Guo Kai was riding his horse under the escort of several dead soldiers, while looking back at the Taihang Mountains that were gradually moving away behind him, feeling very happy.

To be honest, Guo Kai actually hates Taihang Mountain very much.

This towering mountain range blocked the huge Zhao State from south to north, causing considerable trouble to Guo Kai's ironware business.

If it weren't for the steep and difficult roads in Taihang Mountains, then Guo Kai felt that the money he had earned over the years would have increased by at least two or three times.

But to be honest, Guo Kai didn't care too much about the two or three times the money gap. After all, when it comes to the top wealthy businessman in the mainland like Guo Kai, no matter how much money he has, he is actually just a number for Guo Kai.

After having the money that can be said to be endless, what Guo Kai hopes to get is status.

In this era, who has the most status?

Of course, it is the gentry who occupies a dominant position among the four peoples of "scholars, farmers, industry and commerce".

But just becoming a gentry is not enough. After all, gentry is divided into poor scholars and nobles.

You should know that the Guo family did not develop from the Guo Kai generation. In fact, Guo Kai's grandfather Guo Zong was the one who really made the Guo family stand up. Guo Zong was also a famous mainland rich man decades ago.

After three generations of efforts, the Guo family finally got the title of a doctor from Guo Kai, barely reaching the brink of the nobles of the high sect.

But that's all.

Speaking of the title of the doctor, Guo Kai obtained it after passing through Zhao Bao's back door when he was surrounded in Handan.

In short, the road to promotion is very difficult and very difficult.

So Guo Kai gradually became a little tired, and the dissatisfaction in his heart gradually grew.

In Guo Kai's view, as a wealthy country in Zhao, he has to pay a large amount of commercial taxes to the Zhao government every year, and also contribute a considerable income to the backers of Zhao Sheng and Zhao Bao. Then he has to look at other people's faces and is called around and running around like a pug.

No one would be happy about this.

What made Guo Kai even more dissatisfied with Zhao State was that due to the start of Datong Iron Mine and smelter, the Guo family's iron tools business has begun to be affected, and this impact has increased with the continuous expansion of the official smelter production.

Guo Kai entered the official smelting plant of Zhao State, so he also knew very well that the iron tools produced in the official smelting plant were of better quality and more durable than the iron tools of his own.

The Guo family's iron tools can usually only take one to two years. This is Guo Kai's death order to his own iron tools workshop in order to pursue profits.

If the ironware is of good quality and cannot be replaced for ten or eight years, how can the sales of the Guo family ironware be guaranteed?

But the problem is that the iron tools that are officially sold and leased from Zhao State smelting plant are just the kind of iron tools that are of good quality and can last for ten or eight years.

The Guo family's iron tools have no competitiveness in the face of official iron tools.

In a few years, the Guo family's iron tools may have gone from almost monopolizing the Zhao people to being completely crushed by official iron tools.

Cutting off people's wealth is like killing parents.

The Zhao official cut off Guo Kai's wealth route, which for Guo Kai was the revenge of killing his father.

Of course, this revenge must be avenged.

So when the Qin spy appeared in front of Guo Kai, Guo Kai and the Qin people almost hit it off.

Guo Kai secretly smuggled Zhao's weapons and betrayed Zhao's intelligence to the Qin people.

In return, the Qin people will allow the Guo family to open a shop in the Qin State and give certain discounts.

In addition, the Qin people also proposed a condition that made Guo Kai very moved.

The Qin people hoped to obtain secret formulas and methods of armored cavalry equipment.

If Guo Kai could get the same formula or casting method, then the King of Qin would have appointed Guo Kai as the Shangqing.

If Guo Kai can get both, then the King of Qin will be willing to give Guo Kaifengjun!

This is the lord!

Compared with this title, wealth is nothing but the country is nothing more!

In order to achieve this, Guo Kai has been secretly active for several years.

The layout of eyeliners in the supervision and guards and bribed the smelter manager Miao Mo. These are all the preparations made by Guo Kai for this.

Judging from the past few years, everything has been very smooth.

Guo Kai's secret smuggling behavior was not noticed by the insiders of the supervisory guards, and at the same time, Miao Mo also agreed to hand over a craftsman who was familiar with the steelmaking method.

Guo Kai knew very well that all craftsmen who could master the secrets of steelmaking will basically participate in the casting equipment of armored cavalry.

As long as you get a craftsman who has participated in casting armored cavalry equipment, will everything about armored cavalry be mastered?

In this way, the position of Qin's throne is close to you!

Although Qin State has been beaten a bit miserably by Zhao State over the years, it doesn’t matter. He has been going on for thirty years and thirty years and Hexi, who dares to say that Zhao State can always be strong?

Anyway, in the past few hundred years, no country has been able to continue to be strong. Guo Kai thinks that the same is true for Zhao State, and it will definitely decline after prosperity.

Besides, the reason why Qin State suffered a loss has a lot to do with the inability to do with armored cavalry. Once Qin State also had armored cavalry, the situation would be different.

Maybe the Qin counterattack began with the armored cavalry formula and casting method offered by Guo Kai.

In this case, Guo Kai will be an absolute hero!

The beautiful light is right in front of you.

But just before dawn, an accident happened.

Mao Sui suddenly led a large number of supervisory guards to surround the Guo family and threatened to capture Guo Kai alive, which almost made Guo Kai's efforts fail.

Fortunately, the idiot Zhao Bao rushed out to rescue him in time, giving Guo Kai a chance to escape from the secret passage without knowing it and leave Handan.

After leaving Handan, Guo Kai went north without stopping, with only one goal, that is, Datong Smelter.

If you simply want to hide, then Guo Kai just needs to hide in Taihang Mountain and it will be fine if you hide for decades.

But Guo Kai has not given up yet because there is still hope for his journey to throne.

As long as people can arrive at the smelter in time before coming to Handan, Guo Kai still has hope of getting the craftsmen.

The smelter is all right in front of you.

After five days and six nights of traveling, Guo Kai finally arrived at the smelter at dusk and came to Miao Mo, the highest in charge of the smelter.

Mu Mo was obviously a little surprised by Guo Kai's appearance, and was also accompanied by obvious impatientness.

It was still that quiet little valley, and it was still in that quiet pavilion. Miao Mo said to Guo Kai: "Have you told you? The craftsmen you need will have to wait for a little longer!"

Guo Kai, who was exhausted, smiled slightly and raised the wine in his hand calmly: "Brother Miao Mo Shi, I'm afraid I don't have that much time anymore."

A few screams suddenly rang out from all around the valley.

A moment later, the heads of several valley guards were thrown in front of Mu Mo, and a long sword with blood on the sword edge also drove to Mu Mo's neck.

Guo Kai smiled and drank the wine of Juezhong in one go, and then said, "Brother Miao Mo Shi, maybe we should go and find that lucky craftsman now. I heard that Ling Zifuzhen, a lineage of the Mo family, had arrived at the smelter a few days ago. In my opinion, this person should be a good candidate."

Guo Kai felt that he should be in a bad mood, but he forgot one sentence, that is, "Good luck is the source of misfortune."
Chapter completed!