"My lord, the minister is just a general, for this." Meng Tian said embarrassedly.

"Well. The widow is not sure, so I ask you what the military commander thinks." King Qin said at this time.

"The prime minister's plan is to transform the four main steel producing areas of the Qin State into commercial steel in the State of Qin. I don't know if there will be any problems? The widows are also worried about this." King Qin was at this time. Speaking of.

Meng Tian quickly read the report.

"Your Majesty, the minister believes that steel is one of the most important resources currently controlled by the State of Qin." Meng Tian said to King Qin.

"The output of steel is directly related to Qin's strength." Meng Tian said.

"Well, you are right." Qin Wang said.

"The widows think so too, but the steel output has been unable to increase, and the prime minister is right. Qin's steel output was mostly used for military purposes at the beginning, and the current military demand is not very strong anymore." King Qin said. .

"Yes, the king, the minister thinks so too. Military needs, especially Qin's external expansion, are already very limited. For some military industrial enterprises, Qin's military expenditures can no longer support them. If this continues, Qin's military industry The enterprise will not be able to operate. In the report, the prime minister also explained this situation in detail. Most of our previous steel production was used for military purposes. Later, I read the report. In the face of weak military demand, they turned to some civilian projects, which have maintained the normal operation of these steel production plants." Meng Tian said.

"Yeah." King Qin nodded.

"With the reduction of military demand. In the case of increased civilian demand, the minister believes that the demand for steel should be transformed and placed on civilian demand instead of military demand." Meng Tian said at this time.

"Yeah." King Qin nodded.

"You are right." King Qin said to Meng Tian at this time.

"However, the reorganization will be detrimental to Qin's four major steel production plants. You must know that these steel companies are under the jurisdiction of the Qin government. If this goes on, wouldn't these government assets become the assets of those businessmen?" King Qin worried. Speaking of.

"In this way, the widow thinks it is very unfavorable." King Qin said to Meng Tian worriedly.

"My lord, the minister thinks that such worries are redundant?" Meng Tian said.

"Oh?" King Qin was a little surprised.

"From the perspective of the future, the increase in demand for steel is inevitable. These increases in demand are not a little bit. It is quite large. Many places need steel, construction, automobile manufacturing, machinery manufacturing, and the future shipbuilding industry. Steel demand will surge." Meng Tian said.

"Therefore, Chen believes that if Qin can expand the production of steel and meet such demand, from an overall perspective, our Qin can increase a lot of benefits." Meng Tian said.

"Well. In this way, the benefits of steel are indeed great. But the government's assets." King Qin said worriedly.

"My lord, although the reorganization seems to be detrimental to the government, the increase in the number of shares of steel, on the whole, has expanded and increased the government's assets. Moreover, it can guide Qin's commerce into steel production and expand Qin's steel production." Meng Tian said.

"Yeah." King Qin nodded.

“Only when the State of Qin expands the production of steel can it further control the steel resources of other countries.” Meng Tian said.

"Steel is not only used for military purposes, but the demand for civilian use also needs to increase a lot." Meng Tian said.

"Yeah." King Qin nodded.

"You are right." King Qin nodded.

"It seems that the prime minister's ideas are farther than we want to see." King Qin said to Meng Tian.

"Your Majesty, Chen believes that the steel project has a lot to do with Dawan and the Western Regions project." Meng Tian analyzed at this time.

"Oh. Tell me." King Qin said to Meng Tian.

"Your Majesty, Chen believes that there must be abundant resources in Dawan. The development of these resources requires a lot of railway transportation. At the same time, the development of those resources is very important to us, because the increase in steel production, The dependence on resources in these areas is even stronger. Qin's dependence on resources will further encourage Qin to open up more areas." Meng Tian said at this time.

"Yeah." King Qin nodded with a smile. What Meng Tian said was the result that King Qin wanted. What King Qin worried about was the cessation of Qin's expansion. Before the expansion of the Qin State, it was possible to quickly expand the territory of a large-scale attack, but now, the expansion of the Qin State has stagnated, most of which have stopped and cannot advance further.

Although from a military perspective, military costs are too high. This caused Qin's expansion to basically stop. King Qin was also worried about this, and he was somewhat dissatisfied with steel and the recent situation of Qin. Dissatisfaction returned to dissatisfaction. How Qin was unable to expand is the most important thing at present.

The resource theory proposed by Meng Tian made King Qin very satisfied. The previous expansion of the Qin Kingdom was definitely to meet a resource demand, but it cannot expand now. It must have not found a suitable resource expansion. Now Qin has not found a suitable resource expansion. See you in the country. This resource is steel. A series of expansions centered on steel will allow Qin to expand again. This is what King Qin hopes to see.

Zhao State of Handan. Maoyang Flour Mill.

"Come on, the flour mill is cheap to grind flour." Outside the Maoyang Flour Mill, the guy from the Maoyang Mill yelled loudly. Many Zhao people outside the door pushed wheelbarrows and carriages to the door of the flour mill.

"Look at the flour milled by other Maoyang flour mills. It's really fast. Before, outside of those flour mills, it took us at least half a day to get the flour, but in others, it took less than half an hour and a half. You can get it. And it's fast. When you look at the ink, there is no skin at all." One woman said to another woman. Two people came out smiling with a small bag of flour.

"Not only that, the price is also very cheap. It's fast." Another woman said with a smile.

"Yes, that is, not only fast, but also cheaper, which is much faster than those mills." The woman continued.

Outside the entrance of Chen's Mill. Watching many people go to the flour mill. Chen Shitou was furious. Because many people go to the flour mill and do not come to his mill, then there will be no way for his mill to survive. This is extremely detrimental to them. Such a thing makes Chen Shitou extremely annoyed, but there is no alternative. After all, their advantage lies there.