Kong Qian retreated, Meng Zhengyu also retreated, and after the two left, Yin Chengjie stepped onto the stage. After the main bed was demolished, only a tent was set up on the high platform, and the words on the stage were heard clearly by the audience, and Cheng Jie came in and said: "Dare to ask the king, should the Yue people really join in?" ”

The word he used was union, and Xiong Jing smiled: "When will you not wait for union at this time?" ”

"If Yue Jun and the others don't want to unite with me? How? "Zhu Yue's scattered troops this time add up to more than 30,000 people, of course, this is not all their armor, judging from the scale of the troops, the tribes in the south who surrendered to the Chu State probably have a population of nearly one million. Due to the harsh living conditions, most of these soldiers were brave and good at fighting, and the only drawback was that the armor was too poor and the training was insufficient.

"What does Yin think about those who are united with me, teach them tactics of war, sell huge iron, and help them expand south?" Xiong Jing took out the map, and the locations of more than 30 tribes were marked. Ouyue, Minyue, Nanyue (sea), Luoyue, Xiou, Tai nationality, are considered densely populated large ethnic groups, and the rest of the Dingkou range from tens of thousands to thousands. It's remarkable that these tribes have bronze weapons, and with a huge iron it's like a shotgun for a cannon.

"I think Zhu Yue may not want to." The Zhuyue in Chengjie's mouth is the remnant of the Yue Kingdom, in addition to the Yue Junkai of Huiji County, there are also Ouyue, Minyue, Nanyue, and Yuyue Siyue. These people are the descendants of Gou Jian who have tasted the taste of the royal system, and naturally they will not be satisfied with the identity of the big chief of the clan, and they want the title of King Yue.

"If you don't want to, you don't want to." Xiong Jing looked at the map for a while before answering. "If they don't want to, they will be vassals of my Chu State."

"It's not right." Cheng Jie disagreed with Xiong Jing's point of view, "The minister thinks that those who don't want to should be defeated, otherwise they will not be able to stand strong." ”

"Crusade? Crusade against the south of the Five Ridges? Xiong Jingshu looked at him and couldn't think of how he could send troops to Lingnan.

"Definitely. Those who do not want to unite should be left behind. "Cheng Jie is straightforward." Zhu Yueben, my vassals of the Chu State, how can they not be ordered? ”

"Nope." Xiong Jing shook his head resolutely, "Although my Chu State has the move of keeping the monarch of another country, it is only the ancestor of the Spirit King. If I force the Vietnamese people to unite with me, and regret it, what good is it to unite? In case of colluding with the Qin State because of hatred, it would be even more useless. Today's Yue people are the Chu people of the past, so Yin thinks that it is useful to forcibly stay for my Chu people? ”

Xiong Jing looked at Chengsuke, and Chengjie also looked at him, and after staring at each other for a while, Chengsuke's tightly closed lips came out and said, "It's useless." ”

"If it's useless, why use it?" Xiong Jing's tone is leisurely. "Now that my Chu State is superior to the world in terms of iron, war boats, armor, art of war, medicine, and architecture, and even better than Zhuyue, I can't imagine why they don't unite with Chu State?" Also," Xiong Jing patted the map, "With the warboats, armor and tactics of my Chu State, why can't Zhuyue fight over?" ”

"Hit it?" The map is already a control material, and even if it's Chengsuke, I don't see it much.

"Ou Yue wants to be the king, take it here." Xiong Jing first referred to the Japanese archipelago, "Minyue wants to be the king, take these two big islands," this time referring to Taiwan and the Philippines, "Nanyue and Luoyue want to be king, take this peninsula." "This time it's Indochina." Only those who have land and subjects can be king, and if they don't, they are still kings. ”

Except for the Indochina Peninsula, the rest are outside the mainland, such as Japan and the Philippines. Cheng Jie was puzzled: "The sea is vast, how can the Yue people go?" And to teach Yue to make a sea boat, won't my Chu people be controlled in the future? ”

"Building a boat and sailing are two different things." Xiong Jing explained. "If you can only build a boat and not sail, you can only sail along the coast, and you will never dare to go into the depths of the sea. Qin has accounted for more than half of the world, and its population and grain are several times that of me. If you want to reject Qin, you can only expand overseas, and levy the food and straw of other countries for my use. The lands of the East China Sea and the South China Sea are all close to the Yue people, so it is better to let them go. ”

"If the Yue people are kings...... Cheng Jie is still worried about being controlled by others, and the Yue King Wujiang is a precedent.

"The big-winged warship of the Yue country has not changed for hundreds of years, if I only give the Yue people a young commander-level sea boat, it will be difficult for them to innovate in a few decades." Xiong Jing had to say more carefully, "Why is Yin afraid?" ”

The more than 100-ton Shao Si Ming class was already a behemoth for the Yue people, but Zaofu was already experimenting with a larger model of a sea boat: a cargo boat with a load of 400 tons, and a slender long-sail sea boat like a large-wing war boat. This is just a wooden sea boat, after the converter steel comes out, according to the shipyard public transmission, if the ship is built with huge iron, the sea boat can exceed 1,000 tons.

"Fearless." Thinking about it, the thousand-ton sea boat Chengsuke nodded heavily, and looked at Xiong Jing's gaze a few times in a few flashes.

"Then tempt them with profit." Xiong Jing Road. "If you want to be the king, you can talk about it, and you can't use all kinds of force."

"Yes." Seisuke's eyes flashed again. He understood the meaning of reckless military force, and when the state of Chu decided to change to the Ao system, it specially revised the policy of the foreign dynasty, and selected the people of the Jiashi country in addition to the honored scholars, which was to prevent the clans from being reckless and unbridled, and did not take into account the life and death of the common people at the bottom.

"If nothing else......" Xiong Jing said. As soon as he returned to the palace, he went to the Great Sima Mansion to learn about the war situation, and summoned Kong Qian and Meng Zhengyu to talk, and now he has determined the policy of uniting with the Baiyue tribe. After a few major things were done, he wanted to rest, and at least he had to go to Ruoying Palace to say hello.

"Your Majesty, the iron of the converter is complete!" Seisuke furrowed his brows and smiled as he reported the good news.

"Really?!" Xiong Jing jumped up from the mat in shock.

"Yes, yes." Cheng Jie smiled even more, but after a while, his smile retracted, "Then, then, then ......"

"So what?" Xiong Jing is already thinking about the value of converter smelting, and the converter smelting is successful, and there is no need to worry about the output of giant iron.

"The water of the converter is baked, and the iron is boiling." Cheng Jie relayed the words of the engineer Shiyun. "Furthermore, there is too much slag, only half of a furnace is good, and the rest is mixed, and the cost is also."

"Fee?" Xiong Jing didn't understand that the fee was the fee. He had to ask someone to go to Ruoying Palace to report first, and then follow Chengjie to the mansion to see how the iron boiled. At this time, there was also magnetite transported by Li Guoze, and in order to let the king see clearly how the iron boiled, the engineer smelted a furnace of iron in front of Xiong Jing.

Not to mention how the iron boils, the slag problem is obvious. It is as if oil and water coexist in a pot, the oil is on the top and the water is on the bottom, but when it can be poured, the oil and water are required to be separated, and there can be no oil in the water. The current situation is that oil and water are mixed, and only about half of the iron can be obtained, resulting in a huge waste.

The slag problem is like this, but the boiling of the iron is surprising. Xiong Jing saw that when pouring the ingots, bubbles kept coming out of the ingots, but fortunately, these bubbles did not seem to affect the performance of the iron.

"Isn't this the boiling ......" After pouring a furnace of iron, Xiong Jing remembered what this was, isn't this boiling steel!

Steelmaking requires phosphorus, sulfur, and finally oxygen. If the oxygen in the steel is not removed, the oxygen will react with the carbon and form carbon monoxide to escape from the molten steel; If the oxygen can be removed, then the sedative steel or semi-sedent steel can be obtained. Dephosphorization, desulfurization and deoxygenation, these technologies are almost non-existent, and the converter can rely on high-quality iron ore - high-quality steel has a sulfur content of ≤0.030% and a phosphorus content of ≤0.035%; The sulfur content of high-grade high-quality steel is ≤0.020%, and the phosphorus content is ≤ 0.027%. As long as the iron ore is not polluted during the smelting process, it is high-quality steel. As for deoxygenation, it is not impossible to understand deoxygenation, but it can only be refined into boiling steel.

"Dare to ask the king, why is this?" Xiong Jing was startled, and the rest of them all looked over. The converter was invented by the king, and this boiling king should also understand.

"It's fine." Xiong Jing knew about boiling steel, but he didn't know why boiling was boiling. Boiling steel is characterized by low carbon, and it is best to make plates for shipbuilding, and it is not ideal to make keel ribs. Thinking of this, he said: "This kind of iron has low carbon content, and can be used as armor, wire, and tendons, but it is not suitable for swords, let alone tools." ”

From the beginning of the first furnace converter, Ou Chou tested its performance, as Xiong Jing said, this is low carbon steel, not suitable for swords, and even more so for tools. The biggest difference between converters and ink furnaces is that ink furnaces can be as much as they want in terms of carbon content, while converters are limited to low carbon. Fortunately, armor, wire, and tendons are all large consumers, and the converter low-carbon iron can be used.

"The minister knows." Gong Yin Dao, Kong Su, Ou Chou, Gong Shi Yu and others all bowed.

"Dare to ask how to dispose of the king slag?" After saying that boiling is harmless, Gong Yindao asked about the slag again, half of the molten iron is mixed with the slag, which is really a waste.

"No, no, no. Offer a bounty. Don't talk about slag and water, let's talk about oil and water. "It is not the original idea of offering a bounty to solve a practical problem, but this method is effective, and this is how the steam engine cylinder is solved." How to separate oil and water when pouring out a pot of oil and water? As usual, it was published on the Dachu news, and then announced to the world that this topic could be rewarded with 300 gold. ”

"100 gold is enough." Gong Yin Dao hurriedly said. Every time the house is offered, the answerers flock to it. In fact, the solution is very ingenious every time, this is really a business without capital, and the brain will come out with a solution, and then take the bounty. As a result, the amount of the reward was set smaller and smaller, but in order to take care of the person who came up with other feasible solutions, two consolation prizes of about ten gold were set up.

"A hundred gold is a hundred gold." Xiong Jing doesn't care about the bounty, he believes that people in the world can always think of a solution.

"Your Majesty, it's getting late." As soon as you enter the mansion to look in the east and look in the west, it will be dark for a while. As soon as Chang Jiang reminded him, Xiong Jing let out a sigh and hurriedly returned to the palace. At this time, the anointing candle had been lit in Ruoying Palace, and Concubine Zhao sat alone on the mat, her face unhappy.

"Meet the Queen Mother." Qi Xuan quietly gestured to signal Concubine Zhao's displeasure, and Xiong Jing smiled bitterly and gave Concubine Zhao a pause.

"Jing'er!" Concubine Zhao endured it for a while, but she couldn't help it before she said: "Ling Yin's power is too heavy, and he will definitely crisis the throne one day." You ......"

"The queen mother can rest assured, the child has sanitation, a king's pawn, and a teacher from Yingdu, and there are other clans besides Yin, how dare he make trouble." Xiong Jing knew that he would be taught a lesson by Concubine Zhao, so he explained hard.

"However, the king has no power, he will ...... day by day" Concubine Zhao couldn't help but shed tears when she thought that her eldest father, King Wuling, was starved to death.

"Queen Mother, the new system of Chu State, the strong is the king, the child will start the conquest before he is born, and no one can be stronger than the child." Xiong Jing said again.

"But what about your children and grandchildren?" Concubine Zhao wiped a handful of tears. "If you are a king, how can you have no power?"

"If the descendants can become a weapon, they will naturally have the right; If it doesn't work, there is nothing wrong with the hypocrite. Zhou Tianzi ruled the country for 800 years, which is long enough. Xiong Jing said abruptly.