As Huang Xie said before, the giant iron is not a soldier armor. Even if the giant iron is cheap and it takes labor to cast it into a soldier armor, it will not be cheap. If the giant iron armor is one soldier and one gold, then the 300,000 army will require 300,000 gold. This is the financial gain of more than ten years of Chu State. Can the prince create the giant iron, and can it also turn it into gold?

Huang Xie was worried that Xiong Jing naturally understood that he took out the paper he brought back from Zaofu and said, "Father, please see, the papermaking has been completed, and after the process is stable, you can make it large. You don't have to buy the mirage needed in Qi State, but our country can make it by ourselves. By the way, Zaofu can also dry salt in the future, and you don't need to go to Qi State to buy salt again."

The paper on Xiong Jing's hand was the one that was presented in the morning. It is now dry. Because it is made of broken hemp and bark, and it is not wandering, the color of the paper is not only yellow, but also with some brown spots. Despite this, this thin thing still aroused the amazement of the courtiers. Xiong Jing mentioned the concept of paper before, but he didn't expect to see the real thing so soon.

"Father, there is this thing." Xiong Jing offered another small thing, which was even more touching because it was a pearl.

"What a wonder!" Xiong Yuan raised the glass beads and looked closely, and suddenly realized that this was different from the ordinary Lu Li beads. The ordinary Lu Li beads made in Chu State were just a layer of glass on the outside, and sand on the inside. The reason was that the charcoal was not purchased and the sand could not be burned. The Lu Li bead made of coke was completely transparent, and its crystal jade was transparent, making people love it.

After Xiong Yuan finished looking, he handed it to Huang Xie in the lower left head. After looking at it, Huang Xie handed it to Gong Yindao behind him, passing it one by one, and everyone was amazed, like Gong Yindao, Zhaoshu lifted up the Lu Lizhu hanging on his belt to compare it with him. After the comparison, he was even more shocked.

"The great mansion can make this bead, and the cost of casting troops is fine." Zhaoshu finally returned the glass bead to the King of Chu.

"This is just..." Seeing that everyone couldn't put it down, Xiong Jing, who wanted to say that this was a waste, had to change the words, "This is just a pearl, what the child wants to make is Lu Li Jing. Every family in my Great Chu has a bronze mirror, and everyone regards it as a treasure. This thing must be included when they get married and buried. The pearl is just decorated by gentlemen, nobles and wealthy families. The mirror is the need of all people. The benefits of the two cannot be compared."

"Lu Lijing?" Ambiguity arose, and Naojiu thought of the telescope.

"It is not a telescope, but a place used by women in the family." Xiong Jing corrected. "The crystal is limited. If this kind of Lu Li can be used as a telescope, it will not only be cheap, but also have the performance. There are also porcelains," Xiong Jing said again: "The fire of coke is very strong, and it can be used to burn things that cannot be burned before. Tao Yin is already trying porcelain. If it succeeds, the rich family in the world will no longer use pottery."

If paper, glass, and porcelain are really great, the cost of changing clothes in the Chu army is definitely not a problem, and it is not a problem to promote Chu State again. Thinking of this, Xiong Yuan smiled. Huang Xie sighed and said solemnly: "King, having gold, silver and money is not beneficial to the country. The country is the basis for agriculture, and the things of pearl mirrors are the bottom. If selling pearls, mirrors can indeed get huge gold. However, if the farming time is delayed by making pearl mirrors, and the countries do not sell food to me, our Chu State cannot get the benefits and suffer it instead. Please think twice."

"Father, my child has different ideas." Xiong Jing politely refuted: "The pearl mirror can be sold to all countries, and it can be exchanged for gold or food and fodder. If the food is not sold to me, I will not sell the pearl mirror."

"Your Highness is wrong. Merchants are greedy for the convenience of gold and silver and do not like the heavy food and fodder. The pearl mirrors are sold to all countries, and the ones they have to recover must be gold and silver rather than food and fodder. Even if there is food and fodder, there is still a lot of gold and silver but little food and fodder. A few years later, if the countries practice Guan Zhonglu white art, they will suddenly ban my pearl mirrors and don't sell my food and fodder. What if they do?" Huang Xie said again.

"Otherwise, the world is not the seven countries, including pearl mirrors, porcelain, paper, silk, and huge iron, which can also be sold in India, Egypt, and the Mediterranean countries." Xiong Jing still refuted, "The profits obtained can be purchased from the country to transport them back..."

"Can this really be like this?" Zhaoshu, who supported Xiong Jing the most, was moved. Everyone in the world had heard Xiong Jing say a long time ago, but no one had been there where India is and Egypt is. He traded with countries that he didn't know where, and then transported grain back, which was almost a fool.

"If you have time, you can do this. This will be within ten years." Xiong Jing was very sure. The origin of sea grain transportation actually started very early. The records he had seen were that in the Middle Ages, Nordics transported grain on a large scale in Italy in the Mediterranean; when land transportation on the Italian Peninsula was not smooth, they also used sailboats to transport grain; and Turkey also carried grain sea transportation, but this was in the Mediterranean.

"I dare to ask Your Highness, how much does it cost to transport grain from thousands of miles?" Huang Xie still did not compromise.

"Feed?" Xiong Jing thought about the example of Italian sea freight in medieval times. He vaguely remembered that the purchase price of Yifanege grain was 10 riyals, the freight from land to sea was 3 riyals, the export tax was 5 riyals, and the freight for the Ragusa sailboat was only 3.5 riyals (this is to Spain). With the insurance premium, the food for Faneg is about 22 riyals after arriving at the port. The Ragusa sailboat is only more than 700 tons, and it is not difficult to achieve the construction of wooden sailboats to more than 1,000 tons, and the shipping fee is even lower.

"Transport grain thousands of miles, and the price of grain to our Chu State is only three times the same place." Xiong Jing estimated a three times price, and saw Huang Xie with such expression, and said: "Don't forget that porcelain, pearl mirrors, silk and other things are ten or a hundred times. Three times the price of grain is also beneficial."

"If this is true, this matter should be a great good." The son argued with Huang Xie, but Xiong Yuan did not interrupt. He praised the great good after the argument.

"I asked my father to build a palace with me, and the Jade Mansion is fully in order to achieve the strategy of enriching the country." Seeing that my father praised him, Xiong Jing took advantage of this and made a request, which was exactly what Huang Xie was worried about before.

"King, it's very implicated to build a mansion, and it's extremely inappropriate to return to the mansion." Huang Xie hurriedly opposed it.

"King, it is difficult to achieve success when going out for many families. Take the water wheel as an example. If Your Highness does not have the full authority of the wood, it may be difficult to become 20,000 water wheels." Zhaoshu hurriedly asked. He was the nominal leader of the Great Mansion. It would be great to build a mansion and the jade mansion was assigned to the Great Mansion.

"King, what the Zuo Tu said is very good. Your Highness is well-managed, and the water truck is very fast. Paper, pearl mirrors, porcelain, huge iron and other things are not controlled by Your Highness, and it may be difficult to make them well. Please allow Your Highness to ask." Yin Dao, the worker on Huang Xie's side, actually rebelled. He supported Xiong Jing's party, and Huang Xie's color changed was useless.

"Since that's the case..." Xiong Yuan looked at Huang Xie, "Zi Xie, build a mansion, the Yu Mansion will have a lot of benefits every year. How about the two mansions being controlled by Jing'er?"

The Great Mansion was taken back, and Yingdu also took back. Now even the Zao Mansion and the Yu Mansion were to be taken away. Huang Xie's face changed a few times, and he was really discouraged. But then again, the king could have put Zao Mansion and the Yu Mansion under the jurisdiction of the Great Mansion without any reason, not to mention that Xiong Jing has taken out all kinds of benefits one after another.

"I..." Huang Xie calmed down and was about to answer, but he suddenly reported outside the hall: "Report to the king that the great iron has been produced in the building of the palace."

"The great iron has been produced in the building of the palace?" The ministers were surprised. Xiong Yuan stood up and waved his hand, "Summon quickly."

After Xiong Jing left in the morning, Ou Chou began to use an ink furnace to try it. Because he was anxious to have insufficient preheating time, eight of the ten ink furnaces were broken. Fortunately, the last two were not broken. When the next spring was approaching, the ink furnace that had been burned for several hours was opened.

The only difficulty in steelmaking in the crucible method is the crucible. How to make a crucible and how to preheat it is difficult. If these problems are solved, even Benjamin Hunsman, an amateur watchmaker, can make steel. Ou Chou, who was born in the iron smelting family, is naturally no problem. After the ceasefire, the steel in the pot was red, and Ou Chou immediately poured it into the sand band. The molten steel is not as fluid as pig iron, and the molten steel without silicon is extremely poor. Fortunately, the sand band is not complicated, and it is just cast into long strips to facilitate the later forging of the sword. After the completion of the task, Ou Chou took the giant iron strip to the East Palace to report the good news, and was finally guided by the temple people.

"Is this the giant iron?" Xiong Yuan had already left the seat and came to the desk. The giant iron bar held by Ou Chou was nearly a ruler long, about three fingers wide, and only half a finger thick. It was not as gray as pig iron, but a different kind of silver white.

"Report to the king, this is the giant iron." Ou Chou said loudly, his forehead was covered in sweat and his body was covered in burnt fire.

"Can this iron be hit?" Naojiu squeezed in front of everyone, and what he thought of was Professor Kong Tieguan's violent iron test method.

"It can be attacked naturally." The giant iron has been tempered when it cools down. Even if it has not yet become a sword, Ou Chou is full of confidence.

"Let me try it." Nao cunning and impatient. After grabbing the giant iron bar, he originally wanted to find a bronze pillar in the court. When he saw a row of chimes placed on the side of the court, he turned around and walked to the chimes. But when he thought about it, the chimes were too thin and it was difficult to try, so he gave up the chimes and walked to the bronze tripod that was half a person tall in the north of the court.

Since he held the giant iron in his hand, everyone looked at him and followed him around the atrium for a half-round. Seeing that he was going to test the iron with a tripod, the head of the servant Jiang Xianglan was stopped by Xiong Yuan - the heavy weight of the giant iron is more important than Hengshan. What is a bronze tripod? Even if the entire main bedroom is destroyed, it doesn't matter.

"Hi--" Naojiu shouted with iron in his hands, and shouted again when he used all his strength to strike out. "Don't--!", the bronze tripod suddenly made a sound of gold and iron attacking, and the huge sound waves echoed in the atrium, deafening.

"Ah! King, the ear of the tripod... the ear of the tripod is broken!" Chang Jiang's eyes were sharp, and after a heavy blow, one of the tripod ears of the copper tripod disappeared.

"Ding Er?" Xiong Yuan had poor eyesight. He was not stunned until the temple man picked up the broken ear from the tripod and sent it to him.

"Master, please look at the Juti." Naojiu, who held the Juti, hit the tripod, had his hands numb, and his right hand was shattered. The Juti was now held by Ou Chou.

"There is no damage to the giant iron?" Xiong Yuan took it. In his opinion, the iron bar was still the same as before, unscathed.

"Yes." Surprisingly, Ou Chou said yes. He pointed to a place on the top of the iron bar and said, "There are seals here."

"It's okay, it's okay." Xiong Yuan didn't care if he didn't look closely. "This is very long, what do you want to cast with it?"

"Report to the king and make a sword." Ou Chou answered without thinking.

"Five-foot-high iron sword casting?!" Xiong Yuan was puzzled. Chu sword was only three feet tall, Qin sword was less than four feet tall, and Ou Chou actually wanted to cast a five-foot sword.
Chapter completed!