"The power of this firearm is so powerful, the accuracy is far above the bow and arrow, if all the weapons are fired at once, all the people will be wiped out in an instant."

Lu Gao said in surprise, and Zhao Xun nodded in affirmation:

"Yes, even the Zhijun is not as good as the crossbow. Yongxing Hou, can this device be made more? ”

"It can be built, but it is not mature at the moment, and the cost is high."

"How much does that cost?" Zhao Xun asked.

"Thirty-five inches of silver, or forty to forty-two new dollars. This is still a cost, if you purchase internally, you also need to leave some profits for additional equipment, so you have to add another 20% of the cost. ”

After some cost accounting, Lu Gao was taken aback:

"So expensive!"

"Yes. At present, it is actively improving, if this year can greatly increase the number of machinery in Yongxing City, the second half of next year may be able to try to make a batch. When other craftsmen are proficient, the price will be reduced by at least half or even two-thirds, so it is not recommended to manufacture it immediately. Waiting for a year or two to rebuild is not only cheaper, but also more productive. ”

"But now that all countries have equipped firearms for soldiers, although the accuracy is a little worse, but the power cannot be underestimated.

Zhao Xun said worriedly, and Bai Liyan answered:

"The firearms used by the soldiers of various countries are uneven, and they are relatively inferior, and the accuracy difference is not the most fatal, the most important thing is that the loading is slow and the firing rate is slow, the firing rate is not high, and the threat is not too great. However, our Xianguo now has a new type of artillery to rely on, which can cover the enemy with a barrage eight or even ten miles away, and can destroy our army before it can attack it, and it is almost difficult to form an effective threat to our army.

Taking a step back, the vassal states were able to produce only a few thousand qualified firearms for war soldiers each year, and the cost was too high to be used in a comprehensive manner, so there would not be a situation in which 100,000 or even hundreds of thousands of people would be universally distributed, so the threat was not very great. ”

The princes are still keen on "casting" tubular firearms, and subject to the current technical bottlenecks such as smelting, mining, casting, abrasives, heat treatment, and concept cognition, the qualification rate of copper cast firearms is actually not high, coupled with the large weight, more coal and metal consumption, the cost of manufacturing a shoulder-mounted individual firearm is not cheap.

Therefore, countries now focus on the development of plug-in short-barreled firearms, which are inserted into the head of the gun to launch projectiles and irons, similar to the early gunpowder pear flower gun and the three-eyed gun and one-eyed gun of the Ming Dynasty.

In terms of quantity, the output of long and short firearms is less than 2,000 pieces, and the output of many firearms, such as Zhiguo, Jinguo, and Weiguo, which have strong national strength and complete systems, ranges from 5,000 to 6,000 pieces per year.

In the past three years, the total number of firearms of all kinds equipped by various countries will not exceed 60,000, and with the stock in the past, the total number will be around 80,000 or 90,000 pieces, which will be evenly distributed among the major countries, and the number of firearms in possession will only be 10,000 or 20,000 pieces.

After seeing the rifle shooting, Bailiyan led the two to inspect various workshops in the city, and the steam-powered machinery amazed the two of them.

"Zhao Shuai, now more than sixty percent of the machinery in Yongxing City uses this kind of steam engine that burns coal and boils water to produce hot gas as an external force to drive these machines to work, so that it is very convenient to cut gold and iron."

"Well, every year it comes, and it's very different every year. Four years ago, there were thousands of livestock, but now it is hard to imagine that all of them are heaters, and it is hard to imagine that such an amazing device can be powered only by burning coal. It seems that he lived up to the fact that he kept you by his side back then, and if he let you go, I'm afraid these would be exiled to Qi country. ”

"Alas......"

Bai Liyan sighed, and Lu Gao asked incomprehensibly:

"Hasn't the Marquis of Yongxing ever thought of doing what he can for his mother country?"

"It's not that I haven't thought about it, it's just that the country has no geographical advantages, let alone national strength, the surrounding countries dominate the West Sea, and the Jin State garrisons the capital, it is very difficult to create a situation in Yongxing City, and Qi Wangyan can tolerate my life, I'm afraid that if I don't wait for me to display my talents, I will be killed by the Jin people in conspiracy.

Therefore, if he had returned to Qiguo back then, I am afraid that he would have died a long time ago. On the contrary, the Xian country has a favorable geographical advantage, and it can maneuver between the countries to get a respite, and then seek change and strength. Later, he encountered the Black Turban Rebellion, which gave him the opportunity to make a deed, otherwise he would have practiced medicine for the rest of his life. ”

Zhao Xun twisted his white beard and listened as he walked, and suddenly said:

"There is one thing that Ben Shuai has been thinking about for a long time, and he has never understood why, so I just asked you here today."

"Zhao Shuai, please speak." Bai Liyan said frankly.

"I think that when you were in the Jin Kingdom as a proton, it was Wang Yanfei's fault, and the King of Jin later cut him by one level and degraded him to the south of the Jin Kingdom, which is said to be an explanation to the Qi Kingdom. And your Yan Gongzi has such a talent, why didn't Jin Guo see through your talent, but made enemies with you. If the king of Jin marries Xihuan to you as his wife, the current Jin kingdom is afraid that it will dominate the Central Plains early.

Ben Shuai has been thinking about this for many years and has never been puzzled, can you tell Ben Shuai, why? ”

Zhao Xun brought up the old things again, and suddenly felt a little sad. After a little deliberation, Bailiyan said:

"Actually...... When I was nine years old, my uncle Kuo killed me with Xihuan's design, and later had to pretend to be crazy and stupid in order to survive. Fortunately, the family teacher Sai Qian and Master Wu Shu passed by Pingtang City to accept me as an apprentice, and they escaped. After that, I concentrated on studying medicine and chatting with the world's hundreds of craftsmen. As for the Jin Kingdom's eyes, I'm afraid only God knows.

Later, Zhao Shuai also knew that during the battle of Jiangdong, after getting out, the Jin Dynasty stationed troops in the name of escorting the coffin in the name of my death in order to seize the land of Qiguo in the West Sea, and pinned his hopes on annexing Qiguo in the future, and then marched from the east and west wings and swept the world.

Therefore, Xihuan should have married my brother Baililu back then, if so, most of the current Qiguo is already owned by the Jin State. Catching up with the Black Turban Rebellion, the Jin State was not affected, and the Jin army should have defeated the Wei State at this time and occupied a large amount of land, forming a situation of east-west attack. ”

"In this way, it is inevitable that you will be exiled in Xianguo back then." Zhao Xun asked.

"Exactly, if you don't escape, you will surely die. I wanted to wait for the war to end, and I didn't want to be arrested by Ding Su, thinking that it was all caused by an accident. ”

"Alas......" Zhao Xun sighed with his hand, and said: "I think you were only sixteen back then, but now twenty-five or six years have passed in a flash, like a dream...... Ben is old... Xianguo can have today's prosperous world, and you have contributed a lot.

I remember that you boasted to the king that you went to Haikou, revived the Xianguo in 20 years, and could hegemon the industry in 40 years, and now in the past 20 years, the Xianguo has also won the land of the four counties, and the hegemony will be completed, and the commander is deeply gratified......"

Zhao Xun sighed with infinite emotion, looking forward to the territory of Xianguo in 20 years, and he also knew that he could not see the world in 20 years.

That night, the three of them drank until late at night, and opened up the conversation box to talk about it for 20 years, in order to comfort Zhao Xun's inseparable feelings in his heart.

In the next few days, Bailiyan traveled to Yongxing and Chenling, and began to formulate construction plans and monetary policies.

At the end of March, news came from Zhiguo that Mooney's entry was imminent, so he led the forbidden army to Chunan County with Jiao Muhua and Figos to welcome Mooney's entry.

The ice cream workshop of Gudappa and Figoson son-in-law has flourished, especially four years ago, after Yongxing City upgraded the ice-making project, the use of booms, grippers, rollers, mixers, and copper plate molds has greatly facilitated the production of ice and enabled large-scale production.

With the same scale of labor, the production capacity has increased by more than 20 times, and the production capacity has been increased last year, and now it is not only supplied to the elite, but also to the middle-class people and densely populated shops, and ice cubes are in short supply every summer.

As a result, Gudapa's small ice cream workshop expanded its business and raised its own workshop, and also enclosed land outside the city to breed a large number of "pack cattle" to obtain milk to make ice cream.

The "pack ox" is a very strange breed of cattle, this kind of cattle is huge, but the meat yield is very small, the whole body is covered in skin and bones, and there is no hair. It is mainly produced in the hot areas of the north of the Changsun country.

And the paradox is that this kind of cow eats a lot, but its strength is not as good as that of a horse, but it produces a lot of milk.

The Changsun people do not breed pack cattle for farming, but after milking, they are stuffed in clay pots and fermented for several days, and after a few days, the milk is rotten, instead of turning into yogurt, and the rotted milk is taken out and poured into the pot to boil, and then it is stuffed into the clay jar again and closed for secondary fermentation.

After the second fermentation, the taste changes, the rotten smell becomes lighter, and the smell is aromatic and has a special dairy taste.

At this time, the dairy products are tofu-shaped, take them out, mix them with salt, mix them thoroughly, then pour in honey or sugar, dried fruits, and finally press into the module and place them in the scorching sun for several days, and they can be made into milk cubes after thorough drying.

The finished milk cubes are stored in clay pots and immersed in vegetable oil to be sealed, which will not rot under high temperature and heat, and can be stored for several years, and can be placed for a longer time in low temperature areas.

It has a unique taste, is extremely high in calories, and even more valuable is that there are very few dairy products that can be stored at high temperatures for a long time, and this long-term grandson cheese is an exception. Its high calories and nutrients are suitable for marching food, and it has long been exported to various parts of the Central Plains as a trade commodity and is very popular.

Bailiyan knew that there was such a pack ox, so she imported some from Changsun Country, but it is a pity that the Xianguo environment cannot make Changsun's milk blocks, most of which are related to the climate and the special local flora, otherwise it is impossible to explain the secret that dairy products do not rot in the tropics.

In order to study astronomical phenomena and break some superstitious ideas, especially the legend of the moon god, Bailiyan funded the construction of an observatory in Miaotian Mountain the year before last, and customized two 100-fold large-aperture astronomical telescopes for astronomical observations.

When they arrived at the capital city of the county capital of Chunan County, it was already the beginning of April, and the forbidden army of King Xian was equipped with good war horses, and the galloping roads after the whole country were leveled extended in all directions, and the gallop all the way can be described as fast.

In the first war in the south, the war reparations obtained by the Xian State were visible benefits, and the invisible benefits were political and military influence that money could not buy.

The pasture privileges obtained by the Xian State in the south have largely solved the problem of raising horses and livestock, otherwise over the years, the commodities that need to be paid for the purchase of horses are converted into hundreds of thousands of dollars, which would have been unimaginable thirty years ago, but with the horse farm, everything is easily solved.

When arriving at the palace capital, the border pass came to report, Mooney and his party entered the border under the escort of the royal guest, had passed Tuoxiang City, and was coming to Yongcheng, Bailiyan then went south to Suicheng, and two days later met with Mooney and Gongliangxiu north of Suicheng.