Population shortage is a dead cycle, and the Qin State, which accounts for half of the world's Dingkou, does not open its market, and Xiong Jing can only find a way to deal with the two big countries of Qi and Zhao, especially the Qi State. On the way to Linzi, he imagined several plans to persuade King Qi, but he didn't expect to see Queen Qi, and King Qi said something else.

"The king of Chu has not heard of the immortal medicine of the Chu people?" After retreating left and right, Tian Jian grabbed Xiong Jing's little hand and whispered,

"Elixir of immortality?" King Qi's eager expression startled Xiong Jing a lot, and he looked at King Qi in confusion, not knowing why.

"Ugh." Tian Jian saw Xiong Jing's expression and probably guessed why this was so. "The king of Chu went out to sea to swim and forgot to return, and he wanted to find the immortal mountain and turned into a man who had arrived in the capital of Chu. It is said that the immortal medicine is the reality of Langji, a thousand years of flowering, a thousand years of fruit, the transformation of people to bring three Langji to Chudu, the Queen Mother gave it 200,000 catties of iron and got it......"

Qi Wang Tian Jian rubbed his hands as he spoke, these were all news that he had sent to the state of Chu to pay a lot of money. Knowing this, he didn't let the Hu merchant cross the border, how much is 200,000 gold and iron, and how much is the immortal medicine. He is old, and he has enjoyed the honor of a king for thirty years, but it would be nice if the king's life could continue.

"Elixir of immortality? Gave 200,000 catties of iron? Xiong Jing finally understood what was going on. Hu Tansuo didn't know where to get the immortal medicine, and then ...... I exchanged 200,000 catties of iron. Ju iron is not expensive, only 200,000 catties and five tons, and the cost is less than one gold, but this immortal medicine ......

"King of Chu......" Xiong Jing was obviously distracted, Tian Jian hurriedly shook his arm, and said: "If the king of Chu is willing to share the widow with a piece of Langji, the widow is willing to give the king of Chu 100,000 gold, and the world will be friendly with the state of Chu." ”

Xiong Jing glared at Tian Jian when he heard this, and when he saw the white hair under his white deerskin, he immediately understood in his heart. "King Qi's words are wrong. If the immortal medicine and food are really immortal, thinking of Chu Qi's friendship, it is okay to share one with the king of Qi, but if the immortal medicine is taken and dies, what should it be? Or what if you can't avoid dying after taking this medicine? ”

Tian Jian was poured cold water by Xiong Jing, his eyes rolled around and said, "In this way, the king of Chu is willing to share the widow?" ”

"This ......" Xiong Jing was really stopped by him, and he was stunned for a moment before asking: "Can the King of Qi be together?" ”

"Together?" Tian Jian's eyes widened, and then he fell into a dilemma. Taking the immortal medicine is for the sake of eternal life, and not messing with the Qin State is to save the society, what will be the result of taking the immortal medicine and then joining the family?

OR ...... Maybe. Tian Jian was stunned for a long time and muttered, the meaning was not clear.

"May I ask King Qi, is it okay or not?" Xiong Jing took a step closer.

"If you don't die if you take the medicine, you won't die, and the widow is willing to join forces with Chu and Zhao." Tian Jian finally mustered up the courage to live forever.

"Don't think that the elixir of immortality must be fake." Xiong Jing smiled and said regretfully.

"The people at the real banquet have seen it with their own eyes, how can it be fake?" Tian Jian looked at Xiong Jing with a surprised gaze, and he asked uneasily, "Is the King of Chu unwilling to divide the immortal elixir of widows?" ”

"That is, the king, a promise is a natural daughter." Xiong Jing felt that he might be hopeless. "Since the King of Qi has agreed to join forces, how can he not distinguish between the immortal medicine and the King of Qi? When he didn't return to the capital, he sent someone to the king of Qi. ”

"No, no." Tian Jian waved his hand again and again, "Since the king of Chu promised to share the widow with one piece, the widow will go to Yingdu in person." ”

"King Qi is going to Yingdu?" Xiong Jing suddenly wanted to laugh, he saw that Tian Jian's eyes were becoming more and more eager, so he had to say: "Since this is the case, Yingdu will be blooming." ”

"Good! Great goodness! Tian Jian let go of Xiong Jing's hand and grabbed it, let go and grabbed it, and the joy on his face was beyond words. Before the king of Chu came to Zi, the widow had already wanted to go to Chu, and at this time the car was ready, can it be done tomorrow? The kings of Wei and Han also sent people to ask for medicine in Yingdu, and the king of Chu was asked to tell Yingdu quickly, and they should not be given to them. ”

"Ahh The King of Qi, who struck while the iron was hot, was afraid that the immortal medicine would be robbed by the envoys of Wei Han, and he couldn't wait to take Xiong Jing to Yingdu now. However, Xiong Jing only arrived in Linzi today, and he had to delay until tomorrow, but things must be told to Yingdu first.

"King Qi, don't ......" Xiong Jing's thoughts were all confused by King Qi, he gave up those branches, and said directly: "If you don't look at the many fishermen in Qi Country, why don't you go to sea to fish in partnership between Chu and Qi?" The state of Chu has a sea boat, and the state of Qi has a fisherman......"

"Why not." Tian Jian, who returned to the throne, waved his sleeves with a smile, what else is there to say about immortality.

"The boat-making factory in the Chu State is full, and the boat can only be built in the Qi State." Xiong Jing said again.

"Yes." Tian Jian waved his sleeves again, but this time he waved his sleeves to the courtiers and servants who were waiting in the hall, and after the courtiers returned to the table, the monotonous bell music played in the Ming Hall again. "Why did the king of Chu go out to sea to fish? Qi and Chu are bordered by the sea in the east, and hundreds of thousands of stones of fish are caught a year, is it not enough? And fishing is like catching millet, and when there are many fish, you can't eat enough, and if you can't eat enough, you will ......"

"King Qi doesn't know." Xiong Jing asked the temple people to send Tian Jian a tinplate can.

"What is this, is it a big iron?" The tinplate canned food is not oval in later generations, but round, with 250 grams of meat per can, including condiments and soup, a total of 350 grams, which happens to be the meat of a day for five foot soldiers. Tian Jian rummaged through the silver-white can, not knowing what it was, and finally saw a word on it: "Horse." ”

"This is canned food, and the meat can be stored for twenty years without rotting." Xiong Jing Road. "When the Qin army retreated the winter before last, they killed horses, and this is the canned horse meat made of those horses. Chang Jiang, help King Qi and Zhu Qing open a jar. ”

The tinplate can was made, but it was impossible to open it as soon as it was pulled like in later generations. Chang Jiang took out a special can opener, and after opening the can, Xiong Jing ate a piece first, and then asked the temple people to deliver the can to King Qi. Canned meatThat's real canned meat, not luncheon meat that I don't know what to do in later generations. The stew is a little old, but the taste is good, not worse than the freshly stewed.

"Horse meat from the year before last?" Tian Jian also ate a piece, and what he was curious about was not horse meat, but the entire canned iron box. "Made of this iron?"

"It's not a lot of iron, it's just wrought iron." Xiong Jing replied. "When you go out to sea to fish, you canned it and store it when you can't eat it. In wartime, it was sent to the soldiers again to be used as food. ”

"Huh?" Finally, it was King Qi's turn to be surprised. "The soldiers of Chu actually eat meat?"

"This is the meat of the sergeant." Xiong Jing pointed to the canned horse meat and said, "The people of Yiwu eat one pound of meat every day. ”

"The soldiers are all commoners, how can the king of Chu let them eat meat?" Canned horse meat for King Qi to taste, Qi Xiang Housheng, Tian Jiao and others are also tasting it. I don't have to say anything about the taste, everyone just has some opinions about the common people's meat. This is not a feast, this is a dozen or hundreds of thousands of troops.

"Why can't the common people eat meat?" Xiong Jing smiled at everyone, especially the fat man who wore a big dustpan on his head. "However, the soldiers of the State of Qi do not eat meat, and they can just sell canned food to the State of Chu, so that the State of Qi will get gold, and the soldiers of Chu will eat meat, and both will benefit."

"King, since the soldiers of Chu can eat meat, the Qi army should also eat meat." The general Tian Luo bowed to the king of Qi, and the last thing he could see was that the barbarian Chu State was better than the Qi State. Besides, the soldiers eat meat and have the strength to fight bravely.

"King, meat is expensive. How can you let the common people eat meat? Hou Sheng's opinion was the complete opposite of Tian Luo's, he was worried about expenses.

"The two countries of Chuqi go out to sea to fish together, and then store it in canned iron, and the fish will not be bad for 20 years, which is comparable to millet. Qi Jun will naturally be able to eat meat in the future. Xiong Jing came up with a way to get the best of both worlds.

"Dare to ask King Chu, how much is this iron can worth?" As everyone nodded, a Qi country doctor in the last seat asked.

"How much is the jar worth?" Xiong Jing didn't care how much a can was worth, and only after listening to him ask did he think about the price of iron, labor, and tinning, and estimated: "It may cost two dollars." I don't know. ”

"Although two dollars are small, this jar is too small, and the army needs millions, which costs a lot of money." The doctor shook his head again and again and said, "King, the iron of the Chu State enters my Qi country, and its price is extremely cheap, so that the iron of my Qi country has nowhere to sell, and the smelter has no food. The minister asked the king to increase the iron tax of Chu State, ten times its simplicity, in order to save the smelters. ”

"Rude!" Tian Jian shouted angrily. "Qi and Chu are a good state, how can you be so provocative and not ask the king of Chu for guilt?"

Guanshanhai is the source of Qi State's profits and taxes, and the continuous import of Chu State Railway, Qi State's official iron industry has been squeezed and almost bankrupt. The civil iron industry was even worse, and it went out of business the year before last. The same is true of the Wei State, especially after the northern city of Daliang was leased to the Chu State, the traitors continued to smuggle the iron tools and goods of the Chu State from the chasm, so that Kong Xiang, an iron merchant of the Wei State, had to move to Jiangdong with craftsmen to open an iron factory.

Wei smuggled, South Korea also smuggled, and even the Qin cities on the north bank of the Yangtze River and on both sides of the Great River began to smuggle Chu iron weapons. However, Qin's smuggling was different from Wei and Han's, because of the joint sitting system, Qin's smuggling was more gang-like. Either the entire Yi does not buy the iron tools of the Chu State, or the entire Yi buys the whole Yi, and it is often the officials who take the lead in organizing it, they get the big head, and the Qianshou gets cheap.

Whenever he thinks of the smuggling caused by low-cost pig iron, Xiong Jing laughs. He likes officials too much, as long as these people hold his handle and confirm the fact that he has violated the law, you can hold him in your hands. If you can further help him clear the obstacles to climb up and help him get promoted, he will be grateful to you and die.

"King Qi is bad." Xiong Jing's words made everyone think they had heard it wrong. "The doctor's words are the words of the country, what is the crime? However, why is the price of the Chu National Railway low, but the Qi National Railway has nowhere to sell? ”

Xiong Jing looked at everyone and paused before saying, "The skills are not as good as people." ”

"Skills are not as good as people......" The Qi people in the hall were not convinced, but when they thought of the low-cost Chu State Ironware, what explanation was there except that the skills were not as good as people.

"That's the case, why don't you enter my Chu State to smelt iron?" Xiong Jing said again. "Kong Xiang, an iron merchant of the Wei State, has taken the craftsmen to the Jiangdong of the Chu State, and he will not order the craftsmen of the mansion to teach him to make iron, and the iron sold to the Wei State will be tax-free. If this is the case for the Wei State, why can't the Qi State be like this? If the Qi State moved craftsmen to smelt iron in the Chu State, it would not only allow the craftsmen to teach the art of iron smelting, but also exempt the iron sold to the Qi State. ”