The eldest grandson of the Northern Expedition of the Wei Kingdom, the key is still in the attitude of the Xian State, the Zhi State is now in constant internal troubles, and its land area has exceeded the limit of its national strength, even if the Liang State promised to cut off the land from the Wei State, the result can only be a burden, and it may also make a wedding dress for the Gongliang clan, so the possibility of the Zhi State sending troops is extremely low.

And can send troops, and have the strength to send troops only the Jin and Xian countries, even if the cavalry of Xu State is powerful, but the black scarf, the southern two battles of Xu State elite lost, the population died out millions of yuan of anger, and at this time there is no time to fight with the country.

The Jin State has no geographical advantages, it can be the icing on the cake will not send charcoal in the snow, it will use troops in the West Sea at most, and it has no actual benefits in the Central Plains, and the Changsun State will contribute some money and food at most, and there is no other benefit, if the Liang State wants to defeat the Wei State, only the Xian State can directly send troops to solve the problem.

Bailiyan previously wanted to make Wei and the eldest grandson stumble, and take this time to adjust the domestic industry to accumulate strength. Wei Guo also defeated the eldest grandson as soon as possible, forced him to compromise and cede the land, and quickly withdrew from the war to the east to prevent Xianguo's plan to suddenly send troops, so Xianguo and Wei Guo had room for compromise, but underestimated that Liang Guo wanted to put Xianguo on the iron drill and put it on the fire to barbecue.

If Xianguo and Weiguo tear their faces apart, and Xianguo annexes several counties and counties of Weiguo, regardless of the need for financial tilt and subsidies in the future, it will drag down the domestic economy.

After the collapse of the country, the Liang State will ignite the civil strife in Zhi, when the Xianguo and the Zhiguo are better, the war will inevitably affect the Xianguo, no matter who is sent to help, it will inevitably offend one side, if you do not send troops to maintain neutrality, no matter who wins or loses in the future, the relationship with the Xianguo will not be the same as before. Therefore, it seems that it is a good deal to seize the land of the country, but in fact, people have already calculated and waited for you to jump into the fire pit yourself.

The current Weiguo is like a wall that is pushed by others, Liang Guo is an invisible foundation under the ground, and more than half of the first to push the wall was crushed to death by the wall.

In the early years, Wu destroyed the Lu State, and was finally pushed down by Sun Guo, and then Sun Guo pushed down the Law State, but was pushed down by Zhiguo in the future, and Zhiguo was besieged by the Central Plains coalition army in the future and his vitality was greatly injured, so whoever pushed the wall was unlucky.

What's even worse is that the crisis in the north is imminent, and the smoky miasma in the Central Plains is not making a living, which is not the result that Bailiyan wants to see

Zong Botai saw the situation of the first bird shot by the gun, and it was not appropriate to completely knock down the country, but to leave the country to fall by himself and crush the root of the wall of the Liang country.

Seeing that Xianguo had no intention of tearing down the wall of defending the country, Liang Guo was probably more anxious than the eldest grandson at that time.

While talking to Zong Botai, Wei Qi walked quickly to the courtyard to report:

"The two generals of Qiyu Marquis, Chen Qu and Chen Dian, have arrived."

"Oh, great, please come in."

"No."

After Chen Qu and Chen Dian's father and son returned from the sea, they were ordered by Baili Yan to immediately lead a fleet to escort the delivery ship to Liang State to receive gold ore after repairing for half a month. In view of the strong navy of Xian, which attracted the fear of various countries, Bailiyan asked his father and son to order the fleet to cruise in the open sea, and the father and son came ashore from Tianyun Harbor, northeast of Jinye City, to meet him.

The navy of the Xianguo State has a total of more than 700 heavy naval guns. Chen Qu and Chen Dian came with only eight Wanshi warships, carrying about 440 guns, and suddenly appeared in the capital of Liang State, which inevitably caused panic and uproar.

Looking at the Central Plains now, there are only a handful of princes who can have 400 bronze cannons, and at this time, 440 naval cannons are moored in the port of Jinye, which coincides with the accession of the Son of Heaven to the throne, and politically it is obviously embarrassing to the Son of Heaven, and the impact is too bad.

After a while, Wei Qi led the Chen family's father and son over, and Bai Liyan stepped forward and raised his hand to salute:

"The two generals came from afar, and Ben Hou didn't have time to greet them in person, and I hope the two generals will forgive me."

"The Marquis of Yongxing is on the mission of the king, and he should have come at the end, how dare he bother the Hou Ye to come in person, and the last general will be polite to the dog."

The father and son of the Chen family bowed and saluted, Bailiyan hurriedly helped the two, and returned the salute:

"The two generals are exempt, please go to the house with Ben Hou to sit down for a while."

"Xie Yongxinghou!"

After a polite greeting, Bai Liyan led the two of them to the central hall to rest, and asked Wei Qi to prepare some meat and tea for the two to enjoy.

"Two generals, did you go well all the way?"

Bai Liyan asked, Chen Qu swallowed the beef in his mouth and hurriedly said:

"It's winter now, and the North Sea is very difficult for the small boat, but our military ship has heavy cannons and projectiles in the bilge, and it can be suppressed, so there is no need to dock at the port all the way, which saves a lot of trouble. After Tianyun landed on the shore, the last general had ordered people to buy vegetables, fruits, and fresh meat to supply the ships to avoid illness. ”

"Well, that's the right thing to do. Although Ben Hou did not make you wait to dock at the port, you should eat fresh vegetables and fruits as much as possible, and although the oranges and canned food on the ship can solve the problem, it is not good to eat too much. ”

"What Master Hou said is that if you eat too many oranges and glass cans, you will be tired of panicking, and it will be okay to go to sea for ten days and half a month, and then if you eat it every day, you will vomit. Fortunately, every time the sailors go to sea and return to work, they are rotated to go ashore, and the salary is much higher, otherwise no one will do this drudgery. ”

"That's right, the navy is much more bitter, food, disease, wind and waves are all threats, if the sailors are badly treated, it is the fault of the imperial court. By the way, how did you eat the tin cans that were distributed to you on your last voyage? ”

"Master Hou didn't say that the last general forgot it, the last tin cans were really good, and the sailors were full of praise, but most of the first batch of cans were broken after they were opened, so they all threw the last general into the sea."

"yes, it seems that the shelf life is indeed shorter."

After Ruitian produced glass cans, Bailiyan began to germinate the production of tinplate, which is tinplate cans.

In principle, the can is very simple, is a cylinder with two tank bottoms, the actual operation of the technology is much more complicated, must solve the tank body taking machine and filling sealing machine, the tank body is relatively easy to solve more, the real difficulty is the filling sealing, for which it takes three months to solve the problem of filling leakage, and finally the filling glue.

The sealing of cans does not depend entirely on the stamping tightness of the cans themselves, and the quality of the filling glue also affects the airtightness of the cans. Bailiyan uses fish maw glue and industrial peach glue and leather glue to make sealing glue to solve the filling and sealing.

Due to the lack of electroplating equipment, the tinplate was chemically tinned, and a special tinning pool was built to immerse the plate in it and take it out after the chemical reaction was completed. This basically solves the source of tinplate, but the efficiency is much lower than that of electroplating.

Of course, it is also possible to plate the cans with tin, but the stamped tight joints will still retain the iron surface and will still rust and rot after filling the liquid.

The empty cans will be sent to the cleaning workshop for water cleaning, then sent to high temperature steam sterilization, after filling food, and finally through high temperature steam sterilization, and sealing the cans on the sealing machine. After several process improvements and adjustments, the iron canning process is basically formed, but the shelf life is still unsatisfactory.

There are six kinds of canned food distributed to Chen Qu to try, each variety is 10,000 listens, respectively, hard biscuits, luncheon meat, braised beef, braised pork, crystal oranges, peaches, there are three batches of shelf life, the earliest batch is March 646, the most recent batch is April this year, the first batch of canned crystal oranges and peaches last year are all rotten, braised beef, braised pork is mixed, only luncheon meat and hard biscuits survived.

Bailiyan felt that the fruit spoiled so quickly, and the problem was still that the fruit deteriorated quickly in the initial processing stage, and at the same time, there was a lack of refrigeration and sanitation equipment, and the tank processing was flawed, and it could not be ruled out that it had rotted after several months of sealing.

There is no doubt that the rot of braised pork and braised beef is flawed in the processing of the tank. As for why luncheon meat and biscuits are not bad, it is also easy to understand, luncheon meat is too salty, fat density is high, even if there is a slight air leak in the tank, the fat is easy to plug the gap to form wax, while hard biscuits are pure dry goods without moisture, and the impact of air leakage will not be great.

Ruitian currently has two can-making and sealing lines put into production, each line can produce more than 600 cans per day, and can produce more than 35,000 cans in a month, mainly producing shelf-stable biscuits and luncheon meat, with fewer fruits and meat products, and the output of steam engine-driven canning machines, the overall production capacity is much lower than that of modern electrified automation and even intelligent canning lines.

After learning about the naval construction from Chen Qu, Bailiyan changed his words and told him about the affairs of the armpit people, and the reaction of the Chen family father and son was surprisingly consistent with the public opinion in the market, and they only thought it was a rumor that bewitched the public, but under Bailiyan's repeated confirmation, Chen Qu could no longer laugh.

"The monster is so powerful, how can we still live, isn't Hou Ye joking."

"It's not that Benhou is looking for you General Chen is happy, now there is a royal guest as evidence, and the heavenly ship of Changsun Country did not fall from the sky, and the artillery gunpowder that has appeared in the Central Plains over the years has all originated from the armpit people. Now that the situation is imminent, the Navy should speed up its training. After returning to China this time, Benhou will immediately transfer additional inland sailors to your navy, and the naval strength should be increased by four to five times within three years. ”

"So much!" Chen Qu was taken aback, exchanged glances with his son Chen Dian, thought for a moment and then said: "But there are not so many 10,000-stone warships right now, and the only 20,000-stone ship has just been launched, and it can't be delivered immediately, how can it cope with the war in three or five years." ”

"General Chen doesn't need to worry about the warships, it's really not good, and at that time, he will have to make up two hundred ships to requisition Wanshi merchant ships."

Due to the constraints of industrial scale and the shortage of shipbuilders, the high cost of warships and artillery allocation, the existence of a funding gap for large-scale construction and future maintenance and military salary expenditures, the rapid expansion of the navy in the short term is bound to become a burden to the Xian country, dragging down the economic development.

The initial goal was to establish the first main fleet capable of self-defense and ocean-going operations in 20 years, so the plan was set according to 20 years, and at present there were fewer warships to be built, and more civilian ships were built, so that the profits of civilian ships could be used to feed the navy, and at the same time, the national treasury coordinated appropriations to solve the navy's expenses.

Xianguo now has only thirteen Wanshi warships, plus three more to be launched at the end of the year, it will only be sixteen. The first 20,000-stone warship was launched in August and will be delivered to the navy in the first half of next year after a three-month to six-month sea trial adjustment, and the other two 20,000-stone warships under construction will be launched the year after.

According to last year's planned production plan, 35 to 45 10,000-stone warships will be launched around 650, and another 10 20,000-stone warships will be launched after 652, which is only about 60 warships at best. In wartime, it is possible to make up the number by requisitioning merchant ships, regardless of tonnage and displacement, and this is only the difference in warships.

The real gap is in technology and tactics; the navy has only been established for a few years, and there is a serious lack of battlefield tempering and tactical training; the traditional naval operations and suppression of bandits can no longer meet the needs of naval artillery operations; the navy's tactical tactics and tactics are still blank, and we still don't know if there is an opportunity to learn and grow in the war.

The only thing to be thankful for is that the Type 645 naval guns of the Xianjun Army are replacing the Type 637 carbon steel guns, and the range and power are far greater than those of the armpit man-ship guns, and the flintlock impact ignition reduces the shooting error caused by delayed fire.

However, in view of the fact that most of the decisive battles of the front-loading smoothbore guns took place within one mile, the advantage of the range of the Xianjun artillery actually did not play much role, so it was still who had more guns to decide the winner.

Bailiyan has recently been considering expanding the training of shipbuilders, increasing the scale of construction, and at the same time it is best to achieve a breakthrough in technology, in the scale, manpower, technology, cost of the four elements at the same time to achieve a breakthrough, the construction cycle can be greatly shortened, the cost is greatly reduced, then it is really not possible, three shifts rely on manpower to strengthen the pile is also feasible.