Classics, Fu, Writing, Poetry, Lyrics, Songs, Dramas, Dramas, ......

China's cultural expressions, in general, are becoming more and more understandable. In this way, more people can accept the influence of culture.

As a time-traveler, Guan Yi knows very well that even in modern society, where illiteracy has almost disappeared, the most popular forms of cultural expression are TV dramas and various variety shows, rather than poetry and songs. Even in the music industry, the audience for popular songs is definitely much larger than that for operas and symphonies.

So, you have enough levels to pursue elegance. But in terms of publicity, if you want to receive good results at the public level, you must be vulgar!

Ji Hansi's storytelling and preaching have been going on for many years. Under their demonstration and drive, now in Chang'an, Chengdu, Jiangzhou and other big cities with a large number of idle people, there has begun to be a professional existence dedicated to storytelling. And sure enough, he is a master among the people, and now Guan Da Sima's earlier words are a little outdated. The new storytellers are now blowing all kinds of jokes. The image of Guan Da Sima has long broken through the category of tearing up the rebel thief, and has become an omnipotent and omnipresent god-like existence.

But as a traverser, you natives can only imitate me, how can you be surpassed by you? Therefore, Guan Da Sima directly took one step and launched the expression of drama: just listen to what Mr. Storyteller said, you have to make up for it yourself. How good the drama is, I will show it to you directly, and you don't have to think about anything. How nice!

In April of 271 AD, Guan Da Sima personally took charge of the work, arrested a group of beautiful men and women, and made a shoddy drama of "Troy" to be performed in Chang'an, which aroused a warm response: everyone generally said that it was very good-looking, but the heroine who played Helen was a little too heavy, and at first glance, she ran out of the Qinlou Chu Pavilion.

After that, "Troy" was performed many times in Chang'an, Chengdu, Jiangzhou and other places, although the tickets for each performance were more than 500 yuan, which was worth a lot of money, but it was still full. What Da Sima expected, but to the surprise of all Han officials, was that the fanaticism shown by the female dependents of many officials during the performance was really amazing.

A considerable number of women are fanatically in love with the invincible Achilles, and some women feel that the steady and stoic Hector is more worthy of trust. Fortunately, at this time, Dahan's values were still relatively positive, and the vast majority of people sneered at Paris and Helen.

Therefore, Ji Han's propaganda methods have been innovated to a very high height, and now what Si Wencao wants to do is to completely mess up the hearts of the people of the Jin Kingdom through storytelling and even drama performances.

However, to do this, Si Wencao alone can't do it. He also needs the cooperation of the grassroots government of the Jin State.

"Guan Yi, I asked you to contact your father, what is his attitude now?"

"Back to Da Sima, my father has already replied. Just four words, so do it yourself. ”

"Hahahaha~~~ Shi Zhongrong is really a wonderful person. Well, what do the families of the Jin Kingdom who have obtained the monopoly rights of my Fuxing Society's goods in Kanto say? ”

"Hehe, speaking of which. The subordinates are going to congratulate Da Sima. As of today, a total of 32 replies have been received. Seven companies expressed strong support and full cooperation. Twenty-five expressed their intention to wait and see the destiny of heaven. There is no one who scolds or refuses harshly. ”

"Very good! You go and arrange it, and the seven companies that clearly express their attitude will get the goods from my Fuxing Society from next month, and the price will be reduced by 20%. The remaining 25 are reduced by 10%. The rest of the people who don't reply to the letter must ask them to show their attitude, otherwise we will be out of stock! ”

"No, my subordinates understand."

"You heard everything I discussed with Zhongle just now, right? In this matter, you fully cooperate with Zhong Le to do it, and you must ensure that we have at least basic personal safety after the secret initiation of the Jin people! ”

"Subordinates take orders!"

For this big battle, Guan Yimao made all kinds of preparations. There is no shortage of money and food, the problem of the supply of troops has been solved, and the intelligence front has also been decided. Next, it's all that remains with equipment.

In late October, Guan Da Sima went out to inspect Wuyuan County.

This trip was very low-key. He knew that there were capable people in the Jin Kingdom, and he would definitely be able to see through his strategy of attacking Tongguan and merging states. As for the road to Youzhou, he vaguely felt that he should not be able to escape the eyes of the capable people of the Jin Kingdom, but he still had a certain hope in his heart: what if no one saw it? You know, counting the straight-line distance, the logistics along the way are simply going to collapse. Who would be stupid to go down this path?

"Xiaguan (the last general) and others greet Da Sima, Da Sima has worked hard all the way north."

"Hahahaha, Zhong Shen, Ci Qian, Ziyang, seeing that you are in good health, this official is very pleased. Speaking of which, after the straight road from Chang'an to Wuyuan was repaired, the official came all the way very quickly, and it was only about ten days away. So, it's not hard work. It's you, the wind and sand in the north are not small, and your skin is much worse than before. ”

"Doing things for the country is not hard."

After a simple greeting, Guan Yi shook his whip: "Is the heavy blast furnace over there Mr. Ziyi's steelworks?" ”

"Yes, yes. Belch...... Da Sima, Wen Yang has a reluctant request. ”

"Since it's a reluctant invitation, then don't invite it." Glancing at Wen Yang who was choked speechless, Guan Yi laughed: "This official is joking with Ciqian, what, do you want to be a pioneer?" ”

"Hey, everything can't be hidden from Da Sima. Da Sima will come to my Wuyuan County, and as soon as he comes, he will see the steel mill, thinking of the national conscription order some time ago, are we finally going to do something to the Jin Kingdom?! ”

"Of course, the specific time of the dispatch has not yet been decided, but sooner or later it will be done. At that time, the official was looking forward to Ciqian's martial arts. ”

"Don't worry about this, Da Sima. According to what Da Sima said before, use me in the first battle, and use me to win! ”

"I'm convinced of that."

A group of people talked, and soon came to the steel mill not far away. Liu Hui and others were already standing outside the factory to greet them.

"Mr. Ziyi has worked hard!"

"Not bitter, not bitter, with the support of Da Sima, Hui can put into practice a lot of things that existed in his mind before, this is really the greatest happiness in life, speaking of which Hui has to thank Da Sima."

"Well, let's talk about it later, I think Mr. Lai also heard that my Han issued a national conscription order. So ......"

"Hui has heard about this from Huangfu Taishou and General Wen. I just don't know how far Da Sima wants to expand his army? ”

Guan Yi turned around and looked around, and the other people hurriedly consciously left the two of them a few feet away. Then Guan Yi got close to Liu Hui's ear and spit out softly: "Three hundred thousand!" ”

Liu Hui's complexion changed slightly, but he quickly returned to normal, and he also replied close to Guan Yi's ear: "If the troops are sent this year, all the weapons of the whole army can be changed." But the armor is not enough. ”

"I know." After answering softly, Guan Yi amplified his voice again: "Come, Mr. Ziyi, please show me your masterpiece!" ”

"Hehehe, Da Sima, please."

As mentioned above, there is a large amount of coal and iron ore in the underground area of Wuyuan County, and it is close to the Yellow River, so it is extremely rich in water resources. Therefore, it is a natural steel production base. Since taking this place three years ago, Guan Yi has invested a lot of manpower and material resources in this place, and has built the largest steel and weapons armor production base in this era.

"Da Sima, please see, this is an iron-making shaft furnace improved by Hui, the output of molten iron is about thirty percent higher than that of the shaft furnace in the pre-Han Dynasty, and the purity of the iron is much higher than before."

"Well, how many blast furnaces are there? How much iron is produced per day? ”

"Fifteen blast furnaces, with a daily output of 2,000 catties of iron."

"Hmm." Guan Yi nodded, very satisfied.

Two thousand catties of molten iron a day is 730,000 catties a year. This output is about one-third of that of the early Tang Dynasty and one-tenth of that of the Northern Song Dynasty. However, on the one hand, this is only the output of an iron ore mine, and on the other hand, this iron ore mine has only been officially put into operation for more than two years. There is still a lot of room for growth in his production capacity in the future.

The most common blast furnace steelmaking method in society today has actually taken shape in China for a long time. What Guan Yi can do is to give Liu Hui theoretical hints: such as the way of heat transfer, how to better dissipate heat or better prevent heat loss, etc. The rest of the things can only be handed over to Liu Hui and other technicians to slowly improve.

"What is the quality of the knives produced here?"

"Well, this, Da Sima, according to your instructions, the servant has dug up different clay mixed iron ore in various places with obviously different geology in the local area for smelting, and the knives and other knives produced by it do have certain differences in timbre. But to say that there is a qualitative change, this servant has not yet done it. ”

Hey, it seems that it is still too early for this era to add rare earths to iron ore for smelting and improving its quality.

Seeing that Guan Yi's face showed a slight disappointment, Liu Hui hurriedly added: "Da Sima, although the knives produced here can't be cut in two against the knives of the Puyuan family in Shangyizhou. But the knives here are not as small as the fine products produced by the Pu Yuan family. On the contrary, it is extremely productive and can be used for a longer period of time before curling. Therefore, if the weapons here are used to redress our Han army, the combat effectiveness of our army will actually increase invisibly. ”

"Well, that's fine. Mr. Ziyi, what about the plate armor that the official told you about three years ago? How much inventory is there now? ”

"How dare you forget what Da Sima has been thinking about at the beginning, Da Sima, please come with me."

The two took the lead, and everyone bypassed the hot steel mill and came to the back of the plant.

Not to mention the close proximity to the Yellow River, there are also a number of fast streams nearby, and at a glance, you can see that the slope of the riverbed here has been artificially changed, making the water flow more rapid, which can drive more cumbersome hydraulic machinery.

As an agrarian nation, ancient China used water power very early, and all kinds of whimsical ideas emerged one after another. It is a pity that most of these inventions were used in agricultural production, and they were often not effectively popularized and improved due to the contempt of science and technology by ancient Chinese scholars.

However, as a traverser, Guan Yi has been greedy for plate armor for a long time.

The principle of hydraulic forging machine is not difficult for an agricultural student, but the difficulty is that the scumbag who lacks hands-on ability cannot build one by himself. And after having Liu Hui, many of Guan Yi's theories have people who can put them into practice.

As the armor with the strongest defense in the era of cold weapons, the advantages and disadvantages of plate armor are very obvious. Needless to say, the disadvantage is that the soldier is not flexible enough after wearing full armor, and the soldier who is covered in an iron cage will be prone to heat stroke if the temperature around him is slightly higher - this is one of the reasons why the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East still insisted on using chain mail even if it was repeatedly defeated by European soldiers equipped with plate armor.

"Da Sima, what about this plate armor, according to your requirements, try to strengthen the thickness of the head and thorax, reduce the thickness of the limbs, so calculated, the whole body plate armor that is now finalized weighs thirty catties, of which about twenty-five catties of iron is consumed."

"How many plates do you have in stock now?"

"Da Sima forgives sins." Liu Hui said that his face was bitter: "The actual production of Wuyuan Iron Mine has only been two years, and the output of the first year is far less than this year. Therefore, in the past two years, a total of 1.15 million catties of iron have been produced. Most of these outputs also require the creation of knives, spearheads, and arrows, so the inventory of this plate armor is now only about 20,000 pairs...... We have lived up to Da Sima's expectations, and I ask Da Sima to forgive me. ”

"Hahahaha~~~ Not bad, not bad. Mr. Ziyi, you have done a good job, what is the crime? The advantages and disadvantages of plate armor are too prominent, and this official doesn't plan to use this thing for the whole army! However, 20,000 pairs of plate armor are enough to surprise the Sima family! ”