Steel Dynasty - Chapter 458

[Chapter 458 Beishan’s ambition]

The wound on his middle finger was still aching.

Bei Shan’s memory of the humiliation suffered in the Jizhou War was still fresh. The last disastrous defeat had resulted in the loss of more than half of the Blood Wolf Tribe, and the guilt of losing Shanhaiguan made his father Khan furious.

If his mother hadn’t interceded with the leader of the Tula clan, he would have had no choice but to sacrifice his life to atone for his sins instead of just cutting off the three fingers on his left hand.

After that, he was ordered to hand over his military power. Now he can only live in Goryeo and nominally supervise this vassal state.

“Forget it, it’s not his fault. The King of Qi from the Great Chongqing Kingdom is not so easy to deal with.” Bei Shan suppressed his anger and rolled his eyes. With his sensitive sense of war, he felt that there was a war. Getting closer.

When the King of Korea heard this, he shouted to Pu Zhenghao: “Beishantai Ji is kind enough to spare you, so why don’t you leave without gratitude?”

Vice General Kim immediately kowtowed, and Pu Zhenghao also knelt down.

Turning his head and looking at Beishan’s thoughtful look, the King of Koryo breathed a sigh of relief. He really didn’t want to punish his generals for this matter. After all, they were also his generals no matter what.

At this time, Beishan looked at the sea in the south and said to the King of Koryo: “How long does it take to get to Dengzhou from here?”

“Back to Taiji, it is very close to Dengzhou. It takes a day to reach Dengzhou by boat. State.” The King of Goryeo said cautiously.

“One day?” Bei Shan’s eyes flashed with a strange light, and he then asked: “How many soldiers can your navy transport at one time?”

“Ten thousand people can still do it.” The King of Goryeo suddenly had a very bad feeling. premonition.

Nodding slightly, Beishan said: “Too few. From now on, you, Goryeo, will use all means to speed up shipbuilding to prepare for the Golden Horde to send troops to the Chongqing Kingdom.”

The King of Goryeo’s heart trembled, and he asked nervously “Is Tian Khan ready to go south?”

“The north is getting colder and colder. Many of our cattle and sheep freeze to death every year. Rest and recuperation are nonsense. If we don’t go south, our people will starve to death.” Beishan sneered. road.

Although his reckless advance led to the defeat in Jizhou and the loss of Shanhaiguan, he kept pushing the Golden Horde to go south. Now the leader of the tribe on the grassland finally understands that his decision is correct and is planning a plan to go south.

It’s a pity that he can no longer continue to lead the army and can only let other Taiji set foot on the land of Dayu first.

But despite this, he never let go of his hatred for Xiao Ming. He has been waiting for the day when he can get revenge, and now he sees hope and has a wonderful plan in his heart.

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Dengzhou.

Xiao Ming truly enjoyed the pure and natural Haizhen of this era for once. He licked his lips with unsatisfied feelings and showed a satisfied smile.

This time he asked the fishermen to go out to sea to catch abalone not purely for his own enjoyment. His real purpose was to find a trading point for Dengzhou. There is no doubt that these sea treasures will become another income after salt.

Nowadays, the fiefdom needs development and money everywhere. Qingzhou’s industry, Youzhou’s agriculture and animal husbandry, and Dengzhou depends on the sea. Currently, these three places are what he values the most.

After tasting abalone, Xiao Ming tasted other flavors of seafood in Dengzhou in the next few days.

During this period, he was not idle, but inspected the coastal defense situation. After he left Dengzhou last time, soldiers from the construction battalion arrived in Dengzhou. They built hundreds of forts along the military port, and these forts would be equipped with heavy artillery. Used to defend against attacks from the sea.

In addition to the military port, Yang Chengye also selected some coastlines where it was easy for the army to land to build coastal defense forts. Now that Dengzhou’s strategic position is very important, it has to focus on defense.

In addition to the fort, Xiao Ming inspected the situation of the salt field. With the help of the construction camp, some salt fields with cement floors have been established in the salt field. When Xiao Ming arrived at the salt field, hundreds of salt fields were drying salt. At a glance, Not to the edge.

Salt workers in the salt fields were coming and going, and the salt in some salt fields was piled up into mountains of white flowers. Seeing these mountains of salt, Xiao Ming laughed happily.

“Your Highness, since we used this seawater to dry salt, the salt production of our salt farm has increased by more than a hundred times. Not to mention the salt in the fiefdom, exporting it is no longer a problem. Moreover, after our sea salt is filtered and purified, the salt’s The quality is more than a little bit higher than that of domestic salt. It can be said that our salt has completely reached the level of tribute salt,” Yao Wenyuan said excitedly.

Yang Chengye said with a smile: “Your Highness, what Yao Wenyuan said is absolutely true. When we were in the Dai Kingdom, our Dengzhou salt was sent to the palace as tribute salt.”

Xiao Ming nodded with satisfaction, and even felt relieved, and he said “In this case, when I return, I will ask the Chamber of Commerce to come to Dengzhou to bring the salt back to sell.”

Yang Chengye and Yao Wenyuan were overjoyed. They were both looking forward to increasing Dengzhou’s finances through this salt.

After quietly patrolling and playing in Dengzhou for half a month, Xiao Ming and Fei Yue’er set off back to Qingzhou the next day. After all, he had dealt with everything that needed to be done in Dengzhou. This time he asked the Chamber of Commerce to transport salt when he returned. .

He had great ambitions and wanted Dengzhou’s salt to occupy the market of Dayu.

After traveling for three days, Xiao Ming and Fei Yue’er arrived in Qingzhou. As soon as they entered Qingzhou City, Lin Wentao rushed over after learning the news.

Xiao Ming asked Fei Yue’er to go back first and asked: “What’s wrong? Lin Wentao, is there something wrong with your steam engine?”

Lin Wentao said with a smile: “Your Highness, there is no problem with the steam engine, but I will fix it in just one month.” The steam engine was modified from the basic Newcomen steam engine to a compound steam engine. “

“Complex steam engine?” Xiao Ming was surprised, but since Lin Wentao developed the Newcomen steam engine, he had a vague feeling that the compound steam engine was not far away, but he didn’t. I thought this transformation would come so quickly.

But this is understandable. After all, the development of the Newcomen steam engine meant that the problems of the cylinder, cylinder plug, and connecting rod were solved, and the compound steam engine was just a small modification of the Newcomen steam engine.

Generally speaking, in order for a steam engine to run efficiently, the piston must be continuously reciprocated. First, hot steam must first enter the cylinder, which can push the piston upward.

Next, in order for the piston to move downward, the steam entering the cylinder needs to condense quickly to reduce the volume and pressure.

Before Watt improved the steam engine, the Newcomen steam engine was designed to inject cold water into the cylinder, but this would lower the temperature of the cylinder itself, causing the hot steam entering the cylinder to lose heat next time, and the efficiency was very low.

So Watt discovered this shortcoming when he was repairing this kind of steam engine, so he thought that since he wanted the water vapor to cool down but didn’t want the cylinder to cool down, he could just let the water vapor come out of the cylinder and then cool it down.

After all, these are all connected, and the air pressure in the cylinder can also be reduced.

(End of chapter)