Datang Lingnan King

Chapter 102 Busy Preparations

Wuzi steel ingots are better than blast furnace-fired steel, but their hardness is obviously worse than that of later alloys, and their toughness is good. Feng Daiwen decided to improve it by adding a common ore, manganese ore to synthesize manganese steel, to increase the hardness. It happened that Feng Daiwen knew that there was manganese ore there After smelting Utz steel into manganese steel, after repeated forging and quenching with frozen mountain spring water, for three days and three nights, Feng Daiwen led two skilled craftsmen to forge a blade as thin as a silkworm's wing. Bend the tip of the knife to the handle and let go of the knife that recovers quickly. Experiments have found that it is extremely sharp, and it can easily cut off a sheep's head with one knife without feeling much resistance.

Feng Daiwen was very satisfied. Of course, forging is so good for equipping soldiers, but a blacksmith and two apprentices can only forge one a day, because it is too hard, tough and difficult to form. Feng Daiwen mobilized 100 highly skilled workers. The blacksmith in the village specializes in forging and plans to form a commando team.

Without guns, if you want to fight the Turks and reduce casualties, you can only prepare more. If you prepare more, you will save a little blood. The soldiers who have rushed to Chang'an, under Feng Daiwen's strong request, eat three meals a day Although they are full, there is still a lot of mutton, pork, and meat for two meals a day. The pigs and sheep in the homes of the people in the entire Guannei Road are bought to replenish the health of the soldiers. The generals also train the soldiers to death. They were screaming from the training, and they were secretly moved. In the past, there were such good things there. There were two meals a day when there was no war, but there was no meat for three meals during the march. Only when there was a war, could they see meat. Now life is good for them. Said it was a fairy-like day.The hundreds of thousands of sheep harvested in Shuofang City were all slaughtered except for the lambs. The wool was used to make clothes, and the mutton was eaten by the soldiers. Now there is no shortage of salt. Getting into the sleeping bag is not afraid of cold wind, but also not afraid of wet clothes.

Shuofang Medical College is urgently teaching battlefield treatment, wound cleaning and bandaging, bone fixation, emergency hemostasis, and wound suturing, which is sutured with thin thread cut from sheep intestines. The Taoist priests of the medical school have done experiments on injured people and animals, and the results are very good , Feng Daiwen secretly set up a laboratory under the medical school, and let a few brave Taoists use Turkic corpses to learn dissection.This time, all medical students over the age of 14 will follow the army. Feng Daiwen was worried about the shortage of manpower and sent a message to Shuofang to recruit [-] people to follow and learn to fight and lift the wounded.

With the heavy snowfall, Yankangfang's new square city has been completed, and the people of the three workshops have moved in. Yankangfang uses all bricks and stones. The cement craftsmen have not yet experimented. They use yellow mud, clay, double The brick walls are lined with big green bricks, which are about the same size as the water spinach of later generations, which not only ensures safety, but also guarantees quality.

All two-story buildings, the first floor is the kitchen, the living room, and the bedroom. There are three rooms in total. The stove in the kitchen is connected under the bed connected to the bedroom by a brick passage. There are also three rooms, but there is no heated kang. There is a yard in front of the house, and there is a transplanted fruit tree in front of each house. One house is next to the other house, and there is another family behind the river near the river. The river is full of willow trees, and so is Heti. It has been refurbished with bluestone, clean and generous. There is a garden in the center of the square, with gazebos, stone benches, stone horses and tigers for children to ride and play.

The people of Yankangfang moved into their new home, which can be said to be the envy of the people of Chang'an. The people who came to visit made the newly built spacious streets congested. For half a month, people kept coming to watch, the river and the garden It has become a place for strolling in several nearby markets.With the people who watched the heated kang, it slowly spread. After all, it is simple, you can see it at a glance, and you can make it in a few days with a little hard work. It is easier to connect the materials with fire, and it is easier to build a soil bed and burn it directly under the bed, or put the stove directly under the bed, and install the gas outlet outside the wall, because it is now known that carbon poisoning is the cause of airtightness.

Even many officials are envious of the reconstruction of Yankang Square. How many people wrote to Li Shimin saying that Chang'an City is too old, please renovate it together,,, Guangdefang's library has been built, occupying half of the square city, and the front is the viewing area The place where the books are sold is a row of connected two-story buildings. The first floor is the place where sales and other personnel are active. The second floor is where the books are stored. Behind the small building is a garden. The printing study room, near the river, is a row of residences specially built for them. Facing the river, the scenery is beautiful.The rest of Guangdefang is still under construction. It is a private house that Feng Daiwen intends to sell. I believe that people who have seen Yankangfang will be willing to come and buy it.

On the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, it was rare for many days without snow. The people in Guannei Road happily took their wages and went home with their new year's goods. Although they were working in this cold winter, they were all satisfied. Not only did the government pay wages, I got new clothes, which are said to be made of wool, and they are very warm. After work, there are two cans of canned sea fish per person, one catty of salt, and two catties of sea vegetables, which is enough for a prosperous year.The entire Chang'an City was free from its busy schedule, and only some people were still working for half a day.

This year's Chang'an City is very festive, all the people are smiling, not only everyone has money, but also a lot of cheap and delicious things in the world, delicious canned food, seaweed that can be eaten as salt, so sweet The canned fruit in my heart, oh my god, I am afraid that the emperor would eat such a sweet thing. Five renminbi is too valuable, but it is a pity that the family can only buy one can. Refined salt can be purchased without limit. Hmph, fortunately, it is only sold to Tang people. Others can only buy a catty or five yuan at most. The emperor list said that this is a New Year benefit for everyone. , the big daughter-in-law and the young daughter-in-law go home with big bags and small bags of New Year’s goods, the children chase after their parents asking for something to eat, the old man is basking in the sun at the door, showing his toothless mouth and smiling so that the wrinkles on his face can kill mosquitoes .

Li Chengqian was one of those people who had no leisure in Chang'an. They followed Wei Zheng until the completion of Yankang Fang. Feng Daiwen threw him, his two younger brothers Li Ke and Li Tai, and Fang Yiai to Su Dingfang, and took him to the barracks to follow the recruits. Training together, Su Dingfang had been instructed by Feng Daiwen long ago and did not give them any preferential treatment. Although Li Ke and Li Tai are old, after all, they have been training with them for so long, and they can barely keep up. On the second day on the ground, they were alive and well again, but it was hard for Li Chengqian, and he spent every day in a state of wanting to be immortal. Feng Daiwen deliberately arranged for them to be together. Li Ke and Li Tai also lived up to expectations and helped Li Chengqian to train together. The three brothers shared joys and sorrows, which made Li Shimin, who came to visit secretly, very satisfied, and he was very relieved that Li Chengqian would continue to let Feng Daiwen teach.

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