Iron Dynasty

Chapter 469 The Death of Doctor Sun

Inside the ordnance warehouse, a row of twenty artillery pieces lay quietly inside. These artillery pieces were a batch of export-type artillery produced by the military workshop.

"Uncle Emperor, these artillery pieces are all custom-made artillery by King Liang and Wang Zhao. They will be delivered soon. I'm afraid they can't be sold to Uncle Emperor." Xiao Ming smiled.

King Yong was quite disappointed. Now every feudal prince is hoarding firearms to increase his strength. In comparison, he has fallen behind a lot. Especially when he learned that these artillery were sold to King Liang, he felt a sense of crisis. .

Although he was very dissatisfied that Xiao Ming saw the artillery sold to King Liang, he knew that this nephew had always sold arms when he had money. He even suspected that if the barbarians paid high prices, Xiao Ming would sell arms likewise.

Thinking of this, King Yong's eyes rolled, "My nephew, we belong to the royal family. Naturally, this business is not close to each other. Why don't you sell this batch of artillery to the emperor's uncle first, and how about you produce another batch of artillery for him?"

These artillery pieces were deliberately placed in the warehouse by Xiao Ming. In fact, they were not prepared for King Liang, but he set them down deliberately for King Yong, because King Yong's fief was really a treasure and rich in mineral resources.

In order to obtain the mining rights of these mineral resources, he had to think of crooked ideas, so he said: "It is not easy for the emperor to want artillery. The nephew will produce another batch for the emperor. It is really impossible. The nephew will join the army. Allocate a batch of artillery to the emperor."

"Really?" King Yong was overjoyed.

Xiao Ming nodded, and said in a vague way: "This time King Liang purchased 400 artillery pieces from his own king. How come his nephew has to take care of his uncle?"

"Four hundred gates?" King Yong was shocked, and he immediately said: "Nice nephew, the emperor has more than King Liang, and the emperor has five hundred gates!"

"Five hundred doors? Four uncles, aren't these five hundred doors cheap?" Xiao Ming said seriously, "It is said that there is not much silver in the imperial uncle’s mansion, and the five hundred artillery pieces cost at least six or seven million taels of silver. This……"

King Yong suddenly became a little uncomfortable. Xiao Ming talked about his pain. Now his money is indeed running low. He suddenly remembered the last time Xiao Ming asked him to use a coal mine to rush the artillery, so he said, "My nephew, you can't do it." Circle some more coal mines?"

After experiencing the shortage of iron ore, Xiao Ming now has a deep grievance for iron ore, and the steam engine is about to be put into use, and the use of coal will also be greatly increased, and now the country is self-sufficient in mining. Obviously it can't satisfy him.

However, he also did not want to spend too much manpower on mining, but prepared to take industrial products in exchange for mineral resources to allow other vassals to provide himself with ore.

After all, even if they are in the mines under their fief, these mines will still be under their jurisdiction by then, and they may be taken back at any time if they turn around.

Therefore, he might as well just call the artillery in exchange for ore, so that these vassals can be reduced to his mine owners, so he said: "The emperor, the nephew is really powerless, there are few people in the fief, so why are there so many? Human mining, since the emperor sincerely wants to buy artillery, it's better to exchange it for coal and iron ore."

"Coal and iron ore?" King Yong was embarrassed. He said, "My nephew, the emperor has a few coal mines, but there is very little iron ore."

Yongwang’s fief includes the present-day Hebei area. In modern times, this place has the largest iron ore reserves in China. It is precisely because of this that it will become a steel base. This Yongwang is actually in Baoshan, and I don’t know the true face of Baoshan. .

With a smile, Xiao Ming said, "Uncle Huang is absurd. There are more mines in the subway closed by the uncle than in coal mines. If the uncle doesn’t believe me, my nephew can help the uncle find a few, but the mining of this iron ore is just fine. Only the emperor can come by himself."

King Yong was always a man who relied on mountains to eat mountains and water to drink water. This coal and iron can be sold for money, so why not? He excitedly said: "Nephew is this serious?"

"Really." Xiao Ming said.

King Yong nodded and said, "If it is true as the nephew said, the emperor will send someone to open a mine. How about using ore for artillery?"

"The Four Emperors are extremely bold. Okay, that's it." Xiao Ming's eyes narrowed. His first plan has been completed. In order to make Dayu Country a resource supply place for Qingzhou, he also exhausted. Thought.

For this reason, he doesn't care whether it is a hostile vassal or not. After all, sometimes this kind of state-to-state relationship is both hostile and mutually exploited.

For example, in modern state relations, while screaming and killing, the private economy is still hot. This is the so-called cold politics and hot economics.

After discussing the matter, Xiao Ming carefully calculated an account for King Yong. The mineral resources to be exchanged for these 500 artillery pieces is no different from the contemporary 100 million shirts in exchange for a Boeing.

In order to purchase artillery, King Yong would be completely reduced to a major mine owner. At this time, King Chu had already become his cotton manor, providing cotton to Qingzhou Mianmian.

After the transaction was completed, Xiao Ming accompanied King Yong to play in Qingzhou for a few days, and after letting him see the changes in Qingzhou, he reluctantly returned to the fief.

After King Yong left, Xiao Ming continued to plan the future of the fief.

For him, the resources in the world are limited. If you eat more, others will eat less. So in order to eat more, the problem of eating less is constantly tainted.

The prosperity of the contemporary West is based on a high degree of control over the resources of life. Xiao Ming knows this well, so he is preparing to start a journey of making the world work for Qingzhou. Now it is his turn to exchange high-tech products for 100 million. A shirt.

And while he was busy planning a resource intake plan~www.wuxiaspot.com~, an unexpected incident made the atmosphere of Qingzhou suddenly serious.

"Doctor Sun is dead!" When Pang Yukun said this, his expression was solemn.

"Dead! How did you die!" Xiao Ming said in shock.

Pang Yukun said: "According to the government's verification, it is certain that Dr. Sun was poisoned to death by arsenic, and now there are rumors that Dr. Sun was forced to death by His Royal Highness. Your Highness, the subordinates suspect that someone pushed the flames to slander your Highness and put pressure on your Highness. ."

Xiao Ming looked cold, he just asked Doctor Sun to go back and think about it. It was only a few days before Doctor Sun died. Not only Pang Yukun, but he also felt very strange.

"Tell me." Xiao Ming was a little irritable. Although he was dissatisfied with Dr. Sun's rigidity, he was still a good doctor no matter what, and he was very heartbroken after he died like this for no reason.

"Doctor Sun is highly respected in Qingzhou City. After this incident, the Confucian scholars in Qingzhou talked a lot. He pointed out that the Bowen Academy of His Highness was heresy. The implication was that His Highness's Bowen Academy broke the rules, violated the ancestor's family law, violated the laws of heaven, and was rebellious. "