Chapter 299 Sending Troops to Danyang Kingdom

Zhang Hao looked at the locomotive in front of him, with a boxy shape and a height of three meters. The track is also three meters wide, and the carriages are as wide as the track.

The material of railways and locomotives is heat-treated black iron—that is, ordinary steel. Huang Mingshan and others called this kind of steel "black steel", which is obtained by quenching ordinary black iron. These ordinary black iron and black steel have only 10% black iron content, and such black iron content is almost useless.

But after all, it is after heat treatment. With the help of the relatively mature heat treatment of the Zhang family, the hardness of these black steels is still very objective, at least enough to meet the requirements of ordinary railways.

In fact, ordinary steel after heat treatment has reached the strength of an ordinary magic weapon. The steam turbines that the Zhang family sells to the outside world, including the steam turbines used in their own factories, are made of ordinary steel. Because ordinary steel is fully qualified for the current production requirements and technical requirements.

Zhang Hao circled the locomotive twice and nodded in satisfaction.

This time, the locomotive used oil-fired steam boilers and steam turbines. After continuous research and exploration, the steam turbine technology has finally matured.

In the previous steam turbine, the steam pipeline was open, and the steam was discharged directly, which would cause a lot of waste, and more importantly, a large amount of water was required. And this is not conducive to the research of small equipment such as locomotives.

Today, through the efforts of Huang Mingshan and others, a closed-loop steam system finally appeared. Steam turbines were miniaturized and mounted on locomotives.

What Huang Mingshan and others researched before was a turbine driven by spirit stones, but that kind of equipment was complicated and expensive, and it was easy to cause covetousness, which was not conducive to large-scale promotion—maybe it would be dismantled by practitioners.

Zhang Hao nodded in satisfaction, came to Huang Mingshan and asked, "How much does this locomotive cost? If it is mass-produced?"

Huang Mingshan opened his notebook and replied seriously: "It is estimated that mass production can be compressed to less than 10,000 spirit stones. For the railway, the cost per kilometer is estimated to be around 200 spirit stones. The cost of such a railway does not include the actual construction cost.

In actual construction, excellent roadbeds, excellent bridges, etc. may be required, and the cost price cannot be estimated for the time being. But at most no more than 500 spirit stones per kilometer. "

Zhang Hao smiled: "Okay! I'm going to build a branch factory for locomotives and railways. Do you have any recommendations?"

Talent is already in short supply. At the beginning, Huang Mingshan and other people have gradually separated out; although Huang Mingshan and others have also begun to consciously train apprentices, etc., there are still not enough people. The development of the Zhang family is too fast.

It was time to set up a locomotive branch factory, and Zhang Hao didn't know who to arrange for it for a while.

Of the old people around Huang Mingshan, only Chen Feng and Wang Xuefeng were left. The three were responsible for the research of all the technical systems and theories of the Zhang family, and it was already quite difficult. With the advancement and development of technology, the industry is becoming more and more complex. Zhang Hao felt that Huang Mingshan and Huang Mingshan could no longer be separated.

Huang Mingshan immediately pointed out a person: "Master, I recommend Zhang Yueshan!"

Zhang Yueshan? An impression suddenly appeared in Zhang Hao's mind: when the production team was selected for the first time, the team led by Zhang Yueshan was the first to complete the production of the fan. But they were eliminated because they were not careful enough. (22 chapters)

Huang Mingshan continued: "Young master, after I found out that Zhang Yueshan had started to study hard and built a new fan by relying on his memory, I activated him again. He performed very well during this period of time.

In this locomotive research, Zhang Yueshan contributed a lot. "

"Okay!" Zhang Hao nodded, "Then Zhang Yueshan. By the way, since the contribution is not small, the rewards, etc., are all counted?"

"it's here."

Zhang Hao took Huang Mingshan's roster, looked through it, and nodded in satisfaction. But then he said, "There will be no need to reward pills in the future, and the price of pills will be reduced to the limit in the future, and everyone will be replaced with spirit stones. The price... is converted according to the previous price of pills."

"Yes!" Huang Mingshan recorded it seriously, meticulously. Unknowingly, this little craftsman who only dared to sit on half of the stool in front of Zhang Hao had grown into one of the pillars of the Zhang family.

"Where's Zhang Yueshan?"

Huang Mingshan immediately called Zhang Yueshan over, and Zhang Yueshan stood in front of Zhang Hao somewhat cautiously. Zhang Hao smiled, and patted Zhang Yueshan on the shoulder, "Work hard. I won't say anything unnecessary. As long as you don't give up, I promise you a brilliant future. Tomorrow, you will go to the study of the head of the family and get a part of the skill."

"Thank you, young master!" Zhang Yueshan was very excited. Compared to others, Zhang Yueshan was more excited. Because lost, so I know how to cherish.

Zhang Hao pointed to the locomotive next to him and said, "I ask you to be in charge of building a locomotive factory, which is responsible for the production, laying of railways and locomotives, can it be done?"

"can!"

"Very good. The first goal is to build three railways, double-channel, and reserve enough space for expansion. The three railways are the port, Zhangjia, and lead to Luancishan; Luancishan is connected to Ninghe County City, Ninghe He Juncheng returned to the Zhang family.

You need ideas to solve the turning, docking, transfer, etc. during the railway laying process. The transportation volume of this kind of railway should be large, but there are many problems such as climbing ability and turning ability.

There are also railways passing through river valleys, hills and other places. I am afraid that strong bridges need to be erected, and tunnels must also be dug.

The roadbed of the railway itself also bears huge weight, so you have to find ways to ensure that the roadbed of the railway will not sink. "

"Master, I already have an idea. For the bridge problem, I can imitate the structure of the train, and I already have a preliminary design drawing.

Tunnels may not be needed, and they can be bypassed for the time being; if they cannot be bypassed, the mountains can be blown up. You can even invite masters in the transformation stage to move mountains.

For the roadbed problem, I am going to ram the earth, lay gravel and sleepers on it, and build a bed for the rails, which can also reduce the vibration of the rails.

For problems such as steering and turning, I used the 'herringbone' shape, which can be solved very well. "

Looking at Zhang Yueshan's confident expression, Zhang Hao nodded in satisfaction. Zhang's technicians have begun to learn to think proactively, and they no longer need to be on and off all the time. This is good.

In the early morning of the same day, Zhang Hao officially confirmed the construction of the locomotive factory, and Zhang Yueshan was in charge. Zhang Yueshan led his team and formulated a development plan overnight.

The locomotive factory will be built in Luanci Mountain, and the nearby iron ore resources will be used nearby. Luanci Mountain is not the fiefdom of the Zhang family, but it has been bought by Zhang Hao long ago.

To build a new factory, Liu Ming and Bai Xiaodong in the machinery department are distressed, and they need to add new machinery. To build a locomotive factory, the machinery needed is not a small number.

After Zhang Hao arranged related matters, he turned around and got busy with other things. There are still many things to do. Zhang Hao wants to arrange for craftsmen to make a batch of steel swords as soon as possible. The cost of this thing is really not much. Zhang Hao's quotation of 200 top-grade spirit stones is a bit guilty.

Now the Zhang family has adopted mechanical forging and forging, machine tool grinding and sharpening, and the cooperation of four or five craftsmen can make hundreds of swords in one night. And there is no shortage of such craftsmen in the Zhang family. In about five days, ten thousand swords were made with ease.

Early the next morning, Zhang Hao held an auction in Ninghe County, the headquarters of Dayang Group. What was auctioned were precious medicinal materials from other countries; representatives of 32 commercial firms in the East participated in the auction. Everyone traded the precious pills they carried on their bodies.

The precious pills that I carry with me include Huaying Pill, the 'Xiantian Pill' that breaks through the Golden Pill Stage during the Foundation Establishment Stage, and the Golden Pill of Crossing Evil, Shengshenghua Pill, Beauty Pill that women love, and so on. The transaction is very lively.

Then Zhang Hao participated in economic planning, urban construction, and legal construction of the seaside development, and was very busy.

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But while Zhang Hao was busy developing the marine business, Liu Xinyu was busy with the hegemony business.

Just as Liu Xinyu planned, after the prince of Danyang Kingdom brought back a large amount of pills, conflicts broke out in the court.

Most of the officials in the court hall of Danyang Kingdom are representatives of nobles and aristocratic families—this is exactly the same as the Qixia Kingdom in the past. But these officials and aristocratic families began to seek refuge in the Canglan Kingdom, either explicitly or secretly.

These families are typical scumbags. For them, the country is second, and the development and inheritance of the family is the first. But now the country of Danyang made them see no hope, so they all began to throw themselves into the arms of the country of Canglan.

But this time, the elixir brought back by the prince of the Danyang Kingdom terrified these officials—they felt that the Emperor of the Danyang Kingdom seemed to want to repeat and return to the arms of the West.

But once this is the case, once the country of Danyang returns to the embrace of the West, then the royal family of Danyang will definitely liquidate the nobles in the country!

With the examples of Qixia Country and Jinyang Country, these families and so on have a sense of crisis and fear. They broke out and actually wanted to force the Great Emperor of the Danyang Kingdom to declare war on the other five countries in the west, and pull the Canglan Kingdom into the battle circle.

But the great emperor of Danyang Kingdom was blown away by these officials. Now the country of Danyang is still in civil strife, and the two counties in the northwest are still occupied by the country of Jinyang, who can we beat now!

For their own sake, these families don't care about the future of Danyang Kingdom at all. This also allowed the emperor to finally make a decision.

Therefore, the emperor of Danyang Kingdom had no choice but to send a messenger to ask Qixia Kingdom for help overnight. And the messenger is Song Shang, the only god-turning stage in the country of Danyang.

Liu Xinyu immediately contacted the remaining four countries after obtaining domestic consent in the early court. This time, Liu Xinyu will take the Qixia Kingdom as the core and pull up an army to 'peacekeeping'!

The country of Yanyun was the first to respond, and an envoy arrived in the country of Qixia that afternoon, and said that their 30,000 elite dragon horse cavalry were ready.

Then the Zhoushan Kingdom also made a statement that the Zhoushan Kingdom, which had just ended the chaos, could only send 20,000 "ordinary troops", but opened the domestic passage, allowing the cavalry from the Yanyun Kingdom to go south.

The Kingdom of Zhongshan and the Kingdom of Jinyang both sent 50,000 troops.

In addition to the 50,000 troops dispatched to the southeast of the Qixia Kingdom, everyone formed a total of 200,000 elite troops.

This time, everyone dispatched elite troops. Even though the Zhoushan Kingdom said they were ordinary troops, none of the troops sent had a Qi Refining Stage, and all of them were above the Foundation Establishment Stage.

Everyone is very clear in their hearts that this is a contest of military power of various countries-the peacekeeping of the Danyang Kingdom is just a matter of convenience.

With the opening of the Qixia Kingdom to the sea, the development opportunities of the six western countries have come. But who gets more resources?

Liu Xinyu said that it is a free trade and there are no restrictions; but everyone is a sensible person, and the world of practice is that the strong are respected, even the country is no exception.

So everyone is going to use this opportunity of 'peacekeeping' to show their muscles and lay the foundation for the future division of interests.

It took three days for the army to gather. However, during these three days, the country of Danyang split: the country was completely split into two parts, the east and the west.

In the west is the royal family of the kingdom of Danyang, with only two counties remaining; in the east are the domestic nobles, aristocratic families, etc., who have occupied the land of five counties - the counties of the kingdom of Danyang are much smaller than those of the kingdom of Qixia.

These aristocratic families, etc., actually want to seek refuge in the Canglan Country.

And the Land of Canglan did indeed send a legion. For the Land of Canglan, the changes in the Land of Danyang are an opportunity for them to enter the west, so they are not prepared to give up.

Now the war between the Land of Canglan and the Kingdom of Langya has begun to gain the upper hand, because Zhang Hao defeated the first navy of the Kingdom of Langya and brought opportunities to the Kingdom of Canglan, at least a chance of confidence.

So now, in order to 'repay' the Qixia Kingdom, the Canglan Kingdom has assembled 300,000 elite troops, crossed the South Autumn Wind Ridge, and entered the Danyang Kingdom in three ways through Tianqing Pass, Tianmen Pass, and Buried Soul Valley. And set up a large army on the border of the country of Jinyang, as if preparing to break through at any time.

The cannons purchased from the Qixia Kingdom, as well as the cannons produced by themselves using blueprints, have also been used in large numbers.

A cruel war, a war completely involving artillery, seems to be about to start!

Moreover, the reason why the Canglan Kingdom sent troops is also very aboveboard-the Danyang Kingdom has joined us before, and they have signed a contract; you five western countries are trying to provoke us, we can't just sit idly by!

The entire western part of the Fertile Continent solidified again.

But everyone remained rational after all. Before the war was about to start, the Canglan Kingdom sent envoys to visit Liu Xinyu. The envoys are Fu Yun, left minister Huang Shaoxian, and Wang Ruiyang, owner of Lingwei Trading Company.

Fu Yun is in the stage of becoming a god and does not participate in the negotiations. He just ensures safety along the way. The main negotiators are Wang Ruiyang and Huang Shaoxian.

Huang Shao was the prime minister first, while Wang Ruiyang was most familiar with the western countries.

There is nothing polite, Huang Shao met Liu Xinyu first, and asked face to face: When your country of Qixia was in trouble before, we helped you without saying anything, but now you want to make life difficult for our country of Canglan, your majesty, you are not benevolent!

Facing Huang Shaoxian's questioning, Liu Xinyu just smiled faintly, and turned to look at Wang Ruiyang, "My treasurer Wang, I remember you. I heard that it started with you, the alchemy special Xuan that was sold to us in the six western countries. The iron is 20% adulterated, and the price is not bargained. Right?"

Wang Ruiyang was thick-skinned, and he smiled lightly: "Your Majesty said that this is too much? If we hadn't sold the black iron for alchemy, the West of the Fertile Land in the past would have been unsustainable. I admit that it is a bit expensive, but it can be sold anyway." Come on! If it weren’t for us, your country’s money would not be able to buy it!”

Liu Xinyu laughed, annoyed, "If the two of you are just talking about these things today, please go back. My time is precious, and I can't afford to waste it!"

Huang Shaoxian immediately shouted: "Your Majesty really wants to be an enemy of the Canglan Kingdom?"