Brunei's NPC regime caused a great shock, and under the interference of neighboring countries, the king of Brunei was forced to revoke the title of emperor and restore the title of king in just one day.

The 600 heavy fighting ships and 320,000 NPCs of the Chinese Expeditionary Fleet were stationed in the largest port near the royal city of Bandar Seri Begawan in Brunei Darussalam to protect the security of the Kingdom of Brunei for a long time. Other countries in Southeast Asia, such as the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, etc., also symbolically stationed a small number of soldiers, while the rest returned to their respective countries.

After unloading all the munitions at the port, the 600 sailing ships set sail for the Philippines and returned to Zhanjiang, China, via the Philippine port. He was accompanied by twenty NPC blacksmiths who had already mastered the art of iron smelting. Because there was no cargo, these sailing ships sailed very fast.

On 30 May, the sailing ships once again crossed the South China Sea and returned to the port of Zhanjiang in Guangzhou, the base camp of the Zhanjiang fleet. With the return of the sailing ship, the whole of Zhanjiang was boiling to celebrate the success of this cross-sea expedition.

The "Crazy Dragon", the leader of the Zhanjiang fleet, was undoubtedly the greatest profit of this expedition. He was the first to acquire the technology to smelt iron, opened up the sea trade route to Southeast Asia, and doubled the strength of his fleet with the financial investment of the whole of Wolf Smoke, and stationed a heavy fleet in Brunei.

The second profit is the 105 members of the entire wolf smoke organization. They will share in part the results of the expedition, including iron smelting technology and Southeast Asian trade routes.

The dragon asked these 20 NPC blacksmiths to teach his thousands of bronze smiths the art of iron smelting, quickly trained a large number of blacksmiths, and then sent out a fleet to secretly escort some of the blacksmiths from the sea to the territory of the wolf smoke members across the country.

The Zhanjiang ships went north from the sea. The fastest to get the blacksmith was first the Zhoushan Fleet of the East China Sea of Sea Soul, then the Qingdao Fleet of the Yellow Sea of the Sword King, and finally the Bohai Fleet of Qin Xiaobai. Then they came from the coast. Conveying iron-smelting technology to wolf-smoke members in six inner regions -- The members of the wolf-smoke organization who first obtained iron-smelting technology will gain technological advantages in this long-term competition.

It is impossible to establish a technological advantage in the long term by a single member. In order to become China's top arms dealer, Langyan must seize technological superiority and form a scale advantage in the nine vassal states at the same time. Kingdom of Chu. The members of the dragon are in control of the technological superiority. The Kingdom of Wu is controlled by the members of the Sea Soul. The Kingdom of Qi, a member of the Sword King, has a technological advantage. Swallow Kingdom. The members of Qin Xiaobai have the technical advantage. Zhao, Qin, Wei, Bashu, Lu. After a series of layouts are complete. The strength of Wolf Smoke can truly be called the mastermind behind the scenes of the entire Zhou Dynasty.

The members of Wolf Smoke had already received the news, and during this time, they had low-key hoarded a large amount of iron ore, and even simply sent troops to occupy and buy iron mines. And sell a lot of your Reserve Bronzes - this thing is about to become obsolete, and it can be sold for a good price while most players don't know about it yet. Once iron is widely available, the value of bronze will drop significantly.

The sheep who dominate the industrial department of the Zhoushui Alliance are organizing a group of subordinates to nervously formulate a strategy to monopolize the entire Yan State Iron Tools. Most of them didn't know that they already had iron-smelting technology, and they were just doing some layout planning under Qin Xiaobaidi's orders.

I have to admit it. The "ambition" of the Zhoushui Alliance is huge. They don't care about the gains and losses of one city and one village at all, they care about the entire Yan Kingdom, from the southernmost Yellow River, to the northernmost Inner Mongolia grassland, from the westernmost Taihang Mountain Range, to the northernmost Heilongjiang, forty or fifty walled cities. They want to swallow it in one bite. And to swallow a huge number of walled cities. Undoubtedly, it is necessary to resort to the monopoly of iron. In the Iron Age, iron production was the core of a nation. Monopolize iron and master the lifeblood. In the early days of iron-smelting technology, it was the best time to monopolize the production of ironware, and once it was missed, it was very difficult.

In one day, the sheep took a preliminary draft strategy and found Qin Xiaobai.

After Qin Xiaobai read it, he was a little surprised. This monopoly draft is a monopoly on the entire industrial chain. The iron industry chain includes: technology research platform, products, brands, iron and steel mills, iron smelting technology, mining technology, iron ore, iron ore raw materials, coal mine raw materials, sales channels, shipping channels, and markets.

Qin Xiaobai was surprised not by the level of detail of this plan, but by the fact that the sheep had begun to understand the essence of monopoly. If there is a monopoly in the real sense of the world, it is undoubtedly a monopoly on every detail of the entire industrial chain. Make it impossible for any competitor to produce.

Qin Xiaobai couldn't help but nodded and praised: "Sheep, progress is very fast!" I don't think it will be long before you become a real monopoly producer. ”

The sheep said with a smile: "I've been with my eldest brother for so long, and I've learned a few hands." Big brother, what aspects of this draft do you think needs to be improved? ”

Qin Xiaobai said: "In addition to a monopoly on standards, I think it's almost the same." Zhoushui University has set up a standards committee to formulate audit standards. ”

The sheep wondered: "Standard? What is this? ”

Qin Xiaobai said: "To put it simply, it is a national standard and an industry standard. Take a bronze as an example, because of the difference in smelting technology proficiency, most of the bronze swords produced by the handicraft workshop are different, with differences in durability, hardness, toughness, length, and sharpness value. The difference between good and bad bronze objects is reflected in these values. We have set this standard and defined those below a certain value as inferior. This is the industry standard.

Also, like wheels and rails, a 2-meter-wide wheel-rail can never be combined with a 1-meter-wide wheel-rail, and the wheels cannot be driven on it. If the wheels and rails of each walled city use different specifications of wheels and rails, then the wheels and rails of the entire Yan Kingdom cannot be connected. Roads, railways, these are national standards. These simple examples, the right to formulate these standards in our hands, can truly monopolize the steel industry in Yanguo. ”

The sheep's mouth opened wide in shock, and it took a long time for it to come back to its senses and figure out a little taste.

If it is said that monopolizing technology and resources is a treasure and a spiritual weapon. That monopoly standard is simply an artifact.

Just imagine, if two steel giants with the same strength, among which the iron produced by A has poor hardness and B produces subway equipment with poor toughness, they are both fiercely competing for the production of rails. Then the state comes up with a standard. It is required that the national subway rail must meet the requirements of high ground toughness, and there is no requirement for hardness. With a click, the B family was cleanly killed. Squeeze out the production market for rails. There's no place to cry when you cry, and Family A automatically wins - is there anything better about Family A than Family B? No. This is simply because of the standardly. Defeated the B family.

But few people notice that standards are also monopolized by a very small number of people. Qin Xiaobai patted the sheep on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Let's do it right away, we only have a few days to deploy these things first......"

"Okay, big brother, I'll do it right away."

The sheep nodded earnestly. After the NPC blacksmith secretly arrived at the Tanggukou base, the Tanggukou Walled City began to get busy. Thousands of bronze workshops were closed and demolished, and a Xindi iron smelting and casting iron workshop were built on the old site.

Other than that. Demand for bronze remains strong, but production in open-pit mines has dried up, and prices remain high, rising until the end of May. The Zhoushui Alliance has been clearing its inventory these days, selling a large number of bronzes to Liaodong, the Yellow River, and even South Korea and North Korea.

Subsequently, the Tanggukou Walled City began to make iron.

Because it uses charcoal as fuel. Fewer calories. In addition, the furnace body is small and the blower equipment is poor. Therefore, the furnace temperature is relatively low and cannot reach the smelting temperature of iron, so the subway is smelted into a sponge-like solid block of pig iron, and this iron-smelting technology is called the "block iron smelting method".

The carbon content is 2%.3%, which is pig iron, because it contains a lot of carbon, it is hard and brittle.

With a carbon content of 0.2% to 12%, it is steel, with high strength and good toughness.

If a certain amount of rare metals such as chromium, manganese, molybdenum, and silicon are added, alloy steel can be made with special properties, such as stainless steel, high-strength steel, corrosion-resistant steel, and so on.

The carbon content is less than 0.2%, and it is wrought iron.

However, it is still the Bronze Age, and the smelting process is low-level, and only raw iron can be smelted, and steel cannot be directly smelted in one step.

Pig iron was not the goal of the Zhoushui Alliance, and when the first batch of pig iron was smelted, NPC blacksmiths began to study the "Frying Steel Method" to make steel, producing low-carbon steel and wrought iron. Using pig iron as raw material, heating to liquid state and midnight state, using blast air and concentrate powder to reduce the carbon content of pig iron to become low carbon steel and wrought iron, this method is called "frying steel method". The ordinary steel smelted by the "Frying Steel Method" is repeatedly heated, folded and forged by the "Hundred Steelmaking Method" to remove the residue in the steel, so as to make high-quality high-quality steel.

"Block Iron Smelting Law" - "Steel Frying Law" - "Hundred Steel Smelting", the whole set of "from iron ore to pig iron, pig iron to steel, inferior steel to high-quality steel" process, in order to produce high-quality cold weapons.

A breakthrough has been made in iron smelting technology, and Zhoushui Academy continues to invest heavily in NPC blacksmiths to study the steel frying method and the 100 steel making method.

The only drawback of the above process is that the degree of steel production is very slow. The production cycle is very long, and a blacksmith may not be able to make a high-quality steel knife in ten days, which cannot meet the needs of players.

Of course, there is a more advanced technology than the above, that is, the famous "Steel Irrigation Law" in Chinese history.

"Steel Filling Law" - select iron ore with relatively high grade, smelt high-quality pig iron, and then, pour liquid pig iron on liquid wrought iron, after several degrees of smelting, so that the iron carburizes into steel. Since pig iron and wrought iron are "stayed" together, the steel smelted is called "staying". This method is very fast, and pig and wrought iron are neutralized into steel at the same time. There is no need for blacksmiths to forge repeatedly.

At the same time, the technology investment department of Zhoushui University has invested heavily in in-depth research on these four major iron-making and steel-making methods to produce the best quality steel. To raise the level of NPC blacksmith technology to an extremely high level, the cost of money will be astronomical.

At the same time, large quantities of pig iron were produced in major blast furnaces. Began to use this pig iron to continue smelting wrought iron and carbon steel. It spread swiftly within China. The various members of the Wolf Smoke acquired the technology of iron smelting, and shifted from the production of bronze to the production of ironware. Such a large-scale transformation cannot be hidden for too long. Although extremely confidential. But the news still inevitably leaked out.

The news that Chinese players have obtained iron smelting technology has spread on major game forums in the game, and has quickly spread to various countries such as Western Europe, North America, and Central Asia. It has been a great stimulus to players from all over the world. You know, this is an epoch-making technology. Iron was a symbol of the feudal dynasty's rise to strength. Whichever country masters iron technology first will bring about a huge leap in productivity.

Countless powerful players from all over the world are crazy about buying iron-smelting technology at high prices on major forums, trying to get iron-smelting technology one step ahead of other competitors.

The members of the Wolf Smoke Organization had no intention of losing their technological advantage for the money. They have taken various strict measures to concentrate NPC blacksmiths to prevent the loss of blacksmiths and prevent the leakage of iron-smelting technology to the outside world. If attacked, kill the NPC blacksmith. Nor shall the blacksmith be allowed to fall into the hands of others. Try to ensure one's own technological superiority -- even if you want to transfer iron-smelting technology to the outside world, you must wait for yourself to study a higher grade of steel-frying technology, 100-steel making technology, and steel-filling technology before you can sell it, otherwise it will be adding competitors to yourself in vain, and there will be endless troubles in the future.

The 105 members of Wolf Smoke were able to spend nearly half a month after the expeditionary force was released in late May, until they brought back the NPC blacksmith, and began to secretly update the production technology in early June. Strict secrecy is still being maintained. It was only disseminated within the members, and no iron smelting technology was leaked to the outside world. It can't but be said to be a miracle.

However, since the first person obtained the iron-smelting technology, there must be a second person who can obtain the iron-smelting technology in the same way, and there is no such thing in this world as an absolute secret. Even if the Wolf Smoke members do not sell their technology to the outside world, there are still many people who have deduced the way to obtain iron smelting technology from the actions of the Wolf Smoke members.

The Zhanjiang expeditionary fleet went to Brunei, which once attracted the attention of many forces. In this process, a very abrupt thing happened, that is, the king of Brunei once proclaimed himself emperor for a very short time, and then quickly abdicated. Although it is short-lived, it is enough to attract the attention of those who care. Brunei's NPC king would not have dared to claim the throne if it weren't for someone to support him. Soon after this incident, NPC blacksmiths appeared in Zhanjiang, which could not but attract many associations.

Under the rich associations, a small and extremely devastated country emerged in Central Asia - Israel. Israel was divided into the kingdom of Israel and the kingdom of Judea.

Players from nine countries, including Palestine, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq, have officially declared war on Israel after a months-long border skirmish.

The king of Israel urgently appealed to the kings of Europe for help.

The armies of the nine Arab nations marched into Jerusalem at the same time to capture the Holy Land of Islam. Egypt has sent millions of troops, Turkey has sent millions of troops, and Saudi Arabia has sent millions of troops, as many as nearly six or seven million; There are more than 300,000 Israeli players and millions of NPC soldiers, so they are not weak. But in the encirclement of the Arab countries in the Middle East, it is an absolutely weak small country. In Central Asia, Israel has no allies and is surrounded by hostile states – both in-game and out-of-game.

In just five days, the kingdoms of Israel and Judea fell to all of them, including the royal cities. The whole of Israel is in chaos, and countless Israeli players have fled to the Mediterranean Sea by boat to Western Europe.

On the early night of June 5th, in the palace of the royal city, the king of the Israeli NPC, who was captured by the Arab players, held a final farewell ceremony to ascend the throne and claim the throne.

On the night of June 5th, the whole system prompted:

"Imperial Expedition Announcement of State Regime Change: The King of the Israeli NPC died, the Israeli regime was eliminated, and Israel officially died, becoming the first country in the Empire to die. The remnants of the Israeli vizier formed a regime in exile and fled to the Mediterranean. ”

"Imperial Expedition Announcement of Change of State Authority: Palestine occupies all of Israel, and the Palestinian NPC King gains control over the entire Palestinian region."

Late at night on June 5, several wagons were secretly transported to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey under the protection of heavy troops.

Unfortunately, however, it is not just Israel in Central Asia. Many of Europe's major powers are jumping on the bandwagon, looking at the smaller countries around them.