"The closure of the warehouse is open, and the surname Xia will not be able to retreat in the short term!"

Old man Xia stepped out of the palace door with his front feet, and Lao Pu's figure walked out of the curtain on the side, not to avoid suspicion, but because he had just rushed back from the north and changed his clothes, this dialogue between monarchs and ministers was just over.

"Now that you're back, let's talk about what's going on in the Northland now? Will Randy make it back alive? The empress grabbed a fruit bowl and put it on her lap, and with a stroke of her jade hand, she stuffed an ordinary piece the size of a ping-pong ball into her mouth.

Lao Pu smiled, "When the day is in my dynasty, when the old slave comes back, Yuyang, Beiping, and the three counties of Liaoxi are raining heavily, and the floods are beginning to appear, and half of the Jurchen soldiers and horses are restrained by the floods, and it doesn't take half a month to work, Wanyan Wenqi can't pull back to help Xuanwu, and when the time comes, if Lan Di can't come back, it can only show that he is incompetent!" ”

Militarily incompetent, and the Wu Dynasty is about the same as damning.

The Wu Dynasty didn't have so much manpower and material resources, which could be consumed in vain.

The time and place are favorable, and Landi has already accounted for 2.5, if you can't come back, then don't come back.

Hearing this, the empress nodded, "Don't push it too hard, what we want is for the Jurchens to retreat, not for the other party to jump off the wall in a hurry!" ”

The Jurchen is very strong, one of the three major tribes in the grassland today, and its own power can threaten the Wu Dynasty, but who makes him internally unstable, the tribes are scattered, and the military system is chaotic.

When will the Jurchens be completely integrated, and when will they be qualified to go on the big stage of Kyushu, before that, whether it is Wanyan Wenqi, or Wanyan Kangtai, or other banner lords in the Jurchen tribe, they are all suffering from ringworm as far as the Wu Dynasty is concerned, and they have time to take care of it, and they can't enter the territory of Jizhou if they don't have time.

"Your Majesty, rest assured, even if Lan Di doesn't take a hand, the Jurchens can't jump, the war is fought with resources, and it is fought with financial resources, just with the materials supported by the Song people across the sea, they have already been consumed clean, especially a few rounds of camp-breaking surprise attacks, the Jurchens have not lost much, but most of the iron materials have already been lost!" Lao Pu said slowly.

The Jurchens lacked core smelting technology, not because they couldn't smelt iron, but because they couldn't smelt on a large scale.

Other materials are consumed together with manpower, and there is not much pressure to replenish them.

But how do you fight if you lack iron?

An arrow, the arrow counts it as five dollars of iron, and a bundle of sixteen pieces will use up eight taels of iron, which is still the most economical situation.

Based on the calculation of two bundles per person and 1,000 people, after a big battle, the arrows alone need to consume 1,500 catties, not counting the consumption of blade curls, horseshoe wear, and armor repairs.

The Song Dynasty supported the dozen or so ships of iron, which had already been consumed.

Now that the war has begun, the Ming Dynasty and the Wu Dynasty have joined forces to block the mouth of the Yellow River, cutting off the largest entry of Jurchen iron, and the Jurchen can't touch it in the household market, so why should the Jurchen continue to fight?

By courage?

Is there no lack of blood and courage in the border army of the Wu Dynasty?

He can't fight, and he can't afford to fight.

Wanyan Wenqi Zhen has pressed all the belongings, and in the next few years, the Jurchen departments will definitely not be able to even make up the things for eating.

"The matter of iron materials, the Song people can support it, and we can also sell it, as long as the woman really doesn't focus her eyes on our side, why not give him a decent step?"

The Wu Dynasty now needs to withdraw from the battlefield in the north and deal with the imminent outbreak of the Hexi battlefield.

As for transporting iron to the Jurchen, whether he will raise a tiger for trouble, the empress is not worried at all, the Jurchen is very strong, but he is not without opponents.

For a hundred years, the three Hans were bent on advancing eastward into western Liaoxi, and although Mongolia was chaotic, it continued to yearn for the vast steppes within the country, coupled with the internal problems of the Jurchens.

After this battle, the Jurchens revealed that the tiger skin that Wanyan had beaten was torn apart, and there was trouble waiting for them behind.

Lao Pu paused slightly, then smiled and said, "It seems that the blast furnace is done?" ”

"It's done, with a daily output of 3,000 stones, iron ore, and no shortage of carbon fire, we can continue to produce day and night, we can hold up to Kaifeng Warehouse, that is, we bought a batch for the Ming Dynasty, I believe that such a deal will be there in the future."

The daily output of 3,000 stone of iron, out of the furnace is more than ten forging quality, this is just a base, the annual accumulation is equivalent to the sum of the Wu Dynasty last year, and then one or two places, the price of iron in the Wu Dynasty can be at least three or four percent.

The real consumption of iron is still people's tools, thinking of the report she got before, she has no ambition, just wants to be a good class, the emperor who will pass on the throne of the Wu Dynasty, and deep down in her heart, she can't help but ignite the confidence of Wuba Kyushu.

"Three thousand stones, ten wrought iron?" Lao Pu licked his tongue, and the whole person felt like a dream, "Sell, since the Ming people want it, then sell it, the technology is not revealed, these are all money!" ”

Jizhou has a large amount of iron ore output, in the early years it was just a lack of utilization of technology, and now the blast furnace appears, it is no longer a problem.

Compared with silver, although iron is easy to obtain, the price is really not low, and the field used is also larger.

"How exactly this matter will be handled still needs to be discussed, but I think futures are an excellent choice!" The Empress laughed.

Hearing this, Lao Pu Na didn't know what the empress was thinking, "The futures rules are clear, but habits need to be formed, this is not a problem that can be solved in a short time, and the iron must be exported to the outside world, because we have no money!" ”

"Yes, we don't have any money!"

"However, in the early stage, we should invest more in people's livelihood, and then meet ourselves at a low price, and after ensuring the people's power, it is best to export the party in the form of futures trading!"

Lao Pu gave a relatively pertinent suggestion.

It's not that the Wu Dynasty doesn't want to have a long-term plan, but the Wu Dynasty, which has weak financial resources, can't plan at all.

The foundation is too thin!

You have to find a chance to survive first, otherwise it will be useless to say more.

"What do I think, the key now is to work for relief, after having the blast furnace, I imagine that the overall plan can be at least half a year earlier!"

The three-year plan, without harming the people's strength, relied on tools to complete it half a year ahead of schedule, and the Wu Dynasty was absolutely profitable.

As long as it is completed, grain production rises, and the road is opened, the Wu Dynasty can gain more vitality and capital.

……

"How is this possible?"

"Damn, what do I see?"

"Oh my God!"

A group of second-generation people gathered around the fire, looking at the ashes that had been picked up, and everyone showed a sense of madness and bewilderment.

The madness lies in the fact that a reliqu-like crystallization appears in the ashes.

The confusion lies in the fact that this fire was burned by themselves, the pit was dug by themselves, and no one left the whole process, and there was certainly no such crystal in the lamb's body.

So where do these crystals come from?

Or rather, what is this crystal?

Could it really be a relic?