Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 495 Large Orders

"Girls should also study more. Mr. Wang can let his granddaughter be a role model in the future." Bai Tu continued.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your concern. This is what the veteran and the dog thought."

"Did you take a name?"

"It's just a small character 'Yuan Yuan'." Wang Lang felt a little confused when he saw Bai Tu caring about his newborn granddaughter, but he responded quickly.

Bai Tu nodded when he heard this, and then said: "In the future, when Qing'er reaches the age of going to school, let Yuanyuan come with her. It can also be considered as finding a companion..."

It seemed that he was just talking about making an appointment for the juniors to go to school together, but Bai Tu's tone was serious.

Wang Lang was stunned when he heard this, and then he understood what Bai Tu meant. His old eyes turned red and he said, "Thank you, Your Majesty... The Wang family will share the worries of Your Majesty for generations to come!"

That's right, Bai Tu's hint is already obvious - he wants to match his eldest son with Wang Lang's granddaughter!

It's just because the children are still young and Chu officials don't advocate this, so they definitely can't say it clearly.

Bai Tu also made up his mind to arrange it for Bai Qing...

Originally, Bai Tu didn't want to engage in any marriage, but he still thinks so now. The reason why he wanted to "arrange" it was not to win over Wang Lang and Wang Su, but to compensate and show support!
Wang Lang does the job that gets the most scolding, while Wang Su is prepared to be infamous for thousands of years in the future - it can't be true, and it will be discovered sooner or later.

However, as long as it can be concealed for a while and the old Confucianism can be merged with Bai Xue, for the Chu State, the goal has been achieved.

As for later finding out it was fake...

That’s Wang Su’s own problem too!What does it have to do with me, Da Chu, what does it have to do with Confucianism, and what does it have to do with Bai Xue?
It's just that Bai Tu felt that he couldn't bully "honest people" like this. The culprit Wang Su had already paid in advance, and Wang Lang had already recited countless words, so he should also express it.

There is nothing that can be said about being promoted to an official position. After all, if "Wang Xue" breaks out in the next generation or the next generation, the blow to the Wang family will be fatal.

What's more, it's inappropriate to be promoted to a higher position "for no reason"...

Historically, the impact of Wang Su's fraud was not great, mainly because the crackdown on counterfeiting was more than 1000 years late. "Wang Xue" has been widely accepted, and numerous mathematical schools have extended Wang Xue over the past 1000 years. Even if he is found to be fake, it will not matter. The academic influence is also limited, and it is impossible to correct deviations from more than 1000 years ago, and the influence on the descendants of the Wang family is almost nonexistent.

Just like the "Bamboo Chronicles" was not officially adopted in history after it was discovered, we can't rebuild the ideological foundation from "Spring and Autumn", right?
However, with the current development speed of humanities and science and technology in Chu State, how could it be possible that it would be discovered after more than 1000 years like it was in the original history?

So Bai Tu used a more direct method to guarantee Wang Lang and Wang Su the future of the Wang family!

When Bai Tu came up with this idea, he also thought about whether Sima had the same idea at the beginning?
After all, the beneficiaries of Wang Su's "academic fraud" at that time were the family members headed by the Sima family.

……

The news that Wang Lang's granddaughter "Yuan Yuan" was selected by Bai Tu to accompany the prince in the future was deliberately spread.

For a moment, everyone looked at Wang Lang with sore eyes, knowing Wang Lang's status in the future, this is going to go a step further-not to mention, at least You Heng will not bully him again, this is quarreling!
If the work of the Natural Punishment Department continues to be carried out, it will be much smoother.

Many important ministers also felt that Bai Tu made a decision on this matter too hastily. After all, it will be more than ten years later... If the son is to be an example of late marriage and late childbearing, it may even be 20 years later. Why make a decision now ?

But thinking about what Wang Lang's criminal department did and Wang Su's tacit behavior, everyone felt relieved.

Although they were sad, they asked themselves that if it were them, they might not be willing to "exchange".

To a certain extent, this is also a symbol that the king really remembers the contributions of every hero... thinking about it this way makes me feel a lot more balanced.

In addition, another major event in Chu State recently is that several official workshops of the Ministry of Industry and a large number of private workshops, including many "semi-official workshops" in which the King of Chu has invested, have received "super orders" unexpectedly. Shaogongfang has been busy with this big order even in the past two or three years!

It greatly promoted the development of the workshop...

After all, the production capacity of a large number of workshops is occupied by this "super order", freeing up space for more workshops, and more pure workshop population will be needed!
Many workshops even accept excess orders, which means they need to open a large number of new workshops and increase production capacity within a year to meet order requirements!
Especially this big order is closely related to steel. Steel, which is becoming more and more "cheap" in Chu State, has raised a hand.

Because most of the technologically upstream workshops are confidential official workshops monopolized by Chu State, and even the core workshops are located in Yizhou overseas, so theoretically the final results of the order are kept secret.

However, if you make a rough estimate, the steel needed may be tens of thousands of tons...

Some people originally thought that the price of steel would plummet after all farm tools and weapons were used, but now they were all dumbfounded. In fact, the previous "conclusion" was shocking enough. Is there still an era when steel is worthless?
Indeed, due to the emergence of auxiliary mining equipment such as the "air rock drill" developed by the Ministry of Industry, the excavable reserves of iron ore and the excavation speed have increased astonishingly.

Now even the iron mines contracted by Liaodong to the Chu State are about to start using these equipment...

Therefore, the price of steel has been plummeting!
After that... I was slapped with this super order, which was so high that it couldn't be placed for several years. In the next few years, more than half of the production capacity of many iron-making workshops has been booked.

At the same time, the final product of this "super order" has also attracted countless speculations.

Some people say that the King of Chu wants to build a steel palace, some say that the Chu State wants to build a cast-iron fortress, some say that it wants to create a secret weapon to arm millions of troops, and some even say that the Chu State wants to build a giant steel ship. There are steel roads!
Outside of Chu State, the third theory is naturally widely accepted.

One ton of Chu's steel is worth ten thousand kilograms, tens of thousands of tons of steel. On average, for an army of one million, a single soldier can weigh hundreds of kilograms!

Enough armor for a million troops...

Of course, Chu State did not have a million-strong army, and it was impossible to have a million war horses. Therefore, it was puzzling what the use of dozens or hundreds of kilograms of steel per person was.

However, within the Chu State, the fourth theory is very popular - after all, the Chu people also know that the imperial court attaches great importance to sea ships and warships.

It's just that... the thing about the steel battleship is also incomprehensible.

Although now, if someone questions "how can an iron ship float?", there may be a "smart person" around to give him some popular science about the basic principles of buoyancy. After all, Chu's popular science is not in vain, but... even so, There is no way to explain why steel battleships are needed!
When it comes to water battles, whether on the river or in the ocean, Chu is already invincible.

Other princes who imported Chu weapons, farm tools and other steel products have jumped on the bandwagon - it's not enough for you to let the people practice martial arts to raise the price of food, but now you have to inexplicably "consume" tens of thousands of tons of steel to raise the price of steel. price?
Do you, surnamed Bai, still have a conscience?Deliberately wasting food and steel in order to raise prices?

Sure enough, you are just going through the trouble. When trading for us, you have to pay more!

As for the first and second conjectures, there is no market. Although Wei Guo and the Han Dynasty will violate their conscience and publicize to the people, Baitu will use thousands of tons of steel, as well as gold, silver and copper traded from their own homes. , went to build a palace for himself, which was extremely extravagant and outrageous... But in fact, they themselves did not believe that Bai Tu would do this.

And spending so much thought on the fortresses used for defense is obviously not Chu's style.

Of course, among the true inner circle of the Chu State, such a huge project involving countless workshops, even if the final core assembly place is located in Yizhou, it is impossible to hide it from everyone - it is indeed to build a ship!

As for paving roads...

It sounds incredible, but it is also true to a certain extent.

In fact, in order to convince everyone, Bai Tu took a dozen of Chu's core officials to experience the Qi Ship...

It is a small wooden inki boat.

Although the "Pan Qi Project" is not yet ready to harvest the fruits in large quantities, the Qi machines that power small wooden ships that can accommodate dozens of people are already fully operational.

Just like before when more than a dozen military generals were summoned to test guns and cannons, this time we asked these core members of the government to test the Qi Ships!

When the ship without sails and oars moved smoothly and even turned flexibly in a windless and waveless environment, the results of the Ministry of Works were once again shocking.

However, compared to the Chi Ship, there is another "Chi Train" that is more convincing to everyone - even though it is a test product, it only goes around in a circle on the grounds of the Ministry of Industry.

However, officials with some macroscopic concepts about the load and speed of the Zhenqi train can imagine how much benefit it would bring to Chu if this kind of "Zhenqi train" became popular.

In terms of consumption, the "Qi Train" is actually more expensive than the "Qi Ship"!
Although a Zhenqi battleship consumes thousands of tons of steel, it is at least a one-shot deal. Unless it is built in large quantities, it will only consume a small amount of "a few ships".

As for the track of the Zhenqi train, it consumes one ton of steel per kilometer - this is still the current train, which itself is relatively "small", so the track is also "saved" a lot compared to later generations, and can be dealt with first by using steel-clad wood. Otherwise, adding another zero is not enough!
Although the hard drive of Baitu can save many detours, firstly, the information is incomplete, and secondly... there are some differences between true pneumatic power and steam power, and development still needs to be done step by step.

As for Yizhou Qin Mi’s visit...

It was really not a big deal in Chu State. After arriving in Jinling, he was left alone and no one cared about him.

(End of this chapter)