With a relatively stable site, even if it may be a temporary site, Zhou Huaian has time to start thinking about more new things to improve his own environment and surrounding conditions;
For example, after the initial version of dry-baked paper packs of compressed dry grains, canned fried rice and fried noodles, the third version of portable rations is continuously trial-produced; various types of grains collected on the spot are mashed and cooked into a thick slurry, Add roasted dried vegetables and bacon minced, ground bone meal, soybean meal and oil residue, and then press and dry into a block of extremely dense and hard biscuit that can be stored for a long time;
Although the final finished product still has the crude taste of heavy oil and heavy salt, it has improved the calorie supply, nutrient content, and absorption efficiency to varying degrees. Then, according to one meal, one day, three days, seven days, and ten days, it is wrapped in a simple fixed-pack paper bag, with a small piece of gray thick sugar, a piece of concentrated soy sauce that is seasoned with soup, As long as there is a little water, you can eat together.
Using whole barrels or jars as containers can provide at least one team or one fireman for the whole day's ration consumption. Although eating for a long time may cause gastrointestinal and taste problems; but it also saves the time and effort spent on cooking during normal marches or sudden advances in the wild, and allows the soldiers to have more free time. And the spirit is used to perform other duties such as enemy preparation and vigilance.
In this process, Zhou Huaian even wanted to extract nitrite that is ubiquitous in nature, especially in this area near the sea where there are a lot of pickled products; although in later food regulations and ordinary people’s ideas, this thing It is regarded as a scourge; but for the preservation and preservation of meat, it has the effect of turning decay into a miracle; and in the modern military supply system, it plays a very important role.
At least in this era, the vast majority of people still do not have enough life span to allow carcinogens to accumulate into disease. But compared to those who can only be moldy or rotten on the ground due to poor logistics and traffic. There are leftover agricultural products; a little bit of added preservatives can make these things display more added value, or save the lives of more hungry people in the world.
Therefore, the next step is to look for a suitable location on the seashore, and to construct brine grading salt pans and natural air-dried drying yards to replace the traditional old method of boiling seawater to obtain salt. By the way, you can also extract refined salt in addition to refined table salt. Come out some useful by-product ingredients. After all, Zhou Huai'an has had enough of the so-called top-grade green salt with the astringent taste of sea water, and it has to be re-boiled and filtered to precipitate each time before it can be used as a seasoning for cooking.
In addition, there is a newly produced improved version of the paper armor; because several larger paper mills near Chaoyang City have also obtained a large number of raw materials and tools, so they no longer use the original poorly waterproof glued cardboard. Dealt with
As long as the local mulberry paper and straw paper are alternately brushed with tung oil as the adhesive layer by layer, until there are no gaps and air bubbles are visible to the naked eye, it becomes a lighter paper armor component. As long as it is not directly immersed in water for a long time, it will not be damaged or peeled off.
At present, through the manual assembly line divided into different categories by the craftsmen, it is possible to produce more than one hundred collars per day; this can be used as a transition between a small amount of iron armor and some leather armor, and gradually eliminate those relatively heavy flax and bamboo armor. Used in the team.
In the next step, Zhou Huai'an wanted to create a simple machine driven by animal power, or even a mechanism that uses hydraulic power, so that he could not be in vain to advance his vision and insight for thousands of years.
Then, we collected relatively simple and inexpensive herbal prescriptions from local sources, and made portable and large-volume pills; mainly for traumatic wounds and traumatic ointments, as well as pills for the treatment of heatstroke, diarrhea and other gastrointestinal disorders. , Used to repel mosquitoes and also used to treat skin diseases as externally applied powder and other groups.
In this way, even if you have not received traditional medical teaching, but only use some simple wound sutures, bandages to stop bleeding, or boiling water disinfection, lime and vinegar fumigation to sterilize and prevent epidemics, you can rely on these ready-made panacea. The medicine and placebo ingredients perform a relatively limited part of the duties of a doctor.
The original intention of these things was to provide convenience and pre-preparation methods when they left the peasant army in the future; but now that they change their minds, they can still be the material conditions to indirectly strengthen the army under them.
Despite this development, there are still some deformities and shortcomings. However, even the unbalanced development of the lame walking style is better than the so-called stagnant water before. Then, it was a project that Zhou Huaian had conceived for a while. It used to be because there has never been a long gap, and there is not enough stable surrounding environment to ensure the corresponding security measures, now the conditions are basically ripe.
Based on the reason of collecting and making portable prescriptions and products, after ordering people to search the drug stores and mountain shops in Chaoyang City, Zhou Huai'an quickly gathered the basic materials he needed; areas like this kind of land and water meet each other. The collection of these materials is relatively complete and sufficient, especially with the continuous source of overseas imported products.
At least, in the popular "Tang Materia Medica" in this era, sulfur is used to treat ulcers and skin diseases, that is, "sulfur is used to treat sores, and water is also suitable."; and saltpeter is used to treat ulcers and skin diseases. Internal symptoms such as fever of the five internal organs, gastric bloating and closure. It is also called yin salt, Pu Xiao, etc.; Huang Dan powder used to treat golden sores in this era is made from a combination of red lead, sulfur, and saltpeter.
As for charcoal, it is even simpler, as long as it is fully airtight and the combustion temperature is guaranteed. Any experienced charcoal burner can solve and provide it. Sometimes the bottleneck and generation gap in technological development is a thin membrane that cannot be broken.
Then, after further refinement and purification in a wooden mortar, it is wet-processed and dried into relatively uniform and fully combustible fine particles. Of course, in addition to this, there is an important step, which is to adjust the proportion of fine nitrate, disulfide, and charcoal according to the approximate formula of "seven nitrate, disulfide, and one charcoal" circulated on the Internet to find out the rapid combustion. The best efficiency is the formula.
Of course, because the land, population, and resource output at his disposal are relatively limited, this kind of thing does not yet have the possibility of mass production; that is, to make a few hundred catties and produce them as a secret method. Or accidentally use the last one or two experiments.
But as long as the conditions are ripe in the future and there are sufficient sources of raw materials and output, it is easy to transform the fire-throwing team in the army directly into a grenadier in the true sense. Yes, it is a grenadier. ; Before qualified barrel drilling and cannon casting technology is mass-formed, in fact, it is completely possible to use manpower or equipment to throw inflammables and explosives to transition.
This is also a precautionary measure in case of an accident. If there is any discord in the Cantonese government, it may be a crusade against the army; a small amount of explosives plus thrown inflammables is a kind of perseverance and confrontation to force the other party to compromise. Is a powerful weapon. As the so-called is military struggle and courteous means of negotiation, both hands must be prepared to complement each other. (End of this chapter)