Li Huashi's biological mother's surname is Kolluri, a so-called Tianzhu orchid from the Tianzhu Tailugu region. Originally, it was also a Telugu high caste family, but unfortunately it gradually fell in the battles over the years, so it was sent to Li Shouhan's house as a gift.

It's just that the reason why Seon lost his horse is common all over the world. Ashmita, that's her name. As the earliest batch of Tianzhu orchids, they were half-sold and half-married to Nanzhong, but they enjoyed some blessings. She is also an indisputable character, and she gets along very well with Yan Meier, Li Muhua, Mei Shan Shilin and several other people who became Li Shouhan's wife earlier. Look at the flowers every day, raise birds, feed the fish, learn embroidery with Yan Mei'er, learn painting with Li Muhua, etc., and live at ease.

The only thing that did not satisfy her was Li Huashi's son.

In the evening, just as she was holding Yuxue's lovely daughter who was born to Li Shouhan, holding a few melon seeds in her hand and feeding the rather large parrot hanging under the pillars, making her daughter grin like a flower, two big girls from Telugu's hometown, Kieran and Visali, ran in from the outside.

"Madame, ma'am, happy event! What a happy event! ”

Ashmita furrowed her pretty eyebrows slightly, and handed the child in her arms to the nurse who was standing beside her, "Send it to Mrs., thank you for me, Mrs." "According to the order of the Liang Guogong Mansion, all the children, no matter what kind of life they are, even if they are a maid who was born on the spur of the moment by Li Shouhan, and the children born in the first hit are also raised in front of Yan Mei'er, the same living standard, the same monthly silver, the same educational environment, there is no difference between the concubines and the grandchildren. But for the sake of humanity. These children spend some time with their birth mothers every few days, so as not to be separated from each other.

"What's the happy event?" Watching the wet nurse take her little daughter away and disappear behind the moon gate, Ashmita cautiously asked her two henchmen in Telugu's native dialect.

"Our young master showed his face in front of the Khan today!"

"That's it! When the guards in front of us saw us, they spoke in a different tone! ”

The two maids were so excited that they couldn't get enough of their words, and reported what they learned about the outside situation to their masters in time. Turning red and stepping on black is a long-standing tradition of human society. Li Huashi is not as aggressive as his brothers. Instead, he devoted his main energy to the design and manufacture of those strange and ingenious skills. In the eyes of others, it is natural that there is some unprofessionalism. Moreover, the more you immerse yourself in this, the more you ******** on the power map of the Nanyue Army, who will follow a master who has no future and hope?

Therefore, the status of Li Huashi's mother and son in the eyes of these guards and soldiers in the palace is very delicate. However, today has changed dramatically in one hundred and eighty degrees, and a few of the guards who had ignored Kieran and Visari in the past actually took the initiative to get close to them. Find something to say.

"Could it be that the Khan has some mission to send to our young master?" It was the instinctive reaction of the two maids. Khan is what they call Li Shouhan in their hearts. Presumably, the name comes from the name of a descendant of Timur, a lame wolf who claimed to be the horse of the Mongol Khan.

"What did this kid do to make Khan pay so much attention?" A question lingered in my mother's mind.

By evening, the answer to this question would be found.

As the feudal prince of the Ming Dynasty, he opened a mansion based on the territory, supported no less than one million soldiers, ruled tens of millions of people, and ruled a prince with tens of millions of land and thousands of miles. Li Shouhan eats at home, although he can't ring the bell and play music. It serves a variety of delicacies, but it also has its own unique style.

Beat the cloud board and blow the trumpet, and it is time for each room to eat together.

According to their respective identities, the concubines like Yan Mei'er, Li Muhua, and Mei Shan Shilin, two people who have imperial court canons, are naturally the chiefs, and those who have children like Ashmita are the other seats, and the children born to each of them are gathered together and organized by the upbringing grandmother to eat. As for those who have been pampered by Li Shouhan a few times occasionally. But his belly is not angry, and he didn't give birth to a child, so he can only sit on the table in the corner and eat very aggrieved.

The meals are basically the same, but they take care of the individual's eating habits and which dishes can be eaten. Those dishes can't be eaten, make your own decisions. For example, Ashmita didn't dare to use chopsticks for big meat, but Li Huashi ate his elbows every time and his mouth was full of oil.

"Madam, Mrs. has something to say, please sit down at the table over there and have dinner with the prince, Mrs. and Young Master Huashi." When Ashmita sat down in the position she was accustomed to, the housekeeper hurriedly rushed over and whispered a few words in her ear with low eyebrows.

Hearing this, Ashmita's heart couldn't help but burst, is it really a mother and a child? In the past, I looked at the chief's table, although it was close at hand, but the distance was far away.

According to the rule of eating and sleeping, everyone started to move separately, and there was only the slight sound of the clattering of dishes, chopsticks, cups and plates and the sound of chewing food in the large dining room, but the children's low laughter and crying came from time to time on the tables.

Li Shouhan has always gobbled up his meals and is famously fast. Yan Mei'er hadn't finished eating a small bowl of fragrant japonica rice, he had already exhausted two bowls of rice there, and ordered someone to bring hot tea to rinse his mouth.

He likes to drink tea and does not like soup, which is also one of his eating habits.

"You just have to eat, I have a few words to say." Li Shouhan's eyebrows and the corners of his eyes were full of joy. However, since he said that he had something to say, who else dared to eat next to him? At that moment, they each put down the chopsticks in their hands and waited for him to speak.

"Lone is very happy today. Mita, you have a good son. Mei'er, you have raised a good son for our family again. Li Shouhan nodded and called the housekeeper who was waiting for the whole family to eat, and ordered her to bring the wine jug, and he personally filled a glass of wine for Yan Mei'er and Ashmita, held them on the seats of the two with both hands, and invited the two of them to drink with a smile.

Yan Mei'er is just that, after all, it is the husband and wife who have come through ups and downs. is calm about such a courtesy, just like Li Shouhan, it can be regarded as a tacit understanding between an old husband and wife. However, Ashmita was a little flattered and involuntarily stood up. The two lines of tears flowed down very angrily, and I didn't know whether they were excited or wronged.

Li Huashi, who was at the table on the side, saw that his mother and mother were treated like this, half of his heart was quite complacent and proud, but the other half was also quite confused. He hurriedly got up and knelt down and bowed to his father, mother, and mother.

After a busy day, Mei Shan on the side has a good relationship with Ashmita. went forward for the good sisters to find out what happened to Li Shouhan.

"Master, what is Huashi's child doing, say it so that the younger brothers and sisters can have an example."

Li Shouhan took a sip of hot tea, leaned back comfortably, and leaned his back against the back of the chair, so that his somewhat sore back could be stretched as much as possible.

"Huashi, you say it yourself."

Li Shouhan motioned to Li Huashi to talk about what happened today, and gave this opportunity to be in the limelight to this son who only knew how to bury his head in drawings, calculations, and test workshops on weekdays.

Li Huashi, who was a little red-faced and red-eared with excitement, began to stammer, and his words did not reach the point. But gradually, it became very smooth. After all, it's all his own business.

Everyone also learned from his speech why Li Shouhan treated Li Huashi and his biological mother like this today.

Li Shouhan was in a few workshops today, and he reluctantly looked at the situation everywhere, picked up the important things and observed.

The rear-loading smoothbore gun was immediately slapped by him, and he was ready to produce it in large quantities for the test installation of the troops. However, he heard a different opinion from Feng Mofeng's mouth.

"Lord, this new firecracker is indeed a sharp weapon, but it is also a lot more troublesome to produce than the usual firecracker. If nothing else, this is an extremely delicate and delicate object. You also require that each firearm must be equipped with ten sub-guns. So. The babies are a little too busy. Fang Cai's subordinates looked for them and thought about it, after this kind of fire gun was optimized. The cost can be reduced to about ten silver dollars. However, the production process cannot be reduced much. In this way, a maximum of 10,000 pieces a year will be produced! ”

Such a figure is still established in Nanzhong, which now has a relatively mature ductile iron pipe technology, and at the same time, the production line operation method is also very familiar. More blacksmiths in Foshan have also continued to resume business and join the ranks of military production. However, it is as Feng Mofeng said. Creating a gun and solving the problem of gas leakage at the junction of the breech and the gun body requires the skills of a skilled craftsman.

After some careful calculation, Li Shouhan was very depressed to find that with the current strength of the land and water armies of the Nanyue Army. The production capacity of 10,000 rear-loading smoothbore guns is really a drop in the ocean to cope with the huge demand.

The mahogany-framed abacus crackled and crackled, but under no circumstances could it be that after satisfying the full outfit of the Guards Brigade, a few units could be selected from among the towns of the land battalion, the mixed brigades, the garrison brigades, the sailors of the naval divisions, and the sailors of the various fleets.

At present, the Nanyue Army, not counting the various mixed brigades, garrison brigades, and other units, has nearly 20 units at the town level alone. In addition to the artillery units, the sanitary battalions, the baggage units, and the battalion workshops for repairing guns and artillery that will soon be assigned to various departments, the front-line combat units are not afraid that there is a need for more than 10,000 guns?

"Father, when you first made the musket, didn't you also put the sword and shield soldiers and the pikemen side by side with the musketers?" Li Huashi's words woke up the dreamer in one sentence. Wow! Back then, Lao Tzu could get forty percent of the musketeers in each formed unit, and the rest were pikemen and sword and shield soldiers. Well, the guards of the various divisions and the cavalry who act as scouts can be equipped first.

As a result, the annual production level of 10,000 rapid-fire guns can barely meet the demand!

Once the big account is settled, the rest will be managed. It's nothing more than a question of how to distribute the two families of the water division and the land battalion.

"Allocate a thousand every year to the Lecture Hall and the Sailor Academy!" Li Shouhan immediately made a decision to give priority to the Shui Shi Academy and the Lecture Martial Arts Hall. The army is governed by the first school, and the army is built before the school. This is another essence that Li Shouhan stole from the old man's military thoughts! It must be known that in such a difficult environment as Jinggangshan, the elderly have always insisted on running training institutions such as teaching teams. In the Jiangxi Soviet District and northern Shaanxi, it is even more specialized in the establishment of educational institutions such as the Red Army University and the Kang University. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, in carrying out regularization and modernization, it did not hesitate to provide no less than one division of Soviet-style equipment to academies and academies, so that those future commanders could learn and master new weapons and related techniques and tactics in schools.

The rest are according to the difference between the task and the time to go north, or two or three hundred. Or more than 100, or dozens, or none of them for the time being.

"Order the military department to send an official letter to the following, the person who receives the weapon must first go to He Chaowen for training, learn the relevant techniques and tactics well, understand them thoroughly, and be able to bring them out of the army. to bring the new gun back! ”

Li Shouhan knew very well what the virtues of the group of generals under his command were, and when these quick guns were brought back by them, they would definitely not sprinkle pepper noodles, but concentrate them on one of the detachments such as the top soldiers, scouts, and guards. As for the guard blade used to open the hole for the whole army in a decisive battle, or a sharp weapon for scouts to use in hand-to-hand combat, or a dark weapon that allows the top soldiers to suddenly kill and disrupt the opponent's formation when the two armies are engaged, it depends on the psychology and character of the generals of each department!

According to Li Shouhan's half-understanding of the military theory of breaking the wheel, the violence of war is the power of firepower and machine. The ancient Chinese soldier Sun Wuzi also mentioned the importance of baggage supply and transportation many times in his thirteen articles, and proposed that the cause of grain should be used against the enemy. Eating one stone of grain from the enemy is equivalent to saving twenty stones of oneself.

However, such a tactical idea will not work in the current Ming Dynasty!

The reason is simple. Although Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong had realized the different meanings of a stable and reliable rear for their army, they were still unable to obtain a completely reliable supply of grain and grass from their rear. If we add the hundreds of thousands of horses and livestock of the Nanyue Army to the war zone to eat, I am afraid that it will play a role in driving fish and birds for the abyss and help Li Zicheng expand the army.

Besides. The food standards and combat material needs of the Nanyue Army are in the eyes of various armies in the mainland. It is definitely at the level of the big young master of the loser. People have food standards, and mules and horses also have food standards, and the food to be provided every day is clearly listed. The people and horses of a town have to consume a huge amount of supplies every day, how can these meat, grain, oil, salt, and beans be raised in the Central Plains?

So, you still have to do it yourself!

However, the experience of going north to King Qin several times. As well as the experience of suppressing bandits in Fujian, southern Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi, and other places, all of them gave the southern Guangdong army an extremely headache about the road situation in the Central Plains. In the past, in Nanzhong, Liangguang and other places, relying on the Haikou River Wharf to transport a large number of materials, relying on four-wheeled baggage vehicles for connection and transfer, this set of effective methods. In the face of the road situation in various parts of the Central Plains, it has been greatly discounted, and some places simply do not work!

Speaking of four-wheeled carriages, many people think that they are imported, but in fact, from the perspective of cultural relics, there were four-wheeled carriages in the Qin Dynasty. During the Northern Song Dynasty, four-wheeled carriages were widely used to transport grain. However, what can be made is popularized, which does not mean that it can be inherited and developed. In the history of the use of four-wheeled carriages in China, two problems have not been well solved, the first is the steering system, and the other is the road. And I really want to say to the ancients about this, it's not that the Chinese are lazy to build roads, it's not that they can't build roads, the problem is that a large country with a territory of four million in the Guan, relying on the national strength of an agricultural country to build roads all over the country is really too strong. Even the new China established by Mao Taizu took more than 30 years to pave the pavement of Sanhetu to the main towns. Coupled with the corruption of various officials, it is no wonder that the road situation can be better.

The picture of the Qingming Shanghe can only be played in a megacity like Kaifeng. When you go out of the city and leave the royal road, your four-wheeled carriage will be blinded. At this point, in the process of going north to Qinwang several times, especially during the Battle of Tashan, in the face of the frozen roads in Liaodong, the rugged and undulating roads in various parts of Shandong seriously affected the mobility of the Nanyue Army, and made Li Shouhan and his son and the officers and men of the Nanyue Army suffer enough.

If the mobility of the army is to be improved, it can only be to improve the conditions of transportation. However, Li Shouhan never felt that he could surpass the new China established by Mao Taizu in these two moments, let alone expect that he could complete the road repair work in less than 30 years, but the transportation could not wait, so he could only think of other ways. Either that's the road. At the beginning, it could only continue the practice of the Ming Dynasty, with transportation grading, four-wheeled carriages on official roads, two-wheeled carriages on slightly better roads, and unicycles on small roads. However, with the improvement of the road system, the number of roads that can be used by two-wheeled carriages has greatly increased, and the number of four-wheeled carriages replacing two-wheeled carriages has also increased.

As the so-called Kong Fang brother promotes innovation, in the face of astonishing profits, everyone is trying to find a way, and in the end, a coachman's suggestion attracts the attention of the craftsman. The coachman casually said, wouldn't it be much more convenient if the four-wheeled carriage could remove the wheels and change them into two-wheeled?

What the driver didn't expect was that his joke actually attracted the attention of the scientific research workers of the private government, and everyone's thinking began to concentrate in this direction. In the end, Ha Jing's Academy of Sciences relied on a strong scientific research team, and Li Huashi, the son, took the lead in developing a detachable four-wheeled and two-wheeled multi-purpose carriage at no cost of investment, and relied on the connection with Ha Jing's manufacturing to quickly trial produce it and put it into the link of destructive testing.

If you can't turn all roads into thoroughfares, make your shoes thicker! (To be continued.) )

PS: Catch up on yesterday's chapter, continue to work hard today.