Steel Dynasty - Chapter 133

[Chapter 133 Intrigue]

“Your Highness, this must be King Yong below.”

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

Xiao Ming nodded. This time he was asked to be the enemy to defend Cangzhou. If there were not enough benefits, he would definitely not do it.

From south to north, from east to west, he wants to blackmail them all. Even if they don’t come, the letter must go. At this time, asking him to use money to buy coal and iron is simply a traitor.

He can definitely use this to complain to Xiao Wenxuan.

“Yes, King Yong, King Zhao, King Yan, etc. Don’t let any of these people go. Send letters to all of them. If anyone doesn’t give, we will send a note to Chang’an.” Xiao Ming said.

His memorial stated that he would buy it with money, but the prerequisite was that other vassal states would send troops to support him. Now it was up to him alone. Without some money for his life, who would be willing to be taken advantage of.

Zhan Xingchang laughed evilly for a while and said: “Your Highness, leave this matter to me, don’t worry if these vassal kings don’t spit something out.” He

still has confidence in Zhan Xingchang, Xiao Ming, an evil adviser. He said: “Go, if it is really done, I will give you a great reward.”

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 keep Li San on guard.

Especially the gun molds being manufactured by the Equipment Department.

Before going to Chang’an, he had already asked Chen Qi to study the problem of the gun model day and night.

Judging from the current situation, he definitely couldn’t afford to make bronze cannons. Even if he collected all the copper in his entire fiefdom, he wouldn’t be able to make a few cannons.

Bronze cannons were also very expensive. Qingzhou didn’t have any reserves of copper, lead or tin. After much deliberation, he could only produce cast iron cannons.

Although the toughness of cast iron cannons is not as good as bronze cannons and copper cannons, they are more likely 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 steel output has increased significantly.

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

But even so, some technical problems still cannot be overcome, and the success rate of the cast iron cannon is estimated to be only three to four tenths.

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

The internal mold water-cooling technology that guarantees gun barrel technology is definitely not achievable at the current level of Qingzhou, and at least it cannot be considered until the steam engine appears.

Just as Xiao Ming thought, King Wei would not be honest when he arrived in Qingzhou City. King Wei’s men went around Qingzhou to ask about “interesting things in Qingzhou these days.”

Of course, the most these people got was the affairs of the wealthy family, and then the newspapers, Glass, something new like that.

“Newspaper? Interesting.”

There were so many newspapers in Prince Qi’s palace that Prince Wei easily asked Xiao Ming for a copy and started reading.

Xiao Ming is now closely accompanying King Wei, trying his best to calm down the restless uncle.

Instead of letting him ask around, why not show him what you can show him.

“If Uncle Three Emperors likes it, you can try this on the fiefdom.” Xiao Ming said, now he was digging a hole for King Wei and jumping into it.

He was able to achieve the distribution of newspapers because of type printing and mature papermaking technology.

“This is omitted, but it is the same as the notice at the city gate.”

King Wei was not stupid. The handwriting on the newspaper was exactly the same. It was obvious that the scholars did not copy it one by one.

Xiao Ming obviously has a special method, but he is not interested in this thing. For him, it makes no sense to let the people know so much.

After looking at the newspaper, King Wei picked up the glass at hand and read it again, “My dear nephew, this time the barbarians go south, I’m afraid it will have a big impact on your business.”

Qingzhou is facing war, and generally speaking, businessmen will avoid it. It’s harmful, especially when most of these businessmen are in front of each vassal king.

It’s just that now Qingzhou’s business not only shows no signs of dying, but also seems to be even hotter than before.

These merchants who were worried about the war thought that if Qingzhou fell, the goods in Qingzhou would inevitably become of high quality, which in turn caused the prices of various goods to soar.

“Indeed, it’s not small. My Qingzhou Chamber of Commerce has made a lot of extra money these days, and there are also a lot of food, copper, iron, cloth and other things that can be used to offset the money. Because of this, my nephew dares to keep a Guard Cangzhou City.”

King Wei felt angry, and he didn’t know what kind of evil this boy had been. Now he is very lucky.

On the contrary, I had been lucky in the past few years, but now I was unlucky everywhere.

“This glass is indeed good. I want to buy some when I go back this time. I wonder how many my nephew still has?” King Wei took the opportunity to change the subject.

Once glass is put into production, it reaches a large scale and the craftsmen are skilled, so production is very fast. Now Qingzhou has accumulated a lot of inventory.

He said: “Uncle Three Emperors, you can have as much as you want?”

King Wei nodded. He couldn’t put it down. This time he went back and planned to use a lot of glass to decorate the palace.

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

In fact, the reason why Xiao Ming accompanied King Wei was to ask King Wei to send people back to the fief as soon as possible to bring coal and charcoal.

After seeing Qingzhou’s new gadgets, King Wei was somewhat satisfied, but he also understood that the real secrets of Qingzhou were in the Equipment Department, and no outsider had entered this place so far.

“Well, I will ask people to prepare silver to exchange for some glass. At the same time, I will ask them to collect iron and coal and send them to Qingzhou City.” King Wei said slowly.

A guard was called, 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 Cangzhou City, it will be a pity for your prosperous Qingzhou. This soap, glass, and fine wine will probably become top-notch, and the colorful world of Dayu Kingdom It will be destroyed once and then, no matter how much you have, there will be nothing left to sell.”

“Uncle San Huang is right,” Xiao Ming said lazily.

This is also the fundamental reason why he wants to stick to Cangzhou. The current Chongqing country cannot be in chaos. If it is in chaos, where will he sell his goods? How can he build his own fiefdom without money?

At least this time, he and King Wei had the same purpose, which was to temporarily maintain the balance of Great Yu for their own purposes.

While the two were talking, Zi Wan suddenly called out “Your Highness.”

“What’s wrong?” Xiao Ming asked.

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

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

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