Going to Beijing to save his father, all the powerful officials in the city are vying to be his fath

After getting rid of Qiao Haomin, Su Qin and the others moved faster this time. After entering the Kingdom of Wu at the fastest speed, they were invited to the Royal Palace of Wu, because the terraces in Qu Bhutan’s village had been built and crops had been planted.

The crops are not yet ripe, but many of the vegetables, fruits and melons are mature. The leader of the Wu Kingdom attaches great importance to this matter and wants to promote terraced field technology throughout the country, so he wants Su Qin and others to stay here and continue to teach the technology.

Su Qin did not refuse. She calculated the days and thought that the issue in the capital should not be resolved yet. It was not a good time to go back. She might as well stay here and make some arrangements.

She divided the entire caravan into two parts, with two-thirds of the people sending the goods they had collected back to the State of Yu first. She also collected more grain seeds from the State of Yu and sold them to the State of Wu.

Unlike the meeting with the chief of Qu Bhutan Village, the leader this time was mainly Zeng Lao. Su Qin dressed like one of Zeng Lao's maids, very low-key.

The leader is different from the village chief. If Su Qin is noticed by the leader, it will be impossible for Su Qin to leave Wu Kingdom safely.

Fortunately, the leader of the Wu Kingdom was very conceited. In his eyes, women were used for childbearing and entertainment, and were worse than slaves, so he never took women seriously. He did not think that it was a woman who proposed the idea of ​​growing crops on terraced fields. After learning about Zeng Lao's identity, he was sure that it must have been Zeng Lao who proposed it.

However, after seeing Zeng Lao and Su Qin, he still looked at Su Qin and asked, "What weapon did you use to injure the village chief's guards last time?"

It turned out that the village chief was given a cold shoulder by Su Qin last time, and he held a grudge against her, so he told the leader about it. He didn't believe that Su Qin still had the courage to refuse the leader.

Su Qin really didn't have the courage. There were not many people in a village, and the village chief didn't dare to initiate a war. But the leader was different. He had an army that could fight against the army of Yu State, and he was not afraid of going to war with Yu State.

So Su Qin prepared herself mentally before coming.

Qu Bhudan helped translate. He looked at Su Qin with great concern, fearing that she would also shoot an arrow at the chief. This chief was not as easy to fool as the village chief. If she didn't give it to him, the chief would have plenty of ways to snatch the thing away. Then both Su Qin and Zeng Lao would be in danger.

Zeng Lao very readily took out the hidden arrow and handed it to the leader, explaining, "I have a student who is the deputy commander of my imperial guards. He is worried about my safety when I am away from home, so he asked the emperor to give me this hidden arrow for self-defense."

Qu Bhudan breathed a sigh of relief, took the sleeve arrow, handed it to the leader, and translated.

The leader took the hidden arrow and couldn't wait to play with it.

The sleeve arrow is made of copper and consists of a quiver and an arrow. There is a spring inside the quiver. When the arrow is loaded, the spring is compressed and the arrow is fired through the mechanism. The quiver is about eight inches long and the arrow is about seven inches long. Each sleeve arrow can hold 12 arrows.

This sleeve dart had no arrow in it. Although it was very small compared to the leader's big hand, it was enough to make the leader jealous and want to take it for himself.

He stared at Zeng Lao's undisguised greed and asked, "Where are the arrows?"

Mr. Zeng then handed him a quiver with twelve arrows neatly placed inside.

The chief took it and couldn't wait to try it out, but unfortunately he fiddled with it for a long time and couldn't get the arrow to go in.

He was sweating profusely, and with bloodshot eyes he asked, "How do I use this?"

Mr. Zeng taught him how to load an arrow and how to shoot, but he didn't teach him how to turn off the safety device. So when the arrow was loaded, the leader was not ready yet. He was holding it to look at it. As soon as his finger touched the fuse, "whoosh", the arrow flew past the leader's cheek and pierced the beam above his head.

If the leader had not held the hidden arrow sideways, the arrow would have gone straight through his face.

The leader was frightened and broke out in a cold sweat. His sleeve arrow dropped directly to the ground as he loosened his grip. Because of the vibration caused by the arrow hitting the ground, the mechanism moved again and another arrow flew out with a "whoosh". However, because it was close to the ground, it did not hurt anyone and went straight into the wall.

Zeng Lao was so frightened that he jumped a little: "Oh, I was scared to death."

He quickly squatted down to pick up the hidden arrow, complaining as he ejected it. "I already told that brat that this thing is unsafe and could easily injure someone, but he insisted I bring it with me to scare people. Look what happened! It almost hurt the leader. If he had been hurt, I would have been guilty of a serious crime."

After he said that, he put the hidden arrow back into his arms very naturally.

Qu Bhudan was so scared that his legs went limp. Seeing Zeng Lao's natural movements, he opened his mouth, but in the end said nothing and looked at the leader worriedly.

The leader was no coward. He was just caught off guard and startled. Now he had reacted. He stared at Zeng Lao's movements, and after enduring for a long time, he finally said, "Zeng Lao, could you sell me this hidden arrow? You can ask for anything you want."

Qu Bhudan closed his eyes. He knew it would be like this. How could the leader let go of such a good thing?

He helped translate with a trembling voice.

Zeng Lao asked Qu Bhutan in surprise: "You said your chief wanted this? But this is a useless weapon. It was made by the royal family for those weak princesses to play with. It has a short range and low power, and is not very practical.

A brave man like the chief should be very good at drawing the bow and shooting arrows. Isn't that better than this small sleeve arrow?

Besides, it's useless to give it to you. The arrows in here are made of fine iron, which is very precious. You can't buy it. Without the arrows, these sleeve arrows are just scraps of iron."

Qu Bhudan's mouth twitched. If you said this is for women, then the chief would probably feel embarrassed to take it.

He translated Zeng Lao's words to the chief, emphasizing that it was used by women and men with martial arts skills would not use it.

Sure enough, after hearing this, the leader's face looked very ugly, but he didn't ask for anything else.

He said to Qu Bhutan, "Can you ask him if he can stay and help us cultivate more terraced fields?"

Mr. Zeng agreed very readily and promised to stay until the autumn harvest and help plant winter wheat in areas suitable for growing winter wheat before leaving.

The chief's expression finally looked better, and he ordered his men to take Su Qin and the others to visit each village one by one.

There are hundreds of villages in the country of U, and each village is of different sizes. Qu Bhutan’s village is a small village with only a few thousand people in total.

There are tens of thousands of people in the big villages. These villages have long known that Qu Bhutan’s village has reclaimed terraces and have sent people to learn. So when Su Qin and his team went to the villages, most of them had already reclaimed terraces spontaneously, and some had even planted crops.

However, their crops did not grow well and their fields were in a mess.

Because the people who cultivated the terraces and farmed the land were basically slaves. These people were whipped every day and forced to farm. They were not allowed to eat the vegetables, fruits and grains they grew. How could they be willing to work hard?

Even if the civilians reclaimed the land themselves, they would be charged high taxes, and very little would go into their hands, so their enthusiasm was not high.

This is also the reason why the leader kept Zeng Lao, wanting Zeng Lao to help solve this problem.

If it were in the past, Zeng Lao would definitely suggest that the leader give more benefits to the people and slaves, so that they can see some hope and increase their enthusiasm.

But since he knew that Su Qin wanted to stir up conflicts between slaves and nobles, he no longer planned to do so. Instead, he proposed to the leader to increase the severity of the punishment.

Suqin and Wagon mingled among the civilians and slaves all day long.

Su Qin did not instigate them to rebel or start a war, but she often told them about the lives of the people in the surrounding countries. They farmed the land for themselves, and although there were taxes, they were not much.

If Su Qin said this alone, they would not believe it, but Wagon had been to those countries and she was Ukrainian, so what she said was more convincing and people had to believe it.

People are afraid of comparison. They didn’t realize it before, but now they know how big a difference there is between their lives and others. Of course they feel unbalanced, and the conflicts are gradually growing.