Iron Dynasty

Your Highness, it should be King Yong below.

The banquet was over, and King Wei went down to the palace surrounded by his personal guards. At this time, Zhan Xingchang suddenly said to Xiao Ming.

Xiao Ming nodded. This time he made himself a fool to defend Cangzhou. He would definitely not do it without enough benefits.

From south to north, from east to west, he had to blackmail him all over again. Even if he didn't come, the letter would have to go there. At this time, asking him to buy coal and iron with money would be a traitor.

He could use this one to complain in front of Xiao Wenxuan.

Yes, King Yong, King Zhao, King Yan, etc., don't let any of these people go, write all of them, and whoever doesn't give it, we'll send a book to Chang'an. Xiao Ming said.

His memorial said that he would buy it with silver, but only if other vassal states sent troops to support him. Now he is alone, and he doesn't give him some money for his life. Who would be willing to take advantage of this.

Zhan Xingchang laughed wickedly for a while and said, Your Highness, leave this matter to me. I'm not afraid that these vassal kings will not spit out something.

He still had confidence in Zhan Xingchang, the ill-fated counsellor Xiao Ming, and he said, Go, if it is really done, this king will reward him heavily.

In response, Zhan Xingchang, Pang Yukun and others went to the Governor's Mansion.

Xiao Ming then went to Qingzhou City. This time, when King Wei came, he would definitely inquire about Qingzhou City, and he had to let Li San defend himself.

Especially the model guns that the Equipment Division is making.

Before playing Chang'an, he had already brought Chen Qi to study the problem of the gun model day and night.

Judging from the current situation, he must not be able to build copper cannons, and even if he collects the copper in the entire fief, he can't build a few cannons.

Bronze cannons are not enough. One copper, one lead, and Xiqingzhou have no reserves. After much deliberation, he can only produce cast iron cannons.

Although the toughness of cast iron guns is not as good as that of bronze guns and bronze guns, it is easier to explode suddenly.

But if you want to produce more cannons in such a short period of time, you can only do this.

After all, through blast furnace ironmaking and crucible steelmaking, Qingzhou's iron and steel production has greatly increased.

Moreover, the cast iron guns in the technology library have ready-made knowledge reserves. He does not need to go through the early development of cannons, but directly uses the mature casting technology to produce cast iron guns.

But even so, some technical difficulties still cannot be overcome, and the success rate of cast iron guns is estimated to be only three or four out of ten.

That is to say, if ten guns are produced, only three or four usable guns can be successfully obtained, because many of the barrels of cast iron guns will burst due to thermal expansion and contraction during the cooling process.

The internal mold water-cooling technology that guarantees the gun barrel technology is definitely impossible to achieve at the current level of Qingzhou, at least it can only be considered after the appearance of the steam engine.

Just as Xiao Ming thought, when King Wei arrived in Qingzhou City, he would naturally not be honest. King Wei's men were all over Qingzhou asking about interesting stories these days in Qingzhou.

Of course, these people get the most from the wealthy family, followed by newspapers, glass, and other new things.

Newspaper? Interesting.

There are many newspapers in Prince Qi's mansion, and Prince Wei easily asked Xiao Ming for a copy.

Xiao Ming is now closely accompanying King Wei, trying his best to let this restless uncle settle down.

Instead of letting him ask around, it's better to show him what he can see.

Uncle Three Emperors can try it on the fief if he likes it. Xiao Ming said, he is now digging a hole for King Wei to jump in.

He was able to achieve the distribution of the newspaper, it was because of type printing, and mature paper technology.

That's fine, but it's the same as the notice at the city gate.

King Wei wasn't stupid either. The handwriting on this newspaper was exactly the same. Obviously, it was not copied by the scholars one by one.

This Xiao Ming obviously has a special way, but he is not interested in this thing. For him, it is meaningless to let the people know so much.

Looking at the newspaper, King Wei picked up the glass at hand and looked at it again, Nephew, this time the barbarians are heading south, I'm afraid it will have a big impact on your business.

Qingzhou is facing war. Generally speaking, merchants will seek good luck and avoid harm, especially these merchants are mostly people in front of the kings.

It's just that now the business in Qingzhou is not only showing no signs of withering, but it seems to be hotter than before.

These businessmen, who were worried about the war, thought that if Qingzhou fell, these commodities in Qingzhou would inevitably become unparalleled, but instead, the prices of various commodities soared.

Indeed, it's not small. My Qingzhou Chamber of Commerce has made a lot of money these days. There are also a lot of food, copper, iron cloth and other items that offset the silver. It is because of this that my nephew dares to keep a Guard this Cangzhou City.

Wei Wang was angry for a while, and he didn't know what evil this kid was in. Now he is very lucky.

On the contrary, it was himself, who had both successes in the past few years, but now he is unlucky everywhere.

This glass is really good. I want to buy some when I go back this time. How many nephews are there? King Wei took the opportunity to change the subject.

Once the glass thing was put into production, it formed a scale. The craftsmen were skilled and the production was very fast. Now Qingzhou has accumulated a lot of inventory.

He said, How much does Uncle Sanhuang want?

King Wei nodded. He couldn't put it down. This time, he planned to use a lot of glass to decorate the palace.

But he also heard that the price of this glass is not low, and a glass bottle costs at least twenty or thirty taels of silver.

In fact, the reason why Xiao Ming accompanies King Wei has another purpose, that is, to make King Wei quickly send someone back to the fief to send coal, carbon and other things.

Having seen Qingzhou's new stuff, King Wei was also a little satisfied, but he also understood that the real secret of Qingzhou was in the equipment department, and no one had entered this place so far.

Well, I'll have people prepare silver to exchange for some glass, and by the way, let them raise iron and coal to send to Qingzhou City. Wei Wang said slowly.

A guard was summoned, King Wei said a few words to him, and the guard turned and left.

Then the King of Wei said to Xiao Ming: My dear nephew, if the barbarians attack the city of Cangzhou, it will be a pity that you are a prosperous place in Qingzhou. I am afraid that soap, glass, and fine wine will also become unparalleled. It will also be destroyed, and at that time, no matter how much you have, there will be nowhere to sell it.

What Uncle Sanhuang said is very true. Xiao Ming said lazily.

This is also the fundamental reason why he wants to stick to Cangzhou. The current Dayu Kingdom can't be in chaos. If it is in chaos, where will his goods be sold, and how can he build his own fief without money?

At least this time, he and King Wei have the same purpose, that is, for their own purposes, to temporarily maintain the balance of the Great Yu Kingdom.

The two were talking when suddenly Aster shouted Your Highness from outside the door.

What's wrong? Xiao Ming asked.

A man calling himself Luo Xin outside the door asked to see His Highness. He said that he was the son of General Luo Quan.

Pfft! Wei Wang, who was drinking water, spit out all the tea in his mouth.

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