Chapter 210 Zhao Lingmeng's Respect for Soldiers
General Liu's eyes welled up with excitement when he heard what Zhao Lingmeng said. They hadn't liked to make requests before because they knew they couldn't be fulfilled even if they did. Jingguo didn't have the talent and technology.
So they could only grit their teeth and accept it. Even if the weapons were not good, when the war really started, everyone would actively rush forward even if they had to pick up wooden sticks.
But now that they have such a powerful figure in Jingguo, they no longer have to worry about not having good weapons. And His Highness is so easy to talk to, it is simply God's blessing for Jingguo.
General Liu stood up and bowed solemnly to Zhao Lingmeng. "On behalf of the thousands of soldiers on the front lines, I would like to thank Her Royal Highness the Princess, and even more so, the wise and powerful Emperor of our Jing Kingdom."
When General Liu saluted, Zhao Lingmeng wanted to hide. She felt that she had only done what she should and could do, and was not worthy of such a great gift from General Liu.
But as someone without martial arts training, she couldn't keep up with General Liu's speed. She could only accept the salute. When General Liu finished the first half of his words, she was so moved that her eyes almost reddened. But when she heard General Liu's subsequent flattery of the Emperor, her emotion instantly subsided.
But Zhao Lingmeng still bowed towards the horizon. "I am also grateful for the protection the soldiers on the front line have given me. It's not just the protection they have given me since I became the eldest princess. It's the protection they gave me when I was just an ordinary woman in the inner chamber, only knowing how to take care of my husband and children in the backyard and leading an ordinary life. They have been able to live a stable life. In fact, they are great!"
The eyes of the generals in the yard were red with tears. They felt that they had received such gratitude and respect, and that all their desperate efforts on the front line were not in vain. It seemed that they had immense courage and strength at this moment, and were not afraid of any enemy.
The few civil servants seemed to be thinking about it. Their deep-rooted contempt for the rough people was also shaken. They did not want people to think that they were not as good as a woman.
"With your Highness's words, I feel that everything we do is worth it!" General Liu looked at Zhao Lingmeng with a twinkle in his eye. He wanted to become sworn brothers with Zhao Lingmeng right then and there, believing that your Highness understood them. But he tactfully stood back, making room for the others.
"Your Highness, my biggest worry now is that the iron ore mining speed in Jingguo is not fast enough? A good cook cannot cook without rice!" Lord Jin said this, and he did not mean to ask Your Highness to help him solve it. He just felt that Your Highness should understand this feeling and wanted to find some resonance.
Moreover, in situations where there are many such people, they will not talk about anything particularly important, and even if they do, they will not go into detail.
But it's an open secret that iron ore mining is insufficient. Anyone in this industry knows this: every time they apply for a large amount of iron ore, they have to wait a long time.
"I really don't know how to solve this problem." Zhao Lingmeng also vaguely knew about this problem from Master Fan. But she really didn't know how to find minerals, let alone mine them.
But she was still quite curious. Now that Lord Jin had brought up the issue, Zhao Lingmeng took the opportunity to ask, "Didn't we win the war with Nan Gan? Where are our spoils?"
Lord Jin thought Zhao Lingmeng was asking about the compensation agreed upon in the subsequent peace talks between the two countries, and said helplessly, "Don't even think about asking Nangan for iron ore. They're not stupid. But they also compensated us with some salt, which we were in short supply of."
"That's not what I'm asking. When we fight the Nangans, they won't be using sticks, right? What about the weapons they have? What about the armor they wear?"
"Your Highness, do you mean to retrain?" Lord Jin is indeed an expert in this field, he understood it immediately.
However, Lord Jin was also quite confused. He had never seen these weapons before, so he had never thought about this problem.
Lord Jin patted his head vigorously and turned to look at Baldy Liu who was standing behind him.
"Bald Liu, come here for a moment. I have a question for you!"
Every time Lord Jin called Lord Liu that, Zhao Lingmeng wondered why Lord Jin hadn't been beaten yet. She knew that if anyone dared to call her bald, no matter how close they were, she would turn hostile.
General Liu not only did not turn hostile, but also came over happily. Even Zhao Lingmeng couldn't help but sigh, the relationship between Lord Liu and Lord Jin is really good!
If Lord Liu could hear Zhao Lingmeng's inner voice, he would probably jump up. He was doing this to save his Highness's face; under normal circumstances, he would have ignored that old man Jin.
"Your Highness, Lord Jin, is there anything wrong?" Lord Liu asked them both puzzledly.
Zhao Lingmeng signaled Lord Jin with her eyes to ask, after all, she didn't know the ins and outs of the matter.
Lord Jin received His Highness's gaze and immediately looked at Lord Liu: "Bald Liu, don't be nervous! I want to ask, what did you do with the weapons captured on the front line?"
"Captured weapons?" General Liu was a little confused. Why did these two people think of asking about those junk? Yes, since their weapons were harder and sharper than those of other countries, they called the captured things junk.
Lord Jin and Zhao Lingmeng nodded at the same time and looked at General Liu expectantly.
General Liu was stared at by Old Man Jin and His Highness, and he felt a little nervous. He swallowed hard before saying, "Before, our weapons were not as good as those of other countries, so the ones we captured were given to the soldiers to use.
Now our weapons are better than those of other countries, and people don’t look down on those rags, so they just pick up some. They just pile them up in the barracks.”
"You have a mountain of treasure, but you don't know how to use it..." Lord Jin felt a sense of regret, as if he hadn't made up his mind. He had completely forgotten about it, and if Zhao Lingmeng hadn't reminded him, he wouldn't have remembered it either. He just looked at General Liu with a pair of eyes filled with grief.
General Liu was stunned. A mountain of treasures? What treasures? A pile of broken weapons? He had so many questions in his mind that he could only look at His Highness with a questioning look.
Zhao Lingmeng didn't think much of what General Liu said. After all, practice makes perfect! She was certainly inexperienced at first, but it would get better later. Seeing General Liu's puzzled look, she immediately explained, "You should pick up scrap metal like this when you clean up the battlefield. As long as we melt it down and use our technology to forge it, it will become a new weapon."
There's more to salvage from the battlefield than just these, like armor! And if other countries have something you think is useful and powerful, bring it back for us. If we can replicate it, if we can find a countermeasure or weakness, that would be fantastic!
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