Chapter 122: The Beginning of the Idea of Rejuvenating the Country
Under the cover of a few people in Canglong, Li Han hid in the shadows to spy on the Huns' "great steelmaking" activities.
The crazy howling northwest wind blew the coal, rising like a fiery red sunset, slowly melting the iron ore piled up on it, watching the black ore gradually turn red, gradually turning into a red river flowing down, flowing along the stone trough paved in advance by the Huns to each Hun with a hammer, followed by a hammer blow.
Gradually, handfuls of semi-finished ironware without blades and square pieces of iron billets gradually took shape, and the area where these things were stacked became larger and larger.
Li Han carefully looked at each process, his face became more and more gloomy, and finally said, "Go back." ”
Several people took advantage of the strong wind and heavy snow, sneaked back in the dark, and changed their clothes at Zhang Fangda's residence.
The guards at the door deliberately shouted loudly not to disturb the lord's rest, and these people begged that the relatives were suddenly ill and must be treated by the lord, so they went in.
After stopping for about a quarter of an hour, Zhang Fangda did not wear a hat, and appeared at Li Han's door with a grateful face, Li Han personally sent it out, and loudly told him how to maintain it at night at the door, and then broke up and went back to sleep.
This plan to steal beams and replace pillars was exhausted, and Li Han returned to the tent with a face full of excitement, although he was tired for half the night and frozen for half the night, he did not feel sleepy at all.
He only felt heavy in his heart, as if he was indignant and helpless when he heard in later generations that the Japanese country had a new type of weapon that could threaten Huaxia at any time.
Since Li Han came to the Han Dynasty, although he has always told himself that he does not belong to this era, he only needs to spend his life in this era, and he does not have the same sense of responsibility and mission as ordinary Han people for this country and this dynasty.
In fact, Li Han himself didn't realize it, although time played a big joke on him. made him come to more than 2,000 years ago, but the blood in his bones that belonged to the descendants of Yan and Huang has not changed a little bit because of time.
Therefore, from the moment he accidentally embarked on the journey of peace and proximity and included the anti-thieves and the Huns in his field of vision, he automatically positioned himself as a defender of national dignity.
Otherwise, Li Han, who wanted to protect himself, would never take the risk of stealing the arsenal belonging to Taiqin Hengliu, let alone dig out his mind to make a Holy Heaven Sect to restrain the Huns from the perspective of thinking, nor would he tell the Bank of China that he would regard him as an enemy if he had never met, and he would spare no effort to kill the number one traitor in China.
And today. Seeing the advanced productive forces of the Huns embodied in front of his eyes, although the method was still primitive and rough, but the kind of self-taught method of improving the purity of coke combustion through a blower, increasing the ignition point, and using continuous refining and purification accuracy when smelting ore, all of this deeply shocked Li Han.
It is important to know that the Han Dynasty, from the court to the people, is still resting on their laurels, mistakenly thinking that the Huns lack iron tools the most. He also tried to limit the development of the Xiongnu by controlling the circulation of iron tools and salt, and was immediately retaliated by the Xiongnu by prohibiting the flow of horses into the Han Dynasty.
Li Han once heard Liu Rong mention it contemptuously, saying that Taifu mentioned that the Huns did not have an iron pot to cook, and they all ate raw beef and mutton.
Come on now. How ridiculous is the idea of those ministers, but they don't know that the iron smelting methods of others have long been not inferior to the Han people.
So far, the smelting process of the Han Dynasty was still carried out with charcoal, and it was extremely difficult to reach the highest ignition point at that temperature. Barely able to reach 1200 degrees to reach the sky, the same iron ore, through smelting. The degree of removal of impurities inside directly determines the quality of the finished product, whether it is so-called bronze, iron, or steel.
The Huns used coke!
The Huns know that the road uses the natural terrain to create a blower to improve the ignition point!
The Huns know how to purify through thousands of tempers!
If you fall behind, you will be beaten!
The Huns are pretending to be pigs and eating tigers!
Nima pretended to propose, made a nest of money, and secretly recuperated in the delusion of staging the siege of Baideng again, and the software had the Bank of China saying that the number one traitor contacted the anti-Han thief, and the hardware had 300,000 elite soldiers and iron horsemen ready to go, and there were high-protein beef floss cheese and other easy-to-carry and high-nutrition reserve grains in logistics, and more useful fine iron products on equipment.
When the four-color horse team came to welcome the envoys, Li Han was amazed at the amount of fine iron equipment equipped with each elite horseman, and at that time he thought that it was the dog mongrel of Taiqin Hengliu in the Central Plains who ate inside and outside secretly provided to the Huns, and now it seems that the amount of iron smelting in Guyan Mountain tonight is enough to equip thousands of soldiers with more than 30 kilograms of refined iron products per person!
It's not okay to make trouble, that kind of cleverness can no longer be stopped, and the lunar eclipse has been used to successfully stop an attack, and the next step must be stable!
Give the Huns a face of the Holy Son who guards himself and only knows how to preach, secretly find out the construction skills of the mobile fortress and the composition of building materials, and after returning to quickly think of ways to improve the productivity of all kinds of armaments of the Han Dynasty, so that they know themselves and know their opponents, and take timely countermeasures, it will not be in vain to come to this trip.
Although the Han Dynasty did not have such a vast land as the Xiongnu at present, it occupied a rich advantage, and all kinds of mineral deposits were also available, such as several places rich in carbon, but there was no purification process and was not widely used.
There are also iron mines, Li Han thought that he would rely on his own knowledge, carefully ponder and ponder, and improve the level of iron and steel smelting skills, there are so many skilled craftsmen in the Han Dynasty, compared to the Huns using such a wild road in the mountains to smelt, it will definitely be more effective with half the effort, and when the time comes, you can improve the weapons and deal with the Huns' horse team and sabers, and it may not be impossible to resist their invasion.
"Damn, although the master doesn't want to put high-purity black powder into the war in a large area in advance, if you Huns surpass the Han Dynasty in cold weapons, the master won't mind using explosives against you."
Li Han, who was enthusiastic and ready to work hard after returning to Beijing, suddenly remembered a possibility, that is, he was just a small civil lord, although the emperor was very favored, but the Han Dynasty was currently in a political situation where the central power was not centralized.
Even though Li Han had the determination to reverse the trend of history, he automatically put himself on the chariot of the Han Dynasty, and suddenly remembered the difficulty of popularizing new techniques, and felt that he was too whimsical.
Although Liu Qi seems to be humble and kind, he is actually extremely assertive in his heart, he is a gloomy emperor, he is most tired of war, and admires Huang Lao's inaction.
At present, the Han Dynasty through many years of intermarriage, in exchange for more than ten years of no large-scale wars between countries, Emperor Jing during the Yuan Dynasty, the domestic people are only more than 10 million, there is a lot of land and resources, even if there is a famine, it is easy to deal with, the disaster victims change a place to farm, anyway, there is a lot of arable land, therefore, the pressure on the court is not great, but also let the government and the opposition have a kind of small wealth and peace of mind.
If Li Han's proposal was too advanced and radical, even if Liu Qi had the foresight and wisdom to agree to implement it, there would still be a group of powerful ministers in the imperial court, and they would definitely not let the emperor give up the policy of recuperation handed down by Emperor Wen, listen to the instigation of a young man who has not yet reached adulthood, develop weapons with great fanfare, and sharpen his sword to prepare for war.
It seems that if you want to implement your ideas step by step as soon as possible, you will definitely not be able to do so, so you can only deepen your influence on Liu Che after going back, solidify the sense of national crisis of this martial madman in a subtle way, instill in him the concept of "if you are backward, you will be beaten", and then carry out industrial reform after Liu Che ascends the throne.
At present, what can be done is to develop their own business empire as soon as possible, and can develop coke, iron smelting and other projects as the Li family's industry.
Li Han is determined to turn himself into a business giant first, blinding everyone's vision with the cloak of business, and also making his age and qualifications convincing, waiting for Liu Che to ascend the throne before revealing all his true purpose and inventory. When the time comes, with the production base and the support of the imperial court, everything will be implemented logically.
After lying down, Li Han fell asleep with a strong sense of national justice, and slept until three o'clock the next day before he lazily opened his eyes.
Last night, Li Han still thought that he really couldn't use gunpowder sharp weapons to deal with the cold weapons of the Huns, and today, Da Shan Yu couldn't help but come to the door in person on the gunpowder issue.
The military minister was wearing a felt robe, holding a large plate of cooked mutton in his hand, hot and exuding a rich aroma and smell, and walked in with a smile and shouted, "The Holy Son is up, right?" ”
Li Han hurriedly greeted him and said: "If Da Shan Yu summoned Benjue, someone came to call out, why did he come in person?" ”
The military minister said with a smile: "Yesterday, thanks to the Holy Son's foreshadowing of a heavy snowstorm, we took precautions in advance to prevent cattle and sheep from freezing to death, and I am here to thank the Holy Son for his mercy." ”
Li Han smiled bitterly and said that it was unintentional, and he regretted that he had leaked the heavenly secret, which made the military minister even more proud, after the two sat down, they ate and drank for a while, and the military minister said: "Holy Son, I have a problem that I don't understand, and I have been pressing it in my heart for two days, please teach me." ”
Li Han immediately guessed what the military minister wanted to ask, and said with a smile: "Da Danyu wants to know what Lu Dao is, and this lord must know everything and say everything." ”
"That day Tucheng wolf hunting, the bamboo pipe you used was filled with the things that the Han Dynasty made firecrackers, right? How could it be so powerful to blow up a pack of wolves? ”
Li Han sneered secretly, you are not stupid, you have already sent someone to carefully inspect it, I am afraid that the master will lie to you, first point out what you know what the Tao is, and then coax me to tell you the formula, it is too much to underestimate the master. (To be continued......)
PS: Two shifts will be resumed from today, one will be served, and there will be one more later, if you think Xiao Li is diligent enough, give some motivation!