Chapter 1326 Food

Su You complained silently in his heart, Zhao Ji in real history made a complete mistake in judging the military strength of the front line, so he was so happy that he didn't care about his head.

sent 400,000 people to attack, but the grain was only prepared for half a month, and finally the grain was cut off by the Xia army.

That defeat directly led to the defeat of Yongle City later. The huge blow also completely ruined Zhao Ji's health and killed himself.

It's not a pity that he died, but it's a pity that An Shixiang Gong was infamous in the world, and after his death, he was listed as a traitor and a traitor, and he searched for the Great Song Dynasty for ten years, making the people difficult and difficult, and accumulating wealth for the country.

It's a pity that the essence of the Western Army for decades.

It's a pity that the lives of hundreds of thousands of people on the four roads of Shaanxi Province have been killed.

It's a pity that the Great Song Dynasty still had a chance to reverse the national fortunes.

If it weren't for that, the Western Xia issue would have been resolved in advance, and it would not have been necessary to wait until Zhang Ji of the Zhezong Dynasty was appointed to Shaanxi.

If it weren't for that, it would be possible to stagger the Fang La uprising, and after solving the Western Xia, enough troops could be freed up to calmly solve Fang La, so that they would not be overstretched.

If it weren't for that, there might be a warlike army to deal with the Liao and Jin people, not to mention victory, at least there is a possibility of recovering the clouds, and it may be possible to extend the national Zuo of the Northern Song Dynasty for decades.

Fortunately, the current situation is finally different, and Su You can already be sure that he can't go to the north to herd sheep today.

With a long breath, Su You arched his hand to the southeast: "Yes, if it weren't for Your Majesty's Shengming, trust, and telegram, we could have commanded from thousands of miles away through the military aircraft department, and we wouldn't have been able to achieve such a record." ”

Li Shunju is a eunuch with some backbone, and when he heard Su You's stinky praise of Zhao Ji, he twitched the corners of his mouth, looked to the other side and changed the topic: "What is that?" ”

Su You said with a smile: "That is a gift prepared for the Liang family of Xia State, the Yellow River is not frozen, and the boats along the Yellow River have been scuttled by Liang Lingtong, and the Xia people will definitely think that it will take time for our army to prepare boats, so they can only go up six hundred miles and go to Lanzhou to cross the river." ”

"In fact, there is a small river crossing tool on the Yellow River, which is made of sheepskin, which is called Hutuo."

"But the carrying capacity of that thing is too small, Shi Yong changed it to cowhide production, and hundreds of cowhides are connected together, then it can carry a large army, not inferior to a giant ship."

"The drawings on the wall are being designed and renovated to make it more durable and durable, and the soldiers of the Western Army are not very watery, so this raid mainly has to rely on the new army to complete."

Li Shunju knew the power of the South China Sea Sailors, and said: "Then if you can load the thunderbolt cannon, Xingqing Mansion He Zuping!" ”

Su You said with a smile: "There is no such possibility, as soon as the cannon is fired, I am afraid that the raft will fall apart." ”

"This kind of raft is riveted together by iron and small wood, and its strength certainly cannot be compared with giant ships like the Kuizhou type and the Hangzhou type."

"The ambush cannon can be installed, but this involves the problem of shooting accuracy caused by the unstable water surface."

"We installed gyroscopes next to the gun emplacements on the raft, and at the same time changed the ambush gun from the self-weight of the shell to the pull, so that the gunner could grasp the best time to shoot."

"In short, these bits and pieces are still being practiced and transformed, and it is estimated that there will be a while."

Li Shunju frowned: "How long is it?" ”

Su You smiled: "It's all a small transformation, it won't be too long." ”

Li Shunju nodded: "The one in the pond outside the door is it, right?" Let's go, let's see. ”

Outside, there was a strange boat floating in the pond.

Su You explains: "The raft was too simple to resist the bow and arrow, so in addition to changing the traditional shape and changing it to a streamlined shape, we also covered the entire periphery and upper part of the raft with loose plates. ”

"This is the third batch, and now we have enough muddy cowhide tires to make a hundred and eighty large rafts."

"This is 45,000 head of cattle, fortunately, the climate is cold, and now the meat supply of hundreds of thousands of troops depends on the supply of Lanzhou.

"A cowhide tire can be stuffed with one hundred and twenty catties of wool, go down the river, and turn into the main canal at the mouth of the gorge and transport it here, so as not to be discovered by the Xia people."

"Wool has become an important commodity sold to the mainland, and they are not happy."

"In this way, everyone has to make money, and half of the profit from the difference in the middle has become these rafts, and half has become the income of the four links."

Li Shunju had just heard about 45,000 head of cattle, and his heart was so frightened that this military expenditure was a bit scary.

As a result, when Su You said this, it became a business: "Then these cowhide rafts didn't spend a penny?" ”

Su You said with a smile: "In fact, the cattle in Lingzhou City are not less than this number, but these cattle are of good quality, and they are kept as the basis for the restoration of agriculture in Lingzhou, and they will be of great use after the new year, so they are reluctant to kill." ”

"Gong envoy, look, aren't they all used now?"

Today's steam engine, the development of leaps and bounds, after solving the problem of whether there is a problem, a large number of machines to make better, higher power, more energy-saving, safer mechanisms and accessories, began to be invented one by one, added to the steam engine.

One is the control valve, in the middle of the working stroke, close the steam inlet valve to make the steam expand to improve the thermal efficiency;

The second is the two-stroke, which allows the steam to work on both sides of the piston to increase the power output.

As a result, the sector balance lever and zipper are no longer suitable, and are generally modified to a crank linkage drive.

After the transformation, the steam engine is not only widely used in mining industry drainage, but also in smelting, textile, machine building and other industries.

This also led to a shortage of wool, cotton yarn and other production materials, so even before the end of the war, the merchants represented by Su Hui could not wait to buy wool in Lanzhou.

But now the machine is still too cumbersome and cumbersome to transport.

However, who are Su You and Shi Yong, the most important thing in science and technology is flexibility, as long as the purpose is achieved, no matter what method you use.

So he directly used cattle and horses as power, assembled and built a wood processing workshop from the components transported from Ningxia, and processed the large pine wood that Li Xian collected from Lintan and Zhuoni and put down the river into the required wood such as slabs and columns.

Li Shunju also personally boarded it to inspect it, and found that the draft of the raft was very shallow, which means that the carrying capacity was very large.

Su You introduced that such a raft can carry 40,000 catties, in addition to 200 soldiers, it can also include all their baggage supplies.

One hundred and eighty ships are enough to transport 36,000 people, and there are not so many cadets in the five new armies, and the rest of the carrying capacity is for thunderbolts, vans and other heavy guys.

Su You said: "In fact, the most important thing now is to repair the road from Lingzhou to Weizhou, and in the future, the transportation of commodities will be sent to Lingzhou by water power from Lanzhou, and then transferred to the land, from Ningxia City to the mainland, which can save 40 days." ”

"With this economic lifeline, we will be able to strengthen our control over the north and south of the mountains, and when we hollow out the Western Regions, this road will be a river flowing with gold and silver!"

Li Shunju looked at Su You's long-term planning blueprint on the military map: "Then you have to use the prisoners of war and the shengfan, which can be regarded as work for relief, and they can't let them waste grain in vain!" ”

Su You said with a smile: "Then you have to convince Fan Gong, otherwise, manpower and animal power will be used together, anyway, Ningxia City has transported a lot of feed to Weizhou, and the battle has also captured a lot, so let Bi Zhongyou arrange it well and pay close attention to the construction." ”

"It's rare for the palace envoy to come, and the Yellow River aquatic products taste good, let's go, I'll invite the palace envoy to eat the Yellow River big carp!"

The Yinchuan Yellow River carp of later generations is the best in the Yellow River carp, as well as pigeon fish, in addition to Shangzhou pigeon fish, Yinchuan pigeon fish is also the highest grade.

With another magical specialty of the Gobi - fat cabbage, plus Tan sheep and gluten, Su You was stunned to direct the cook and gave Li Shunju a very rich and delicious dress in Lingzhou City in winter.

Mixed cabbage, sweet and sour Yellow River carp, steamed pigeon fish, celery and mushroom fried gluten, stir-fried lamb liver loin, hand-grabbed mutton......

The most memorable thing for Li Shunju is a plate of braised waist pillars and a plate of scallion and mutton dumplings.

The method of braising the waist column is to put the lamb spinal cord into the pot and cook it, take it out and let it cool, then gently scrape the outer skin with a knife, tear off the outer skin, and cut it into small pieces.

Then put the fire, pour in the clear soup and boil, put in the spinal cord, fungus, refined salt, pepper, pepper water, ginger juice, green onion shreds, skim off the foam, thicken, drizzle with oil, sprinkle with coriander.