Chapter 16 Tongguan Preparations Railway Land Acquisition

In order to design clothing for the army, Zhang Zhimu didn't go to the office, so he accompanied Huang Yukun at home while engaging in clothing design. If you don't understand, please ask Huang Yukun.

Huang Yukun said: "I thought you were really at home with me, so you were here for me to help design military uniforms?" ”

Zhang Zhimu hurriedly said: "I'm at home with you, but I can't do nothing, don't you say?" I'm doing it both ways. ”

Huang Yukun said: "Yes, you just have a good mouth, and you have said all the good things." I don't know this time, but I'm fascinated by that girl again. ”

Zhang Zhimu laughed and said: "It seems that I still have this ability, and I will marry a few more in the future, let them line up, and listen to you." ”

But without waiting for Zhang Zhimu to draw a few drawings, Chen Yufeng sent someone to invite Zhang Zhimu over. Zhang Zhimu knew that something was wrong again, and Zhang Zhimu hurriedly came to Chen Yufeng's command center.

It turned out that Ningde sent news that it was raining heavily in the south of Tongguan, and Sun Chuanting's army, which had been progressing smoothly, could not be supplied with logistics. Ningde was very optimistic about the upcoming decisive battle, and hoped that Yaogang could urgently provide some ammunition and prepare for the defense of Tongguan. Zhang Zhimu knew that history was still tenaciously developing according to the original trajectory, but the time seemed to be a little earlier.

Ouyang He said: "Once Sun Chuanting is defeated, Tongguan will be difficult to hold. Our support for Tongguan is to let Tongguan consume more of Li Zicheng's strength, but if Tongguan loses, we must not let Li Zicheng get too many muskets, then we will be able to help Li Zicheng. ”

Chen Yufeng said: "We know this matter in our hearts, but we can't talk about it, and it is not okay not to give a gun." I think I'll send another hundred muskets, and more ** and bullets. Those of us who need to light a fire can send some more. Anyway, we use our own hands to pull the fire**. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "No wonder Ningde is in a hurry to let us take their families over, it seems that Ningde has already seen that the situation is not good." If Tongguan is besieged, we should leave at least two of our warships at the Tongguan wharf and withdraw our personnel. The people who need to retreat from Tongguan must also be evacuated. ”

Chen Yufeng said: "Our warships are supporting Tongguan with mortars on the Yellow River, and we can also help Tongguan defend for a few more days." I'm afraid that Li Zicheng and they will only attack Tongguan in winter, in that case, we won't be able to use our strength. ”

Ouyang He said: "I didn't expect things to progress so quickly, we are now equipped with 6,000 muskets in the army, and there are still 2,000 in the library; Mortars are armed with a hundred, and there are a hundred more in the Curry. Ammunition is also plentiful. More than 10,000 pieces of various ** have also been prepared. All kinds of barbed wire fences for horses and wooden stakes are also prepared, which are basically enough. If Li Yunhe's rifle could not be put into production as soon as possible, he would have to prepare some muskets. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "There is no need to work on the musket. The rifle is also very fast, Li Yunhe and they were prepared before, so we don't have to worry. In the future our muskets can arm our militia. This time, let's send the ** and muskets to the Ningde garrison as soon as possible. ”

The three of them were studying things here, Li Zhi came over, and when he entered the house, he saw that the three of them were there, and he knew that the information in his hand did not need to be hidden from anyone, and said: "The information we got is that Li Zicheng is really preparing for a decisive battle with Sun Chuanting, and their countermeasure is that it is the hungry people who fight in the front, the infantry in the back, and the elite and cavalry of Li Zicheng in the rear. ”

Ouyang He listened and said: "What a vicious tactic, this is to use the hungry people to consume Sun Chuanting's sharpness, and use the infantry behind to block it." Then counter-charge with the elite soldiers and cavalry from behind. We must send Li Zicheng's tactical information to Sun Chuanting as soon as possible, so that he can be prepared. ”

When Zhang Zhimu returned to the office, Li Zhi came out and said: "The information was sent back through No. 2." It seems that they are doing a good job. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Remember their merits, and don't forget them at any time." ”

Li Zhi said: "Li Guo's special cell has been renovated. This kid is still very moist. ”

"Don't let him die, he's of great use." Zhang Zhimu said.

Back in the office, Zhang Zhimu didn't have the heart to design clothes anymore, so he asked Yang Yulin to invite Lu Qi.

Lu Qi came to Zhang Zhimu's office, and before he could say a few words, Yang Yulin knocked on the door and came in and said that Xiurong Zhixian was here.

Zhang Zhimu hurriedly went out of the inner room and said to the magistrate: "Your Excellency, please come to the inner room." ”

Xiurong Zhixian said: "Don't worry, I know you have a lot of business, you do your business first, and my business has to be said slowly." ”

Zhang Zhimu had no choice but to go back to the house and continue to talk to Lu Qi. Lu Qi knew that the magistrate was still waiting outside, so he said, "Come on, I'll make a long story short and introduce the situation." One, our flour grinder has been done, and the bran skin has been given to Qingfengzi for them, the rice grinder is simpler than the flour grinder, and it is being tested in the past few days, and it is also about to be done. In addition, the canvas and twill you let us weave samples are also woven, and there is no problem in multi-weaving. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "You have to start weaving more fine weave and canvas now, our military uniforms must be twill, the canvas should be thicker, our barges will use tarpaulin, you can also go to those who are engaged in rubber, see how you can apply a layer of rubber on the tarpaulin, so it will be better." We also had to weave a little thinner canvas, which we were going to use to make rubber-soled shoes and breeches for the cavalry. ”

Lu Qi said: "This is easy to do back, I will arrange it when I go." ”

Zhang Zhimu took out a few more drawings and said to Lu Qi: "Don't rest, you researchers, you want to develop a machine for weaving towels." This is a simple idea of a towel machine, you have to get the towel machine out, first weave it into the size of a washcloth, and then weave out the towel quilt. In this way, the value of the same cotton, after we weave it, will be different. ”

Lu Qi looked at the drawings and said, "It's just that there is one more wool thread than the loom, which should be able to be made." Mr. Zhang, needless to say, this towel machine is the cloth woven by our loom, and it is also hand-woven that cannot be compared. Our textile workshop is about to start production, and by that time, the cloth we sell will be able to feed the kiln workers. ”

Lu Qi said that at this time he was very confident, Zhang Zhimu also knew that the textile industry was the most representative industry in the early days of the industrial revolution, and now the machine-woven cloth will soon occupy the market, and those handmade cloths will soon be fatally threatened.

After Lu Qi finished speaking, he left, and the magistrate entered the house without being polite.

Zhang Zhimu hurriedly got up and poured tea for the magistrate, and the magistrate didn't care about any etiquette when he picked up the tea, and drank the tea in one sip.

Zhang Zhimu felt a little strange, could Yang Yulin pour tea for the county magistrate?

Zhang put down the cup first, Zhang Zhimu didn't wait for him to speak, and said first: "Lord Zhixian is still here for the disaster victims, right?" ”

The magistrate was stunned for a moment and said, "Exactly." How do you know? ”

"I see that the county magistrate is very embarrassed, I guess that's it." Zhang Zhimu said: "However, adults are always like this, and it makes us embarrassed." ”

Zhang Zhimu thought in his heart that the matter of building the railway needed to occupy some other people's land, and it was best for the government to come forward to do this. As long as you have the official documents, you can do it yourself.

The magistrate seemed to be prepared to take some trouble this time, and said, "Zhang Dongjia, we can't watch those victims starve to death one by one, right?" Every day, we have to carry out a lot of dead people outside Xiurong City, and we can't look at it. ”

Zhang Zhimu didn't answer this question, and said: "We have a worry now and don't know what to do, can you help?" ”

The magistrate replied: "As long as I can do it, I will try my best to help, Zhang Dongjia will tell me what is going on." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "We want to build a railway from the smelter to the kiln, but we have to pass through some other people's ground, and now the difficulty is that we are afraid that people will not sell the land to us, in this case, the railway will not be able to be repaired. ”

The magistrate asked, "What is the railway?" Do you want to take someone else's land? ”

Zhang Zhimu knew that he couldn't tell about the railway for a while, and said: "To put it simply, it's just a kind of road, but we have to lay rails on this road, and then use a steam engine to drive a vehicle to walk on the rails, and such a car pulls things quickly and a lot." However, this kind of railway does not make small turns, and it needs to go in a straight line, so it needs to go from some people's fields. ”

Lord Zhixian nodded and said, "It's so troublesome, if people don't sell the land, it's a bit troublesome." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "If our railway is opened, it will require a lot of labor, so that the young and strong victims can also be arranged." We should also do our part to help the victims of the disaster. "Actually, some time ago, the people of Yaogang had already studied it, and they wanted to rescue these victims and arrange for them to go to Xishan Baozi to open up the wasteland.

However, the magistrate understood that Zhang Zhimu was using this matter in exchange for helping the victims, so he readily agreed, saying: "Zhang Dongjia's construction of the railway is beneficial to the country and the people, we will definitely support it, and I will issue a notice when I go back." The land that needs to be occupied for the construction of the railway shall be compensated according to the land price. If there is any disobedience, it will be punished according to the rule of disrespect for the king. ”

Zhang Zhimu saw that his goal had been achieved, and asked, "How many more victims can we have in Xiurong?" ”

"At least more than fifty thousand."

Zhang Zhimu asked: "We have arranged a lot of disaster victims for you, why are there so many?" ”

The magistrate said: "In the whole of Shanxi, we have the most stable grain prices, and this is all your credit." That's why we have the largest concentration of victims here. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "This can't be done, we have arranged these, and there will be more of them." What do you say adults? ”

The magistrate lowered his head and said, "These are all new victims, and the previous victims are almost dead." I don't know when it's a head. The current victims all had a little land and savings at home before, and they can't hold on to it until now, so they ran out. In this way, we Shanxi people will die. ”

Zhang Zhimu was also very moved, and said: "My lord helped me do this, and the victims of Xiurong will be handed over to us." ”

The magistrate raised his head abruptly and asked, "Zhang Dongjia, what you said is true, I heard it right." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Really, that's what I said. ”

Lord Zhixian's tears almost came down and said: "I came to you again, to be honest, you don't take a copper coin, I can't blame you." You kiln gang people are doing your best. On behalf of the victims, I thank you. After speaking, the magistrate of the county arched his hand to Zhang Zhimu.

Zhang Zhimu hurriedly stopped and said, "Your Excellency, you're welcome. I have one more thing to ask you. The news we got from Tongguan is that Sun Chuanting is preparing for a decisive battle with Li Zicheng, and I am not optimistic about Governor Sun's decisive battle. If Governor Sun is defeated this time. Tongguan is difficult to hold, and Shaanxi is also difficult to hold. The next one will be our Shanxi, do you have any plans? ”

Lord Zhixian sighed and said, "Look at the top and bottom of Shanxi, there are a few people who are thinking about this matter. Let's just say that the food you donated goes to the hands of the victims, and they are all skinned by them. It's all an open secret. Does anyone think about that? ”

"My lord, others don't think about it, we have to think about it ourselves." Zhang Zhimu said.

The magistrate said: "What are you afraid of in the kiln, you have guns, people and food." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "This is not a trivial matter for adults, Li Zicheng will be an overwhelming hundreds of thousands of people when he comes, not a small fight in ordinary times." You Xiurong also have to prepare. ”

Lord Zhixian let out a sigh of relief and said: "The thieves are coming, it's a big deal, Xiurong's soldiers and civilians fought with the thieves together with Xiurong." This is also stronger than now, we have been in disasters for several years in a row, but the imperial court still comes to collect food payments, which is forcing us to die. Where can we collect money and food? ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "As long as you have the determination to fight to the death, we will do our best to support you when the time comes." But you have to be prepared. ”

The magistrate said, "Don't worry. I think you'd better tell me whose land you're going to occupy there, and I'll see what I can do to help you get it done." ”

Zhang Zhimu hurriedly went out and asked Yang Yulin to invite Mr. Lu Bingyi and told Yang Yulin that he must ask Mr. Lu to bring the route map of the railway.

After a while, Lu Bingyi came over with the two of them with the drawings.

Zhang Zhimu explained the situation, and Lu Bingyi was of course very happy when he saw that the people of Youzhi County came forward to help build the railway. hurriedly spread out the drawings on the table and showed them to the magistrate.

This drawing was drawn by several students of Lu Bingyi with a team of people for a long time, from the smelting factory to Niutou Mountain, and some of them were drawn with dotted lines to Datong and Kill Hukou.

The magistrate looked at it and said, "Hehe, you have such a big appetite, how much steel do you need to build these railways." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "What the adults said is that it takes too much steel, so we have to repair it section by piece." The first thing we built was the railroad from the smelter to our kiln. If it takes more than 30 miles to walk from the kiln gang to the smelter, but it only takes more than 20 miles to build the railway, how many roads are saved, adults know. ”

The magistrate was also very happy, and said: "Needless to say, you can draw another map of the section from the smelting plant to your kiln for me, and mark whose land you want to occupy." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "In this way, my lord, once our railway passes, we may divide other people's land, and the rest of the land is not easy to plant, if people want to sell all the land, we can also buy it." ”

The magistrate was also a shrewd man, and when he left, he said, "You can leave the matter of building the railway to me." You have to make arrangements for the victims as soon as possible, and when I go back, you have to bring me some food, and I have to put porridge for the victims. ”

Zhang Zhimu immediately arranged for someone to bring back a batch of grain to the county magistrate, Zhang Zhimu knew that this was a good official, and he had to hand over the matter of Xiurong to him in the future. However, the magistrate left without even eating, and he still felt a little unbearable.

Seeing that Lord Zhixian left with a carriage carrying grain, Lu Bingyi said to Zhang Zhimu: "Mr. Zhang, the opening ceremony of our Yaogang College has not been officially held yet, do you see if you choose a time, let's do it, this is a big deal." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Okay, when Mr. Lu comes back from Xishan Baozi, we will prepare well, and also take the opportunity to let all walks of life come to the kiln to have a look." This opening ceremony should be a little more quiet, and our "Yaogang Weekly" will do publicity in advance. ”

Lu Bingyi said: "Then our school will make preparations first, and let our teachers and students pay attention to this matter." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "It's okay now, after lunch, let's go to Yaogang College to have a look." ”

Lu Bingyi said: "Okay, you haven't been to the college since the beginning of the semester." ”

After lunch, Zhang Zhimu asked people to bring a carriage and came to Yaogang College with Lu Bingyi.

The main construction of Yaogang College has been basically completed, and there are some construction waste outside that have not been cleaned up, but the magnificent atmosphere of the construction of Yaogang College makes Zhang Zhimu very happy to see it, and the building of Yaogang College is the best in the whole Yaogang. Zhang Zhimu and Lu Bingyi did not inform anyone in the academy, and also told the doorman, don't make a noise.

Zhang Zhimu and Lu Bingyi first started with the teaching building, then the dormitory, the canteen, the gymnasium, and the laboratory building. As a result, in the laboratory, I met Qingfengzi and others.

When he came to the door of the laboratory, the first thing Zhang Zhimu saw was that there were a lot of bowls and chopsticks on the table in the laboratory, which were placed there without washing after eating.

When I entered the laboratory, I saw that in the laboratory, some people were busy fiddling with some glassware. Zhang Zhimu knew that Qingfengzi was not satisfied with the original layout of the laboratory, and they were leading people to rebuild the laboratory.

After Qingfengzi found that Zhang Zhimu and Lu Bingyi were coming, he immediately greeted him and said, "Mr. Zhang, I know you're back, but I'm too busy to see you." I was not satisfied with the original laboratory, so I asked them to rebuild it, and it was basically done. We were in the process of resetting the lab, and soon, it would be ready for use in a few days. Whether it's a student experiment or a trial we can use it here. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Okay, we will soon have a real laboratory of our own. Our students, needless to say, do experiments here, as long as they understand what everything here is for, they will gain a lot of knowledge. ”

Qingfengzi said: "Lu Qi has already sent me wheat bran, can you tell me more about the process of making MSG." ”

Zhang Zhimu knows that the MSG method of Wu Yunchu, China's MSG king, is currently the easiest way to produce MSG by himself.

Zhang Zhimu said: "MSG is actually monosodium glutamate, and we can use bran skin to extract glutamate, because bran skin contains 40% glutamic acid. I can first pressurize gluten with 34% hydrochloric acid to obtain a black hydrolysate, which is decolorized by activated carbon and then concentrated in vacuum to obtain white crystalline glutamate. Glutamate is then reacted with sodium hydroxide, concentrated and dried to obtain monosodium glutamate. If you get this done, you'll turn the white water into chicken soup. That's a great result, and you have to take it seriously and get monosodium glutamate out. ”

Qingfengzi said: "Don't worry, you've said everything like this, if we can't do it, then we won't have the face to stay in such a laboratory." ”

At this time, Li Shoutan came over and interjected: "Mr. Zhang, our soap has been tested, is it a special factory to produce this thing?" And the leftover glycerin, what are you going to do with and where do you need to put it? ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Glycerin is a good thing, you can give it to Li Yunhe, that thing is the best lubricant." I will go back and tell Li Yunhe about building a factory, and he will arrange it. ”

Lu Bingyi saw that there was nothing wrong and said, "Okay, Mr. Zhang, let's not delay everyone's work here." ”

When Zhang Zhimu and Lu Bingyi left the experimental building, the doorman came to inform him that Chen Yufeng sent someone to find Zhang Zhimu.

Zhang Zhimu knew that Chen Yufeng could send someone here to find him, and that was not a small matter.

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