Crossing the Yellow River is the territory of Hedong County.
"Your Highness, Hedong County has twenty counties under its jurisdiction, with a household registration of 213,400 and a population of 987,500!" After getting off the boat, Ji An introduced Hedong County to Liu De.
Situation: "Hedong County is located in Anyi, which is the capital of the Wei Kingdom. There is Wuxian Mountain in the south and Yanchi in the southwest. It is the richest in the world!"
Liu De naturally knows these.
Hedong County is known as the source of the Three Jin Dynasties.
The royal family ancestors of the three kingdoms of Zhao, Wei and Han during the Warring States Period all came from Hedong County.
Even today, Hedong County is also known as the hometown of Chehou in the world.
In addition to the Pingyang Marquis Cao Shen family, in Hedong, there are also the Fenyin Marquis Zhou Chang family, the Jianghou Zhou Bo family, the Yi family Marquis Chen Shu family, the Changxiu Marquis Du Tian family, the Yuan Marquis Liu Ci family, etc., that is,
Yuanhou, which had the smallest number of food towns, had 2,200 households. As for the marquis of 10,000 households, there were two: Pingyanghou and Jianghou.
Liu De looked at the land under his feet, his eyes rolling.
Why must he come to Hedong?
Why Hedong?
The real reason was not to investigate Zhou Yangyou's problem with the locust plague. A mere county governor was not worth a month of time for a potential heir apparent of the Han family.
Not even the so-called "Look at Pingyang Hou Cao Shou", even the cheap dad doesn't believe that excuse!
The real reason is that there is black gold buried under this land!
Hedong County belonged to Shanxi in later generations. Shanxi's coal bosses were famous throughout the country. Shanxi's coal mines were well-known, and many coal mines could even be mined in the open pit.
Coal is the source of industry and the driving force of technology.
The Industrial Revolution was still too advanced for the world before the Christian era.
Liu De felt that even if he spent three generations and a hundred years making technical reserves and preparations, it would not be an exaggeration.
But the next best thing is to use Hedong's rich coal resources to support military industry smelting and vigorously develop and promote blast furnace steelmaking. It is possible to try.
The blast furnace thing looks high-end and classy, but to be honest, it's just a simple and crude physical work.
Not to mention anything else, during the Great Leap and Forward presided over by Taizu of the Celestial Dynasty, people all over the country made steel together. Even the peasants could set up an earthen stove to make steel...
As for the technical content, Liu De even felt that it might not be as difficult to manufacture as the current Dahuang crossbow, let alone the Han-made repeating crossbow, which is a precision instrument.
Although the smelted steel may have more impurities and the quality is a little worse, it is still steel!
Think about it, if the rich coal resources in Hadong County can be used to smelt one million kilograms of steel a year, even if the quality is poor, it is still better than pig iron, right?
This one million kilograms of low-quality steel can still crush the Huns and beat them with sticks!
more importantly……
Liu De remembered that in the early 19th century, Britain's annual output of iron was only one million kilograms. However, it created an empire on which the sun never sets.
In this world before the Christian era, if one million kilograms of steel were produced every year, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to beat the whole world, right?
And this can be done at this time!
During the process of Qin Shihuang unifying the world, Qin's ordnance workshops produced one million kilograms of bronze or more every year!
At this time, two large iron merchants, the Zhuo family and the Cheng Zheng family in Linqiong, were smelting two to three hundred thousand kilograms of iron a year.
Although these data are converted, we can only get about half of the output of future generations, but this is scary enough.
With the current national strength of the Han family and the strong human resources of the Shaofu, controlling Hedong County and producing one million kilograms of crude steel per year in the future is not a foolish dream!
Now, Liu De only needs to complete three things to move towards this ambitious goal.
The first thing is to make the governor of Hedong County his.
In other words, even if Zhou Yang is not guilty, he must be blamed!
If he is guilty, he will be pursued and beaten even more fiercely...
This is the crime of a common man carrying a jade without any guilt!
Second. Liu De needs to overcome the desulfurization technology of coal. Otherwise, the sulfur content in most coal will make the already poor quality steel even worse. However, even if this technology does not solve it, it does not matter!
Who said that in this era, there is too much coal buried underground!
At worst, just use coking coal to make steel!
Anyway, Liu De remembered that there were several famous coking coal mines in Hedong County, which was later known as Shanxi. Although he didn’t know where they were, as long as he was willing, he could always find them!
Third, he also needs a large technical team and supervisory team to be responsible for solving technical problems.
Although the farmers of later generations can also play blast furnace steelmaking, at least the bricks used in the blast furnace and the structural technology of the blast furnace must be solved, right?
But there is no rush. First, seize Hedong County and slowly search for those rich coking coal mines. After finding enough coking coal mines, it is still too late to solve this problem. If it is really not possible, it is not impossible to just use local methods.
It's okay, it just reduces some efficiency.
Liu De now even thought about where to find the coal diggers.
Ahem, starting from this year, Han and Hungary will enter a period of relative peace for more than ten years.
In the context of the easing of relations between the two countries, Liu De felt that he could consider making a deal with the Huns and let them sell some slaves from the Western Regions for mining.
In addition, Weiman Chosun seems to be a bit domineering. It would be a good idea to find an opportunity to destroy him, and then go to the Samhan Mountain area behind Weiman Chosun to catch some wild sticks and come back to mine coal.
Speaking of the Western Regions, Liu De thought about it. It seems that there are several countries in the Western Regions that were founded by the descendants of Alexander's Eastern Expedition, such as Dawan and so on...
Ahem, it seems good to buy some blond white slave girls back?
After climbing the technology tree, planting fields, and producing crude steel, we can push back the Huns and drive them to Europe to make love with the Romans, so that the whip of God can come early.
Liu De saw all the pros and cons of Liu Che's Xiongnu strategy in his previous life.
Liu Che's strategy is all good, but it's still too strict when it comes to these barbarians!
Ever since Liu De read the history of the unscrupulous rise of the Europeans in history books, he felt that if a nation wants to be strong, developed, and hegemonic, it must absorb the blood of other nations and use the flesh and blood of barbarians.
Lay the foundation for my strength, use their bodies to build roads, dig rivers, and mine mines for me.
For the countries in the Western Regions, when it is time to use them, they should be used resolutely, and they can be discarded after use.
You can even learn from the British, pull one faction to fight another, and keep fighting among themselves. In this way, within a few decades at most, you can completely digest the Western Regions, expand the territory of the Han Dynasty to Central Asia, extend to the Indian subcontinent, and eventually colonize India.
, achieve immortal greatness!
And doing these things, Liu De felt that he had no guilt at all.
Among the nations and countries currently active in the Western Regions, which one has survived into the 21st century?
Since they are destined to perish and die, why not let them contribute to the rise of the Han family?
"The Han family has its own system, which is based on the overlord and the Tao. The inner king and the outer dominator are the truth!" Liu De said in his heart: "Liu She, please open your eyes and watch carefully, let me teach you a lesson.
, There is no need for kindness towards barbarians, only dead barbarians are good barbarians!"
Later generations of Americans placed bounties on Indian scalps for land and resources.
Originally, there were tens of millions of Indians in the United States, right?
In just two hundred years, the Indians were almost extinct!
Liu De felt that he could learn from such great achievements!
PS: Ahem, there should be another update later~
Well, thank you Su Shanhe and FYZZE for the rewards~
Ahem, I will continue to work hard~
By the way, genocide should be a universal value before the Christian era, right?
