After disposing of the copywriting at hand, Baili Yan rushed to Yongxing City to inspect military production in the afternoon. Due to the upgrading of artillery, the ammunition supply chain needs to be realigned.

At present, the production of cartridges is clearly not keeping up with the development of artillery, and the main problem is still that there are too few processing equipment, and there is still a shortage of metal-cutting machine tools. Bailiyan has even begun to consider slowing down production in other projects and diverting capacity to produce metal-cutting machine tools.

On the twenty-ninth day of October, the bad news came from the royal family, a generation of water bandit gambler Huang Che died, and his son Huang Biao took over the Huang family's business to continue to operate, and Bailiyan personally went to the royal family to mourn Huang Che.

Huang Che's death was of great significance to the political situation of the Xian State, which meant that the officers and soldiers who were attached to the Black Turban were treated well, and as time went by, more old figures withdrew from history and new people appeared on the stage, and the political and social instability was expected to be completely healed within 15 years, laying the foundation for reunification.

During the condolence period, Bailiyan inspected the various industries of the Wang family, focusing on the futures exchange, due to the impact of the Wang family incident, Bailiyan developed the practice of irregular inspections every year.

Thanks to the calculation power of Wildland, almost no economic problem can escape his eyes, in order to standardize the operation of the industry, Wildland provides a set of institutionalized measures, after Bailiyan's consideration and deletion, reformulated a financial transaction system that is more in line with the current national conditions.

On the fifth day of November, Bailiyan reported the spread of the smallpox epidemic in the three counties of Qingtian, Sangbei and Sangnan, and returned to Yinling to arrange epidemic prevention work.

With the help of Wildland, the production of smallpox vaccine was optimized, with a production capacity of 3 million copies per year, the cost reduced to 20 percent, and the adverse side effects reduced to 1 in 500,000.

In addition, through the screening of previous research results, seven kinds of antibiotics, 25 kinds of potentially extractable sensensins, rabies, measles, influenza, diphtheria, tetanus and polio and other vaccines have been developed, which are currently undergoing clinical testing, and mass production still needs to wait for equipment and talents.

The obtained clinical biological samples are finally passed through the spaceship microbial detection equipment and entered the Wild Lan system, and after huge data analysis, the performance of drugs and vaccines is determined, and the ones with the least side effects, the best efficacy, and the worst are eliminated.

Although Wildland has powerful computational modeling capabilities, it still needs human scientific assistance and basic industry for argumentation, and its current ontology determines that it is impossible to carry out a substantive scientific research alone, so the data and research direction of human basic research are an important basic source of Wildland data analysis.

Rushing back to Qiling non-stop, King Xian urgently summoned to discuss the epidemic prevention issue in the three counties of Qingtian, Sangnan, and Sangbei.

In the past two years, smallpox has spread to all parts of the Central Plains, and the distant countries of the West Sea have not been spared, although the specific death toll of each country is not yet available, but the results of the survey of samples taken by the royal guests from various places have inferred that at least 190,000 people have died in the past two years, and the actual number will only be larger.

After the three counties of Qingtian, Sangnan, and Sangbei were incorporated into Xianguo, the population increased by more than 4.5 million, and the population of Xianguo increased by more than 6.2 million in two years.

According to the results of the July census this year, the population of Xianguo has exceeded 24.6 million, not including the families of the royal guests, and the mobility of the population has exacerbated the uncertainty of the spread of smallpox.

Soon after the truce in 650, Bailiyan immediately strengthened cowpox vaccination and local cowpox vaccination, giving priority to the three counties of Xianxi, Ganfu and Qiunan, and carrying out high-density vaccination, which barely suppressed the momentum of the spread of the epidemic.

This year, the three counties were newly informed, a large number of people moved in, and the inaction of the vassal states combined to exacerbate the smallpox epidemic.

In the evening, the Cabinet met and decided to allocate funds from the national treasury to send 1.2 million doses of smallpox vaccine free of charge to the three counties of Qingtian, Sangnan, and Sangbei, and to give 150,000 doses to each of the four counties of Ganfu, Shangguan, Wanchuan, and Pengyuan, 300,000 doses to the capital county, and 100,000 doses to the remaining counties, and to give priority to children, adults under the age of 40, and skilled intellectuals, so as to solve the urgent needs.

At the same time, the local method inoculation in the three counties of Qingtian, Sangnan, and Sangbei counties will be accelerated to alleviate the menacing smallpox epidemic.

After two days of work, without waiting to catch his breath, Su Fangyijing came to the door from Yongxing City, and he came by train.

"Mr. Su, what kind of wind blew you here?"

"Hehaha, Xianguo is so lively, doesn't Yongxing Hou welcome someone Su."

"Welcome, welcome, of course welcome, Mr. Su, please come in."

Led Su Fangyi to the study of the back house, and when the two of them sat down, Bailiyan said straight to the point

"Mr. Su is here to bring a message from Master Xiao."

"Well, exactly." Su Fangyi nodded, took out Xiao Gongyi's handwritten letter from his arms and handed it to Bai Liyan.

Su Fangyi was ordered to return to the main hall for a meeting in May, and returned to Xianguo at the end of October, and then came to the door non-stop, in order to write Xiao Gongyi's letter.

In the letter, Xiao Gongyi asked about the possibility and cost of building a railway in Qianyue Mountain, and the second was the issue of demarcation with the Jin Xuedi people.

After Mooney returned to Jin Xuedi, he brought a message, and when he left, Bai Liyan brought back a 645 type 12-pound breech gun, a number of solid bullets and propellants, 100 grenades, and 50 photos, so that Jin Xuedi could understand the benefits and disadvantages of firearms in the Central Plains.

As expected, the Jinxuedi people were frightened when they saw the artillery of the Xian army, and their previous demand for outward expansion of two provinces was finally changed to one province, and the border negotiations achieved a preliminary victory, and the Central Plains could obtain at least two-thirds of the land south of the Qianyue Mountains, and the uninhabited area of more than 15 million square kilometers of Daxue Mountains and frozen soil.

The third thing was to ask for weapons and equipment, and this time the opening was 40,000 long and short guns, 500,000 grenades, and 60,000 pistol rounds, but he did not ask for artillery.

Bailiyan immediately thought that it must be Su Fangyi's small report, the Xianjun army is improving and developing a new generation of artillery, and the price is cheaper, and then Yuke will be ready to wait.

Although the cost is not large, the economic resources of the royal guest are limited, and the artillery is cheaper, and it must be tens of thousands, so it must be carefully calculated.

Regarding the procurement of weapons and equipment, Bailiyan did not refuse Su Fangyi, and Yongxing City is currently adjusting the production line and starting to produce semi-automatic weapons at the end of the year.

And next year will begin to launch three all-electric cartridge shell primer warhead stamping and forming production lines, and the processed cartridge shell primer warhead will be sent to the Shuyang Arsenal, where next year will put into operation two steam-powered assembly lines to process into ammunition, the first phase of the project will ensure one shift per day, 12 million rounds of ammunition production capacity per year, and 40 million rounds of output in three shifts during wartime.

The old Yongxing rifle will continue to be produced, and at the same time, it will be gradually retired from active service and handed over to the navy and local auxiliaries, and it doesn't matter if part of the transfer is given to the royal guest.

The grenade has always been a weapon that Bailiyan focuses on the production of, because human beings are completely inferior in the industrial scale of physiological functions, so they can only adopt an active defense strategy, which requires appropriate defense means.

After the 650 truce, Baili Yan expanded its production scale and developed oval grenades, cylindrical grenades, loose trick mines, and trigger mines.

There are two reasons why mines do not need to be triggered.

First, in the future, it will be in a state of defense for a long time, and it will be necessary to lay a large number of mines on its own coastline and land, and it is very difficult to clear mines, so the initial positioning of mines must be accurate.

Second, the original intention of developing mines is not for human use, but for beasts and axillary giants and beast men, and the sensitivity of triggering mines is too high, humans are also easy to trigger, loose mines need to be pressurized, and then loosened, so at the beginning of the design of loose mines, the trigger pressure is greater than two stones, about 100 kilograms outward.

This pressure is basically the weight of a modern heavily armed heavy infantry, which will not be triggered when stepped on by ordinary humans and regular infantry, while the armpit giant is close to four stones bare, and the fully armed will only be heavier, stepping on it, as long as it is loosened, it will trigger, and it can also be anti-tank and armored.

In addition, a trickery device is used on the back of the loose mine to prevent armpit people from clearing mines.

Armpitary people have an infrared field of view, while the material of the mine is metal and gunpowder, which has a certain difference from the infrared signature of the soil, especially in the tropics and subtropics, where the temperature difference between day and night is large, and the difference in infrared characteristics will be more obvious.

In order to prevent detection and elimination, a trick structure was designed, and an external structure was created on the side of the mine touching the ground, and an oval grenade with a safety pin removed was used to press under the mine, and once the mine was removed, the egg grenade would explode.

Since this structure is a fixed oval grenade, it is difficult to separate the oval grenade from the mine before it is lifted from the ground, so the damage can only be eliminated by blasting the mines one by one.

As for the construction of the railway, Xiao Gongyi really "accepted it when he saw it" and wanted everything.

Not to mention that the steel output can not meet the current industrial demand, the construction of the Xianguo railway has just started, the shortage of talents, the railway mileage is too short, and the strategic potential of the railway cannot be brought into play.

Further, Qianyue Mountain is located at the altitude of the plateau, and it is a problem to transport the rails to the past, not to mention that whether it is a traditional coal-fired gas turbine or a fuel locomotive, the power of the plateau is only 40% of the plain area, and several locomotives are needed to pull the conventional load, and before the emergence of electric locomotives, plateau trains are simply unrealistic.

"Mr. Su, at present, the Xianguo Railway has just been rolled out, and it is not yet possible to build a railway in Qianyue Mountain. Secondly, if the current locomotive can pull 1 million stone in the plain, it can only pull 300,000 stone in Qianyue Mountain, and several locomotives are needed to pull it, so the conditions for building a railway in Qianyue Mountain are not yet available.

And a mile railway may not be expensive, but tens of thousands of miles of railway is a bottomless pit, and it is definitely not something that Yuke can afford.

Taking a step back, the demarcation with the Jinxuedi people is imminent, and once the danger in the south is eliminated, there is no need to build a railway in the short term, and the armpit talent is the primary threat, and we should still concentrate on opening up the Central Plains Railway to enhance the power of the Central Plains transshipment. ”

"In that case, then let's stop......" Su Fangyi sighed with pity, and then lowered his voice and said, "The head of the sect ordered me to tell Hou Ye that the Son of Heaven has killed Hou Ye, and Hou Ye must be careful in the future." ”

"Well, this matter was expected in the morning, everything is under control, Mr. can rest assured."

Liang Guo's dynamics are completely covered by the raging surveillance, and the news of Liang Guo is equivalent to unilateral transparency to Bailiyan, there is no secret to speak of, down to the street vendors and pawns to ask for advice, and up to the Son of Heaven every day to see which concubine has been doing it for a long time, everything is clear.

The scale of metal cutting machine tools, and the size of the population engaged in machining, determines the production capacity of military production in wartime, the more metal cutting machine tools, the larger the industrial population, the higher the military production capacity.

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