Chapter 127 Invitation From Xinglin Hall

In the imperial study room, the emperor quietly looked at the earth image on the wall. His brows were deeply wrinkled.

Beside them, Prime Minister Ouyang Si, Zhongshuling Guan Zhengqing, and Imperial Censor Zhao Duo stood quietly.

After a while, the emperor turned his head and sighed: "Do you think I'm being impulsive?"

At this time, the emperor seemed a little tired, he didn't call himself 'zhen'.

Zhao Duo was the first to speak: "Your Majesty, although Wei Zirong wants to get something from us, he is right. This is indeed our opportunity, a chance to break through the Eastern blockade."

The emperor took a deep breath and shook his head: "Guan Zhengqing, tell me."

Guan Zhengqing came to Zhao Duo's side and pointed to the earth elephant on the wall: "Master Zhao, have you seen the location of our Qixia Kingdom? We are in the far west.

If this Eastern Expedition really wins, it will be very bad news for us. Because, at that time, the Kingdom of Jinyang and the Kingdom of Danyang were our 'East'. Do you think these two countries will make us feel better? "

"This..." Zhao Duo was stunned for a moment.

Guan Zhengqing's tone was a bit heavy: "For us, maintaining the current situation is the greatest victory."

Zhao Duo was stunned for a while, and finally asked a little tremblingly: "Then...then how can we... break through the blockade?"

Guan Zhengqing didn't speak, but his eyes turned to the west. Zhang Hao's words finally spread slowly in the court, and aroused the "thinking" of some brave and sharp-eyed people.

Perhaps Guan Zhengqing, Ouyang Si and others are not yet able to 'agree' with Zhang Hao's point of view; but at least they have begun to think about this issue.

Expansion to the east and land is obviously impossible.

Ouyang Si went on to add: "Also, I don't think this Eastern Expedition can be successful, even with the addition of Langya and Qingyun.

To be more precise, Langya and Qingyun may win, but our six western countries may not necessarily win. "

Zhao Duo was even more confused, "Isn't the Kingdom of Jinyang planning to unite Qingyun and Langya? Then how can the victory be separated?"

Ouyang Si slowly explained: "First of all, I think that the country of Canglan and the country of Taihua have dominated the trade routes for thousands of years, and their national power is strong. Their hidden power is by no means easy.

And the Kingdom of Langya and the Kingdom of Qingyun are absolutely incapable of defeating Canglan and Taihua. Their approach should be to temporarily suppress the development momentum of Canglan and Taihua, buy time for themselves, or gain some of their own interests through war.

And we Western countries are just a tool they use, using us to contain the power of Canglan and Taihua.

After the war, Western countries will inevitably be subjected to more severe and retaliatory exploitation by Canglan and Taihua! "

"That's impossible!" Zhao Duo made his own analysis, "It is impossible for countries such as the Jinyang Kingdom to not think of this. Also, if the two countries of Qingyun and Langya put down their grind and kill donkeys, they will not be afraid of Canglan and Taihua. Brazen retaliation by both countries afterwards?"

Ouyang Si nodded: "But the Kingdom of Qingyun and the Kingdom of Langya are not weak countries. They don't need to win, they just need to fight a fierce war to hurt Canglan and Taihua. China can only lick its wounds in a short period of time.

However, Canglan and Taihua are afraid that they will not be reconciled to being frustrated, they definitely need to vent.

Where do you think they will vent? "

Zhao Duo's mouth trembled, and he said in a hoarse voice: "West... West! And their best trick is to continue to block trade routes!"

Ouyang Si nodded: "So, no matter in terms of geographical location or current politics, we should withdraw our troops, retain our strength, and prevent the worst from happening."

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"The Land of Qixia!" Wei Zirong quickly left the Land of Qixia, with a look of resentment on his face, "A bunch of short-sighted rats! A bunch of rats who are just trying to survive! Hmph, there will be times when you regret it!"

In the evening, Wu Fanghai received an order to withdraw his troops. Without saying a word, Wu Fanghai immediately led the team to leave.

Of course, the coalition forces of other countries were 'unstoppable', and the prince of the Kingdom of Jinyang looked even more stern, then pointed to the Eastern Legion stationed outside the capital, and sent 'blessings': I hope you can leave safely.

Without saying a word, Wu Fanghai led the people away from Anqing, the imperial capital of Jinyang Kingdom, and headed west.

The actions here, of course, attracted the attention of the more than 300,000 troops from the East.

However, Wu Fanghai's 50,000 people were all above the foundation building stage, and everyone ran wildly. When the more than 300,000 troops in the east started to move, Wu Fanghai and others had already protruded from the encirclement and headed west.

Seeing this, Sima Tao, the general of the Shangzhu Kingdom of the Canglan Kingdom, was thoughtful: "Could it be that there is internal strife among the six Western countries? Heh...interesting!"

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Zhang Hao is completely unaware of the changes in the country's form, and now Zhang Hao is leading Huang Mingshan and others to work overtime on the research of 'steel'.

Although after the division of labor, because Yue Yun and Zhao Baishi are in charge of steel, the Zhang family's technical system is still weak at this time, and they need to devote all their efforts.

The research and development of scientific theory led by Huang Mingshan is extremely important. Especially the heat treatment of iron and steel which has been studied recently.

The performance of steel is related to two parts: composition and heat treatment.

Both of these require repeated research, and none of them are simple. The rules and so on are still being explored.

Under Zhang Hao's command, everyone used their brains, carburizing, forging, quenching, tempering, and even quenching with soil, etc., everyone was busy without touching the ground.

It was late at night, Huang Mingshan wiped the sweat off his face indiscriminately, leaving gray and black marks on his face.

"Master, according to our current research, each ton of 99% pure black iron can absorb the spiritual energy of about 20 million low-grade spirit stones at most.

But as long as one million low-grade spirit stones are absorbed, the comprehensive performance of all aspects can reach 90% of the peak. Too much absorption is useless. "

"In terms of steel processing, the steel that has been folded and forged, carburized, quenched, and tempered seven times is the most excellent.

Its hardness can reach the hardness of the top magic weapon, and it has strong toughness, and its ability to conduct spiritual energy can reach more than 90% of black iron of the same purity. "

"However, such a process is complicated and is only suitable for the production of weapons in small batches. If it is mass production, it can be produced by extrusion, carburizing, quenching, and tempering.

The hardness of such steel can reach the top grade magic weapon. "

"According to the current experimental results, to produce one ton of high-quality steel with a purity of 99%, only the cost of smelting costs 1 million low-grade spirit stones;

And the market price of 99% black iron itself is 20 high-grade spirit stones per kilogram, and 400,000 low-grade spirit stones per kilogram.

If a 10,000-ton ship is built at this price, it will be an astronomical figure!

The whole country can't come up with so much wealth now! "

Zhang Hao was not shocked, the high cost was completely expected. Moreover, a large ship of 10,000 tons is not equal to 10,000 tons of steel, about two to three thousand tons of steel is enough. Most importantly, market price and cost price are two concepts!

Zhang Hao didn't try to explain this, but thought for a while and asked: "The cost of the black iron itself is actually not kept. And most of the refining cost comes from spirit stones. Right?"

Huang Mingshan nodded, and looked at Zhang Hao expectantly: Does the young master have a solution?

Zhang Hao said slowly: "If I have a way to save the Lingshi?"

"Really?!" Zhang Shengye, who had been listening for a while, jumped up.

But at this moment, Zhang Shengde came in suddenly, with shock on his face: "Xiaohao, Xinglintang sent you an invitation letter, which is a letter written by Master Zhou Shuhai."