Age of mythical princes

Chapter 423
"Father Zhong, Uncle Master, I don't understand why we still stand so firmly here in Yancheng?"

"Nowadays, our Wu Kingdom is also a real big country. We have Jiuding, Da Zhenren, and prefecture-level Taoist soldiers. There are not many people in the world who are more powerful than our Wu Kingdom."

"Especially now, Weiss has established an alliance of great powers for Yancheng. Many key technologies are being traded by everyone. When we completely digest these advanced technologies, Wu's national power will definitely double. Why bother asking for instructions on everything like before? Where is Yancheng?”

Although Fu Chai did have some opinions on Wu Zixu and Sun Wu when he passed away, after Helu died, Wu Zixu and Sun Wu tried their best to assist Fu Chai, and Fu Chai slowly changed his mind.

Therefore, if there are any questions now, Fu Chai will communicate with the two of them in time.

If you ask why, it is actually because of the advice of an expert.

It's just that this expert is not just an expert, but an expert in the journal.

Over the past few decades, various journals have been published.

In the beginning, journals were only related to spiritual practice. At that time, journals were very sacred. Everyone felt that if their research results were written into articles and eventually included in journals and praised by the world, it would be a great event to honor their ancestors.

Especially those Yancheng official periodicals with a very wide audience. Many times, someone who published an article on them would be invited by the local nobles and then become an official.

Journals have become a way to become an official, become famous, and honor one's ancestors.

Later, with the development of time, there were more and more types of journals.In addition to journals related to spiritual practice, there are also many other journals.

For example, the political journals that Fu Chai and many nobles like to read. The subscription of this type of journal is directly called "Politics". This "Politics" journal is published once a month. It is full of various political experts interpreting the general trend of the world. .

The "Politics" journal has a sub-journal dedicated to explaining history, explaining superficial history and deep history, and telling the deep-seated reasons why someone did what they did in the first place.

Jiang Hua once said: "Mathematics and history are subjects that can make you smart if you learn them."

This sentence has also been recognized by many people.

From then on, Fu Chai began to read "Politics" and its series of sub-magazines. The more he read, the more he gradually became smarter and learned a lot of knowledge that he had never learned before.

Of course, this is also because Fucha himself is not stupid, but also very smart.So when he worked hard and studied hard, he quickly got results.

Therefore, Fu Chai felt that under the current situation in Wu State, the monarch and his ministers should never be suspicious.

The monarch is weak and the ministers are strong.

At this time, if the monarch and ministers continue to doubt each other, then the Kingdom of Wu will really be doomed.

Therefore, what Fu Chai can do is communicate more and talk more when nothing happens.It would be better if you could answer some of your doubts.

Wu Zixu and Sun Wu were happy to see Fu Chai's changes, so no matter how busy they were, as long as Fu Chai came over to chat, they would immediately put down their work and chat with Fu Chai.

The more we chat, no matter what everyone thinks in their hearts, at least it looks more harmonious on the surface.

Wu Zixu first said: "Your Majesty, although Wei has formed an alliance of great powers, has the Wei family expelled the Taoists from Yancheng?"

Fucha shook his head.

"Don't the Wei family want to completely fall out with Yancheng? Does the Wei family not want to? The Wei family can't do it!"

At this point, a large amount of farmland appeared in front of Wu Zixu: "Take agriculture as an example. Today, Yancheng's agriculture is still the best in the world."

"Agriculture includes many things, and rice and wheat are just a part of agriculture."

"Take rice as an example. The rice yield per mu in Yancheng has reached 35 shi, and in some areas it can reach [-] shi. These are ordinary areas."

"The local treasure (fertilizer) produced in Yancheng can be produced in small quantities and can be produced by all countries. Any Taoist priest can produce it in a laboratory if he is willing, but what about the quantity?"

"If a real person can be produced on a large scale at any cost, what is the cost?"

“Large-scale, low-cost manufacturing of local treasures is a technology that only Yancheng possesses today!”

"High-yield rice seeds are no exception. The technology for large-scale, low-cost manufacturing is only available in Yancheng!"

"Today, all countries in the world are hiring Taoists from Yancheng to help them farm. It's just that some countries hire more, and some countries hire less."

"Take our Wu State as an example. When we were at war with the Chu State in the past, the country was short of manpower. At most, [-]% of the land was occupied by Taoist priests from Yancheng who helped us sow...harvest."

"This year, [-]% of the land will be directly contracted by Yancheng Taoists."

"In other words, if we fall out with Yancheng, first of all, no one will farm [-]% of the land."

"Secondly, we will lose large-scale, low-cost local treasures and high-yielding seeds next year."

"Without local treasures and seeds, the yield per mu will soon drop to four or five stones." "So, this time in the alliance of great powers, Qi practitioners from various countries will join forces to conquer large-scale, low-level The technology to make local treasures at a low cost, and the technology to make high-quality seeds.”

"But until these two technologies are completely broken, it is impossible for big countries to break up with Yancheng. Otherwise, if they break up this year, their food income will drop sharply next year. It is easy to move from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to move from luxury to frugality."

"Nowadays, everyone from top to bottom is accustomed to a life of having enough to eat and three meals a day."

"Suddenly, let everyone go back to the past. It won't take long for the people below to change. Then it is estimated that other big countries will use hidden tricks to instigate the nobles to rebel without Yancheng taking action."

Hearing this, Fu Cha just felt cold in his heart: "This, this is because the princes are not united. If the princes can unite..."

Before he finished speaking, Wu Zixu interrupted: "There is no if! It is impossible for the princes to unite!"

“And local treasures and high-yielding rice seeds are just one of Yancheng’s many advantages.”

“Another example is soybeans!”

"High-quality soybean seeds, large-scale, low-cost seeds, are also in the hands of Yancheng."

"Another example is fine steel. At the beginning, Yancheng led the production technology of fine steel. Later, various countries gradually mastered this technology."

"But now, with the development of the times, various alloys are emerging one after another."

"This is called materials science in Yancheng. It is said that the money Yancheng spends on basic materials every year far exceeds the total annual income of any big country. And I also heard that materials science is often called metaphysics."

"In some disciplines, you can see results immediately if you spend money on it. But in materials science, you can spend hundreds of billions or trillions of money on it and you won't even hear a sound."

“Today’s Yancheng is hundreds of years ahead of the world in materials science.”

"The same product, the same drawings, the same assembly, the quality of the final product can be at least one level worse."

"Sometimes, Yancheng uses special materials and can manufacture them. We have designed very good products, but the materials cannot keep up, and we cannot verify whether our ideas are feasible."

"Sometimes, when we are really desperate, we directly ask an expert to use deduction techniques. Once we calculate, the expert says that there is no problem with the design and it is very sophisticated, but the materials cannot keep up."

"Where are the materials that can keep up? It's in Yancheng!"

"In this alliance of great powers, Chu, Han, Zhao, Wei, Wu, Yan, Qin, and Qi, together with the five countries and three clans, will spend 30 yuan every year, specifically for materials science. Some countries have more money. Just give more money, some countries have more people, so give more people, and some countries have more resources, so give more resources."

"This materials alliance is actually to do more basic research and narrow the gap with Yancheng."

"The magic weapon is not obvious yet. When it comes to the magic weapon level, many magic weapons made from new materials in Yancheng can have a mana utilization rate of [-]%, but our average level is only [-]%."

"If it is some special military magic weapon, Yancheng can reach [-]%."

"Imagine two identical prefecture-level Taoist soldiers. The magic weapon used by the prefecture-level Taoist soldiers on the opposite side can reach [-]% of the mana utilization rate, while ours is only more than [-]%. The shoes on the feet of the prefecture-level Taoist soldiers on the opposite side are magic weapons. My mysterious armor is a magic weapon, my inner armor is also a magic weapon, even my helmet and weapons are all magic weapons..."

"Each magic weapon on their body is [-] to [-]% more powerful than the magic weapon on our earth-level Taoist soldiers. How much more powerful should they be combined together?"

"Today in Yancheng, primary education has been universalized for ten years for all people, and the extraordinary rate is as high as [-]%. Their cost of training a warlock is very low, and their cost of training a Taoist priest is also far lower than that of the outside world."

"The final result is that if we have the resources to train one prefecture-level Taoist soldier, if we put them in Yancheng, we can train at least three to five prefecture-level Taoist soldiers."

"One of Yancheng's prefecture-level Taoist soldiers can defeat two or three of our prefecture-level Taoist soldiers."

"If converted into resource utilization rate, with the same resources, Yancheng can achieve about six to fifteen times our effectiveness."

"Your Majesty, do you understand?"

"It's clear, Yancheng is too powerful."

"This kind of strength is not only reflected in the strength of Jiang Hua and Yancheng's top management, but also in all aspects."

"Nowadays, the industries of all major countries are controlled by Yancheng. If Yancheng is lost, each country will collapse immediately, and the domestic nobles will rebel."

"So, the current situation is that Yancheng needs major countries as markets to continue selling goods to make money and upgrade technology. Major countries also rely heavily on Yancheng's various advanced technologies and low-price products to maintain their luxurious lives."

"Both sides can't live without each other, so they can only quarrel and fight sometimes, but negotiations and trade have never ended."

"After the formation of the alliance of major powers, it is more about technological exchanges between major powers to break Yancheng's technological monopoly."

"Until these problems are resolved, it is impossible for the alliance of major powers to actually attack Yancheng."

Hearing this, Sun Wu nodded affirmatively.

(End of this chapter)