Chapter 206 Technology Diplomacy

Dugu Junjie is well aware of the explosion principle of artillery, but he didn't expect the enemy to find out the problem so quickly. This is by no means good news, not just a matter of missing shells, but more of:

The opponent may soon be able to find a way to defend against shelling!

In fact, with the means of a cultivator, as long as one knows the principle of the explosion of the artillery, it is really not too simple to defend against the artillery-an ordinary double-layer formation is enough to block the attack of the artillery.

The first layer of formation stimulates the shells, and the second layer of formation prevents the power of the explosion. Such an array arrangement is not difficult.

Also, with the ability of a cultivator, it should be easy to decipher the composition of the gunpowder—this is a disaster!

Dugu Junjie turned his head hesitantly, wanting to apologize to Zhang Hao, it was his command error.

A smile appeared on Zhang Hao's face. Zhang Hao waved his hand to Dugu Junjie, and said leisurely: "Sure enough, you can't underestimate any enemy. But it doesn't matter, it's exciting, it's just begun!"

Dugu Junjie held back his words of apology, but asked worriedly: "Master, if the other party develops explosives and cannons, it will be troublesome."

Zhang Hao still smiled: "That's okay, it's not so easy to make artillery and shells!"

In fact, Zhang Hao was also a little annoyed. But Zhang Hao knew very well that this was not Dugu Junjie's fault. But it still doesn't matter, the big deal is to start the arms race in advance. In this regard, Zhang Hao believed that he would be able to crush the opponent.

And the artillery is not just something that can be defended by the formation - the artillery can attack at any time, and the range of the Zhang family's artillery is as high as fifteen kilometers for the time being; can your army maintain defense at all times? No way, not to mention anything else, the consumption of spirit stones is enough to give the enemy a headache.

The greatest power of artillery is deterrence!

After the battle, everyone cleaned up the mess. And Zhao Donghe from the Land of Canglan came to Zhang Hao again, this time Feng Zhiling didn't stop him.

Zhao Donghe was straightforward enough, straight to the point: "Master Zhang, excuse me. I would like to ask, whether the Zhang family's black iron technology and this artillery technology can be sold?"

A smile appeared on Zhang Hao's face again, but there was some sarcasm in the smile: "Of course it can be sold. But I'm afraid you can't afford it!"

"Then please ask Master Zhang to say a price!"

"Let's not talk about it." Zhang Hao smiled and changed the subject, "But for the sake of the support of the Canglan Kingdom, we can sell some items from your country and provide certain discounts.

Hmm... Whether it is black iron for alchemy or artillery, they can be sold. "

Zhao Donghe thought about it and nodded. For the time being, it is not appropriate to press too hard. The Zhang family's sudden strong potential and the sudden appearance of the Dayang Group have disrupted the plans of Zhao Donghe and the Land of Canglan.

Therefore, Zhao Donghe temporarily retreated to the next best thing. If he could temporarily buy a large amount of black iron for alchemy and buy this strange and powerful artillery, it would be very good.

If the Land of Canglan has artillery, it doesn't need too many, just ten artillery pieces are enough to make hundreds of thousands or millions of enemy troops restless.

With a maximum range of fifteen kilometers, you can play however you want.

Thinking of this, Zhao Donghyuk carefully asked the price.

Zhang Hao immediately offered a quotation: "The special black iron for alchemy starts at 30 high-grade spirit stones per catty, and the price increases by 10 high-grade spirit stones for every point of purity increase.

The price of the artillery is: a first-generation artillery with a range of ten kilometers, 500,000 top-grade spirit stones. The second-generation artillery, with a range of 15 kilometers, has 600,000 top-grade spirit stones.

Shells, 50 high-grade spirit stones. (Note ①)

Pills, medicinal materials, etc. are allowed to be used for pricing. "

"500,000 high-grade spirit stones?" Zhao Donghe exclaimed, his expression was sour: "Young Master Zhang, are you talking nonsense? Generally, the price of the top-notch spiritual weapons can hardly exceed 100,000 high-grade spirit stones!"

Zhang Hao nodded seriously: "I really don't know the price of the top spirit weapon. Thank you for letting me know. Then you can buy the spirit weapon, or you can buy our special black iron for alchemy to make the spirit weapon.

I believe that with the Zhang family's special black iron for alchemy, the cost price of the spirit weapon can be further reduced. "

"You..." Zhao Donghe didn't expect Zhang Hao to say such a thing, and he was speechless for a while.

A master next to Zhao Donghe had a cold face: "Master Zhang, let's not talk about the price of the artillery, let's just talk about the black iron. The price you gave just now is the same as the price sold in Xinglintang? How can you say Is it a discount?"

Zhang Hao took it for granted: "Due to the recent war, the cost has increased a lot. Naturally, the price has also increased. Without the price increase, it is already a discount!"

"You..." This master was also choked by Zhang Hao and couldn't speak.

Finally, Zhao Donghe was still a little sensible. He stopped his men and said to Zhang Hao: "We will consider the conditions of Young Master Zhang. Oh, we have come from the east and we have not rested yet, so we will go down to rest first."

After all, he took more than two hundred men and left.

Zhao Donghe stepped forward after leaving Guan Zhengqing, very nervous: "Zhang Hao, do you really want to sell artillery?"

"If there is a buyer, if a cannon can be exchanged for thousands or tens of thousands of war materials, why not?"

Guan Zhengqing was stunned for a moment. Yeah, it sounds reasonable.

In fact, Guan Zhengqing didn't know what Zhang Hao was thinking: it was not easy to produce the current artillery, and a certain industrial foundation was needed.

Of course, it is not ruled out that practitioners cheated - their refining ability might be able to replicate artillery. But in the process of arms competition, they will understand the difference between handicrafts and industry.

Also, in this world of practice, it is actually not easy to keep secrets. Zhang Hao understood very early on that technology can be kept secret for a while, and he can also take advantage of it for a while; but it is unrealistic to want to keep it secret forever!

Even in another world without practice, there are copycat powers; let alone this world with practice.

And since it cannot be kept secret, Zhang Hao thought of another development direction: that is guidance. Through planned technology leakage, and then lead others by the nose little by little, control the development direction of others.

As early as more than a month ago, Zhang Hao said to his father, Zhang Shengde: Some outdated technologies should be made public under certain conditions, and what the Zhang family should do is to constantly introduce new ones.

The best way to keep it secret is: progress.

As far as artillery is concerned, when the artillery sprays out the flames of war on the battlefield, it is impossible to keep artillery technology secret. So what Zhang Hao can do is to leak technology in a planned and conditional way, and use this to control the situation.

Now that the Kingdom of Jinyang has obtained the shells, we will sell the artillery to the Kingdom of Canglan in the east, so as to influence the situation of the war. And artillery has such power and the ability to influence the balance between countries.

This is a kind of technical diplomacy.

However, if the Land of Canglan wants to obtain artillery, it needs to pay a considerable price. If you don't want to, we can also sell the artillery to the country of Taihua.

In a short period of time, only the Zhang family has complete artillery, so the right to speak is in the hands of the Zhang family.

(Note ①: The price of shells has been adjusted to make the story more reasonable. New readers, please ignore this reminder directly, what you see is the corrected article.)

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