Chapter 305

"Your Highness, the merchant ship of the king of Chu has arrived. It is said that it has brought cotton seeds, but..."

"But you have to give them the guns, right?"

"It seems that your Highness has seen everything." Pang Yukun said with a smile.

Xiao Ming is writing a textbook on training the army with flint guns.

Yesterday in a row in the lathe workshop, military workshop, equipment department, gunpowder workshop around, he put all his requirements.

Whether it's bayonets, slivers or oil paper wrapped ammunition, these three things belong to things with no technical content.

The bottom of the bayonet is just made into a cylinder, and the strip is nothing more than an iron bar. The oil paper baozi bullet is even simpler. It just takes the oil paper to mix and bind the bullet and gunpowder in advance.

What's missing is not technology, just an idea, or experience.

In the era of firearms, the war will be normalized, and the war will no longer be in the past.

Because of this, he compiled teaching materials and prepared to teach the generals of Qingzhou army in the war.

Putting down his brush, Xiao Ming walked out of the main hall. Now he has taken off his thick winter cotton padded jacket.

As he walked out of the palace, Xiao Ming said, "Li Kaiyuan can bring cotton so smoothly. Do you think it's the king of Chu who is so kind-hearted? This time, it's just an exchange of interests. He wants artillery and I want cotton. "

"Just so, the king of Wei should not be happy again. It is said that the king of Wei complained about his highness in Jinling City."

"The king of Wei has always been at odds with the king of Chu. He is naturally not happy when we sell guns to the king of Chu. In this case, we don't need to take part in the conflicts between the vassal kings. On the contrary, it is the right way to make use of their conflicts to sell arms."

After analyzing the situation of Chongqing, Xiao Ming decided to adopt the isolationist diplomacy of the United States during World War II.

They don't join in the fight between any forces, but they just make a lot of money.

After all, there is no way to reconcile the internal disputes in Dayu, and there is mutual suspicion among the vassal kings. In this case, it is safe to make a profit.

"Your Highness, that's right. If the king of Wei is not happy, he should buy some more guns. If there are more guns, won't it be ok?" Said Pang.

"That's right, so selling guns to the king of Chu also stimulated the king of Wei to buy more guns."

When they arrived at the dock, Xiao Ming sent people to the military workshop to deliver the 30 guns to the king of Chu's fleet and unload the cotton seeds.

At first, Li Kaiyuan went to Chu. At first, the king of Chu naturally refused to give Xiao Ming cotton seeds.

Later, in order to show off his military strength, the king of Wei set off his artillery on the Yangtze River like fireworks, which seriously stimulated the king of Chu.

In Qingzhou, however, Xiao Ming had been pressing the artillery for Chu.

There was no cotton seed. Xiao Ming could wait. After all, the king of Chu couldn't stop the cotton sellers, and the textile workshop could support them. But without artillery, the king of Chu didn't have any tricks, so he had to reluctantly deliver the cotton seed.

Boarded the merchant ship and inspected the cotton on board.

At this time, the messenger of the king of Chu who came with the cotton seed said: "Your Highness, the king of Chu has an order. If you don't see the artillery, you can't give the cotton to your highness. If your highness uses it strongly, I have to burn the cotton seed."

Xiao Ming and Pang Yukun looked at each other, but the emissary was a little bold. He said with a smile: "the king has always said a lot, but he would not covet these three ships of cotton seeds. It's just that the king of Chu chose to send the cotton seeds this month, but he had ulterior motives."

The messenger of the king of Chu was embarrassed.

He naturally understood Xiao Ming's meaning. March was the time to plant cotton. Now it's natural to bring it here with a sense of coercion.

Once Xiao Ming fails to fulfill his promise, it will take another year for him to plant cotton.

After waiting for an hour at the dock, the military workshop transported the guns to the port.

The messenger of the king of Chu inspected the artillery and ammunition, and then agreed to carry the cotton seeds on board.

Xiao Ming came to pick up cotton seeds in person this time because he attached great importance to cotton. After all, cotton can produce many industrial products. This garment is just one of them. There is also a great demand for cotton in medicine.

If the cotton is successfully planted in Qingzhou this time, Qingzhou will not have to worry about the source of cotton in the future. From then on, it will not be constrained by the king of Chu and affect the development of Qingzhou's textile industry.

This time, the cotton sent by the king of Chu was directly sent to Guanzhuang by Xiao Ming. It was another spring ploughing season, and the Qingzhou army once again played the role of a farmer.

Now that all the land in Guanzhuang has been cultivated, the next step is to spread the cotton seeds.

"Your Highness, do you really want to plant cotton?"

On the ridge of Guanzhuang's field, Niu Zhen asked after Xiao Ming.

As soon as the cotton was sent to Guanzhuang, Niu Zhen came with the soldiers.

Although Xiao Ming had already said hello to him, Niu Zhen still hesitated, because in his opinion, food is the most important thing.

Now the grain production in the six prefectures has recovered. Last year, there was a lot of surplus. But now, it can't be said that this situation will be caused by barbarian unrest again.At that time, not enough military supplies was a fatal thing.

"Old general, you don't have to worry about that. Now Qingzhou doesn't have much grain, but the king of Wei, the king of Chu and the king of Yan have much. This time, taking advantage of the artillery trade, I bought a lot of grain from them and put it in reserve."

Niu Zhen hears the speech, and this time he is relieved.

He attached great importance to agriculture and suppressed commerce. Because he had been commanding the army for many years, he naturally knew the sorrow of the front line when there was no food.

So food is more important to him than anything else.

Xiao Ming doesn't agree with his current practice of attaching equal importance to business and agriculture. It's just that a general of the army only needs to be responsible for fighting and training the army. These political ideas are not his own.

Now Xiao Ming has brought the cotton seeds here. He can't hold it back, but he also asks casually.

Knowing that in order to make up for the harvest of Guanzhuang, Xiao Ming bought grain from other places, he finally felt at ease. At least Xiao Ming has not lost his head.

The cotton seeds were distributed bag by bag. The soldiers picked up the seeds and sprinkled them in the fields of Guanzhuang.

This year, in addition to the official village of Qingzhou, Xiao Ming and Pang Yukun also established several slave plantations.

These plantations will not grow staple food this year. They will grow either cotton or sugarcane and rape.

soap, perfume, and mirrors, though they can make profits for a while, but ordinary sugar, vegetable oil and clothes are the things that go up to dignitaries and people.

Occupying this market will make a lasting profit.

It is also for this reason that Xiao Mingcai boldly opened up plantations. In his plan, Qingzhou is based on commodity trade. It is self-sufficient in grain, and at the same time, it will also adopt the strategy of large-scale purchase and storage.

Since last year, concrete granaries have been built in each state. Xiao Ming's goal is to reserve enough food for the people in Qingzhou for three years.

This goal can not be achieved only by the grain harvest in the fiefdom.

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