Iron Dynasty

Inside the ordnance warehouse, a row of twenty artillery pieces lay quietly inside. These artillery pieces were a batch of export-type artillery pieces produced by the military workshop.

Uncle Huang, these cannons are custom-made by King Liang and King Zhao. They will be delivered soon. I'm afraid they can't be sold to Uncle Huang. Xiao Ming smiled.

King Yong is quite disappointed. Now every vassal king is hoarding firearms to strengthen his own strength. In comparison, he has fallen behind a lot. Especially when he learned that these artillery pieces were sold to King Liang, he felt a sense of crisis even more. .

Although Xiao Ming was very dissatisfied with seeing artillery sold to King Liang, he understood that this nephew always sold arms when he had money, and he even suspected that if the barbarians offered high prices, Xiao Ming would also sell arms.

Thinking of this, King Yong rolled his eyes, Nephew, we belong to the royal family. Naturally, this business is also related to relatives. Why don't you sell this batch of artillery pieces to the uncle first, how about you produce another batch of artillery pieces for him?

These cannons were deliberately placed in the warehouse by Xiao Ming. In fact, they were not prepared for King Liang, but he deliberately set them up for King Yong, because King Yong's fief was really a treasure land with rich mineral resources.

In order to obtain the mining rights of these mineral resources, he had to come up with some crooked ideas, so he said: It's not easy for the uncle to want artillery, and the nephew will produce another batch for the uncle. If it doesn't work, the nephew will join the army Allocate a batch of artillery to the uncle.

Really? King Yong was overjoyed.

Xiao Ming nodded and said vaguely: This time King Liang purchased 400 artillery pieces from this king, so why should my nephew take care of my uncle?

Four hundred gates? King Yong was shocked, and he immediately said: My nephew, the uncle has more gates than King Liang, and the uncle has five hundred gates!

Five hundred gates? Fourth Emperor Uncle, are these five hundred gates not cheap? Xiao Ming said seriously, It is said that there is not much money in the imperial treasury, and these five hundred artillery pieces cost at least six or seven million taels of silver. This……

King Yong suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, Xiao Ming talked about his pain point, and now he really doesn't have much money, he suddenly remembered the last time Xiao Ming asked him to use coal mines to counter the artillery, so he said: My dear nephew, you really can't do it. Circle some coal mines?

After experiencing the shortage of iron ore, Xiao Ming now has a deep resentment for iron ore, and the steam engine will be put into use soon, and the consumption of coal will also be greatly increased. Obviously he couldn't satisfy him.

However, he did not want to spend too much manpower on mining, but was prepared to exchange industrial products for mineral resources so that other vassal lords could provide him with ores.

After all, even if they mine mines under their fiefs, these mines will still be under their jurisdiction at that time, and they may be taken back at any time if they turn their backs on them.

So he might as well just name and use artillery in exchange for ore, so that these vassal kings can become his mine owners, so he said: Uncle Huang, my nephew is really powerless, and there are only a few fiefs, so why are there so many? People mining, since Uncle Huang sincerely wants to buy artillery, why don't you just exchange coal and iron ore.

Coal and iron ore? King Yong was a little embarrassed. He said, My nephew, Uncle Huang has a few coal mines, but there are very few iron ore.

King Yong's fiefs include today's Hebei area. In modern times, the iron ore reserves in this place are second to none in the country. It is precisely because of this that there is a steel base there. This King Yong is really in Baoshan, and he does not know the true face of Baoshan. .

After smiling, Xiao Ming said: Uncle Huang is already wrong, there are more subway mines in Uncle Huang than coal mines. If Uncle Huang doesn't believe it, nephew can help him find a few, but the mining of this iron ore is not enough. Only the uncle can come by himself.

King Yong has always been a person who relies on mountains to eat mountains and water to drink water. He can sell coal and iron for money, why not do it? He excitedly said, Is this true, nephew?

Really. Xiao Ming said.

King Yong nodded and said, If it's true as the nephew said, the uncle will send people to mine mines and exchange ore for artillery?

Uncle Four Emperors is extremely forthright, okay, that's the deal. Xiao Ming's eyes narrowed, his first step plan has been completed, and he has also exhausted his efforts to make the Great Yu Kingdom a source of resources for Qingzhou. thought.

For this reason, he doesn't care if it is a hostile vassal king. After all, sometimes this kind of relationship between countries is hostile and mutual use.

For example, in modern state-to-state relations, while shouting and shouting, the private economy is still hot. This is the so-called political cold and economic hot.

After negotiating this matter, Xiao Ming carefully calculated an account for King Yong. The mineral resources to be exchanged for these 500 artillery pieces are no different from the contemporary exchange of 100 million shirts for a Boeing.

In order to buy artillery, King Yong may have to completely become a big mine owner. At this time, the King of Chu has become the owner of his cotton manor, providing cotton for Qingzhou Mianmian continuously.

After the transaction was completed, Xiao Ming accompanied King Yong to play in Qingzhou for a few days. After letting him see the changes in Qingzhou, he reluctantly returned to the fief.

After King Yong left, Xiao Ming continued to plan the future of the fief.

For him, the resources in the world are limited. If he eats more, others will eat less. Therefore, in order to eat more, the problem of eating less is constantly filthy among countries.

The prosperity of the contemporary West is based on a high degree of control over the resources of life. Xiao Ming is well aware of this, so he is preparing to start a journey to make the world work for Qingzhou. Now it is his turn to exchange high-tech products for 100 million yuan shirt.

While he was busy planning the resource intake plan, an unexpected event suddenly made the atmosphere of Qingzhou solemn.

Medical Officer Sun is dead! When Pang Yukun said these words, his expression was solemn.

Dead! How did you die! Xiao Ming exclaimed in shock.

Pang Yukun said: According to the verification of the government office, it is certain that Doctor Sun was poisoned by arsenic for the time being, and now it is rumored that Doctor Sun was forced to death by His Highness. Your Highness, the lower official suspects that someone has helped to slander His Highness and put pressure on His Highness. .

Xiao Ming looked cold. He just asked Doctor Sun to go back and think about it. It was only a few days before Doctor Sun died. Not only Pang Yukun, he also felt very strange.

Tell me about it. Xiao Ming was a little irritable. Although he was dissatisfied with Doctor Sun's rigidity, no matter what, Doctor Sun was a good doctor, and he was heartbroken to die like this for no reason.

Medical Officer Sun is highly respected in Qingzhou City. After this incident, Confucian scholars in Qingzhou talked a lot, pointing out that His Royal Highness's Bowen Academy is a heresy, and the implication is that His Highness's Bowen Academy has broken the rules, is not in line with the ancestral family law, violates the law of nature, and is outrageous.