Wang Sheng was not surprised by the results of this interrogation, in fact, they had already discovered that someone was spying on the fleet.

In Wang Sheng's fleet, there was a group of professional intelligence personnel, these people arrived in Mingzhou with the fleet, shouldering the heavy task of establishing an intelligence station in Mingzhou, and soon after the arrival of the fleet, they quietly disappeared into the streets and alleys of Mingzhou, lurking in various capacities.

When the perimeter guard of the fleet found that someone was spying on the fleet, Wang Sheng immediately contacted the intelligence officers of the Mingzhou intelligence station and asked them to conduct counter-reconnaissance of the peepers, and finally determined that the peepers were from the Mingzhou Naval Division.

Although he had expected to be intercepted, Wang Sheng did not avoid it; first, when Chen Xian was talking about the navy with Wang Sheng, he also said that if he had the opportunity to go south, he would test the combat effectiveness of the new warships, and second, Wang Sheng had great confidence in the combat effectiveness of his own warships.

For Wang Sheng, who was extremely familiar with cannons and sea ships, he felt that a warship equipped with cannons was not a level at all for a warship without cannons, just like a warrior with a musket facing a bare-handed civilian.

As it turned out, Wang Sheng's feelings were not wrong.

The fleet continued north with dozens of captives, and the rest of the way, they returned to Qingdao City after more than half a month.

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About a week before Wang Sheng's fleet arrived in Qingdao, a group of people arrived in Mizhou to see Chen Xian.

This is a group of Great Song envoys from Chuzhou in the Great Song Dynasty, headed by the Tuiguan Guan Tang of Chuzhou.

It turned out that after Zhao Rushu, the prefect of Mingzhou, saw the revolver musket sold by Wang Sheng, he immediately realized the significance of this sharp firearm to the Song army.

Zhao Rushu said that this person was the confidant of Shi Miyuan, the prime minister of the dynasty, and he immediately sent a few revolver muskets to Shi Miyuan.

Although Shi Miyuan is a well-known peacemaker, he is not a surrender faction, and he is not stupid, of course he knows that even if it is for the sake of peace, he needs to maintain the combat effectiveness of the Song army.

After Shi Miyuan figured out the effectiveness of the revolver, he, like Zhao Rushu, saw the significance of this weapon to the Song army.

The power of the revolver musket is stronger than that of the Divine Arm Bow, and the rate of fire is not much worse, and more importantly, as long as this weapon has a medicine, it can be fired all the time, and the Divine Arm Archer, at most fifteen to twenty arrows, will be exhausted and unable to fight for a long time.

This advantage is not obvious in the field, but in the defense of the city, it is very obvious, and for Shi Miyuan of the peace faction, the defense of the city is obviously more important than the field battle.

In order to obtain more, and even a way to make such sharp firearms, Shi Miyuan sent people to Mingzhou to discuss arms procurement with Wang Sheng, and at the same time, he also sent people to Chuzhou, and ordered Ying Chunzhi, the Taishou of Chuzhou and the pacification envoy of Tokyo, to do everything possible to recruit Chen Xian of Shandong.

Hearing that it was Ying Chunzhi's envoy who arrived, Chen Xian took the time to meet with the mission.

Ying Chunzhi's status in the history of the Song and Jin Wars is not low, and Chen Xian has an impression of him, it is this person who recruited Li Quan and other Shandong Red Jacket Army, and turned the Red Jacket Army into a loyal army.

Since he was sent by Ying Chunzhi, he probably wanted to recruit him?

Sure enough, this Chuzhou magistrate named Guan Tang came to recruit him, but the other party claimed to be not only the envoy of Chuzhou Taishou, but also the envoy of the Great Song Dynasty, and he also brought a personal letter from the Prime Minister of the Great Song Dynasty, Shi Miyuan.

In the letter, Shi Miyuan gave Chen Xian quite generous conditions, in addition to promising to seal Chen Xian the official position of the head of the soldiers and horses on Jingdong Road, he also promised to provide him with a total price of 200,000 yuan of money and grain every year.

Of course, Shi Miyuan also had conditions, and he hoped to transfer the manufacturing technology of revolver muskets and gunpowder to the imperial court.

For such a condition, of course, Chen Xian will not agree.

Jingdong Road is actually quite funny, Jingdong Road is the Northern Song Dynasty, the name of Shandong Road at this time, and Jingdong East Road is naturally Shandong East Road, that is to say, Song Guo Feng Chen Xian is the commander of the soldiers and horses in the area he occupies, and he also arranged a top boss for him, named Tokyo Jinglu pacification envoy, his territory is basically no longer on the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty, and Chen Xian's territory is also in the area of the other party's strategy; According to the practice of the Song Dynasty to write and imperial martial arts, this boss has the right to cut Chen Xian first and then play......

Of course, it is impossible for Song Guo to take out a piece of land to give Chen Xian an official, and what kind of official title this title is all false.

Although the official is virtual, he can have an additional income of 200,000 yuan per year, which is better than at least giving only a broken official hat to the Jin Dynasty.

In the end, after several days of negotiation between the two sides, Chen Xian agreed to provide arquebus technology and the Jin Guo version of the gunpowder formula to the Southern Song Dynasty, these two technologies have been rotten on the street, the gold version of the gunpowder formula Needless to say, the arquebus, which Chen Xian has been equipped with for almost ten years, has already leaked out, Chen Xian has seen more than one imitation, although rough, but the performance is basically qualified.

Therefore, providing these two technologies to the Southern Song Dynasty did not have any loss for Chen Xian, at most it was just to help the Song Dynasty master these two technologies faster.

At the same time, the contract also stipulated that Chen Xian would sell long and short revolver muskets to the Southern Song Dynasty at a low price of 30 pieces each.

Because of the production process, the cost of the revolver musket remains high, even in Chen Xian's arsenal, the cost of producing a revolver musket is more than ten times, and the price of selling it for thirty times is not actually greedy, this price is at least much lower than the Divine Arm Bow.

In addition, Chen Xian also offered to sell 5,000 pairs of fine armor to the Song Dynasty every year at a price slightly lower than the cost price of the Song Dynasty.

In return, the Song Dynasty had to provide Chen Xian with 300,000 yuan of money and rice grain free of charge every year.

At the same time, the Song Dynasty also allowed Chen Xian to open merchant houses in Mingzhou, Quanzhou, and Guangzhou within its borders......

On the second day of Wang Sheng's return, Guan Tang left Mizhou with the results of the negotiation and went to Jiaozhou to return to Chuzhou by boat.

As soon as Guan Tang left, Wang Sheng's return and another good news came to Chen Xian.

After more than a year of hard work, the shipwood drying room has yielded results!

After repeated tests, the drying room test team according to Chen Xian's assumption, through the size of the standard furnace, the length of the pipe, and a series of other measures to achieve the purpose of controlling the temperature in the oven, and boil water in the oven to increase the humidity of the oven, through the standard stove size, kettle laughter and other means to control the humidity in the oven.

After quantitatively controlling the temperature and humidity of the drying room through these conditions, and after repeated experiments, the drying room test team finally found the data that can dry the shipbuilding wood quickly and without causing the wood to burst.

With these data, Chen Xian was finally able to open up shipbuilding!

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