On a hot afternoon, Ling Yin Huangxie, who had finished handling official business, returned to Fengyi Town very early. The hotter the weather, the drier the field; The drier the fields, the more proud Zhao Xiao's gang became. Now the mansion and the jade mansion are all owned by the big mansion, and the waterwheel from the mansion can quench the thirst of millions of acres, and the crown prince is in the limelight for a while. According to this momentum, plus what kind of iron, bead mirrors, paper, porcelain, salt, sailboats, ......, these things are really coming out, and I am afraid that I will not see the crown prince crowned in the position of Ling Yin.

'Born to know'. I used to think that this was Zhen Yin Zimo's exaggeration, but now those who are not convinced will admit it in their hearts: There are indeed people who are born to know, and the crown prince Jing is one of them.

Bead mirrors and other things enrich my Chu country, huge iron and other things strengthen my Chu country, and sailing ships - this is perhaps the most inconspicuous of the things made by the crown prince, and the shipyard boats under the Purple Mountain have never been built, but from Huang Xie's point of view, this is the most remarkable thing. Thousands of miles can transport grain, with such a sailboat, the state of Chu will definitely be able to communicate with other continents, what is the world, what the state of Chu has is the world.

It's a pity that he is standing on the opposite side of the crown prince. The elixir is refreshing, and a thousand cups are not drunk. Huang Xie had the taste of more and more sorrowful the more he drank, and at this time Zhu Guan came, not only Zhu Guan came, but Li Yuan also came.

"How's that for the iron?" Huang Xie's arm was weak in a daze, and his empty finger was lowered again.

"Lord, the iron that has been refined today will not be successful." Huang Xie knows a little about the significance of the converter, how can a furnace of 2,400 catties and a pot of 30 catties be compared? Therefore, Huang Xie is also quite concerned about the trial of building a mansion today.

"Oh. Why not? Huang Xie put down the wine jue, "Is the refining not smooth?" ”

"It is said that the refining is quite smooth, but I don't know why it is not a villain." Zhu Guan smiled, he naturally didn't know how to smelt iron and steel, this was just the result of sending someone to inquire. "Lord, there is a plan to get rid of ...... Eldest son. ”

Zhu Guan, the transaction between Huang Xie and the King of Chu, could roughly guess that in his opinion, this could only guarantee the wealth of the ear for more than ten years. Only when Xiong Han becomes the king, the lord can keep the world safe, but now the opportunity has come.

"Can you get rid of the eldest son?" Huang Xie's gaze no longer wandered, he glared at Zhu Guan and finally stared at Li Yuan, "You still don't think much of it?" ”

"The villain doesn't dare." Li Yuan immediately fell to the ground, he raised the dead, others didn't know how Huang Xie didn't know? Fortunately, things finally turned around, otherwise he would have been imprisoned and executed. "The villain has repented, and he no longer dares to do anything rebellious."

"Then today...... "Li Yuan is Concubine Li's brother, and Huang Xie's pain lies in knowing that Li Yuan has committed the crime of great rebellion, and he has to keep him, and turn a blind eye to what he has done. Otherwise, how can I justify that this matter was only done by Li Yuan, and I don't know about it?

"Lord," Zhu Guan saw that Huang Xie had misunderstood, and immediately interrupted. "It's not a big rebellion, it's a Qin state's quest."

"Qin Guosuo?" Huang Xie was stunned for a moment, and suddenly understood. Since the first monarch Xiang Wang, the Chu State has had the practice of condemning and entering Qin. Back then, wasn't it himself who was hostage to the king in the Qin State? It is also because of such an experience that he has the power and wealth he has today. Stunned, Huang Xie couldn't help but think of the past more than 20 years ago, the quality palace in Xianyang, and Fan Ju of Qin Xiang.

“…… The sovereign, the eldest son of our country is newly established, the Qin State will ask for quality, and the Qin envoy is already on the way. Zhu Guan endured for a while before speaking, "Once the eldest son Jing enters Qin, he will not be able to return to the country in the future. ”

"Exactly. The lord and monarch, it is a precedent to enter Qin as a hostage, and Zhao Huang and others have nothing to stop. Li Yuan, who was lying on the ground, also raised his head vigorously and spoke, "Now that you have entered Qin, there is no loyal minister like the lord king by the side of the eldest son, and I am afraid that I will have to stay in Xianyang for the rest of my life." ”

"The eldest son is not allowed to enter Qin." After being silent for a while, Huang Xie finally said a word.

"Lord, the eldest son does not enter Qin, with today's trend, I am afraid that it will ...... in a few years" There are some things that Zhu Guan is not easy to say clearly, and everyone understands them if they don't say it.

"Lord, if the eldest son does not enter Qin, Master Qin will definitely attack me, and Master Chu will not be defeated, what if?" Li Yuan's body was raised, Zhao Yu had already told him that if the state of Chu did not send the prince into Qin as a hostage, he would raise troops to attack Chu.

"Master Qin will attack me, and I will ask Han, Wei, Zhao, and Yan to unite to fight against Qin." Huang Xie's tone was unquestionable.

"Why is the Lord like this?" Li Yuan was disappointed, "The eldest son will not return to Qin, and the lord should be the king of the prince, and the wealth will be enjoyed forever." ”

"Servant!" Huang Xie immediately scolded, "The eldest son can be used as a strong crossbow, can make bead mirrors, can smelt huge iron, and can build sailboats, all of which are the blessings of my Chu country for all generations." The eldest son is not the king, and the state of Chu will die in Qin in more than ten years, how rich and valuable are we? ! God favors my Chu country, so the holy king is descended, and the heavens are to be accepted, but they are to blame, and the eldest son cannot enter Qin. ”

Li Yuan was scolded by Huang Xie and didn't dare to say anything, but fortunately, Zhu Guansu was valued by Huang Xie, and he waited for Huang Xie to rest his anger before saying: "The loyalty of the lord is compared to the sun and the moon, and Zhao Xiao, Jing Hua and others hate the lord to the bone, and the eldest son will not go...... Regardless of wealth and nobility, just talk about life, with the benevolence of the king of Xianzhuang, and the room of the witch minister, the lord thinks that the eldest son Jing can be compared to the king of Xianzhuang? ”

One person is guilty, and the sin is the whole family, this is a connection; A family is guilty, and sin and neighbors are sitting. The state of Chu did not sit together, but there was a connection. During the reign of King Zhuang, Wuchen fell in love with Xia Ji's beauty, and eloped with him to the enemy country of Jin, and was the doctor of the Jin Kingdom, which made Yin Zi angry, and punished the whole family of Wuchen and divided his room. Zhu Guan just wanted to say that Ling Yin's power was very great, big enough to divide the Zhu clan, once the sovereign lost Ling Yin's position, he didn't need the eldest son's signal, and the Jing Party would naturally kill the entire Sovereign clan.

"The Lord should think twice." Huang Xie, who said a few words, was no longer angry, and Zhu Guan persuaded again. "Strong crossbows, bead mirrors, irons, sailboats, except for sailboats, the rest are all in kind. Even if the eldest son enters Qin, there are still such people in the Chu State, and the blessings of eternity are still there. ”

"Isn't it unsuccessful?" Huang Xie muttered, and at this time, there was a sudden hot current in his heart: If the eldest son really entered Qin as a hostage and secretly made it not return, then wouldn't these things he made his own merits? The pearl mirror can enrich the country, the strong crossbow and the iron can strengthen the country, and the sailing ship communicates the whole world. In the face of Qin Shi, such a Chu State will definitely be invincible.

"Lord, it's just that the big furnace has not been completed, and the small furnace has already been completed." Zhu Guan roughly guessed Huang Xie's thoughts, and specially mentioned something.

*

After the ceasefire, the mansion was in shambles, and in front of a broken steel ingot, Xiong Jing was in a daze for a long time.

When the molten steel was out of the furnace, the molten steel suddenly burst, and the furnace body trembled again, but fortunately, the converter was heavily reinforced, so it did not collapse. After the molten steel cast into the steel ingot cooled, everyone finally saw the real thing: similar to the ink furnace steel, the color of the steel ingot is silvery, but unfortunately, this kind of steel sledgehammer will be broken as soon as it is smashed, and Xiong Jing ordered the craftsman to heat the steel ingot, and then smash it, and the steel ingot will be shattered.

"Your Highness, the converter is a hundred times more iron than the ink furnace, and it is reasonable that it will not work." Gong Yin Dao didn't understand what he meant, so he could only persuade him in general.

"How many iron mines does my Chu country have?" Xiong Jing ignored him and only asked Ji Yin.

After cooling, it will be smashed and broken, which is cold and brittle, and it is polyphosphorus; When heated, it will crumble, hot and brittle, and polysulfur. In the absence of testing instruments, Xiong Jing can only judge the phosphorus and sulfur content of steel in this way. Besmarck used low-phosphorus and low-sulfur pig iron imported from Sweden that year, which made steelmaking successfully; In China, according to Xiong Jing's incomplete and incorrect impression, only the pig iron in the Northeast and Hainan meets the standards of Besmarck converter, but these two places are thousands of miles away and are not controlled by the Chu State. Now he can only try his luck and see if the small iron ore in the Chu State can have low-phosphorus and low-sulfur iron ore.

"Your Highness, the iron of the world is mostly in the Central Plains, and there are only four mountains of iron in my Chu country." Jiyin naturally knows the distribution of minerals in Chu, "one is the copper mountain, the second is the mountain of Dongting, the third is the storm mountain, and the fourth is the Yuedi Huiji Mountain." ”

"Only four?" Xiong Jing was surprised, because Chu was mostly small iron mines, he didn't dig deeper, but he didn't expect that there were only four small iron mines, and there were four places in Ma'anshan, Xuzhou Liguo, Hainan Shilu, and Huoqiu that he knew.

"Exactly." Ji Yin nodded, "Wandi Hondo Iron Mine, it's a pity that it's ......"

Naturally, there are more than four iron mines in the Chu State, and the four places are only the eastern land, but the Chu State now only has the eastern land. Thinking of this, Xiong Jing said: "Map." ”

The map was sent quickly, and Xiong Jing said: "The iron ore in Dongting Mountain needs to be collected for a furnace trial, and there is also Storm Mountain. ”

"Your Highness, these two places are already being collected." Ji Yin replied that this was already something that was already being done.

"Here," Xiong Jing pointed to the location of Ma'anshan in later generations, because there was only Jinlingyi on the map, he could only point to it. "There is a big iron mountain, and the reserves are endless for thousands of years. It's just that the ore is good and bad, and it is difficult to judge whether it is suitable for the converter. ”

The crown prince was born to know, Ji Yin did not doubt him, and looked at the location of Ma'anshan to remember. "The minister immediately sent someone to investigate."

"Good." Xiong Jing pointed to Pengcheng again, "Here, the north of Pengcheng ......"

Li Guoze Iron Mine is as famous as Daye Iron Mine, Li Hongzhang suggested that Zhang Zhidong set up an iron factory in Li Guoze, and later generations also said that with the iron quality of Li Guoze, Hanyang Iron Works will not be built repeatedly. Liguo is the name of the post station, and the later generations are on the shore of Weishan Lake, but Weishan Lake was originally the product of the Yellow River's diversion, and there are only swamps and no lakes in the north of Pengcheng at this time.

"Fifty or sixty miles to the north, there is an iron mine next to the road near Ze." Xiong Jing said very generally, he didn't know if there was a good country post now. "If there is no road, it is also on the side of the road that Pengcheng can go north."

"The minister also immediately sent someone to investigate." Fifty or sixty miles north of Pengcheng, the location is already very definite, and Ji Yin does not think it is difficult.

The map of "Yan Country ......" has been changed, and it is Yan Kingdom." Can there be iron ore in Xiangpingyi, Yanguo? ”

Xiangping is the only city of Yan in Liaodong, which is Liaoyang in later generations, and Xiong Jing thinks that Xiangping is Shenyang in later generations.

"Your Highness, I haven't heard that there is iron in Xiangping." Ji Yin Dao. "The iron of Yan Country is near Yandu. Does Your Highness want to buy the iron of Yan Kingdom? ”

"Definitely. If the ore of my Chu country is not successful, it must be the iron of Xiangping; Again, "as soon as the map is changed, it is already the South China Sea." "The westernmost end of this island has water into the sea, there is a tributary water flowing into the water for a hundred miles, and there is a green mountain along the tributary water for fifty miles, and the copper, iron, gold and silver in the mountain are ......"

Because there is a river, Hainan Shilu iron ore is the best to find, and there is also a detailed plot in Lingao's novel, and the iron is no worse than Anshan Benxi.