Chapter 68 Boiling
Kong Qian retreated, Meng Zhengqin also retreated. After the two left, Yin Chengjie climbed up to the stairs. After the Zhengde was demolished, only a tent was set up on the high platform. The audience could hear the words of the stage clearly. Cheng Jie came in and said, "Dare you ask the king, the people of Yue really came in?"
The word he used was union, and Xiong Jing smiled and said, "When will you wait for not union at this time?"
"If Yue Jun and others don't want to unite with me? What?" Zhu Yue sent troops this time, there were more than 30,000 people. Of course, this was not all their soldiers. Judging from the scale of the troops sent, the tribes that surrendered to Chu in the south had a population of about one million. Due to the arduous living environment, most of these soldiers were brave and good at fighting. The only flaw was that the soldiers were too poor and the training was insufficient.
"What I have joined forces with me is to teach tactics and sell Juti to help it expand south. What do you think?" Xiong Jing took out the map and the locations of more than 30 tribes are marked. Ouyue, Minyue, Nanyue (Sea), Luoyue, Xiou, and Thai people are considered large groups with dense populations, and the rest have tens of thousands of people, ranging from thousands to thousands. It is amazing that these tribes have bronze weapons. Using Juti is like a bird gun to exchange for cannons.
"I think Zhu Yue may not want to do it." The Yue in Cheng Jie's mouth is a remnant of Yue Kingdom. In addition to Yue Junkai in Kuaiji County, there are also Ou Yue, Min Yue, Nan Yue, and Luo Yue. These people are descendants of Gou Jian who have tasted the king's taste, so they will naturally not be satisfied with the identity of the clan chief. They want the title of King Yue.
"If they don't want to do it, they won't want it." Xiong Jing looked at the map for a while before answering. "If they don't want to, they will become vassals of our Chu State."
"This matter is inappropriate." Cheng Jie disagreed with Xiong Jing's point of view. "I think those who do not want to attack should be attacked, otherwise they will not be able to establish their authority."
"Strike? Crusade the south of the Five Ridges?" Xiong Jing looked at him in surprise, unable to think of how he sent troops to Lingnan.
"No. Those who do not want to unite should keep it because of it." Cheng Jie was righteous. "How can all the ministers of the Chu State in Yue are not ordered?"
"No." Xiong Jing shook his head apart, "Although our Chu State has acted to keep the kings of other countries, it is only the ancestor Ling King. If you force Yue people to unite with me, what is the benefit of joining the Qin State? If you hate it and hook up with Qin State, it will be even more useless. Today, Yue people are the Chu people in the past, and the emperor thought it would be useful to force the Chu people to stay for me?"
Xiong Jing looked at Seizure, and Seizure also looked at him. After looking at each other for a while, Seizure's closed lips before he spoke out: "It's useless."
"Since it is useless, why should we use strength?" Xiong Jing said in a long tone. "Now our Chu State's giant iron, warships, weapons, weapons, medicine, and architecture are better than the world, and even better than the Yue. Buying can't think of why they didn't unite with the Chu State? "Also," Xiong Jing took a picture of the map, "With our Chu State's warships, weapons, armor and skills, why can't Yue be fought?"
"Call over?" The map is already a control material, and even Seisuke didn't see it much.
"Ou Yue wants to be king, and then take this place." Xiong Jing first refers to the Japanese archipelago, "Min Yue wants to be king, and then take these two big islands," this time refers to Taiwan and the Philippines, "Nanyue, Luo Yue wants to be king, and then take this peninsula." This time it is the Indochina Peninsula. "Only if there is land and subjects can you be king, and if there is no one, you will still be king."
Except for the Indochina Peninsula, the rest are on the mainland, like Japan and the Philippines are even thousands of miles away. Nakasuke said inexplicably: "The sea is vast, how can the Yue people go? If you teach Yue people to build sea boats, will we not be subject to the control in the future?"
"Building boats and sailing are two different things." Xiong Jing explained. "If you only know how to build boats but not sailing, you can only walk along the coast and never dare to enter the depths of the sea. Qin has occupied more than half of the world, and its population and food and fodder are several times that of me. If you want to resist Qin, you can only expand overseas and conquer other countries' Dingkou, and the food and fodder are used by me. The East China Sea and the South China Sea are all close to Yue people, so it would be better for them to go."
"If the Yue people become king..." Cheng Jie was still worried about being controlled by others, and the Yue king's unboundedness is a precedent.
"The Great Winged Warship of Yue Kingdom has not changed for hundreds of years. If I only give Yue people a few Shixian Haiboats, they will find it difficult for them to innovate within decades." Xiong Jing had to say it carefully, "Why is the Yin afraid?"
The Shaosiming level of more than 100 tons is already a huge monster for the Yue people, but the Zhuanfu is already trialing the production of a larger sea boat model: a cargo ship with a load of 400 tons, and a sailing sea boat that is as slender as a large wing warship. This is just a wooden sea boat. After the converter steel comes out, the shipyard will lose as a shipyard. If a ship is built with huge iron, the sea boat can exceed 1,000 tons.
"No fear." Thinking of the thousand-ton sea boat Chengsuke, he focused his head and looked at Xiong Jing with a few blinks.
"Then we will use our abilities to induce it." Xiong Jing said. "It's okay to be king. If you want to conquer the place, you can't do anything to do anything."
"Of course." Cheng Jie's eyes flashed again. He understood the meaning of military and military force. When Chu decided to change the Ao system, he specially revised the politics of the foreign dynasty. He selected military personnel in addition to honorary scholars to prevent various clans from becoming military force and not taking into account the lives and death of the lower-class commoners.
"If nothing else..." Xiong Jing said. As soon as he returned to the palace, he went to the Grand Sima Mansion to learn about the war situation. He summoned Kong Qian and Meng Zhengqin to talk to each other. Now he has determined the policy of uniting with the Baiyue tribe. After several major events, he wants to rest and at least he has to go to Ruoying Palace to greet his worries.
"Report to the king, the iron of the converter is completed!" Cheng Jie stretched his eyebrows and reported the good news with a smile.
"Seriously?" Xiong Jing jumped up from the mat in shock.
"Yes." Cheng Jie's smile became even stronger, but his smile became calm after a while. "However, then..."
"How about that?" Xiong Jing was already thinking about the value of converter refining. The converter refining is successful, so there is no need to worry about the output of the G-iron.
"The huge water of the converter is boiling, and the iron is boiling." Cheng Jie reposted the words of the worker, "In addition, there is too much slag, only half of the furnace is huge, and the remaining one is mixed, and the cost is also expensive."
"Fee?" Xiong Jing didn't understand what the fee was. He had to ask someone to report to Ruoying Palace first, and then followed Cheng Jie to Zaofu to see how the Giant Iron Boiled. At this time, Zaofu also had magnet ore transported from Li Guoze. In order to let the king see how the Giant Iron Boiled, the worker Zhuo refined a pot of Giant Iron in front of Xiong Jing.
Not to mention how the giant iron boils, the problem of slag is obvious. It seems that oil and water coexist in a pot, with oil on the top and water under the bottom. However, when pouring, the oil and water are required to separate, and there is no oil in the water. The current situation is that oil and water mix, and only about half of the giant iron can be obtained, causing huge waste.
The slag problem is like this, and the boiling iron is surprising. Xiong Jing saw bubbles constantly popping out of the ingot when pouring the ingot. Fortunately, these bubbles do not seem to affect the performance of the ingot.
"Isn't this boiling..." After a furnace of huge iron was poured, Xiong Jing remembered what it was. Isn't this boiling steel?
Steelmaking requires removing phosphorus and sulfur, and finally removing oxygen. If oxygen is not removed, oxygen will react with carbon to produce carbon monoxide and escape from the molten steel; if oxygen can be removed, calming steel or semi-calming steel can be obtained. There are almost no technologies in Chu. The converter can produce steel by high-quality iron ore - high-quality steel sulfur content ≤0.030%, phosphorus content ≤0.035%; high-quality steel sulfur content ≤0.020%, phosphorus content ≤0.027%. As long as there is no pollution during the smelting process, it is high-quality steel. As for deoxygenation, it is not impossible to not know how to deoxygenation, but it can only be refined into boiling steel.
"I dare to ask the king, why is this?" Xiong Jing was shocked and all the rest of the world looked over. The converter was invented by the king, and the boiling King Julitun should also understand.
"This is OK." Xiong Jing knew Boiling Steel, but he didn't know why Boiling Steel was boiling. Boiling Steel is characterized by low carbon, and it is best to build ships and boards, making keel ribs is not ideal. Thinking of this, he said: "This kind of large iron contains not high carbon content. It can be used as armor, wire, and large tendons, but it is not suitable for swords, and it cannot be used as tools."
Since the first furnace was released, Ou Chou tested its performance. As Xiong Jing said, this is low-carbon steel, which is not suitable for swords, and it is even worse for tools. The biggest difference between converters and ink furnaces is that in terms of carbon content, the ink furnace can do whatever it wants, while the converter is limited to low-carbon. Fortunately, armor, iron wire, and huge tendons are all big and large-scale consumers, and low-carbon and huge iron can be used in the converter.
"I know." Gong Yindao, Kong Su, Ou Chou, Gong Shi Huang and others all bowed.
"Dare you ask how to deal with the slag in the king?" After saying that, Gong Yindao asked about the slag again. Half of the huge molten iron mixed with the slag, which was really a waste.
"It is impossible to be honest. Give a reward. Not to mention the slag and huge water, just talk about oil and water." The reward is not the original creation of building a mansion, but this method is effective. This is how the steam engine cylinder solves it. "How to separate the oil and water when it is poured out? As usual, it is published in the news of the Great Chu and then announced to the world. This question can be rewarded with 300 gold."
"Hundred gold is enough." Gong Yindao said quickly. Every time the rewards of the founding mansion were flocking to them. In fact, the solution was very clever. This was really a business without foundation. He could come out with a single shot and then get the bounty. So the amount of the reward was set to be smaller and smaller, but in order to take care of those who came up with other feasible solutions, two other consolation prizes of about ten gold were set to be set.
"A hundred gold is one hundred gold." Xiong Jing didn't care about the bounty. He believed that people in the world could always think of a solution.
"King, it's getting late." As soon as he entered the Zao Mansion, he looked around and it was dark in a flash. As soon as Chang Jiang reminded him, Xiong Jing said oh and hurried back to the palace. At this time, a candle had been lit in Ruoying's palace, and Concubine Zhao sat alone on the mat, with an unhappy expression.
"Greetings to the Queen Mother." Mi Qing gestured quietly, signaling that Concubine Zhao was unhappy. Xiong Jing smiled bitterly and paused Concubine Zhao's head.
"Jing'er!" Concubine Zhao endured for a while, and couldn't help it, and then said: "Ling Yin's power is too heavy, and the throne will be in crisis in the future. You..."
"Don't worry, my mother, the child has sanitation, the princes and soldiers, the army of Yingdu, and other princes besides the imperial court. How dare he cause trouble?" Xiong Jing knew that he would be taught a lesson by Concubine Zhao, so he explained with a thorn in the explanation.
"But the king has no power, the next day..." Concubine Zhao couldn't help but shed tears when she thought of her eldest father, King Wuling, starved to death.
"My mother, the Chu State has a new system, and the strong are kings. Before the child can grow up, he will start to conquer. No one can be stronger than the child." Xiong Jing said again.
"But where are your descendants?" Concubine Zhao wiped her tears. "Since she is the king, how can she not have the right?"
Chapter completed!