The commercial representative of the Zhoushui Alliance, Wuming, signed an economic cooperation agreement with the leader of the Xiangping Walled City in Liaoning Province, Anshan and Benxi were owned by Yan Tie and Yan Coal Group, and the largest potentially exploding mine in the process of Yanguo's heavy industry reform was removed, and the rest was much simpler.

Zhoushui University has invested heavily in the study of skilled pig iron and wrought iron production technology, and has successfully developed steel filling technology. Tanggukou Iron and Steel Production Base, nearly 50,000 NPC workers, began mass production of carbon steel to replace the use of bronzes.

The iron ore produced in Anshan and Benxi is continuously transported to Tanggukou by large sailing ships and sold to Yangang Group for the production of steel. 10% of the money from the sale of iron ore is handed over to the treasury of Yanguo, and the rest of the money goes to Yantie Group. After the steel produced by Yangang Group is sold, 10% of the money is handed over to the state treasury, and the rest is owned by Yangang Group.

Yan Tie, Yan Coal, and Yan Iron and Steel continue to negotiate with other player leaders of the walled cities in Yan Kingdom that have iron mines, and want to annex iron mines and coal mines all over Yan Kingdom.

To tell the truth, after the Northeast Iron Ore Area was taken, now these three monopoly giants have taken advantage of the time, place and people, and the NPC kings and ministers of the Yan Kingdom have the power to govern the Yan Kingdom, and they can formulate national policies that are beneficial to them as they like. There are powerful alliances of players in the local area to cooperate, from the naval military force to the alliance 6 army military force. It controls the transportation of the hinterland of the Yan Kingdom and the transportation lines of the main maritime trade places in the Bohai Sea, and suppresses the local forces that are about to move. In terms of raw materials, after Xiangping's players were willing to merge in the past and present lives, the three giants had an inexhaustible supply of raw materials.

The local players did not have the capital to bargain with the three giants. If the merge is refused. Then it will be blocked by all means. The only option is to be annexed, and perhaps in exchange for some benefits.

Between June 17th and June 19th, the Zhoushui Alliance conducted dozens of negotiations with the player forces in the Northeast Iron Ore Area and the North China Iron Ore Area of Yanguo, and successfully won the ownership of the five major iron ore mining areas in Northeast China, Anshan, Benxi, and Xuanhua, Qian'an, and Xingtai in North China. The leader of the Northeast Iron Mining Area took 10% of the equity of Diyan Iron in his previous life and this life. The big leader of the North China Iron Mining Area took the last remaining 10% of Yantie's equity. Yan Coal has also almost won the main coal-producing areas in the territory of Yan State.

So far, the establishment of Yantie and Yanmei Group has been roughly completed, and the most important iron ore mining areas and coal mining areas in the entire Yan country have been obtained. Yangang is currently the only steel producer in Yanguo, obtaining a huge amount of cheap raw materials from Yantie and Yancoal.

After the initial successful completion of the heavy industry reform of Yanguo. ^^?Monarch? Child?? Tang ^^ Ji Zhi, the king of Yan Kingdom, and Guo Kui, Qin Xiaobai, and Le Yi, the three civil and military ministers, were obviously relieved. The start of the heavy industry reform of the Yan State meant that the power of the local walled city chieftain began to transition to the royal power of the Yan court - when steel replaced bronze, it was the moment when the royal power replaced the local chieftaincy. This is a very natural process, not a process of force.

In less than a month, the local armies in the hands of NPC chiefs across the Yan Kingdom will no longer appear to be stronger than the central army, and their wealth will no longer be greater than that of the Yan king. At this time, the king had the most powerful army and wealth in the entire Yan Kingdom, and the king's orders had to be obeyed.

In the NPC regime system, the status of the king of Yan rose rapidly. No longer a dispensable role.

In the player land system. The Zhoushui Alliance also began to become extremely powerful.

With the abundant supply of raw materials for metro mines, the total production capacity has rapidly expanded to 300 tons/day, that is, 30,000 kilograms per day.

This production is a little terrifying, that is, it can produce 300,000 one-handed steel swords weighing 1 kg per day, equipping a 300,000 soldier NPC swordsman army. Or 300,000 1-kilogram hoes, equipping a 300,000-strong NPC peasant legion and most importantly. That's just one day's steel production capacity. If you change it to bronze. This is simply not possible because the number of copper mines is too small. It is impossible to satisfy such a crazy production. And the quality of bronze is also much worse than that of high-quality steel.

The production base of Yangang Group is in Tanggukou Walled City, which is actually the group controlled by the Zhoushui Alliance, and the steel produced is completely controlled by the Zhoushui Alliance. In this Yanguo heavy industrial revolution, the biggest profit is still the Zhoushui Alliance.

But how to use these steels, there are some disagreements between the more than ten leaders of the Zhoushui Alliance. Don't look at 300,000 kilograms per day, but the distribution is not enough, and all departments urgently need this batch of steel.

Yang Yang, the vice chairman of the industrial department, suggested that priority should be given to investing in its own agriculture and handicraft industry, producing hoes, sickles, plows, horse-drawn carts, etc., so that Zhoushui's agricultural and handicraft production capacity would leap forward significantly, so as to make Yanguo's economic capacity invincible, and then invest in other aspects. ^^?Monarch? Child?? Hall?^^

The vice chairman of the commercial department, Nameless, has a different view, and the demand for the steel that has just been produced is huge, and it is the time to make huge profits. It can be made into steel production tools and sold to all parts of Yan Kingdom, and then the Zhoushui Alliance can exchange it for the grain and raw materials such as iron ore and coal mines that it needs. Even if you don't have to produce food yourself, you can get enough food from other parts of Yan Country.

However, the deputy speaker of the military department of the Zhoushui Alliance, the god king, believes that the army should be given priority and make Zhoushui's 6th Army and navy stronger, so as to avoid accidental military attacks, if the army is not strong, then no matter how strong the economy is, it will be plundered by competitors. If the military is not strong, the stronger the financial strength, the more it will attract prying eyes and scourges.

All departments of the Zhoushui Alliance, including Qin Xiaobai, felt that it was better to put steel into Zhoushui's 6th Army and Navy first to strengthen the army's equipment. Then think about strengthening the economy.

But there is a problem, strengthening armaments is very expensive.

Yangang needs to pay for iron ore and coal mines from Yan Tie and Yan Coal, and it needs to pay up to tens of millions of copper coins every day. The steel produced is sold for money, which can be used to pay for iron ore and coal raw materials. But if the steel produced is put into its own armament, it will not be able to make money. To transform Zhoushui's 6 Army armaments, it will cost at least tens of millions, and to transform Zhoushui's naval headquarters, it is simply impossible to do it without hundreds of millions of money.

Where does this money come from?

If the Zhoushui Alliance only relies on the money earned by the Zhoushui Alliance itself to pay for this expense, I am afraid that the Zhoushui Alliance will be "burned" by this armament modification cost.

Qin Xiaobai thought about it for a while and decided to use the "escort tax" to pay for this huge amount of money.

Since the beginning of May, the Zhoushui fleet has collected "escort tax" in all the treaty ports in the entire Bohai Sea Circle, with an income of about tens of millions of copper coins every day.

The leaders of the Zhoushui Alliance were overjoyed and strongly agreed with this method. This huge escort tax has been idle for a long time, and it's time to make a move.

It only took three or four days to replace the bronze armor and weapons of the 300,000 standing 6th Army infantry and 30,000 cavalry troops stationed in Jicheng, Zhoushui Walled City, Tanggukou Walled City, and Lushunkou Fortress of the Zhoushui Alliance with steel armor and weapons.

The eliminated bronze sets are all sold to other surrounding countries, such as North Korea and South Korea. The Korean player army and the Japanese player army are in the middle of the blood station on Kyushu Island, Japan, and they are in urgent need of bronze weapons and equipment, and sending 300,000 sets of bronze equipment to the past is simply a charcoal in the snow, and a big meal in the hunger and thirst is sent over, and the Korean players are almost not happy.

In addition, there is the Zhoushui Fleet, and the Zhoushui Alliance spent 1.5 million kilograms of steel to carry out a "armor" transformation of 150 Sanyalou warships.

Each ship uses 10,000 kilograms of steel. A layer of 0.3 cm thick thin steel plate is laid on the main part of the surface of the ship, and a 0.5 cm thick steel plate is installed on the side, which can be fireproof, anti-shooting, and anti-impact, and the bow is equipped with a steel "spur" for collision attack. In the Bronze Age, the Zhoushui Alliance was reluctant to waste so much bronze to build this kind of "bronze battleship", but now in the Iron Age, there are enough resources to carry out the transformation of such a "steel battleship".

After the transformation, the Sanyalou ship has increased its weight by 10,000 kilograms, which is about 10% slower, but the defense capability of naval warfare has skyrocketed by more than 50% 00%, and it is not afraid of long-range and short-range attacks of cold weapons such as arrows, fire arrows, and giant crossbows, nor is it afraid of the impact attacks of light warships. Only several main warships of the same rank or higher can sink it by ramming.

The 150 renovated Sanya Iron and Steel Building ships are already a kind of near-invincible fleet in the waters of East Asia. Even if faced with four or five times the tonnage of the same class without "armor" warships, it is not impossible to defeat.