Otherworldly Castle Era

Chapter 42 New future

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After the princes federation was broken down into three kingdoms, Xia Guo immediately started the railway project connecting the ice kingdom.

The first thing to start is the geological survey. If you want to build a railway, you must first plan a feasible route.

Although the details of the route have not yet been determined, the general direction has been decided.

Originally, before the establishment of Austrian State, Xia Guo Zhengge Post Department roughly planned out two route directions.

One route starts directly from Jiehe City and extends northward to the inside of the Snow Kingdom; the other route starts from Ninghai City and goes north along the coastline to Weihai City in the Snow Kingdom.

The first route is the shortest, but it needs to cross the middle of Austria, and safety is not under the control of Xia.

Although the second route is very long, because it is laid along the coastline, it is more conducive to the control of the powerful navy Xia State.

Yang Song has considered this for a long time and cannot decide immediately, because the two routes have their own advantages and their own shortcomings.

For example, if you want to get through the traffic line linking the Kingdom of Ice and Snow as quickly as possible, the short distance of the first route is what Xia Guo needs, but safety is its fundamental shortcoming.

It was just a piece of news from Ninghai City that made Yang Song choose the second route.

On this day, Army Pavilion Li Jing hurriedly found Yang Song, and wanted to say something in a hurry without breathing well. This was the first time Yang Song saw this in Li Jing.

“Pharmacist, you can stop breathing first.” Yang Song asked the maid to serve Li Jing a cup of tea.

Li Jing held a fist in return and took the hot tea held by the maid. After a sip, he re-reported the report: “Your Majesty, there is a way to deal with the ship!”

“What?!” Yang Song was shocked when he heard the words, stood up suddenly, walked quickly to Li Jing, staring at him and asked: “Is there a way? Come on, what’s the matter?”

“Return to your Majesty.” Li Jing replied with an excited expression: “Didn’t there be a batch of timber from the Kingdom of Ice and Snow two years ago, and a batch of timber was photographed by the shipyard. Not long ago, this batch of timber was processed and constructed. A shipping ship.”

Yang Song also had the impression of this matter. It was after the settlement of the Snow Kingdom’s affairs. For the first time, the large quantities of materials brought back from the Snow Kingdom contained a batch of cold wood that is a specialty of Northland.

Yang Song also knows that the wood used to build ships cannot be used just after being cut down. After being cut down, the wood has to be peeled, dried, decomposed, etc. before it can be used.

Therefore, after Li Jing said that the timber was transported from the Kingdom of Ice and Snow, Yang Song’s first thought was that the ship’s material problem had been resolved.

Sure enough, Li Jing’s answer confirmed Yang Song’s guess.

“Your Majesty, this transport ship made of cold wood from the Kingdom of Ice and Snow did not show any signs of damage after going back and forth between the North and the South for many times. We can use this wood to build warships.”

Yang Song also agreed with Li Jing’s statement, but after he was happy, he thought of a few questions that needed to be answered.

Yang Song returned to the desk and sat down. After asking Li Jing to sit down opposite him, he asked, “Pharmacist, can this kind of wood be guaranteed?”

“Yes!” Regarding Yang Song’s question, Li Jing nodded decisively and replied: “Your Majesty, the minister has asked, this kind of cold wood grows in the north, it is not a rare tree.”

“Yeah.” Yang Song nodded, and continued to ask: “Then what is the cost of shipping back? Is there any difficulty?”

“This kind of cold wood is very hard, and it is not easy for residents in the north to cut down. There is no problem with transportation.” Li Jing replied, and his face had completely returned to a normal state.

When Li Jing heard Yang Song asking him what difficulties he had, he frowned and thought for a while, and finally replied: “It’s just that this kind of cold wood only grows in severe cold areas. If the Snow Kingdom cuts off the supply, we can’t get from other places. Obtained this wood.”

“This is a problem.” Yang Song nodded clearly. The problem of being subject to others is a big problem, and Yang Song has a deep understanding of this.

Before Austria, it was because of being controlled by Xia State, which had to sign a series of bad treaties with Xia State, and the same was true for the previous Ice Kingdom.

It would be no good if the Ice and Snow Kingdom used this to threaten Xia Guo. Although Xia Guo could face it resolutely with its powerful military power, it was a problem after all.

“Let’s do this, on the grounds of improving commerce between the two countries, a large amount of this kind of cold wood was purchased from the Kingdom of Ice and Snow in a short time.” After thinking for a while, Yang Song ordered: “At the same time, the railway construction on the land should not stop. We will work together to achieve greater benefits for Daxia.”

“Your Majesty Shengming.” Li Jing clasped his fists in praise. Although Yang Song said nothing about Li Jing and Junge in these two points, Xia Guo’s short-term ship issue is related to him. Now I heard Yang Song like this. Said, Li Jing’s heart can be regarded as having a bottom.

After Li Jing left happily, Yang Song successively recruited Xun Yu, Li Jie, Shen Kuo, Zhang Juzheng and other important officials for interviews.

Because the ship’s problem has been resolved, Yang Song is now looking for these people to fine-tune Xia Guo’s strategy.

Yang Song instructed Xun Yu to take charge of the overall situation of domestic development-this point has not changed, only a few fine-tuning needs to be informed to him.

Li Jie is a book from the Ministry of Industry. There must be many aspects of building ships and railways that require his attention.

Yang Song recruited Zhang Juzheng for nothing else, because he wanted strong support from the other party in terms of finances Fortunately, two years ago, he obtained a lot of wealth from the Kingdom of Ice and Snow, and he is here. It has been continuously acquired within two years, and the previous actions against the Federation of the princes have not directly sent troops, and it will not cost much money.

This has allowed Xia Guo’s finances to make good changes in the past two years, and Zhang Juzheng has only been much easier in the past two years.

Now Austria has also transferred a large amount of wealth to Xia in another way. It is foreseeable that if Xia is no longer arrogant, Xia’s finances will continue to be relieved.

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Yang Song’s purpose for calling Shen Kuo was about steam-powered steel ships. Yang Song wanted to fundamentally solve the problem of ships at sea. Anyway, it would be sooner or later to upgrade the technology.

Judging from the reply given by Shen Kuo, Xia Guo has not yet solved the problem of using steam-powered ships. Instead, great progress has been made in the hull of steel battleships.

However, even if a battleship is built of steel, it will not help if there is no matching power. It is impossible to use sails to drive a heavy and huge steel battleship, right? The speed is touching when you think about it.

Yang Song got another good news from the development process of the warship hull, that is, new progress has been made in the development of new artillery.

It is precisely because Xia Guo’s technology on metal smelting has made a breakthrough some time ago, Shen Kuo has made the latest breakthrough in the development of the hull and artillery of the steel battleship.

Only after the problem of the use of steam-powered ships is resolved, and a good ship is equipped with a good gun, Xia’s maritime power will once again be qualitatively improved.

Not to mention that Xia’s current maritime power is invincible on this continent. If it gets a qualitative improvement on this basis, the scene is very worth looking forward to.