Chapter 764: The Uninformed Bumpkin
Since Li Gan was busy, Zhou Xu had no intention of disturbing his work. After explaining everything he wanted to do, he left the forging department.
In fact, after successfully refining steel, they will immediately have a new project to research, which is to study how to smelt acerbite and steel to refine a new alloy, which can then be used to cast new enchanted weapons.
Of course, there is no rush for this matter at this stage.
Because as the military strength within their Great Zhou continues to grow, it is no longer possible to equip every soldier with enchanted weapons.
In response to this situation, Zhou Xu had already made plans that enchanted weapons would only be equipped to elite troops in the future.
Under this premise, he was not in a hurry to upgrade his existing crystal iron weapons.
Compared with crystal iron weapons, upgrading the weapons of ordinary soldiers of the Great Zhou to steel weapons in all aspects will undoubtedly increase the combat effectiveness of the soldiers.
In this way, according to Zhou Xu's current thinking, he will first complete the update of ordinary weapons, and then update the enchanted weapons.
An entire afternoon had passed in this process. When Zhou Xu returned to the imperial study, Huo Qubing had already processed all the documents sent in the afternoon and was now practicing Tai Chi by the fireplace in the imperial study.
This was allowed by Zhou Xu. Considering Huo Qubing's physical condition, he still had to exercise diligently.
When he saw Zhou Xu coming back, Huo Qubing subconsciously wanted to salute, but Zhou Xu stopped him first.
"Continue practicing your skills, don't worry about me."
As he spoke, Zhou Xu had already taken off his fur coat and sat back at his desk, looking through the documents that had been piled up long ago.
All these documents had been reviewed by Huo Qubing. What he had to do now was basically to look through them. If there was a problem with Huo Qubing's handling method, he would just revise it. This would save a lot of time and effort than reviewing all of them himself.
This also made Zhou Xu in a very good mood recently.
Ever since Huo Qubing entered the imperial study, he was no longer afraid that he would not be able to finish the day's work due to some unexpected events.
At the same time, Zhang Xuemei, who had received the transfer order as early as the end of summer, can be said to have seen the mountains and rivers of Da Zhou along the way.
Zhang Xuemei passed through the energy channel and felt the changes of the world. In the blink of an eye, she arrived at the mountains. Before she could exclaim in surprise, the huge hot air balloon placed near the garrison camp attracted her attention first.
Yan Sheng had also been developing a hot air balloon earlier, but had never succeeded. She knew this. At that time, the other party had gathered several of them, the time travelers, together to discuss the reasons for the failure.
But no one could explain it, after all, none of them had studied this.
Even if they have a little understanding, it is probably just a glimpse or two while surfing the Internet, and they can't even be sure whether the two glimpses they got are reliable.
Yan Sheng is not a good person. If they come up with an idea and it succeeds, that would be fine. But if it fails, there is no telling what will happen.
But Zhang Xuemei didn't expect that Da Zhou had successfully developed the technology, and that she would have to ride on this hot air balloon to fly over the mountains below her feet. This made Zhang Xuemei feel a little nervous.
The safety of the hot air balloon was confirmed again and again.
"Don't worry, Director Zhang. When we were training, we flew in this hot air balloon every day. His Majesty also flew over the mountains in a hot air balloon before."
The operator's words made Zhang Xuemei feel a little relieved.
However, during the entire process from the moment she got on the hot air balloon to the moment it took off, her heart was still unconsciously hanging in her throat.
Until a mysterious tone came into her ears.
At that moment, Zhang Xuemei subconsciously looked in the direction where the sound came from, and saw the operator inside the hot air balloon with a serious look on his face. The special tones that kept coming out of his mouth turned into invisible energy and enveloped the hot air balloon.
This situation made Zhang Xuemei a little confused, and she even forgot the nervousness in her heart for a moment.
"Were you casting the Mantra just now?"
"Yes."
The operator nodded calmly.
"With the power of mantras, hot air balloons can fly faster and more steadily."
There was nothing wrong with the operator's answer, but Zhang Xuemei's mind was a little confused. She didn't care about this at all! As a chosen one, she certainly knew the existence of the truth, and she had even discovered two truth characters before.
However, under Yan Sheng's rule, the existence of the truth was like contraband. Once the truth was discovered, it had to be handed over immediately. Except for himself, anyone who possessed the truth would be sentenced to death!
Judging from Zhou Xu's previous behavior, she originally thought that the same was true in the Great Zhou.
Zhang Xuemei could also understand it. After all, truth represents extraordinary power. As a ruler, she must be worried that someone with extraordinary power would appear under her rule and shake her rule.
Who could have imagined that when she turned around, she found that the people of the Great Zhou were actually calmly performing mantras right under her nose.
Combined with the fact that the other party was surprised and even explained something to her, she looked like an ignorant bumpkin.
But that's the truth! Can the common people in Da Zhou use it casually? ! Zhang Xuemei couldn't help but ask the question in her heart.
The two hot air balloon operators had nothing to hide about this.
"Every operator who has obtained a hot air balloon operating license has this mantra. It was given to us by His Majesty. It is not surprising."
"In addition, there are people from the Population Census Bureau. Their mantras can reveal a person's talent. They can tell at a glance what you are suitable for and how capable you are. There are also messengers. Their mantras can increase speed, allowing them to transmit messages faster..."
Later on, the hot air balloon operators even mentioned the blessing.
Throughout the entire process, whenever they mentioned their Majesty, their faces were filled with reverence.
Zhang Xuemei couldn't help but sigh that compared to Yan Sheng, this emperor's vision was indeed bigger and he was also more popular.
In addition, some situations within the Great Zhou completely overturned her cognition.
It is not difficult to hear from the operator's words just now that they all hold the same truth.
As a time traveler with three-star intelligence, Zhang Xuemei's mind is still very flexible. She quickly realized that Zhou Xu might have some special means that could allow multiple people to obtain the same power of truth at the same time.
Under such circumstances, it is no wonder that the people of the Great Zhou worship him as a god. After all, even she feels that way.
(End of this chapter)
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