Now in this world, there is no killer weapon at the bottom of the box in his hand are embarrassed to come out to eat mixed rice, Wei Guo and the eldest grandson have "secret weapons" in their hands, one has no one in his eyes who is invincible in the world, and the other does not know the height of the sky and pretends to be calm, and after a big fight, Wei Guo's cowhide is blown in front, and the result is broken two front teeth, holding back his strength and not buying it, the eldest grandson was proud for a long time, but was slapped on the face, and no one really bargained.

In fact, in the final analysis, a new weapon certainly affects the course of the war, but it is not the whole factor that determines the war, and unless the number and system of the new weapon achieve an overwhelming superiority, it is still the existing military system and the military force that will determine the war.

Putting aside the clamping of the Overlord Cannon, the Changsun National Infantry Army is a piece of, and it is definitely not an opponent of the country. Now the defense of the country not only has white phosphorus, but will soon imitate the overlord cannon that has no technology at all, and when he is still a human being, he will not lift a stone to hit his own feet, and he will not be able to cry out for pain when he is in pain.

Ji Jinsheng was very detailed, and then changed the conversation and said Jin Jun:

"However, our northern army has already crossed the sea by boat and successively went to Qiguo, and the total strength of the Qi army will reach more than 300,000 after the convergence of the Qi army.

"Is the Qi army reliable? How did Hongu hear that the Qi army was also vulnerable. ”

"In fact, the customs and customs of the countries of the West Sea are similar, and the five countries of Qi, Zhao, Chen, Yan, and Wei were once one country, so the people of Qiguo are almost the same as those who defend the country, and the reason why Qiguo is not as good as Weiguo is that the national strength is weak, and the second is that the armor is not fine. In that year, the four countries of the West Sea were all bronze weapons, and there was very little armor, and the defense of the country had 100,000 iron heavy infantry and more than 100,000 light and heavy cavalry.

However, since the production of iron tools in the Xian Kingdom, the price of iron was extremely cheap, benefiting the princes of various countries. Qi Guo is also equipped with iron weapons, and since last year, the trade between Xian and Qi has increased sharply, and the export of weapons from Xian to Qi has increased significantly, and it only takes another half a year and a year, and fifty percent of Qi Guo's combat strength will not be lost to Wei Guo. At that time, the Jinqi coalition will attack in the West Sea, and the defense of the country will be difficult to take care of. ”

"But will the royal brother send troops to the country?" Xihuan was highly suspicious of Ji Jun's sincerity in sending troops, and she did not think that her brother would be merciful and sacrifice the lives of his soldiers for the sake of other countries.

At this time, Ji Jinsheng said again:

Although Ma Zhongning explained in detail, with his subordinates' understanding of the king and Fan Xiang, he would definitely not return empty-handed when he sent 150,000 troops to Qiguo. His subordinates dared to speculate that the king might want to unite the countries of the West Sea to attack the country together, and at the same time seek a foothold in the West Sea. ”

"There are already soldiers stationed in Qiguo, how do you want to gain a foothold?"

"Perhaps it is to cut off the land of the defending country and compensate it to the countries of the West Sea, and then the king will ask for the land from the countries, so as to include it in the territory of the Jin Kingdom, and from then on lay a foundation in the West Sea, so that in the future, it will be relied on to attack the country."

"It's all the way, can this work?"

"This is the strategy set by the old prime minister of the old uncle, and now the defense of the country is very, and my Jin country is sitting on the two countries of Xian and Zhi, how can it not affect the locality. Although the king's move is far away from the ocean, as long as it is managed, it will be successful in the future, and more than half of the land of the country will be obtained by our Jin Kingdom, and the unification of the Central Plains can be determined from now on. Her Royal Highness the Princess's exploits in controlling the Xianguo will also go down in history for centuries. ”

"What General Ji said this palace understands, but this palace is worried about whether the eldest grandson country can hold out until our northern army arrives in Qiguo, and don't want the northern army to arrive, so the eldest grandson will ask me for help, and this matter will be troublesome."

"This ......" Ji Jinsheng hesitated, and he also began to worry about whether the eldest grandson could hold out until after this autumn. After thinking for a while, he said: "If the eldest grandson asks my king for help in advance, he can only transfer the remaining northern army to reinforcements, and he must pull the Xian country, otherwise the result will be unpredictable." ”

Hearing this, Xihuan frowned:

"King Xian has never expressed his position so far, the palace sees that Baili Yan must have made a secret plan with King Xian, sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, and wants to wait for the defense of the country and the eldest grandson to fight when both are defeated, how can they pull Baili Yan to send troops."

"The key remains in the country. His subordinate Guan Baili Yan has sharply increased his trade with Qi Guo since last year, and sold a large number of the latest iron farm tools and steel weapons and armor to Qi Guo, although it is traded in the name of Xian Guo, but if there is no Bai Li Yan to promote, how can it give Qi Guo benefits.

His subordinates judged that Bai Liyan's sudden increase in trade and iron exports to the country must have been anticipating a battle between the country and the eldest grandson, so he strengthened the military strength of the country in order to help the country regain the lost territory in the future. ”

"I haven't seen him lend a helping hand for so many years, but Bai Liyan suddenly had such selfish intentions in this matter, how can this palace feel that there is something else hidden in it. This palace expects that he Baili Yan is not a selfish person, and he will never be so kind to secretly help the country, there must be a reason why I don't know. ”

"Even if there is, the country of Qi is thousands of miles away, and it is all under the control of the king, so what big waves can it make. According to the current situation, the situation is favorable to our Jin Kingdom. Since Bai Liyan intends to secretly help the country, he might as well use this as a condition in the future to ask him to send troops. ”

"On what terms?" Xihuan asked.

"In the future, the countries of the West Sea will send troops to fight for the defense of the country to recover the lost territory, and this opportunity can be used to make the country cut a few more pieces of land to defend the country, which can also be regarded as a benefit to the country. He can't open his eyes and watch other countries eat meat and drink soup, and his home country doesn't even have bones to eat. ”

Xihuan pondered and nodded slightly:

"Yes, this plan is good, but Bailiyan is a Qi person after all, what if the country gets out of control in the future, wouldn't it be in vain to make a wedding dress for Bailiyan."

"Your Royal Highness, you can rest assured, now that King Xian is old and the prince's position is stable, as long as the prince ascends the throne, he will be eliminated immediately!"

Ji Jinsheng said decisively, Xihuan was worried:

"I'm afraid it's not appropriate to kill him, now Bailiyan is not what it used to be, if there is no full excuse to kill him, I am afraid that it will be taboo in the world, not to mention that there are two factions of Yuke and Ligong."

"If you can't kill him, he will be expelled from the court, sent to the mausoleum to guard the mausoleum, and put him under house arrest until death, and will never suffer in the future."

"General Ji didn't say it, but the palace forgot about it. This plan is very good, let him go to guard the tomb at that time. In addition, Ji Feng's old fox can find out the truth, and the hundreds of craftsmen in Liang Guo can know what is going on? ”

"Liang Guo and his entourage are extremely strict, and they are like skilled craftsmen in the Inner Mansion of the Son of Heaven, the Imperial Division, and the Ordnance Division. According to the information found by his subordinates, Ji Feng's trip seems to be buying some machine, but it is not clear what he is buying. ”

"Ji Feng is a good person, when the Central Plains was in drought, he went to my Jin country to raise grain, but he took away the high-grade brewing method from Bailiyan, and then made a lot of money. Now that he has been in and out of Yongxing City several times, he must have taken a fancy to something good from Bailiyan, and he has always been strange after several months.

Now it seems that Bai Liyan must agree to sell the money-making method in Yongxing City to Ji Feng, otherwise how can he recruit Liang Guo's skilled craftsmen. ”

Xihuan was already guessing the inside story between his words, and suddenly his mind turned to his heart:

"General Ji, you said that Baili Yan can sell Yongxing secrets to Bai Li Yan, but will you sell them to my Jin Kingdom?"

Ji Jinsheng was taken aback and was busy denying:

"I'm afraid not. Bailiyan and our Jin country have a life-and-death enmity, and they can control their sharp weapons against the enemy. ”

"Then why don't you ask Bo Yuanjun to do it for you and come forward to buy it for the palace?"

"This ...... It's not impossible, it's just that Liang Guo has always been two-faced and three-faced, if Ji Feng betrayed His Highness behind his back, if Bailiyan did something under his anger, the consequences would be unpredictable. ”

"Huh!" Xihuan sneered: "King Xian is old, and he may return to the West one day, what can he do." ”

"Since Your Highness thinks so, then why don't you wait for King Xian to return to heaven for two years, why rush to anger Bailiyan for a while."

According to my uncle, in terms of financial strength, the national strength of Xianguo has long surpassed that of my Jin country, and the grain production is not inferior to me, and my Jin country is not as good as it. If this continues, waiting for one more year will be a trade-off, and I don't know what will happen in two years. If it is two years slower than Liang Guo, how will you know that Liang Guo is not the second salty country in the future.

There is no need to discuss this matter anymore, and it will be arranged immediately, and the palace will personally interview Ji Feng, and it will definitely act in secret. ”

"My subordinates understood."

……

At this time, Yongxing City is busy with production, the processing workshop is busy with production, Bailiyan yesterday handed over the drawings to the Yongxing Design Agency, the Technology Department, together with the metallurgical research without conscience, the next day non-stop to verify the production progress.

The total value of Ji Feng's orders is as high as 3.4 million gold and silver treasures, and his appetite is huge, even if production starts in the second half of the year, half of the production capacity will be adjusted to produce foreign orders, and all the orders will be delivered after two years at the earliest. For this reason, Bailiyan could only move his eyes back to the night shift, invest 100 pieces of silver, and offer a reward for the technology to solve the night lighting.

As a result, 23 plans were collected one after another, and two of them were screened and put into action.

The first was to renovate the lighthouse, which was used for shipping guidance and brought it into the city for lighting.

Ten years ago, in order to facilitate shipping and port guidance, a number of lighthouses were built one after another, using fragmented tinned glass as a reflector in the background, and heavy oil as fuel in the middle to amplify the light.

The second solution is to use a washboard lens, a glass similar to a Fresnel lens, which is attached to the ignition source to focus the light source and can be projected over a long distance.

Bailiyan combined the two into one, using tinned fragment mirror as reflector, Philippine washboard lens as focuser, using gasoline and diesel as fuel, adding chemical accelerants to increase brightness, and avoiding the carbon deposition generated by burning heavy oil to blacken the lens, so ten steps away from both sides of the workshop, every three steps to build a high lighting platform to provide lighting for the workshop. The effect is not bad, but the gasoline and diesel consumed are painful.

Looking at the lighthouses at night, the sky around me inevitably thought:

"With such a huge lamp, how much lamp oil will be burned in one night."

Baili Yan frowned and said:

"It's not much, it's less than 400 wen a lamp a night."

"Four hundred wen!" Zhou Kong was taken aback: "Such a large workshop is thirty lighthouses, and it is twelve new coins in one night, and you can buy more than ten stones of white rice." ”

"Almost, more than 100 more such lampstands will be built in the whole city, and some will be built in the future, so that the amount of oil money for burning oil every day in the future will be fifty or sixty yuan, which is twenty-two or three thousand yuan a year, which is equivalent to the purchasing power of 50,000 inches of silver twenty years ago, and it is really expensive to be able to prepare a heavy armored iron infantry army of six or seven thousand people back then."

"Is it worth such a fee, and where does the money come from?"

Bai Liyan suddenly stopped, and looked at Zhou Kong's surprised face affectionately:

"When did you see that your husband suffered a loss, all this money was naturally paid by Bo Yuanjun, where can you have this Hou upside down."