After the first experimental ship was built, Chen Xian asked the sailors who had been recruited and waited for the ship to be launched to control it for sea trials in Jiaozhou Bay.

At the beginning, Chen Xian, who was very excited, ran to the boat to feel it, and he found that this kind of small boat was very bumpy at sea, even if there was no wind, just normal tidal waves, which made him seasick quickly.

The first ship first tried in Jiaozhou Bay for more than a month, and then went to the open sea for more than two months, during which the crew collected all kinds of questions according to Chen Xian's requirements.

Chen Xian compared the problem and made rounds of improvements to the design plan with the shipwrights.

Next, the construction of the second 22-meter-long, estimated displacement of 100 tons of Experimental No. 2 began.

Experiment 2 took five months to build.

After the construction of the experimental ship No. 2, Chen Xian carried more than 30 12-pound heavy cast-iron cannons onto its gun deck.

In the following months, the rumbling of cannons rang out in Jiaozhou Bay!

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Just when Chen Xian was immersed in shipbuilding, the political situation in Jin Guo was also changing.

First of all, in May, the Jin Emperor Wanyan Xun ordered to move south and move the capital to Kaifeng.

When the news of the relocation of the capital reached Shandong, it happened to be June, and after hearing the news, Yan Pingtao and his son immediately stopped all military operations, allowing Yang Anguo and Li Quan and other rebels to take a breath.

In July, Wan Yanxun ordered the crown prince to be recruited to Bianliang, clearly showing that he did not have the determination to guard the central capital, and the situation in the central capital became even more turbulent.

In September, Genghis Khan marched south again and attacked Shunzhou, citing the lack of agreement and sincerity in the relocation of the Jin emperor.

In the spring of the third year of Zhenyou, the Mongol army reappeared under the central capital.

In May, the left deputy marshal Pingzhang erased all his loyalty and fled from Zhongdu, and the right prime minister and marshal Wanyan Chenghui committed suicide by taking poison, and Zhongdu then fell!

After the Mongols occupied Zhongdu, they had no intention of occupying it for a long time, and after plundering it, they set fire to the city and returned to the steppe.

After this toss, Jin's control over North China and Shandong was rapidly weakened, and Chen Xian did not hesitate to order a new round of unbridled rapid expansion.

Chen Xian quickly and comprehensively took control of the area he had previously asked Wanyan Pingtao to demarcate, including the county seat, and after a short rest, he sent troops north to attack Mizhou and Weizhou.

Wanyan Pingtao did not dare to confront Chen Xian, so he had to retreat to Yizhou.

Chen Xian's army quickly occupied Weizhou and Mizhou, and continued to advance eastward, into the Laizhou region occupied by Yang Anguo.

Li Quan, who was stationed in Laiyang, led his army to block the front of Chen Xian's troops, and he was immediately defeated at the touch of a button, and even he himself was pursued to death by Chen Xian's cavalry.

The panicked Yang Anguo sent someone to plead with Yang Miaozhen, hoping that he could persuade Chen Xian to withdraw from the army.

Since Yang Miaozhen repelled Yan Pingtao, he has been stationed in Jiaoshui County, which is later known as Pingdu City, in accordance with Chen Xian's order.

The reason why Chen Xian let Yang Miaozhen occupy Jiaoshui County is for the graphite here.

In the past, Chen Xian bought graphite from Yang Anguo, and since Yang Anguo raised the flag to rebel, the supply of graphite to Chen Xian has been intermittent, which has a great impact on Chen Xian's development plan.

Yang Miaozhen, who has a certain understanding of Chen Xian's industrial system, is very clear about the importance of graphite to Chen Xian, so she is very attentive to the graphite mining task assigned by Chen Xian.

Since Yang Miaozhen took the lead in glue, Chen Xian's graphite supply has increased tenfold.

With enough graphite, Chen Xian has built several crucible steel mills in a row, and with sufficient crucible steel production, Chen Xian's large number of hydraulic factories have sufficient supply of tool steel, which has improved the efficiency of Chen Xian's hydroelectric factories a lot.

In addition to the crucible steel mill, with sufficient supply of graphite, Chen Xian's heat-resistant materials have also made great progress, and the quality and life of the newly manufactured blast furnace and refining furnace have been improved to a certain extent.

Chen Xian also mass-produced pencils with graphite, which was used to replace the difficult and inconvenient brushes.

After receiving Yang Anguo's letter for help, Yang Miaozhen immediately led more than 1,000 cavalry under his command to Laizhou City.

For Yang Miaozhen's arrival, Laizhou City naturally welcomed the whole city and welcomed Yang Miaozhen in.

After entering the city, Yang Miaozhen led the cavalry straight to Yang Anguo's imperial city, and then she took Yang Anguo's imperial city in one go, and served all the courtiers and courtiers under Yang Anguo.

After that, Yang Miaozhen escorted Yang Anguo and his ministers, went straight to Chen Xian's newly built Qingdao City, handed over his brother and clansmen to Chen Xian, and asked him to send them.

Regarding Yang Miaozhen's righteous performance of killing relatives, Chen Xian naturally couldn't help but express something.

Yang Miaozhen is not only Chen Xian's wife, she is also recognized as the first fierce general under Chen Xian, and has a very high reputation in Chen Xianjun.

However, Chen Xian is not embarrassed about this matter, because in his eyes, Yang Anguo is just a clown who jumps off the beam, let alone spare his life, even if he lets the "tiger" return to the mountain, Chen Xian will not blink an eye.

Therefore, Chen Xian very generously returned the disposal rights of Yang Anguo and his subordinates to Yang Miaozhen.

And this time, Yang Miaozhen once again showed Chen Xian her shocking ruthlessness and decisiveness.

Yang Miaozhen directly executed most of Yang Anguo's subordinates, including many members of the Yang family, and even Yang Miaozhen's uncles and brothers!

According to Yang Miaozhen, these people are all stupid people with the same skills and ambitions as Yang Anguo, and if they don't kill these people, the Yang family will never be able to live in peace.

After clearing the restless elements within the Yang family, Yang Miaozhen sent the remaining Yang family, some of them to Yiyuan for resettlement, and some of the young people into his all-round cavalry team.

As for Yang Anguo, he was thrown to Chen Xian again by Yang Miaozhen, and he asked Chen Xian to put his brother under house arrest, lest he accidentally kill himself.

After this incident, the Jiaodong Peninsula all fell into Chen Xian's pocket.

After taking the Jiaodong Peninsula, Chen Xian began to build a defensive line on the periphery of the peninsula.

Chen Xian plans that in the next few years, he will not continue to expand outward, but digest internally.

In the past two years, Chen Xian has expanded too fast, and the team he cultivated before has been very thin, and if he continues to expand, it is likely to cause his rule to get out of control.

In addition, on the one hand, the situation in Jinguo collapsed, the purchasing power of all aspects declined, and on the other hand, Chen Xian's production capacity was constantly expanding, which caused Chen Xian's factory products to begin to oversupply and began to backlog.

Chen Xian needed to find a new market for his goods.

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