The call of the ministers pulled the king, who was not old but whose aesthetics had long since fallen to the thighs of stockings, back from his confusion. Next year, the first year of the year will be the temple ceremony, and the first year of the Chu State will be in January, which means that there are more than 20 days before the temple meeting. And the New Deal, if it can be regarded as a New Deal, should also be made public to the public at that time, and if the New Deal cannot be discussed impeccably in the past 20 days, there will definitely be chaos at that time.

The reason for allowing so many countries to restore the country and abandon the last inheritance left by their ancestors is only that 'the Qin State will die in Zhao in ten years and Chu in more than ten years'; It is Song Yu's inference that the Qin State will die after thirty-two years, what about thirty-two years later? What if the Qin State does not die?

Xiong Jing was mostly thinking about 'people', 'money', and 'officers', while the ministers were mostly thinking about the strategies for the restoration of various countries, as well as the state of Chu thirty-two years later.

"Dare to ask the king, after thirty years, how will my Chu State be restored?" Zuo Tu Zhaoxiao, Da Sima Nao Cun, Dazai Shen Yinyu, Taifu Song Yu, Zuo Yin Meng Zhengyu, Zhen Yin Zimo, Da Sima Mansion Yin Lu Yangjun, Taibu Guanji, Sikong Tang Yi, these are the nine people who discuss the national policy. Tang Yi rarely spoke, he felt that Xiong Jing was a holy king, and everything he did was right. It's just that since the state of Chu is to be dismantled and the countries under its rule are allowed to restore the country, what will the state of Chu do in the future? The huge Chu State, only the old Ying's hometown remains?

Tang Yi's question has also been thought of by others, but this is more than 30 years later, and everyone will not discuss it for the time being.

"The country is the Chu people, and the Chu people are the country." Xiong Jing replied. "More than 1 million in Dingkou in the old Ying's hometown, more than 1 million in Nanyang......"

"Great King, what if the Qin State does not die?" Tang Yi looked at Song Yu, Song Yu said that the Qin State would die in thirty-two years, but he didn't see it that way.

"The Qin State will perish!" Xiong Jing said with great certainty. "Qin annihilated the countries, although the Kwantung clan was moved to Xianyang, but the remnants of the Kwantung nobles remained, and the government was as harsh as Qin, as long as someone raised the flag and waved, the Qin State would fall apart."

Xiong Jing is talking about history, but he is changing history.

"The ministers watch the sky at night, and after thirty years, there will be chaos in the pass, but it is just the Tian family's generation of Qi'er, how can the Chu State exist?" Song Yu's inference is based on history, and Tang Yu's judgment is based on the heavenly phase. Celestial phenomena are very mysterious things.

"Now that my Chu country has a huge iron, what will my Chu country have in thirty years?" Xiong Jing did not answer the rhetorical question.

Thirty years later, the ministers of the Chu Kingdom naturally didn't know, they could only look at Xiong Jing and wait for him to continue.

"Thirty years later...... spent thirty years overseas looking for natural sulfur, and the gunpowder must have come out, and when the gunpowder came out, the cannon also came out. The manufacture of muskets is more difficult than artillery, in addition to the reeds, but also in the barrel, which is also the technical bottleneck of the steam engine - Xiong Jing, who yearns for sea, is extremely familiar with the development of ship technology, whether it is a sail or a steam engine.

Fulton's steamship was a watt engine, and Stephenson's train was not a watt engine, which was already a fire-tube boiler. The so-called fire-tube boiler is ......, the boiler of the Watt steam engine has only one barrel, only 1 atmosphere pressure, and the pressure is below 14.5 psi, Watt's own estimate is 10.5 psi, and its total calorific value efficiency is only 3%; If the heating area inside the pot is increased, the thermal efficiency can be greatly improved, or it can reach 4% or 5%.

This is done by increasing the number of pots and barrels so that more and more flames pass through them. Lancashire boilers, fire-tube boilers, and smoke tube boilers are all products of this line of thinking. Boiler pressure reached 3.5 atmospheres in the first few years of the 19th century, then rapidly increased to 10 atmospheres, rising to 145 psi.

In addition to increasing the heating area inside the boiler, you can also increase the heating area outside the boiler, which is the water tube boiler. It's just that whether it is a fire pipe, a water pipe, or a gun pipe, the key is 'pipe'. However, the problem of seamless steel pipe production spanned several centuries, and it was not until 1885, near the 20th century, that there was a more mature Mannesmann pipe making method.

Xiong Jing thought too far, too far for the ministers to imagine. It took him a while to come back to his senses and said to Chang Jiang: "Bring the red box in the second compartment of the red box at the head of the bed." ”

Xiong Jing's personal belongings were placed in such an orderly manner that only he knew what they were. The bedroom was in the large room behind him, and Chang Jiang went and soon came over with a red box. The box was opened, and a small clay vase with 'KNO3' written on it was taken out, and some white crystals were poured out onto the paper. Xiong Jing found a candle flame and said very solemnly: "Everyone, look." ”

In the eyes of the ministers, the white crystals resembled salt. Of course, the only white crystals they had ever seen were salt. The candle ignites the paper, and the fire spreads along the paper to the white crystals, which then burn rapidly, making a 'snort' sound and sometimes bursting out with a few sparks.

This is the soil nitrate made by Xiong Jing, but unfortunately it is not pure nitrate, and there are many impurities in it - everyone knows soil nitrate, but how many people know how to purify soil nitrate? Even so, such a violent burning still surprised the ministers. In their knowledge, only the flame of molten iron emitted by the converter steelmaking can be compared.

"It's nitrate." Wait until all the nitrate is burned, Xiong Jing explained. "For example, if you dispense medicine, if you add a few other medicines, then you can create a thunder god weapon."

"Thor's Weapon?" Since the trebuchet is called the weapon of the god of fire, then the gunpowder is the weapon of the god of thunder.

"Exactly." Xiong Jing nodded heavily. "One of the medicines, called sulfur, is yellow in color, or lump or powder, and has a pungent odor, which snakes and insects cannot avoid. As far as I know, it's only available overseas, and if you can find sulfur, you can make the Thunder God's Weapon.

The weapon of the god of thunder, when it is fired, the sound is like thunder, and twenty catties of iron bullets and lead bullets can be critted out from the device, and within three or four miles, it can be swept away; If a pipe of iron can be made, this instrument can be made small, each soldier holds one, and its catapult is a mile away, and all the middle is dead, and thirty or forty rounds can be fired in a quarter of an hour; Or charge the can, nod and throw it at the enemy formation, after the lightning strike, a radius of several zhang is either dead or wounded. ”

Sulfur ore is divided into natural sulfur and pyrite, and the former is only seen in the volcanic vents of Rehe Chifeng and Tianshan South Road, all of which are outside the Guan. The only one in the Guan, accounting for 99.62% of the country's natural sulfur in Tai'an Zhujiazhuang natural sulfur mine buried at least 72 meters underground, in 1975 the geological team drilled a well to find, and no mining, the country's 10 natural sulfur mines only Qinghai sulfur mountain has a small amount of mining;

Pyrite is available in every province, but the refining technology began in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the production areas are only in Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Sichuan. Gunpowder began to be used in large quantities in the Northern Song Dynasty, although the domestic production of sulfur, but a drop in the bucket, the output is only one or two thousand catties, or Mingzhou (now Ningbo) officials were ordered to 'take 100,000 catties as a guideline, recruit officials to take custody' imported from Japan, only Shenzong Yuanfeng purchased 500,000 catties in seven years, the so-called 'sulfur on the ship' of the Song people, is Japanese sulfur.

Xiongjing is pinning its hopes on overseas, and there must be sulfur mines on volcanic islands, especially in Japan. With sulfur, earth nitrate and then try to purify, with wood charcoal, that is gunpowder. Where there is gunpowder, there is artillery, and with the current steelmaking technology of the Chu State, it is not difficult to punch out the reeds and roll out the barrel - it is necessary to create a flintlock pistol with excellent performance and low price in order to form an advantage over cold weapons. It's a pity that the sea is vast, Japan is still a wild and wild land, and natural sulfur is not easy to find, and he will never dare to press everything on gunpowder.

"What the king said about the Thunder God's weapon compared to the thorn crossbow?" Nao Cunning is the most knowledgeable about weapons, and everyone else is imagining what the 'Thor's weapon' looks like, but he is the only one who understands it the fastest, comparing the Thor's weapon to a thorn crossbow.

"The weapon of the god of thunder is called a thunder cannon, a small thunder gun, and a thunder bullet is loaded in a can." Xiong Jing's rough name, "The shell of the thunder cannon weighs twenty catties, can be solid, can be charged, the charge is a thunder bomb, after hitting out, it falls into the enemy formation and explodes, killing and wounding, Nao Qing thinks it can be compared?" ”

"Not comparable." Nao cunning couldn't imagine an explosion, but he could imagine a thunderstorm. Thunder explodes, lightning flashes the sky, and those in it will die.

"Thirty years later, the Chu army should have the weapon of the god of thunder." Xiong Jing is sure of this. "At the beginning, the Zhou room was only 300 cars, and it was defeated. If the Chu State has the weapon of the Thunder God, can it be as good as the Zhou Chamber? ”

"The world belongs to the Chu people, and the world is also the Chu people!" He clenched his small fist, "Although Lu, Song, Wu, and Yue allow them to restore the country, they do not respect the state of Chu, so they naturally want to beat, if they dare to rebel against Chu, they will destroy their country; Besides, how big is the world, how big is one country and one continent?

Nowadays, all countries are bronze weapons, and everyone is evenly matched, so whoever has more food and straw will win; What if the Chu army is all iron weapons, and other countries are still bronze weapons? Xiong Jing asked. If all countries have huge iron weapons, but our Chu army already has the weapons of the thunder god, what should we do? ”

Technological superiority, weapon generation difference. Although the ministers could not say the word in their mouths, they could understand the meaning. The Zhou Dynasty represented the merchants, and the 300 chariots of the Zhou army in the Battle of Muye had an immeasurable role, and the Chu State did not learn chariot warfare until more than 300 years later during the reign of King Wu of Chu.

"Thor's weapon is not made because of the lack of sulfur?" Lu Yangjun clarified his thoughts. "The world is so big, how can there be no such thing?"

"I've asked Jiyin, and there is no such thing in any country." Xiong Jing said regretfully. "If there is, why build trebuchets, and allow all countries to restore their countries, and then build a government to build thunder cannons."

"I would like to travel around the nations in search of this thing." Lu Yangjun bowed, extremely solemn.

"This thing is born in a volcano, and there is no volcano in the world." Xiong Jing had the impression that there was indeed no sulfur mine in Guannai. "Even if there is a volcano, it doesn't have to be. Rather than looking for it in the countries of the world, it is better to look for it overseas. The reason why the island in the sea is an island is because of volcanic eruptions and magma involvement, and there may be sulfur on it; Then there are the countries of the world, the south of the middle continent, and the Mediterranean Sea of the west continent are densely populated, or there is sulfur. ”

After that, he added: "Find the sulfur, purify the nitrate, build the mansion and then exquisite craftsmanship, and make a huge iron pipe, and the army of the thunder god will be completed." ”

"Great King, the art of iron cannot be passed on to the Zhao State, if the Zhao State dies, the Qin State will obtain this technique." Shen Yinyu reminded that although he received a huge amount of money from Zhao Envoy, it was just diplomacy, and it was a thousand-year plan for the Chu State, so what could that money be.

"Exactly. The art of iron cannot be passed on to Zhao State, nor can it be passed on to Lu, Song, Wu, Yue and other countries, Ou Chou should be rewarded. Zimo thought of the great engineer Ou Chou, but fortunately, he held his own aristocratic status and did not say that he would kill Ou Chou.

"I have my own opinions." Xiong Jing had thought about this for a long time. "The Qin people won't get anything!"