The rise of the prince

Chapter 696 Grassland and Central Plains

"It's not that far away." Ara Haibeji said, "I was shopping at the market a few days ago, and I heard from a businessman from Jingguo that Jingguo's grandson captured the Liao Kingdom Nanjing this fall, and captured After losing the emperor of the Liao Kingdom, the city of Nanjing in the Liao Kingdom is now the territory of the Jing people.

As long as we send people to go south through the Wanggu tribe, we can reach the territory of the Jingguo people, and we don't need to go as far as before. "

The two were startled, and Temujin said, "This autumn, really? That means a month or two ago."

Ara Haibeji nodded obediently.

"What did you buy from Jingguo businessman?" Hasaer asked the little niece curiously.

The little niece took out a beautiful little cup from the edge of her belt. It was crystal clear, and the rays of the setting sun passed through without being obstructed at all. On the contrary, the whole small cup turned a translucent orange.

Both of them stared blankly, "What kind of treasure is this! It's very precious."

Ala Haibeji giggled: "For such a cup, three silver leaves can be exchanged for one."

Temujin played with the beautiful, crystal clear cup in his hand, and said with emotion: "The craftsmen of Jingguo are really ingenious. If we had craftsmen like them, we wouldn't have these difficulties."

"But speaking of which, they are really powerful. They actually captured Nanjing in the Liao Kingdom. Are the Central Plains people going to occupy the land east of Monan and Daxianbei Mountains like they did hundreds of years ago?" Hesa'er said, "When the time comes , the grasslands will border them."

"Emperor's grandson of Jingguo" Temujin read this sentence: "That should be a young man. He can capture the emperor of the enemy country at a young age. He is not a simple person. Do you know his name?" He looked at his daughter.

Ara Haibeji shook his head: "I don't understand some words from people from Jingguo."

"It's a pity." Hesar said, "This emperor's grandson does not seem to be a simple person.

But in this way, the Kingdom of Jin and the Kingdom of Jing were divided into the Kingdom of Liao, but they are closely adjacent to each other. The territory of Nanjing City that penetrates into Kingdom of Jin is in the hands of Kingdom of Jing, and the territory of Datong Mansion that penetrates into Kingdom of Jing is in the hands of Kingdom of Jin. I think they will fight each other sooner or later. stand up. "

Temujin agreed, his younger brother was always smart, and almost everything he said came true.

In fact, the Central Plains and the grasslands have never been isolated, especially in terms of trading. The tea bricks bought in the Central Plains are used as currency by some ordinary people on the grasslands, because they can use tea to boil milk for drinking, and every household, every day. To drink, tea bricks are almost as important as salt.

It is also because of the frequent exchanges of merchants in Jingguo, and the fact that there are many tribes on the grassland, and everyone refuses to obey the other and often attacks each other. No one has the ability to formulate a unified policy and issue a unified currency. Over time, many herdsmen on the grassland, The copper coins brought by Jingguo merchants are also used as common currency.

Some big tribes tried to mint their own currency, but after a long time, they found that ordinary people were still willing to use Jingguo's copper coins.

The reason is very simple, the currency issued by oneself cannot buy anything outside the scope of the tribe, even on the grassland where material is scarce, sometimes it cannot be bought within the tribe.

But Jingguo merchants' copper coins can guarantee to buy things from Jingguo merchants, including cloth, salt, and some weird things, as well as green tea bricks that they can't do without. (Why nomads like milk tea very much has been popularized before. Physical problems, I won’t go into details here.)
So Jingguo is far away from the grassland, but it seems to be very close, because the business is going in.

The two thought about it, and after a while, Hesar said, "I think maybe we can really send envoys to Jingguo."

Temujin thought for a while, then put down his daughter in his arms: "It is indeed a solution, but it cannot be done this way, iron is a weapon, it is power, the masters of every country will not buy and sell lightly, Jingguo must be like this.

If we rashly go to them for business, we will only anger them and worsen the relationship with them. Even if the relationship with the Jin Kingdom and Xia Kingdom deteriorates, I am not worried. We are far away, and our warriors are not afraid of anyone.

But the merchants of Jingguo brought us salt, tea and many other commodities, and it is not worthwhile to deteriorate the relationship with them for the time being. "

"What should I do?"

"We can ask the merchants from Jingguo first, or do a private sale with them. They only want money, and they might dare to sell it if they have money. We can also test Jingguo's attitude."

Hesar nodded, "I will go to the market in the valley tomorrow and bring all the merchants from Jingguo."

Temujin raised his hand to stop him: "No, let's go to the market and ask. If we want to do business with them, we will temporarily do things according to the way of doing business. If we can get more iron, we will be close to destroying the Tatar tribe and avenging our father." will be one step closer."

While the two brothers were discussing, there was a sound of horseshoes outside, and it turned out that it was Jochi, the eldest son of Temujin.

"Father Khan, an envoy from the Kingdom of Jin has come and said he wants to see you." Shuchi got off his horse and fell hastily.

Temujin and Gaisar looked at each other, with many doubts in their eyes.

"What are these things?" Shiyu looked curiously at Li Xingzhou's drawings, which showed some chemical glassware.

"Used to make weapons." Li Xingzhou said with a smile, these are some chemical instruments, glass, not just a commodity, or a building material, it is of great significance to optics, astronomy, physics, chemistry, etc.

"Weapon?" Shiyu looked at his blueprint curiously. The glassblowing method in the Wangfu has been perfected. There are more than 50 blowers in the workshop. In cooperation with the handyman, more than 150 people are already working in the glass factory. A large number of glass products are produced every day.

The market for glass products is also expanding.

Especially for chemistry, glass can not only allow people to observe the reaction intuitively, but also resist various corrosions. If iron, copper or even gold and silver containers are used, the corrosion resistance of glass cannot be achieved.

Therefore, the advancement of glass manufacturing technology has also laid a solid foundation for chemistry, but there are obviously no chemical talents in the Fuzhong. The changes in between are fascinating.

Although they can't find the rules, and most of their research stops at appearances, their desire to explore is indeed very desirable.

But Li Xingzhou obviously can't find it now, he can only come by himself, and at the same time cultivate from the new generation of Wangfu talents.

In a short period of time, he can only rely on himself. He has already written a secret document on the sale of arms and handed it over to the emperor. New Army Firearms, and New Army Armed with New Firearms.

And sell the original weapons to the Xia Kingdom who is fighting, and the Mongolian tribes who are fighting, and take the opportunity to make a lot of money.

Exchange with Xia Guo for silver, take advantage of the chaos to drain its reserves of precious metals such as copper and silver, and exchange horses as much as possible for the Mongolian tribes, whether it is war horses or pack horses, it can greatly enhance the mobility of Jing Guo's army.Jingguo has no Liaodong Plain, no Hetao area, and the most lacking thing is horses.

As for the new firearms, mercury fulminate is mentioned. This substance can be produced under the current conditions of the palace, and the most important step in glassware technology has been achieved.

And its characteristic is that it is unstable, squeezed, and will catch fire when it hits, and can be used as a primer for bullets and shells.

With mercury fulminate and the second-generation steam engine, the equipment of the new army can go a step further.

In the palace, Li Xingzhou ordered to gradually relax the production of farm tools, cement, and even gun barrels, and shift the focus to the output of the second-generation steam engine.

Because although the second-generation steam engine can't reach the power of the ironclad ship, it can not only be used as the power of the lathe production room to produce barrels, but also can be used as the power of the mine!

In fact, the first steam engines were used for mining, even though the technology was still immature at that time.

The Wangfu has already bought several saltpeter mines and two copper mines near the Kaiyuan Mansion in other places. Only by expanding the output of the mines can the industrial system of the entire Wangfu be guaranteed.

Everything takes time, and he desperately needs time now.
(End of this chapter)