Becoming stronger from cutting Hu and Cao Cao

Chapter 524 Great Qin is developing.

Sure enough, Cao Cao couldn't listen to other people's words, but Cao Cao could still listen to Guo Jia's words.

After following Guo Jia's suggestion, Cao Cao first sent people to make peace with the Qin army, and then secretly sent people into Shu to find an alliance with Liu Bei.

For such a major event as the start of the war between Qin and Wei, Liu Bei naturally got the news early in the morning.

Originally, things like the war between Qin and Wei, in Liu Bei's view, this was a very good thing for him.

However, it was not good news for Liu Bei after he learned that the Qin army had broken through Zhuo County in less than two hours.

Qin and Wei are evenly matched, which is good news for Shu, but if the disparity in strength between Qin and Wei is too large, it is bad news for Shu.

Just like it is now, if the Qin army was able to attack Zhuo County in less than two hours, then the city in the Shu Kingdom can be said to be able to last for two hours.

In this battle, Da Qin exposed his military power, so he became a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh of Wei and Shu.

At this time, Cao Cao sent people into Shu to raise the alliance, which was exactly what Liu Bei wanted.Now the two countries of Shu and Wei can only unite to resist the flourishing Great Qin.

Of course, the alliance between Shu and Wei was nothing to Li Chen.The destruction of these two countries is a matter of time, and whether they unite or not will not affect the overall situation.

For Li Chen, the most critical point of being able to unify the world lies in the national strength of the Great Qin, not whether the two countries of Shu and Wei are united.

After conquering Zhuojun within two hours, Cao Cao had already broken his courage. Cao Cao obediently released the imprisoned Daqin miners.

Cao Cao tore up the agreement, which is a big hidden danger for Li Mu's plan.Although for now, the iron ore reserves in Daqin are still sufficient, but the mining industry in Daqin has to start again.

Moreover, most of Qin land is now in the south, which is not conducive to the development of the mining industry.

Of course, it’s not that there are no iron mines in the south, but because the land in the south contains too much water, and it won’t take long to dig down for water.

And mining is to dig underground. In this era, if the drainage of the mine is not done well and water seeps, it will really kill people.

However, now there are no difficulties to overcome, and there are difficulties to overcome.

Because, at present, Daqin has a great demand for iron ore. Whether it is artillery, shells, or the flintlock guns and fixed bullets that are being developed, they all require a large amount of iron ore.

In a blink of an eye, another three years passed.

Today, it has been five years since the official Three Kingdoms.

The whole land of Qin is developing vigorously, and now Qin is far superior to Wei and Shu in terms of economy, agriculture, and population.

In terms of population alone, the population of Qin is more than that of Wei and Shu combined.In recent years, Mr. Li Chen has regained the Shanyue natives in the Jiangdong area. While conquering the Shanyue natives, he is still digging the corners of Cao Wei's population.

Under the ebb and flow, Qin has far surpassed Wei and Shu in terms of population.

In this era, population is the primary productive force, and the larger the population of a country, the stronger that country is.

In the past three years, Li Chen's harem has added sisters Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao as they wished.

Moreover, Lu Lingqi and Zhen Mi also gave birth to a son and a daughter for him, and even Gan Mei is now pregnant.

However, for Li Chen, the most regrettable thing is that after five full years, he still failed to win Huang Yueying, an exotic techie.

Of course, the main reason is that Huang Yueying is a complete house girl, and the secondary reason is that Li Chen gave Huang Yueying too many rare things.

The research and development of flintlock guns and fixed-loaded bullets alone has been going on for five years, and until today, they still haven't started to be deployed in the army.

Firearms, for this era, there are not only technical barriers, but also huge.

In this era, there were no lathes or various mechanized equipment, and everything had to be done by hand.

Jinling.

Qin Wangfu.

"King Qin, the arsenal outside the city has come to report that there has been progress in the matter of the flintlock gun today!" A guard came to report from outside.

"Prepare the horse, I'm going to have a look!" Li Chen hurriedly ordered.

A flintlock gun capable of firing fixed bullets is simply too important to Li Chen.Qin's territory is all in the south, without horses, it is doomed that Li Chen can only develop infantry as much as possible.

If you want to use infantry to crush cavalry, there is only one possibility, and that is the flintlock.

This is a dimensionality reduction blow across the ages. Once your own army is organized and equipped with flintlock guns, no matter how powerful cavalry Cao Cao trains, they will be vulnerable to a single blow.

Under the protection of the guards, Li Chen left the mansion and rushed towards the arsenal outside the city.

Now, it is winter.

The raging snowflakes fluttered and fell like goose feathers.The raging cold wind blew by, making people's ears turn red.

The snow in Jinling City has covered the bare feet. Jinling is regarded as the southern region in this era. It rarely snows in previous years. Even if it snows, it has never seen such a heavy snowfall.

Such heavy snow seems to indicate that the coming year will definitely be another bumper harvest year.

Pedestrians on the street all shrunk their heads and gathered their cuffs involuntarily as they walked on the road.Seeing King Qin's carriage approaching, the pedestrians retreated to both sides of the road.Then he raised his head and looked towards King Qin, still muttering in his heart, it's a snowy day, where is King Qin going.

Jinling, outside the city.

arsenal.

The arsenal is a forbidden area, without Li Chen's order, no one is allowed to enter or leave at will.

In particular, in the north corner of the arsenal, there is a huge factory building where Huang Yueying led people to develop flintlock guns. For the entire arsenal, this is a forbidden area among forbidden areas.

"Dang! Dang! Dang!"

Before approaching this factory building, the sound of gold and iron clanging has already been heard.

Li Chen walked into the workshop and found a huge bellows next to a blacksmithing furnace.

"Hu! Hu! Hu!"

A worker is pushing the wind direction with all his strength, buttocks pouted. The wind direction is very strong, so pulling it is naturally very laborious.

There was another worker, holding a pair of iron tongs in one hand and a hammer in the other, hammering the smelted copper and iron blocks fiercely.

Copper-iron alloy.

Of course, the composition of this alloy must not only be copper and iron, and naturally a small amount of other metals are added to it.

However, since his main components are copper and iron, let's call him a copper-iron alloy.

It was Huang Yueying's two years of experimentation that she came up with the best formula for making gun barrels.

(End of this chapter)