Iron Dynasty

Because of this, this king wants you to build a cavalry. At least for now, the best way to deal with cavalry is cavalry.

Historically, the cavalry was not eliminated until the appearance of the mechanized corps. Therefore, in Xiao Ming's view, the army still needs to focus on building the cavalry for a long time.

Lu Fei nodded. No matter how good the infantry battle formation is, it can only be passively defended, while the cavalry is an offensive force. There are still a few horses.

I understand. Next, this king is going to smuggle horses from the grasslands and try to build a qualified cavalry. Xiao Ming frowned.

Even in the age of firearms, the cavalry is irreplaceable.

Smuggling? Lu Fei was stunned for a moment, then he said: Don't your Highness know that the barbarians now strictly prohibit the grassland tribes from selling war horses to the Great Yu Kingdom?

Of course I know, otherwise it would not be called smuggling, but trade. Xiao Ming said.

Lu Fei stroked the back of his head, then looked solemn, and said to Xiao Ming: Your Highness, the barbarians suddenly tightened the trade of war horses. This is not good news. Every time this happened in the past, it meant that the barbarians had to use troops against the Great Yu Kingdom.

That's what I'm worried about, so I'm going to buy a batch of war horses this time, even at a high price. Xiao Ming said, Also, the city walls of Cangzhou City should be overhauled. When the slaves donated by these merchants come, I'll be ready. Let them rebuild Cangzhou City and build Cangzhou City into an insurmountable fortress for barbarians.

Lu Fei was excited for a while, Is your Highness going to use cement this time?

Xiao Ming nodded, Yes, the fragile city walls of Cangzhou City should also be strengthened.

After talking about this, Xiao Ming told Lu Fei about the new army in other states. These new troops are currently led by the backbone of the Qingzhou army, and the wealthy people have not been involved.

And each army has a long history in place, responsible for the ideological work of the army.

Speaking of the long history in the army, Lu Fei had a bitter look on his face, His Royal Highness, these long history troops should insist on loyalty to His Highness, shut up and ask the army to adhere to His Highness's leadership, what are the eight honors, eight shames, eight disciplines, and seven precautions? Yes, that's enough.

What? Is there a problem with the army's allegiance to this king? Xiao Ming gave Lu Fei a sidelong glance, thinking that if you have two hearts, you will still have to be slaughtered.

Lu Fei was sweating on his forehead. He was just outspoken, and he didn't like the appearance of these literati mothers-in-law, but he didn't expect to say something wrong. In response, he immediately bowed and said, Don't blame your Highness, the last general is a big mouth. Son, I'm used to talking nonsense.

It's almost the same. I don't care about your usual nonsense. I will try my best to satisfy you with whatever equipment you want, but it's a matter of principle. You have to be sober. As soon as Xiao Ming's words were out of his mouth, it immediately became a set of training for the long history.

Those recruited senior officials, Xiao Ming, naturally won't let them take the job easily, but let them take the job after training, and they must pass the exam before taking the job.

The content of this exam is the guiding ideology of these armies. His purpose is to control the army. In this chaotic world, in this era, the army is easy to be biased by the generals, and the control can only be strengthened through this method.

Otherwise, there will be a rebellion in this state, and a mutiny in that state will be enough for him to drink a pot.

Don't dare, don't dare, even if the last commander has ten courage, he won't dare. Lu Fei said.

Xiao Ming nodded, I know you must be annoying Chang Shi, but you can just ignore it. Military Chang Shi will not interfere with you.

Yes, Your Highness.

Lu Fei wiped his cold sweat, and seeing Xiao Ming was leaving, he personally sent Xiao Ming outside the barracks.

Watching Xiao Ming leave, Lu Fei breathed a sigh of relief. In his opinion, the current King Qi is becoming more and more evil, but he has to admit that his trick is powerful.

In the past, many soldiers did not know who the King of Qi was. Now this long history remains in the army, and King Qi is in the ears almost every day.

In his opinion, this is not a bad thing. In this way, the military of the six states can be stabilized, and there will be no situation where the Cangzhou city tyrants control the city.

Here, Xiao Ming left the barracks and went to Bowen College, where the newspaper office Fan Zeng is now in charge of collecting information every day, and publishing a new round of newspapers the next day.

Now that the paper mill and printing imitation have moved into the workshop area, Fan Zeng only needs to send someone to contact him directly.

Xiao Ming had taught Fan Zeng how to operate it. He didn't need to take care of it personally, he only needed to review the manuscript every day.

After all, with the increase in various affairs, his daily government affairs also increased.

Industry should be managed, commerce should be managed, and agriculture should also be managed. In doing industry and farming, you have to be serious.

Thinking all the way, Xiao Ming arrived at Bowen College. He didn't come here to find Fan Zeng, but for his daily teaching.

When he is free on weekdays, he spends almost all of it in Bowen College.

The training of Chang Shi, the shipbuilding affairs of Zhang Liang and others, the technical difficulties of Chen Qi's equipment department, and the chemical knowledge of Lu Tong and others.

This time he came for a chemical experiment. After the glass was produced, he asked the workshop to make a batch of chemical instruments for him, and these instruments are now in the laboratory.

Nowadays, the basic chemical knowledge of Lu Tong and others is basically no problem. They are very familiar with the periodic table of elements, and the chemical formulas and so on.

In theory, there is, but the specific practice can be expected to be realized by this batch of chemical instruments.

When they got to the laboratory, Lu Tong and other more than 200 people were waiting in the laboratory. When they saw Xiao Ming coming over, they respectfully called Your Highness.

This chemistry lab is almost in a modern layout, with tables in groups of five below with experimental instruments.

Xiao Ming stood on it and also had his own set of instruments.

This time Xiao Ming wants to teach them the method of making sulfuric acid. Three acids and two bases have always been the basic chemical industry that Xiao Ming wants to achieve. Three acids wrap nitric acid, sulfuric acid, and hydrochloric acid. The two bases are sodium hydroxide and sodium carbonate.

Taking into account the existing conditions of this era, he felt that the easiest thing to achieve is to produce sulfuric acid.

Because in ancient times there was a saying of green alum oil, and this green alum oil is sulfuric acid, which requires green alum, water, and high temperature to prepare.

In the data of the technology spar, there are some green vitriol ore distributed on his fief, which is modern ferrous sulfate, and the color is green. These green vitriol ore are often the companion ore of iron ore.

When Qian Dafu was mining iron ore, he discovered these green alums, so Xiao Ming felt that these green alums could not be wasted, and it was better to use them to prepare sulfuric acid.

After all, sulfuric acid is widely used in the industry. One of them is pickling and rust removal, which can prolong the life of machinery. Second, sulfuric acid is a solvent for metal purification.

With sulfuric acid, he can purify some rare metals and lay the foundation for alloys.