"In addition, what is the result of the negotiations between Yongxing Hou and Bo Yuanjun?"

King Xian cast an expectant gaze, and Bai Liyan stepped forward and said:

"Back to the king, the negotiation with Bo Yuanjun is quite smooth, he has basically agreed to my country's requirements, this is the form that the minister and his father have drawn up to identify, please look at it."

King Xian took the form, looked at it in a hurry, and when he saw that he was going to exchange steelmaking and shipbuilding, his expression became solemn:

"He's going to exchange the Ten Thousand Stone Ship for Steelmaking!"

"Yes, in addition, Bo Yuanjun also promised to promote the retention of enough in the Liang Kingdom."

"Absolutely not!" Lu Gao objected, and then said: "Steelmaking is the foundation of our Xian country, and the Wanshi ship cost more than 1 million new dollars, and it took nearly ten years of research to achieve, so easily obtained by Liang Guo, it will become a big disaster for my Xian country's financial resources in the future." ”

"Lord Lu is right, I have been in Xian for nearly 20 years, and the country has been established by steelmaking in the past 20 years, and the annual income is countless, if it is sought by the Liang country, it will be harmed in the future."

Promise agreed, and the prince seconded:

"The sons are also against it."

King Xian thought for a moment, and then asked Bailiyan:

"Yongxing Hou agreed?"

"Back to the king, yes."

"Why?" King Xian asked.

"King Qiyu, the minister only promised to pass on the steelmaking technique to the Liang Kingdom, but did not say what kind of steelmaking technology and which kind of steel will be passed on to them, so as long as the steelmaking cost is guaranteed to be higher than that of our country."

In the early years, the key to steelmaking was still coke and blast furnace structures, followed by steel composition control and refractories. Although coal can also make steel, the unit calorific value of coal is not as good as coke, and it cannot make good steel with lower carbon content and more stable composition, and even if it can be refined, the cost is more expensive than coke steelmaking.

Ji Feng only talks about steelmaking, but he doesn't know that "steel" is a broad definition, just like iron, iron includes pig iron, steel, and all iron-based alloys.

Yongxing City can now smelt eight grades of high, medium and low carbon steel, three varieties of manganese steel, a platinum special gun steel, a small amount of nickel and cobalt stainless steel, manufacturing gear chromium steel, spring steel, ordinary engineering steel, more than 20 kinds of grades.

Not to mention that Ji Feng is completely unclear about the definition of steel, and he does not have any ability to smelt high-grade steel in the short term. Taking a step back, the steel that Ji Feng needs in his heart is the ordinary carbon steel sold by Xianguo.

Based on this, it is only necessary to pass on the coal steelmaking law to Boyuanjun, which is equivalent to completing the agreement. Liangguo's maximum smelting capacity is only 1,000 catties, and the quality and cost of the steel produced in the future cannot compete with Xianguo's steel.

In addition, the transfer of basic industries and market development are the inevitable laws of economic development.

At present, the metallurgical capacity of various countries is in the transition of bronze and iron, and there is at least four or more technological generations with Xian, and the princes do not have a broad base of education and advanced ideas, and there is no absolute possibility of technological catch-up.

In the initial stage, the development of industry and commodity economy reached a considerable scale, and export and economic expansion were inevitable processes, because the increase in productivity changed the relations of production at the same time, but also changed the consumption in the domestic market. When there is serious overcapacity, it will inevitably expand the market. But the premise is that there is inevitable demand in the external market before consumption.

When there is a huge disparity between the external market economic environment and the production capacity exporting countries, the export of production capacity will not bring more economic benefits, but will become a capital tumor for extracting surplus value.

It's like dividing the cake, if you don't make the basic market cake bigger, the cake can only get smaller and smaller in the end, and it can't carry more consumption and circulation of goods, and at the same time, too high-end goods are often not accepted by the low-level market.

Consumers at the beginning of the twentieth century may have been able to accept smartphones in the twenty-first century, but people in B.C. must not have been able to afford the corded telephones of the early twentieth century. Because the economic wealth created by its economic output value is not enough to enable the masses to consume economic and technological products that are higher than the times, it means that the high-end market products are exported to the low-end market, and it is impossible to expand indefinitely.

Therefore, the upgrading of commodity technology and production capacity must promote the common development of the market and basic technology at the same time.

At present, the Central Plains has opened up political problems, and the main contradiction of the people is the lack of basic survival needs and productive forces, and the transfer of subordinate technologies to an appropriate degree can not only promote the improvement of the general basic productive forces, but also expand the basic market, bring more surplus primary raw materials, and in turn further promote the development of the high-level commodity market and technological progress.

When capital, market, and technology form a high-level and orderly development model, the virtuous circle of technological capital and economic capital will continue to promote technological development under the rational planning of the system, and eventually move towards a unified process with the economy as the mainstay, supplemented by military and political oppression.

At that time, wherever the railway is built, the country's territory will follow the pace of economic expansion.

These truths are incomprehensible from the current perspective, Bailiyan will not repeat them, but only talk about the core interests:

"King, even if Liang Guo obtains the method of steelmaking in the future, its quality is not as good as that of my Xianguo, and the cost is also higher, at best, it is equivalent to the steel of our Xianguo after being converted into freight tariffs, and it cannot compete with our Xianguo, at most it will be used in Liang and its surroundings, and there is absolutely no possibility of spreading to all parts of the Central Plains."

"The widow believes that what Yongxing Hou said will not be bad, but the widow is still worried that the method of steelmaking will be leaked out, and the harm brought by new firearms will affect our country in the future, can Yongxing Hou consider it?"

"Please rest assured, the method of steelmaking passed down by the minister cannot produce steel cannons in large quantities, and even if they can be made, their range and quality are not as good as those of the Type 637 artillery, let alone the latest Type 645 artillery."

"But it's still a matter of prevention." Lu Gao interjected, and then said: "At present, all the princes have a thousand catties of blast furnaces, if the Liang State has the method of steelmaking, although the cost is still higher than that of our country, but after all, it is cheaper than its own soil method to smelt iron, if you find out two thousand catties and three thousand catties of blast furnace by yourself in the future, smelt a large amount of steel, cast steel cannons, not only the price is low, but also can make a large number of steel cannons, and even sell them to the outside world." ”

General Lu rest assured that steel cast cannons are different from pig iron, bronze, and pure copper cast cannons. Liang Guo had neither such talents nor experience, and it was extremely difficult to cast steel artillery, and even if it could be cast, its yield would not be too high, and the cost would inevitably be high and unbearable. ”

Lu Gao's worries are still reasonable, the thousand-jin blast furnace has been able to form and cast six-kilogram cannons at one time, and the temperature of the two thousand-kilogram blast furnaces is properly controlled, and it can cast twelve kilograms or even eighteen kilograms of steel cannons, but it is not without prerequisites.

The composition of the molten iron and the manufacture of the mold must be effectively controlled, and the furnace temperature must be raised to a temperature close to boiling, and if it is too boiling, the material of the steel cannot meet the high chamber pressure.

Since molten iron has a worse fluidity than molten copper, too low furnace temperatures are prone to a large number of casting defects. In the early days of Changsun Kingdom, the cannon was only cast with pig iron, because the melting point of pig iron was slightly lower than that of steel, and at the same furnace temperature, the molten pig iron could obtain better fluidity. Liang Guo uses coal to make steel, there is no rated furnace temperature, and it is impossible to cast large castings.

In addition, mold manufacturing, casting process, molten iron composition control, as well as later insulation, heat treatment and flaw detection, are all technical obstacles, there is no predictable advanced concept and knowledge base, there is no huge talent group, Liang Guo can make ordinary high-carbon steel is good, casting artillery is simply a fantasy.

Lu Gao and Zhao Xun have both seen the power of the two types of artillery, and they are far more cautious about the fear of advanced technology than others, and the "technological generation gap" that has formed cannot dispel their concerns.

At this time, Zhao Xun, who has rarely spoken, said:

"The old man is not worried about the Marquis of Yongxing, but he is worried about whether the Ligong faction will privately trade with the Liang State behind my king's back, after all, it is a subsidiary sect of the Liang State, if there is collusion, the consequences are unpredictable, and it is better to be cautious about steelmaking."

"Yes, the matter of the Qianjin furnace back then was deliberately done by the Ligong faction in order to earn benefits, if they saw the money and passed on more spells to Liang Guo, I am afraid it is impossible."

Nuo Yiyan said worriedly, and King Xian nodded in agreement:

"The two Aiqing are reasonable, Yongxing Hou, you can be prepared for the Ligong faction."

"Back to the king, the Ligong faction is not to worry about it now. The minister has made an agreement with him, and there is a royal guest as a guarantee, and without the permission of the minister, any craftsmanship obtained by the Ligong faction from my Yongxing City shall not be passed on. Taking a step back, Yongxing City is no longer what it was back then, and there are countless new craftsmanship techniques under control, and the core techniques and craftsmanship are in the hands of the ministers, and there is no need to rely on the Ligong faction to maintain, on the contrary, the Ligong faction now has a request from our country, and it categorically does not dare to pass on the craftsmanship it has mastered to other countries. ”

"But people's hearts are unpredictable, and the Yuke and Ligong factions are only the first to look forward to the Son of Heaven, and what Yongxing Hou said is debatable."

The prince said, and King Xian glanced at him and said:

"Don't believe it all, but don't believe it either, what the prince said is too extreme."

"Father Wang Mingjian, that Bo Yuanjun is very treacherous, if it weren't for him this time, the transaction with Jin Xuedi would never have reached the point of today, it is clear that he had a plan."

"The conflict of interests, or for the sake of knives or fish, will inevitably have trade-offs and losses. Now we can't take care of this loss or the other because of the small loss, if the steelmaking technology can be exchanged for Liang Guo's compromise on leaving enough to give up, the widow can consider Yongxing Hou. ”

"The minister is here!"

"Is there absolute control over steelmaking?"

"Please rest assured, the method of steelmaking obtained by the Liang Kingdom will never be comparable to that of our Xian Kingdom."

"In that case, give them to them."

"The king is wise. The matter of the ten thousand stone ships, did the king follow it? ”

"Aiqing said before that Wanshi ships are divided into merchant ships and ships, and this time it should be a merchant ship for Boyuanjun."

"Yes, there is a big difference between a merchant ship and a ship, and the materials used and the time required are different, and the minister only promised to give merchant ship construction technology, but did not agree to ship construction law."

The danger of the Wanshi ship lies not in its military value, but in its commercial use.

Compared with 20,000 stone nearly 100 three-deck guns, only more than 50 two-deck guns are difficult to have an absolute chance of winning the naval battle, on the contrary, the speed of the 10,000 stone ship is higher than that of the 20,000 stone ship, and the cargo capacity is larger than the traditional 5,000 stone ship, and the speed is comparable, so the sail-powered shipping 10,000 stone ship is more suitable for freight.