Chapter 194: Sword Sacrifice, Living Spirit Forging

The so-called home exchange plan was to exchange the settlements of the people of Zhao and those of Han.

Gongsun Ce was the commander-in-chief of this migration.

He knew very well that it was not easy to get the people to leave their homeland voluntarily, especially as spring plowing was approaching and the people had a deep attachment to the land.

However, only by living in different places can long-term stability be achieved.

Gongsun Ce was sitting in the study of the Grand Marshal's Mansion, with the desk covered with maps and official documents.

He stared at Zhao and Han on the map, with a myriad of thoughts in his mind.

For the people participating in the migration this time, Gongsun Ce’s requirement was that they must be without parents, wives, and children, and that they must be motivated to enter a strange place alone.

Once a single man is born, he will certainly use the rewards given by Gongsun Ce to establish a career, and after establishing a career, he will naturally start a family.

After that, they gradually integrated into the local community. From then on, these men and their descendants were neither Zhao people nor Han people, but Qin people.

Apart from the fact that young and middle-aged men can more easily endure the hardships of long-distance journeys, there is also the reason of preventing them from causing trouble.

Young and middle-aged people are stronger and more easily instigated because of their passion.

The rewards Gongsun Ce gave to the people who participated in the migration were as follows: the rent and taxes for the people were exempted for three years, and the people who actively participated in the migration could also have the opportunity to purchase permanent land use rights.

This suggestion was quickly spread to every corner of Zhao and Han.

After the Qin army captured each city, Gongsun Ce transferred the right to use the land to the Qin state.

The land distributed to the people only gave them the right to cultivate it, and they needed to pay rent and taxes.

However, Gongsun Ce would not take back the land for redistribution. Once the people started to cultivate the land, the land would not be taken back unless they were unable to pay the rent.

Gongsun Ce's ultimate goal was to allow the people to own the land for cultivation, but not to have ownership of it.

The land can be passed down from generation to generation, but they only have the right to use it, not the ownership, and it cannot be bought or sold.

This in disguise eliminates the possibility of someone annexing land or falsely reporting the area of ​​farmland.

As soon as the news came out, people were talking about it.

Only a few young and middle-aged men feel reluctant to leave their hometown, while other young and middle-aged men who are alone have no such concept at all.

In this era, it is already quite difficult for ordinary people to survive.

There were even many middle-aged and elderly people with families who wanted to participate, but were stopped by Gongsun Ce's order.

If you want to travel long distances when you are old, you are simply seeking death.

Gongsun Ce wanted the people on both sides to be able to successfully exchange homes, and he did not want this road to be stained with blood.

With sufficient benefits, who wouldn’t want to find a way out? Moreover, the land can be cultivated for generations. The only drawback is that there is no ownership.

In the lands of Zhao and Han, many young and middle-aged people began to get busy.

They packed their luggage and farm tools, ready to leave this familiar land.

After a month of hard work, the migration was finally completed.

The young and middle-aged men who were alone in Zhao and Han were successfully dispersed and mixed in various places in Zhao and Han.

At the same time, because the timing was right, the young and middle-aged people in both countries who had experienced the transition of families began spring plowing.

Gongsun Ce breathed a sigh of relief after looking at the information reported by Luo Wang. This would not be an easy task.

Even young and middle-aged people suffered from acclimatization after long journeys and died. This was due to the underdeveloped medical care.

Gongsun Ce rubbed his brows, took out the silk from the bookshelf, and felt that it was time to print the book.

However, the prerequisite is to make paper first. Movable type printing is not difficult, but the difficult part is the carrier of text, that is, paper.

Gongsun Ce had no idea how to make wood pulp paper, but he had learned about recycled paper in handicraft classes before, but where could he get used paper in this era?

Gongsun Ce sighed and began to recall the documentary about bamboo paper making that he had watched before.

Before traveling through time, Gongsun Ce watched a short video of a panda eating bamboo, and then linked it to a documentary about making bamboo paper.

1. Preparation: Choose fresh young bamboo, chop it and cut it into sections, then soak it in water.

This process requires adding lime and allowing the bamboo to slowly rot in the water over a period of several months.

2. Steaming: When the bamboo has rotted into cotton-like state, take it out and put it into a barrel, add lime water and steam it.

This process takes eight days and requires repeated steaming and rinsing.

3. Mashing and slurry extraction: Put the steamed bamboo into a stone mortar and pound it repeatedly with tools until it becomes a paste. Then pour it into a large pool, add water to soak and stir well.

4. Papermaking: During the papermaking process, a wooden board is used to shake left and right in the pulp pool so that the pulp is evenly spread over the board.

5. Pressing and drying: Stack the copied papers together one by one, press them with heavy objects such as stones to drain the moisture from the paper sheets, and then dry them.

There were many technical issues involved, which Gongsun Ce could no longer remember.

Moreover, bamboo paper is easy to make, the raw materials are cheap, and it is also very flexible, so it can be used for experiments.

However, if we start making bamboo paper now, the finished product will not be available until at least the second half of the year. Gongsun Ce thought for a moment and prepared to discuss it with Gongshu Chou and Master Ban.

Gongsun Ce only hopes that the two of them have a good sleep recently and don’t die suddenly.

When Gongsun Ce arrived at the forge, he found that only the Six-Fingered Black Knight was there, and he was looking forward as if facing a powerful enemy.

"Six-Fingered Black Knight? Why are you here?"

The six-fingered black knight was somewhat helpless, "General Gongsun has been quite busy lately, has he forgotten about Madam Xu's forging of Yuanhong?
Yuan Hong's spirituality is not low, Madam Xu was afraid that something might happen, so she asked me to help."

Gongsun Ce nodded to show his understanding, then he closed his eyes and began to sense the breath coming from the sword-making workshop.

The blood dragon's aura is becoming stronger and stronger at this time, but the seal left by Gongsun Ce remains tenacious, and the blood dragon cannot break the seal. At this time, Madam Xu is about to complete the final step of sword forging - sword sacrifice.

This made the Blood Dragon more uneasy, but as Madam Xu carried out the final forging, the Blood Dragon's power began to expand, which made the irrational Blood Dragon even more crazy, constantly attacking the seal left by Gongsun Ce.

Madam Xu heaved a sigh of relief as she watched the strokes of the word "rainbow" being stained with a streak of blood, which was then dispelled by the word "rainbow".

Mrs. Xu had never thought that a person leaving just one word could have such power.

Based on her understanding of Six-Fingered Black Knight, he couldn't do it. It was even questionable whether Six-Fingered Black Knight could easily suppress the Blood Dragon even if he used his full strength as a Grandmaster.

Mrs. Xu looked at the hidden bat that was wrapped in iron chains above the stove and whose acupuncture points were blocked by silver needles. She simply pulled down the operating lever.

The next moment, Yinfu fell straight into the furnace. Before he could even let out a scream, his throat had been burned by the flames.

The unwilling soul and murderous aura of the hidden bat were suddenly tempered by the flames. The next moment, the blood dragon felt a sense of crisis, but it was of no avail.

The hidden bat's soul and evil spirit escaped into the abyss and started a game with the blood dragon.

At this time, Gongsun Ce had already walked into the sword-making workshop and was staring at the Yuanhong that was about to be completed.

Gongsun Ce could only say that the surprise that Madam Xu gave him was a bit exaggerated. This sword-sacrificing technique could be called a technique for recreating living souls.

It is enough for Gongsun Ce to complete the spiritual recasting when forging the living spirit product, and turn the living spirit into an independent but insufficiently spiritual spirit.

The spiritual space within the Yuanhong sword embryo was dark, with only the word "rainbow" shining.

In the silence, suddenly, two blood-red lights broke through the darkness, like two lightning bolts, illuminating the dead space.

It was a blood-red bat, its wings spread out, almost occupying the entire width of the space.

The bat's eyes flashed with an eerie light, like two burning rubies, revealing endless greed and cruelty.

Its body was a strange red color, as if it had been stained with blood, and it exuded a terrifying aura that made people's hearts palpitate.

At the same time, another creature slowly emerged, it was a blood-red dragon.

Its body is huge and agile, and its dragon scales gleam with a metallic luster. The blood color of the blood dragon is no different from that of a bat, but the composition of the blood dragon seems to be purer.

The dragon's eyes are like two burning flames, revealing majesty and dominance.

Every breath it took seemed to carry the force of thunder, shaking the spiritual space.

The two creatures met in this claustrophobic space in what seemed like a fateful duel.

There was no verbal communication between them, but judging from the aura they exuded, they were already on the verge of a fight, ready to strike.

The blood-red bat launched the first attack. It flapped its wings and flew high, swooping down towards the dragon.

The moment it approached the dragon, it opened its sharp claws and tried to pierce the dragon's scales.

However, the dragon's reaction was also extremely quick. It slightly turned its body and dodged the bat's attack.

At the same time, the dragon opened its bloody mouth and spewed out a stream of hot blood-colored energy, heading straight for the bat.

The bat rolled flexibly in the air to avoid the energy attack.

But it did not give up, but launched a fierce attack on the blood dragon again.

It flapped its wings and released countless tiny blood-colored battle blades, surrounding the blood dragon, but was unable to break through the blood dragon's defense.

Although the blood dragon was powerful, it had to retreat again and again under the intensive attacks of the bats.

However, this is the Blood Dragon's home ground after all.

After a brief retreat, it once again demonstrated its amazing strength.

It let out a deafening dragon roar, and the sound echoed endlessly in the spiritual space.

As the dragon's roar sounded, the blood dragon's body began to expand rapidly, becoming even larger and more powerful.

It charged at the bat again, this time faster and more violently than before.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the bat immediately tried to dodge, but the blood dragon's attack speed was too fast, and it only had time to slightly shift its body position.

The blood dragon's sharp claws hit the bat hard, knocking it flying away.

The bat rolled several times in the air before it managed to stabilize itself. But it was already seriously injured, and bloody aura continued to emanate from its body, dyeing the surrounding space red.

(End of this chapter)