In the Daqian country, middle and high-level craftsmen are treated extremely well, and can be said to be the wealthy class and the middle class. Such people have already lived a very prosperous life in Daqian, and they are also very satisfied with their lives, so naturally they are not satisfied with their lives. Are you willing to take the risk and come to a wild land like Yizhou? Even though Yizhou has become famous in Daqian because of the brown sugar, people's ideas cannot be changed in a short time. At this time, Yizhou is in everyone's mind It's still a wild place.
Therefore, there have been very few craftsmen in Yizhou over the years, and even if there are craftsmen, they are usually junior craftsmen, and their skills are not very good. They can still make some simple products, but they can make things that are too complicated and high-tech. , these craftsmen are not good enough. Various factories in Baoxinnong can only make very rudimentary products, such as small fishing boats costing 100 shi and simple sickles. If you want to make ocean-going transport ships, Yizhou still lacks enough. Senior shipwright!
Bao Xin wanted to develop Yizhou's industry. Obviously, these senior craftsmen were a big problem. Tian Feng asked Bao Xin: "The captain can continue to give up some brown sugar benefits and let the prefects from various places send a few middle-aged people." Give us high-level carpenters, blacksmiths, and pottery craftsmen. Yizhou can get these high-level craftsmen and let them lead apprentices. In this way, in a few years, our craftsmanship in Yizhou will not be inferior to that of the mainland of Daqian!"
Bao Xin shook his head and said: "I still have the honor to get some junior craftsmen. But even so, I can't get many. It's too difficult and almost impossible to get talents like middle-level and senior craftsmen, even if I work in Daqian There are not many high-level craftsmen left, and every prefect is very precious. It is impossible for them to be sent to Yizhou, and even if the prefect is willing, the senior craftsmen will not be willing."
The prefects all over Daqian are thinking of ways to develop industry. Xu Wei said that industrialization is the future. They all keep it in mind. And these days, let alone heavy industry, light industry is really profitable, so the prefects everywhere also attach great importance to the development of industry. Skilled craftsmen, the most important thing is that with the development of industry, there is a shortage of skilled craftsmen everywhere. They are still trying to find ways to get more craftsmen. How can they give their own craftsmen to Bao Xin!
Bao Xin is self-aware of this. There are already tens of thousands of people from Yizhou from Daqian, but there are almost no craftsmen among them, most of them are farmers!
Tian Feng said helplessly: "This matter can only be done in the Han Dynasty. The status of craftsmen in the Han Dynasty is not high. With the official position of a school captain, it is easy to get a few craftsmen to settle in Yizhou!"
Bao Xin said helplessly: "But in Daqian, Captain Yigen does not have such great rights. If I dare to act recklessly, Guo Daxian will not be able to spare me, and the government will not be able to spare me!"
Tian Feng had a flash of inspiration, and he immediately said: "Captain, it is difficult for Daqian craftsmen to come to our place, but there are many Dahan craftsmen, and their skills are not bad. They are not only iron smelting, making equipment and making agricultural tools. They are not much worse than the craftsmen of Daqian, but their status in Dahan is just that much lower. Not to mention officials, even the status of merchants is higher than them. We can find a way to get the merchants of Dahan to help us bring some craftsmen to Yizhou Island. After settling in Yizhou and absorbing the strength of Han craftsmen, various factories will surely develop rapidly!"
Tian Feng's words finally came to Bao Xin and he found a shortcut to develop industry. He immediately asked Tian Feng to help contact the merchants of Han Dynasty and hire some craftsmen to come to Yizhou! Especially the shipbuilding craftsmen!
After all, Tian Feng was a famous scholar in the past and had some connections with Daqian. Especially now that Daqian is strong and Han is weak, no one knows when Dahan will be annexed by Daqian. Dahan's businessmen also want to leave a way out. But now that Tian Feng has become Da Qian's subordinate, he has become more important and has a higher status to the merchants of Han Dynasty and the noble families of Jiangdong.
For Bao Xin, the industrial development of Yizhou, especially the development of the shipbuilding industry, is related to whether he can participate in the final decisive battle against the Han Dynasty. If there is no ship, obviously he can only watch his companions make contributions, but if he can form The navy can join the attack on Yangzhou.
Bao Xin knew that the Battle of Hanzhong had reached a critical moment. If the ruling party captured Hanzhong, Yizhou would not be able to hold it, and if Yizhou could not hold it, the upper reaches of the Yangtze River would be occupied by Daqian, and the Yangtze River defense line would be dug, and Dahan would not be able to defend it. It will be completely annexed by Daqian in a few years, so Bao Xin knows that he doesn't have much time!
Hanzhong large army camp!
At this time, on the road outside the camp, everyone was looking at this place curiously!
There were two tracks made of all steel in front of them on the road. The steel monster-like car was running slowly on this track. When the car kept running, it kept smoking and making a beeping sound. Every time it made a sound, The soldiers all around were startled, and everyone looked curiously at this weird car that had no horse, but could walk on its own.
There were several four-wheeled vehicles connected behind the strange vehicle. They were connected with hooks. The vehicles were all filled with sacks of grain. People present casually calculated and found that the grain was close to hundreds of stones. Such a large amount of grain was transported by horse-drawn carriage. Even if it was a rail carriage, it would be difficult for eight horses to pull this grain. But at this time, this weird cart was pulling hundreds of stones of grain and moving slowly, and it moved faster and faster with the whirring sound.
Zhang Baiqi said in surprise: "In power, is this the train you are talking about?"
In order to reduce the consumption of transporting grain and grass, Xu Wei finally brought the rudimentary train he built to Hanzhong, and laid wooden rails in more than a dozen areas at the same time at any cost on the road from Guanzhong to Hanzhong. Where conditions allowed, even Also laying railroad tracks!
Xu Wei proudly said: "Yes, this is the train I am talking about. It is a sharp tool that can change the world. In the future, the history of the world will be divided into two parts because of the trucks, one is the history before the train was made, and the other is the history after the train was made. history! If the sky does not create a train, the eternal civilization will be like a long night!"
This was originally meant by someone who was flattering Confucius. Xu Wei remembered that although Confucius was great, this was still a bit too much, but if it were used to describe the steam engine of a train, it would not be an exaggeration at all. Its appearance completely broke the chaos. Reincarnation has put the world on a new track.
Zhang Baiqi looked at the continuously running train and said with a smile: "This train is good, it can carry ten carriages. It reduces the consumption of dozens of people. If all our food is transported by this kind of train, only 20,000 people can transport it." Maintaining the food consumption of our more than ten-strong army can reduce the food consumption of our army by several million dan."
Xiangkai looked at the train and said with a smile: "With the train as an artifact, the Han army will no longer be our opponent in a competition to consume them!"
Xu Wei laughed and said: "Hundreds of thousands of people help our army transport food and grass. It is such a waste of manpower and material resources. It will be much better now that we have trains!"
At this time, trains were still extremely primitive and prone to accidents, but their transportation volume was already more than ten times greater than that of horse-drawn carriages. Xu Wei wanted to use this war to verify the practicality of trains! So he arranged several trains on the train. There are craftsmen who are always ready to repair the train.
Trains can be said to be the brightest jewel in the industrial crown of this era. Xu Wei spent three years and billions of dollars. In order to manufacture the parts of the train, Xu Wei created more than a dozen primitive machine tools before he came up with this The most original train.
According to Xu Wei's estimate, this locomotive has about a dozen horsepower and can transport 100 tons of grain on the rails. The running speed cannot exceed 30 miles, and it needs to stop for maintenance and replacement of parts every hundred miles. It can be said that it is defective. A large area. But the appearance of primitive trains represents that Daqian has officially entered the era of industrialization.
Of course, the significance of this train goes beyond bringing Daqian into the era of industrialization. Xu Wei also plans to use the train to promote the development of heavy industry in Daqian. Although Xu Wei doesn't want to admit it, the Daqian industry at this time is basically Among light industry and handicraft industry, only the steel industry can be regarded as heavy industry. Other factories supporting steel plants, such as agricultural tool factories and weapons manufacturing plants, can only be considered handicraft industries.
There is still a big gap between the heavy industry envisioned by Xu Wei. The construction of an important system in heavy industry requires a large number of factories to produce parts for a train. It also requires a large number of factories to manufacture train machine tools. Although it looks like a matryoshka doll, , but even if a locomotive has only a few hundred parts, it still needs a system to mass-produce it and continuously improve the standards of each train part.
The final result of the development of large industry is to use standard parts as much as possible, without a systematic integration, and rely on businessmen to do it themselves. This will take hundreds of years. According to the natural development in history, the steam age will take 150 years to reach its peak. !
Xu Wei doesn't have a steam plot. He doesn't want the steam era to develop in this world for more than a hundred years, so he plans to be the leader. Of course, he doesn't have this awareness on his own initiative. He just imitates the era he lives in. Xu Weilai came to this era. , high-tech products all pay attention to the development of the industrial chain, so as to adapt to the rapidly developing information age, so he also uses industrial chain experience when manufacturing trains.
For Xu Wei, the rapid development of heavy industry is also conducive to the development of materials science. Xu Wei also has a deep sense of urgency. Under his magical transformation of the world, the number of people who died in troubled times has been greatly reduced. There are almost 50 million people in Dagan and Dahan. Population, and according to Xu Wei's experience of the times, if the population triples in one Jiazi, the population of the Han Dynasty will soon exceed 150 million.
However, struvite has become less and less due to extensive mining. A large number of farmers in Daqian mainland no longer use struvite because it is not cost-effective. If a substitute cannot be found, Daqian's grain production may experience a period of continuous reduction. The morale of the world, coupled with the fact that there is still a small ice age in the world for hundreds of years, it can be said that the crisis of troubled times has not been completely lifted! And wanting to find a substitute for struvite to synthesize ammonia became Xu Wei's only choice!
Although Xu Wei still doesn't know what the formula for ammonia synthesis is, he does know that it should be the synthesis of urea from ammonia in the air. At worst, he can find a way to use the formula in the chemistry class, and he should be able to experiment it for decades. In addition to the chemical formula,
Synthetic ammonia also needs to be able to produce high-temperature and high-pressure steel to make ammonia synthesis reactors. This is thanks to him who has seen too much industrial flow. This requires the development of materials science to create ammonia synthesis reactors. With ammonia synthesis,
The world can get rid of the food crisis.
It can be said that Xu Wei has already formulated his plan for the next few decades. He will change his profession and become a scientist as soon as he can dominate the world!
When Zhang Baiqi and the others heard Xu Wei describe the train like this, they understood that Xu Wei valued the train even more than they imagined! At this time, he brought the train to the battlefield, obviously to let them see the power of the train.
Let them pay attention too!
Zhang Baiqi and the others must also admit that the effect of trains is very great. After the entire Hanzhong and Guanzhong tracks are connected, more than a dozen locomotives not only run on this simple track, but the grain and grass transported each time is equivalent to the transportation of tens of thousands of people.
Because of these trains transporting grain, the number of civilians in Sili has been reduced by half, which has greatly saved Sili’s manpower and material resources, especially manpower. These people in Sili can now build their own hometowns without wasting on transporting grain and grass.
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Moreover, using trains to transport grain and grass made it easier for Zhang Baiqi and others to defend against Han army sneak attacks, allowing the Daqian Army to use fewer troops to protect their grain routes. It can be said that the appearance of trains increased the stakes for the Daqian Army's victory!
The competition between the Daqian Army and the Han Army has reached the most critical moment. The frontal battlefield has reached a stalemate. For more than a year, Liu Bei's army has been hiding in the mountains and doing nothing. Instead, they have been digging trenches and trenches.
With the efforts of hundreds of thousands of Han troops, many hills and hills were hollowed out by the Han troops. In this case, the power of the artillery of the Daqian Army was reduced to a minimum.
Both sides began to attack and deal with the weak resistance. For example, the Daqian army was often attacked by Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong with a small force on the troops transporting grain and grass. Now Xu Wei must send more than 2,000 people to ensure the safety of his grain road.
Guards are the only way to ensure safety. Otherwise, if there are too few people, the army transporting food will easily be defeated by ten thousand enemy generals like Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong to break through the defense line and burn the food and grass!
And Xu Wei was not to be outdone and played fighting behind enemy lines. He was an ancestor and had been trained by the Celestial Empire since he was a child. He had never seen any tactics of fighting behind enemy lines. Xu Wei was the best person in the world at attacking the enemy's rear!
So Xu Wei also dispatched more than a dozen of his small teams, and these people crossed the mountains and entered the middle of Shu.
Of course, after these small detachments entered the middle of Shu, they were not going to attack the Han army transporting grain and grass. There were too few of them and they did not have the strength.
After these small teams entered the middle of Shu, they began to do what Da Gan is best at. They first entered the villages in the middle of Shu and helped the local people resist the raids by the officials in the middle of Shu. They repelled several officials and petty officials. In this way, they won the victory.
Gained the trust of local people! This chapter has been completed!