"Dingding. Dingding. Li Mu excitedly took a small hammer to knock on the steel rail that had just been forged, and touched it with his hand from time to time.

"Good. Good. That's great. This rail, that's great. Li Mu said excitedly. These rails were used in accordance with the requirements of the Qin people to expand the Western Regions Railway, and on the Western Regions Railway, some rails were used, and these rails were mainly unable to withstand the increasing freight volume of the Qin State over time. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Qinguo Wenyang Railway Company proposed the use of steel rails to replace them. Wenyang Iron and Steel did not forge this rail by itself, they forged more steel for bridge construction, and there are still many areas in the Western Regions that need a lot of steel, and Wenyang Iron and Steel plans to use these main steels in these directions.

"Prime Minister, we can use such rails ourselves. The rails, which are heavy and heavy, can accommodate larger locomotives to walk on them, and not only that, but with this technology, we can also make more things in other places, for example, heavy beams, which Koreans need for larger load-bearing beams. An engineer said to Li Mu.

"Are they used to build ships?" Li Mu asked.

"It seems that they have always had such a plan, I heard that their scientific research department has jointly obtained a welding technology with the Qin people, which can weld the iron plate, but the steel plate does not seem to work." The engineer said.

"Hmm. Did they make any moves in the construction of the iron works? Li Mu asked.

"Well, I don't know, but they're actively exploring the islands, and they've killed a lot of people. Anyway, the pension is quite generous, and many people are willing to do this, after all. The profits are huge. The engineer said.

"In this matter, sooner or later, we will have to cooperate with them to establish a large number of steel enterprises, but we have to think about what else we can do with this steel. There are many places where steel is used now, don't be limited to one piece, the future development demand must be large. Li Mu said.

"This. Prime minister. At this moment, an apprentice next to the periphery whispered.

"Oh. What's the matter? Li Mu asked.

"If you have a good opinion, you can say it, and there is nothing wrong." Li Mu asked.

"This, I heard, the people of Qin can use steel to cast cylinders, that is, engines, they can cast more lightweight. This requires steel to be very resistant to high temperatures, and we can produce some special steel for the production of such cylinders, and I heard that the Koreans invented the tricycle, a single-engine diesel locomotive, and now we can also make such locomotives, but it takes a lot of effort to cast such things. The apprentice said.

"Diesel locomotives?" Li Mu asked curiously.

"Yes, it's the engine, the airship, and the kind of internal combustion engine on the plane, the Qin people seem to have used aluminum alloy to make it, but we also have steel casting. Very demanding, I. I've just heard it said. The apprentice said.

"Have you ever been to the Qin Kingdom?" Li Mu asked.

"No, I haven't been there, I'm not qualified, Prime Minister. I've written too few words. No. The apprentice bowed his head and said. If you want to study in Qin, you must not only learn a lot of theoretical basics, which is not only a matter of experience, but also have culture, that is, they must learn to know and write. This usually cuts out a lot of opportunities for Zhao people to learn. Many children of the nobility are reluctant to learn these, they go to the Qin State to study more politics, journalism, and history, and many apprentices with technical backgrounds learn technology, but this opportunity is relatively rare, and the competition is fierce, with an average of one for every two hundred and thirty people. This requires a lot of people to learn from it. After all, the financial funds of the Zhao government are very limited, and the funds invested in education are also very limited, although the Qin people provide as many opportunities as possible for those school-age children to learn, but most of them have the responsibility of supporting their families, many children, less than eight years old, have to come out to do child labor, in Zhao State, newspaper boys can be seen everywhere, this may be their first stop into society, only a great chance to enter the factory as apprentices, these apprentices will seize every opportunity to learn, from the scrap newspaper, Or listen to others, you can imagine that it takes a lot of effort to complete their studies.

"This is a good suggestion of yours, but unfortunately, you didn't learn it well. However, you have to hurry up your studies and strive to go to the Qin State to study. This young man is a talent. Li Mu said to the people around him.

"Still. Never mind. I'm already very satisfied. Li Mu thought about it and said. Later, Li Mu visited other factories. Then I took the bus back to my office. In the car. Li Mu didn't say a word.

"Prime Minister, is it for the apprentice?" Li Zuoche asked worriedly.

"Yes, I can see that the apprentice is a good apprentice, very good at learning and receptive, but unfortunately, they have too few opportunities to learn. Our education system. Li Mu said worriedly.

"There is no way to do this, and the situation we can provide is already like this. Prime Minister can look at other places, us. Li Zuoche said. He knew what the situation of Zhao Guo was, and many people might not even have the opportunity to learn.

"I'm not going back to the office. Go to the surrounding areas of Handan, the suburbs, especially the suburbs, and go to the schools in the poor areas. I'm going to see what the hell is going on. Li Mu said solemnly.

"This." Li Zuoche didn't feel good. It's getting dark now.

"Don't be verbose. Go ahead. Li Mu said anxiously.

"Okay." Li Zuoche then let the car go to the suburbs.

South Korea, suburbs. To the southeast, because there is a large industrial area here, the workers in the vicinity have to go to work, they build temporary shacks here and live here, the living facilities here are very simple, after the rain, the roads here are not allowed to walk at all, people defecate here at will. The smell is very bad. Li Mu, Li Zuoche and some guards are walking here on tiptoe.

"In front of them is their school, and I heard that they still have the opportunity to study at night, mainly because of the children here, who are working during the day." Li Zuoche said.

"Prime Minister, the situation here is not very good, if necessary, we can arrange some for them." Li Zuoche said about the vaccination in advance.

"I know, but I want to know how bad they are. If they're really bad. I can't say anything. Li Mu said. Soon they were in the school. It's already dark. There are no street lights here, only by moonlight. Without moonshine, they themselves don't know how to go.

"Da-da-da-da." At this moment, a little boy quickly ran to the school, the school looks very simple, it is a small wooden house made of some small wooden boards, such a wooden house, can only live one or two people, but here, there are more than a dozen children, some of them sit on small wooden benches, some sit on the ground, there is no bench, they can only put a wooden board on it.

"That's their textbook." Li Mu looked distressed and said. The blackboard is made of a stone slab, and the top is processed from the bottom of the pot. It looked very simple, with a few words on it, and some children were holding scraps of paper cut from scrap newspapers and copying them.

What Li Zuoche saw was that the children had written the words they recognized on pieces of paper, pens, not pencils. Pencils were a luxury, and they wrote them with small sharpened wooden strips dipped in ink. It can be said that their condition is very simple.

"This." Li Zuoche shook his head and said.

"Kerosene is almost kerosene. Gotta pour some. One child said.

"Hmm. Where I work. Get some. But it barely lasts for a while. Plus, that's it. I'm late. Can you tell what is written on it? The little boy asked. He was a little anxious, because none of the words on it were known to him.

Said some of the other children explained. And their teacher was a young man who was less than eighteen years old. It looks like he's studying hard, too. If you don't dare to make the kerosene lamp too prosperous, you will waste a lot of kerosene, which the children buy with the money they earn, and the tuition fee is kerosene.

After coming back. Li Zuoche gave Li Mu a series of explanations.

"The tuition fees for those children are kerosene. In addition, they don't have a teacher, they are an apprentice. His salary was kerosene every night. All he had to do was teach the children what he knew. Li Zuoche said.

"They don't have textbooks, which are pamphlets that they copy. In addition, they can only study at night, and the study time is one and a half hours. Because they have to work during the day, some of them work in nearby factories. Twelve hours a day. Frequent overtime. Working three hours overtime is a common thing, and they only have that little time except for sleeping and eating. Li Zuoche said.

Li Mu frowned.

"What a difficult situation." Li Mu said helplessly.

"But it's inevitable, we all know it. The Ministry of Finance was unable to come up with more money. We also give large-scale tax exemptions to businesses in order to encourage them to learn. We just can't spare some money. In remote areas, or other places, one can only rely on the strength of the people of the Qin State to do such a thing. As we can see there, the apprentice was a Qin man who used some time to teach, and he turned to teach those students. Li Zuoche said. He then looked into some of the circumstances.

"Phew, we have to get some money to be able to solve the problem of these children's learning." Li Mu said. Li Mu knows very well that this is the road that must be taken, and the people of Qin have been at the forefront, and South Korea is close behind. Although the state of Chu is also catching up, they are still not doing well enough. The situation of Zhao is not as good as that of the people of Chu.

"However, we don't have a place and the bank is unlikely to lend us that much money." Li Zuoche said.

"Well, I'd like to figure it out. The money will work out. Li Mu said.

Li Mu suddenly thought of taxation. In other words, a large tax can be levied to solve the problem, but how to collect it and to whom it is taxed.

And in the bustling area of the center of Handan, there is no night here.

"Good wine, isn't it wine from the Western Regions, on. Give it to me, give it to me, I have money. "Well-dressed young men have mouthfuls of wine while they are around. Two scantily clad women were urging them to drink. Here are rich lords. As the factory expands its production, many factories have branches. As long as those branches produce something, they can sell it. Money is like the wind blowing up to them. Many of them had aristocratic backgrounds, and even if they didn't, many merchants contacted them because Zhao encouraged factory expansion.

After having money, many people learn to enjoy, don't they want to enjoy? The people of the Qin State satisfied their greatest hobbies. Women from the Western Regions have become sought-after goods. Many wealthy people and aristocrats in the Zhao State became representatives of the rich with women from the Western Regions, and they also liked the wine of the Western Regions, and they had higher requirements for wine glasses. They had to use jade cups from Hetian, and such consumption was not something that ordinary people could afford. But they have the financial resources. After a period of time, there was already a gap between the rich and the poor. It's just that Li Mu didn't notice it.

Zhang Shi's office.

"The 7th Infantry Regiment is already interesting enough. They had only three infantry battalions, two at once, and an artillery battery was supported, which was enough. Zhang Shi said with a telescope. The 7th Infantry Regiment, which had come to the rescue, had arrived, and now all they had to do was launch a counterattack. But. Zhang Shi felt that he should not be in a hurry, he should transfer some elite troops, or rather. He still needs those native soldiers to complete the combat mission.

"Sir, only the first four of the Tu Corps we can use at the moment are barely combat-effective, and the rest, all, can only perform defensive tasks. It is unlikely that they will provide us with more support. A lieutenant officer reported.

"I know this, but we still need those native soldiers, but we have to draw some outstanding officers and non-commissioned officers from various native regiments, let them strengthen the combat capability of these native regiments, and we must let them participate in the battle." Zhang Shi said.

"Yes, sir. Still, sir, we don't have a lot of artillery. If we have a lot of artillery, the situation could be very favorable to us. The lieutenant reported.

"The artillery will have it, they are on their way, and you can requisition some from the armed merchant ships that have docked, or buy them, and solve these problems by all means. I'm going to be fast. Zhang Shi said.

"Sir, we're not. Borrowing the troops of some other countries, such as the Chu State, there are also some people in the Chu State who have their own private armed forces, and we can use them as our combat military force, after all, if they exist, we can do many things very well. They can help us to be more powerful. The lieutenant proposed.

"Well, if they can solve it, deal with all the enemies head-on, I won't waste such an opportunity. OK. Tell them that the spoils of war are theirs. In terms of salary, we will take it into account. But we need heads to calculate. Zhang Shi thought about it and said.

The rebellion of the Goddess Cult has caused great trouble. Especially to the interior of South Korea. When the news of the rebellion of the Shinpo Cult came and the stock market plummeted, the Queen personally sent a telegram seeking a solution, and she desperately hoped that the Korean New Army in Bangla would be able to use their great combat capabilities. Quickly solve this problem, in the face of domestic pressure, Zhang Shi can only do this. He quickly gathered his forces and re-settled the problem here. After all, this has caused him a lot of trouble. If this trouble is not solved, it will be difficult for him to fall asleep. Not only him, but also the Queen of South Korea has a hard time falling asleep, and this matter is related to the future of many people.

The Seth country, proportional to the South Koreans' own establishment of the refuge area, because of the protection of the Sabbatarians, the Saith people here are not harassed more. In contrast, it became the best place to take refuge.

"I said, how can there be a large number of Seth people here these days. It turned out that Basra was beaten down by the Sabbatarians. Guo Xiang said to Zhang Bi.

"There are many more questions. The Sabbatarians themselves forged their cannons, and in spite of the many problems, I could see that they were determined to attack Baghdad. Zhang Bi said seriously.

"Baghdad. That's right. I know. The scholars also told me about a place called Baghdad, which seemed to be the capital of the Sethians. Guo Xiang said.

"However, our biggest problem at the moment is language, and it would be nice to have a Sabbath as a translator. There are a lot of places here, and there are customs, and we don't know anything, so it would be nice to know that. Guo Xiang said. He's been working hard to solve this problem. But there was still a lot of trouble, and the area they crossed was just too big.

"It's not a big deal, the Sabbatarians plan to rebuild Basra, which will become the largest trading city, and we need to provide the Sabbatarians with a lot of weaponry. They have the money to buy these things, and as a result, we need to solve quite a few problems. Zhang Bi said.

"However, at present, we must tell the country about the situation here as soon as possible, if the country does not know about such a thing, it is useless for us to do anything." Zhang Bi said worriedly.

"Also, we don't know anything about the country right now. On top of that, we can't get the news out here in time, this problem. In my opinion, it can only be solved when the submarine cable is laid here in time. Guo Xiang said helplessly. It takes a lot of money to lay submarine cables, and no one is so crazy about burning money.