Qin State, Xianyang. Prime Minister's Office.

"It's interesting, East and West Mongolia have come together." Shang Wen looked at the telegram in his hand and said to Meng Yi. Meng Yi only sorted out a document, this document is about the mortgage of Qin's currency issuance rights in the Western Regions, Qin will use the funds to build northern Xinjiang, as well as expand the southern Xinjiang railway, the Yueshi section of the capital needs, in addition, if the funds are sufficient, Qin does not rule out the construction of more branch railways to complete the transportation needs of economic construction.

"Northern Alliance?" Meng Yi took the telegram handed over by Shang Wen and asked after reading it.

"Yes. Northern Alliance, it seems that the north also needs to be built on a large scale, after all, the Qin State is currently mainly concentrated in the Western Regions. Shang Wen said.

"It would be better off if the two eastern and western states could unite. At the very least, resources can be concentrated, and labor and capital will be well solved. Meng Yi said.

"Hmm. However, the main purpose of their alliance was to develop the undeveloped areas of the north, where only a few Xiongnu tribes existed, the population was lacking, and the vast forests would bring great living conditions, especially the cold climate, and no one could really withstand such cold weather. Shang Wen said worriedly.

"However, I think they can solve that problem with adequate funding, after all, they have a lot of resources. If the industry is sufficiently developed, it will require a lot of resources. Meng Yi said. In Meng Yi's view, what the north lacks is not labor, nor pioneering projects, but capital, as long as there is sufficient funds, the Western Regions will be developed, and the north can do the same.

"Hmm. The first thing they solve is the problem of capital, without capital, no businessmen are willing to go there, but we first have to solve their labor problem, we need to absorb and absorb those small tribes, the population of the two states has been in a state of outflow in recent years, no one wants to enter such an area to do business, there is no sufficient labor force, it is difficult to develop a large number of mineral mining, the use of manpower is already in a relatively backward state. Unless a machine is used, it is difficult to develop. Shang Wen said.

"Hmm." Meng Yi nodded. The most important thing for the development of the North is to solve the problem of funding. There is only one solution, finance.

Dawan territory. The town of the Great Gold Mine. It was a small gold mining town, but it was much smaller than theirs, and there were about 5,000 people in this town. There are also many Dawan people from all over the country on the mine, who are the main source of labor.

"In my opinion, the only way for you is to turn the town into your fortress, use a lot of barbed wire to limit the attack of those Sabbath cavalry, leave a few passages for it, and the houses of the town should be strengthened to form a fortress state, and lure the Sabbator cavalry to attack, and then, your town, whether it is the elderly, women, children, must learn to shoot. Those houses. Speaking of the Qin Army, Captain Liang Yi accused those timber huts and said.

"It was necessary to heighten, reinforce, add a large number of shooting holes." Liang Yi said. He was an advisor officer sent by the Qin army to provide guidance on the defense of fortresses, and they were all infantry officers with good command experience on how to strengthen development.

"The elderly, the women, the children. Do you have to participate? Li Huo, the captain of the musket in the town, thought worriedly that this was his name of the Qin State, which was created to deal with the people of the Qin State very well.

"Yes, the goal of the Sabbatarians is your town, the defense of the town is very poor, there are not many young adults, and they have to go to the mines, so as to further weaken your defenses, the only way is to let the elderly, women, and children participate, the musket training is simple, that is, they can't shoot, they can learn to reload, and then strengthen your houses, use stones, and use baskets to add stones, strengthen windowsills, doors, etc., and then use sandbags to set up forts on high places, So that your muskets will be able to shoot at the Sabbath cavalry, who only need to enter. All angles are within the range of your fire, such a blow is very fatal to the cavalry, as long as they attack a few times, they will know how powerful you are, under such a blow, I think they will soon understand their situation. Liang Yi said. He is a defense expert and knows how to use infantry to defend against cavalry, but the infantry must have good fortifications, and the town is their fortification, and most importantly, attacking the processed town will become a good fortress fortress for the enemy to come in, and the maneuverability of the rest cavalry will be greatly limited, in such a situation. Cheap musketeers will have the best targets.

"Rest assured, the Sabbatarians have no artillery, your losses are minimal, and if you are trained to be a musket team, and go out in a neat line to fight the enemy, I am worried about your situation, because you know that your condition is not at all likely to deal with the cavalry that maneuvers back and forth, on the contrary, because your training will be the best target. You are doomed. Liang Yi said.

"However, we lacked muskets, a large number of muskets, and the muskets of the musket corps had only a hundred or so muskets. Such a demand simply cannot be met. Li Zhen, the mayor of the town, said worriedly.

"Hmm. You can trade it for gold, and I think you can get enough muskets as long as you make enough profit. Plus, you're minerals and have enough explosives. If necessary, I think, you can make your own gunpowder. I'm here to help you. Liang Yi said. The recipe for gunpowder seems to have ceased to be a secret. But for the people of the Western Regions. They felt that it was still a big secret, but Qin Jun didn't seem to be worried about it at all, in their opinion. It won't be long before someone knows about something as low-grade as gunpowder. Therefore there is no need to be conservative in value anymore.

"This. This one. That would be great. Li Zhen hesitated, because explosives are more expensive than muskets, and the main face they use explosives is to open mines, not to fight wars, if they fight, it will consume a lot of explosives, which is too serious for them.

However, in order to eliminate the harassment of the resting people, Li Zhen can only do this. Moreover, the Qin officers also promised to tell them how to prepare gunpowder. They would dare to do so under such circumstances, otherwise he would not have used explosives to kill the damned resters under any circumstances.

Mengla. The station of the Chu people. The military camp of the Chu people was far less complete than the Korean military camp, they looked like a simple camp organized by a group of people who had not undergone any military training, from the perspective of the Central Plains people, they were a rabble, but it was such a rabble, and the Mengla people attacked them. Because in their opinion, the Koreans are a group of devils, and a group of greedy devils, attacking them, they will use all kinds of weapons to counterattack them, and they will cause them great losses. Moreover, the Koreans have a lot of demands, and if they can't agree, their situation will be very bad. In contrast, the people of Chu are much easier to get along with. At the time of the Monglas attacking the Koreans. The people of Chu have secretly reached an agreement with the Monglas people, they can conduct secret trade, after all, the people of Chu come here to make a fortune, making a fortune is a personal act, fighting a war is a national matter, and they have already followed the Koreans to win the war. Next, the main purpose is to start acting for your own money. While the Monglas were in a hurry to attack the Koreans, the Chu people had already begun their trade.

Silk, tea, sugar, glasses, mirrors, everything they could think of was shipped to Bangladesh, and in exchange for a large amount of ivory, gold, and slaves and all sorts of goods piled up in the barracks.

The barracks have been turned into a trade area, where both officers and soldiers are doing all sorts of business. The merchants of Mengla were already very familiar with entering the Chu army barracks, as they were often the commercial representatives of the officers. Officers or merchants of Chu State buy goods and sell them to the Mengla, or merchants of Chu State and Chu State officers jointly do business, anyway, they don't earn like soldiers anymore.

"Sir. We're going to make a lot of money this time. Hamfa, a merchant from Bangladesh, said with a smile.

"It's good to make a lot of money, we need a lot of gold, and the more gold, the better. It's too hot here. But I like it here, your women's skin isn't good enough, it's too dark but it's okay. Captain Li Cheng said other things, in his opinion, gold, women can arouse their interest, and there are many soldiers and officers in the barracks who are doing business.

"Sir. The silk business is doing well, however, we need something else, and it is worth a lot. Gold comes faster. Hata said with a laugh. His eyes and his skin looked disgusting, a look of greed for gold.

"What business?" Li Cheng asked curiously. He is now not sparing any way to make money, because many officers have already made a lot of money. They used their soldiers to make money on a large scale, and the soldiers became the best merchants, and the major officer had already earned three hundred chests of gold, which made him, the captain, very jealous, because he had only earned thirty-five chests of gold, which he felt was too little in comparison. He should have worked hard. If they go on like this, the above will definitely not let them go on like this, on the battlefield, they will die at any time, he has already planned it. Earn enough gold to start buying land, and I've heard that there is a lot of land on the west coast that can be bought. He thinks being a farmer is also very cost-effective.

"Muskets." Hata whispered. Muskets are a sensitive topic for them, and the Koreans are reluctant to let a large number of muskets and artillery go into the hands of the Men and Laks, because that thing can pose a great threat to them.

"What?" Li Cheng felt as if his ears had heard it wrong. He turned his head to look at Hatah. Hata nodded silently.

"It's a musket, three golds, a new musket. Bullets are calculated additionally, the price of artillery is more expensive, which can reach one hundred gold for one artillery. Halfa said excitedly.

"Oh my God." Captain Li Cheng called out in surprise, the cost of flintlock pistol is very low, their Chu army uses the cheapest musket, the price cost he naturally knows, in the Qin State, less than twenty and a half taels can get a good flintlock pistol. The bullets were given away for nothing. Such a musket sometimes does not sell, the reason is that the flintlock pistol is powerful, but the range is very short, it is cumbersome to use it, and such a weapon should have been eliminated a long time ago. The Chu army is still equipped with a large number of weapons, and I heard that there are new rifles, which use fixed-mounted metal gun bullets, which have a long range and great killing power, but they are not equipped by an army like them. Because he came here, a second-rate army came to garrison here.

"It's not easy to do this kind of business." Li Cheng first felt that it was not easy to get muskets, there were a certain number of muskets in the army, and if they were lost, he, an officer, would soon go down, and besides, there was no war now, and it would be better to say when the war started.

"But the profits are huge, sir, and it's a great opportunity." Hata said.

"Hmm. Can you tell me why you need muskets? Are you Monglahs still going to fight us? Li Cheng asked angrily. For the Menla. They Chu and Koreans are still very vigilant sometimes, after all, the Mengla people are not the same race as them, they are a minority, and for them, there is a natural difference.

"Well, here's the thing." Seeing Li Cheng's suspicious expression, Halfa knew that he had said it truthfully. Because if he deliberately conceals it, he will definitely not be able to make money, and at present, he is relying on the talents of Chu to develop and grow, if he leaves the people of Chu, his situation will be very bad. He didn't want such a situation to happen, so the only thing he could do now was to find a way to rely on the people of Chu State, and there was something he couldn't hide.

"Our Mengla people are actually a city-state of the Northern Dynasty, that is, a small country below, recently, the Northern Dynasty has to resist the attack from the Northern Meat Country, the Meat Kingdom uses a fire-breathing weapon like yours, they are very sharp, and they are equipped with the same number of artillery as you, they attack very sharply, and have caused serious losses to our Northern Dynasty." Hata said. And Li Cheng just nodded, and his understanding of Mengla made him understand. Because he had never wanted to know these things before.

"We have established a stable fortified defense line in the north, but the army of the Meat Nation can still pose a great threat to us, because we cannot make the same muskets and artillery as you. Later, the Northern Dynasty learned of this and recently ordered to reconcile the contradictions between our Bangla Kingdom and the Champhu Kingdom, and to obtain more muskets from you as quickly as possible, because only in this way can we obtain more weapons and maintain the extremely fragile defense line of our Northern Dynasty. The defensive line without muskets and artillery could not withstand the attack of the northern meat country, and our command became extremely weak and weak. Hata said.

"Oh." Li Cheng nodded. It was the first time he had learned of anything like this. However, this did not dispel his suspicions about the other party.

"I'm afraid that you will pose a great threat to us if you are armed with so many muskets and artillery, and I think you should know that if you are armed with such muskets and artillery, aim them at us. We. Li Cheng shook his head in embarrassment and said.

"Sir, you should believe me, what I said is true, you can check what I said. It's absolutely true, and if I don't believe it, there's nothing I can do. We, the Mengla, will never shoot at the people of Chu, we hate war very much, and you are already very powerful. Hata said.

"If you do, I'm sure, but I think you should do something practical." Li Cheng said.

"Well, cut down on the size of your army. Keep it at 10,000 people, you can be equipped with muskets, artillery, but the garrison is dispersed, your safety, our Chu State, the Koreans will unite to protect you, otherwise, it will be difficult for me to believe what you say. Li Cheng said.

"Yes, sir." Hata nodded.

In the South Korean military camp opposite, something annoyed Zhang Shi, but at the same time felt that things were not so simple.

"Sir. These are the three soldiers who orchestrated seven more Zinke soldiers to steal our weapons. If it weren't for our patrolmen, the situation would have been very serious. Zhang Dahui looked at the three Xin Ke soldiers kneeling below with some annoyance, and they were trembling. Because when it comes to escaping. They were discovered by the patrol soldiers, who did not know the range, route, and time of the patrol of the South Korean New Army, and they should have been discovered.

"Why are you stealing our weapons? I think you should be well aware of the serious consequences of such culpability. Zhang Shi looked at the other party and said.

He could easily kill the other party, but he had to know why the other party did it. What is the reason, he needs to know this, otherwise, it will not be of much use for him to kill the other party.

Say. If you don't, I'll turn you into bones little by little. "Zhang General Assembly threatened.

"Sir, I know we were wrong." A sink soldier bowed his head and said.

"We steal weapons because we can get rich rewards for selling weapons to the northern dynasties, we can get more gold, official positions. This is the news brought by the Northern Dynasty. Xin Kebing said.

"Make it clear." Zhang Shi asked. Xin Kebing nodded.

"The Northern Dynasty is willing to spend ten gold coins to buy muskets, and the more of them, the better, not only these things, but also official positions, to eliminate our status gap, we will go from lowly people to noble people, which is very important to us. This is the greatest encouragement for us. It's true. Xin Kebing said excitedly.

"Oh." Zhang Shi touched his chin and said.