Chapter 723: Unkind Visitors

"Your Majesty thinks so, and you are wrongly blaming His Majesty King Yan. These sailing warships are not to show off to the Wu Kingdom, but are just for display. On the overseas warships, there is a complete set of drawings of sailing warships that can be given to His Majesty at any time. Read М "Sun Zheng said slowly.

"What?" Liang Kai couldn't believe his ears.

"Your Majesty heard it right, the drawing of the sailing battleship." Sun Zheng emphasized again.

Liang Kai rolled his eyes and laughed softly, "Piss never fall from the sky. King Yan certainly did not send such a big pie out of kindness. Tell me, what do you want to do?"

"Your Highness hopes that the Liang family will not be deceived by the Japanese and Western natives. They ultimately want to annex the territory of Dasong. The confrontation between Wu State and the imperial court will only benefit them." Sun Zhengdao, "If Yanzhou is destroyed, Wu State will not be able to escape. In the end of destruction, don’t forget that the British once wanted to invade the Kingdom of Wu, and Japan also looked covetously at the Kingdom of Wu.”

Liang Kai's brows wrinkled.

He naturally knew that Japan and Britain had bad intentions, but the most serious crisis for Wu at the moment came from King Yan.

That's why he decided to join the Eastern Tu Alliance.

So he sneered, "Anyway, it will either be destroyed by your King Yan, or it will be destroyed by Japan and Britain. In that case, why can't our Wu Kingdom join the East Turkistan Alliance and destroy King Yan first?"

After a pause, he continued, "Since King Yan understands the righteousness so well, why did he kill all powerful people like us and press forward step by step? He wants us to die. You can't blame us for joining forces with outsiders to deal with him."

When Sun Zheng came to Wu State, he had already anticipated the various difficulties Liang Kai would confront him.

He said: "Your Majesty, this is wrong. It seems that your powerful clan formed an alliance to defeat Yanzhou and tried to destroy our Yanzhou, but it was resolved by His Highness. Could it be that you punched His Highness, but did not allow His Highness to punch you?"

Liang Kai was stunned and looked at Sun Zheng seriously, "You are very eloquent. Anyway, I have decided to join the Eastern-Turk Alliance, and there will be a group of steamships and sail warships coming from Tianzhu today. Stop at our Lincheng wharf. From now on, you Yanzhou troops will never want to cross Jiujiang."

Sun Zheng's eyes narrowed. King Yan told him a lot that day, including the British steamship docked in Tianzhu.

According to King Yan, the steam ship was very fast.

You can run 24 kilometers in half an hour, which is 576 kilometers in one day and one night, which is close to 600 kilometers.

Even if the time for stopping for supplies is deducted, it only takes ten days to get from Tianzhu to Lincheng.

During the chat, King Yan was most worried about the British steamship sailing into Jiujiang and blocking King Yan's troops from going south.

After all, steamships can travel upstream without the help of wind.

Sail warships, on the other hand, rely on wind power to enter inland rivers.

Even so, it was not as nimble as a steamship.

Unexpectedly, this happened after all.

It's no wonder that His Highness King Yan asked the royal family's troops to postpone the attack.

Otherwise, we would be in trouble if we crossed the river and were cut off by the Eastern Turf Alliance fleet.

After all, war requires supplies of food, grass and ammunition.

Especially ammunition supplies.

"Then I would like to congratulate Your Majesty. It seems that the drawings of the sailing warships have no connection with the Wu State, and the crucible steel-making technology has no connection with the Wu State." Sun Zheng said with a serious expression, "Since Your Highness chooses to fight, then I, Yanzhou, will Stay with me until the end.”

After saying that, Sun Zheng turned to leave.

"Wait a minute!" Liang Feng immediately stopped Sun Zheng and quickly came to him, "What kind of technology is this dry pot steelmaking?"

"To put it simply, the steel made in the crucible is like water, and the artillery and muskets made are tougher, which can greatly increase the range and power of the artillery and muskets." Sun Zhengdao.

Liang Kai rolled his eyes, he was not stupid.

He chose to meet Sun Zheng because he sensed an opportunity to have both sides.

He joined the Eastern Tu Alliance to protect himself, but he did not want to continue fighting with King Yan at all.

Living in the south of the Yangtze River and dividing the river to rule with the King of Yan was the result he wanted.

However, he knew very well that the Japanese and British people would definitely urge him to go to war.

This is the price of joining the Eastern-Turkish Alliance.

In fact, what he hopes for most is to be able to float between the King of Yan and the East-Tu Alliance, using King Yan to balance the East-Tu Alliance, and using the East-Tu Alliance to balance the King of Yan.

In order to win over him, both of them will give him sweet spots.

In this way, the state of Wu can become stronger.

Now, Sun Zheng obviously came with the goodwill of King Yan.

So he said: "Up to now, you haven't said anything about King Yan. What do you want me to do with the Kingdom of Wu?"

"It's very simple. Your Highness hopes that the State of Wu will surrender to the imperial court. In this way, the two families can cease fighting." Sun Zheng said loudly.

"Proclaim yourself a vassal?" Liang Kai shook his head, this is absolutely impossible, "This is tantamount to betraying the Eastern Tu Alliance and betraying the powerful clan. Our Wu Kingdom will die without a burial place."

After thinking about it, he said: "However, I can write a letter to His Highness. As long as His Highness's troops do not cross Jiujiang, our country of Wu will never dance with the Eastern Tu Alliance to attack Your Highness. How about that?"

"Yes, but we can only give Wu the drawings of the sail warships, and we will not give them the drawings of the crucible steelmaking for the time being, unless Wu can keep his promise within two years." Sun Zhengdao.

The King of Yan said that Wu would become a vassal, and this was just one of their demands.

If the state of Wu does not agree, it will have no choice but to settle for the next best thing.

Their most important purpose is to let Wu State jump between Yanzhou and the Eastern Tu Alliance, rather than completely falling to the Eastern Tu Alliance.

Two years is enough time to be aware of the interference from external forces, and it doesn’t even need two years.

"Okay..." Liang Kai hesitated and said.

He couldn't stop after just one look at the warships in Yanzhou. He dreamed of letting Wu have such warships.

So he was very eager for the blueprints of the sailing warships.

Of course, he also wanted to get the crucible steelmaking process.

But the King of Yan was very shrewd. He didn't show his eagle until he saw the rabbit.

If he broke his promise, Wu would naturally not get the crucible steelmaking process.

And it was obviously not enough to have only sailing warships. If there were no excellent enough artillery, it would also suffer a great loss in the naval battle.

After discussing this matter, Liang Kai immediately went to the study, wrote a letter, stamped it with the seal of Wu, and handed it to Sun Zheng.

Sun Zheng didn't stay for long, took the letter, and prepared to return to Yanzhou to report.

The fleet was about to set off on board the warship.

This is Gong Ying, who was responsible for escorting Sun Zheng, suddenly picked up a telescope and looked south.

In the telescope, columns of smoke rose from the sea in the south.

Below the columns of smoke were steamships.

Behind the steamship was towing a sailing warship.

There were twelve such steamships in total.

"Is this a steamship?" Gong Ying slowly put down the telescope with a serious look on his face.

Then he ordered the warship to set sail.

When he returned to Yanzhou, he would report this news to the court.