kingnovel Chapter 834 Blade Duel
Chapter 834 Blade Duel
Shen Zheng stood next to the wooden box.
The emperor looked at her, and his tone unconsciously carried a hint of smile: "These two boxes of things, there were foreign envoys last night, so it was inconvenient to show them. Now they are all our own people, Shen Qing, please talk to the other beloved ministers."
After Shen Zheng left last night, he couldn't sleep all night, and the two little guys in his mind were fighting the whole time.
The patient villain said: We have agreed to see it in court tomorrow, and the biggest surprise must be saved for last.
The impatient villain said: But that is something harder than steel! As the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, what's wrong with me taking a look at it first?
The patient villain said again: But you have already promised Shen Zheng. As the emperor, how can you go back on your word?
The impatient villain became anxious: I can peek alone and no one can know!
The patient villain snorted: Shame on you, whatever you want.
The two villains sat back to back and sulked at each other, while the emperor also sat in Jingren Palace in a daze.
The candles in the hall burned slowly, and the translucent wax slid down the pillars, accumulating and solidifying on the racks.
He was wondering what the thing looked like, and then he was thinking about how to fight in the future.
By the end, he was already galloping on the horse in his mind.
That's right, he wants to conquer it himself!
I don't know how long it had been, but the voice of Hong Banban was heard outside the hall. Hong Banban said: Your Majesty, it is almost the hour of Mao, it is time to wash up and go to court.
The patient villain finally won without a fight, and the emperor's heart was also hooked to the Golden Palace.
......
The two boxes were opened at the same time, and the officials didn't know which one to look at first.
They craned their necks to look.
A box of silvery-glowing...iron blocks?
The other box contained strangely shaped...gray-white stones?
--WTF?
All the officials were confused at the same time.
The emperor's gaze almost immediately fell on the box of iron blocks. The noise in the hall disappeared, and the only sound in his world was his increasingly rapid breathing.
By the time he reacted, he was already standing beside Shen Zheng.
He stretched out his hand from under his robe sleeve and wanted to bend down to touch the iron block, but for some reason, he stopped the action.
"Yue Qing." He called Yue Zhenchuan, "Come up and take a look."
Yue Zhenchuan didn't expect that such a good thing would happen to him again, and he almost rushed out of the queue with his feet.
But when two boxes of different things were placed in front of him, he was unconsciously troubled again.
Which one to look at first?
"Look at this box first." The emperor pointed at the silver-gray metal, "Can you guess what this is?"
Not only the Ministry of Works, but even the Ministry of War and the generals in the palace came over.
Yue Zhenchuan felt the gazes of everyone and the pressure on him increased a little. Under the gaze of everyone, he slowly bent down and took out a palm-sized piece of metal.
The entire block of metal was silver-gray, and its surface was as smooth as a mirror, either due to polishing or natural movement. Yue Zhenchuan could actually see his own eyebrows and eyes clearly from above.
"this......"
This is definitely not iron.
He was determined.
Whether it is fine iron or wrought iron, the gloss on the surface cannot be so dazzling, it is even to the point of being glaring.
All officials also started discussions.
Some say it is iron, some whisper that it is refined steel, and others say it is probably refined from many kinds of ores.
But the only one who can actually touch this thing is Yue Zhenchuan.
This item weighs...
He weighed it.
The weight is about the same as fine iron, but the feel is very different.
He couldn't help but think of the Ministry of Industry's refined steel.
But not quite.
Although there are some similarities in color, the feel is quite different. The point is, if this large box that Lord Shen brought is all hundred-fold tempered steel, how long would it take to refine it?
One or two years, or three or five years?
impossible.
Yue Zhenchuan immediately denied it.
A year ago, Mr. Shen had no access to refined iron at all! How could he make steel?
Under so many curious gazes, Yue Zhenchuan was in a dilemma, "Master Shen, this thing looks like steel, but it seems... not steel, why is it?"
The emperor also looked at Shen Zheng.
This piece of metal is indeed brighter than his sword. If it can be made into a weapon, it may be sharper than his sword as Shen Zheng said.
Shen Zheng deliberately kept the question a secret and asked the emperor, "Your Majesty, can the swords worn by the palace guards be made of iron?"
The emperor looked outside the palace and lowered his voice and said, "The swords carried by the guards are all made of iron blades and steel...blades."
Shen Zheng raised her eyebrows slightly when she heard that.
Wow, even the swords of the palace guards are made of "steel".
Isn't that just right.
Real steel and fake steel will be known once they touch each other.
"Your Majesty, please order someone to bring two short swords."
After Shen Zheng finished speaking, she bent down and took out an unknown object wrapped in cloth from the box.
"What is this?" asked the emperor.
Shen Zheng took off most of the rag, leaving only the part that was held in her hand.
A short sword with only a blade but no hilt appeared in front of everyone like a smile.
"This is a small sword made of this thing." Shen Zheng smiled shyly.
Upon hearing this, the military officer in the palace felt as uncomfortable as if he had eaten a fly.
"Can that be called a sword?" Lu Botang's face was full of disgust. "It doesn't even have a decent handle. It's ugly."
General Lin beside him had a gleam in his eyes and frowned, saying, "Be quiet and just watch carefully."
He always felt that the clown sword was...unusual.
In the interests of fairness, two short swords of approximately the same length as the clown's sword were presented.
Shen Zheng picked up one of them, and with a "swish", the sharp sword came out of the sheath.
Not to mention, this dagger is of exquisite style. Holding it in her hand, Shen Zheng felt like she had become a female knight roaming the world.
"Hiss——" Everyone in the hall took a breath of cold air, and someone subconsciously said: "You can't draw your sword in the Golden Palace... This, this is against etiquette..."
Take the positions of Shen Zheng and the Emperor for example. If Shen Zheng wanted to stab the Emperor twice, she wouldn't even need to move a step. She only needed to stretch out her hand and draw her sword to stab the Emperor through.
But the emperor was not afraid at all, and even took another half step towards Shen Zheng, and then asked: "What then? Do you want to fight with the sword?"
Shen Zheng thought for a moment and handed over the clown sword in his hand, "Your Majesty, would you like to try it yourself?"
"Okay!" The emperor took the clown's sword without hesitation.
The clown sword was light in the hand, and the cloth on the tip of the sword was wrapped very casually, even a little uncomfortable to hold.
Shen Zheng held the hilt with both hands, raised the guard sword, and said to the emperor in front of the horrified eyes of all the officials: "Your Majesty, cut me... No, cut it."
The emperor had been waiting for this moment. Upon hearing this, he raised the clown sword without hesitation, tilted his wrist slightly, and swung it out with force.
The golden dragon robe drew a shadow in the air.
The two swords collided with each other, making a crisp and sharp sound, like ice cracking and jade shattering.
The military officer in the hall twitched his ears slightly.
There was something wrong with the sound of weapons clashing.
A pair of sharp eyes immediately looked towards the place where the swords met.