, it is already a fairy life.

They have inherited the craftsmanship from their ancestors and have never received such preferential treatment.

Seeing Ning Fan coming in, several blacksmiths were very respectful and put down their work to salute Ning Fan.

"Masters, I need you to help me forge a sword. In three days, I want an indestructible sword!"

Ning Fan got straight to the point.

Hearing Ning Fan say this, several old masters looked troubled.

How easy is it to forge a sword?

Not to mention three days, even three years may not necessarily lead to success.

Seeing the difficult expressions on the faces of several masters, Ning Fan immediately knew that it was going to be difficult.

However, Ning Fan has a rich reserve of modern knowledge, and he is confident that he can forge a good sword in three days.

In modern forging technology, steel is undoubtedly the best sword material.

In Dakang in the Cold Weapon Age, iron was still the main material for weapons, but the hardness of iron was relatively soft and could not reach the level of a magical weapon.

If you want to cut iron like clay, you must use steel!

Ning Fan has integrated the current Dakang forging technology, and the best material he can currently produce is wootz steel!

If a legendary material like wootz steel could be prepared within three days, and then made into a sword using folding, forging and steel-wrapping methods, it would definitely be a first-rate magic weapon in this era.

The secret to turning iron into steel is to add carbon powder.

As long as the carbon content increases, the hardness of iron will make a qualitative leap.

Of course, the ratio of adding toner still needs to be adjusted, which requires experimentation and time.

The three days were indeed a bit stressful, but there was nothing I could do about it. If you want to win this competition, it is easiest to forge a magic weapon.

Next, Ning Fan briefly discussed his ideas and the forging methods and ideas of high carbon steel and wootz steel with several old masters.

At first, several old masters did not believe that the methods Ning Fan said were really useful.

But when Ning Fan told them about folding forging and soil-covered burning blades, two ultimate inventions of the cold weapon era, several senior teachers were finally shocked.

Tempering is the biggest secret in forging a sword. The teachers and teachers did not expect that Ning Fan would casually reveal their biggest secret.

"During quenching, the water temperature is also particular, and the source of the water is also particular. We can study these slowly, but the forging must start tonight."

Ning Fan couldn't wait any longer.