After years of fighting, it is not only Ma Zheng who has been dragged down.

Emperor Wen was founded, Emperor Jing operated, and when Emperor Wu ascended the throne, the Han Dynasty raised more than 400,000 horses.

But even with such a rich family background, Liu Che had already consumed seventy-seven eighty-eight in his largesse against the Huns.

The soldiers did not move, and the food went first.

Liu Che organized four large-scale wars.

The first Ma Yi strategy, the mobilization of 180,000 troops, even if this time it was a joke, but the advance, waiting, and return of the troops, the amount of grain and grass consumed would not be a small amount.

How to transport grain and grass?

Manpower, transportation, and animal power.

Every time grain is transported, it is also a consumption for the horses.

Therefore, in the past ten years, after several large-scale wars such as the plot of Ma Yi, the Xiongnu Koubian, Wei Qing's exit, and the Liaohou rebellion, the Ma Zheng of the Han Dynasty has already collapsed.

You must know that war horses need to be castrated, steers cannot give birth, and other horses that are not selected for use as war horses are considered defective to a certain extent.

The offspring bred by these horses will naturally have a high probability of becoming so-called inferior horses.

Same with Ma Zheng.

Most of the copper and iron ore veins of Dahan are actually not in Liu Che's hands.

In the Han Dynasty, where the salt and iron order did not appear.

It is the princes who control the copper mountain and the iron mountain the most.

But now most of these princely states rich in copper and iron are now in Zhang Qi's hands, and among the Han lands, Liu Che can only supplement copper and iron through the southern vassal states.

But Liu Che is not without another way.

That is, the existing sword soldiers were returned to the furnace and re-smelted using the furnace method that was traded back from the direction of Qingzhou, and the cast iron was turned into steel.

But will he do it?

No, it won't.

Having lost nearly half of the country, Liu Che's sense of security at the moment has dropped to the lowest point, and it can be said that in the entire Han Dynasty, any prince and king is his enemy.

Although the current armament cannot confront the army of the Liao Marquis, his armament is still far ahead of those princes and kings in the country.

Zhang Qi's chariot drove back to the city of Liaoning.

Sitting back in the familiar office of the government affairs building, Zhang Qi flipped through the copper and iron production in Liaodi in recent years.

Zhang Qi doesn't care about the production of copper at the moment, he is looking at iron production.

Thanks to the mature classification method of Liaodi, it did not take him too long to find the catalog of iron products.

Detailed explanation of Liaodi Jinshi Record.

There are a total of 123 iron ore sites, with an annual output of 3.11 million tons of iron ore, 70,000 tons of steel for smelting, and 1.1 million tons of iron ore.

See that there is a remainder.

Zhang Qi's eyes lit up, but they wrinkled again.

"In other words, the steel production capacity of Liaodi has not yet reached the limit, and there is still iron ore left every year."

"Someone."

He looked up and shouted to the office door.

"Your Majesty."

The shadow guard entered the door and saluted.

"Go to the hammer forging mill and let the thirteen organizations carry out the construction of a new steel refining plant to increase steel production capacity with the most advanced technology."

As he spoke, he quickly wrote down the letter of appointment on the table and handed it to the shadow guard.

In fact, he is still quite satisfied with the current steel output value of Liaodi, the annual steel output of 70,000 tons, I don't know how to throw Liu Che more than a dozen streets, according to his estimates, the current Handi can produce 1,000 tons of steel a year is already the limit.

And Liaodi.

The power of one place alone surpassed him by dozens of times.

You must know that the fleet returning to Australia has set off today, and the future of Liaoyuan Real Estate Steel is not comparable to a finger of Australia.

The quality of iron ore in China is far inferior to that of Australia.

In Liaodi, a ton of iron ore produces only 350 kilograms of steel, which is converted to almost 35 iron content, of course, it may also be that the ore cannot be fully utilized due to the lack of modern steelmaking equipment.

In Australia, he expects that a ton of iron ore can produce at least 500 kilograms of steel, so he will compile his starting number in the fleet that returns to Australia this time.

While a large part of this was due to the fact that he was testing the utility of steam-engine ships, more importantly, the Initiation was also one of the symbols of his status.

"White Star."

"The subordinates are here."

"Arrange the merchants who weave the net to trade iron ore with Chang'an, and in the next year or two, Liu Che will need these things very much to create a steel cage for himself."

"No."

Bai Xing bowed his head to accept the order, and the corners of his mouth also hooked up the same shallow smile as the corners of Zhang Qi's mouth.

Others may not know it yet, but as Zhang Qi's personal director, Bai Xing was impressed by the weapon called Firearm.

She knew very well that the furnace refining technology obtained by the Han Dynasty this time was actually deliberately sent to the Han Emperor by her own monarch, so what was the use of the more swords cast?

Can it compare to the thousands of cannons in Liaodi now, and the tens of thousands of guns that will be installed?

If it weren't for the fact that it was to digest the land that had skyrocketed in the past year and the reserves of officials, Zhang Qi would have pushed the Han land a long time ago.

Cold weapons really don't have any combat effectiveness in the face of hot weapons.

He only gave Liu Che three years.

Three years later, regardless of whether Liu Che had the ambition to start a war with him or not, Zhang Qi wanted to completely recover the land of China.

During this year, a large number of graduated students devoted themselves to local governance, and a village office was governed by a chief official, with dozens of students cooperating.

With the old leading the new, in just a few years, the number of talents under Zhang Qi's command who can govern a village at least will skyrocket dozens or even hundreds of times compared with now.

By that time, he would have enough officials to govern the whole of Asia.

The United Earth Initiative can begin in earnest.

Although it is not known whether his descendants will be able to fulfill his ambition, at least, Asia, whether it is Central Asia, West Asia, or any other Asia, will be regarded as the legitimate territory of China since ancient times.

Such a vast land and such sufficient resources are enough for the future generations of Chinese people to walk ahead on the journey of the stars and the sea.

The thoughts are a little far away.

Zhang Qi took back those distant thoughts.

Looking at the budding greenery outside the window, he shook his head and returned to his daily work.

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Syllable!

"One column collects guns and cleans up, and two columns move forward!"

"Shoot ready!"

In the barracks of the former Tiger Ben Army, the sound of muffled thunder is the main melody here.

Fortunately, the barracks of the two armies were built far away from the villages and towns, so that these daily shooting training did not affect others.

One winter.

These 3,000 soldiers of the Divine Machine Battalion have been practicing their guns all winter.

Today, it was their first live firing.

The power of the smoothbore guns did not surprise the soldiers of the Divine Machine Battalion much.

After all, they were all selected from the reserve army of the Tiger Squat Army, and if you really want to talk about it, the power and momentum of the cannon can far exceed that of these smoothbore guns.

It's just a multiplayer drill turned into a single-player shooter.

(End of chapter)