Li Baihan had just returned to Dunliang City, with injuries on his body, Shen Hexi was not allowed to walk around casually for several days, and even the sword practice time every morning was cancelled.

His right arm had been injured before, and he was stabbed in the chaos during the attack on Yusha City.Just because of the almost healed wound, Shen Hexi forced Li Bohan to drink a lot of decoction, which made Li Bohan feel like vomiting when he smelled it.

"Xi'er, don't stay by my side all day. Aren't your gold mines and iron mines started? I haven't seen you paying attention." Li Baihan just frowned, pouring down a bowl of bitter The decoction of death, there is still a smell of medicine in his mouth when he speaks.

"With Yan Chaoge and Jiang Yun here, I'm very relieved." Shen Hexi took out some plums from the wooden box. The plums were purple and black, and they looked delicious.It's a pity that it tastes sour. Li Baihan doesn't like sweet candied fruit, but he really likes these sour fruits.

Li Bohan, who smelled like medicine, took the big plum that Shen Hexi handed over, and the medicine smell in his mouth was washed away instantly after biting down.

"This Jiang Yun can be trusted, but Yan Chaoge is from the Immortal Sword Hall, can you trust him?" Li Baihan asked.Strictly speaking, Li Baihan and Mrs. Yan of Xianjiantang are still relatives, so he should call Mrs. Yan his aunt.If it was closer, he and Yan Chaoge might still be cousins, but the relationship is farther away. When he met Yan Chaoge in Dunliang City, he only called Hall Master Yan, and Yan Chaoge was still respectful. Call him Fourth Prince.

The two are still quite unfamiliar, and it is understandable for him not to trust Yan Chaoge.

"Yan Chaoge knows very well in his heart that if the Fairy Sword Hall wants to continue to survive, they must find someone to rely on. Qingmu's iron ore is strictly controlled. The iron ore he can buy every year is limited. This iron ore is limited, so it is limited. He made money. Now with me, as long as the iron ore output increases, I will definitely not treat him badly. Maybe I will account for [-]% of all the iron ore supply of Xianjiantang in the future. In this way, do you think he will Help me build the iron mine." Shen Hexi laughed.

"You're really shrewd in your calculations." Li Bohan nodded slightly, the Zhou Ceremony was really not in vain, since both hands are gold, it's no wonder he doesn't know how to make money.

"I can't help it. There are thousands of mouths waiting to eat in my palace. I don't make much money, and everyone will starve with me." Shen Hexi smiled and leaned in front of Li Baihan and said with a thief, "Brother Han, you say go to the fifth prince." Will the Chiyan Congress bring me a business opportunity? I heard that the Chiyan Kingdom is extremely prosperous. There must be a lot of things that we don’t have here, and there are things they don’t have on our side. If this business route can be opened, Whoever makes a fortune."

On the surface, Li Baichuan and the unnamed old man went to Chiyan Kingdom to exchange tea ceremony, but only the unnamed old man really exchanged tea ceremony, and Li Baichuan was purely to escape the upcoming prince dispute in Yong'an City.He doesn't have a mother and concubine, whether his mother's family has power, and he has no interest in the crown prince's throne.Rather than being suspected by others in Yong'an City, Dao might as well just leave.Qingmu is so far away from Chiyan Kingdom, when he comes back, the candidate for the crown prince may have already been settled.

Ever since Yong Tinghou sent a letter saying that Xia Ziming should follow Li Baichuan to Chiyan Kingdom, Shen Hexi has been thinking about whether he should open up a trade route of his own.He is not good at other things, but he is quite clear about trading.

There are only two roads to Chiyan Country, the sea road and the dry road. He can't change the sea road. Now he is thinking about whether he can re-open a dry road.

"Do you have any ideas?" Seeing Shen Hexi's small eyes rolling around, Li Bohan knew that he had some other ideas.

"I'm going to get the map." Said Shen Hexi jumped off the soft couch, and brought a map of the mainland.

This map is only a rough sketch, as many places have not been visited at all.

"Brother Han, look, there is a snow country between us and Chiyan country, but in the west, this unknown area from the northwest of Dunliang City also borders Chiyan country." Shen Hexi used his chubby fingers to touch a blank space. pointed.

The territory of Qingmu Kingdom presents an inverted triangle shape, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom.On the left is a virgin forest, and on the right is the sea.It borders part of the Snow Country in the north, and borders the barbarians in the south.

Shen Hexi had studied the territory of their Three Kingdoms before, the Snow Country was in an oval shape, most of it was on the snow field in the middle, and bordered by Qingmu and Chiyan on both sides.To the west of Snow Country is an unknown area.

And the total area of ​​Chiyan Kingdom is extremely vast, as big as one and a half green trees, it is long and has an extremely long coastline.

He thought that if he went straight north from Dunliang City and passed through the primeval forest, it might be the Chiyan Kingdom.It's just that it's not clear what's going on in this primeval forest and whether it's possible to go.

"No one has ever entered this blank forest. How do you plan to open a road? I don't know whether it is a snow-capped mountain or a forest. I'm afraid it would be wrong to go to Chiyan Kingdom from here." Li Baihan said warmly. .

"How will you know if you don't try it? I've thought about it. When the mines here are almost ready, I'll take someone to explore the way." Shen Hexizhi didn't want to go in and find out. It's not an impulsive idea.

Since his internal strength began to grow again, he found that his eyes and ears were sharper than before. If he led people into the forest, with his own ability, he believed that it would not be difficult to open up a trade channel.

"Even if you want to go, you have to wait until you're older. It's too early." Li Bohan habitually touched Shen Hexi's little head. Forest, he would never agree.

"Uh." Speaking of his age, Shen Hexi instantly lost his mind. Based on his current age, it is estimated that if he wants to lead people to open up new trade channels, his mother must be the first to object.His mother has always regarded him as a child.

The hot summer finally came to an end, and the artillery jointly developed by Shen Hexi and Xianjiantang was finally successfully produced after numerous improvements.

Two brand-new artillery pieces are placed on the training ground, which is in the deep mountains near Dunliang City, where the Lion Tiger Army is usually stationed here.Shen Hexi came over a few days earlier for the test firing of the new artillery today.

Many people followed him, Liu Qinglei, Li Baihan, Yannu, Linghuzheng, and Jiang's father and son. There were always a large group of people standing on the artillery training ground.

A thick city wall was built with stones 300 meters away from the artillery. This city wall was built according to the city wall of Yong'an City. It was so thick that ordinary artillery could not blast it.

"Light on fire." Shen Hexi gave an order, and a soldier standing next to the cannon stepped forward to ignite the fuze of the cannon.

Just hearing a "boom", the city wall a hundred meters away collapsed, leaving only half of the long wall, and a hole blasted out by the artillery can still be seen vaguely.

After the smoke dissipated, Shen Hexi stepped forward to check. The power of this cannon is really powerful. It can knock down the city wall from such a long distance. If it is used on the battlefield, how lethal it will be.

He kept the matter of researching artillery from Li Bohan, trying to give him a surprise.Now what he gave Li Bohan was not a surprise but a fright.

Li Baihan is also well-informed, but he has never heard that artillery can blast a big hole in the city wall at a distance of several hundred meters.

"Xi'er, this is the cannon you developed." Li Bohan hugged Shen Hexi excitedly and asked.

"I don't have that great ability, and I have to thank the masters of Xianjiantang. They have basically never left the camp of the Lion Tiger Army this whole summer. The power of the artillery has increased several times." Shen Hexi grinned happily and said, he was also extremely happy, for these two artillery, he almost blocked his palace for money.

Although Liu Qinglei knew that Shen Hexi was studying cannons, he didn't expect the cannons to be so powerful. He said, "Xi'er, this matter needs to be kept secret. The fewer people who know about it, the better."

"Uncle, don't worry, the reason why I let it be developed in the deep mountains is because I am afraid that someone with a heart will find out. If this matter gets out, I will be in trouble." Shen Hexi understands very well that if this matter gets out, the implications will be serious, and said Don't bring yourself into trouble.

"Can Xi'er's artillery be mass-produced? If they have this artillery, the day when they conquer the Snow Country will not be far away." Li Baihan asked.

As soon as he said this, several pairs of eyes looked at him. It turns out that the fourth prince has always wanted to conquer the Snow Country?

Li Baihan was not afraid that others would know his ambitions, and continued, "Snow Country and Aoki should be settled. How many years have they been fighting, and the civilians on the border should live a stable life."

"The fourth prince is ambitious, I admire you." Linghu clasped his hands towards Li Baihan.He is also the main fighting faction, Xue Country's ambition to encroach on the land of Qingmu has not been for a day or two, and several generations of Qingmu emperors are the main alliance faction, and they don't want to fight.Snow Country provoked trouble, and Aoki sent troops to fight.If Snow Country doesn't come to provoke trouble, Aoki will not take the initiative to declare war on Snow Country.

In Linghuzheng's view, doing this is a sign of Aoki's cowardice, obviously Aoki is not a weak country, why should he be led by the nose by a snow country.If he were the emperor, he would have sent troops to compete with Snow Country long ago, and it would have dragged on for so many years, causing the residents on the border to live in fear all day long.

The artillery developed by Shen Hexi needs to be mass-produced after his iron ore is officially put into production. Now the iron ore in Dunliang city is probably not enough.A whole body of a cannon is made of fine iron. To build a cannon requires a lot of ore, and the prince Shen Hexi, the iron ore in his hand now is probably not enough to make a cannon.

Li Bohan led the lion and tiger army to recuperate deep in the mountains. Shen Hexi used his little abacus to think about how to make money to support his family all day long. High priced to sell.A large stack of silver bills was sent from Liujiabao, and Shen Hexi had a good time looking at it for a whole day. A rough amber stone with a copper plate of one catty, after being transported across the ocean to Chiyan Kingdom by his hands, became an extremely precious ornament. .A handle the size of an egg can even be sold for two taels of gold?This is a sky-high price for Shen Hexi.

Two taels of gold, how much amber can he buy.

Immediately, Shen Hexi asked people to continue to buy amber without limit. Besides, he sent many people to find the mine veins of amber.Amber is similar to iron ore and coal mines, and they also have veins, but the Aoki people have never paid attention to the originality of amber before, and not many people know that there are veins.

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