The rise of the prince

Chapter 768 Graphite, Kingdom of Jin

Li Xingzhou wore a coir raincoat, and was accompanied by Yue'er, Guan Zhong, Zhu Rong, and Tieniu.

This is the northwest side of the Wangfu Industrial Zone, where a large amount of glass is fired. Yue'er was the first batch to follow Princess Kang to learn glaze firing, and now she is a senior technician.

The rows of small furnaces in the distance were originally for firing glass, but they were almost completely shut down at this time.

"My lord, the inventory of graphite mines has been exhausted. The way to go to Beijing is completely impracticable. There are still transactions with the people of the Jin Kingdom, but the graphite mines cannot be obtained."

Li Xingzhou looked at the gradually desolate area, and nodded immediately: "It's not your fault. The current situation between the two countries will definitely make large-scale transactions impossible."

Given the current situation of the two countries, it is impossible for Jin Guo to ship them in batches. Jing Guo will not give what it needs, and copper and iron are strictly restricted.

The business gradually shifted to private smuggling, and Shi Mo was cut off by Jin Guo.

At present, the only known graphite mine is in Shangjing, Kingdom of Jin, and the Kingdom of Jin has banned exports to them. Although the Jin people do not understand the usefulness of graphite mines, they are not stupid. It must be of great use to buy a large amount of graphite mines not far away.

Their judgment was very correct, and indeed the neck of Wang Fu was instantly stuck. Without graphite, steel forging and glass manufacturing could not be carried out.

The steel is okay, and the Wangfu has sufficient inventory to support the new army's replacement, but the glass is out of stock, and most of the main glassware are used for profiteering transactions.

"Don't sell the remaining original glass parts, first make up for the telescope." Li Xingzhou said.

Zhu Rong and the others nodded.

The telescope has very important tactical significance. Simply put, knowing the opponent's deployment in advance is very important in the era of cold weapons and hot weapons, but it is even more important in the era of cold weapons when formation is more important.

The role of the telescope is self-evident.

At first, Li Xingzhou thought that every officer above the company rank should be equipped with one, but later found that it was far from possible, because there is no shortcut for the lens of the telescope, and it can only be finely polished by hand.

This job is not easy to do. He needs to draw the blueprints and teach Yue'er, and Yue'er will teach them to let the female workers learn and polish slowly.

Today, there are only five or six telescopes that can be used up to the standard.

However, these five or six pairs also stunned Di Zhi and others. In Di Zhi's words, this round barrel is more useful than a company of scouts.

Therefore, the remaining glass cannot be sold. He took Yue'er's little hand and said, "Let the female workers polish it well, but don't be careless. If this thing is careless, it won't be usable. Every officer can have one."

"Yes!" Yue'er seriously agreed with a sullen face, Li Xingzhou smiled: "But don't be so anxious, don't treat it like an imperial decree when I say something, it will still grow in June next year."

Yue'er is like this, her obedience to him is always unconditional, every time he confesses something, she follows it like an imperial decree, and will not stop until it is done.

"If you have time to go out and play more, it's okay to take a rest." Li Xingzhou rubbed her little head with some distress, a little girl who is only so busy.

"Graphite. Graphite" Li Xingzhou muttered in his heart.

The following days calmed down again, Gillian and Shiyu became pregnant and became the most expensive people in the palace, Li Xingzhou had to often run to He Qian's small building.

Qiu'er and Yue'er moved to a new yard, and Li Xingzhou sometimes went to their place.

Wei Yubai has been very unnatural towards him since he came back from the north, and Li Xingzhou knows the reason, it was because he wrote to Wei Chaoren that he wanted to marry her.

As for Yelu Yali, Li Xingzhou first asked He Qian to communicate with her more, taught her to speak and write more Chinese characters, Yelu Dashi also understood what he meant, and began to be willing to discuss matters with them in the palace, knowing everything about the situation in the north Word.

Time flies, and before you know it, it’s October, and the sky has become cold and gray, which makes you not want to get out of bed.

The machines in the Wangfu didn't stop, neither did the workers. The navy's cannons continued to pass, and the army had already begun to pass on the second division.

Everything was going on in an orderly manner, and from time to time he would call people from his side to the palace to discuss some issues.

Early in the morning, Li Xingzhou reluctantly got out of He Qian's warm blanket, leaving the smooth and warm beautiful jade, He Qian just snorted and continued to fall asleep.

He chuckled, touched her buttocks, then got dressed, and when he went out, the maids were already waiting for her to wash up.

After washing up, some breakfast food was brought over. Li Xingzhou ate some hastily, and went out of the main hall to visit Shiyu and Gillian.

Two pregnant people temporarily live in the same compound, which is easy to take care of, and they can speak with a common language.

After seeing the two precious daughter-in-laws, Gillian is still obedient, Shiyu is still so independent, even if she is pregnant, she still has to do some things by herself.

He was about to stay with the two of them for a while longer, when someone outside said that Yan Gu had brought back the new situation in Xia Guo.

"Go, don't delay." Shiyu urged, and Gillian nodded.

Li Xingzhou then left to go to the main hall, Yan Guzao waited there pacing, did not sit down, saw him hurriedly said: "My lord, great news, there is great news from Xia Guo."

Seeing his reaction like this, Li Xingzhou asked curiously, "What news?" He said and sat down.

"The civil war in Xia was decided. Around the [-]th and [-]th of last month, Li Jijun counterattacked and went south, crossed the river and defeated Zhang Jiejun in Xiping Mansion!"

Li Xingzhou stood up suddenly, a little unbelievable: "Crossing the river to fight?"

Yan Gu nodded: "That's right, I heard that Li Ji has an uncle of the royal family, he is a great man, he is very capable of fighting, he ordered people to put on a posture of crossing to Mingsha in the south, tricked Zhang Xie to defend, and put on the battle belt himself The elite suddenly built a pontoon bridge in the area of ​​Xipingfu to cross the river overnight.

It was too late for Zhang Xie to react, the troops were transferred to the south, Xiping Mansion was empty, and the royal army crossed the river, and the defenders of Xiping Mansion surrendered that night. "

"What about the solution?" He asked hastily.

"Zhang Jie led the remnant soldiers to continue running along the river to Huizhou. On the way, they were chased by the royal army of the Kingdom of Xia. I heard that they died very badly. The corpses were dismembered and broadcast to the whole country. It must be that the civil strife in Xia Dynasty will be calmed down soon. Already." Yan Gu said.

"Is the news from the Privy Council or the Palace Intelligence Bureau?" Li Xingzhou asked.

"It's from the Wangfu Intelligence Bureau." Yan Gu truthfully agreed.

He nodded: "The clan of the Xia Kingdom who led the troops this time is a character." Li Xingzhou thought that according to the situation at the time, a confrontation could be possible for half a year or a year. The ancient river crossing battle was not so easy to fight, especially the Yellow River crossing.

But I didn't expect Cheng Yaojin to come out suddenly, and just hit him.
"My lord, there is no specific information about this person in the information for the time being, and I will ask them to inquire more next time." Yan Gu cupped his hands.

Li Xingzhou nodded. It seems that the world is really a stormy event. Xia Guo, who thought his life was exhausted, suddenly appeared a character.

But if you think about it, in history, the Xia Kingdom's clan was very talented in the early and late stages, but the weak and incompetent generations came out in large numbers in the middle stage.

Now that Temu is really about to unify the tribes of Mongolia, it is not surprising that Xia has talents.

It's just that Li Xingzhou can't remember.

But those are too far away, right now he only has Shi Mo and Jin Guo in his eyes!
(End of this chapter)