In this small world, far away from the chaos of the court, it is like a small greenhouse. There are no strange and messy things, but it makes people feel relaxed.
In the second month after Zhao Xu came here, his quota of 3,000 personal troops arrived, but this was the first time he had mastered the personal troops and he didn't know what to do with it, so he went to find his magical uncle.
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When he found Brother Zhang, he was directing the county craftsmen to install the hoisting machine at the port. Although it was a wooden equipment for mixing iron, it could use the lever principle to save more than 70% of the difficulty in handling. In addition,
In the second phase of the canal expansion project, if there is no accident, the widest part of the Grand Canal will be here. By then, the scenery here will really be described as spectacular.
"Uncle."
Zhao Xu found Brother Zhang: "Come on, come on."
Brother Zhang turned around and glanced at him, then put the drawings in the hands of the director of the equipment factory. He followed Zhao Xu to a secluded place nearby. Zhao Xu rubbed his hands and smiled and said: "Uncle, what should we do with these three thousand soldiers?"
What about deployment? It’s my first time out of Beijing, and I’ve never raised any troops before..."
"Oh, then come with me."
They led Zhao Xu through half of the county until they arrived at the warehouse of the county camp. When the soldiers on guard saw that Brother Zhang was coming, they immediately walked to both sides to make way for them.
Then Brother Zhang took Zhao Xu into one of the warehouses, and upon entering, he found that the warehouse was filled with wooden boxes with strange symbols and words written on them.
Words like "step 7", "step half", "step full", etc. make people dizzy.
Brother Zhang didn't say much, he just walked to a box with Step 7 written on it and opened the lid with force, revealing a box of sawdust inside. Then Brother Zhang reached in and took out a long stick wrapped in oil paper.
Come out, take off the oil paper, and there is something like a long stick inside, but it looks very weird. There are some devices on it that Zhao Xu has never seen before, and it is painted with a layer of tung oil inside and out. The oil smells like iron.
The smells were mixed together, giving off a bloody smell.
"Uncle, what is this?"
Brother Zhang didn't say anything. He just walked to the box next to him and took out a few awl-like brass strips. This was something Zhao Xu had never seen before, but it was hard for him to ask. After this paragraph
After spending time with each other, he finally understood the nature of his uncle. He really didn't like to talk. Since he had brought it out now, he definitely wanted to know, so he was not in a hurry.
When they arrived at the school grounds in the military camp, Brother Zhang asked someone to prepare a set of armor. The armor was put on a wooden stake. Then they carried the fire stick and walked for a hundred meters. At this time, the armor was all gone.
It's so small that bows and arrows can't reach it.
At this time, Brother Zhang pulled the bolt of the gun and inserted a bullet, loaded the gun with a click, then raised the gun, took aim, and pressed the trigger, and then there was a loud noise.
This loud noise startled Zhao Xu, and his body could not help but tremble. But after all, the royal disciple had seen the world, and his shock only lasted a few seconds before he recovered.
"Go and have a look."
"good."
Zhao Xu ran all the way to the armor. When he saw the armor, he was dumbfounded on the spot, because the general's armor that the Song Dynasty was proud of now had a thumb-sized hole on the chest. He picked up the armor
After that, there was a hole the size of a fist on the wooden pile inside, going deep into it.
You must know that this person is wearing heavy armor, and people are much softer than wood. If this hits an ordinary infantry, why not just break them into two pieces?
What's more exaggerated? That's the shooting range! Ten feet for an ordinary bow and arrow is the limit of an ordinary soldier. Only using a bed crossbow can you have a shooting range of about three hundred strides, and that fire stick... is actually 300 feet away.
It has such lethality, but it doesn't look much heavier than an iron bow.
Zhao Xu ran back quickly and was about to ask a question, but Brother Zhang raised his hand to tell him not to speak now. Then the two of them continued to retreat until they were three hundred meters away. Now they looked at the wooden
However, the pile and the stomach were only not much bigger than the thumb. At this time, Brother Zhang continued to raise his hand and aimed slightly, and stimulated again.
This time Zhao Xu didn't need Brother Zhang to direct him, he rushed over and started inspecting the armor.
This time it was a full hundred feet away. Except for the city-breaking crossbow, other weapons were just like playing at this distance. There was no way to reach it. But at this moment, there was not only one more hole in the armor, but the hole in the wooden stake at the back was no bigger than the first one.
How much smaller is it at one time?
He was already wheezing and panting after running back and forth several times, but he didn't expect that his uncle would still bother him. He asked the warehouse manager next to him to get a fully loaded bomb, and then took Zhao Xu to the eight hundred meters.
Location.
It's eight hundred meters long, and the armor is as big as a sesame dot. Let alone fighting, you can't even see clearly.
But the problem is that his uncle just took a rough aim with his thumb, and measured the wind direction with his saliva, then raised the barrel of the gun, took aim, and fired. With a gunshot, a large amount of gunpowder gas was discharged from both sides of the magazine. Zhao Xu
Just like a golden retriever catching rabbits with its owner, it rushed out with a huff.
Eight hundred meters, nearly three hundred feet, I don't even expect it to have any power. As long as it can hit it accurately, it is a big deal.
But when he ran to the target point in sweat, he was shocked to find that there was a third hole in the stomach, and the wooden stake inside was still seriously injured. This would definitely be gone if he were alone.
This time, Brother Zhang did not continue to run back, but ordered someone to bring a pig over and asked Zhao Xu to take the gun three hundred meters away.
"This is the safety. Once the safety is closed, you cannot pull the trigger. Also, the muzzle of the gun cannot be pointed at your own people, because there may be a risk of misfiring at any time. When aiming, remember the three-point-one-line principle, and the bullets will also
It will fall, but you need to be skilled at how much it will fall, but it won’t fall much at this distance, so you can just aim at it casually.”
After some instruction from Brother Zhang, Zhao Xu was also a very smart man. He was able to get started after playing with the gun for a while. Although his hands were still shaking a little when he raised the gun to aim, there was basically nothing special about it.
The problem, after all, he has also drawn a bow, and the difficulty of bow and arrow is more difficult than this thing. The main reason is that he is stressed.
As he felt his palms begin to sweat, he pressed the trigger and fired the bullet. After a loud noise and smoke, there was still a small hole in the middle of the pig fan, but at the back it was the mouth of a bowl.
Big and small holes.
After Zhao Xu stepped forward to check, he clapped the weapon in his hand and sighed: "If this is a living creature, it will definitely not survive."
Brother Zhang smiled and said, "Well, for sure."
"Uncle, this is a divine weapon... If you can equip it, why should you be afraid of the Liao people?"
Brother Zhang just looked at him and smiled without saying a word, then turned and walked into the warehouse, took out a booklet hanging on the shelf, and handed it to Zhao Xu.
Zhao Xu opened it and read it, then took a breath: "More than three hundred bottles were put into the warehouse in one month?"
"When the technology is fully mature and the yield rate increases, the monthly output will be about 700 to 1,000. After the production capacity is expanded, as long as the metal resources can keep up, any amount will be fine."
Now there is only one hand lathe available, and it can only process 25 to 30 pieces a day. But if the technology and technology are stabilized, the yield rate of firearms and bullets increases, and the output can be doubled.
The biggest problem is not production capacity, because Brother Zhang can accurately turn a lathe by hand. The biggest problem is the lack of resources. Brother Zhang does not have the ability to make something out of nothing. All kinds of resources are what he is scarce now, especially metal minerals.
Brother Zhang has never experienced the plot of hand-rubbing civilization before, but now it seems that the development of productivity cannot really rely on one or two people. Even if a nuclear reactor is built, there will definitely not be enough fuel because of the related supporting personnel and industrial chain.
None of them were pulled up.
However, as far as this small place is concerned, it can be said that it has reached its limit. The most important development direction is chemical fertilizers. The reason why the primary industry is called the primary industry is that the importance of agriculture is self-evident.
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If we cannot rely on vertical improvements to increase the yield per mu, the time and labor costs of reclaiming wasteland will be very high, and the balance of payments will definitely be unbalanced in the end.
And Brother Zhang still needs more things to support the development of animal husbandry and breeding. Corn and potatoes are still in America. Even if you pass through the Bering Strait, you still have to travel through the entire North America to get things, but now in the north
But there is no port for them to set off, so they can only find ways to use other high-yielding crops or pasture.
But these are obviously insufficient conditions. Without the two major sectors of breeding and animal husbandry, the basic physical quality of the people cannot be guaranteed, so the production of chemical fertilizers is the top priority.
Fortunately, several of Yuhang's flagship products are now selling well across the country, and have even begun to have markets in the Western Regions and even further afield.
In addition to several top products, there is another item that is also very popular here, and that is the canned goods specially prepared for sailors and caravans who run ships and merchants.
There are two kinds of packaging for cans here, one is cans in glass bottles and the other is cans in iron boxes. However, because iron resources are scarce, glass, which is very expensive outside, is cheap here.
This is this year’s new product and this year’s hot item. They have basically covered all the fruits and vegetables in surrounding counties that cannot be sold and are difficult to transport, but orders are still placed until the year after next.
The best-selling among these cans are those canned fruits and vegetables, and the production process of these cans is also very simple. The glass factory first produces the glass jars, and the canning workshops buy them back and put in various fruits, add water or salt water, and then cook them.
Cover and seal while it's hot so it can be put on the market.
This kind of taste is not very good because it is not sweet enough and is even salty. But at this time, people are very happy if they can eat a piece of fruit on the way. The taste is secondary, not to mention
Either it is not sweet, or it is extremely expensive. Because raw materials are scarce, sugar is extremely expensive, so the price of canned sugar water may be several times or even ten times that of canned salt water.
However, this situation may get better in a few years, because Brother Zhang has announced the sugarcane cultivation, planting, pressing, refining, decolorization, and purification processes, all for free, in the Lingnan region, especially Leizhou and Qiongzhou.
If people come to learn, Brother Zhang will even give away a complete set of planting books and process procedures.
Probably within this year or next, white sugar will theoretically be priced at the price of cabbage, because a large number of mountainous areas that are not suitable for growing food are suitable for growing crops such as sugar cane.
"Uncle, this stuff tastes better than meat."
After the test launch, the two of them came to the cannery. This cannery is an official factory in the Yuhang area. It is a large collective. Generally, men in the family work in the fields. My aunts and sisters came to the cannery to do textile work.
Working in a place like a factory is hard work, but you earn a lot of money. The production process here is quite strict, and even Brother Zhang cannot enter the production workshop casually.
They came over today and happened to see a new product coming off the production line. Brother Zhang and Zhao Xu were lucky enough to be the first slices of luncheon meat in the world. This thing is quite simple, just add seasoned minced meat to flour, mix it, steam it and seal it.
, is a kind of canned meat. Because it has a strong taste, does not go bad for a long time, and is relatively cheap, it is very suitable for marching and fighting, working in the fields, and people who come to Beijing to take the exam.
"It won't taste good if you eat too much." Brother Zhang shook his head and said, "The salt is very heavy, so it is suitable for people who do heavy physical work."
Zhao Xu nodded thoughtfully: "Uncle, if you add this to the musket, does it mean..."
Brother Zhang nodded: "I plan to give your three thousand guards a new training method and adapt to the new war model."
Zhao Xu's face flushed with excitement when he heard this: "Uncle, I also want to..."
Brother Zhang turned his head and looked at him and smiled: "It's okay to endure hardship."
To be honest, Miss Jin may not have thought that the sweet story she designed to save the princess was originally planned to lead a romantic life with Brother Zhang in the most charming city of Lin'an in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Spend your life listening to music, reciting poems and painting, traveling around mountains and rivers, making a few close friends, and embarking on a romantic journey in the Song Dynasty, which was at its peak of literary power.
But who knew that the titanium alloy straight man, Brother Zhang, would actually use his supposedly romantic and wasted beautiful life to carry out the fucking industrial revolution and build a beautiful new countryside. The key is that even Miss Jin herself became his women director. Brother Zhang focuses on production and economy, Zhao Rong focuses on security and population, and shines a light on the movement for the liberation of women's personality in the new era.
If Brother Zhang is really top-notch, even in the established plot, the power of rules stemming from his own strength cannot restrain him from deviating from the script. Although there are not many deviations, it is really too exaggerated. .
However, Miss Jin has no way to break away from the control of the script, so she originally led Brother Zhang to play, but now she plays with Brother Zhang... and the more she plays, the more exciting it becomes.
"Uncle, I have something to tell you. A few days ago, an envoy from the Liao Kingdom sent news that the crown prince of the Liao Kingdom, Yelu Jun, and the third princess of the Liao Kingdom, Yelu Tri, were coming to visit the emperor in Lin'an in the next few days. Happy birthday."
"Oh... it's a country of brothers, right? They are coming. Then you have to go and pay homage to Yelu Hongji." Brother Zhang nodded and said, "What's wrong? I'm only in the seventh rank, so I don't need to go, right?" "
"No...Uncle, listen to me. It's just that Yelujun insists on coming to our place for some reason. I'm a little worried."
"Look." Brother Zhang nodded: "You can take a look. This place with its open door for business is not a big secret."