Volume One, Chapter 13, Sword Name Xiuchun
Seeing Zhang Deyu leaving in a hurry, Li Hong smiled faintly at the corner of his mouth, and this was the effect he wanted.
In the past, Li Hong's weak body led to his weak personality. Even though he was the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, he was still taken seriously by many ministers, which led to Zhang Deyu's stupid behavior today.
But now Li Hong is different. Therefore, as the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, he not only needs to maintain the reputation of humility and gentleness he had won before, but also is also ready to establish the prestige of his crown prince.
After Zhang Deyu left, Li Hong said to Yan Zhuang beside him, "Let Li Duozha come to see the orphan--"
"No!" Yan Zhuang took the order. After leaving for a moment, Li Duozha strode into the hall. When Li Duozha saw Li Hong, he was about to salute him, but he stopped him.
"In the afternoon, you go to Dali Temple and explain the process of this marching to them." Li Hong's voice was very dull.
"No!" Li Duozha bowed and took the order.
Li Hong glanced at the sword on Li Duozha's waist and suddenly said, "Let's see your sword."
Li Duozha took the order, took off his sword, bowed his body and handed it to Li Hong. Li Hong took the knife and saw at a glance that it was a ritual knife. Because the long sword was a ring hand, it was obviously a diamond-shaped knife blocking. There were relatively obvious double hanging rings on the scabbard hanging around his waist, holding the top of his hands, or standing in front of him.
Because this exquisite ring-handed sword reflects the strong confidence and majesty of the Tang Dynasty, it was used as an important weapon for the royal guards. Therefore, Emperor Gaozong scolded Li Hong in Xuanzheng Hall that day that the Yidao was not mass-produced, and was only equipped with his guards, Qianniu Guards and Li Hong's personal guards, the left and right sect commands and the left and right sect commands. For this reason, only the royal guards can wear the Yidao, while the real standard weapon of the Tang army is the horizontal sword.
Li Hong looked at the Yidao several times before handing the knife to Li Duozha, and said in a deep voice, "From the future, all the weapons of the Eastern Palace garrison will be changed to horizontal swords, and seal the Yidao. After the Huaxian case is found out, you will send the Yidao to the Military Weapons Prison."
Li Duozha's body was shocked and replaced all the swords of the Donggong Shiru's swords with special horizontal swords for battlefields. This seemed very subtle action, but he guessed the meaning of it and hurriedly took the order excitedly, "Don't worry, your highness, let's do it!"
"Yeah!" Li Hong nodded slightly. Li Duozha stepped out of the Chongjiao Hall.
"Your Highness, do you really want to do this?" Yan Zhuang asked after Li Duozha left. He was not a general like Li Duozha. He thought more about Li Hong's move and knew more about the intention of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's intention, so he seemed a little worried.
"Yanzhuang, do you think we can take advantage of the opportunity of this Huaxian tragedy to reorganize the Ten Guards of the East Palace and train them into elite soldiers. Isn't it better?" Li Hong said with a faint smile, "If you miss this opportunity, it will be difficult in the future!"
Yan Zhuang nodded slightly, and he agreed with Li Hong's statement.
This Huaxian tragedy involved the prince's personal army. As the prince, Li Hong, as the prince, was punishing the prince's ten guards at this time. I guess no one would have any objections. If it were in normal times, even if Li Hong was the prince, he would not dare to touch such issues involving military power!
"Tonight, take a few horizontal knives to the orphan's study." Li Hong thought for a while and said.
Because of his health, Emperor Gaozong has always disliked military affairs, so as the guards around Emperor Gaozong, he could wear swords and equip swords.
But Li Hong is different. He is going to be on the battlefield in the future, so he doesn't want his personal guard to be equipped with a sword. He needs his personal guard to have strong combat power. The horizontal sword also has many shortcomings. Li Hong is ready to let his personal guard wear a horizontal sword, so he must face these shortcomings of the horizontal sword.
So he is now preparing to find a way to get rid of the shortcomings of the horizontal sword and exert all the power of the horizontal sword. Only in this way can he let his personal army wear the horizontal sword have greater significance!
At night, Yan Zhuang delivered several luxuriously decorated horizontal knives to Li Hong's study.
Li Hong looked at him with a horizontal knife in the study for a long time, and then asked Yan Zhuang to grind him. He began to pick up his pen and write and draw on rice paper.
After a long time, a sketch of a sword design was presented to Yan Zhuang.
Yan Zhuang couldn't believe when His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was so proficient in weapon design, but when he saw the new sword drawn by Li Hong, he also deeply fell in love with the new sword on rice paper.
This sword is similar to the shape of the Tang sword. It is also three feet long, with a single blade, a thick ridge, and a cutting blade. However, it is not like the Tang sword, which is a straight knife, with a slightly curved body, and a double diamond blood groove on the body, and a ridge line on the back of the knife.
The appearance of this knife is not only beautiful, but also the murderous aura hidden in the blade of this new battle knife can be seen from the sketch. As long as this knife is forged, it is definitely a killing weapon.
"Your Highness, this knife..." Yan Zhuang was surprised.
"This is Gu's knife designed by him. He is ready to equip the war swords with the ten guards of the East Palace. You will take a sketch to serve as a supervisor tomorrow and ask them to create a few of them immediately for Gu to see. If the lethality and durability are good, Gu will ask his father to mass produce them." Li Hong said calmly.
Yan Zhuang was slightly stunned and said, "No!!"
Li Hong ignored Yan Zhuang's dementia expression. He continued to write some terrible cry on the sketch that he thought was very necessary. Then he stopped writing. He fell into deep thought again and began to take a walk in the study. After a long time, he came back to his senses and picked up the pen to write the two forging techniques of steel clamping and burning the soil on it.
The current Tang sword forging mainly uses the technology of 100 steel making and local quenching. With the two forging technologies of steel wrapping and steel covering and soil-covered burning blades, Datang's war knife may have to reach a new level, right?
Thinking of this, Li Hong smiled slightly.
"Your Highness, once this sword is born, it may be extremely powerful! I wonder what it should be called?" Yan Zhuang came back to his senses and asked happily when he heard Li Hong's laughter.
"It's not enough to say that it is powerful, but it is definitely much better than the current military sword in terms of forging technology and lethality." Li Hong said calmly, "Well, the name is——! The embroidered clothes stand in the sky, and the colored clothes are heading towards the courtyard. Well, just call it the embroidered sword!"
"Embroidered Chunjian, Embroidered Chunjian--!" Yan Zhuang recited it twice, and couldn't help but laugh happily, "Your Highness, what a sword name!"
Li Hong's name of the sword is Xiuchun, which is naturally profound. He designed this sword and wrote forging techniques, which has his own purpose. However, thinking that this sword will exert its power on the battlefield in the future, he said sternly, "Yan Zhuang, when you go to the prison tomorrow, tell them when you forge this sword, you must do a good job of confidentiality and never reveal it."
"I understand!" How could Yan Zhuang not know the power of this sword, so he bowed and took the order. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!