Goose Three Kingdoms

Chapter 601 Yinshan Nail
In the Heyin camp, Ma Chao returned from hunting.

The cavalry was divided into two squadrons, the left and the right, and they were doing drills in armor, with thousands of people watching nearby.

Ma Chao also stopped to watch, then looked back at his own hundred or so cavalrymen, feeling frustrated.

Tai Shi Wengong was not only extremely powerful in martial arts, but what was even more astonishing was his ability to train troops.

Perhaps Tai Shi Wengong mastered the Taoist secret technique of body refining, which made the cavalry under his command so brave and strong.

If a single cavalryman was taken out, the hundred cavalrymen under his command would not be his match.

The Hundred Cavalry Commanders are the ones with the best overall evaluation of personal bravery and tactical proficiency; the senior military officers above them often focus on tactical command rather than personal bravery.

There are only a few people as brave and capable of commanding as Pound.

In fact, Pang De’s command... in Ma Chao’s eyes, was just that of a thousand-cavalry general, far inferior to his own.

But Pound is young, studies hard, and after years of training, he will be a pillar of society in the future.

Even so, Pang De was still inferior to himself in Ma Chao's eyes.

He watched for a while and felt bored. The horses equipped by the Iron Cavalry would not be outflowed; he could not obtain such strong and durable war horses in an organized manner, and learning the tactics of the Iron Cavalry would have no place to apply and it was meaningless.

He immediately rode into the camp alone, and the cavalry followed him into the big camp. Most of the cavalry returned to the small camp. Only Ma Dai followed with a few pack horses, which were wild sheep with their internal organs removed.

In Ma Chao's eyes, any cattle and sheep he encountered in the wild were wild animals as long as he was willing.

After taking Ma Dai to hand over the wild animals to Ma Yunlu's guards, Ma Chao took off his armor, changed his clothes and went to the central army camp.

Outside the big tent, Gao Jun stepped forward to greet him: "Right Wise King, your Majesty has been studying ancient books since yesterday, so it is inconvenient for him to receive guests."

"Where is the Lord Magistrate?"

"I am in charge of the administration in the left account. Do you want to be informed?"

"There are some minor matters that need to be discussed with the Fa Ling Gong."

"Please follow me, Right Wise King."

Gao Jun extended his arms to invite him, and took a few quick steps to inform Fa Zheng, who then came out of the tent to lead Ma Chao into the tent to drink milk tea.

Fa Zheng's stomach also began to adapt to this way of drinking tea, which refreshed him and replenished his physical strength, and was very convenient while working.

The best thing is that the production of maltose is stable, and Fa Zheng also has maltose supply standards. Sweet milk tea paired with maltose cakes is an excellent working lunch.

Ma Chao sat down, blew on the wooden bowl, drank a little, and said, "Yesterday, the Xianbei King discussed with me that the Grand Marshal wanted to come to the south of the desert to escape the summer heat in the future. Why don't each tribe contribute to building a city and a villa for the Grand Marshal to escape the summer heat. If the Grand Marshal is interested, we will send people to search the mountains and rivers and look for places with prosperous scenery."

Fa Zheng also knew that a war might be launched next year, so he did not agree rashly: "Your Majesty has been studying the Buddhist scriptures these days, so I will not bother you. I will consult you on this matter when you summon me. However, Your Majesty likes mountains and rivers, so you can investigate on the east and west sides of Yinshan Mountain. If there is a suitable place, I think Your Majesty will not refuse."

Before winter comes, the tribes in Mobei will definitely migrate south to the Yinshan area to spend the winter. Some will even migrate to the south of Yinshan and the north bank of the Yellow River.

It was only in these two years that the Xianbei and Xiongnu reconciled, and the tribes in northern Mobei did not invade the south.

Ma Chao thought about it and said, "If we choose the east of Yinshan Mountain, Xianbei will be in trouble. On the other hand, the west of Yinshan Mountain is close to the Hexi tribes, which will be convenient for the Grand Marshal to inspect and govern nearby. I think we can choose a site west of Yinshan Mountain, wait until the Mobei tribes are compliant and the north and south are united, and then we can build a detached palace east of Yinshan Mountain."

Compared with Liu Bao, Ma Chao was more wary of and hostile to the weak Budugen.

Keeping the Xianbei people would also allow us to better control the Xiongnu.

The Xianbei cannot be tamed in a short period of time. By placing a stake in the east of the Yin Mountains, we can restrict the Xianbei from escaping from the northern desert.

Directly stabbing the nail would cause additional changes. Ma Chao was reluctant to give up the opportunity to march to Hehuang this year and did not want to scare the Xianbei people away in advance.

"I will present the proposal of the Right Wise King to the Grand Marshal in person."

Fa Zheng took a sip of tea and then instructed: "Although the shogunate is not afraid of the Xianbei rebellion, it is now busy improving and promoting steam engines, and it must also allocate manpower to develop flying machines. The war against the various Hu and other parties must be short, flat and fast, and must not get bogged down in the mud and affect the central government."

To put it bluntly, only fight the battles you are sure of winning, and drag it out if you are not sure.

Ma Chao naturally understood what he heard. He also liked to take advantage, so he immediately agreed, picked up the tea bowl, drank it, and left.

After seeing Ma Chao off, Fa Zheng returned to the desk, picked up a pen and made a brief record of the conversation.

Let's wait until Black Bear finishes his current task, and then we can discuss this matter.

Although setting up a branch office near Yinshan Mountain is dangerous, it can also increase the shogunate's control over the various Hu tribes.

What worries Fa Zheng about the frontier counties is not the unrest, but the gradual restoration of cities and towns in the counties and towns, and the tendency of many herdsmen to leave their tribal lives and settle down. When county officials develop cities and towns, culture spreads and ironwork skills are also introduced from the interior.

This is unavoidable and more harmful than the iron trade.

In the long run, if Guanzhong is stable, twenty years will be enough to restore the area south of Yinshan Mountain to the Shuofang Prefecture of the Western Han Dynasty.

During the Western Han Dynasty, the Shuofang Prefecture south of the Yin Mountains was a mixture of Han and Hu people. There were more than ten counties in one prefecture, but they were divided into three or four duwei departments. These duwei departments had jurisdiction over several counties and were responsible for managing the Han and Hu nomadic people in the territory.

At that time, the huge registered population in the Shuofang region included not only border garrison troops, their families and immigrants, but also all kinds of herdsmen who accepted the rule.

Even so, the Shuofang Provincial Governorate was destroyed, and a large number of technical population were integrated into the various Hu peoples, but the armor and weapon forging skills of the various Hu peoples did not undergo any fundamental changes.

This was a kind of luck, but the shogunate's efforts to promote technology were unprecedented.

Last year, there were no officials or celebrities at the Double Ninth Festival banquet. Instead, farmers, herdsmen, and craftsmen were invited to attend. This was an unprecedented subversion.

Only the disastrous defeat of the coalition forces of You and Ji states prevented many people from criticizing.

The dissatisfaction has already been planted, and this year's Double Ninth Festival banquet will definitely invite officials and celebrities...but what about next year?
Maybe it won’t be his turn to worry next year. Fa Zheng feels that he will have to settle down soon.

The Grand Marshal would not rely on one person for a long time unless that person was really just a decoration, such as Zhong Yao and Kong Rong.

In the large central tent next to it, Black Bear was looking through drawings and tables.

Through Zhen Mi's narration, he had calculated the volume of Huang Yueying's simple hot air balloon, the approximate weight of the materials, and naturally the density.

In the end, only a puppy that could barely open its eyes was hanging in the air, and about four cubic meters were exchanged for less than four kilograms of load.

Therefore, relying on heating the air to obtain load is absolutely unreliable.

Even if it can fly, it only has the ability to enlighten and change the trends of the times, but it has no practical application.

In the absence of aluminum, if you want to use bio-composite materials to build a giant airship, even with the help of white magic, you have to introduce two other black technologies of the time.

To obtain these two kinds of black technology, you first need enameled copper wire, use steam power to generate electricity, and electrolyze hydrogen.

Even if the collected hydrogen is impure, it is many times better than hot air.

These hydrogen and air mixtures are loaded into airbags of fixed sizes, and these modular airbags are then stuffed into the airship to take up space, thus providing a stable load.

In addition to hydrogen, electricity is needed for power transmission.

An airship is so big that it either has steam engines distributed throughout the space or it has mechanical transmission.

No matter how the power of the airship is arranged in the future, the enameled copper wire must be installed first. Even if the power generation efficiency is very low and the hydrogen is impure, the presence or absence of hydrogen directly determines the practicality of the airship.

When the airship is extremely loaded, it is not a big deal to hang a few more small steam engine platforms.

There are other ways to produce hydrogen. In order to figure this out, he recalled his chemical knowledge and wrote out the first half of the periodic table, which is a table of common elements in life.

I repeatedly verified it using some chemical experiments and formulas that I remembered clearly, but I also felt that this method was not very good.

Only when basic chemistry is illuminated by the people themselves can the truly talented people be screened.

If Huang Yueying is in charge, the manned hot air balloon can be manufactured within two years; but the kind of airship that he wants is limited by the collection of hydrogen and the accumulation of white mana... It will take about five years.

Each airbag module consumes at least one white mana, and the entire airship also needs to be refined with white mana.

The cost is too high, just make one.

Before starting work, you must go all out and get it done in one go.

So the next two main things are to design the blueprints for the hydrogen electrolysis and production base. The base needs to be dug into an underground structure, and then laid with stones, filler-painted and sealed with paint.

The air after electrolysis rises and passes through layers of diversion, utilizing the light physical properties of hydrogen to be purified little by little in a still and windless environment.

In this way, when it can be lifted to the surface layer by layer, the hydrogen outlet will naturally be mainly hydrogen.

Then there is the enameled copper wire, which is not efficient enough, so we make up for it with quantity.

There is also the firing of glass. An airship without the use of glass in its decoration is like Ji Han without Zhuge Liang.

(End of this chapter)