Chapter 576

"Your Highness, are you really ready for a big fight? Don't forget, your highness. Although your country is big, you will die if you are belligerent. Even if your highness can defeat us, you will certainly lose your strength at that time. "

Xiao Qi said aloud.

"It's not that I want to fight, but you force me to fight. In this case, we'll burn all the stones." Xiao Ming looks like a rascal who is afraid of others.

See, Xiao Qi and Zheng Hao silence, now Xiao Qi is obviously eat the weight, iron heart.

Cui Zhang and Wang Xi are happy in their hearts. They want the three families to fight so that they can profit from them.

After looking at Xiao Ming for a while, Xiao Qi is defeated. Now Xiao Ming is arrogant as the winner, but he is trembling as the loser.

After a moment's hesitation, he said, "this matter is too important for me to decide. This matter must be decided by his royal highness. I just hope that his royal highness can give time to his officials and stop seizing the land."

Xiao Ming showed a smile, now his strong appearance is to let Xiao Qi counsellor, he said: "yes, but Wang's patience is limited."

Xiao Qi nodded and turned to leave.

Cui Zhang sighed, "ah, it's going to take ten days."

"His highness Shizi, why should he be impatient? There are food, drink and opera in Qingzhou. It's not boring today." Wang Xi said with a smile.

Cui Zhang sneered in his heart. He thought how could Wang Xi know that they had made a deal with the king of Qi in private. However, he was still friendly on the surface and said, "what Wang Shilang said is very true. In this case, we will go to the Qingzhou opera garden today."

After that, they went too.

Zheng Hao and others left, but he didn't stay much. He gave Xiao Ming a hug and left.

At this time, Zhan Xingchang said to Xiao Ming, "Your Highness, will the king of Wei agree? Yangzhou is famous for its wealth. "

"I'm not afraid that he won't agree, but I'm afraid that he will. Now that we've been in three cities for more than a month, the king of Wei should understand that he is not our opponent no matter how stupid he is. It's good for them to delay our attack." Xiao Ming said.

Zhan Xingchang nodded, "it's just that it's better for us to delay time. If we take the population of these four states into our pocket, we will greatly increase our strength."

"That's right, but after the armistice broke out, the problem of ammunition made me feel helpless. The military workshop reported that there was not much ammunition in the warehouse." Xiao Ming sighed.

Zhan Xingchang's look suddenly became a little wonderful. I didn't expect that Xiao Ming was just bluffing Xiao Qi. In fact, he couldn't attack again.

"I see. It's true that a batch of ammunition should be left for self-defense, and it can't be used for expedition." Zhan Xingchang said.

Xiao Ming nodded. The battle of Pengzhou, the battle of Tongzhou and the battle of huaizhou consumed 1.2 million rifles and 16000 solid shells.

Although some of the shells were picked up after the war, some of them did not know where they had gone, and the marbles lost more because they were too small.

And the marbles that hit the local soldiers couldn't be taken out.

"Exactly." Xiao Ming said that the continuous war almost consumed the inventory.

But now that the converter steelmaking production line is available, this problem is not a problem, but it needs time to reserve.

After chatting with Zhan Xingchang, Xiao Ming goes to the steel workshop again. He often runs to this place these days. Whenever he sees a whole furnace of molten steel flowing out, he will be very satisfied.

Because this is a step closer to the industrial revolution. After all, to completely realize the industrial revolution, we need a lot of steel manufacturing machinery.

After watching the steel production for a while and the production of the second converter, Xiao Ming went to the palace.

Just after returning to the palace, Xiao Ming was about to have a rest when Li Kaiyuan came in with a man with red hair and blue eyes.

"Your Highness, long time no see."

The man who followed Li Kaiyuan was no other than rod, a Dutchman.

A few days ago, Li Kaiyuan was still talking about trade with the Dutch. He also mentioned that rod arrived in Dengzhou. Unexpectedly, rod went to Qingzhou with him.

"Your Highness, rod said that count Clare had asked him to come to Qingzhou, and the magistrate had brought him." Li Kaiyuan said with a smile.

Xiao Ming then looked at rod and said, "take me to say hello to count Clare. It must be something important for count Clare to ask you to come here this time."

"Yes, your highness, the British are very active at sea during this period, and our fleet is under great pressure. So count Clare hopes to sign a military alliance with his highness, and hope his highness can block the British attack in the Asian waters with us. These damned Brits are driving us crazy." Rod complained.

"Haven't the British been in Indian waters all the time? As far as I know, the southern waters are mainly your Dutch and Spanish colonies Xiao Ming pondered.

"No, the French and the Portuguese." Lord corrected, "Your Highness is right. The British have always been in India, but our merchant ships have brought an unfortunate news. The British have improved the damned steam engine, which is said to increase their fabric production a lot. Now these Englishmen are looking for dumping places everywhere. They will have some ideas about it. Count Clare is just taking precautions 。”Xiao Ming doesn't move his face on the surface, but there is a slight wave in his heart. According to his understanding, the West in this world ended the Middle Ages ahead of time because of the invasion of the grassland barbarians half a century in advance.

And now rod's words confirm his conjecture that western science and technology is about half a century better than that of the same period in the contemporary era.

"When was this?" he asked

"It will take more than three months for our merchant ships to arrive in Holland from the city of geranque, plus one year, which is a total of three months a year. However, when everyone knows, the first batch of steam engines have entered the textile factory." Rod showed up.

Xiao Ming's eyes narrowed. He didn't expect that he would get the heavy news by accident.

"Now all the countries in Europe want to get steam engine technology from the British. It seems that they are very interested in it." Rod said to himself.

He has been away from Holland for too long and is now insensitive to what is happening in Europe.

The purpose of rod's coming here this time is to test the military alliance. After thinking about it, Xiao Ming said, "military alliance may be a good idea."

"Of course, with his Highness's more than 30 warships, the British can't take advantage of this area." Rod's eyes were keen.

Xiao Ming was stunned for a moment. It seems that rod and Claire already know that his fleet has 24 more warships. The Dutch are really well informed.

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