"What, Xiliang surrendered to Beidi!"

In the study of the Wang Mansion, Zhao Xu was shocked after hearing the news from Yanguan.

According to Mo Yu's words, the envoys of the Northern Di arrived at Yan Pass, and the Northern Di once again faced the border with troops.

Liu Fu happened to be there, and his face was embarrassed, "It is said that Bei Di has been conquering Xiliang. Both sides have won and lost each other. They fought with the imperial guards and the Ma family in Jinzhou. Why did they suddenly surrender to Bei Di?"

Zhao Xu frowned and looked at the map on the wall, circling in the locations of Dasong, Beidi, and Xiliang.

"The tall buildings cannot be poured out in one day, and they must have been decayed. If you think about it carefully, there will be some clues. It is said that Xiliang has occupied half of Jinzhou for ten years, but Dasong has declined more and more over the past ten years, and Xiliang has not made any progress. It can be seen that many years of war have made Xiliang strong and harder to fight the outside world."

Liu Fu nodded gently, Dasong, Beidi, Xiliang, among which Xiliang was the weakest.

When he was fighting with Dasong in Jinzhou, he was conquered by the Northern Di, so he naturally could not hold on.

Furthermore, Xiliang was incompatible with Dasong due to the battle of founding the country that year.

He was attacked by the Northern Di and never thought of forming an alliance with Dasong.

Between the two, you will naturally choose Beidi.

But to the east, Beidi already had a vassal state of Goryeo, and now Xiliang has also become a vassal state of Beidi, and its strength has expanded further.

"It's just that, Beidi will help again, and his strength has increased greatly. His ambition to go south will continue to grow." The worries in Liu Fu's eyes almost overflowed.

The King of Yan had just taken control of the four northern counties and was about to stabilize and develop, but unexpectedly, such bad news came.

I am afraid that the situation in northern Xinjiang will become more and more serious in the future.

After all, the Xiliang soldiers were equally brave and good at fighting, and half of Jinzhou occupied by Xiliang fell into the hands of Beidi.

This is equivalent to the territory of Beidi extending to the territory of Dasong.

"Did they say what they did in Jinling?"

It is a fact that Xiliang surrendered to the Northern Di, and it is useless to be too annoyed.

What we should pay attention to now is the purpose of the envoy of Beidi.

"They only said that there were important things to discuss with the emperor, and they didn't want to say more about the others." The soldier said.

Zhao Xu snorted and said, "Tell Mo Yu, just let it go."

As the King of Yan, he himself did not reject the power of envoys from the enemy country, so he could only let him go.

"Yes, Your Highness." The soldier responded and turned around and left.

When the soldiers disappeared, Zhao Xu fell into deep thought.

Now the two traditional enemies of Dasong suddenly merged into one, and the threat from the north increased greatly.

And currently Liang masters the method of forging a cotlin gun.

Naturally, he cannot fall behind.

In addition to artillery, you must also create a flintlock gun that is advanced than a clamp.

Just like artillery, he will not follow the rules and retrace the path of development of these firearms.

There is no need for this.

Because the development path of these firearms has been a lot of wrong paths.

If he has ready-made experience in his mind, he will naturally have to get it done in one step.

With your existing technical capabilities, you can create what you can do now.

For example, go over the cob-rope and directly use the flintlock rifle.

After all, these two types of firearms are just different in ignition methods.

The medley gun is to give soldiers a long rope. This rope is like a mosquito coil and can burn slowly after ignition.

When fighting, just use the lit fuse to ignite the gunpowder.

The flintlock rifle uses flint, which is similar to the principle of a lighter. It uses sparks generated by flint impact to ignite gunpowder.

However, the difficulty lies in this fire firing device.

This thing is one of the materials and the other is the process, which may take some time.

But this is also a little faster than equiping a flintlock gun first and then getting a flintlock gun.

Thinking of this, he shook his wrist, took a piece of paper and started drawing.

...

Jinling.

Zhao Heng was walking in the imperial garden, but by his side was Concubine Mi.

After the chaos in Yanzhou, he was still scared of the Yuan family.

Zhao Xu calmed down Yanzhou and repelled the Beidi people, which made him feel relieved.

Compared to the Yuan family, he was more at ease with his King of Yan, so he decided to hand over the most important Yan Pass to Zhao Xu, and wait until Zhao Xu's new recruit training was completed before evacuating the imperial guard from Yan Pass.

In this way, he can dispatch more imperial guards to guard against the powerful clan.

However, he still remembers a sentence his father said to him when he was dying.

As a king, the only thing you can believe is the rights in your hands, and no one outside of you can believe them, including your relatives.

But even so, Zhao Xu made the royal prestige soar, which made the Zhao royal family proud in the capital.

Therefore, he still had to show his great grace to the emperor and show his favor to him so that the King of Yan could honestly defend the northern border.

After all, guard is defense, and favor is favor. For an emperor, this is not contradictory.

And this favor to Zhao Xu fell on Concubine Mi in the palace.

In recent days, Zhao Hengchang has taken time to accompany Concubine Mi.

The two were walking together, and a eunuch came over and handed a note to Liang Cheng.

Liang Cheng presented it to Zhao Heng again.

"It's Xu'er's memorial." Zhao Heng lit up at Concubine Mi.

When Concubine Mi heard this, she immediately missed Zhao Xu, and curled her smile and looked unhappy.

When Zhao Heng saw this, he said, "I miss Xu'er," he said, "I miss you."

"Speaking of this, it's been nearly a year since Xu'er went to Yanzhou." Concubine Mi said, "There are many noble ministers who have come to see me these days, and they all want to marry their daughter to Xu'er. Speaking of this, Xu'er is about seventeen after the Chinese New Year, and it's not too young. Maybe it's time to choose a princess for him."

Zhao Heng nodded and said, "Yanzhou is in chaos and tranquility. Xu'er must have a lot of business. After a few days, when Yanzhou is settled, I will let him come back to visit his relatives."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Concubine Mi immediately smiled.

Zhao Heng looked at the memorial at this time, and frowned when he saw Zhao Xu mentioning the status of the Royal Merchants of Yan County Commercial Bank. When he saw the right to trade in seas, he frowned even deeper when he established the Yanzhou Navy.

But when he arrived at the back, he saw him saying he wanted to transport a batch of artillery to offer him, his brows immediately stretched out.

Judging from the information he received, a large part of the reason why the King of Yan was able to retreat to the enemy at Yan Pass was because of artillery.

So, he didn't say it, but he had already thought about it.

He even wanted the King of Yan to hand over the casting method of cannons.

But after he thought about it carefully, he gave up the idea.

The reason is very simple. The current court is full of people from the powerful clan.

Isn’t he giving the artillery casting process from the King of Yan to give it to the Shi Clan?

In this way, wouldn’t he be cheaper than the powerful clan? Of course, good things must be given to his imperial guards first.

So after some deep thought, he did not want to casting.

But the King of Yan had to supply artillery to the imperial guards.

Now that the King of Yan is so sensible, he seems to be unable to refute the King of Yan's face.

After all, the request made by King Yan is not too much.
Chapter completed!