Chapter 354: Must be eliminated
Gongshu Ting took Zhou Tieyi for a walk on the first ring road, and explained to Zhou Tieyi the first steam airship manufactured by the Gongshu family.

"This airship is sixty feet long and can carry about three hundred thousand pounds..."

At this point, Gongshu Ting paused, looked at Zhou Tieyi and said with a smile, "That's about the fifteen tons you mentioned."

Zhou Tieyi smiled silently. The public words he said now were like the wind that reached the ears of the bigwigs, so he was not surprised that Gongshu Ting knew that he came up with the concept of "ton".

He thought for a moment and asked, "Can the load capacity be increased?"

Gongshu Ting looked at Zhou Tieyi with a joking expression, "If you don't care about the accident rate, I can increase it to thirty tons, or even forty tons."

Zhou Tieyi looked embarrassed, knowing that he was being too greedy. The first generation test aircraft was able to carry a load of 15 tons, which was already the result of the powerful airship information provided by Mo Jia and Gong Shujia's full efforts.

Then Gongshu Ting said, "How much power can the steam engine provide on the airship? Can it cope with slightly more complicated weather and climate? Many things need to be verified, even with the airship data provided by Mohism, so I can't fully guarantee you the sailing speed."

"Indeed." Zhou Tieyi nodded, and then he talked about another thing, "I also want to research a small airship. The range doesn't need to be too far, one or two hundred miles is enough, and it can carry about twenty people."

This type of purely manned small and medium-sized airship is of great value in special terrain such as mountainous areas. Since it cannot cope with complex climates, it is better to establish a connection between two places with stable climates and then switch to other means of transportation. This is much better than the current direct detour through the mountains.

Gongshu Ting thought about it for a while and realized that this kind of small airship is for ordinary people to use. He said, "The transportation cost doesn't need to be considered too much, but what about the construction cost? Even the small airship you mentioned is not something that ordinary people can afford."

Zhou Tieyi was very confident about this. "I believe that with the improvement of transportation technology, ordinary people will travel between the two places frequently in the future. As long as the transportation efficiency is improved and the number of transportations increases, even the highest construction costs will be spread out. Moreover, for such a project that will benefit the public for a hundred years, I think Gongshujia should take the lead. I plan to set up another steam airship chamber of commerce..."

Gongshu Ting understood that Zhou Tieyi was aiming the start-up capital at his family, but after thinking about it for a while, he felt that this would indeed be conducive to the promotion of mechanical technology. Of course, the premise was that this steam airship could really make a profit in transporting ordinary people. He did not have much confidence in this. The Mohist School had been playing with Feipeng for more than 20 years, but they only dared to open routes in the most prosperous areas.

Even though Zhou Tieyi's plan is grand, how many ordinary people need to use airships to travel?

"We can select a few cities as pilot cities, but I want you to personally manage this Steam Airship Chamber of Commerce."

Gongshu Ting put forward his own request. He was not confident in other people. He would feel much more at ease if Zhou Tieyi did it himself.

"I……"

Zhou Tieyi originally wanted to say that he could nominate a capable person.

However, just as he was about to speak confidently, the flying saucer under Gongshu Ting's feet rushed forward several feet.

Gongshu Ting said, "I don't want to hear anything else. Just this condition. If you accept it, I, Gongshu family, will invest. If you don't accept it, don't even mention it. I, Gongshu family, will just make money from the construction costs."

Zhou Tieyi hurriedly took a few steps forward, with a smile on his face. "Please listen to me. Of course I can manage the Steam Airship Chamber of Commerce, but if the Chamber of Commerce can make a profit normally, then I won't have to worry about it in the future."

Gongshu Ting then nodded and said, "Okay."

After discussing the steam airship, Gongshu Ting said, "I heard that your spiritual talent can have seventy-two changes."

Zhou Tieyi understood the meaning of the words. He glanced at Xuan Chan who was following behind him calmly, and said to Gong Shuting with a smile, "Xuan Chan must have done very well in the Gong Shu family's college exam, right?"

Of course, he never suspected that Xuanchan's plan was a setup at the beginning.

But from yesterday to today, from what he had learned about Gongshu's predicament, and when Gongshu Ting asked him about his seventy-two transformations, Zhou Tieyi immediately realized that he was attracted by his [Transformation into the Moon] transformation!
However, this was also partly intentional, so at that time he openly displayed this change in the mine, with the purpose of letting more people know about it, including friends and enemies.

Xuan Chan was slightly stunned. She realized that her father went to the ghost market yesterday to steal the mechanical arm and then met Zhou Tieyi. It was most likely a set-up to arouse Zhou Tieyi's sympathy.

Gongshu Ting had a blank expression on his face, not feeling the slightest bit embarrassed by being exposed.

He did seem a bit anxious about this matter, but if the Mo Shi disease could be cured, it would be a qualitative change for Gongshu Jia that was no less than being promoted to the first rank. So when he heard that Zhou Tieyi was going to Mocheng first, he intercepted him regardless of his old face, just to cure the Mo Shi disease as soon as possible, to solve this serious illness that had burdened Gongshu Jia for three hundred years.

"She is very smart and she can understand my lectures."

Gongshu Ting replied.

Xuan Chan looked dazed. She couldn't help but look up at Gongshu Ting. Suddenly, she overlapped the way Gongshu Ting spoke with a teacher in the academy in her mind, "Are you Mr. Lu?"

Xuan Chan didn't expect that the 'Teacher Lu' who was only a sixth-rank teacher in the academy was actually an identity of Gongshu Ting!
Zhou Tieyi didn't care about being plotted against. At his point in life, with endless power and resources, it was either he plotting against others or others plotting against him, so he was used to it.

He was curious about another question, "For a student like her who is both good in character and academics, Gongshu's academy doesn't even provide her with a mechanical arm?"

A mechanical arm costs four hundred taels of silver, which is equivalent to about four hundred thousand in the previous life in terms of purchasing power. Gongshu's academy should be able to provide it easily.

Gongshu Ting looked at Zhou Tieyi, "It's not the lack of wealth that's worrying, but the inequality. Moreover, there are many hidden problems in this Six Ring City. Even I need to be careful to deal with them. Before you showed up, I was even planning to let his father steal a mechanical arm back."

Zhou Tieyi looked at Xuan Chan, then at Gongshu Ting. To be able to force a second-rank official to say something like "just steal a mechanical arm", there must be something very interesting hidden in it.

So he asked tentatively, "There are a lot of problems... For example, her last name is not Gongshu."

Gongshu Ting looked unhappy, "Sometimes being too smart is not a good thing."

Zhou Tieyi smiled and thought he guessed it right.

Compared with the Mohists who proposed the theory of universal love, the hidden dangers of Gongshujia in inheritance are much greater.

According to the history he knew, the Six Ring Mechanical City had not been breached by external forces in the thousand years since its construction, but it was breached twice due to internal strife! This was Gongshu's own problem, and Zhou Tieyi was not in a position to mention it or interfere. He turned back to what Gongshu Ting had just said, stretched out his hand, and a bright moon slowly rose. Even in the daytime, people around could clearly feel the "glory" shining into their hearts, making the noisy and roaring mechanical sounds around them go away and calm their hearts.

Gongshu Ting felt it carefully, and then sighed, "Three hundred years later, mechanical engineering has undergone another change!"

The changes in mechanical technology he mentioned three hundred years ago were brought up by the great figure of the Mohist school who proposed the Mohist stone mechanical array diagram.

Zhou Tieyi shook his head slightly, "The changes may not be as many as you think. My [Moon Transformation] originated from the Queen of Heaven's transformation of the moon into the netherworld, and also originated from the great fantasy world of the evil gods. Whether it is the netherworld or the dreamland, it pays more attention to the spiritual changes rather than the physical changes. The inkstone pollution is an all-round pollution of the spirit."

Zhou Tieyi is good at both mental and physical pollution, but now he only dares to display the abilities that the queen [Hua Yue] has demonstrated.

Gongshu Ting was silent for a while, then smiled and said, "Spiritual treatment alone is good enough. Every bit of technological progress is driving the development of the times. I believe that if we cannot completely solve the inkstone pollution today, we will be able to solve it in the future. The Mo family's restrained use of inkstone is the root cause of the obstacle to development!"

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Inside a fragment of an ancient divine kingdom in Taihang Mountains.

This fragment of the kingdom of God does not belong to any god. It is independent for some special reasons and is therefore used as a secret meeting place for gods in Taihang Mountains.

Rays of divine light secretly descended upon the kingdom of God through the water mirror technique, revealing corresponding images, among which the eighteen kiln gods were the main ones, and each had their own subordinate gods.

After all the gods had arrived and taken their seats, a tall and sturdy god with a righteous aura looked at the convener of this secret meeting and said, "Dong Zhen, what is the matter that you summoned us here this time?"

The owner of Dongzhen Kiln did not look relaxed, but rather solemn. "Zhou Tieyi has come to Taihang Mountain."

Hearing the three words "Zhou Tieyi", the god who had just asked the question cursed, "Bad luck!"

He was very senior, and was a subordinate god of the Taihang Goddess. He was a great god of the second rank "Yi Xuanji". However, when Wei Wu killed the gods, the Taihang Goddess fell, and the Divine Court fell, he also died with her.

After he was resurrected through a back-up plan, all his memories were intact, except for the name of the Taihang Goddess, and his strength regressed to the third level.

Originally, everything had been prepared for the revival of the Taihang Goddess, but now that Zhou Tieyi had come to Taihang Mountain, there were naturally some variables here.

Another god said in a cold voice, "He came to Taihang Mountain to investigate the Moshi case. It was a dog-eat-dog fight among the human race."

The owner of the Dongzhen Kiln sneered, "Barbarian Beast Lord, you are still as brainless as before!"

The god known as the Beast Lord had black wolf hair growing out of his face, and his eyes became extremely dangerous. "Who are you saying has no brains?"

The gods who had attended the meeting many times were not surprised by this scene. Although most of the gods in Taihang Mountain today are based on the faith of the grassroots kiln workers, they are also divided into two factions. One faction of gods themselves evolved from humans, so even if they became gods, they considered things more from the perspective of humans. In addition to acknowledging their own identity as gods, they also acknowledged their identity as humans, so they mainly gathered and protected the kiln workers.

However, there are gods with human identities, and there are also gods with alien beast identities. They were originally oppressed, enslaved, and hunted by humans. After becoming gods, they base their beliefs on gaining fear from humans. They are the "evil gods" and "evil gods" among gods, and the Barbarian Beast Lord is a representative of them.

No one knows the specific background of the Barbarian Beast Lord, but from their interactions, the gods of Taihang Mountain have probably deduced that the Barbarian Beast Lord is the descendant of a mining beast, the first generation that is between rationality and madness. That is why the Barbarian Beast Lord has certain abilities, able to transform mining beasts into his followers, trigger mining disasters underground time and time again, and gain corresponding faith.

Many times, the owner of Dongzhen Kiln wanted to sell the information of Barbarian Beast Lord to Zhushen Division, asking Zhushen Division to help him solve this major problem.

"Okay, Dong Zhen, any new news?"

A god covered in a hood with his entire body exposed spoke.

The owner of the Dongzhen Kiln did not bother to argue with the Savage Beast Lord, but bowed to him respectfully and said, "Bone Priest, my spies in the Baizhi Mountain mine sent me news that Zhou Tieyi has a solution to the inkstone disease."

"impossible!"

As soon as the Dongzhen Kiln Master finished speaking, several kiln masters began to refute, "He is only at the seventh level of martial arts, how could he possibly know how to cure the inkstone disease?"

"If Moshi disease is so easy to cure, it won't restrict the development of Mohist and Gongshu schools!"

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The kiln owners all looked very angry and would rather not believe that Zhou Tieyi had a solution.

Because the reason why the grassroots miners believe in them is largely because they can restore sanity to miners who have fallen into a state of madness.

The owner of Dongzhen Kiln gave a bitter smile. When he received the news, he also hoped that it was not true.

The bone priest was silent for a while, then asked, "He took the initiative to reveal such important information. What was his purpose? How can he prove that he can really cure the inkstone disease?"

The owner of the Dongzhen Kiln said with a bitter smile, "Indeed, he revealed it himself. There are many details, such as he showed his martial arts talent to many officials of the Shantong Mansion. It is a terrifying talent called 'Seventy-two Transformations'. Thinking about it now still makes me shudder."

"How horrible is this?" asked the Lord of Hell Gate, a subordinate of the Goddess of Taihang.

"Just as the literal meaning suggests, he has a talent of 72 transformations, and each transformation should correspond to the power he learned from others. For example, his first transformation [Transformation into Moon], in his own words, was when he saw the Queen of Daxia transform herself into the moon and enter the netherworld, and he gained the corresponding transformation, so his magical power can calm the restlessness of the soul."

After hearing this, the gods present were silent for a long time.

There are seventy-two kinds of transformations, and each transformation can imitate the talents and traditions of the world's top cultivators.

Then when Zhou Tieyi really masters the seventy-two transformations, who in the world can defeat him?
After a long while, the Bone Priest whispered, "Zhou Tieyi is indeed the greatest threat to our Shintoism now, and he must be eliminated!"

(End of this chapter)