Chapter 462: Letter from Home

All the girls wrote letters that were basically occupied by Jiang Rong, and the other women relayed the content in Jiang Rong's tone, and put it together in a letter to prevent someone from suing Jiang Rong behind her back, and only Qiao Fuer could write private letters.

The letter was written at the end of February, and before that, the matter had spread, Li Dai, Bai Lijuan, and Li Yi also came to the door to recognize their relatives in person, and Luo Li wrote a bunch of unnutritious content in the letter. The point is that Jiang Rong went to Xiao Er, Chunrou, and Chunfang's house to search around, and in addition to finding some so-called evidence, she also searched for sheep intestines from Chunrou and Chunfang.

After Jiang Rong's "torture to extract a confession", she finally understood the merits of the matter, why she was pregnant, this matter is obviously much bigger than Bai Liyan's incognito and heinous crime, for this reason, Jiang Rong did not chirp crookedly in the letter, Bai Liyan could even imagine that Jiang Rong accidentally found some kind of advanced tool at that time, and the strange expression and dissoluteness in her heart.

After that, Rory wrote no less than five or six hundred words of non-marginal bad things, such as Xuanting Hou waiting to be the ruler of the country, and all the women in the Wei Mansion had to be sealed, etc.

At that time, Xiao Chunyu was about to give birth, Jiang Rong's due date was in March, and now she should have given birth, and she sent a letter asking for instructions on what the name of the boy and girl should be, whether the surname is Baili, or continue to be surnamed Wei, Jiang Rong actually brazenly proposed, if he feels difficult, he can be surnamed Jiang, she doesn't mind, it can be seen that there is no Baili Yan's family town, Jiang Rong is so arbitrary.

In addition, after the news spread, the six surnames of the Zhao family ran more diligently than before, and Zhao Anling, who had always been rare to see the true face of Lushan for thousands of years, actually came, most likely because he felt that Bailiyan was born as a leopard before, and he looked down on it. Now in the blink of an eye, the local chicken has become a phoenix, and there is some weight, and finally there is no need to show up.

Finally, there is no movement about Lu Hou, since last year, he negotiated with Lu Hou about the salt drying law, and there was no movement until the beginning of this year. It wasn't until the news spread that Lu Hou immediately started work, and the speed was amazing.

Bailiyan felt that most of the people were worried about Luhou, in case he returned to Qiguo in which year and month to claim the king and hegemony, and Qiguo was close to the sea, and he did not clean up Qiguo into a large salt producer, and sold salt all the way to the Central Plains, rushing the market of salt owls.

So with a weak heart, holding the mentality of a dead horse as a live horse doctor, Lu Hou started 20 salt ponds in Lu City, Jiang Rong wrote a letter, two had been dug up, and Liu Dan and Lu Gao were rushing to Lu Cheng to install the sluice.

After reading Jiang Rong's private letter, the last one was the private message of the county lord of Xuanting, all of which were coquettish words about not eating and sleeping well after pregnancy, and faintly revealing Qiao Fu'er's small ambitions.

The department store was taken care of by Xiao'er in Wei Mansion, and Jiang Rong stepped on it as the lady of the main room, and later Qiao Cheng was cheeky and was stuffed into the department store by Xuantinghou and Princess Lanyuan.

Now Qiao Fu'er is also involved in one leg, after her belly gets bigger, Qiao Fu'er is powerless, complaining that she can't share her worries with her family, but where is this not to share her worries, it is because she is worried that she can't share the pleasure of counting the silver.

There are also 50,000 and 200,000 copper coins of the Xu State with the letter, which are still on the way to be escorted, and they can be transported at the end of April at the earliest, so that the military needs of the Southern Expeditionary Army before the end of the year are basically solved.

Jiang Rong's letter was quite lengthy, and the generals had been waiting for a long time when they finished reading it:

"General, it's too much for Yuke to ask for so much military resources in one bite!"

Lu Gao was extremely dissatisfied, and Sikong Nan, who had always been mild-mannered, was also indignant this time:

"What General Lu said is extremely true, every time the appetite is bigger than the last, this battle has just begun, and I don't know how many years it will take, and every year it is so begging, even if there are mountains of gold and silver in Xianguo, it has also been hollowed out."

Bai Liyan disagreed, waved his hand and said:

"You only know one and don't know the other, how can this general be cheaper than Wei Chiguang. At present, our army's baggage and heavy transport have not yet been settled, if we can't get a good guest, let it be transferred for our army to raise food, grass and military supplies, there is no need to wait for summer, our army will have no food available. If we were to transport grain and grass from Xianguo to the south, I am afraid that it would take 200,000 people, or tens of thousands of donkeys and horses, to supply more than 17,000 people of our army, and most of the grain and grass would eventually be consumed in transportation.

Therefore, the general agreed with Wei Chiguang and the king that Wei Chiguang would use the goods of the Xianguo country as funds to raise grain and grass for our army on the way south. ”

"Then what if Wei Chiguang doesn't agree?" Su Hong said.

"He categorically won't refuse." Bai Liyan affirmed: "Xianguo will pay 500,000 catties of billet in exchange for Wei Chiguang to raise and transfer heavy military supplies for our army, and he will definitely agree." It's far more cost-effective than getting some weapons. ”

"500,000 catties, how many weapons do you have to fight!"

Su Hong was taken aback, and Lu Gao hurriedly said:

"General, this is inevitably too much, can Xianguo take it!"

"Hehe, that's more. Only in the year and a half from August 627 to March 629, Yongxing City accumulated no less than 300,000 catties of steel billets, if it were not for the lack of coal, the lack of craftsmen, and the lack of fire in the smelting method, the accumulation of iron material in a year is not more than 200,000 catties, and the annual output of millions and tens of millions of catties in the future is not a problem. After the expansion of the Yongxing City workshop this year, it will be able to produce more steel billets. ”

In the heyday of Xianguo, the annual output of tin, lead and copper was only more than two million catties, pig iron, crude iron, refined iron tens of thousands of catties, and the coal required was three to five times the total amount of metal smelting, Xianguo is now seven or eight out of ten coal mines, can only rely on foreign imports, for Lu Gao, Sikong Nan, Su Hong, Xu Wei and others, the annual balance of more than 100,000 catties of billets is already astronomical.

In the second year after the construction of Yongxing City, 50% of the smelting capacity was shifted to the production of steel, 40% was used for copper smelting, and only 10% was used for smelting pig iron and crude iron required for agricultural tools, so the steel output was considerable.

However, the total output of copper and iron hit a record low in metal production, because the coal required to make steel is several times that of bronze, and the larger the steel production, the less calorific value of coal allocated to other metals for smelting, so the production of Xianguo Iron soared, but the total amount of metal was declining.

The annual surplus of 230,000 catties of billets is really not an astonishing output, and the equivalent tonnage is more than 7800 tons, in fact, a small machining plant produces more than 100 tons of iron filings a year.

In the heyday of the Northern Song Dynasty, for example, the annual steel output of the Beijing region alone reached 150,000 tons, and the annual steel output of Britain was less than 100,000 tons until the eighteenth century.

Bailiyan wrote two letters of reply, one to King Xian, and the other to Jiang Rong, focusing on Xiao Er, and it was time to harvest pearls, this time the amount was more than what was planted in 625 Shengyuan, and it was not a problem to collect more than 100,000 grains.

After the implementation of crop rotation, mussels can be harvested every year for about two and a half years. Proper cultivation of river mussels for three or four years can obtain pearls with larger beads and better texture, so as to promote the increase in prices.

Due to the hype of the Jin Kingdom and the greed of the Wei Guo, the price of pearls has been maliciously shorted, and soon after the large number of shipments in Xianguo more than two years ago, the sharp dive was almost halved. In the past two years, pearl shipments have plummeted, and the price has just rebounded at the beginning of last year, basically maintaining sixty and a half percent of the price in previous years, but this year it is shipped again, and the price has to go down.

In the next few days, news of the arrival of reinforcements came from Xiaochi one after another, and the first to reach Xiaochi was the 250,000 Zhendong Army of Zhiguo, which was controlled by the great Sima Tao, and Gongliangwen's situation was extremely embarrassing.

The military system of Zhiguo is different from that of the Central Plains, and the Taiwei of the Central Plains countries is in charge of military power, and Xiangguo and Da Sima divide military power, and the three of them are responsible to the monarch.

The situation of Zhiguo is relatively special, the Taiwei and Da Sima are in charge of the military power, and the Xiangguo is divided into Taiwei and Da Sima military power. Taiwei and Da Sima each have an army under their jurisdiction to check and balance each other, and at the same time, King Zhi has an elite forbidden army with an establishment of 100,000 to clamp down on Taiwei and Da Sima.

Gongliang and Tao are hereditary magnates of Zhiguo, and Xiangguo can be changed every year, but the two positions of Taiwei and Da Sima have always been surnamed Gongliang and Tao for more than 150 years, and it is also a special case to occasionally change hands with others.

Therefore, after a long time, the Gongliang clan and the Tao clan became two huge elite groups in Zhiguo, and after Zhiguo became hegemonic, the two families led Zhiguo into the gutter of reckless military force in order not to fall into power.

King Yan Fei of Jin Headquarters Zhenxi Army 200,000 horses arrived in Xiaochi three days later than Tao Yong's department, 200,000 people of Wei Guo had just arrived in Zicheng, and Qi, Zhao, Chen, and Yan sent 50,000 troops each, and they were still far away.

The clamor of seeking a battle is also getting higher and higher day by day, and it is rare for the coalition forces to have a unified situation of collective shouting.

On April 19, Bai Liyan drew an anatomical drawing in the wounded camp, and as a means of disseminating early medicine, sketching and painting were necessary means.

"Doctor Song, you have collected these manuscripts and records, and they will be of great use when you return to Xianguo in the future."

"The subordinates understand. However, his subordinates were worried that they would hurt and civilize, and they were denounced by the world as cruel and unkind, which hindered the general's reputation. ”

"Doctor Song is reasonable, and this matter has to be guarded against." Bai Liyan affirmed, thought for a moment and said, "In this way, all the dissection content is included in the name of the barbarian corpse, and it is not allowed to flow out without the permission of the general and the medical officer of Yicaotang." ”

"No."

Ignorance is due to ignorance, ignorance is fearless, and advanced cognition and technology are often not accepted by today's people.

As a technique that is contrary to human ethics and etiquette, medical anatomy has been branded as evil countless times in history, and Song Jin is worried that the transmission of a large number of anatomy materials will cause a backlash from public opinion and feudal education, and this concern is not groundless.

Especially under the banner of superstition and providence, Bailiyan is dissecting corpses, which are essentially evil in the eyes of today.

When he put away the sketch and washed his hands, Jiang Jie pushed the curtain into the account, and when he raised his eyes, he saw a belly lying on the table that had been cut open and opened with a copper hook, and his throat was immediately retching and itching.

"My lord, you've been here for a long time, that's all!"

"It is said that Jin Xuedi people are different from my Central Plains, and you will know everything if you dissect it and take a look."

"Is that really different?" Jiang Jie asked stupidly.

"Stupid, they are all human beings, they look different, are the internal organs in the stomach and brain different?"

"But they don't really look like people, and it doesn't matter if there is a jackal in their stomachs."

Bai Liyan smiled helplessly, at first even Song Jin thought that Jin Xuedi was just a beast with a somewhat human appearance, and he didn't think that Jin Xuedi was also a human at all. After several consecutive autopsies, no demons, ghosts, wolves, tigers and leopards were found from the stomachs of Jin Xuedi, and all organs were the same as those of the Central Plains.

At this time, Jiang Jie really approached the corpse to take a closer look, and suddenly exclaimed as if he had discovered the legendary demon:

"General, you see, it's different from our Central Plains!"

"What's the difference?" Bai Liyan was suddenly surprised, could it be true that he could find abnormal organs.

When he got closer and looked down, Jiang Jie pointed to the irregular black blood clot tissue under his liver, and was complacent:

"General, we don't have any people from the Central Plains."

"It's a malignant tumor, it's not that the Central Plains don't have it, it's that under ordinary circumstances, this thing won't grow in the human body, this is a malignant disease, and after a long time, it will be fatal. Even if this guy doesn't die, he won't live long. ”

"Can this disease be cured?" Jiang Jie continued to quibble.

"It depends on the situation, at the moment, you can't see if you don't dissect people, and most of the pulses can't be taken out, and it is extremely difficult to cure. However, these diseases have symptoms, and if you gamble on them, you can prescribe the right medicine and live for a few years. By the way, Rory said a lot of things, what are you going to do. ”

"Oh, look I forgot. Back to my lord, Master Saiqian has arrived. ”

"Why didn't you say it earlier, where are the others?"

"It's in the camp of the Chinese army."

Since he was transferred to Yesui in March, Sai Qian has been stationed in Xiaochi, and suddenly arrived at Yesui, it will not be a simple move, but Cao Chi is about to make some moves.