In the evening, after the banquet, Zhang Shihua, who was slightly drunk, was surrounded by his personal guards and came to the wing room behind the county government to rest. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The wing room of this county government seems to be the place where Ye Xian, who was killed by Li Xixi, lived in the Yuanmeng Imperial Court County Yin. Therefore, on the bed of this wing, there is a map of Nanyang Mansion.

This map is very detailed, and at first glance it is the master who has worked hard to get it. On the map, every county, every river, and every mountain range in Nanyang Province are marked in great detail. Therefore, Zhang Shihua, who was slightly drunk, noticed such a map at first sight after entering the room.

After seeing this map, Zhang Shihua's mind couldn't help but clear up a lot. After all, how important such a map is, Zhang Shihua, as a commander general, naturally understands it very well. So Zhang Shihua was subconsciously attracted by this map.

"This is ...... 'flat-topped mountain.'" Zhang Shihua, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed and looking at the map, couldn't help but exclaim after seeing the name of a place in Ye County, which he was not surprised about.

"Yes, yes, yes, this must be Pingdingshan, this must be Pingdingshan in the future. I was so stupid, I was just embarrassed to my geography teacher, I never found out that there was such a treasure in my own territory. ”

"It's sent, it's sent, God help me, God help me." Even in the face of tens of thousands of Tartar troops, Zhang Shihua, whose face did not change, was almost like a mentally ill person at this time, and his expression was as crazy as he wanted.

And the reason why he is so crazy is simply because of the three small words written on the map hanging on the wall - "Pingdingshan".

Yes, this Pingdingshan is naturally the Pingdingshan of our New China in later generations. Such a place, I don't need to say more, everyone knows about it. "Pingdingshan" is a super-large coal mine, steel, well salt and other raw material production areas discovered by the government in the Henan area in the early days of the founding of New China.

It is said that the total reserves of raw coal are as much as 10.3 billion tons, known as the "Central Plains Coal Bunker" in later generations, and this is also a place rich in minerals.

And how important these three things are to Zhang Shihua is naturally something that needs not be said and known.

"My spring has arrived, I must choose skilled craftsmen, make steel, dig salt vigorously, in this era, with salt and iron, is there anything I can't get?" Thinking like this, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but fall into a sweet dream when sleepiness hit.

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Early the next morning, Niu Yong was sleeping sweetly with a woman in his arms, but just when he was dreaming because of his friendship with Zhang Shihua, a guy who had never had eyesight under his hand knocked on the door violently, waking him up who was dreaming of yellow sorghum.

"Straight mother thief, knock knock, knock your mother's head, it's noisy!" After being woken up by his subordinates, Niu Yong, who had a somewhat irritable temper, couldn't help but shout at the shouting and scolding of his subordinates.

However, just after Niu Yong finished scolding, his soldiers said to Niu Yong with a face full of grievances: "My lord, it is Lord Wanhu who said that he has something to look for you, so let you hurry over." ”

Niu Yong, who was originally planning to sleep again, heard the words of his subordinates, and immediately fell asleep. I saw that he got up and got dressed in a hurry, and scolded his subordinates while dressing: "Straight mother thief, Lord Wanhu called me, your mother didn't say it early, you want to kill labor and management." ”

The subordinate guarding the door heard Niu Yong scolding again, and the grievance on his face was simply not to mention. But that man was not stupid, he didn't have the idea of arguing with Niu Yong, because historical experience told him that doing so would only be punished worse by Niu Yong.

Now Niu Yong needs to rely on Zhang Shihua's gift for everything, so when he knew that Zhang Shihua had something to find him, he didn't dare to delay at all. After hurriedly getting dressed, Niu Yong couldn't even take care of eating, so he hurried towards the county office where Zhang Shihua settled in three steps and two steps.

After rushing to the county office, Niu Yong found that Zhang Shihua was already waiting for him in the lobby of the county government at this time, because he couldn't help but hurriedly bow his head and walk up to the county government hall, and bowed down to Zhang Shihua who was sitting in the hall and said: "Xia Guan Niu Yong met the general, I don't know what the general ordered to summon the general?" ”

Zhang Shihua, who was sitting in the lobby, heard Niu Yong's words, but first waved his hand to make Niu Yong stand up, and after Niu Yong got up, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but ask Niu Yong: "Brother Niu, you are Ye Xian." Then do you know what kind of coal is produced in our Ye County? ”

Hearing Zhang Shihua's question, Niu Yong, who was extremely familiar with Ye Xian, didn't wait to think about it, so he said directly to Zhang Shihua: "Your Excellency, in the Pingdingshan area, twenty or thirty miles northwest of Ye Xian City, there are often people who accidentally dig some coal from the ground when they are digging wells. ”

"Is 'Pingdingshan' a mountain where there is a 'flat peak' in that place, so it's called Pingdingshan?" Hearing Niu Yong's words, Zhang Shihua's face was overjoyed, but he then asked Niu Yong like this.

However, after Niu Yong heard Zhang Shihua's question, he couldn't help but secretly slander in his heart: "Aren't you talking nonsense, Pingdingshan is not because this is called Pingdingshan, but because of that." However, although he thought so in his heart, Niu Yong still said to Zhang Shihua with a respectful face: "The general is wise. ”

When Zhang Shihua saw this, he couldn't help but be even more happy. Then Zhang Shihua couldn't help but say to Niu Yong: "In this case, Brother Niu will take Ben and me to see where we go." ”

However, when Niu Yong heard Zhang Shihua's words, he couldn't help but think in his heart, "Yes, look at my unlucky appearance, I haven't eaten, but I'm running errands again." But although he thought so in his heart, he didn't dare to say it when he lent Niu Yong ten guts, but said with a smile: "The lower official obeys the order." ”

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Because Zhang Shihua and his party went on horseback, their speed was very fast, that is, in less than half an hour, Zhang Shihua and his party rushed to Pingdingshan in the later generations. But now this place is still a very desolate place, and there is no one else except a small village.

However, this place is really the Pingdingshan of later generations, because Zhang Shihua found that there are indeed many relics of ancient coal mining in this place after taking people to ride a horse. After all, in the Qin Dynasty, the Nanyang area was because of the Qin Shi Huangdi's "relocation of unscrupulous people to Nanyang", which made all kinds of handicraftsmen in the Nanyang area gather in Nanyang, and even made Nanyang develop into a famous iron-smelting center in the world.

However, later, due to the all-out war between Yuanmeng and the Southern Song Dynasty, the Nanyang area became the main battlefield of the Southern Song Dynasty and the Yuanmeng, so that the population of the Nanyang area plummeted. According to historical records, when Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, ascended the throne for 25 years, the entire Nanyang Mansion had no more than 692 households and 4,893 mouths.

At this time, what kind of concept is a Nanyang Mansion, which is almost equivalent to the area of three cities in later generations, the total population is less than 5,000 people, and it is not even as large as the population of a larger village in later generations.

From this point alone, we can also guess how tragic the war was back then.

And it is precisely because of such a tragic and terrible war that the glorious past of the Nanyang area has completely become a thing of the past. So much so that the iron control center in the country was known for its life back then, and now even the most basic iron control technology is close to being lost.

It is true that there is indeed a super-large-scale iron mine in the Wuyang area. However, after such a terrible war, it is estimated that even the people of Nanyang themselves have forgotten that their ancestors were once world-famous iron craftsmen.

And it's no wonder that Liu Futong would give up Nanyang, an ancient treasure, to Zhang Shihua. After all, today's Nanyang is simply a chicken rib now, belonging to the kind of place where food is tasteless and it is a pity to abandon it.

However, Zhang Shihua did not feel discouraged by this, but was still ambitious. "After all, Heaven has given itself such a precious land with coal, iron, and salt. With such a treasure, can he Zhang Shihua still be suffocated by urine. ”

"Isn't it just iron-making and coal mining, I'm a traverser, and this kind of thing is a piece of cake from time to time."

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In the evening, Zhang Shihua was in Ye Xian's temporary residence, and Zhang Shihua had already returned from the Pingdingshan area. However, from returning to the present, Zhang Shihua seems a little helpless.

"Straight mother, what I think is really too simple. What a shame for yourself as a so-called traverser! Ya, others are shocked by the body of the tiger and come to worship from all directions, but what about yourself? But he was guarding Baoshan as a beggar, and he had nothing to do in the face of such huge coal and iron resources. ”

Yes, there is no way.

The story is like this, after Zhang Shihua came back from the Pingdingshan area, Zhang Shihua, as a traverser, naturally thought of the so-called "blast furnace ironmaking" in later generations for the first time. But when Zhang Shihua proposed this method to his craftsmen who were good at iron management, they were unanimously vetoed.

After their explanations, Zhang Shihua began to understand that the "blast furnace ironmaking technology" that was blown up by historical novels was actually gradually evolved and developed from today's "shaft furnace ironmaking technology".

It is said that it should not be difficult to make iron in a blast furnace, but the reality is quite the opposite. What is the specific reason, Zhang Shihua, a layman, is not very clear, only knows that the shaft furnace used for iron-making is made of salt and mud, and it is often not allowed to be built by the power of the poor month. If there is a salt mud, it will also be discarded.

Therefore, with today's furnace-making technology, the craftsmen under Zhang Shihua cannot build the blast furnace that Zhang Shihua said is more than ten meters.

And not only can't build the blast furnace that Zhang Shihua said, but even if you can build the blast furnace that Zhang Shihua said, it can't be used for iron smelting at all. Because with today's blast technology and coal and other raw materials used in ironmaking, it is simply not usable in an ironmaking blast furnace of more than ten meters.

After all, what is the concept of a blast furnace of more than ten meters, which is higher than many of the city walls now, such a high blast furnace, you only use a manpower bellows as a blower, which is not realistic at all.

The reason why the shaft furnace can evolve into a blast furnace in later generations is because the emergence of the steam engine overcame the blast technology, and the emergence of coke improved the quality of ironmaking fuel. And because of this, blast furnace ironmaking has become a possibility.

But the unrealistic things like the steam engine, even the coke used for ironmaking, only began to appear in the sixteenth century, that is, two hundred years later. With a liberal arts student like Zhang Shihua and a group of half-craftsmen, it is no less difficult than Zhang Shihua to be a soldier and an emperor.

Therefore, the blast furnace ironmaking in Zhang Shihua's dream was naturally ruthlessly shattered by the cruel reality.

Of course, there is still some "local method of steelmaking" in the YY novels of later generations, but you can see it, people are refining iron into steel, not saying that iron ore can be refined into iron.

Moreover, the local method of steelmaking during the Great Leap Forward period was a failed thing, and the steelmaking efficiency of this kind of thing, according to the analysis of the iron-making craftsmen under Zhang Shihua, is not much different from the current "steel-frying method". It's not as good as it is in YY's novel.

So Zhang Shihua's current mood can be imagined. "This group of liars, you guys, can make the real traverser of labor and management miserable." In the study, Zhang Shihua thought about the plans he proposed during the day, but was ruthlessly denied by his subordinates one by one, and now he really wants to die.

But when Zhang Shihua was entangled in transforming the resources such as coal, iron, salt and other resources in his own territory into his own strength, in the distant southern country of Qizhou, Xu Shouhui, Zou Pusheng and Peng Yingyu also started their vigorous uprising.

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Paradise Village, the main peak of Dabie Mountain in Qizhou, Xu Shouhui led the congregation to revolt here this afternoon. After the official announcement of the uprising, Xu Shouhui and the others also tied red scarves on their heads, and like Runing Liu Futong, they also called themselves the Red Turban Army. Then after Xu Shouhui made another big fool, they rushed towards Luotian Xian City, which was closest to them.

"Maitreya has come into the world, and the destiny of the Tartars has ended. Brothers, kill ah, and the leader of Luotian City will be rewarded more than he will be rewarded. Hearing the "heavy rewards", these rebel troops composed of poor people at the bottom couldn't help but let out a loud roar and attacked the death of Luotian Xian City not far away.

"Kill all Luo Tian, high-rise mansions, money and food beauties, everything, kill !!"

"Kill !!" Hearing this, the shouts of killing became higher and higher, and a small city like Luoshan, in the face of such an angry roar of countless poor people, was like a boat in the big waves, which was sunk and conquered in an instant......

Finally, encouraged by Liu Futong and them, the second wave of angry people broke out their anger again. After more than half a century of being treated like pigs and dogs by the Yuanmeng Tatars, the anger of the Han people in the south is as unstoppable as a volcano about to erupt.