"Sir. Sir. "Just on the way to the arsenal between Shang Wu and Jia Xu, they met Lao Dong of the printing house, who was an old stone stele maker in his forties. He usually helps the government to make some inscriptions or something, or he carves stone tablets for rich people.

Then he knew some carving techniques, and Shang Wu asked him to unite with the carpenter, and made some individual movable type wood blocks, and then arranged them neatly, fixed them with wax or grease, and then printed them with ink, which was the early newspaper molding, and Shang Wu had many new technologies that were used, such as using cylinder printing, in that case, it would be faster, but when I thought about it. This was just the beginning, and Shangwu had to patiently accept such a situation. After all, if it is too fast, it will bring a lot of unnecessary trouble, and in order to avoid such a thing, Shangwu can only accept such a new situation.

"Lao Dong. Is there something wrong? Or something went wrong with the printing. Shang Wu asked.

"No, sir, good news, sir, you see, this is the first newspaper we have ever printed." Lao Dong excitedly handed Shang Wen a page. The earliest newspapers were only one page, and the newspapers looked much larger than the ones Shang Wen saw, because the handwriting was relatively large, after all, his craftsmen had only begun to do such things, and many fonts could not be further reduced. Therefore, the layout is much larger than that of modern newspapers, and at the same time, the content is not very much, and the newspaper only has one side, because of the relationship between paper and printing. Because at this time, if the paper is printed on both sides, it is necessary to thicken the paper, so that there will be one more process, and the cost will naturally rise. And there will be one more printing process, because all of them are purely manual operations. If there is a problem with the newspaper, it will be completely scrapped, and all this has contributed to the current situation.

"Well, yes, yes, Wenhe, your handwriting is good, Xindao Bao, this is our first newspaper." Shang Wu said with a smile.

"Hmm." Jia Xu also kept looking at the newspaper, the content of the newspaper is not much, as long as it is a reminder of the plague, and the prevention method of the plague, in addition, there are also some major events, those articles are written by himself, express some of his own opinions, and the other page, all of which are advertisements, are in the vernacular, easy to understand, which can be regarded as opening a new situation.

"Lao Dong. These newspapers, you quickly pack them, hand them over to Lao Jia, he knows what to do, and you go to notify other factories, so that they can send all the products to Lao Jia's hands, so that he can do that kind of business. Shang Wu said.

"Yes, yes, sir, I've written them all down." Lao Dong said.

Sangwu had to do this because he was developing industry and commerce if his stuff could not be sold. The development of the factory will not be of greater significance, on the contrary, if everything can be dumped on a large scale, then his situation will become more favorable, because in doing so, it will stimulate their next production activities even more, which will have a very important effect on them, Shang Wu knows this very well.

"If these things can be sold, the new road will be built." Jia Xu said.

"Well, the nascent regime will stabilize, this is our first step, this step, we must take it well." Shang Wu said. Jia Xu nodded, the power of the merchant is still very large. In this era, there were many businessmen who became good politicians, such as Mi Zhu and Mi Fang.

Experimental site of the arsenal.

"Whoosh." A rocket scream was heard, and in an area between about one hundred and fifty paces and two hundred paces, the crooked *** hit an area, and then produced a small explosion. The marbles produced, the fragments formed a lot of lethality, relatively speaking.

"How?" Shang Wu asked Jia Xu.

"In this way, our army can fight openly in the field with Huangfu Song, an old boy. However, the production of such things does not seem to be very large. Jia Xu said to Shangwu.

"Yes, it's just starting production, but we're starting to start more factory production, and finally assembling it here, I'm sure it can meet our basic needs, and this is just one of the models. There is another model. Shang Wu said.

Zhang Qing has developed two different models, one with a diameter of four and a half inches. The length is five feet. This length can be carried on the shoulder. In this way, individual soldiers can use such weapons to fight. In order to minimize the number of processes, Zhang Qing also suggested using paper tubes for firing, which can reduce the cost of construction and make the caliber easier to control. However, there is a disadvantage, that is, the paper tubes are all disposable, and some can be re-launched, however, that needs to be carefully checked. In this way, the consumption of wood can be reduced. After all, wood processing takes too long. It's a lot easier to use paper tubes.

And the other is used by a newly formed artillery unit, which is better than eight feet in length and six inches in caliber. More powerful. The firing range is even longer, with a range of more than fifteen hundred paces, and the maximum can reach three thousand steps, which is an astonishing distance. However, such a *** needs to be installed on a wheelbarrow, or a horse-drawn carriage, and a special launching wooden frame must be used, otherwise, it cannot be launched at all. The yield, as well as the ** consumed, is a big number. However, for the sake of victory, Shangwu is not stingy with such weapons at all. He demanded mass production.

"These firearms have been produced. However, I think there are still some questions about how the troops and these firearms are combined with each other. After Jia Xu visited, he was full of confidence, but he still likes to think about problems from the perspective of shortcomings, so that many of their combat shortcomings can be improved.

"Hmm. You are right, I also have this feeling, I think that we should popularize and use such weapons, and then conduct a military exercise, and at the same time, it will also be a test for the building of our military command system. Shang Wu thought about it, he felt that it was more appropriate to learn from some later practices, for example, military exercises, if the exercises are good, can greatly relieve the tension of soldiers, for example, before the first Gulf War, the US military specifically looked for the same terrain for combat exercises, many soldiers after the battle, they felt that they were conducting an exercise, not a war, because many of the situations encountered in the exercise were encountered in the war. It can be seen that the exercises can solve a large part of the problem.

At the same time, Shangwu established a staff system, and he wanted to see how the staff officers would deal with such a war.

"Drills?" Jia Xu didn't know very well, but he could think of seven or eight points.

"It's a hypothetical war, and we proceed according to the state of the war. In this way, we will be better able to cope with the situation of war. You can also do work on the map, so that you can show a lot of specific situations. This is a lot more realistic for us to be an old boy like Huangfu Song. Shang Wu said.

"Well, this kind of idea, very good, I think it is okay, in this way, we can carry out many situations, I think, this method is good." Jia Xu agreed.

"Well, in that case, we can give combat orders to the various brigade headquarters. Prepare them for the relevant things, so that we can deal with the situation a lot more conveniently. Shang Wu said.

The emergence of the staff officer system can greatly help commanders to come up with more options, and they can take into account a series of situations that occur on the battlefield. Not only that, staff officers are also an important institution for cultivating some outstanding commanders, Shangwu hopes to cultivate the command talents they need on a large scale through this way, thinking that Shangwu knows some of the practices of later generations, and many outstanding generals have the experience of working in the general staff, and these experiences are an important source point for them to cultivate the concept of the overall situation, and with such a source point, they can make their army more rational, and they can use the battlefield environment more. So as to avoid the appearance of larger-scale operational mistakes.

The talents needed by martial arts can only be cultivated by themselves, although it is somewhat difficult, but this is also the only way. Because he took a path that was never possible in this era.

On the official road, Huangfu Song's car is moving rapidly. The ranks of the officers and soldiers were much faster, because their generals were at the forefront, which greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers. This kind of practice is the easiest way to inspire the courage of soldiers. You know, their commanders are not afraid, what else do they have to be afraid of, if they are afraid, they will not be able to solve such a problem at all, it will only make them more irrational. Huangfu Song is using practical actions to tell his soldiers how to do what they should do.

"General, come down and rest." After driving for a while, some generals hurriedly helped the old general Huangfu Song down.

"Hmm. That's fine. The old man took a break. Huangfu Song jumped out of the carriage. Move his muscles and bones, this way, made his generals feel very scared. If something happens, they won't be able to save their heads.

"Hurry, hurry, you guys move forward." When Huangfu Song was resting, several carriages came out quickly, they hoped to clear the possible danger in this way, and they didn't know when it would explode.

"Boom." Just before the carriage had gone far, an explosion was heard.