Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

For merchants, rest is the biggest original sin. They wish they could ship and sell goods every day.Bitter and tiring, for them, it's not a problem at all.

At this time, Zhao Boying, the county magistrate of Huyang County, was happily watching a horse-drawn sleigh enter the gate tower from the gate tower.These goods were all shipped from the Sasanian Empire behind Congling, including Persian wool felt, fine spices, various medicinal materials, saltwater fish in the Caspian Sea, seaweed, kelp, jewelry, gold, etc. Silver is readily available.

At this time, Zhao Boying was thinking about whether he should expand the warehouse to accommodate more shops to rest and load and unload goods.

Zhao Boying looked at his son Zhao Hao and said, "Haoxin, do you think we should expand the warehouse? There are more and more companies coming and going, and the warehouse is so small that it can't accommodate it!"

Zhao Haoxin felt the same way and said: "It really should be expanded. There is no room in the city. It is better to expand the warehouse outside the city. In this way, no matter how many goods there are, they can be loaded!"

Zhao Boying stroked his beard and said, "That's right, if there are more warehouses, we can receive more rent. If the rent is more, our income will also increase...Should we call all houses to discuss the transformation of warehouses?"

"No need? This is a matter of Huyang City, we can solve it ourselves..." Before Zhao Haoxin finished speaking, Zhao Boying said: "Huyang County does not belong to our family, it is the city of Datang, our Zhao family Just a herdsman official, not a hereditary official!"

As they said that, Zhao Haoxin and Zhao Boying began to talk and gesture about the matter of transforming the warehouse to increase their income. At this moment, a villager galloped down the city of Populus euphratica on a fast horse.

"Report to the county magistrate! General Chen is here!"

Hearing this, Zhao Boying didn't care about remodeling the warehouse and increasing tax revenue, and hurriedly said: "Prepare the horses!"

Ever since Chen Ying received the appointment of the eldest grandson Wuji and Li Shimin, the king of Qin, and went to Jianghuai, he knew that he wanted bad food.

The timing is not right now. In history, Fu Gongyou officially proclaimed himself emperor on August 22th, the sixth year of Wude. The Tang Dynasty decreed that Li Xiaogong and Li Jing officially put down the rebellion on August [-], but the Tang army formally fought against Fu Gongyou's rebels. It was in mid-November, but the Jianghuai army rebellion was officially put down on April [-], the seventh year of Takede.Almost eight months before and after.

On August 22, Li Xiaogong's troops were not deployed until mid-November.However, it was already the first ten days of November at this time, and it should be the beginning of December when the news reached Chang'an. The imperial court mobilized troops just at the end of the year.

Once the mobilization speed is slow, the army deployment speed is slow, and Fu Gongyou is given enough time to stabilize the place, I am afraid that the rebellion will be more protracted and destructive.

In this situation, Chen Ying couldn't sit still anymore. Like the previous business travelers, he was not afraid of the severe cold, using a sled to wrap up all the carriages and horses, and moved forward slowly.

After half a month, Chen Ying arrived in Huyang County from Shule.It is more than 800 miles away from Shule.Almost at a speed of more than 100 miles per day, heading towards Chang'an!

Chen Ying was very worried that Li Xiaogong would lose the chain at a critical moment. If this is the case, then the fun will be great!

For any rebellion, the combat effectiveness is the weakest at the beginning of the rebellion. At that time, just a few thousand light cavalry can defeat dozens of times the rebel army.Once the Jianghuai Army wants to seize power, it must eliminate the powerful generals under Du Fuwei's command. Without these experienced generals, it will take at least a certain period of time for Fu Gongyou to restore the combat effectiveness of the Jianghuai Army.

If the imperial court was slow to respond and Fu Gongyou survived the most difficult time, then the integrated Jianghuai Army may soon sweep the entire Jiangnan.

Chen Ying is not afraid of the cold just to change this historical tragedy!

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Although Chen Ying made sufficient preparations, he modified all the four-wheeled carriages and sleds that accompanied him, covered the walls with cowhide, and burned a stove inside. Although the cold wind was howling outside, the carriage was still as warm as spring.

However, the bumps along the way cannot be alleviated much.Even with spring steel as the shock absorber, the shock absorber effect of this sled is not even as good as the pickup trucks of later generations.

Although Li Xiuning is pregnant, she is in good spirits.Regardless of the cold wind, she opened the car window from time to time, looking at the world of ice and snow outside.Just after entering Huyang County, Li Xiuning found a very large building complex in the distance, and there was thick smoke billowing in it. She was surprised: "Chen Lang, do you think there is water in front?"

When Chen Ying heard this, he was also taken aback.

The weather is dry in winter, which is easy to cause fires, especially in this season. Once a fire breaks out, let alone being burned or burned to death, even if people escape, it may not last long in the cold and freezing weather.

Chen Ying hurriedly opened the car window and looked at the thick smoke in the distance.However, Chen Ying was no longer familiar with that thick as a bucket, like a roaring black dragon, soaring up to [-] miles.This chimney is unique to the smelting plants of later generations.

Chen Ying explained with a smile: "The front is not water, it should be a big workshop, why do you want to go and have a look!"

At this moment, Zhou Qing, the commander of the guards, came to report: "The Chief Protector, the magistrate of Huyang County and the county magistrate led the officials of Huyang County to welcome the Chief Protector!"

Chen Ying leaned out and looked at dozens of people standing in the snow not far away, shivering with cold.Chen Ying frowned. He didn't like this kind of so-called welcome, so he waved his hands and said, "Let Zhao Boying dismiss everyone and let him come here by himself!"

Li Xiuning pointed to the factory building in the distance and said, "Chen Lang, let's go over there and have a look!"

Chen Ying nodded and said: "Okay, let the magistrate of Huyang County take us there!"

Hearing that Chen Ying was going to visit the workshop in Huyang County, Zhao Boying hurriedly whispered in front of his son, telling him to ride a horse and go to the workshop to prepare.

Zhao Boying boarded Chen Ying's carriage.Chen Ying asked: "What workshop is in front?"

"Reporting to the Governor, it is a farm tool production workshop!" Zhao Boying said proudly: "This workshop has six workshops, which produce hoes, curved plows, columbine carts, sickles, and keel waterwheels (starting from the Han Dynasty. An irrigation tool invented by the Chinese government), Kongming cart (a means of transportation invented during the Three Kingdoms period)!"

Chen Ying nodded and said, "Take us to have a look!"

When he came to this huge workshop in Huyang County, although Chen Ying was well-informed, he never thought that Zhao Boying would actually create such a workshop.

In the huge workshop, the adjusted molten alloy steel slowly flows into the grinding tools one by one along the chute.The grinding tool filled with molten alloy steel was pulled by several oxen and moved slowly along the track. Skilled craftsmen, wearing thick cotton gloves and holding huge steel pliers, picked up an orange-red walk to a giant punching machine, put the coulter in the fixture, and as the fixture is fixed, the craftsman steps on the pedal, and the giant punching machine is held by the stretching die driven by the cattle. It fell hard with a powerful impact, and with a bang, the flat coulter was pressed into an arc-shaped cone.

Zhao Boying explained to Chen Ying: "Although the quyuan plow made by the governor is easy to use, it is too complicated to make and it is not easy to make. It takes about three days for a skilled craftsman to make a coulter. Now this mechanism is used. , half a stick of incense can create a side..."

Of course, this processing method is still quite primitive, the machines are also backward, and the production capacity is not high. With so many machines, it can only process more than 1000 workpieces in a day, but in this era, such efficiency is already very scary.Chen Ying pointed at the animal-powered punching machine curiously and said, "Where did you get this thing?"

Zhao Boying smiled awkwardly: "Do you still remember the last time I took copper to Shule? When I sent the copper to Shule's coin bureau for handover, one of my nephews, Zhao Zimao, had no intention of watching it. When it comes to casting money..."

Chen Ying clicked his tongue secretly, this Zhao Zimao is really a talent.The hydraulic stamping machine and the animal-powered stamping machine are two completely different concepts. This is like seeing a gun and developing the artillery by the way.

What Chen Ying didn't know was that Zhao Boying had given Chen Ying too many surprises.

Then, Chen Ying followed Zhao Boying into another huge factory building, which produced keel waterwheels.The keel waterwheel originated in the Eastern Han Dynasty and was improved by Ma Jun, an inventor during the Three Kingdoms period.Since then, it has been playing a huge role in agriculture.

However, because the keel waterwheel is made of wood, its rotation efficiency and wear resistance are much worse.At this time, the keel waterwheel built in this workshop seems to be like the motorcycle chains of later generations, but it is larger and all of them are similar castings. After assembly, they form the so-called keel. The keel waterwheel at this time, because There is too much steel and fewer trees in the Western Regions, and Chen Ying strictly forbids the people to publish trees, so they adopted keel waterwheels made of steel.

The manufacture of this steel keel waterwheel actually created the concept of chains in later generations, which surprised Chen Ying very much.What surprised Chen Ying the most was the operation of producing seamless steel pipes, which is also the method of pouring. These craftsmen actually dug a deep well more than three feet deep underground for the abrasive tools of steel pipes. The molten steel is poured directly into the mold.Due to the dry climate in the Western Regions, there is no so-called bubble problem.

These poured seamless steel pipes were taken in front of a boring tool, and as the horses galloped hard, they made harsh noises and sparks flew everywhere... The steel pipes are made of low-carbon steel, so they are easier to cut, but Despite being mild steel, it is much cheaper than bronze.

Finally, after Zhao Boying's explanation, Chen Ying realized that these seamless steel pipes were actually used to make water pipes. Water resources in the Western Regions were scarce, and there was no bamboo to use here, but steel resources were relatively abundant, so people began to use steel pipes to make water pipes. Acts as a conduit for water.

A piece of seamless steel is three feet and six feet, and the lathe cutter starts to cut the outer screw hole on the steel pipe.Then cut out the inner screw on the bushing...

Chen Ying looked at Zhao Boying and said, "How did you come up with this kind of thing?"

In fact, this was definitely beyond Chen Ying's surprise.Whether it is a stamping machine or a machine tool, it is very primitive and inefficient, but it is undeniable that this has opened the industrial germination of the Tang Dynasty.

Zhao Boying smiled bitterly and said: "It's not because of the lack of people. Huyang County has a lot of land and few people, so it can't be planted at all. My little old man... Seeing that all the good land is deserted, I feel anxious. It used to be that one plow knife was used for three days, but it was only a few plows throughout the year. I heard that the mechanism can save labor, so the subordinate officials led people to build these mechanisms. Now this Qujiang plow can produce 30 sets a year, which is more than enough to supply the entire Western Region. , and keel waterwheels, a set of three days, all the fields in Huyang County can be used for water bone dragon carts in a year at most, and there is no need to look at God anymore!"

Chen Ying sighed very much, the people of Huaxia are hardworking and intelligent, and Chen Ying just opened up a new way of thinking for them, so they ran farther and faster on the new road.

Now there are only six small-scale workshops in one county of Populus euphratica, which can only be regarded as family workshops in later generations, but in this era, it is already very scary.

The annual output is 30 sets of curved shaft plows, 20 sets of columbine carts, and millions of sickles. You must know that sickles can not only harvest crops, but also cut grass.

At this moment, only a crisp sound of "clang" was heard, and the lathe stopped abruptly.

The craftsman in charge, Zhao Zimao, patted his thigh and sighed, "Hey...it broke again!"

Chen Ying stepped forward to take a look. Because the lathe was still rough and the quality of the high manganese steel alloy knife was high, the knife finally broke.

Chen Ying looked at the dropped knife and said: "It seems that the Gaomeng steel knife is still not good enough, unless you can make tungsten steel, it's useless."