The South Korean diplomatic corps soon arrived in Linzi, but the upper echelons of the Qi State considered it a group of barbarians and did not receive them immediately, and treated the diplomatic corps in a cold manner.

The State of Qi has its own plans. In their opinion, if they united with the barbarians to deal with the Yan State, the prestige of the Qi State would be greatly damaged. In particular, the introduction of foreign races to attack the Chinese country is very undesirable to lure wolves into the house.

If it is done, then the Qi country will face a major diplomatic crisis, this crisis is the loss of the Central Plains country's sense of understanding in the same ancestry, the loss of this sense of understanding is extremely terrible, Qi is likely to cause several countries to jointly send troops to attack. If formed, the state of Qi will face new pressure.

In this regard, Qi tried its best to adopt a cold approach to the North Korean mission. In fact, the state of Qi also has its own ability to deal with the state of Yan, and the premise is that no country will intervene. However, Qin's export phalanx of easing arms export restrictions is destined not to allow Qi to succeed in this idea.

The major military factories in the Qin State have adopted various means to obtain military weapons orders from the Yan State by all means. They offer weapons ranging from the latest rifles to submachine guns, machine guns. These weapons were even more advanced than those of the Qin army. But Yan Guo is shy in his pocket, although the weapon is good. But it all costs money. It is impossible for the financially strapped Yan State to spend a large amount of military money to buy arms.

Although the Yan State has a huge demand for weapons of war. However, this does not mean that the purchase of weapons of war is large. This has a lot to do with the wealth of a country. Yan Guo just lacks such wealth power. This wealth power is not only the production of gold, but also the growth of the country's wealth. Wealth needs to be created. At the same time, we must be good at management. Doing business is very important for a country. The monarch of the Yan State lacked this kind of management ability. Not only Yan State, but also many Warring States countries lacked this kind of management ability. They are just asking for the wealth of the country, rather than contributing their part.

In fact, the largest consumer of Qin's arms came from Chu, followed by Qi. The military weapons consumption ratios of Chu and Qi are very close. Moreover, the first and second positions of the two countries were exchanged many times in a month.

The amount of arms purchased by the state of Chu came from private groups. And it's very large. Their smallest units are all counted in hundreds. In the state of Chu, the arms trade was a fledgling business. This kind of business is extremely profitable. Until now, the arms business has been in the hands of South Koreans. They resold arms and weapons from the arms dealers of the Qin State and sold them to the Chu State, which was very expensive, and the buyers were mostly nobles, and they bought weapons mainly to take care of the family.

And now, this demand is getting stronger. The reason is that the inflow of weapons is relative. Chu merchant ships were able to import large quantities of weapons from Qin ports, and these weapons were not only cheap. And the performance is superior. Some also have pistols and submachine guns made by the original factory of Qin. This gun has a lot of firepower. In extreme times, it is possible to fire a dense number of bullets. But this demand comes from water pirates.

The water pirates were eager to have an automatic weapon when they were constantly robbing the merchant ships of the Qin State, especially to give full play to their firepower in the narrow space of the ship, so this weapon was quickly favored by the water pirates and then purchased in large quantities. For machine guns. They think the cost is still too expensive. The price of the machine gun was up to a hundred gold. Although it comes with 1,000 rounds of ammunition. The value for money is still poor. Therefore, the water pirates still purchase semi-automatic, automatic weapons such as submachine guns and pistols.

Except for water pirates. There are also Chu folk merchants. They mostly kept themselves safe and went out to capture slaves, and they fought against the dense jungles of the south. Therefore, the types of weapons they purchase are very varied. From pistols, to rifles. From submachine guns, to shotguns. They're going to buy big. And some other powerful weapons were procured. These weapons include yellow security explosives and grenades.

It is strange that the military of Chu has purchased very little. In addition to the procurement of fifty water-cooled machine guns by the Chu State Naval Army. I haven't bought anything for a while. This surprised Qin Guo very much.

The procurement of military weapons in the state of Chu was mainly procured by civil organizations. The procurement of military weapons in Qi is more reflected in the military, Qi imports a large number of weapons from Qin, although the country is also actively using handicraft workshops to imitate a batch of weapons. But there is still a big gap in the overall quality of weapons. The best is Linzi, where there are two weapon workshops. The weapons manufactured by these two manufacturing offices are almost identical to those manufactured by the machinery of the Qin State except for the number.

Manufactured in other regions, it is purely coarse. These military weapons, even the national soldiers are unwilling to use, the reliability is really poor. Some barrel locking structures often cause bullet jamming. This life-threatening approach was a real headache for the Qi soldiers.

Craftsmanship requires a certain amount of skill. That is, work experience accumulated over a long period of time. This kind of work experience requires the accumulation of time. And the summary of science and technology can accelerate this accumulation time. Some processing difficulties can also be solved using scientific methods. For example, some of the dense positions of the machine tool and so on. Qin's domestic production relied on this kind of processing to solve the problem. They not only have scientific management methods. There is also the tightness of the machine and the various processing methods. And the Qi State only relied on the experience of the craftsmen. This gap is evident in mass production.

Moreover, the state of Qi changed a large number of military weapons in an extreme period of time. This kind of costume change requires a lot of money to support, and Qi still has such savings. There is financial resources, and there is demand. This allowed Qi to become Qin's second largest purchaser of military weapons. Their procurement of weapons was done through the Koreans. Koreans bought from the Qin people at a lower price and then sold. Or the merchants of the Qin State were directly involved, but the weapons they bought were not ordinary weapons, but submachine guns. Machine guns, these two weapons are not available to Koreans in large quantities. Because the merchants of the Qin State monopolized this purchase channel.

The 150,000 troops of the Qi army were reequipped with weapons from the Qin State on a large scale, and most of these weapons were new types of long rifles with a magazine design that were pulled back and rotated on a large scale, except for some trap rifles in stock. This rifle has an extremely impressive range, reaching a thousand paces. This kind of shooting distance made the Qi people very surprised, and it was because of this that they would buy a large number of them.

But that's not enough. For the Qin military factory, these arms orders only maintained their livelihood. If you want to make money, then you have to fight, fight a big war, and only then can you earn more money.

However, there was no such intention in Qin. King Qin and Shang Wen and most of the cabinet members held a long meeting in the Xianyang Palace. The content of the talks was to establish a dense transportation network for the Qin state. After the completion of this transportation network, the speed of logistics and urban construction of the Qin State, as well as various commercial activities will have a great impact.

"There will be three tiers of railway lines built in the north. Then three more vertical railways were built, and then the local government invested in the construction of branch links between these railways. Meng Yi introduced.

The first thing that the Qin state wanted to do was to cover a large-scale railway network in the north, starting from the Yellow River and Yinshan. The construction of three vertical and three horizontal railways will cover the entire grassland. In the middle of the railway grid is a dense network of roads and highways. At present, there are several intermittent railway lines in the three vertical and three horizontal lines in the north of Qin, and in the next step, Qin will establish such a railway and highway network.

The railway and highway network in the Guanzhong area is currently the most developed section of the Qin State. However, the Qin State wanted to extend the role of this railway transportation hub, and there was only one railway line in the Western Regions, which was caused by the special terrain. There is no way to change that.

But the South. But there are a lot of railways to be built. Bashu was a place of strategic preparation for the Qin State. The Qin State has been operating here for several generations. But there is still no railway. The meaning of the King of Qin is very clear, that is, to complete the railway work of Bashu at all costs. But the special geographical environment there requires not machinery and equipment, but a large number of manpower. The most tense thing in the Qin State at the moment is manpower.

There is no clear calculation of the number of slave deaths. But the death toll has always been high. On average, 6.3 out of 10 people die in heavy construction projects. The high mortality rate created an extremely high demand for slaves. But Qin does not have a good solution at the moment. The ability to capture slaves in the north had fallen to an all-time low, and the Huns adopted guerrilla tactics to deal with the Qin and Zhao armies. They take care to protect their living forces. Except for some of the mountain people in the east who actively sought refuge in the Qin state, the rest fled to the farther primeval forests, and the Koreans in the south began to move strategically on a large scale. It has largely entered the Korean Peninsula today.

To the south of the Qin State was the present-day Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. The western part is the Tibetan Plateau. One is mountainous and the other is a high-altitude plateau. Both sites are not highly populated and difficult to exert greater combat effectiveness.

But the King of Qin would not consider this, and he believed that the Western Regions could solve this part of the need. Shang Wen could only shake his head at this. For the Qin State, the Western Regions were too far away. The Qin State did not effectively solve the problem of logistics and supply. It will be difficult to further expand the gains of the war.

But the merchant armies of the Chu State were helping the Qin State to meet this great need for slaves. Moreover, this path of demand has gone through a long time. Moreover, the trade was dominated by slaves. Auxiliary arms weapons, light industrial products, raw materials and so on. This trade route began as well.