"I think we should use the power of the media. If we cooperate with the Chu navy forces, under the banner of the Chu navy forces, or let the Chu naval forces **** the merchant ships, what will the nobles do? "Meng Yi said.

"Just do it." A security consultant said worriedly.

"Is it a bit slow? Judging from the current media reports, the public's reaction to us on this matter does not seem to be too optimistic." The security consultant said.

"Yes, Prime Minister." A young diplomat said worriedly.

"En." Meng Yi nodded.

"But if we vigorously promote that we have acquired a colony. What do you say?" Meng Yi said with a smile. The reason why Meng Yi thinks this way is a suggestion made by one of his cabinet's deputy finance ministers. He believes that the current impact of the Prime Minister of Qin State is too great. So he thought that he should divert the attention of the domestic people. Once transferred, the Prime Minister's Mansion will be able to get a lot of time to solve the problems of the nobles in Chu State.

According to information provided by Feng Jie. The State of Chu annexed a large number of colonies overseas, but the state of Qin did not know what these colonies were. Considering this aspect, Meng Yi decided to make some progress in this regard. Qin State had at least a colony of its own. Then according to the rapid development of this colony. The price of the colony will certainly not be too high.

"Perhaps this is possible, but I think we should have a lot of flexibility in this matter. Moreover, we have our own navy. It is better to let our navy go out and let them open up their own colonies. Maybe this It is of great help to us. You must know that buying a colony requires a lot of money. This is a lot of money for us." A retired military officer said. He was wearing civilian clothing, but there was a medal on the clothing, which came from the Northern Campaign. Yi expressed that he had participated in the war against the Huns in the north and was a qualified soldier.

"En. If we send troops to occupy the colony, we naturally need our own strength to complete it." Meng Yi said.

"Yes." The veteran adviser nodded and said.

"We can give it a try, let our navy prepare, and we have to participate in it," Meng Yi said.

Several people then began to make several plans. Then these plans were screened and submitted to relevant departments.

"How far can your ship go?" Shang Wen has been investigating local economic problems these days.

"I don't know, we can go east and find some small islands, and there will be our maximum limit." The old man said.

"En." Shang Wen nodded.

"Is your boat also the wood obtained from the woods over there?" Shang Wen asked.

"Yes. Those woods are important raw materials for our shipbuilding. But for several years, no ship will be launched." The old man continued.

"Yes. This has so much financial resources to build ships." Shang Wen said.

And their ships will not be too big. Shang Wen thought to himself.

After Shangwen walked around for a while, he didn't understand anything.

"What are you doing here?" Shang Wen ended his understanding of the old man. However, Shang Wen met Mo Li as soon as he came out.

"What are you doing here?" Shang Wen asked angrily.

"I'm afraid you will run away." Mo Li said.

"Relax, I can't run. Without you, how could I run so far. From Qin State to the east coast of Qi State." Shang Wen said. Then he took his notebook and left.

"What are you doing? It's mysterious." Mo Li asked after coming up.

"Investigate." Shang Wen continued walking.

"It takes a lot of people to work to support a lot of people with guns who don't produce." Shang Wen said.

"This is a learning." Shang Wen continued.

"But this village is too backward. It's just a small fishing village. Nothing can be done." Shang Wen said.

"I can't help it at all. The boat is too small to go anywhere. The most important thing is that I don't know where to start. This place. There is too much lack of things." Shang Wen waved and said.

"En. Have you been busy thinking about these things these days?" Mo Li asked.

"Yes." Shang Wen said.

"I don't know what to do anymore," Shang Wen said.

"There is no problem in a country as big as Qin. Could it be that you have a problem yourself?" Mo Li said.

"En." Shang Wen nodded.

"Yes." Shang Wen nodded and continued.

"You are very right." Shang Wen said.

"Do me a favor, okay?" Shang Wen smiled and said.

"What are you doing?" Mo Li looked at Shang Wen and said.

"Pick sea water and boil the salt." Shang Wen said simply. Then left here.

"Will you?" Mo Li said, looking at Shang Wen.

"It's nothing difficult." Shang Wen said.

"Rely on the sea to eat the sea. To rely on the mountain to eat the mountain." Shang Wen said.

"The wood on the mountain can only be used to build small boats, and the mast of a big ship is difficult to make." Shang Wen said.

"I really don't know how much these small boats can pass," Shang Wen said.

"However, the wood on the mountain can still burn. Iron is smelted. There is not enough furnace temperature." Shang Wen said.

"However, I can get some charcoal out." Shang Wen said. Some simple techniques are relatively simple for Shangwen.

"Let's carry water now, I think you are strong." Shang Wen said with a smile. Then left here.

Subsequently. Mo Li and Shang Wen picked two large buckets of sea water and put them aside. Shang Wen found a pottery vessel, which surprised Shang Wen that soil could be made like this. After some surprise, the experiment continued.

"Just cook it like this." Mo Li asked.

"Yes. After boiling, then cooling down. Crystals can be precipitated." Shang Wen said.

"These crystals are salt." Shang Wen said.

"But these are coarse salt." Shang Wen said. After boiling again, Shang Wen cools the brine. Then gradually precipitated crystals,

"Hey. It's coming out. It's really salt." Looking at the crystals that separated out. Mo Li shouted loudly.

"En." Shang Wen nodded.

"These are coarse salt, not edible yet." Shang Wen said.

"Salt is good." Mo Li looked curiously.

Shang Wen shook his head.

"These are not enough. These salts contain other salt. It is not pure enough, we need another thing, which is too mixed." Shang Wen then added a small amount of water again, after dissolving, continued to boil the salt.

"Right. I need a dirt hole. Let's dig a hole." Shang Wen said.

"Not very big." Shang Wen further explained.

"What are you digging for?" Mo Li asked.

"Make charcoal. The temperature of wood is a bit low, and it is not easy to control. I need those things to raise the temperature." Shang Wen said.

"Make charcoal?" Mo Li said.

"Yes. As long as a little bit, I will tell you how to do it. As for other things, I still have to do experiments. After these people understand, I will know how to do it." Shangwen said.

It's another hard work. Shangwen only dug a hole the size of a person, and then left two holes. One exit, one sealed hole. To burn charcoal, Shangwen needs a high-temperature sealed environment. Under such conditions, Shang Wen can only do this.

This is followed by the firing process. Then Shang Wen continued to precipitate crystals. Burn charcoal.

"These salts are good enough." Mo Li watched Shang Wen's continuous precipitation of crystals, and there were fewer and fewer crystals. Shang Wen carefully saves these things with the paper on the notebook every time.

"Do you know what I am doing?" Shang Wen asked Mo Li.

"How do I know?" Mo Li said angrily.

"Fired glass. We have to have something like this and sell it. I don't know what these needs are like?" Shang Wen said.

"But that's what can be done right now," Shang Wen said.

"Is that the transparent things of your Qin State?" Mo Li asked.

"Yes. It's those things. That's right. Paper can be made here. It's even better if you have paper." Shang Wen immediately thought of paper. But Shang Wen took a few steps to think about it. Then returned. Because paper is made, it also needs to be bleached. Otherwise, the color of the paper will be very poor. And here, there is still a lack of bleaching things. There are few things like lime. Shang Wen still feels the same.

"What's the matter?" Mo Li asked curiously when she saw Shang Wen coming back.

"Something is missing. A lot of things are missing." Shang Wen said.

"What's missing?" Mo Li asked curiously.

"Bleaches." Shang Wen said.

"Bleaches, what is that?" Mo Li asked.

"This." Shang Wen smiled.

"Then you will know. Now I can't explain it to you. In short, these things are all chemical things. That is what your alchemist does." Shang Wen said.

"Those vague things. So will you. Your master is not an alchemist, right?" Mo Li asked curiously.

"No. My master is not an alchemist. Yes." Shang Wen thought for a while, but didn't know if it was right.

"Huh. Forget it. I can't tell, it's almost the same anyway." Shang Wen thought for a while, that's right. Alchemy and pharmacist are similar in vagueness. I won't say it anymore.

"I said yes, you still don't admit it." Mo Li was as happy as if she had guessed Shangwen's mind.

Shang Wen frowned. Looks a little helpless.

"Right. What are you doing with those white salt?" Mo Li asked curiously.

"En. These are also salt, but another kind of salt. It's called sodium carbonate. Or sodium bicarbonate." Shang Wen said.

"There are such things in sea salt, and I extract them all. It can be made into glass." Shang Wen said.

"What?" Mo Li didn't even understand what Shang Wen was talking about.

"You can try it." Shang Wen said, dipping a little powder with his chopsticks.

Mo Li looked at Shang Wen and tasted it.

"Bah, it's a painful death." After Mo Li tried, she immediately vomited.

"Hehe." Shang Wen laughed.