Throne of Vientiane Civilization

After getting to know Zhou Xu gradually over the years, although Qin Fen still has the consciousness of being a "worker", he has gradually begun to let himself go in his daily work.

Because he knew very well that as long as the ability was in place and the job was done, their Majesty was largely a casual person, so he didn't need to be too rigid.

At this moment, Zhou Xusheng's idea of ​​developing a steam battleship was undoubtedly influenced by the overall situation at the moment.

From the perspective of the international situation, with the establishment of the United Nations, both the Great Zhou and the Saint Laurent Empire currently just want to focus on development.

In the next few years or even more than ten years, even if there are some minor conflicts between the two countries, it is basically unlikely that they will tear each other apart and go to war directly.

As mentioned before, the war between the two sides has invisibly shifted from the battlefield to internal development.

In the future, it will depend on which of the two countries develops faster and better.

Judging from the future development of their Great Zhou, on this continent, unless they directly overturn the table and start a war, they basically have no room for expansion internally. If they want to expand, they can only set their sights overseas.

It just so happened that at this point in time, the transportation routes for steam trains within the Great Zhou had been initially laid out, and the manufacturing technology for steam engines was also becoming more mature.

Taking all these reasons into consideration, the next step was to slowly start developing and manufacturing steam battleships.

Of course, leaving these reasons aside, Zhou Xu actually has another reason.

That is, the information obtained from the "inherited wisdom" also includes the coordinates of the next location.

This 'coordinate' exists in a special sense.

When he was still a wizard who had entered the holy realm, Zhou Xu could basically not sense anything, perhaps because the target location was too far away from him.

But after he successfully broke through and returned to Black Moon City, he found that his "sensing radar" suddenly responded.

He still didn't know the exact location, but he already had a general idea of ​​the direction.

That's right, this 'sensing radar' is pointing overseas!

In this way, they can go out to sea to explore and at the same time find something they left behind. It's killing two birds with one stone. Why wouldn't he do it?

“…”

In the end, they were still deceived by their Majesty.

"Your Majesty, what do you mean?"

"We need to at least develop some cannons, right? We can then use them on the steam battleships."

Needless to say, this matter has to fall on his head again.

However, the principles of muskets and cannons are basically the same. Under the premise that their Great Zhou is already able to produce muskets on an assembly line, it is not that difficult to develop cannons in essence.

Thinking of this, Qin Fen knew that he could not refuse this matter 100%, so he simply agreed. After all, it was just a matter of taking on a consultant position.

After Qin Fen retreated, Zhou Xu turned around and began to think about how to deal with the three-bow crossbows and city defense crossbows in the army.

Although the artillery research and development project has not officially started yet, Zhou Xu is obviously aware that the principles of artillery and muskets are basically the same, and their Great Zhou has the technical capabilities at this stage. As long as they start research and development, it is estimated that it will not take long to get a result.

With this as a premise, it would not be a bad idea to start slowly dealing with the domestic stocks of three-bow crossbows and city defense crossbows.

The best target at this stage is undoubtedly Peter and Fisher, and at the same time we have to find a suitable opportunity as a breakthrough.

Just as he had expected, by the time they reached a bidding result through correspondence, a month had passed.

Zhou Xu's previous threats worked, Fisher's bid reached a new high, and he successfully won the 800 individual crossbows.

It is also worth mentioning that this time Fisher’s offer directly included 10,000 slaves.

He originally wanted to just stuff 20,000 or even 30,000 into his pocket and just crush that little trash Peter.

But later I found out that things were not going so smoothly.

The Russian Republicans headed by Peter liberated too many slaves, and this move directly impacted the number of slaves in their Smith Republic.

Simply put, the number of slaves in their country was directly reduced by nearly 60%.

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In this situation, the slaves on hand of the slave owners were enough for their own use, but if they were asked to take out a large number of slaves for trading, they would immediately become unhappy.

After all, these slave owners have many industries on their hands.

The more industries there are, the greater the demand for labor. They also expect the slaves in their hands to work for them. Even if they are asked to provide a large number of slaves for the purpose of attacking the Russian Republicans, they are not very happy about it.

Fisher's main position in the early days was general. He didn't really have a deep understanding of the issue of slaves. He just thought that they had a lot of slaves.

It was not until this wave of setbacks that they realized that in their Smith Republic, the "influence" of slaves was unexpectedly great.

But no matter what, taking on 10,000 slaves could reduce his loss of a lot of resources, which was not something he could not accept.

By the time Fisher received the 800 individual crossbows, it was already late summer.

Unlike the Luosha Republican Party, which was created from scratch, the Smith Party headed by Fisher already had a sizable crossbow force within it.

Although the individual crossbows purchased subsequently could further expand the size of their crossbow troops, they were just icing on the cake for them.

At the same time, the key point is to suppress the Russian Republican Party.

Peter, who failed in the latest round of bidding, has been under great psychological pressure recently as he watched the size of Fisher's crossbow troops grow larger and larger.

Especially after learning that Fisher had also begun using a large number of slaves as bargaining chips.

You know, this is his greatest reliance.

During this period, Zhou Xu had already told him clearly that after Fisher's actions, there were too many slaves and their value would definitely depreciate.

Faced with this situation, Peter now had no other choice but to write a letter to Zhou Xu to complain, hoping to get some preferential treatment from Zhou Xu.

At this point in time, Zhou Xu was waiting for him...