Qin State, Xianyang. Defense.

"Damn, are they crazy?" Wei Yu looked at the telegram from Goguryeo and said.

"Sir, their financial capacity is no longer enough to sustain the war in Goguryeo. I think that although they are purchasing ships, the South Korean side may not agree to their order for security reasons, so they will not have enough ships to ensure the safety of their 2nd Infantry Division, and at the moment they only have dilapidated ones to use, and the situation is very unfavorable for them. A captain officer analyzed.

"I know that, I'm worried about whether the damn Goguryeo people can withstand this war, their economy is on the verge of collapse, how much money do they have to sustain this war, they have to end this war as soon as possible." Wei Yi said.

"There is nothing we can do about it, and the other military production side seems to be reluctant to see the Goguryeo side end the war, because once the war ends, the war stimulates consumption, which is very unfavorable to us." The captain said.

"Hmm. I know. We Qin people don't need to worry about Goguryeo, but if Goguryeo is in turmoil due to its financial situation, and they still owe a large amount of war reparations to the Qin Bank, how can this money be calculated? Wei Yi asked worriedly.

"This." The Captain apparently didn't take this into account, they just saw the benefits they were getting now, and the rest of them didn't think about it at all.

"Okay, I will report this matter to the prime minister and let the prime minister deal with it, if the Qin government can solve the financial crisis in Goguryeo, the situation will be much better. I wouldn't object. Wei Yu said to his subordinates. The benefit of the war was that it could stimulate the growth of military consumption, which in turn led to the rapid economic growth of the Qin state.

Zhao Guo. Handan, the first military factory. Li Mu visited here.

"At the moment military factories can produce complete flintlock rifles, conical bullets, precision rifles, that is, rifled. The rifle can be fired at a distance of two hundred paces and can shoot the opposing officer. The director of the First Military Factory excitedly introduced.

"In addition, some barbed wire for simple fortifications was produced here. Barbed wire Handan Iron Works can also produce it, but we need to produce it from them and sell it, so in order to reduce costs, we produce it ourselves. Barbed wire mesh is very simple, and it can be produced on a large scale with a simple wire drawing machine and corresponding machine tool improvements. At present, the price of a hundred steps of barbed wire is one hundred and a half taels, and these products are mainly exported to Yueshi, Tocharo, as well as South Korea and Chu, and their demand is very large. The factory director introduced.

"Hmm. Very good, these things are not only needed by them, but also by Zhao Jun himself in the future. These are still good things. What else can you produce? Li Mu asked.

"In addition, we are able to produce some mine shells, and the filling explosives are divided into two types, one is black powder, which we can produce ourselves, he mentioned that it is larger, and the ignition device also needs to be imported from the Qin State. However, we are developing a mine of our own production, the ignition device of this mine is not stable enough, it will explode at the slightest touch, and it is also very powerful, but it is unstable and the danger is very high. The director said. With the announcement of the gunpowder formula, all countries have carried out research on high-power gunpowder, because it can greatly increase the range of the rifle and the power of the artillery. The Qin people are at the forefront of this research, and the Koreans are close behind, but the research process is the same for everyone. The Qin people were the first to come into contact with cotton, so they had a large number of smokeless gunpowder guns and bullets that could be popularized, while the Koreans had not yet come into contact with cotton, although they had already discovered thunder mercury, but the Qin people had better composite primer gunpowder and more stable performance. Koreans are not yet widely popular. Zhao was much behind in comparison, but they still found a powerful nitroglycerin, but they couldn't use this powerful explosive. Because his personality is too grumpy.

"The other is what we produce. In addition to mines, there are grenades, and by modifying grenades, we can also develop another kind of trip mines, mainly for defense against large-scale infantry attacks. The director of the factory introduced Li Mu. Li Mu nodded. Compared to having these things, Li Mu felt that he could effectively defend against Qin's ground offensive operations.

"How's it going on with artillery?" Li Mu then asked.

"This, we use the latest artillery technology, that is, the use of thermal expansion and cold contraction, the use of a cannon barrel over another barrel of self-tightening technology, can only produce some small-caliber artillery, large-caliber artillery technology, we can not master, the most important point is that the quality of our artillery is not too good, the quantity can be a lot, but it cannot be used for a long time." The director said worriedly.

"However, in this regard, we have solved a part of the funds from the stock, we have cooperated with Handan Iron Works to solve a large number of technical problems, through technology replacement, we have obtained a part of their shares, and then we have solved part of the financial problems, we have introduced relevant talents from Qin, and at the same time trained a large number of talents for exchange." The director continued.

"Hmm. You are doing a very good job, science and technology are very important, and in this regard, you are doing very well. Without science and technology, our factories will not be able to occupy a favorable position, and you must speed up. Li Mu said.

Afterwards, Li Mu visited the Second Arsenal. Zhao State Arsenal's current main profit comes from exporting various flintlock pistol parts to various countries, such as gun barrels, as well as a large number of mines, grenade weapons, barbed wire is also one of their important production defensive weapons, but these do not have much technical content, mainly to fight the price, Zhao Guo occupies a huge coal resource advantage to occupy a favorable market position. In the long run, things are not too good.

The most important point is that Zhao's other industrial development is not very good, for example, the aviation industry, they are at most just starting, and they can't expand further at all, and Zhao Guohao needs to develop for a long time to solve all the problems. This made Zhao Guo have to be patient with development, and the development of the country is like this. In a hurry.