Chapter Seventy-One: Supporting the Troops and Respecting Themselves (2)

Wang Jixiang saw that Zhao Kang seemed to be determined to move his troops, so he had to record Zhao Kang's original words and report them to the court. Zhao Kang directly chose to ignore it, what do you like, anyway, I won't bird you, see what you can do to me.

After the meeting ended, after Wang Jixiang went down, Daniel Zhang and other five generals and Zhao Kang's henchman Zhao Fugui did not leave immediately. Zhao Fugui said: "Young Master, Dongsheng General Chen Erdian and Ordos Jinong Temur sent someone to send a message, saying that according to the address you provided, Young Master, several large gold ore veins and large iron ore have been discovered in the territory of Urad Banner. However, because the location of the vein is at the intersection of our Yansui Town, the Tushetu Khan Department of the Khalkha Mongols, and the Chahar forces that have surrendered to the Puppet Qing. If you want to mine, it is very unsafe. ”

Zhao Kang said: "Then what do you think should be done?" Gold ore and iron ore are all things I have to obtain. ”

The old official Li said: "Lord Zhao, do you think we should obey the orders of the court and drive those Mongols from the Chahar Department to the northeast?" ”

Zhao Kang shook his head and said: "I will clean up those people sooner or later, but if we send troops now, our troops are obviously insufficient, even if we drive away those Mongols in the Chahar Department, we will not be able to defend it." Don't look at our loaders and transport trucks, which are very powerful at fighting cavalry, but when they are bombarded by the Tartars with red-coated cannons, they still fall apart. And being wronged by the court made me very uncomfortable. Now what we have to do now is not to fight but to recruit troops, and we must double the size of the Eighth Route Army under each of you, and as for when to send troops, I have my own opinion. ”

The generals below said, "Obey your lordship's orders." ”

Seeing that the generals had retreated, Zhao Kang fell into deep thought again. I didn't think that firearms in this year could also pose a threat to my loaders and agricultural vehicles. Although there are serious defects in the range, accuracy, power, and manufacturing process of any fire cannon and Furlong cannon in this era, it is not impossible to accidentally blow up a few of your loaders. A loader costs 300,000 soft sister coins, and an agricultural vehicle costs 40,000 or 50,000 yuan. If it's much worse, I'll feel distressed.

And just by buying equipment from modern times, it is not a big deal, diesel, engine oil, spare parts and other things cannot be manufactured at the end of the Ming Dynasty for the time being. Every time it broke, Zhao Kang had to take it back to modern times to repair it, which was very troublesome. Therefore, equipping one's army with some advanced weapons that can be directly manufactured in the late Ming Dynasty has become the top priority now.

Artillery! Definitely the weapon of choice for this year.

But Zhao Kang didn't want to equip his subordinates with the kind of clumsy and heavy earth cannons that could only shoot one shot in a few minutes, with serious defects in accuracy and a serious lack of power. That kind of thing is only used by the predecessors of the traverser who don't have a plug-in, and if you have such a powerful plug-in, how can you use those turtle-level weapons?

With a mind full of novel ideas, Zhao Kang traveled back to modern times.

To cast the selected artillery, you must first get high-quality alloy steel, and the electric furnace is definitely the first choice, but this thing is different from the blast furnace of ironmaking, the blast furnace does not need electricity, and the electric furnace is a large consumer of electricity.

So Zhao Kang, who was not short of money for the time being, immediately arranged for Luo Wenjuan to buy a set of electric arc furnaces, small thermal power generation equipment, oxygen making machines, and converters for compound oxygen blowing, and even in order to prevent the failure to make advanced casting molds at the end of the Ming Dynasty, he also customized a number of sets of precision molds for casting guns in the mold factory.

Zhao Kang thought to himself: These equipment brought by labor and management are no longer called plug-ins, they can be directly called modifiers, and if they can't make advanced cannons, they can cut down all those people in the Yulin Iron Works. As for gunpowder, Zhao Kang still decided to play with black powder for the time being.

Nitrocellulose, TNT, mercury thunderate or something, it's better not to play for the time being. First, the raw materials of those things are very strictly controlled by the state, and it is inconvenient to purchase them in large quantities, and secondly, the black powder is equipped with a high-quality barrel in these years, which is enough to crush any enemy. You can bring the information of those advanced gunpowder back to the end of the Ming Dynasty, and then recruit some technical personnel to study it slowly.

Everything was done, and Zhao Kang was tired of being with Teacher Ni for more than half a month before returning to the end of the Ming Dynasty with these equipment. I found Liu Jin, the director of the Yulin Iron Works, and threw him a thick stack of installation and instruction manuals printed out in traditional Chinese characters, and asked him to take them back and study them slowly. When you encounter a problem that you don't understand, you can find a way to solve it yourself, because Zhao Kang himself doesn't understand.

With steel-making equipment, and more and more pig iron smelted by ironworks during this time, although a lot of it was used to cast agricultural tools, tools, etc., and distributed them to the people for free, but where can those things be consumed? Pig iron is still piled up on several hills outside Yulin City. Zhao Kang decided to sell the pig iron.

Zhao Kang immediately feasted all the big squires of Yulinwei, Yan'an Mansion, and Qingyang Mansion in his own governor's yamen in Yulin City.

There are two or three hundred people who came to the banquet this time, and who would dare not give the governor a little face on this territory in northern Shaanxi? Because the governor's yamen was too small, Zhao Kang directly placed the banquet in the open air in the open space in front of the yamen.

Of course, there was no one else at Zhao Kang's own table except him. After all, in this world ruled by feudal ideology, no one in a group of grass people dared to sit at the same table with the governor.

The dishes are actually not rich, a table and a pot of steamed buns, a large lithium fish from the Yellow River, a few portions of beef and mutton and pickles, and not even a bottle of wine. Since Zhao Kang didn't speak, none of the people at the table dared to move their chopsticks.

Zhao Kang didn't speak, but slept on the recliner and fell asleep in the winter sun. On the side, Chunmei was gently massaging his shoulders, and Dongmei was beating his legs. A delicate little stove was placed beside him to ward off the chill.

Zhao Fugui, who was standing on the side, saw that everyone had arrived, so he reminded Zhao Kang in a low voice: "Young master! Master! Wake up, all the people you have invited to your banquet have arrived. ”

Zhao Kangcai rubbed his eyes and sat up, looked around, and saw that everyone was staring at him silently, and said with some embarrassment: "Everyone, I'm sorry, I overslept just now, I hope you don't care." However, it is a small matter to gather everyone to eat today, but doing business is a big thing? ”

When everyone heard the governor say that he wanted to "do business", they all looked at Zhao Kang with confusion and fear? I thought in my heart: we are squires and landlords, and farming is the right thing, right? Besides, who eats the bear's heart and the leopard dares to do business with the governor? The governor was so angry that he confiscated all our property, and he couldn't find a place to go.