Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

On the round wooden table in the open hall are seasonal cherries, two plates of translucent glutinous rice snacks, and a pot of spring tea. The cherries were washed and placed in a delicately woven bamboo basket, red and crystal clear, but they were very beautiful, even though Guo Shao didn't eat any of them. He and Fu Jinzhan were talking about some state affairs in the past two days in a serious manner.

Guo Shao pays attention to what he says, so naturally he can't let go here. He turned his head slightly, and he could see groups of court ladies in the street under the corner of the red wall outside Zide Hall, holding lanterns and lighting the lampstands on the side of the road. After the sun went down, the light gradually dimmed, and the lights in the palace were turned on one by one; this kind of scene was a bit novel, and the light of the lights appeared slowly in a large area, and the lights seemed to spread. People are doing their own thing, but Guo Shao knows that those people can see the people above, just as he can see them.

The Zide Hall is built on the platform, and it can be seen far away. The temples in the west have a sense of vastness, and there are many low-rise houses under the imperial city wall in the distance; but the walls and towers of the imperial city are higher, so you can't see the scenery outside... This place is almost completely closed. It is estimated that on the relatively high rockery in the imperial garden, if you climb up, you can see the outside of the palace.

Guo Shao turned his gaze away and found that there were still some eunuchs and court ladies in the dining room where he was eating just now. Although they were relatively far away, they must have been paying attention to themselves and Jinzhan. The emperor and the empress dowager themselves were people who attracted people's attention. Therefore, both Guo Shao and Fu Jinzhan spoke in a well-behaved manner. Fu Jinzhan's voice was soothing and tactful. The soothing rhythm may be to keep a sense of proportion at any time, so as not to say wrong things in front of others.

As night fell, the light under the lantern gradually became dim and somewhat ambiguous, and Guo Shao had been busy all day, so it was easy to relax in fatigue at this scene. He gradually became bolder and said: "Actually we are talking here, so others can't hear it?"

"I can't hear you." Fu Jinzhan looked around with bright eyes, and said with a smile, "What do you want to say, Your Majesty?"

Guo Shao let out a breath, bowed his body, put his elbows on the table, and said, "What can we do, get along alone?"

Jinzhan smiled and said, "Aren't you alone now?"

Guo Shao was taken aback, and said: "You know what I said, it's not like this... under the eyes of everyone."

Fu Jinzhan said softly: "That's very difficult. There are tens of thousands of people in this palace, and their greatest responsibility is to take care of the daily life of the royal family. There are people who take care of His Majesty and us at every moment of the twelve hours. If your Majesty goes away, they don't know where they are, and they will definitely panic. If they know where you have gone, where do you want to go?"

She paused, and said softly, "at this moment, don't rush to mess around."

Guo Shao sighed after hearing this, and said: "It turns out that Jinzhan is in this forbidden city, and it's rare to see him once. Now that I've moved in, I thought it was very close, but unexpectedly it's even harder to get close."

Fu Jinzhan looked at his face, and asked calmly: "There are thousands of beauties in the palace, are you not satisfied?"

Guo Shao had an intuition that this question should not be answered indiscriminately. If he thought that what she meant was to remind himself to abide by etiquette and ethics, he would be wrong; thinking about the previous incident, he once brought Fu's second sister into the palace, but she was only ignored on the surface, because everyone had their own duties and identities.

After a while, Guo Shao said: "Today, a minister wrote a letter to give you an honorary title..."

Fu Jinzhan didn't bother with the question just now, and immediately asked with great interest: "Who wrote the book first?"

Guo Shaodao: "Privy Envoy Wang Pu."

Fu Jinzhan nodded thoughtfully.

Guo Shao smiled and said: "They talked about many benefits of Jinzhan, such as birth, status, virtuousness, and virtue. I can't remember a lot of them. Anyway, they have said everything that can be used to praise women. Of course, such a good person should be honored."

After he said that, he breathed a sigh of relief, so Fu Jinzhan should be satisfied, after all, no matter what the status of a woman is, she is still willing to be complimented and said she is good.

At this time, Fu Jinzhan said softly: "What I want to hear most is not what the ministers think of me, but what you think of me."

Guo Shao was taken aback, and then temporarily wondered what is good about Fu Jinzhan. He has known her for a long time, so naturally he doesn't think about these things every day. He was thinking about it, but Fu Jinzhan continued, "I want to know what you usually think about."

Guo Shao pondered for a moment, and the trivial thoughts of a certain time in the Jinxiang Palace appeared in his mind, and he laughed: "I really didn't think about the goodness of the golden cup, but there will be some..." He was thoughtful, "...a figure of your back, wearing very loose clothes, talking with your back facing me, you can't see your face, there is a sound of wooden fish, but when you kneel down, you tighten your skirt, and the outline of your buttocks..."

Fu Jinzhan's face blushed slightly, and his voice became softer, "It should be in Daxiangguo Temple, the place where you heard the sound of wooden fish, and it's been so many years. But I didn't expect that you would dare to think like that at that time. I am the queen, and you are just a prince in the inner palace."

Guo Shao pondered again, "The sun shines in through the window. When you turned your head, your eyes and lips were so smooth under the light... I can't remember exactly when and where it was... The ring dazzled my eyes, and I saw your fingers... The handkerchief was wiping my face, with silk on it, and I felt your nails. The smell of the handkerchief has a very faint fragrance, I can't tell what it is..."

Fu Jinzhan's eyes were blurred, and he said softly: "Is this what you think of?"

Guo Shao nodded.

Before you know it, night has fallen and lanterns are lit everywhere. Guo Shao sat here looking at Jinzhan, and she also looked at himself. He suddenly felt that this moment was very strange, because they were so close but could only look at each other.

Guo Shao suddenly smiled, and Fu Jinzhan was also infected by him, with a soft smile like the moon in his crooked eyes. Guo Shao gestured to the width of the round table with his hands, and said with a smile: "We used to be very far apart, but now there is only such a distance, from the side of the table to your side. But such a small distance, I am afraid it will take a lot of time to complete it, and a lot of things need to be done."

Fu Jinzhan smiled and said, "Indeed, I thought you didn't think of those things."

"What matters?" Guo Shao asked casually.

Fu Jinzhan smiled and said, "I won't tell you."

Guo Shao suddenly felt that he had heard this sentence before, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

...

Guo Shao has been waiting for the enthronement ceremony for the past few days, and he will no longer go to the Zide Hall to see Fu Ermei after he comes off duty the next day, but he just heard that Li Yuan'er has also entered the palace. Every day after Unitary Hour, he found a familiar pastime: blacksmithing.

Strictly speaking, it is not blacksmithing, because the material metals are gold and silver.

To the west of the Longevity Hall, there is a courtyard called the "Hall of Grace". Guo Shao asked the eunuch Yang Shiliang to set up a full set of blacksmith shop facilities here. The things are very complete... The place in the imperial city is better than Guo's mansion here. It is relatively large, and he can easily find a space for various activities. This Hall of Grace Grace is actually a yard, a small yard. A door leads to a corridor, and then there are several houses in a roundabout shape. One set has two or three rooms. Guo Shao saw that the set was only about 100 square meters...Compared with the grand main hall, the yard here really has a homely atmosphere, but the greening is not as good as the Guo's mansion, and there are only a few trees in the yard.

Guo Shao first drew the appearance on the picture, which are a villain in heavy armor and holding a sword, and a lock. He planned to make one each out of gold and silver.

In fact, Guo Shao felt that it was not easy to be a good blacksmith. First of all, you have to be strong, right? Then, from the shape of the object to the design steps, you must have certain ideas, and you must be able to realize it in terms of craftsmanship, and you cannot imagine... Maybe some people from aristocratic families and high positions may not be able to be good blacksmiths, but they feel that it is too simple and easy for no reason, and they are unwilling to do it. Even a blacksmith can't do a good job, so he can govern the country randomly with a slap on the head? ..

Guo Shao didn't ask people to fire up to start construction, but was thinking about how to make it beautiful and exquisite. After all, it is a toy, and it is worthless if it is not ornamental.

He picked up the pen and wrote the first step on paper, casting. Sand casting can be done by melting gold and silver and pouring it in to cool it down. Because the things are small, it is not difficult... But for post-processing, they have to be ground by hand. There are tools such as scissors, millstones, saws, drills, etc. The drills seem to be very advanced, but they seem not hard enough, because the drills are tools for processing wood. Made of hemp rope and wood: very clever use of twisting force, just need to pull up and down, it can be converted into circular motion of the drill. This is something made by the ancients themselves. Anyway, Guo Shao thinks that if he wants to create this thing, he may not be able to do it.

But he still felt that one thing was missing: the vise. How can efficient machining be performed without firmly fixing parts? Guo Shao didn't know that the ancients did it, but it seems that they didn't process metal parts in this way. The finishing of gold and silverware depends on craftsmanship.

Guo Shao didn't have that kind of superb craftsmanship, so he planned to make a vise first. Most of the structure of this thing is not difficult, it can be polished after casting; the most difficult thing is the thread, without the thread, it is impossible to adjust the width of the jaw.

Guo Shao thought about it for a long time and didn't know how to make threads on iron. Maybe the external threads could be made of wood as a core, made of sand molds, and then cast; how to make internal threads? He thought for a long time... It is impossible to process threads in iron by hand, and it has to be cast.

So he divided the model into two, and prepared to cast two pieces of internal threads first, and then connect the two parts with rivets... In this method, the tolerance must be small, otherwise the two halves of the threads cannot be integrated. Ordinary measuring tools are not good enough. He plans to make a vernier caliper and determine the standard accuracy of the length by himself... What material is used for the vernier caliper? Wood wears out too easily.

Guo Shao worked on it for a long time, and thought to himself: Look, it's not easy to be a good blacksmith.

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