Chapter 6831 Resurrection on the Spot

Chapter 6831 Resurrection on the Spot
After Cao Ang sent the list of contestants to Chang'an, the date for the preliminary round of the Han Dynasty's Grand Martial Arts Show was finally confirmed. Yes, everyone was waiting for a result from Cao Ang.

After all, Huangfu Song had already completed the cleanup in Northern Europe. Although the main force had not yet returned, some top veterans had already rushed back by various means.

People from the Yuan family and Jiangdong also came over one after another. The major families had already sent people back one after another after the disaster. It can be said that the only one missing from the grand martial arts performance was Lao Cao.

Now that the battle on Cao Ang's side has come to an end and the list of participants has been sent over, all that remains is to calculate the arrival time of this group of people, and the time for the grand martial arts performance can be almost finalized.

"Of course, Cao Zixiu is indeed amazing. He actually captured the northwest entrance of the Kabul Valley. To be honest, this can be considered a comeback." Chen Xi said with some emotion as he looked at the list sent along with the battle report.

Although the last battle report showed that Cao Ang had already entered the Kabul Valley, the situation was still unclear at that time. Chen Xi and others were somewhat worried about failure. This time they can finally feel relieved.

"Come, let me see the list of contestants from Cao Ang's side." Liu Bei stretched out his hand and called to Fa Zheng who was standing beside him. Upon hearing this, Fa Zheng frowned and handed the list of contestants from Cao Ang's side to Liu Bei.

"What's wrong?" Jia Xu looked at Fa Zheng's frown and asked curiously.

"You'll know in a moment." Fa Zheng frowned and said with some confusion.

"Well, Zhang Huang, a seven-fold refined warrior, Guang Yuan, a seven-fold refined warrior, Bashu, a seven-fold refined shield guard..." Liu Bei read out the three from the top and fell silent. Damn, I don't know any of them. This shouldn't be the case. How could there be old soldiers in the Han Dynasty whom I don't even know? What kind of new joke is this? I mobilized my invincible brain to recall.

At the same time, several people who were handling government affairs on the scene also stopped. Even the Han Dynasty knew the number of veterans of the seventh level.

To put it bluntly, all the brothers who can reach or have reached the seventh level, as long as they show up at the Executive Yuan, even if the big guys present can't remember their names, at least they can feel that they look familiar. At worst, as long as they say the name, those present can almost match it.

After all, among the veterans of the seventh level, including Zhang Liang who had his severed limbs reattached some time ago, there are only nine veterans of the Han Dynasty who can still go to the battlefield, and they are all determined to come to Chang'an. As a result, Cao Ang has reported several unknown veterans of the seventh level. What the hell is going on!

Top-level veterans with high smelting skills all have their own development trajectories. There is no such thing as squatting in a corner and developing hard for a few years, and then crawling out as a god. Smelting-type gods must go to the battlefield, master talents, smelt talents, and go to the battlefield again to strengthen their own talents. Otherwise, they will not be able to develop after reaching a certain level.

Therefore, every veteran of the high level of refinement needs to go through a large number of wars to achieve success, and they must have accumulated amazing merits in a large number of wars. It can be said that every veteran of the sixth level of refinement can write an autobiography with himself as the protagonist.

Therefore, theoretically, it is impossible for the six-fold smelting to exist that these people present have never heard of. After all, in the entire Han Dynasty, including the disabled six-fold smelting, there are only about two hundred people in total. With this scale, even if Liu Bei is not counted, the top civil officials present should be able to match each other, not to mention three seven-fold smelting. How is this possible!

"Are you kidding?" Guo Jia said with a teasing look.

"No, I already remember who Zhang Huang and Guang Yuan are. They are Wang Mao's two elder brothers and the first generation of sharp warriors." Liu Bei shook his head and said.

Liu Bei not only recognizes people, he also gradually improves the interpersonal relationship network of this group of people in his mind, and then forms networks one by one, which makes it easier and more effective to use.

It was for this reason that Liu Bei remembered Zhang Huang and Guang Yuan, two people who had never worked under him but had indeed received veteran retirement pay issued by Chen Xi. After all, he had heard from Wang Mao and the old warriors of the Weiyang Palace that only these three of the first generation of warriors survived.

Fa Zheng was slightly stunned when he heard this. "Wang Jiaotou's brother? If so, I believe that a seventh-level master can do this. The problem is that a seventh-level master like him can only be an instructor and cannot go to the battlefield."

Wang Mao is a top veteran who has reached the eighth level. When he was at the peak of his strength, he was definitely not weaker than Sun Er. It's a pity that he missed the era. When he went to the battle in the Ganges, he was already 67 years old. Now he is 71 years old. Even if he is still in good health, he can only contribute his remaining energy in the rear.

"Maybe he was sent here to be an instructor, which is pretty good." Chen Xi said as a matter of course, "Do you feel like you've lost out?"

"I'm just worried that the three Imperial Guards coaches would be killed due to the long journey." Fa Zheng said with a dark face, "Anyone who can be Coach Wang's brother must be at least over 70 years old."

"Yeah, let's send someone to pick him up." Chen Xi thought for a while and said, if he died, it would be a huge loss, but if he didn't die, he could let Li Zhe repeat the experience of talent smelting with them, which would be a huge profit. Why is it that the Han Dynasty can continue to develop smelting despite the changes in the sky and the curse of world consciousness? It is because the number of veterans of the same type of smelting has increased, and experience books can be produced.

Even though most of these experience books can only reduce the difficulty of smelting by 10%, considering the existence of adaptive talent that may take nine years for one smelting, reducing it by 10% directly saves one year. What a terrifying efficiency improvement!

In addition, those brothers who can reach the sixth level have very unique understandings of the talents they possess, and have basically opened up new directions. Taking all factors into consideration, as long as the experience books published by these people can be translated into a level that ordinary people can understand, they can basically be included in the Empire Heritage series.

What's more, these are three seventh levels. What is the seventh level? It is the level that absolutely stands at the top of the world and is directly comparable to the level of breaking through the realm of martial arts. If a useful experience book is written out, it will be a huge profit!
"Let me see who has the most recent internal energy out of the body and is available." Li You took out the airspace application record to see which internal energy out of the body is not busy, and brought these three old guys back to avoid dying on the road due to fatigue. As for Cao Ang's nonsense, joking about this kind of thing...

"I remember the Yuan family sent someone to airlift General Huangfu back, right?" Chen Xi said after thinking for a while.

"Yes, Chunyu Qiong applied for the airspace. In addition, the Yuan family cannot attend the meeting this year. The mistress has to take care of the child, so the concubine Stina will be the representative. The Yuan family means that when Stina flies over, she will send General Huangfu along." Liu Ye, who is in charge of the princes, said expressionlessly. When reconciling accounts at the end of the year, he will still appear in the government office. After all, the end of the personal relationship does not mean that he will stop doing official work.

"Let Yuan's concubine wait in Congling for a day or two, and bring the three veterans of the seventh level of smelting with her. I remember that Yuan's concubine is a boundary-breaking person, so it won't be a problem to bring a few more people." Chen Xi thought for a while and said, it's okay for Stina to attend the meeting as a representative.

To be honest, given the current situation of the Yuan family, Yuan Tan cannot come to the meeting. As the mistress, Wen has to take care of the children, so don't count on her for the next two years. Then, as the head of the family, the only one who can hold the fort is Stina. Although she is a concubine, she is special. The furnace of Huayang Smelting Company has not exploded yet, which in itself shows a certain aspect of her specialness.

Nowadays, the major families are also realistic. If any other concubine came, the major families would not even look at her. What level are you? Are you worthy of communicating with us? If Stina came instead, the major families would still be willing to recognize her level. She is a real technical master!

"That's fine. It's not a big deal anyway." Li You thought about it and felt that it was not a big problem.

"However, the quality of the participants from Cao's side is indeed very high, and quite a few are at the sixth level." Liu Bei said with some emotion. He didn't recognize many of them, and he had roughly guessed in his heart that these people were from Beigui, or some of the older generation.

"If the older generation comes, don't let them go back. Just settle them in Chang'an. Forget about the young people." Chen Xi took into account the impact of long journeys on the elderly and thought that it would be better not to let the older generation in their sixties go back. In Chen Xi's opinion, Cao Ang also had this consideration in sending these elderly people to participate in the competition at this time.

"Okay." Liu Bei nodded. It was just a matter of getting a room. Anyone who could reach the sixth level had fought for the country, so getting a room was not a problem.

"Then I'll arrange it this way. Let the Message Eagle start sending messages." Seeing that everyone agreed to the plan, Li You started to ask people to make arrangements.

"Then, Marquis Huayang passed away. The Ministry of Rites proposed a posthumous title of Marquis Zhuang and reported it to us for review. Do you have any objections?" Li You flipped through the documents and then brought up the next topic. It was the end of the year and many things needed results.

"Marquis of Huayang?" Chen Xi thought about it but couldn't remember the person. But that was normal. There were more than 200 marquises in the Han Dynasty, but Chen Xi could only remember half of them. He couldn't remember the rest at all. However, when an ordinary marquis passed away, it would not be necessary to send him to the Executive Yuan for re-examination. At least he had to be of Kou Jun's level to be sent here for re-examination after being drafted by the Minister of Rites.

"Lord Zhuang?" Liu Bei frowned. "Is there no respect? This is really a day of vigilance."

"The Minister of Rites said that it's better to use a single character for the posthumous title." Jia Xu explained briefly, "Marquis Zhuang, is actually quite appropriate."

"If we use one word, Wu is also quite suitable." Fa Zheng thought for a while and said, "But Zhuang is indeed very suitable. It's just that it's a bit strange that in the past two years, when the posthumous titles were reviewed here, they were all given to Zhuang. Even though the reasons for the two decisions are different, they are indeed suitable for the posthumous title of Zhuang."

"Zichuan, what do you think?" Liu Bei looked at Chen Xi and asked.

"I actually don't know the situation of Marquis Huayang." Chen Xi said helplessly, "So you guys should just make the decision."

"It's the big steel furnace of Huayang Smelting Bureau. It passed away a few days ago, so we need to draw up a posthumous title. This is currently the steel furnace with the largest output. No one bigger than it has lived longer, and no one longer than it has lived. All in all, the output has reached the highest level in history, so Taichangqing is working overtime." Li You explained.

To be honest, no one present thought there was anything wrong with giving the Marquis of Huayang a posthumous title. He had truly made great contributions, from the last grand court meeting to this one, and had produced tens of millions of kilograms of molten steel and iron. Even the Minister of Rites himself would not be able to live with it if he was not given a posthumous title.

This is truly a national treasure.

"Ah, it exploded." Chen Xi was silent for a while after hearing that. He didn't know anything. But then Chen Xi couldn't help but look at Liu Ye, remembering what Liu Ye said in front of him that year, "It won't explode, you exploded. No, I exploded. Neither you nor the steel furnace will explode!"
"Yes, so we need to draft a posthumous title. At present, it seems that Zhuang is the most suitable." Li You said with some emotion, "This steel furnace is really impressive. Otherwise, we should detain Yuan's concubine. It just so happens that Yuan's concubine is here again."

"That's enough. Let's not tell such jokes." Chen Xi said helplessly.

"The problem is that Yuan's concubine really knows how to repair steel furnaces. The new steel furnace of the Yuan family was repaired by her, and it is still running smoothly now." Li You said with a somewhat eager look. There was no way. The shortage of steel had always existed and had never been solved. Steel furnaces were built one after another, but no matter how much steel was produced, it was not enough. Li You had to think of some crooked ways.

Whether Stina can repair the steel furnace or not, except Chen Xi who can give a definite conclusion, no one else can be sure, including the whole Yuan family, who are not sure whether their concubine can do it or not. But considering that Stina actually repaired two incredible things, the Huayang Furnace and the Sizhao Furnace, even if others think that Stina can't repair it, they still admit Stina's luck.

By the way, this is also the reason why the major families recognize Stina as a concubine rather than a plaything in Yuan Tan's house. Whether she can give birth or not is put aside for now, and whether she can fight or not is not too important, but being able to repair steel furnaces is indeed a strategic weapon level under the current circumstances.

"If you tie her up, she won't be able to repair it. Didn't the Yuan family tie up their own concubine and take her back to repair the steel furnace? After almost a year, they gave up hope and let her go. Then she was able to repair it." Chen Xi curled his lips and said, it's no problem for Stina to have the skills, but Chen Xi doubted whether Stina could use the skills in her brain correctly.

"..." Li You and Liu Ye looked at each other, they really wanted to kidnap her. After all, a large steel furnace that hadn't exploded for four or five years was really great. It could really solve many problems, especially now that the steel shortage is getting more and more serious. If you can't block some civilian uses, it would be very serious. So the two of them really thought about kidnapping Stina.

As for the reasons, they are ready-made. What special reasons are needed to explain the reality that the Yuan family is now working illegally for Rome?

"Forget it then." Li You was silent for a while and said, "After the Huayang Smelting Company is removed, we will return the land to the Yuan family. After all, that place is the Yuan family's residence."

Zhuge Liang rarely glanced at his father-in-law. What kind of murderous act was this?

Is the Yuan family a family that cares about that little piece of land? If you give it to the other party, the opponent will only feel worse!

"Forget it. Don't do it. You can use the land for other purposes. Don't do it blindly." Chen Xi also felt that Li You was too outrageous. If you asked Yuan Sui and Yuan Tao to move from their current house, they would probably wake up in fear at night, and occasionally look at an empty lot, and they would have to take blood pressure medication.

"Let's propose the posthumous title of Marquis Zhuang and report it to the princess." Liu Bei thought about it and felt that there was indeed no more suitable posthumous title.

"Where is the wreckage buried?" Man Chong, who rarely spoke, glanced at Mi Zhu and spoke with a serious tone.

"What's going on around the Sanfu Imperial Mausoleum?" Liu Ye asked puzzledly.

"Be careful of being robbed." Man Chong didn't say much, just a simple summary. The people around him almost had question marks on their heads. Seeing this, Man Chong pointed at Mi Zhu and said, "Ask Zi Zhong, Zi Zhong knows it best."

"You can't blame me for this. I was just joking, but they believed it." Mi Zhu said helplessly, and then everyone present fell silent after Mi Zhu's explanation.

Last time, the big furnace of Bingzhou Smelting Bureau exploded, and Mi Zhu went to collect it. When he buried it, he left some wreckage, which he then used to repair a new furnace.

Originally, most of the guys in Rome and the Han family thought that this thing was metaphysics. After discovering the new metaphysics, they naturally imitated it. After all, they wanted to learn from the European emperor. Then, I don’t know what happened, but that time several companies imitated it, and they were not small products of one party, but two or three parties. It exploded at that time.

In addition, there is an idea that when a whale falls, all things come to life. Many noble families think that this may really be an effective metaphysical idea. After all, everything that should be done has been done, and it is just a matter of whether the metaphysical method works or not. Maybe it will increase the probability. Moreover, several families have achieved results, so I might as well try it.

Maybe everyone was just lucky during that period, or maybe it was just that after five years of technical accumulation, everyone's skills had improved to a certain extent. With more careful manufacturing, the operation of digging up the remains of the old steel furnace to build a new one was successful for several more times...

And then it happened, even the old steel furnace carcasses skyrocketed in price on the black market!

The reason why so many noble families came to see the steel furnace of Huayang Smelting Company this year is because they all think that this steel furnace is amazing. It has a long life and is so big in size. It ranks first in comprehensive output. When it explodes, they can pick up the corpses. According to the metaphysical logic they have deduced, they can also manufacture a steel furnace with a long life and a super-large size.

It can be said that when a bunch of noble families came to watch Huayang Guohou, they were drooling. They were really greedy. They could live for more than four years and their output was so amazing. It was too greedy!

"Well, is it really effective?" Li You looked at Mi Zhu and asked.

"If it was completely ineffective, it wouldn't be like this." Mi Zhu said with a sigh.

"..." Chen Xi fell into a kind of speechless silence. If it comes to metaphysics, it can't be said to be completely metaphysics, but if he has to admit it, Chen Xi always feels that it is a bit nonsense. However, this also completely explains why Yuan Yin submitted to him a document about collecting the bodies of the steel furnace on his own land some time ago. It turns out there is this reason.

"So it is effective, right?" Liu Bei also looked at Chen Xi and asked.

"At least it proves that the soil quality is completely qualified, or even excellent." Chen Xi said helplessly, "But it shouldn't be of much significance."

"Reclaim the Marquis of Huayang. It's time to sacrifice yourself for the country." Li You said immorally, "No, not to sacrifice yourself for the country. It's to let the Marquis of Huayang live a second life!"

“I’m too tired to complain anymore.” Chen Xi was completely numb. Living a second life, huh? You really know how to use words, so well. I had no idea you were such a Li You!

There is no other way. Ever since he had been too busy with the Wang family in Kuaiji, Li You had made a more detailed statistics of various resources.

"Is it really effective?" Liu Bei asked again.

"It is somewhat true. After all, it has been proven in the first round." Chen Xi said helplessly, "But I still have to say that it is not very meaningful."

But it's no use saying this now, Li You is already eager to try.

"Then should we keep the Yuan family's land first?" Fa Zheng asked, "Let the Marquis of Huayang live out his second life right here, that would be perfect."

"It would be a miracle if this could come to pass." Chen Xi no longer knew how to describe this outrageous thing. What was worse was that Chen Xi, who was unable to observe the future at the moment, did not know that Li You personally led the team to resurrect a smaller version of Huayang Marquis using the remains of Huayang Marquis on the spot.

"Anyway, there won't be much loss even if it goes wrong. Wenru, you lead the team and try to see what the real situation is. It can also be regarded as an explanation." Liu Bei instructed Li You. For such a cost-free thing, Liu Bei was willing to give it a try.

"Okay, go ahead and try. I'm too lazy to stop you." Chen Xi said tiredly, "Speaking of which, how are the officers and soldiers under your command now?"

"General Zhang has gained a miraculous bonus, and Jiang Fei has surrendered to General Zhang. How sad!" Fa Zheng said with a somewhat mocking look. Originally, he thought that Zhang Fei would only end up lying down after this martial arts performance, but he did not expect a sudden turn of events. After Jiang Fei finished the physical test and sent Gu Xi back to Zhaojiazhuang, he surrendered to Zhang Fei. Immediately, Zhang Fei was absolutely confident about the competition.

"This is a bit strange. Why would Jiang Fei vote for the third brother?" Chen Xi asked in confusion.

"Because in theory Jiang Guang will vote for Yide, Jiang Fei will intercept first, so when Jiang Guang comes back, he will be ranked second. The two of them always find fault with each other over such trivial matters." Liu Bei sighed and said, "But if Jiang Fei votes for Yide, and Jiang Guang also votes, Zhao Ying should also vote, so there will be many Yide's men who can compete for the top ten."

"Jiang Guang has been chosen by General Huangfu." Chen Xi said helplessly.

"That's it." Liu Bei was silent for a long time.

I wanted to write about living a second life, but this is too overwhelming, lol