The most arrogant in history

Chapter 462 Liu Ai’s eloquent tongue.

Ye Kun popularized geographical knowledge to Jiang Yourong:

"The land of Jiaozhi Peninsula is fertile, and half of the food produced there can feed the entire nation. It is close to the sea, so it is convenient for large ships to transport goods. The cost of shipping is very low, only one twentieth of land transportation.

Moreover, the sea may seem useless now, but in the eyes of our future generations, the sea will be more important than the land.

From the perspective of national security, if we control the Jiaozhi Peninsula and a large archipelago in the south, they will be our vassal for generations and will never be able to compete with China."

Jiang Yourong nodded: "I just think that the navy soldiers are too hard and too dangerous to go so far to fight."

Ye Kun smiled and said, "It's not hard, and it's not dangerous. Four hundred years ago, the first emperor of the previous dynasty was able to organize a large fleet to search for the elixir of life overseas. Our current fleet is a hundred times more technologically advanced than four hundred years ago, so there is no problem with sailing."

During the Qin Shihuang era, Xu Fu's fleet was able to sail long distances.

Ye Kun has now personally created the steel age, the gun age, as well as various navigation instruments and port lighthouses, so navigation is no longer a problem for him.

Even Columbus and Magellan, their sailing vessels and equipment, as well as their personnel configuration and scale at the time, could not compare with Ye Kun's naval fleet!

Columbus and Magellan were able to cross the ocean in small sailboats.

Ye Kun’s naval fleet entered Jiaozhi along the coastline. What’s the problem?

Jiang Yourong hesitated to speak, and helped Ye Kun undress: "Go to bed early, you've been busy all day."

In fact, Jiang Yourong is kind-hearted and doesn't like Ye Kun to expand his territory.

Ye Kun also understood Jiang Yourong’s thoughts, but he had to do this!

Only after controlling the entire Jiaozhi Peninsula can we enter the Tianzhu Peninsula in the next step.

These two peninsulas are right in front of him, and Ye Kun is absolutely unwilling to give up!

People at that time would not realize what the Southern Waters would mean to China in the future.

Ye Kun wants to leave a vast South China Sea and Indian Ocean for his descendants and the future generations of the Chinese nation.

A few days later, Ye Kun and others made a circle and arrived at Chencang City.

Chencang City has also experienced several fierce battles and fights, but it is now well constructed and there are no traces of war.

Now that Ye Kun was rich, he continued to spend money lavishly to support the construction of Chencang City and its surrounding areas.

While patrolling all the way to Wudu, Ye Kun stopped to inspect the oil refinery here and learn about its production.

There are two oil refineries in the west. The output in Wudu is not very high, processing only a thousand kilograms of crude oil every day.

There is a large pool here that stores the residue from crude oil refining, which is asphalt.

Ye Kun pointed at the asphalt and said to the Minister of Industry and Ye Qingyang: "The residue from refining petroleum can be used to pave roads. Unfortunately, the output is too small to be used on a large scale."

The refinery manager said:

"We have tried paving roads with asphalt. It works in winter, but not in summer. When it's hot, the asphalt melts and sticks to people's shoes and burns horses' hooves.

Later we laid asphalt on the roadbed and then laid stone slabs on top, which made it much more stable.”

Ye Kun nodded and said:

"The Romans and Qin people used asphalt as an adhesive for building walls and also for shipbuilding. Therefore, none of our petroleum residues should be wasted. The shipbuilding industry needs to be vigorously developed, and the demand for asphalt is huge.

The refinery in Wuwei and Dunhuang has a large number of technicians who are still researching oil and asphalt. I will transfer technicians here to strengthen your technical force."

The head of the Ministry of Industry said: "If there is no war, oil is of little use to us. Only when there is a war, we need a lot of gasoline."

Ye Kun was a little surprised and asked, "Have you ever seen the welding gun we made?"

Ma Zhengyang, the Minister of Industry, was stunned: "Welding gun? I've seen it before."

"The fuel used by welding guns is gasoline."

Ye Kun smiled and said, "We have tens of thousands of industrial welding guns, and the amount of gasoline used is also very high."

A gasoline welding gun is a very simple gadget. All it requires is a copper kettle, a foot-operated tinplate, a spray gun head, and a hose.

Before traveling through time, Ye Kun had seen gold and silver craftsmen use such muskets to process gold and silver jewelry, so he followed their example and made a sample.

The results were very popular in various industries and greatly improved efficiency!

For example, welding copper, gold and silver objects is extremely convenient with such a musket.

Or in the laboratory, if the temperature of some furnaces is not high enough, we use a gasoline torch to heat it up, attacking both ends to greatly increase the temperature.

In addition to the gasoline musket, Ye Kun also made a biogas welding gun and a musket, both of which are very useful.

Ma Zhengyang grinned: "I didn't think of the musket, I thought of the war."

Ye Kun nodded: "So, even if there is no war, we can't stop refining gasoline, because it has so many uses. In fact, with gasoline, we can also make gasoline lamps and gasoline stoves, which are very useful."

Ye Kun can also make gasoline lamps and gasoline stoves.

The problem is that the current gasoline production is pitifully low, and it is useless to produce it. Moreover, gasoline lamps and gasoline stoves are not necessities, so there is no urgency to produce them.

The same goes for diesel stoves and kerosene stoves, there is no need to study them for now.

Ye Qingyang said: "Since the oil is underground, our country of China is so large, why don't we find more places to dig wells and see? It's too expensive to transport the oil from the Western Regions!"

Ye Kun smiled bitterly: "There's really nothing we can do about this. In the past, some countries in the Western Regions could easily find oil just by digging. In China, even if we dig through the earth, we may not find anything. So, don't think about it, don't experiment, and don't waste manpower, material resources, and energy."

China's Central Plains and Jiangnan regions have everything except oil.

There is oil in the west, but Ye Kun is not capable of exploiting it on a large scale.

Just the oil extraction at Yumen Pass has caused many deaths and tremendous efforts, but the output is still pitifully small.

Ma Zhengyang said: "We have stored a lot of oil now, so we can keep up with the attack on Xiahou Chang and industrial production. There will be a steady supply of production in the future, so there won't be any problems with the oil supply."

Ye Kun nodded: "Yes, I should deal with Xiahou Chang."

Xiahou Chang occupied Liaodong, where there was a large iron mine that his descendants would have more than enough to use.

Liaodong also has large plains suitable for rice and soybean cultivation.

No matter from which perspective, Ye Kun could not allow Xiahou Chang to permanently control Liaodong.

Liu Ai said: "I have a plan that can make Liaodong return without fighting."

Ye Kun was a little surprised and asked with a smile: "What's Mr. Liu's plan?"

Sang Buzhi and the nine ministers were all very surprised and looked at Liu Ai together.

Liu Ai said: "I am willing to go to Liaodong and use my eloquence to persuade Xiahou Chang to attack Goguryeo. Once Xiahou Chang conquers Goguryeo, Liaodong will also be seriously damaged. Then we can settle the matter without fighting and reap the benefits."