The war was under the jurisdiction of Wang Zhi, and he himself would travel to the subcontinent with the trade fleet to preside over all affairs there.

This made the other two ministers envious.

Since the business alliance wants to count the list of goods for the first time in maritime trade, the merchants with maritime trade qualifications are busy in March.

Its own products are clear, and they are busy selling products on behalf of them.

The regulations of the business alliance are very clear, the label, packaging, style, and even the color and size of the same product must be consistent, otherwise it will be regarded as unqualified quality and will not be allowed to be shipped.

There are more than 10 million merchants who want to do sea trade, but there are more than 100 who are really qualified, and those who are not selected can only label their products with other people's labels, or simply do OEM and OEM production for others, so as to make profits.

The quality of these products is uneven, the difference is great, it takes time and effort to inspect one by one, and after the quality standard system is built, it will be much easier.

Small merchants know that although the middle will be stripped of a layer by the main owner, the expected profit is still much higher than domestic sales.

Since there was no unified currency between auspiciousness and the Southern Subcontinent, the trade was conducted in a barter mode, and the merchants were particularly fond of gemstones.

Since beating the family members of the officials who participated in the little princess's full moon wine and wearing all kinds of gemstones, the aesthetics of auspicious women have been deviated from the rhythm by Wang Xuan.

This was followed by Great Xia, Hu Yue, and Western Zhou.

The gemstone itself is hard and easy to preserve, and with the saying "a diamond lasts forever, a diamond lasts forever", its value immediately increases exponentially.

When it comes to jewelry, the supreme quest is no longer silver or gold designs, but gemstones from the Southern Subcontinent.

They are crystal clear, beautiful in color, hard and retain value, and they come in a variety of shapes and shapes, which is perfect with snow-white skin.

The remaining more than 100 pairs of jewelry, except for some gifts to the ladies of Xiangyuan, the rest were put up for auction in the auction house.

In just one day, it was sold out and won millions of dollars.

Merchants who came one after another could only buy the owners who were willing to sell at a high price, and the transaction volume was also very small.

These gemstone jewellery were either given as gifts to women or collected as collections, and a gemstone craze arose for a while.

Since Feng Gang entered the steel plant, he has devoted himself to his work.

Daughter Feng Qian is almost eighteen years old, and she will enter Jishi University in the second half of the year.

His wife, Feng Yang, is a full-time wife at home, and she grows some vegetables and fruits in the backyard of the villa, and also raises a few chickens. She takes care of the vegetable garden every day, feeds the chickens, cooks, washes clothes, and is also at ease.

In my spare time, I went out to hang out and chat about family life, because the Ministry of Health attaches great importance to the health care of the people, so everyone's health is not bad.

Feng Gang has no worries, and his work is naturally getting better and better.

The product of the iron and steel mill's sea trade this time is 100 steel, which is used to make weapons and armor.

This kind of steel has been a high-grade material in Jixiang, and whether it is exported has been discussed for a long time, and finally it is Wang Xuan's board.

Due to the demand for weapons from the indigenous people of the subcontinent, some of this batch of steel will be exported in the form of knives and guns, and the rest will be disposed of by the natives themselves.

What Feng Gang has to do now is quality inspection.

After the machine is forged and formed, it needs to be manually hammered and orthopedic again, after which the toughness and strength of the weapon need to be tested.

Thousands of steel knives and hundreds of pairs of armor, each of which needs to be checked one by one, is not a small amount of work.

The military originally wanted to hand over the order to 404 to do, but Wang Xuan assigned them a new task, so the job fell to the steel plant.

Since the construction of the reservoir at the foot of the mountain, various forging, extrusion, and die-casting equipment have been completed and assembled, and the 404 has made use of sufficient hydraulic resources to greatly improve its production efficiency.

They are now trial-producing musket barrels.

The research institute has designed several models of barrels, some long and short, some thick and some fine, and it depends on the accuracy of the equipment of the 404.

At least for now, there is still a long way from success.

There are generally three methods for barrel forming, one is to repeatedly forge the steel core wrapped in multiple layers of iron sheets, and the disadvantage is that the pass rate is extremely low and it is easy to blow up.

The second is the casting extrusion method, in which the alloy steel is injected into the mold and pressurized and forged after forming, the disadvantage is that there are more trachoma, and there is also a risk of exploding.

The third is the precision forging method, which is the opposite of the casting and extrusion method, which is a short and thick blank with a large hole in the center, a steel bar mold is placed inside, and the outside is constantly beaten with a precision forging hammer to knock the blank to a slender length.

The disadvantages are that the process is complex, the control is difficult, the internal stress is disordered, and the technology is extremely high.

The advantages are naturally low cost and fast production speed.

The first two have been vetoed by Wang Xuan, who wants to use precision forging to produce steel pipes.

At present, what needs to be done is to improve the technical proficiency of workers and increase the yield rate; the second is to improve the forging platform and replace the preliminary precision forging and beating with a forging press.

Wang Xuan is not in a hurry, when the kung fu arrives, the time to come will naturally come.

Originally, there was no need to be in such a hurry to get on the musket project, but the invaders of the subcontinent also had artillery, although Jixiang did not suffer in naval battles, but land battles were not necessarily.

If you want to solve the land war, you have to rely on the army.

The opponent's forces must be more than auspicious, otherwise it is impossible to control such a large piece of land, coupled with the blessing of artillery, auspicious odds are not great.

Fortunately, there is no possibility of conflict between the two sides at present, which is also the reason why Wang Xuan is in the musket project, but he is not in a hurry to produce results.

Be prepared, so that you can have peace of mind.

The two young people who accompanied him learned auspicious words from Liu Zhi, but they also adapted to life here and were full of curiosity about everything.

Houses, roads, transportation, and all kinds of products are all reasons for them to stop.

Although curious, although addicted, I have not forgotten the purpose of this trip, one is to barter, share the tribute gifts, and the other is to find a habitat.

Wang Xuan saw them and promised that if the other party joined the auspicious kingdom and became a part of the auspicious people, auspicious would take them to live on this continent and enjoy the treatment that all citizens should have.

This condition made the young two not know how to answer.

Essentially, they agree, but subconsciously, they refuse.

There must be something to give, and their status cannot be decided, so Wang Xuan only asked them to convey the auspicious position, and did not criticize them.

The news of the return of the auspicious fleet can't be hidden from those who have a heart.

At the beginning of April, Hu Yue Zheng asked Chu Bi and the princess to meet Wang Xuan to discuss the matter of maritime trade.

In the middle of the same month, Han Le, the envoy of the Western Zhou Dynasty, asked him to join the North-South Corridor plan, and asked Jixiang to send technicians and materials to assist in building the road.

Wang Xuan handed over these planned matters to the cabinet.

After the Jixia conflict, he applied for a government loan and received the support of the business alliance to start the transportation trade from Hu Yue to Jixiang.

Princess Hu Yue is auspicious, and the two are now inseparable.

This time, Chu Bi came to be auspicious, largely for the princess's marriage.

Great Xia and Hu Yue were in constant conflict, so they almost broke off the war and started a war.

There was a conflict between auspiciousness and Great Xia, and it was because of this that the Fourth Kingdom was born.

As the saying goes, the enemy of the enemy is the friend, and the relationship between Jixiang and Hu Yue is not bad, and now the princess of his own family marries the Jixiang hero, no matter how you look at it, it is a good deal.

In this way, Great Xia will be in a state of north-south attack, and everything will be tied.

King Hu Yue believed that Wang Xuan would be happy to see such a situation.

Wang Xuan is indeed happy to see this situation, and it is an unchanging truth to have a long-distance and close attack.

Therefore, after expressing his support in principle for the marriage between the two countries, the matter was referred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

As for whether Feng Qiangzhi is sincere or false to Princess Hu Yue, only that princess cares.

Anyway, after Zhao Shengrui learned about this, he dropped a whole set of blue and white porcelain tea sets, and Wang Yue was treated coldly for more than ten days.

This has become Zhao Shengrui's daily routine, as long as Ji Xiang is in the limelight, or does something unfavorable to Daxia, he will intentionally or unintentionally take Wang Yue out of anger.

He also introspected himself and thought that it shouldn't be like this, but he couldn't control the fire when it came up.

Wang Xuan can't move, this may be the fundamental reason why Wang Yue has become the target of venting.

But Wang Yueguo is beautiful and fragrant, and after giving birth to a son and a daughter for the Zhao family, she still has an outstanding figure and extraordinary beauty, which makes Zhao Shengrui never give up her heart and really snub her.

Wang Yue knows it, so she also looks weak and obedient on weekdays, but she is even more favored by the competitive Zhao Shengrui.

So, the two of them were divided and divided, and the people in the palace seemed to be used to it, as if these two were playing at home.

But Wang Yue knew in her heart that a woman would eventually grow old and decrepit, and it was impossible for her to lock Zhao Shengrui's heart for the rest of her life, and how to leave a way back for herself was her long-term goal.

Wang Xuan is a nostalgic person, as the second sister, she is clear, so the first step she plays is the family card.

After marrying into the royal capital of Great Xia, Wang Yue built a sporting goods factory here, but now it is controlled by Zhao Shengrui, plus Lan'er gave birth to a daughter for Zhao Shengrui, and has moved out to stand on her own, so she can't intervene.

When he was desperate to marry Zhao Shengrui, he annoyed Wang Xuan, and the relationship between the two sides fell to a freezing point.

Although there is a relaxation now, there is no going back to the past.

But then again, the fact that she is his second sister cannot be changed.

So she plans to partner with Wang Xuan to do business, so that the two are business partners, even if they are snubbed by Zhao Shengrui in the future, they will not fall into the streets and become lambs to be slaughtered.

Wang Yue knew that if she wanted to have the strength to protect herself in the future, it was not enough to rely on her relationship with Wang Xuan, and the woman who married out spilled the water, the Zhao family wanted to deal with her for many reasons, and it was not easy for the Wang family to interfere unreasonably.

So at the end of April, she sent someone to Jixiang and met Wang Xuan.

Wang Xuan disliked Wang Yue from the senses, thinking that she was selfish, disregarding the feelings of her sister and brother for her own selfishness, and marrying a potential enemy as a concubine, which not only humiliated the Wang family, but also put herself in a dilemma.

But rationally, he also knows that Wang Yue has the right to pursue happiness, although this is not real happiness at all in his opinion, Wang Bi is.

So he couldn't refuse Wang Yue's request, and he also knew that her life was not easy, don't look at the scenery in front of people, she must have shed a lot of tears in the future.

Wang Bi did not interfere with Wang Xuan's decision-making, which is what Wang Xuan admires most about her.

"Don't worry, after all, it's all family, how can I watch her walk into the abyss!"

Wang Bi smiled, and then took the big tiger and the little tiger back to Villa No. 8.

At the end of April, King Jixiang announced that he would accept the financing request of Princess Daxia and Princess Jixiangyue and jointly invest 100,000 gold coins to set up a firecracker factory.

This time, the surnamed Zhao didn't drop anything, he directly locked himself in a small black room, and no one was seen.