Mythic version of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 6913 Divine Weapon
Chen Xi never thought that it was greedy for the old Han soldiers to choose the Ganges fiefdom at this time. To be honest, this was their true intention after comprehensive consideration.

In this day and age, after Lu Su tore off Chen Xi's magic tricks, Chen Xi told the truth about his fiefdom in the Ganges River and was willing to come to Liu Bei with the fiefdom documents, saying that he was now retired from the army and wanted to be granted a fiefdom in the Indochina Peninsula or the northeast coast. To be honest, he was a typical example of a man of high moral character who was willing to share Liu Bei's worries.

Even though Liu Bei clearly stated that he could choose his own territory and could directly state any requirements he had. After choosing, he could then conduct on-site investigation. If he found after the on-site investigation that it did not meet the requirements, he could still re-enfeoff it. Even though there were so many preconditions, Chen Xi felt that he was still helping Liu Bei relieve his worries.

Conditions like those proposed by Kang Guang, such as fresh water resources, relatively fertile plains, mines, proximity to the sea for fishing, and shelter from the wind without being damp, may seem a bit outrageous to Kang Guang himself. In fact, it was Liu Bei who asked him to propose such conditions. But from Chen Xi's point of view, these are not conditions that are too difficult.

Three or four million square kilometers, you just need to find a piece of land to live a good life. There is no need to transform nature. Just say what you want and then choose one by one.

Even the Southeast Asian island known as Kalimantan, which covers an area of ​​more than 700,000 square kilometers, is it possible that you cannot find a suitable place there?

If there is really no other option, just live along the river. There are more than a dozen large rivers, as well as open-pit mines near the rivers, pristine rainforests, etc. Even if the overall situation is barren and lacks minerals, the hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land can support millions of people even if you rely on the mountains and the water for food!

So it is true that most of the soil in the places where Chen Xi grazes his livestock is barren, but can't you find a few hundred pieces of land in those millions of square kilometers that can support tens of thousands of people and have fresh water, minerals, fertile land, and rich in innate resources?
What a joke!
Even though the environment inside the Arctic Circle is so amazing, there are also ice-free ports!

As long as your area is big enough, even if it is generally barren, you can still find a suitable location. To put it bluntly, there are oases in large deserts that can support people!
Therefore, from the very beginning, Liu Bei and Chen Xi had enough land to be divided into fiefdoms, and they had always arranged for the division of fiefdoms. In other words, they always had a way out, and at worst they would not be worse than other princes. However, Liu Bei and Chen Xi knew that the Indus-Ganges region was too far away from the central area of ​​the Han Dynasty, and there was no possibility of managing it, so they could only divide the land into fiefdoms.

That’s why there were subsequent strategic twists and turns.

"Forget it, let's not talk about these things. You have done what you should do, and I have done what I can. The rest depends on them." Liu Bei sighed.

Chen Xi remained silent, but at this time, Li Tiao's words, "Why should the lower classes pay with their lives for the mistakes of the upper and middle classes?", were very meaningful and shocking.

"I feel that the quality of the weapons in this armory is not as good as the one I saw in Jizhou before." Liu Bei picked up a saber, tried it out in his hand, and then said to Chen Xi.

"The weapons and equipment stored here are all outdated. Of course, they can still be used, but they are indeed outdated." Chen Xi picked up the horse-slaying sword and flicked it. The crisp buzzing sound made Liu Bei realize that even if this thing was not as good as the armory he saw in Jizhou, it was still top-notch compared to the previous ones.

"In addition, Changan's armory will store some newly designed weapons. These weapons may be very useful and are the direction of the future, but they have not yet been tested by the times. They may also be rubbish designs that just look good and are waiting to be eliminated by the times. After all, unlike other armories, Changan is responsible for the design." Chen Xi said with a dry laugh, pointing at some very strange weapons.

The stuff in other arsenals had basically been tested by the times and then were mass-produced and stockpiled by Chen Xi, but in Chang'an, many of them were prototypes. It was hard to say whether these prototypes were good or bad, because they had not been tested on the battlefield.

Therefore, most of the weapons here are trial-produced in small quantities and then tested. After getting accurate test results, we will decide whether to go into large-scale production or stop production.

For this reason, the armory in Chang'an had the largest variety of weapons in the Han Dynasty.

"Is that so? No wonder I was wondering why there were so many weird things and I didn't recognize any of them." Liu Bei nodded when he heard this. He felt that he completely understood the reason.

"But that's not important. I'll find the gift I prepared for His Highness." Chen Xi said with a dry laugh, then walked towards a shelf nearby and soon came over with a sword box in his arms. "This is it. I spent a lot of time making it, but I finally succeeded."

Liu Bei didn't understand why, but he still took the sword case and opened it. Then, a sword with complicated patterns on it and a divine aura came out. Looking at the broadsword in the sword case, Liu Bei felt that the sword was very good just by looking at the naturally formed complicated but strangely beautiful patterns on the broadsword. He reached out and picked it up. The feeling of it being in his hand made Liu Bei feel incredible.

However, when Liu Bei raised the broadsword upright, he saw the two words "Yuan Feng" formed by natural patterns on the sword's spine, and his eyes couldn't help but shrink. He finally understood why this sword was given to Liu Tong. This was simply the sword prepared by God for Liu Tong.

"After the sword is sharpened by dripping blood, it can rely on the blood to form spirituality, and then quickly become a sword spirit." Chen Xi didn't care how terrifying what he said was, and spoke casually.

"This is too incredible!" Liu Bei was shocked. This was simply enough to scare people to death. It was actually possible to sharpen the blade with a drop of blood, and then form spirituality and quickly become a sword spirit. Where did this magical weapon come from? Was it really a gift from God to the princess?
"Lord Xuande, do you want to hear the truth or tell a story?" Chen Xi glanced at Liu Bei and said with a smile.

"What do you mean by listening to the truth? What do you mean by telling a story?" Liu Bei said unhappily.

"To tell a story, I made up a background of a magical weapon for this sword and then sent it over. To be honest, this is another route different from the Dragon Bone Rolled Steel Sword." Chen Xi said with a smile, "This thing is another development route of a magical weapon. It was created unconsciously. I just provided some knowledge, and then Pu Yuan and a group of swordsmiths created it."

"Is this a new line of magic weapons?" Liu Bei looked at the complicated and strange, but extremely beautiful pattern on the sword's spine and couldn't help but take a few more glances. Compared to the dragon bone rolled steel sword that Chen Xi had made into standard weapon, this thing looked more powerful. Even just a simple glance at it could make one feel its power.

"I guess so. After all, Her Highness spent so much money, so she has to give something." Chen Xi said calmly, "This is top-notch sword-making technology that Her Highness invested a lot of money to achieve. Let's not talk about anything else. Just look at the beauty, the gorgeous patterns, and the terrifying design that can turn blood into spirits. Just tell me, is this sword suitable?"

"I think you should give this sword to Zhang Zhenxi. It would be a bit of a waste to give it to Her Royal Highness the Princess. Of course, this shouldn't be said this way, but a sword ought to be worthy of a hero. It would be a waste for the princess to have such a thing. What's more, the money actually belongs to Ji Yu." Liu Bei's mind was very clear. In his opinion, it would be a waste to give Liu Tong such a magical weapon that could form spiritual charm or even sword spirit. It would be better to give it to Zhang Ren, and it was reasonable and well-founded.

"It's not like we can only produce one." Chen Xi said with a smile, "More importantly, this sword is called Yuan Feng, and the pattern on the sword spine forms these two words, so I'd better give it to the princess. Even if it's useless, it's worth the money after all. And giving this sword to her will completely stop her from pestering me to spend money on broadsword forging technology."

Liu Bei looked at the broadsword with a complicated expression, and finally his eyes fell on the two words "Yuan Feng". The two words "Yuan Feng" formed by the natural folding of lines really shocked Liu Bei. He couldn't even imagine why such a special pattern appeared.

"Don't you think it's incredible?" Chen Xi said with a smile, "It's not the mark made by the forging hammer, but the pattern on the sword formed by itself?"

"Yeah, how on earth can such a thing be done?" Liu Bei had a complicated look on his face, and then used the broadsword twice. Finally, he had to admit that this was indeed a magic weapon. Apart from anything else, the feeling of using it in hand surpassed most weapons.

"It's a folding forging technique, which is actually very simple to explain. Besides, the two characters Yuan Feng are relatively easier to forge through folding. Otherwise, these two characters are really hard to handle." Chen Xi said with a smile. The Feng here is not the traditional Chinese character Feng. Chinese characters themselves are continuously being simplified, so Liu Bei could recognize the cursive Feng, so he didn't think there was any problem.

I even think that using cursive script on this magic weapon, the feeling of flapping wings is far more beautiful than regular script, and it can better highlight the prosperity of the dynasty and its soaring, which is completely in line with the setting that the eldest princess Liu Tong holds this magic weapon.
However, to be honest, this was all Liu Bei's own imagination. The actual reason was that Chen Xi's current technology was not enough to type the traditional Chinese character "feng" on the magic weapon. There was no other way. Forging also had to be reasonable. Even if he knew that special patterns could be forged, folded, and then pieced out bit by bit, compared to a simple character like "feng", traditional characters were too difficult to type.

Even if Chen Xi gave Pu Yuan some knowledge about folding forging and let Pu Yuan try other tracks, just like the path of hand-forged knives in later generations, it ended up becoming a route of showing off skills and patterns. It didn't matter whether the knife was strong or not, what mattered was whether the pattern looked cool.

Although to be honest, this is actually a heresy. Most weapons forged in this way are not as strong as rebar. But if you buy rebar by the ton, you can't afford the so-called Damascus steel that is hand-forged with special patterns.

Of course, the Damascus steel of later generations has nothing to do with the Damascus steel of the past. It can only be said that they inherited the name and have patterns, and the patterns of later generations are more fancy. In other aspects, the price is high and the steel can cut a lot.

Chen Xi is doing this because it has a unique aesthetic and can be used as a luxury item to deceive people, especially some of the top bosses who basically do not fight with swords. Although they can use swords due to Confucian requirements, they rely on their subordinates when fighting. Therefore, these luxury items that look very flashy can be sold to these people.

After all, for these people, swords are not only for self-defense, but also a symbol of status. In this case, wouldn't something that looks gorgeous and luxurious at first glance be more in line with their needs?

A gentleman must carry a sword! Other things can be less these days, but swords and jade pendants are really indispensable.

So from a certain perspective, Chen Xi had bad intentions in doing this, but just like the guys in later generations, there are too many people who are willing to fall for it. If he really had money and free time, he would buy a kaleidoscope sword forged from Damascus steel and two large pieces of white jade for his home.

I don't mean anything else, I just think these two things can improve my taste. It doesn't matter whether they cost money or not, or if I have extra ones, I don't care. However, the problem is that these gorgeous things cost too much money, so I can only admire them from a distance and cannot play with them.

It can be said that Chen Xi himself also had this idea in mind when he asked Pu Yuan and others to do this. After all, during the forging competition on both sides of the Yellow River at that time, Xiangli clan killed so many people that Pu Yuan was almost on the verge of collapse. No matter how hard he tried to talk, Pu Yuan had to admit that Xiangli clan had completely surpassed them.

In this era of practicality, the strength of standard weapons surpasses that of magic weapons, so what is the need for swordsmiths like them? It can be said that after that incident, many swordsmiths gave up their family training and went to work on blast furnaces, as it was no longer interesting and had no future.

The remaining swordsmiths who still insist on making swords are either determined or possessed by demons.

By the way, no matter whether he was determined or his mind collapsed and he became possessed by the devil, that sword-forging crushed the style of swordsmiths.

Earlier, when Chen Xi gave orders to Pu Yuan and the others, he had to take their time into consideration. When they didn't want to forge swords for you, they would just make an excuse of lack of inspiration. Chen Xi couldn't say anything, after all, this was a hand-forged magic weapon, and it did require inspiration.

Although Chen Xi has always felt that inspiration is nonsense, just like an author who is stuck in writing a novel and needs to collect materials, etc., it is not impossible, but normally speaking, it is not the case. If you need these things when writing a novel, then what do you do when you are not writing a novel?

Therefore, for Chen Xi, after Xiangli family destroyed the swordsmith lineage, it was somewhat beneficial to Chen Xi. At least after this time, Chen Xi no longer had to consider those trivial things when commanding the swordsmiths, he could just give the orders directly.

Anyway, there are alternatives, and the swordsmith series is not the best and optimal solution as before. In this case, you can be obedient if you want to, and forget it if you don’t want to. I can just find someone else at worst. Anyway, you are not indispensable and superior guys now.

It is precisely because of this idea that Chen Xi assigned this special forging and folding technology to Pu Yuan and others. Although this technology is of no use, in the past, if Chen Xi had given it to Pu Yuan, Pu Yuan would probably have rejected it and humiliated him by saying that such complex folding forging would cause problems with the metal's strength in the process of continuous yielding, and the strength of the forged weapons would be reduced, etc.

This was also the reason why Chen Xi had planned to let Xiangli do the research on the broadsword, because Xiangli didn't care about these messy things at all. They would do what the superiors said. They would never get entangled in the so-called theories or experiences. Anyway, there is a process for distribution. Whoever is responsible is responsible. They just need to do their job.

Fortunately, the swordsmiths were stunned, their confidence was shattered, and their filters on reality collapsed, so when they received Chen Xi's request, they didn't say anything more and just forged the hammer. Then, during the forging process, Pu Yuan realized that this process of repeated forging is itself a process of folding lines and constructing special patterns.

Then an idea came into being, which is to make the distribution of patterns conform to the structure of some special Xuanxiang etchings, or to form a special ritual cornerstone for the blood sacrifice of the secret spirit, etc. Finally, in the process of sword making by manual work, relying on the different shapes and forging patterns of the sword, this kind of cornerstone ritual or etching is formed inside the sword when it is finally formed.

The most important thing is that although this thing is hand-forged, when it is displayed on the sword, it is naturally formed, which is very important.

Natural etching and natural ritual cornerstones have special bonuses for many things. Of course, it is not so easy to form this naturalness. Pu Yuan forged madly according to the requirements given by Chen Xi, experimented again and again, and opened the furnace day and night, relying on experience, decades of accumulation, and his own natural keen judgment of steel.

Finally, before the end of the tenth year of Yuanfeng, he created a sword that he was completely satisfied with, and from it he sublimated his knowledge, experience, and skills into a spiritual talent, which is the so-called pinnacle of perfection.

After that, Pu Yuan fell seriously ill and is still in hospital. To some extent, this is already a work of art that is beyond imagination and truly against the will of heaven, surpassing all swordsmiths since the Spring and Autumn Period. His sword no longer needs long-term nurturing by a powerful world-breaker, nor does it need to be forcibly awakened by a world-breaker, nor does it require any luck. It only needs a drop of blood to form spirituality, and then in the process of use, a sword spirit will gradually form. He has fully mastered the process of making magic weapons.

Even though he lost to Xiangli's keel rolling mill, Pu Yuan successfully carved out a path of his own. To be honest, he had to thank Xiangli. If Xiangli had not completely crushed his pride, he probably would never have been able to walk this path in his life.

"The inherent strength of this sword cannot reach the level of the Dragon Bone Rolled Steel Sword, but after it is sharpened with blood and has spiritual charm, it will optimize itself and soon its strength will catch up with the Dragon Bone Rolled Steel Sword. Because in essence, in terms of material, both are exactly the same. It's just that the forging technique and some requirements make this sword slightly inferior in original strength." Chen Xi said, pointing at the Yuan Feng Sword.

Since Pu Yuan has reached the pinnacle in sword-making and taken the most crucial step, Chen Xi is too lazy to criticize this old man. He is even willing to praise him in this regard. He is no longer defeated by Xiangli and becomes braver after knowing shame. Instead, he has grasped the new route and opened up new possibilities.

"Can this kind of weapon be mass-produced?" Liu Bei felt deeply shocked when he heard Chen Xi's explanation. How many swords with sword spirits have there been since ancient times? Although this sword has not activated the sword spirit, Liu Bei has this feeling when he holds it. Moreover, Chen Xi's words also acknowledge this fact. This is a magic weapon that has not yet been sharpened.

"No, unlike weapons like the Dragon Bone Rolled Steel Sword that can be put on an assembly line, this thing can only be made by humans, and Pu Yuan should be the only one who has mastered this technology. In addition, Pu Yuan is still in bed, and I am very sick. Casting this thing must have exhausted him." Chen Xi shook his head and said, then seeing Liu Bei's regretful look, he continued, "But it won't take long to recover. The overall technology is complete. There is no hope of standardization, but it will be no problem to equip officers and soldiers."

This was what Pu Yuan told Chen Xi when he was admitted to the hospital and had someone send this magic weapon to him. Of course, what he meant by this was that although he was old and was defeated by Xiangli, he was still useful, and very useful. Xiangli's standard magic weapon was indeed amazing, but he could make a magic weapon that was even more amazing and more suitable for officers to use. There was a huge difference between a magic weapon with spirit and a magic weapon without spirit, made of the same material.

A conventional dragon bone rolled steel sword can be said to be invincible, but facing a spiritual dragon bone rolled steel sword, it would probably be cut off in a few strokes. This is no joke.

Therefore, after forging this kind of thing and sublimating the knowledge and technology in his brain, Pu Yuan quickly collapsed because his spirit was deflated. Before, he realized that he had actually been eliminated by the times, but now he has found a new track and he can be stronger. Although he is not as good as Xiangli in quantity and scale, even in the past, he was not famous for his standard weapons.

I, Pu Yuan, was once famous for forging magical weapons, and it is even more so now!
"Oh, so where is he in the hospital now?" Liu Bei asked, tilting his head.

Chen Xi smiled when he heard this. "He is in the Medical College. Let him recover first. After he recovers, he will definitely lead other swordsmiths to forge this kind of thing. After all, this is the track for their swordsmith lineage to gain a foothold in the future, and they must show it off."

The magic weapon prepared for Liu Tong has been made. I can continue to deceive Liu Tong to continue investing money.