Qin State, Xianyang. Ministry of Defense.

"Damn, are they crazy?" Wei Liao said while looking at Goguryeo's telegram.

"Sir, their financial capacity is no longer able to support Goguryeo to maintain the war. I think that although they purchase ships, South Korea may not agree to their orders due to safety considerations. If this is the case, they will not have enough ships to guarantee their The supplies of the 2nd Infantry Division are safe, and currently they only have dilapidated ones that can be used. The situation is very unfavorable for them.” A captain officer analyzed.

"I know this. What I am worried about is whether the **** Goguryeo can withstand this war. Their economy is on the verge of collapse. How much financial capital they have to sustain this war. They must end this war as soon as possible. War." Wei Liao said.

"We have nothing to do about this, and other military production parties seem to be reluctant to see the Goguryeo side end the war, because once the war ends, the war stimulus consumption will be reduced, which is very detrimental to us." The captain said.

"Yeah. I see. We Qin people don't need to worry about Goguryeo, but if Goguryeo's financial situation is the worst and the domestic situation is turbulent, they still owe a large amount of war compensation to Qin Bank. Forget it?" Wei Liao asked worriedly.

"This." The captain obviously didn't think about this. They just saw the benefits they got now, and they didn't even think of this at all.

"Well, I will report this matter to the Prime Minister and let the Prime Minister handle it. If the Qin government can resolve Goguryeo's financial crisis, this situation will be much better. I will not object." Wei Liao said to his subordinates. Speaking of. The benefit of the war is that it can stimulate the growth of military consumption, thereby driving the rapid growth of Qin's economy.

Zhao Guo. Handan, the first military factory. Li Mu visited here.

"At present, the military factory can produce complete flintlock rifles, tapered bullets, and precision rifles, which are rifled. The rifle can be fired up to a distance of two hundred steps, and it can completely shoot the opponent's officer." The director of the first military factory. Excitedly introduced.

"In addition, some simple barbed wire fences for fortifications are also produced here. Barbed wire fences can also be produced at Handan Iron Works, but we need to produce them from them and then resell them. So in order to reduce costs, we produce them ourselves. The barbed wire fences are very good. Simple, it requires a simple drawing machine and corresponding machine tool improvements to be able to mass-produce. At present, the price of a hundred-step barbed wire is one and a half taels. These products are mainly exported to Yueshi, Tochar, and South Korea , Chu State came up, their demand is very large." The director introduced.

"Well. Very good, these things are not only needed by them, but also by Zhao Jun himself in the future. These are still good things. What else can you produce?" Li Mu asked.

"In addition, we can produce some landmine shells, and there are two types of filling explosives. One is black powder. We can produce this by ourselves. His mention is larger. In addition, the pyrotechnic device needs to be imported from Qin. However, We are developing a landmine of our own production. The ignition device of this landmine is not stable enough. It will explode when touched. It is also very powerful, but it is unstable and very dangerous.” The director said. The explosive that the factory manager said was nitroglycerin. With the announcement of the gunpowder formula, various countries have begun research on high-power gunpowder, because this can greatly increase the range of the rifle and the power of the artillery. The Qin people are at the forefront of the research in this area, and the Koreans are close behind, but everyone's research process is the same. Qin people first came into contact with cotton, so they have a large number of smokeless powder guns that can be popularized, while Koreans have not yet come into contact with cotton. Although they have discovered thunderbolt, the people of Qin have a better composite bottom gunpowder, and the performance is more stable. . South Koreans have not yet been popularized on a large scale. In contrast, Zhao Guo was much behind, but they still found the powerful nitroglycerin, but they couldn't use this powerful explosive. Because his character is too irritable.

"The other one is produced by ourselves. In addition to landmines, it is a grenade. Through modification of the grenade, we can also develop another trip mine that is mainly used to defend against large-scale infantry attacks." Introduced to Li Mu. Li Mu nodded. Compared with these things, Li Mu felt that he could effectively defend Qin's ground offensive operations.

"How about artillery?" Li Mu then asked.

"Well, we use the latest artillery technology, which uses thermal expansion and contraction, and adopts the self-tightening technology of one barrel with another barrel. We can only produce small-caliber artillery and large-caliber artillery technology. Unable to grasp, the most important point is that the quality of our artillery is not very good, the quantity can be many, but it cannot be used for a long time." The director said with concern.

"However, in this regard, we have already solved part of the funds from stocks. We cooperated with Handan Iron Works to solve a large number of technical problems. Through technology replacement, we obtained part of their shares, and then we solved part of the financial problems. , We have introduced relevant talents from Qin State, and at the same time trained a large number of talents for exchange.” The factory manager continued.

"Well. You are doing very well, and science and technology are very important. At this point, you are doing very right. Without science and technology, our factory will not be able to occupy a favorable position. You must speed up." Li Mu said To.

Then Li Mu visited the Second Arsenal. The current main profit of Zhaoguo Arsenal comes from exporting various flintlock parts, such as barrels, as well as a large number of mines, grenade weapons, and barbed wire. They are also one of their important production defensive weapons, but these do not have much technology. The content is mainly to fight for the price, and Zhao Guo has a huge coal resource advantage to occupy a favorable market position. In the long run, the situation is not very good.

The most important point is that Zhao Guo’s other industrial developments are not very good. For example, the aviation industry, at best, they have just started, and they cannot expand further. Zhao Guohao needs a long time to develop to solve all the problems. . This made Zhao Guo had to patiently develop, and this is how the country's development is. In a hurry.