Chapter 712 Stop the War with War (Supplement 4.29)
"It's not just paper, Ah Li can also make printing and engraving!" Zhi Changle looked proud, "You guys practice first. Ah Li will definitely like you after going up the mountain to study in the rain!"
Xia Zhaoyi was eating noodles and couldn't speak. After swallowing, he whispered: "Brother Zhi."
Zhi Changle smiled naively and scratched his neck: "I was happy for a moment, hehe."
Xia Zhaoyi turned to look at Lin Shuanglan and Bai Wuniang: "You practice first, don't worry about the paper."
"Then, can we take some back to the girls in the village..." Lin Shuanglan said sheepishly.
"You can have as many as you want," Xia Zhaoyi said.
"Ah Li is so good!!" Lin Shuanglan said happily.
Bai Wuniang also laughed, stretched out her hand to touch the paper in front of her, and couldn't put it down.
After eating, Xia Zhaoyi still had the habit of rinsing his mouth, and Zhi Changle had already prepared it in advance.
After rinsing his mouth and hands, Xia Zhaoyi went to give some instructions to Zeng Jishi, and then went to the other side of the venue to talk to several other people with Zeng Jishi.
About half an hour passed before Xia Zhaoyi came back.
Zhi Changle had packed up his things and left, but Lin Shuanglan and Bai Wuniang didn't write a few words.
They were so distracted that they couldn't help but raise their heads and look at Xia Zhaoyi's figure.
In terms of appearance, she is the youngest among them, but her calm demeanor and conversation make her as calm as their elder sister.
Not to mention anything else, just when negotiating with these middle-aged people, everyone would bow down in front of her, including Zeng Jishi next to her.
It has nothing to do with age, wealth, or power. Her calm and calm aura seems to be innate.
Xia Zhaoyi picked up the paper from the two of them, read it, put it down without saying a word, and then picked up the book they brought.
Lin Shuanglan didn't recognize many of the words, and she made a mess of circles in the book.
"Ah Li..." Lin Shuanglan said nervously.
"Let's start practicing with these fonts." Xia Zhaoyi said.
"Which ones?" Lin Shuanglan raised her head.
Xia Zhaoyi picked up the pen and wrote his name on the clean paper.
Lin Shuanglan, Bai Wuniang, Bai Liuniang, Feng Anan, Tu Xiaoxi, Wang Pan, Liu Yining, Guo Suyun.
The straight and regular characters are exactly the same as those printed on this yellowed book.
Zeng Jishi, who followed her back, was stunned.
He had seen Xia Zhaoyi's handwriting and understood how beautiful her handwriting was. He never thought that she could write other characters.
"Can these names match the Master?" Xia Zhaoyi asked.
Lin Shuanglan nodded: "If you know one or two words, it will be easy to deduce."
"Copy these first," Xia Zhaoyi put down his pen, "Each name needs to be written thirty times."
"good……"
Xia Zhaoyi didn't stay long and continued to work.
Bai Wuniang bit her pen and looked at the words she wrote in surprise: "This girl Ah Li actually remembered all our names."
"So, we must study hard!" Lin Shuanglan said with great enthusiasm, "Famous teachers produce great disciples, we must not embarrass her!"
"Um!"
The rain became heavier and heavier, and then gradually subsided in the afternoon.
There is new rain in the empty mountains, the sky and the earth are clear, and the outline of the entire site can be roughly seen.
After Lin Shuanglan and Bai Wuniang finished practicing calligraphy, Xia Zhaoyi wrote a string of words composed of the characters in their names.
Lin Shuanglan’s orchids, Bai Wuniang’s five benevolences, Feng Anan’s peace...
When Zhan Jiuye came, he saw two girls immersed in writing. He was very happy and whispered to them that they must study hard with the girls. It was a rare opportunity. Then Zhan Jiuye went to Xia Zhaoyi and asked her about material transportation and so on.
The problem.
In the remaining days, whenever Lin Shuanglan had free time, she took her sisters up the mountain.
Bai Wuniang has been here for two days and doesn't want to come again. Once the novelty of practicing calligraphy wears off, she just feels boring.
The ones who came most diligently were Feng Anan and Wang Pan.
As for Xia Zhaoyi's venue, the scale is not yet complete.
Everyone originally thought that she was going to make a batch of crossbows or arrows, but they never thought that she took out a bunch of temporary drawings that she had made in the past few days and asked them to follow the drawings.
The drawings are very easy to understand. They are all made of wood. The length, width, height, and the size of the rounded corners are all marked on the drawings.
Literate people were selected as stewards, responsible for informing the staff about the size, supervising the work, and inspecting afterward.
Everyone worked hard, but had no idea what the wood was for, until the day when all the drawings were completed, Zhi Changle and Lao Tong moved a big basket together.
The basket is also filled with wood, which is more delicate, smaller, and more complex in shape and structure.
Most of the work was done by Xia Zhaoyi herself. She didn't trust other people's craftsmanship, not because she thought their hands were not as skillful as hers, but because they needed many years of experience before they could do it.
Then, under Xia Zhaoyi's instructions, Zhi Changle and Lao Tong put the small pieces of wood in the basket into place in front of everyone, and hammered them until all the wooden parts were assembled into several large-scale combinations.
I don't know who it was, but it took the lead and started clapping.
Immediately afterwards, many people clapped their hands.
An inexplicable emotion spread among everyone and was extremely contagious.
They even don't know what these big combinations are used for.
Zhan Jiuye stood next to Xia Zhaoyi, so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth. After calming down, he quietly asked Xia Zhaoyi what they were used for.
"The mold device," Xia Zhaoyi said without reservation, "the wood blades inside can be adjusted."
"……Can't understand."
"You can call it a scraper. It can be as small as a crossbow arrow or as large as a wooden foundation for building a house."
"Crossbow!" Zhan Jiuye's eyes lit up, "Miss Ali, shall we go to war?"
"..."
In the past few days, the belligerent mood shown by Zhan Jiuye, who claimed to want to take the imperial examination, was more like martial arts than literary.
It is true that there are many militants among civil servants, but the officialdom of Daqian has been oppressed by imperial power for hundreds of years, and there are very few such civil servants.
As for the imperial power, several monarchs of Daqian have always been peace-loving. They are rarely aggressive towards the outside world. In other words, generations of monarchs of Daqian just want to rest on their ancestors' merits.
Of course, that is external, but internally, they are unscrupulous.
After a moment of silence, Xia Zhaoyi said: "I named it the Ten Injury Ritual. It only takes one person to push and pull at one time. Twenty crossbow arrows can be made at the same time. The wooden pier is too big and can only produce two at a time, and it takes a little time."
Long."
"...twenty branches. There are five Ten Injury Ritual here, so that's one hundred branches."
"It's quite scary," Xia Zhaoyi said calmly, "Twenty crossbow arrows, at least ten lives will be lost."
Zhan Jiuye said solemnly: "In these troubled times, there is nothing we can do, we can only end the war with war."
Xia Zhaoyi didn't answer and looked towards Shishangyi.
In fact, if she had enough time, she could create a more sophisticated mechanical device without having to rush it like she is now.
Not to mention making twenty, thirty, or even fifty crossbow arrows at the same time, she can do it.
However, this machine is not used to make crossbow arrows at the moment. It may be used in the future, but now, she wants to make wooden piers.
She built a building on the ground, sheltered from the wind and rain, and had a stable place where she could do more things.
It is the transportation of materials that is indeed the biggest headache right now.
Also, she has to leave for Weiping Mansion in the near future, and she also has to visit Congxin.
