Inside the ordnance warehouse, a row of twenty guns was lying quietly, and these guns were a batch of export-oriented artillery produced by the military workshop. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Uncle Huang, these cannons are all ordered by King Liang and King Zhao, and they will be delivered soon, I'm afraid they can't be sold to Uncle Huang." Xiao Ming said with a smile.

King Yong was quite disappointed, now every vassal king was hoarding firearms to enhance his strength, and he was already a lot behind in comparison, especially when he learned that these cannons were sold to King Liang, he had a sense of crisis.

Although he was very dissatisfied with Xiao Ming seeing the artillery sold to King Liang, he understood that this nephew had always sold arms when he was rich, and he even suspected that if the barbarians offered a high price, Xiao Ming would also sell arms.

Thinking of this, King Yong's eyes turned, "Virtuous nephew, we both belong to the royal family, and this business is naturally related and distant, why don't you sell this batch of artillery to the imperial uncle first, and then you produce another batch of artillery for him?" ”

These cannons were deliberately placed in the warehouse by Xiao Ming, in fact, they were not prepared for King Liang, but he deliberately set up King Yong, because King Yong's fief is really a treasure land with rich mineral resources.

In order to get the right to exploit these mineral resources, he had to think of some crooked ideas, so he said: "It's not easy for the imperial uncle to want artillery, and the nephew will produce another batch for the imperial uncle, but it is really not possible, so the nephew will transfer a batch of artillery from the army to the imperial uncle." ”

"Really?" King Yong was overjoyed.

Xiao Ming nodded, and said cryptically: "This time, King Liang purchased four hundred artillery pieces from this king, why does my nephew have to take care of the imperial uncle?" ”

"Four hundred?" King Yong was shocked, and he immediately said: "Virtuous nephew, the imperial uncle is more than the king of Liang, and the imperial uncle wants five hundred doors!" ”

"Five hundred? Fourth Emperor Uncle, isn't these 500 doors cheap? Xiao Ming said seriously, "It is said that there is not much silver in the treasury of the Imperial Uncle's Mansion, and these five hundred artillery pieces will cost at least six or seven million taels of silver, this is ......."

King Yong suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, Xiao Ming talked about his sore spot, now he really doesn't have much silver, he suddenly remembered the last time Xiao Ming asked him to use coal mines to offset the artillery, so he said: "Virtuous nephew, it's really not okay for you to circle some coal mines again?"

After experiencing the shortage of iron ore, Xiao Ming now has a deep resentment against iron ore, and the steam engine is about to be put into use, and the use of coal will also be greatly increased, and the self-sufficient mining capacity of the current Dayu country is obviously unable to meet him.

However, he did not want to spend too much manpower on mining, and was ready to exchange industrial products for mineral resources to allow other feudal lords to provide ore for him.

After all, even if they mine under their fiefdom, these mines will still be under their jurisdiction at that time, and they may be taken back at any time if they turn around.

So he might as well use artillery in exchange for ore by name, so that these vassal kings can become his mine owners, so he said: "Uncle Huang, my nephew is really weak, and there are few people in the fiefdom, why do so many people come to mine, since Uncle Huang sincerely wants to buy artillery, it is better to directly exchange coal and iron ore." ”

"Coal and iron ore?" King Yong was a little embarrassed, he said: "Virtuous nephew, Uncle Huang has a few coal mines, but there are very few iron ores. ”

King Yong's fiefdom included the present-day River. In the northern region, in modern times, the iron ore reserves of this place are second to none in the country, and it is precisely because of this that it will become a steel base.

Smiling, Xiao Ming said: "Uncle Huang is wrong, there are more mines in Uncle Huang's subway than coal mines, if Uncle Huang doesn't believe it, my nephew can help Uncle Huang find a few, but the mining of this iron ore can only be done by Uncle Huang himself." ”

King Yong has always been a person who relies on the mountains to eat the mountains and the water to eat the water, and this coal and iron can be sold for money, so why not? He said excitedly: "Is this really what my nephew said? ”

"Seriously." Xiao Ming said.

King Yong nodded and said, "If it is really as the virtuous nephew said, the imperial uncle will send someone to open a mine, how about exchanging ore for artillery?" ”

"The Fourth Emperor Uncle is extremely bold, okay, it's decided." Xiao Ming's eyes narrowed, his first step plan had been completed, and he had also tried his best to make Dayu a resource supply place for Qingzhou.

For this reason, he didn't care if it was a hostile vassal king, after all, sometimes this kind of relationship between countries was hostile and used by each other.

For example, in modern state-to-state relations, while shouting and shouting and killing, the private economy is still hot, which is the so-called political cold and economic heat.

After negotiating this matter, Xiao Ming carefully calculated an account for King Yong, and the mineral resources to be exchanged for these 500 artillery pieces are equivalent to 100 million shirts in exchange for a Boeing in contemporary times.

King Yong may have completely become a big mine owner in order to buy artillery, and at this time, the king of Chu has become the owner of his cotton estate, providing cotton for 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 fiefdom.

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

For him, the resources in the world are limited, and if he eats more, others will eat less, so there are constant filthy problems between countries in order to eat more and eat less.

The affluence of the contemporary West is based on a high degree of control over the resources of life, Xiao Ming knows this, so he is preparing to start a journey to get the world to work for Qingzhou, and now it is his turn to exchange high-tech products for 100 million shirts.

And when he was busy planning the resource intake plan, an unexpected incident suddenly made the atmosphere in Qingzhou solemn.

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

"Dead! How to die! Xiao Ming was shocked.

Pang Yukun said: "According to the investigation of the government office, it is temporarily certain that Doctor Sun was poisoned by arsenic, and now it is rumored that Doctor Sun was forced to death by His Royal Highness. ”

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

"Tell me about it." Xiao Ming was a little irritable, although he was dissatisfied with Doctor Sun's rigidity, but no matter how he said it, Doctor Sun was a good doctor, and he was heartbroken to die like this for no reason.

"Doctor Sun is highly respected in Qingzhou City, and after this incident, the Confucian scholars in Qingzhou have a lot of discussions, pointing out that His Royal Highness's Bowen College is a heresy, and the implication is that His Highness's Bowen College has broken the rules, does not conform to the ancestral family law, violates the principles of heaven, and is a great rebellion."