455 Material Preparation 1
After staying in Broken Leaf City for another three days, Li You finished arranging the things he had on hand, and only then escorted a large number of supplies on the road. Li Fei Shouyu is also with Li You in this return army, anyway, they are on the way. Also set off together. It is Shuhan, who is still a little uncomfortable now. When he came, he served as Li You's guard at zero hour, but this is not a real job. Now Li You is a school lieutenant, and he was given such a high job as soon as he came. This can be regarded as exceptionally worthy of him.
Generally speaking, it’s a good idea to let him be a brigade commander in the army, let alone a captain. This is a serious military attaché, and only if he arrives at this position first can he go smoothly. Climbing upwards, or else, staying on the lower floor will be a long time.
This time, Li You carried nearly 80 carts. It was a bit difficult for his more than 200 people to transport these things. This was also due to the addition of more than a thousand crossbows and thousands of kilograms of kerosene. There are more than 30 large vehicles, but fortunately, there are people led by Li Fei Shouyu here. When the road is not smooth, more people can help.
After reaching the territory of Hengluosi, Li You will leave the brigade and transfer to Dahan City. This section of the road is the trouble. It is true that this time they have fewer people, more cars, and a lot of horses and food. . Fortunately, there are no robbers here, and there is no need to worry about this.
Zhang Da came back only two days when Li You took the people to Khan City. He was saying that he would rush to Shattered Leaf tomorrow, but Li You came.
In the lobby of the City Lord's Mansion, Li Yougang asked as soon as he sat down, "Do you have any news about Huoxun?"
"The young master, only fought a battle and won, but the loss was not small, and 20,000 died. Today, there are more than 2,000 wounded soldiers. Da Shi sent 80,000 troops, all of them are elite."
As far as Li You is concerned, winning is good, as long as he prepares these weapons for Heizi, he can more or less strengthen his strength. He nodded and said, "I have brought a lot of good things to Heizi this time. Next time, I guess it won't be so miserable. What's wrong with you? The slave trade can go smoothly."
"Young Master, you don't plan to let me help Heizi get people there, do you? He wants too many people, and I can't find so many people."
"Hey! I didn't say that I asked you to prepare many people. I just asked you about the situation. Why, Heizi wants to quickly replenish his troops?"
Zhang Da said helplessly: "Young Master, Heizi is fighting against the food, and he has less than 10,000 in his hands. The rest are all soldiers from Huoxunguo. If you can't find any soldiers, if you don't have any soldiers, then fight again. Come, he doesn’t even have the power to fight a battle. To be honest, I want to help Heizi get more people to use, but it’s really too difficult. I’ve already let it go, as long as it’s an adult slave. , And add money, but even so, I only have hundreds to thousands of people this month."
"We can only rely on Heizi to figure out his own solution. In fact, there are still a lot of people here. The key depends on how to do it. I think it can rob some of the people who eat the Khorasan area. This is also the area. There are slightly more people in Shiguo, but they only have a population of more than 200,000. According to the population, Huoxun now has a lot of people."
Zhang Da smiled and said, "Young Master, Heizi thinks that way. He also wants to snatch slaves from the food. Is it just right for him to do this?" New 81 Chinese net update the fastest computer terminal: https ://
Li You said without even thinking about it, "In fact, there is nothing inappropriate, even if it is robbing people under the banner. You have to think like this, they were originally Persians or Sogdians, but they weren’t. The real big cannibals, although they are ruled by the big eclipse, how are their lives? They are not necessarily unwilling to take them over and let them live a better life. The lower class people don’t want much, just let them Live a lot better than before, and they will follow it sincerely. Once they understand that the big cannibal does not want them to live a better life, then they will take up arms and resist the big eclipse."
What Li You thinks is actually the same. The people in the Khorasan area do not live very well. You can see camels and sheep everywhere, but this is not the home of the people, they are all For those big households, the food grown by the people at the bottom can be eaten by themselves, and it’s not bad to exchange for simple daily necessities. How can they have the money to buy livestock? The tax on food is heavy, and people want to live a good life. This is simply impossible. After all, today's production is still very primitive.
Without talking about it anymore, Li You asked Zhang Da again: "Where do you use the coal for ironing?"
Although Zhang Da didn't understand what Li You meant by asking this, he still replied: "Most of them are from the State of Shi, and a few are from the State of Cao."
"You ask someone to bring some coal from different origins now, I want to see it."
"Okay, Young Master, I'll go get it here, and ask Young Master to stay awhile." After saying this, Zhang Da went out.
There is coal here, Li You knows, but he hasn’t seen it before, and he doesn’t know whether the quality of the coal is good or not. Regarding Li You wanting to make steel, he himself finds it troublesome. There are a lot of things to prepare. Take the most basic fuel, even if you find a good anthracite, the temperature is still not enough.
Generally speaking, when high-quality anthracite is fully burned under the condition of a large blower, the maximum temperature is about 156 Baidu, but the melting of steel requires more than 1500 Baidu. What he has to do is to completely melt the pig iron. Remove impurities again. This is very different from forged steel. The amount he needs to use is very large, and in order to improve the quality of steel, the melting temperature must be increased.
What Li You wants to make is not ordinary carbon steel, but manganese steel. This is an alloy with a melting point of one thousand six hundred degrees. He also needs to melt the knife with a higher melting point in his hand, which must be higher. He can only choose to smelt coal into coke, so that the temperature can reach more than two thousand degrees, which should be able to meet the demand.
Even though the fuel used for steelmaking in later generations is all coke, no one does it now. To make coking carbon, it is necessary to build a coke oven. This is not that simple to say, it is not easy to do it. What's more, this is only one item, and it is only one item in steelmaking. If you really want to say forging artillery, it can be a little troublesome.
Li You left the lobby and swayed around in the yard for a while before Zhang Da came over with a wooden box with a few pieces of coal in it. Li You looked at it and found that two of them were a little shiny, with seemingly sharp edges and corners, and then he threw the coal to the ground vigorously. The two pieces he had just looked at were not bad, only a little bit of slag fell. The other two pieces are directly divided into two halves.
"Who sold these two pieces?" Li You asked, pointing to the coal on the ground.
"This was shipped by a merchant from Shiguo."
Afterwards, Li Youyan said: "You find someone to let him transport all this coal here and sell it. Give him a higher price, and tell him you want as much as you want."
"Young master, what's the use? I don't lack... Young master, you don't think about transporting coal to Huoxun, do you? This road is not easy to walk, a cart of coal is very heavy." Zhang Da He was really surprised, he really didn't understand what Li You was going to do. (End of this chapter)