Zhao State is really a headache. The only army that can fight with the Qin army is probably the Zhao army left, but Zhao State is good. He attacked Yan as soon as he has free time, and attacked Yan as soon as he has free time. Will Zhao State be given up after the Yan State? There is a high possibility that he will not, and he will continue to attack Qi State.

"King, I think Zhao State should not be an alliance. I will ask for help in the future and cannot be saved again." Cheng Jie said. As soon as he finished speaking, Xiang Que and others nodded frequently. The thing they were most worried about was that Xiong Jing was requested by Zhao State to save Zhao, after all, the empress dowager was Concubine Zhao.

"The matter will be discussed next day. Now Zhao State is determined not to join me?" Naojiu waved his hand and emphasized the present.

"Zhao State Prime Minister Bang is the Marquis of Chunping. Mr. Yu Guan went to Chunping's Mansion every day to lobby. However, Chunping's Marquis had no intention of taking this opportunity to seize the East County of Qin." Cheng Jie said. "Fortunately, Chunping's Marquis sent all the boats and oars of Zhao State to help me transport grain, and transport one ten times."

"How many boats and oars are there in Zhao State?" Zhao Shu asked. Ten-to-one means that one stone of millet is transported from Ao Cang to a temporary granary north of Daliang, and you can get a bucket. Of course, in addition to boats and oars, you also have to deliver a capacity to carry, which is not just a simple transportation.

"The Zhao State has not many boats, but with the king's algorithm, it is only 3,000 tons." Cheng Jie said.

"Where is Qi State? How about Qi State?" Zhaoshu asked Qi State again.

"The King of Qi was frightened when he talked about Qin. He never sent troops in the past when he ceded land, let alone today." Cheng Jie was also disappointed with Qi. Qi seemed to have no war since the five countries attacked Qi forty-eight years ago. "Today, only Chu State is not convinced by Qin. I think that after this battle, I should negotiate peace with Qin State. Otherwise, Qin will attack me frequently, even if there are Ao Cang's grain, it will be all over in three years."

"King," Naojiu also looked at Xiong Jing, "After this battle, we should indeed negotiate peace with Qin."

"That depends on whether Zhao swallowed the land of Yan." Xiong Jing smiled. "Those who block Qin will be the state of Chu, except for our Chu, which is Zhao. Yan and Wei will always help the evildoers. Since this is the case, Chu should help Zhao swallow all the land of Yan. If Zhao is strong, Qin will be afraid of it. Qin will be afraid of it, so it will attack Zhao instead of attacking me. Zhao is unwilling to take over the East County of Qin. If Zhao is willing to join me and take turns to fight with Qin, Qin will be exhausted."

"The king's intention?" Cheng Jie didn't understand, and couldn't figure out whether Xiong Jing wanted to help Zhao or Qin attack Zhao.

"After King Xinping pulled out half of Daliang city, if the river had not frozen, he could transport the catapult into Zhao State by water to help him attack Yan." Xiong Ju said. "The Qin people had stone armor and also used chief spears, and sold their troops to Zhao State. Otherwise, if the Qin army attacked Zhao with chief spears, the Zhao army would be defeated."

"This..." The ministers looked at each other. Even though Zhao was not in harmony, the king wanted to help Zhao and sold his weapons.

"King, Qi State will not want me to sell my soldiers and armor with Zhao." Zhu Xia had some strategy and first understood Xiong Jing's meaning. Whether to cooperate with Chu State does not matter. What is important is to oppose Qin. As long as it is to oppose Qin, you must support it. "If the Qi people don't want to, how can they sell their soldiers and armor?"

"It is possible to go from the sea." Chu and Zhao can only be connected through Qi. Geographically speaking, sea routes are the safest. As for going east from the Yellow River, it takes a journey through the east county of Qin. The water route is hundreds of miles, which is not safe.

"However, our state of Chu has only two sea boats." Cheng Jie said, he had no impression of the sea boats.

"A sea boat can be equipped with 60 tons, and one set of giant armor is only 60 Chu kilograms, fifteen kilograms, and four thousand sets, two are 8,000 sets." Xiong Jing said: "If the armor clothes are made thinner, ten thousand sets of giant armor can be transported at one time. However, the two sea boats are used for exploration. The shipyard will build a sea boat with a load of 400 tons, and use the Du pillars removed by the Yan Dynasty as a dragon bone, which can be completed in about two or three years. This can be transported more than 26,000 sets of armors at this time. The unspoken thought that both Zhao and Qi wanted to arm them, and as long as they had money, they could sell as much armor clothes as they wanted."

"If Qin State seizes these armored clothes in the future and attacks me with armor..." Some people are still worried.

"The Qin people have refined huge iron." Cheng Jie spoke for him without Xiong Jing's answer.

"The Qin people refined a huge iron?" Naojiu and others looked at Cheng Jie in disbelief.

"However, the Master said that the Yan State sent craftsmen to Xianyang a few months ago. Yan Dazi Dan once presented a Yan State's giant iron sword with the old Qin general. The Yan State's treasure sword and the Chu State's treasure sword were attacked, and the Yan State's treasure sword collapsed." Cheng Jie said. "After the Shaofu exploded the furnace, the Qin State did not dare to refine the craftsmen again, so he had to use the Yan State's craftsmen's method. However, this method was very difficult. It was said that it would take dozens of times to get the pirate iron."

"This is a hundred refinings." Xiong Jing didn't expect that Yan State could really refine steel and teach Qin State.

"It's really a Juti?" The ministers looked at Xiong Jing again. Juti was refined by Xiong Jing, and only he knew the most about this.

"It's also considered a huge iron." Baijing Steel is a product of carburizing on the outside, and is still iron on the inside, but the surface is already steel. "However, the huge and laborious practice is extremely laborious. Although a sword does not really need to be refined a hundred times, it also needs to be refined more than ten times. The same is true for the giant armor. Each piece of armor has to be tempered more than ten times, which is a huge cost."

"Since this is the case, we should not sell Jujia in Zhao State." Zhao Shu said. "If Zhao army was defeated, Jujia may fall into the hands of the Qin people."

"Zhaoqing thought the Qin people could not afford to use the hundreds of refines of giant iron?" Xiong Jing sighed. "The Qin people can afford to use the stone armor, how can they not afford to use the hundreds of refines of giant iron? The entire army naturally cannot wear armor, but it is not difficult for 100,000 soldiers to wear armor for Qin. If the Zhao army sells armor, the Zhao army can kill one more Qin soldiers, and the Chu army will have one less enemy. What's wrong?

The State of Chu is not sending troops and armor to Zhao, but selling troops and armor to Zhao people. Zhao needs to pay for horses, and Dazhang pays for them. Horses on the grassland cannot be used for riding, and can always be used for shuffling uniforms. Dazhang can be used for shipbuilding. Zhao is located east of the Taihang Mountains, and there are many huge trees in the mountains. If the King of Zhao can demolish the dynasty and sleep like Chu, it would be better."

After capturing Ao Cang, there was no shortage of food and fodder for the time being, but horses and Dazhang were still the most urgently needed by the Chu State, especially Dazhang. The large-wing warship was forty tons, and the reinforced wings were only sixty tons (because the weight of the horses could actually reach seventy tons, causing an increase in draft). If 500 large-wing ships were used, the Chu army still needed more than 700 wing warships, and 700 were forty two thousand tons.

The warship has a simple structure. With the same tonnage, the wood consumed is only two-thirds of that of the sea boat. Even if it is two-thirds, it will be 28,000 tons. The relationship between tonnage and the volume of wood is, according to the oldest rule known to Xiong Jing, which is based on logs as the standard, which is equal to the length of the ship multiplied by width and height.

However, this algorithm is still unclear. If it is replaced by the British standard gunboats with a drainage of 1,630 tons, the required wood is 3,050 wood volumes (i.e., loads. shipbuilding wood units, one loads equal to 50 cubic feet), which is equal to two thousand oak trees with a breast diameter of more than one meter. The Spanish Garen ship also consumes two thousand five big trees. Basically, drainage of one ton requires 1,25 big seals of more than a hundred years, and 28,000 tons requires 35,000 big seals.

The Guangzhou Army warship requires this number, and the sea boats are even more serious. Four hundred tons of load-load drainage will reach more than 500 tons, and two hundred will be 110,000 tons, which will cost nearly 140,000 large seals. Given the dense forests of Chu State, there are large seals, but it is not easy to get into the mountains to log, especially how to drag them out of the deep mountains after cutting them down, it will be even more problematic.

Perhaps steel can be used as keels and ribs, but because the rolling rolls of flat and sufficient width cannot be made, there is not enough wide-width of large iron sheets for shipbuilding. It is also possible to force it. As a result, those who don’t know the inside will think that this sea boat is made of countless auxiliary ring pieces, and the number of rivets on it will be astronomical.

The State of Chu, which was short of materials and manpower, must trade with other countries to make up for the shortcomings. Qi alone is not enough. Zhao, Wei, and Yue must be added to barely meet the needs. After Xiong Jing finished speaking, the strategy of assisting Zhao was basically decided, but it is impossible to save Zhao. If Zhao faces the attack on Qin in the future, he can only deal with it alone.

After discussing the matter between Hezong, another important thing is the road from Yingdu to the Yangtze River. After experiencing the incident of Putianze granary, Xiong Jing no longer dared to force himself to build a railway, but listened carefully to Cheng Jie's idea of ​​the Yinglu Canal.

Ying is Yingdu, and Lu is Lu County (Hefei). Yingdu connects the Huai River, Lu County connects Chaohu, and the Ruxu River along the southeast of Chaohu Lake can enter the Yangtze River. The problem now exists is that although the Feishui that flows into the Huai River to the north and the Shishui that flows into the Chaohu Lake to the south are from the same mountain (now Jiangjunling), this mountain is the watershed between the Huai River and the river water. All the water from the north of the mountain flows into the Huai River, and all the water from the south of the mountain flows into the Yangtze River. The mountain is not high, but it is impossible to open a river here.

The solution is to open a ditches in the low-lying area east of the watershed. First, let the water flowing south to Chaohu flow backward to the north along the low-lying terrain, and second, to raise the water level of Shaobi so that the Shaobi water can meet the water flowing backward to the south. With the help of the existing waterways and terrain, the length of the ditches is about eighty miles, and only half of the ditches need to be dug; while raising the water level of Shaobi is just to increase the height of the water outlet of Shaobi, and the project is not complicated.

"How many years will it take?" Xiong Jing asked, "Are you also able to take a boat when there is water shortage in autumn and winter after it is opened?"

"It can be completed in two years." Cheng Jie replied, this is the estimated time. "When water is short of water in autumn and winter, you can also take boats, but you can't take big wings, pleasure boats, big boats, and small boats, you can only take small boats such as Qinghan boats."

"How to build a few boat locks?" Xiong Jing naturally thought of the boat lock. The advantage of the boat lock is to increase the water level. As for the switch of the gate, it can use manpower and animal power, but it is best to use a steam engine.

"Boat Gate?" Something anyone heard, the boat gate was called the steep gate in ancient times, and it first appeared in the Tang Dynasty. The steep gate on the Lingqu was built in the Tang Dynasty.

"It is to set up a gate at a simple water level to store water with the gate. If the water level gap is not large, the gate does not need to be closed completely. A small door that can connect the boat can be opened on the side; if the water level gap is too large, the gate must be closed completely. If the low-water level boat must enter a high place, enter the gate chamber first, and then open the gate after the water injection is raised."
Chapter completed!