The wound on the middle finger is still aching.

Bei Shan still remembers the humiliation suffered in the Battle of Jizhou. His last miserable defeat caused more than half of the Blood Wolf tribe, and the guilt of losing Shanhaiguan made his father Khan even more furious.

If it weren't for his mother's plea with the head of the Tula tribe's flag, he would have to use his life to atone for his sins rather than cutting off the three fingers of his left hand.

After that, he was even ordered to hand over military power. Now he can only live in Goryeo and nominally supervise this vassal state.

"Forget it, this is not his fault. The King of Qi from the Great Yu Kingdom is not so easy to deal with." Bei Shan forced his anger and his eyes turned around. With his sensitive sense of war, he felt that a war seemed to be getting closer.

Upon hearing this, King Goryeo shouted to Park Jung-ho: "Beshan Taiji is kind and spared you, but you still don't thank you for your kindness."

Deputy General Kim kowtowed and Park Jung-ho also leaned over and knelt on the ground.

Turning his head and looking at Bei Shan's thoughtful look, King Goryeo sighed relaxed in his heart. He really didn't want to punish his generals for this matter. After all, no matter what, they were their generals.

At this time, Bei Shan looked at the sea in the south and said to the King of Goryeo, "How much time does it take to leave from here to Dengzhou?"

"Returning to Taiji, it is very close to Dengzhou, and it takes only one day to get to Dengzhou by boat." King Goryeo said cautiously.

"One day?" Bei Shan's eyes flashed with a strange light, and he continued to ask, "How many soldiers can your navy transport at one time?"

"Ten thousand people are still OK." The King of Goryeo suddenly had a very bad premonition.

He nodded slightly and Beishan said, "It's too few. From now on, you Goryeo will use all methods to speed up shipbuilding to prepare for the Golden Horde to send troops to the Great Yu Kingdom."

King Goryeo's heart trembled, and he asked nervously: "Is Tian Khan ready to go south?"

"The north is getting colder and colder. Our cattle and sheep will freeze a lot every year, and resting and recuperation will become bullshit. If we don't go south, our people will starve to death." Bei Shan sneered.

Although his aggressiveness led to failure in Jizhou and lost Shanhaiguan, he had been pushing the Golden Horde to move south. Now the head of the tribe on the grassland finally understood that his decision was correct and was planning a plan to move south.

It’s just a pity that he can no longer lead the troops now, and he can only allow other Taiji to set foot on the land of the Great Yu Kingdom first.

But despite this, he never let go of his hatred for Xiao Ming. He has been waiting for a day to take revenge. Now that he saw hope, he has a wonderful plan in his heart.

...

Dengzhou.

Xiao Ming truly enjoyed the pure natural Haizhen of this era, and licked his lips with unfulfilled desire, and he smiled with satisfaction.

This time he asked the fishermen to go out to sea to catch abalone, not just for his own enjoyment. His real purpose was to find trade points for Dengzhou. There is no doubt that these sea treasures will become another income after salt.

Now the fiefdom needs to be developed, and money is needed everywhere, including Qingzhou's industry, Youzhou's agriculture and animal husbandry, and Dengzhou relies on the sea to eat the sea. At present, these three places are the most important.

After tasting abalone, Xiao Ming tasted other seafood in Dengzhou in the next few days.

During this period, he was not idle, but patrolled the shore defense situation. After he left Dengzhou last time, the soldiers of the Construction Battalion arrived in Dengzhou. They built hundreds of artillery along the military port, and these artillery were installed with heavy artillery to defend against attacks from the sea.

In addition to the military port, Yang Chengye also selected some coastlines that were easy for large troops to land on to build coastal defense forts. Dengzhou’s strategic position is very important now and has to focus on defense.

In addition to the fort, Xiao Ming also inspected the salt field. With the help of the construction camp, the salt field has established some salt fields on concrete floors. When Xiao Ming arrived at the salt field, hundreds of salt fields were drying salt, and there was no limit at all.

The salt workers in the salt farm came and went, and some salt in the salt fields piled up into salt mountains, white. Seeing these salt mountains, Xiao Ming laughed happily.

"Your Highness, since we used this seawater to dry salt, the salt production in our salt farm has increased by more than a hundred times. Now, not to mention the salt in the fiefdom, it is not a problem to export it now. Moreover, after our sea salt is filtered and purified, the quality of this salt is more than a little higher than that of domestic salt. It can be said that our salt has completely reached the level of tribute salt." Yao Wenyuan said excitedly.

Yang Chengye smiled and said, "Your Highness, Yao Wenyuan's words are pretty good. When we were in Dai Kingdom, the salt in Dengzhou was sent to the palace as tribute salt."

He nodded with satisfaction, Xiao Ming even felt relieved, and he said, "Since that's the case, when I go back, I ask the Chamber of Commerce to come to Dengzhou to bring the salt back to sell."

Yang Chengye and Yao Wenyuan were overjoyed, and they were both looking forward to increasing Dengzhou's finances through this salt.

After half a month of inspection and travel in Dengzhou, Xiao Ming and Fei Yueer set off for Qingzhou the next day. After all, he had dealt with everything he should deal with in Dengzhou. This time he would ask the Chamber of Commerce to transport salt.

He had great ambitions and wanted the salt of Dengzhou to occupy the market in the Great Yu Kingdom.

After three days of travel, Xiao Ming and Fei Yueer arrived in Qingzhou. As soon as they entered Qingzhou City, Lin Wentao rushed over when he heard the news.

Xiao Ming asked Fei Yueer to go back first and asked: "What's wrong? Lin Wentao, is there something wrong with your steam engine?"

Lin Wentao said with a smile: "Your Highness, there is no problem with the steam engine, but in just one month I modified the steam engine from the basic Newcomer steam engine to a duplex steam engine."

"Complex steam engine?" Xiao Ming said in surprise, but since Lin Wentao developed the Newcomer steam engine, he vaguely felt that the Complex steam engine was not far away, but he did not expect that the transformation would come so quickly.

However, this is understandable. After all, the development of the Newcomer steam engine means that the problems of cylinders, cylinder plugs and connecting rods have been solved, and the duplex steam engine is just a small transformation on the Newcomer steam engine.

Generally speaking, to make the steam engine rotate efficiently, the piston must continue to reciprocate. First, let the hot steam enter the cylinder, which can push the piston upward movement.

Then, the piston is moved downward, which requires the steam entering the cylinder to condense quickly to reduce the volume and reduce the pressure.

Before Watt improved the steam engine, the Newcomer steam engine was to inject cold water into the cylinder, but this would reduce the temperature of the cylinder itself, causing the next hot steam entering the cylinder to lose heat, which was very inefficient.

So Watt discovered this disadvantage when repairing this steam engine, so he thought that since he let the water vapor cool down but did not want the cylinder to cool down, he could just let the water vapor come out of the cylinder and then cool it down.
Chapter completed!