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Chapter 1360 National Treasure
The mist and rain outside the window did not prevent the flag soldiers on duty at the Yamen of the Eastern Army Mansion from sweating profusely under the brims of their hats and hats.

Rain would cool it down, but honestly, they weren't expecting rain at all.

Standing guard is also a kind of training for them. Standing guard wrapped in a breastplate in the approaching summer is a kind of torment.

It’s even worse when it rains, because it’s cool, the generals will let them put on the cotton armor in the breastplate, armbands, cotton skirts, iron shin ties, and hats. Tired, and there is nowhere to cool off.

Wearing armor also has to be tailored to local conditions. It is best to be fully armed. However, if the heavy armor is only protective, it will reduce the endurance of soldiers and cause non-combat casualties due to heat stroke, then it is too much.

After scientific consideration by the military, in non-wartime defense duty, it is a very appropriate plan to increase the number of bird gun sentry posts and reduce armor protection; in rainy and snowy weather, it is a very appropriate plan to increase armor and reduce firearms.

When stationing, their imaginary enemies are mainly rebels who may appear in the city. If the rebels lack armor, even if they only have a minimum piece of breastplate, they can gain an advantage in cold weapon combat; if the rebels have sufficient armor, firearms are The most effective force against heavily armored units.

On rainy days, the firing rate of flintlocks would drop significantly from [-]% to less than [-]%. Even if there was a rebellion, it would have to rely on cold combat to win, and heavily armed heavy armored fighters would have an absolute advantage in defense.

Of course, specific to each unit, the specific training tasks of each thousand households are selected by the deputy thousand households from the drills.

Some deputy Qianhu like to train soldiers to wear armor to withstand the heat, while others prefer to see the banner army who can skillfully fire the blunderbuss in rainy days, so there are always abnormal actions.

Heat is the enemy of all armies. On the summer battlefield, how long can a soldier wearing twenty or thirty catties of armor fight?
Untrained civilian husbands will collapse their bodies before they put on their armor and walk to the front of the battle, and they can't even lift their knives.

There are only a few well-trained soldiers who can fight for a quarter of an hour. They will be exhausted regardless of heavy cavalry or heavy steps, and they will stay on the battlefield forever if they don't withdraw.

How to solve this problem?

Usually everyone chooses not to fight.

But you can't stop training because no one usually fights in the midsummer when the farming is busy. After all, their commander is a psycho who always believes that he doesn't want to fight with me at this time, and I have an advantage in fighting him.

In the entire Dongyang Military Mansion, no one doubted that Chen Mu would do anything against common sense.

As for standing guard, the most uncomfortable one is of course the standing guard flag army of the Yamen of the Eastern Army. This day is really impossible.

The ice cellar was built by Yang Tingxiang when he first came to be the governor. It was first built along the cellar of the Spanish governor's mansion to the cathedral and the camp at the Plaza de Armas. It was used to prevent the Spanish soldiers from jumping over the wall.

Later, the Spaniards in the city were basically pushed away by him, so he continued to dig down in the tunnels and cellars, and dug out three large ice cellars, using the method that has been passed down in China since ancient times.

The ice cellar lives deep underground, unaffected by the temperature of the ground, and is built with five-foot-thick brick walls on all four sides. There are three interlayers of natural insulation materials inside and outside the brick walls.

The outermost layer of the slag wall is filled with lime, and after paving, a cement brick wall is built, and a layer of slag wall is added.

To the innermost layer, sugarcane fiber is used to build the insulation wall. This layer is prone to damp and rot and is not durable. It must be dismantled and rebuilt every year when the kiln is opened.

There is no need to make ice in the ice cellars of Ming Dynasty. In winter in the north, the ice can be directly cut from the lake and transported to the ice cellar for storage. The ice cellars built by the government are complex and well insulated. daily drinking.

Mexico City is different. People here have never seen snow, and it is nonsense to transport ice from Majia Port in the north. They can only make ice by relying on the low temperature of the underground ice cellar.

Fortunately, the underground temperature is not high, and the consumption of nitrate can make ice without too much consumption.

Therefore, the few ice cellars repaired in the first year are unusable. The ice cellar under the Governor's Mansion is the best for keeping warm, and the ice left throughout the year is just enough to drink a glass of raspberry juice with ice.

Ice production continued in the second year, and the normal temperature of the ice cellar has become lower. During the ice storage process, part of the ice cubes melt and absorb heat, making ice production less difficult.

In this way, in the third year, five batches of ice can be made, and one can be kept in the second year, and the ice can be distributed to other places to build more icehouses.

When three batches of ice are made, one can be left in the next year when the cellar is opened, and the ice cellar can be officially used. This is basically close to the maximum efficiency of ice cellar production, and it will not be a matter of several years in the future.

This continues for a long time, and the temperature of the land a few meters outside the ice cellar wall changes, which will eventually reduce the temperature of the ice cellar to below zero.

As for the generals, there are more ways to enjoy it.

In the hall on the second floor of the military government office, the inspector Pei Xiao went upstairs together with the short-tailed leopard, crossed the threshold and saluted Chen Mu first, while the short-tailed leopard stood aside, Pei Xiao stepped forward and said: "General, the humble Something is brought."

"Bring it in."

Following Chen Mu's words, several flag soldiers on duty came in with a few wooden boxes, causing Chen Mu to get up and leave the seat, and stepped forward to open the wooden boxes.

He knew what Chang Sheng sent this time, it was cloisonne.

After Changsheng official kiln made porcelain with Changsheng white clay, it made excellent cloisonné enamel again. This time, Changsheng official kiln sent samples, or they were not samples.

It is a tool for harvesting the wealth of Europa.

How beautiful is cloisonne?It is so beautiful that everyone who sees it will be fascinated. Even in Daming, when porcelain entered the homes of ordinary people, cloisonne is still a symbol of wealth.

And for Europe, which has just learned to eat with a fork for only 200 years?Porcelain can fascinate the aristocrats and flock to it. If porcelain is compared to a luxury in exchange for wealth, cloisonne undoubtedly has the status of a diamond in later generations, and it is a nuclear weapon in economic plundering wars.

The cloisonné samples that Chang Sheng sent were not many, a set of exquisite three-person cups, dishes, and a four-legged lion head urn.

Chen Mu lifted the lion head urn cover, looked inside, and asked Pei Xiao suspiciously: "Refrigerator?"

A layer of insulation material has obviously been added to the urn. Put water and nitric acid in the smooth belly, and it can be used as a refrigerator. Put a few cups of fruit juice in it, cover it for a while, and drink it as a cold drink.

Of course, it is only the eyes of the Ming people who can discover its true use. Pei Xiao shook his head, looked at the short-tailed leopard teasingly, and said, "Return to the commander, it is a refrigerator, but the short-tailed leopard said it is a jar for bacon. I guess Ou Luoyi feels about the same."

"What's more, I heard that they don't even have enough gunpowder for war. Even if they knew the use, they wouldn't bring iced water and food. It was Zou Zhixian who gave it to the commander-in-chief, and didn't sell it to Ou Luoyi."

"No, it's doing well and it's for sale."

Chen Mu's expression was very pious: "Da Ming is committed to improving the quality of life of Europeans. Our textile factory has made European people wear cotton clothes; our porcelain factory has made European nobles use porcelain tableware; now it's the turn of officials The kiln gave their king a refrigerator."

"Those nobles are willing to buy a printed plate with ten taels of silver. How much do you think our bald Spanish king is willing to pay for this?"

Chen Mu smiled slightly, turned around in the hall, raised his hand and said, "I'll write a letter to Fei Laoer and tell him that I have something that can be regarded as a national treasure for him. I want to replace his two thousand material ships."

　Good morning! Chapter 2 will be released at night.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)