Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 744 Brother, Your Name Doesn't Work (Third Change, Ask for a Monthly Pass)
Liu Renyuan wondered: "What's wrong with my name?"

Wei Ying plausibly said: "Isn't your name Liu Shiyuan? During the Three Kingdoms period, there was a Pang Shiyuan who was shot to death..." After speaking, he ran away.

Liu Renyuan was taken aback for a moment, and realized that he wanted to catch Wei Ying. This kid had already rushed out a long time ago, and when he opened the door, he disappeared...

Liu Renyuan was so angry that he cursed: "Don't be caught by me, little bastard, or I'll chop it off for you!"

After scolding Wei Ying, Liu Renyuan, who was still annoyed, sat at the table and looked at Fang Jun with a sad face: "Master Hou, you are not kind! I think my old Liu is loyal to you, loyal to you, loyal to the world, and my heart can learn from the sun and the moon , why do you have the nerve to arrange for me in private?"

As for Wei Ying, that hairy boy, has he read "Three Kingdoms"?I can't even understand it for him!The little bastard not only knows about Pang Tong, but also knows that Pang Tong's character is "Shi Yuan", which is the same character as his own. Fang Jun must have made fun of his name in his spare time, and the kid heard it...

Fang Jun immediately called out to Zhuang Tianqu: "This Marquis is upright and selfless, pure and pure, is he the kind of villain who tells stories and makes fun of people's names? That kid Wei Ying is young, but he has a good brain. They all go to the school, and they know a lot of characters! Who knows if the master in the school happened to tell about the Three Kingdoms, or even read "Three Kingdoms" himself?"

Liu Renyuan was surprised and said, "Isn't it? With such a child, can you watch "Three Kingdoms"?"

Fang Jun said proudly: "With the pinyin created by Benhou, why is it so rare to know a thousand characters in a year?"

Liu Renyuan was instantly astonished.

Both Liu Rengui and Xi Junmai had learned pinyin in Zhuangzi, so they were not too surprised.

Liu Rengui said in a serious manner: "Don't say it, Wei Ying is really right, Shi Yuan, your name is really not good..."

Xi Junmai jokingly said: "Didn't Master Hou say that the old man who came that day could tell fortunes? Besides, he used to tell fortunes for the emperor. How about asking him to do the fortune-telling for Brother Shiyuan one day to see if he can... Oops! Why are you beating someone? Alas, you are my brother, I was wrong, isn’t your name good enough..."

Liu Renyuan angrily let go of the arm that clamped Xi Junmai's neck, and said with a resentful face: "It's strange to say, although our family is from a family of martial arts, but my father has read a lot of books, why did he give someone a lie? Such a word? It's really bad luck..."

Fang Jun looked at Liu Renyuan with dim eyes.

You are much stronger than Pang Tong. You were not shot to death by random arrows. Unfortunately, you were not safe at the end of the year. First, you were exiled to Yaozhou, and then you disappeared.

After talking and laughing for a while, Liu Rengui took out a letter from his pocket and handed it to Fang Jun, saying: "The letter from Governor Su said that the situation is not optimistic. Now the rumors about Lord Hou's bloodthirsty spread all over Wu, and all women and children in Jiangdong know about Lord Hou." He likes to eat human brains..."

Speaking of this, Liu Rengui smiled wryly, looked at Fang Junyun's indifferent expression, and continued: "Suzhou is extremely resistant to the Navy, even ordinary daily necessities are unwilling to sell to the Navy, and in the future we will build wharves and ports [-]. It is a big trouble to prepare for the construction of the Municipal Shipping Department. At least it is not easy to recruit manpower. The most serious thing is the serious loss of wood. The local government and the market in Suzhou are colluding with thieves and smuggled a lot of wood. However, since the news of our victory Down the river, the power shook all the states in the south of the Yangtze River, and spread throughout the Wu area in the east of the river, and the wind of stealing wood and iron has died down."

Liu Renyuan said angrily, "Zhuzi dare you! Our navy master is the master of the imperial court's economic system. Don't those barbarians want to die?"

Liu Rengui shook his head and said, "So what? The local government colluded with bandits in the market, and helped cover up their tracks and destroy evidence after the incident. Even if they knew who did it, how could Governor Su bring troops to kill him without proof?"

If this is the case, it will be regarded as being caught by the Jiangnan gentry. Not only will the navy be unable to move an inch in the south of the Yangtze River, but someone in the court will respond and impeach him.By that time, it will be even more difficult for the navy to do anything.

Fang Jun had a headache.

After all, there is still a way to counterattack the resistance of the Jiangnan gentry. If it causes the people of Jiangnan to boycott, it will be very bad.

After pondering for a long time, Fang Jun asked Xi Junmai, "Does our family have any relatives who do business in the Jiangnan area?"

Liu Rengui only cared about training the generals in the farm, and didn't care about foreign affairs at all.Liu Renyuan had just joined the team, so he knew nothing about the Fang family.Only Xi Junmai often acts as a messenger between Fang Jun and Wu Meiniang, and has a little involvement with the situation at the pier.

Xi Junmai thought for a while and said, "There is a Zhou family who sells pens in Huzhou. They often go to Guanzhong, and they have a good relationship with the family."

"Huzhou?"

Huzhou was called Wuxing County in ancient times, and together with Wu County and Kuaiji County, it was called the Land of Three Wus.

"Take a few people to Huzhou and tell the Zhou family to send someone who can talk to them. The Marquis has a big deal to discuss with them."

Fang Jun's eyes were deep, thinking about how to deal with those bastards in Suzhou who tripped him up...

How dare you mess with Fang Jun?
Let you go around without eating!
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While waiting for the Zhou family from Huzhou to come, Fang Jun did not go down the river to Haiyu Town, but stayed in Niuzhuji.This place is not only rich in iron ore, but also a lot of other minerals, especially dolomite reserves, if you don't build a few porcelain kilns, it will be a waste of money...

Moreover, the water transportation here is convenient, and Fang Jun intends to build it into another property of the Fang family besides Fangjiawan in Guanzhong.

Of course, the most important thing is the iron factory...

It can be said that the development progress of the iron factory determines Fang Jun's future strategic layout.

As the largest farming country in the world today, Datang wants to shift its sight and strategic focus from the land to the sea, so it must solve the border pressure on land—the threat from the nomads.

In the era of cold weapons, the cavalry units of the nomads who came roaring in and gone away were unsolvable. In history, these nomads relied on the powerful mobility of the cavalry to bring countless pains to the Han people.But even Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty chased the Huns to flee in embarrassment, or His Majesty Li Er swept across Mobei and drove the Turks far to the west, but they failed to completely eradicate the threat of nomads.

When the Central Plains is weakened, these nomadic peoples with strong survivability will make a comeback...

How to counter the cavalry with strong maneuverability?
Difficult to say, but easy to say...

The "invincible" Eight Banners Iron Cavalry collapsed at the Bali Bridge, representing the complete decline of the cavalry era.The culprit that led to this ending was the large-scale equipment of rifles.

From the invention of gunpowder and its use in warfare to the emergence of guns and cannons, the power to determine victory on the battlefield has gradually shifted from the speed of horses to the range, accuracy and lethality of guns.

Weapons with great destructive power can penetrate the heavy armor of knights. The ultra-long range of firearms kills more than half of the cavalry before they get close. Moreover, the cost and maintenance of firearms are far less than the cost of cavalry troops. Users can invest in it after simple training. On the battlefield, this makes the cavalry's low position even more embarrassing.

With the development of time, firearms were gradually perfected, and people were more willing to spend less money to do more efficient things, that is, to train a large number of shooting troops to replace the traditional and expensive cavalry troops, which also led to the inevitability of cavalry withdrawing from the stage of history.

For Fang Jun, who is "two knives", of course he can't make such a big killer as Maxim, but with his physical foundation and insight beyond the times, breech-loading guns and artillery are not too difficult.

The most important condition for bringing firearms to the battlefield of the Tang Dynasty is to improve the level of iron smelting.

Without high-quality steel to make barrels and gun barrels, is it necessary to use muskets that explode at any time to deal with the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty like in the late Ming Dynasty?You must know that the Ming army at that time would rather carry a big knife and carry a bow and arrow than use a firearm!
As the craftsmen at home arrived at the Nanshan Mine, more and more local migrant workers were recruited nearby, and iron smelting furnaces sprang up from the ground, which made Fang Jun extremely emotional and depressed at the same time.

I seem to know a little bit about everything, but I am not good at anything...

Whether it was cement or glass back then, including the current ironmaking and future shipbuilding, I only knew the most important principles, but I knew nothing about the details. I could only point out the important directions, and then let the craftsmen experiment and develop by themselves. Thinking about it, as for which day it will be successful, only God knows...

More than once, Fang Jun regretted why he couldn't concentrate in class, even if he read more extracurricular books...

(End of this chapter)