What is Yizhou's chemical capacity?

To be honest, at least at this stage, it's not really good. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Lu Ren had been mixing in the late Han Dynasty for many years when he came to Yizhou in the sixth year of Jian'an, and he knew that he wanted to use Yizhou as the basis and mix, and he had to have some hard goods on hand, so he was already preparing to put out the firearms at that time.

However, the conditions in the early days of Yizhou were very poor in all aspects, especially in terms of population, to put it mildly, there were almost not enough people to farm, and Lu Ren and Shirley also took a lot of effort to gather so many dozens of people who could barely engage in chemical industry. Later, it was not until the ninth year of Jian'an that Tian Chou relocated his 30,000 or 40,000 northern people to Yizhou, and Lu Ren and Shirley expanded the team of chemical workers to 200 people. But even by this time, this chemical team was just beginning to have the ability to refine and make home-made gunpowder.

Don't talk about how these people are so useless, after so long, they can only make home-made gunpowder that is not even qualified to make fireworks, which requires a modern person who knows a little chemical knowledge, and may be able to make gunpowder by buying some materials casually. You must know that many things are not so simple, in modern society, you can buy some materials to make gunpowder, but have you ever thought that the materials you buy have actually been modernized and industrialized refining and purifying? And Lu Ren and Shirley have to do it completely by themselves, and it takes a lot of their energy to refine and purify the raw materials of saltpeter and sulfur alone.

As we all know, in the Han Dynasty, there was no serious chemical system, and a small amount of limited chemical knowledge and skills were basically in the hands of some so-called warlocks or alchemists, and then there were some related technologies in the hands of people in some related industries, such as mercury and cinnabar.

And after Lu Ren learned that Shirley caught Zuo Ci who came to Yizhou to swagger and deceive, and made Zuo Ci a "chemical technician" with both soft and hard methods, he simply sent some personnel, and it can almost be said that he "kidnapped" and "abducted" a group of alchemy warlocks and alchemists, so he reluctantly established a hidden chemical research base specializing in gunpowder.

After that, it took a lot of time for Lu Ren and Shirley to establish a formal firearms production site, but the overall scale is still very small, and if they really want to put it in modern society, I am afraid that they all belong to the backward three-no sex workshop, and they have to be closed every minute...... Well, it may be a bit too much to say that, maybe it should be said that it is a bit like the arsenals in those base areas during the Anti-Japanese War, right?

Fortunately, at this time, the earliest group of schoolchildren in Yizhou were added to this chemical factory. Under the deliberate arrangement of Lu Ren and Shirley, these children learned some knowledge of chemistry more or less during their school years, and they had a certain cultural foundation, so they were naturally much stronger than the original group of craftsmen who couldn't even recognize a few characters. As a result, the overall level of the chemical industry at hand by Lu Ren has been greatly improved with the support of these new bloods who have received formal education and have a good cultural foundation.

At this time, Yizhou chemical industry was also divided into two aspects, namely civil chemical industry and military chemical industry. Needless to say, civil chemicals, such as rubber, soap, etc., are not only used on Lu Ren's own territory, but also exported as commodities; In terms of military chemical industry, Lu Ren is still in a relatively hidden state due to some related factors, and the amount of gunpowder produced is not much more.

Let's put it this way, by the middle of the twelfth year of Jian'an, Lu Ren had five gunboats and a small amount of ammunition reserves, and these five gunboats had been used when they were fighting Karasuma. After that, Lu Ren stepped up the production of gunboats, and in almost two years, its related production capacity was fully operational, and only then did he have these fifty gunboats and the corresponding ammunition stock.

It's just that in such a short time, the production capacity is not very good, so after experiencing the bombardment of Quanzhou and the battle against Sun Quan, the ammunition accumulated by Lu Ren in the early stage was used up seven or eight tenths. As for this operation against Lu Meng, time has not passed for a long time, and the production and replenishment of ammunition on Lu Ren's side is still very limited.

And this was only the supply of ammunition, and the casting of artillery was also a big problem at that time. For example, Lu Ren now has fifty gunboats, on average, each gunboat is equipped with forty guns, so fifty gunboats are about 2,000 guns in total. And this kind of artillery is also after a long period of testing before the formal type, strictly speaking, it is the kind of ancient breech artillery used in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the caliber is not large.

It seems that it is not difficult to cast this kind of artillery, but in fact, Lu Ren and Shirley are also very difficult. The copper and iron required for an artillery cannon are hundreds of kilograms at every turn, and the forging and casting industry in the early days of Yizhou is not only poor, but the number of copper and iron resources is still small. Not to mention military use, in the early days, even copper and iron for civilian production often made trouble that was insufficient.

It was not until later that Lu Ren had a good relationship with many Shanyue tribes in Quanzhou and obtained a large amount of copper and iron from Shanyue, and this situation was changed; Later, the Zhen family began to move to Yizhou in the eighth year of Jian'an, bringing excellent forging and casting technology to Yizhou, which made Lu Ren and Shirley have the conditions to cast artillery;

Two years ago, Lu Ren arranged for Lu Cheng and Lu Xin to go to the Sanya area of Zhuya to formally develop the excellent iron-rich ore in Zhuya, which can be regarded as a complete solution to the problem of Yizhou steel supply, and Yizhou artillery officially entered the mass production stage. It must be clear here that not only the artillery itself, but also the shells are cast in iron, right? And after the shells are fired, they may not be able to be recovered. Whenever he mentions this, Lu Ren always sighs with emotion and says that the war is really all about money!

In addition to these factors, the necessary consumption and wear and tear of the training and training of relevant personnel...... There were a few times when the accounts were settled, and Lu Ren was shocked. This is really Nyima, and the economic capacity that Yizhou has developed over the years can afford it, otherwise Lu Ren wouldn't even have a place to cry.

However, these hard work and huge efforts have finally proved their worth in these last few battles. With the powerful power of the artillery displayed, Lu Ren only had the same idea in his heart, that is, the hard work he had before, and the large amount of money spent for these artillery...... It's all worth meowing!!

Okay, there's no more to talk about this, anyway, as long as you know that although Lu Ren has a hard guy on hand, it hasn't reached the point where he can use it as he wants. And this time, if it weren't for the discovery that Lu Meng had assembled a large-scale force group here, Lu Ren might still have asked Gan Ning and Huang Zhong to lead a small fleet to come over and scare them, throw a few stone bullets and shoot some crossbow arrows, so that the Wu army would "just be active" and flash people. The "MP" on hand has not recovered much, so it is the main principle to take it when it is good.

The person looked around the battle situation carefully on the high platform, and a sneer appeared on Lu Ren's face. After the interspersing and transfer of Gan Ning and Huang Zhong, Xu Sheng and Ding Feng were unable to support Lü Meng, and Lü Meng was forced to gather the ships together in case they were washed into the water village by Lu Ren's ships, but they became the target ships of the gunboats led by Lu Ren, and they were bombarded by Lu Ren very happily. The battle has been fought like this, so what suspense is there next? Unless Sun Quan's reinforcements can arrive at this time. However, the sea route of more than 200 kilometers was ...... at the speed of ordinary ships at that time Hehe, by the time Sun Quan arrived, the battle here would have already been over.

At this time, Shirley reminded Lu Ren again, saying that the ammunition of each ship was not much, and if it was bombarded like this, it would only be able to fire less than fifteen rounds at most, and after hearing this, Lu Ren ordered all gunboats to cease fire, but ordered the thirty or so large warships following the gunboats to meet the enemy.

Seeing Lu Ren give this order, Shirley's face became quite strange at that time, and she hesitated for a while before asking Lu Ren, "Senior brother, do you really plan to do that?" ”

Lu Ren sneered: "Of course! This battle has come to this point, we are already sure to win, and it is almost time to prepare for the flashing thing, if we are too greedy for merit and love war, it will cause a consequence of adding to the problem. It's just that before we flash, we have to leave some souvenirs for Lu Meng. ”

As he said this, the thirty or so big ships had already crossed the gunboat formation in the front row and came to a place about 100 meters in front of Lu Meng's fleet. At this time, if you look closely at the main flags of these big ships, it is likely to make many people feel a little laughing, because the patterns on these main flags are ...... It's actually his Q version of Kitty.

When these ships passed Lu Ren's main ship, Lu Ren also glanced at the Kitty pattern, and said with a smile: "It's a cute battle flag, isn't it?" It's as cute as our girls in Yizhou. Therefore, the souvenirs they are going to give out will also be like their 'love'!! ”

said that it was "cute", but when it came to saying these two words, Lu Ren was completely gritting his teeth. Shirley on the side glanced at Lu Ren and said softly, "Senior brother, you actually want to vent your evil anger for those girls who died in battle and were humiliated, right?" ”

Lu Ren nodded: "That's right!" It's not a shame to die in battle, and it's even a kind of man's glory for many people, but I just want them to not even have this glory! I'm going to make these guys a mess and a mess on the battlefield on behalf of the dead girls! ”

At this time, because Lu Ren's shelling of Lü Meng had stopped, Lü Meng's position here was finally barely stabilized, but because Gan Ning and Huang Zhong were still pestering Xu Sheng and Ding Feng, Xu Sheng and Ding Feng were still unable to return to Lü Meng's aid. Then Lu Meng saw that there were more than thirty big ships coming over and the side was aimed at him, and Lu Meng and the soldiers of the ships were very nervous in their hearts, because they didn't know what Lu Ren's side would do next to them...... (To be continued.) )