After a day of training, Ren Baqian dragged his exhausted body back to Pingle Park with his "treasure saber."
"I should give you a name." Ren Baqian pondered for a while. Ruyi Jingu Saber? Should I call it Longevity Saber?
Ren Baqian grinned. This name wasn't bad. It could grow and change. Let's call it the Elongation Saber.
Ren Baqian felt that he needed a physics laboratory. This knife definitely couldn't be sent to a pharmaceutical laboratory. It was a pity that he had no money now. He could forget about the physics laboratory. It was not something that he could build with just 20 million yuan. Even if he could, he was not prepared to spend all his money. For the time being, he only needed to know how to use the knife. When he had the money, he would consider researching the knife.
The next morning, Ren Baqian excitedly went to the imperial kitchen to look for Caretaker Gou. Then, he went to the lower hall.
The imperial kitchen was divided into two parts. The first part was the Upper Hall where the empress usually ate. Now, his meals were also prepared here.
The other part was the lower hall, which was responsible for the meals of the maids, female officials, and guards.
Every day, the palace needed to slaughter the livestock there.
When they arrived, they saw two giant goats, a wild boar, and a scimitar-horned cow ready to be slaughtered. In this world, the wild boar was called a black-faced gentleman, while the scimitar-horned cow was similar to a water buffalo. It was smaller than the fork-horned cow and wasn't as good at running as the fork-horned cow.
"Use this knife to kill." Ren Baqian passed the broken knife to the person who was preparing to kill the livestock. The other party had a look of "Are you kidding me?" This saber didn't even have a sharp point, and it was so short …
In the end, Ren Baqian used a knife that was specially used for slaughtering livestock and soaked the broken knife in a basin of blood.
The blood of the four animals was sucked clean by it in two hours, causing the surrounding people to be shocked. In the past, the blood of a single animal could fill a large basin, but now it was all gone.
Ren Baqian did not explain anything. He carried the saber and returned to Pingle Park. As he thought "grow, grow, grow," the saber grew from half a foot to six feet, which was two meters long.
Ren Baqian held the long saber and pointed it upwards. Suddenly, he felt that he was like Sephiroth, only lacking a head of elegant long hair and a leather windbreaker.
Needless to say, this saber looked a bit thick when it was a short saber, but when it became a long saber, it looked a bit like a zhanmadao.
However, Ren Baqian also discovered a problem this time. This saber had absorbed the blood of four animals, and its length wasn't satisfactory.
One had to know that the blood he spilled back then had caused it to grow three feet long.
However, if he released all the blood from the four animals, he would only be able to absorb six feet of blood. If that was the case, the effect wouldn't be as great as he thought.
Could it be that only human blood was effective? Could it be that only his blood was effective? At the thought of this, Ren Baqian was shocked.
After thinking about it carefully, this saber was indeed of little use. After slaughtering four animals in the palace every day, it was only six feet long. At the very least, he had to keep one foot of it for future use. As for a five feet long saber, Ren Baqian weighed it in his hand and found that it weighed about five catties. Over 1,500 catties of iron a year was better than nothing.
Unless they were sent to a slaughterhouse, but there were no slaughterhouses in this world. They were all slaughtered privately. Were they going to build a processing plant outside the city?
If he really wanted to unleash the power of the Longevity Saber, this was the only way.
Another question was that if the saber was not broken, it would shorten after a period of time. He did not know the reason. Was it really because the blood absorbed by the saber disappeared with the passage of time? Or did it actually increase other aspects of the blade? For example, hardness.
Ren Baqian felt that he could give it a try.
After shortening the saber, it became half a foot long again. Its weight was also reduced. It was about the same weight as when the saber was broken. It was simply amazing. It did not conform to the law of conservation of mass at all.
However, the saber seemed to be slightly longer than before it absorbed the blood.
Ren Baqian used his fingers to measure it. It seemed that it was indeed longer by about one centimeter.
It seemed that as the saber absorbed the blood, it could grow back even if it was not reattached. However, he did not know if it would suffer from kidney deficiency if it kept growing and then continuously being broken.
After experimenting for a while, Ren Baqian carefully put the saber away and received news that the bricks were ready. Her Majesty summoned him to Yangxin Palace Hall.
When Ren Baqian arrived at Yangxin Palace Hall, there were already two people standing there. One was Tong Zhenye, and the other was someone he had never seen before. He only found out later that he was a junior minister from the Department of Works. Bricks and cement were initially handled by the Department of Ordnance. After all, Jingtian Furnaces were also managed by the Department of Ordnance. Now, the firing of cement and clay bricks was transferred to the Department of Works.
In front of Tong Zhenye, there were a few pieces of street fighting equipment — — bricks.
"Deputy Prefect Ren, do you think this is the right one?" Tong Zhenye asked after Ren Baqian greeted him.
Ren Baqian raised his head and looked at the empress before looking at the bricks with a face full of joy. They felt good to the touch, had a smooth surface, and were very heavy. They weren't as rough as modern red bricks. This was because coal ash wasn't added into the bricks. Even though firing them this way was more troublesome, the quality was the best and wouldn't deteriorate after hundreds of years.
After smashing the bricks into pieces, they saw that the interior was very dense, unlike the black interior of the red bricks that had coal ash added.
After Ren Baqian examined them carefully, he laughed and said, "That's it. This method of firing bricks and building with cement is much easier than mining and polishing rocks."
The others nodded their heads. This was indeed the case.
"Let's do it this way then. The Ministry of Works will seize the time to fire these bricks and cement to build the glass factory. If there's anything you don't understand, look for Deputy Prefect Ren. "The empress nodded her head.
Everyone obeyed the order.
Ren Baqian returned to Pingle Park again, took out the blueprint of the earthen kiln and handed it to Tong Zhenye. The current earthen kiln firing speed was too slow and there were too few of them.
If Dayao didn't completely rely on wood to fire, Ren Baqian would have preferred to build a rotary kiln. This way, the speed of firing bricks and cement would be greatly increased.
"It's best to place the earthen kiln a little further away. It's a good place to get the clay from," Ren Baqian exhorted.
"Why?" Tong Zhenye asked curiously. Transporting clay was much easier than transporting bricks. In that case, most of the craftsmen would have to live there. The transportation of food and other supplies would also require more manpower.
In that case, the consumption of supplies and manpower would be much higher.
"Otherwise, after a few years, when a large amount of burnt debris floats in the air, you won't even be able to see the stars when you look up." Ren Baqian spread his hands and said. He was just short of saying that it was everyone's responsibility to protect the environment and leave a piece of azure sky for future generations.
He didn't want to wake up every day in the next ten or twenty years to be surrounded by a haze like a fairyland.
However, it was still very difficult for Tong Zhenye to understand. After all, the people in this world had never seen what was called air pollution.
"Do as Deputy Prefect Ren said," the empress said decisively. In this aspect, Ren Baqian was much more knowledgeable than them.
Only then did Tong Zhenye nod his head in agreement.
Following which, Tong Zhenye looked at Ren Baqian with an extremely strange gaze, which made Ren Baqian's hair stand on end.
"What's wrong?" Ren Baqian didn't understand.
"I heard a little about Deputy Prefect Ren from Tong Lan. Deputy Prefect Ren's shamelessness is similar to my demeanor in the past." Tong Zhenye stroked his beard with a look of admiration on his face. However, even a fool could see that his eyes were filled with contempt.
A few days ago, Her Majesty summoned Tong Lan to the palace as a sparring partner. Tong Zhenye didn't think much of it. Even though Tong Lan was young, it wasn't a problem for her to fight three to five Ren Baqian with one hand.
However, when he was having a meal at the Tong residence, he casually asked about it. After hearing about what happened in the afternoon, he immediately spurted out his food.
Not to mention him, even the rest of the people in the Tong residence were shocked.
How could he be so shameless in front of the empress and a ten-year-old child? Not only did he dare to mention brothels, he even threatened them with words like not returning the money. This was simply an eye-opener.
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