Shenkeng system

Chapter 220 Start Iron Blood
"However, if I really have time in the future, I really want to go to the sea to see it. You don't know how vast the outside world is. Our Great Song Dynasty is from south to north, from east to west. Is it big enough?"

"Yes! From south to north, from east to west, it should be a year's journey!"

"In fact, this little land is not even one-twentieth of all the continents, let alone the ocean area."

"Don't you know how big this world is?"

"How big is this world, if you mean the universe, I really don't know, but I still know how big the ground under our feet is. The ground under our feet is actually a huge sphere..."

"Huh? What are you talking about? Shouldn't it be a cube?"

"Hahahaha, if there is a chance in the future, I will take you around. We have built a big ship that can withstand the storm. We will start from the east, and we will come back from the west. When the time comes, you will know that we are under our feet. The earth is really a sphere..."

"It's really interesting! I don't know when we will realize this dream?"

"It shouldn't be very far! I will start this plan soon!"

"I really don't know how many things others don't know about your mind!"

"Actually not much! I think it will bottom out soon..."

"Ha ha ha ha……"

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Zhao Si chatted happily with He Wenyu, and talked a lot.There are many things that He Wenyu has never heard of.

"Report—Cao Fu asks to see you!" The soldiers outside came to report.

"Call him in..."

Gao Qiu returned to Beijing to fight for Zhao Si's errand to guard Yanmen Pass, and they agreed that this war needs to be fought slowly, so the task of manufacturing the Zhentianlei rocket launcher is not so urgent.Besides, Cao Fu was originally in charge of making those iron shells. Few people in the world know the exact formula for gunpowder... As for the imperial court, since the logistics supply was restored, the rocket launchers made by the Military Supervision were shocked. Tianlei has also been delivered continuously, so the stall that knew the iron shell was disbanded!

The thieves also retreated into the deep mountains. In order to better complete the encirclement of the enemy, Zhao Si also adjusted the original camp layout. A large part of the army withdrew to the area of ​​​​Xiefeng Valley, basically surrounded here... …

And the caravans are busy, transporting a large amount of wood, digging soil and burning bricks on the spot, organizing people to start building coking plants and ironworks in the place where the shells were made and pasted!

A large part of the more than 4 people who were gathered were also resettled locally.Of course, the part that was identified as the gangster has now been quarantined for review...

But even for the part of the people who have been resettled, they can't hold their heads up now, because they are afraid in their hearts. They are afraid that they will be bitten by the part of the prisoner, and they will be accused of being a bandit or something, and they will be sent to the army. Xiang Army...

In fact, Gao Lian's strategy is very wise!Arrested those who were clearly suspected, and then signaled them to bite. Sure enough, most of the people were involved, and panicked for a while...

Almost all the common people became thieves in the end!However, it was still screened out, and the part that was actually a bandit was reported to the imperial court, and after official approval, they were assassinated and exiled to a particularly remote and difficult place...

The rest of the people are actually quite honest people, and after being frightened for a while, they are already very honest!But they still bear the charge of being a bandit. Although they were resettled locally, they were all deprived of their land and became refugees. Their best destination is actually to rent other people's land, become tenants, and die of cold and hunger. The odds are high...

At this time, Zhao Si appeared like a savior. He said: At the beginning of the bandit suppression, I promised that the affairs of these common people would not change!Borrowing their grain to eat, slaughtering their livestock and poultry to eat, and organizing them to help the bandits with logistical work, all these are to be rewarded!And it's a double reward!He did not forget!So he wants to build a business here, so that the people here have something to do and money to make...

As a result, a large part of the common people have suddenly become workers in the iron factory!Of course, the old and the weak, women and children, also did the work of cooking, sewing, washing and so on...

Zhao Si asked the caravan to bring a large amount of grain here, and quickly paid the first batch of wages to the workers in the iron factory, and also gave them a certain settling allowance, and paid back the grain they ate...

In this way, the people will settle down quickly!Although they live in tents now, the weather is getting colder and they suffer, but most of the people live in peace and security, because after all, the iron smelted from this small blast furnace has cast a large number of small iron Stoves and charcoal are shipped in a lot every day, which solves their heating and cooking problems... Of course, Zhao Si and his current iron-making technology and manufacturing technology are still not as good as the ones he has seen. Thin-skinned chimneys can only be cast into particularly clumsy and short chimneys.However, it is not bad if it is used in a tent and can export the smoke!After the second batch of iron furnaces were cast, some people thought that there were not many iron ores, and it was too wasteful to cast such a clumsy chimney, and the cost was extremely high, so they thought of a way to cast a very short section, and the chimney Lead it into the chimney built with yellow mud and adobe, because the thick yellow mud chimney is built higher, in fact, the effect is better than the original short iron chimney...

Sure enough, the wisdom of the people is infinite. After brainstorming, they have come up with many good solutions. But now that the food is sufficient, these people can eat enough and wear warm clothes. They are already very happy...

Of course, many of these things are things for later. What Cao Fulai wants to report now is that they discovered a huge open-pit coal mine. This was discovered by people they secretly sent in the Shuozhou area.

"Shuozhou? There is indeed a huge open-pit coal mine in Shuozhou! But isn't the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun under the jurisdiction of the Khitan people?" Zhao Si asked.

In fact, Zhao Si still knew a little about the huge coal mine in Shuozhou, because later generations had a huge open-pit coal mine, known as the largest open-pit coal mine in China, and it was the Pingshuo Antaibao Open-pit Coal Mine, which was very famous. Si has heard of it, it is said to be in the Shuozhou area!
"Master, didn't you say that? You said that the largest possible open-pit coal mine is on the Khitan side..."

"Did I say that?"

"Of course you can't say it, we won't send people to investigate there quietly!"

"How many open-pit carboniferous mines have been discovered in our Great Song Dynasty?"

"It's a lot, it's a lot, it's enough! But if you compare it with that side, it's far behind!"

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(End of this chapter)