"What costs two hundred million taels of gold?" All the representatives of Yue State were a little dumbfounded. Two hundred million taels of gold for just one item, it was extortion!
Gou Yuanli was silent for a while. "A complete set of oil refining equipment! It is equipment that can refine underground foul gas. This equipment can refine oil every day... The Shang Dynasty called underground foul gas oil. In short, it can refine about a thousand tons of oil every day. It is a small set of equipment. But with this equipment, we can imitate and copy it. At least half of the strength of the Shang Dynasty is based on oil; as long as we can build our own oil refining equipment, we can at least copy one-third of the Shang Dynasty's industrial strength."
Gou Yuanli finished speaking and waited for the prince to speak. To be honest, this negotiation was quite unexpected. At the end of the negotiation, Fang Shijing actually took the initiative to speak and was willing to sell a set of oil refining equipment to Yue. Although this set of oil refining equipment was a type that was eliminated by the Shang Kingdom, it was fully functional and had comprehensive technology, and could extract and differentiate 90% of the components of underground turbid gas.
What was left was the various chaotic auras such as spiritual energy and demonic energy, which could not be separated. Fang Shijing did not say more.
Gou Yuanli thought for a long time and finally came to the conclusion that she must get this set of equipment; otherwise, steel ships, locomotives and airplanes would be useless.
Of course, Gou Yuanli also understood that this oil refining equipment could only refine oil. The mixed substances such as spiritual energy, demonic energy, and monster energy, which were also the most essential part, could not be separated. But this was enough.
It was just two hundred million taels of gold to buy a bunch of half-used equipment. This decision still needed to be made by the crown prince. This was also one of the reasons why the crown prince came to this negotiation.
Yue Ming closed his eyes and thought for a long time, then suddenly opened his eyes, "Go tell the people of the Shang Kingdom that half of Wu's territory is for this price!"
Using someone else's land to make an offer, this decision... is too weird. But Gou Yuanli turned around and left without hesitation after hearing it!
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In the south of Anyang City, on top of a building hundreds of meters high, Jin State Prime Minister Sima Xuan was leading the Crown Prince of Jin State to look into the distance.
"Your Highness, please look over there. That is the shipyard of the Shang Kingdom, and also the shipyard of the Brilliant Star Group. It has been a year and a half since I first saw this shipyard. In a year and a half, the area of the shipyard has expanded more than ten times. The highest building has increased from 30 meters to more than 80 meters. Here, super battleships of 30,000 tons can be produced! The amount of steel consumed by a warship of 30,000 tons is equal to the total annual steel production of the Jin Kingdom! The number of railways leading to the shipyard has increased from two to eight in the past year and a half, and endless materials have been sent to the shipyard from all over the Shang Kingdom. Now, the shipyard can build five 10,000-ton warships and two 30,000-ton warships at the same time. And warships below 5,000 tons can be built at the same time. In addition, 15 10,000-ton commercial ships can be built at the same time."
As he was speaking, a train came from the distant railway and headed towards the shipyard; the trailer at the rear of this train was full of steel ingots.
Sima Xuan continued, "There is a train like this almost every 20 minutes, transporting materials from all over the Shang Kingdom to the shipyard. In fact, such trains have begun to form a network throughout the Shang Kingdom, transporting all the materials for the Shang Kingdom."