Chapter 564: Wood

Huang Degong finally went down to the city, because his soldiers reported that Lu Wang had returned, so he hurried over, and saw Luo Rucai, who was drinking with Lu Wang in the tent, was obviously stunned: "Brother, what's going on?"

"We're all colleagues in the future, say hello!" Lu Wang smiled slightly, Luo Rucai stood up with a flushed face and hugged his fists, "Uncle Huang, carry more in the future!" ”

Huang Degong returned a symbolic salute, but frowned: "Lu Wang, will the emperor be to blame for this?" ”

"What's to blame, the Qing army besieged the city and fought bloodily, the traitor Luo Rucai took the opportunity to abscond, but he didn't want to be discovered by Hao Shaoqi, the two fought, Luo Rucai was killed, Hao Shaoqi was ordered to kill the enemy in a bloody battle with the Qing army...... "The more Lu Wang said that the wider Huang Degong's eyes opened, the stronger Luo Rucai's smile became!

"Okay, okay, don't say it, take it!" Huang Degong shook his hand: "You, you, just toss, let you toss this matter, let's talk about things outside the city now, the Qing army was ambushed in Texas this afternoon and suffered heavy losses, do you know?" ”

"I know, I knew it when I passed by Texas today, and I left Xu Wenjue there by the way, and I left a lot of wound medicine, what happened to the grain and rice?" Rwan asked

"Why don't you feel happy!" Huang was stunned,

"What is expected, what is there to be happy about, you can kill more than 10,000 people with more than 100,000 people, and kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800 people, what is there to be happy about!" Lu Wang pursed his lips, "When you kill a thousand enemies and lose a hundred, I will be happy!" ”

"Hehe, that's impossible!" Huang Degong smiled embarrassedly, and then his expression changed: "Abatai, who has lost one after another and lost his troops, must be going crazy now!" It's all going to be a tough battle! ”

"Aren't you ready to accept the recruitment, no matter how hard you are, you have to resist it, otherwise the city will be broken, and it will not only be your tens of thousands of horses who will die, but the 200,000 people in the whole city will suffer!" Lu Wang said seriously, and Huang Degong suddenly felt pressured!

"I know all of that. But if you don't have a psychology in me, you won't have a bottom, so don't go anywhere these days, just stay by your brother's side, if nothing else, the Qing army will attack in the next two days! Huang Degong sighed,

Lu Wang rolled his eyes and rolled his eyes, "Still by your side, can you not be disgusting, if you are good, you can be full of emotions by what you say, you Huang Degong is also a fierce general, how can you become as timid and afraid of things as a girl now!" ”

"It's not that I'm afraid of things, it's that I'm more confident when you're by my side." Huang Degong hurriedly distinguished, Lu Wang waved his hand, "Don't say it, I'll try my best, but I have to go back to equip supplies in the next few days!" ”

"Now that there is no shortage of food and rice, and the combat preparations are complete, what else do you need to equip?" Huang Degong was puzzled, "Could it be artillery?" ”

Lu Wang shook his head gently: "Big brother, you must know that I am not only taking care of the war now, but also the economy." Engaged in trade, now Wenzhou is training the navy and building a naval base, and a naval base is also being built in Hangzhou Bay. Training sailors, and more importantly, building big ships! A large number of various material support are needed, but Daming is now poor and nothing, but time can't wait. I can only rely on me to procure it from the Celestial Empire! ”

"Build a big ship? What are you going to do, don't you have an ironclad ship? Huang Degong was stunned!

"Ironclad ships are used to equip the navy to fight piracy and are used in naval warfare, but large ships are needed to engage in ocean trade. I have to go back and equip some shipbuilding tools, such as cranes, chainsaws, paint, waterproof materials, and steel, by the way, we are now selling steel cheaper, more than a thousand a ton, the cheapest is only nine cents a pound cheaper than cabbage...... Uh, don't you understand too much? Looking at Huang Degong and Luo Rucai's stunned gazes, Lu Wang realized that he had gone astray!

"Eh, steelmaking is a good thing, it's a good thing, Daming needs steel, needs steel", Huang Degong didn't want Lu Wang to see that he didn't understand, and he held on!

"Yes, yes, Daming needs steel, but our steel is unsalable, I heard that even if it is discontinued now, only the inventory is enough for the Celestial Empire to last for five years, so the price is so low, I bought it to stimulate the economy of the Celestial Empire......" Lu Wang said and quickly shut up, why didn't he deviate again, and couldn't help but glare at Huang Degong, it was this guy who brought it!

"All in all, I'm very busy, I have to go to the rice country to deliver to people, and then equip some artillery, muskets, ......"

"Ah, there's finally artillery, great, if there is one now, brother, I'm not worried at all!" Huang Degong was overjoyed to interrupt Lu Wang's words!

"There are now, but it's just one, I just brought back Gao Jie's door from Texas, and I'll go back and arrange it in the city to cheer you on!" Lu Wang said lightly, and Huang Degong stood up: "Then what are you waiting for, just now, take advantage of the dark to shoot a few shots and see you off!" ”

"Okay, let's go!" Rwann is also interested!

Although there is a difference of more than 400 years, but the time and space are parallel, the Ming Dynasty and the Celestial Empire are exactly the same in time, and even the weather is so imaginary, Jingzhou City has a little snow, and Shenyang City is also snowing now, but the snow is all over the sky.

The dormitory area in the warehouse area in the west of the city, in fact, is the base of the Black Tiger Gang, and hundreds of Lu Wang's subordinates are entrenched in the warehouse area, and now everyone on the boundary road in Shenyang knows that this is a forbidden area, and the people of the three sects and nine streams have to come here to say hello, otherwise the end will be very miserable, and it is even more unimaginable that this is also a forbidden area for the police, police cars, and the figure of the police officers You can't see the figure within a radius of a few kilometers, but the security here is surprisingly good, this is because the purpose of the Black Tiger Gang is not to steal, not to rob, not to do evil.

There are countless gangs in the Northeast underworld, and ruffians and hooligans can be seen everywhere, but this is calm, since a few bastards who don't know the height of the sky and the thickness of the earth have done something in this area and were picked off and broken their hamstrings, there is no longer a colleague style here, especially on the rivers and lakes, it is rumored that the three sunspots have joined forces with the Black Tiger Gang, and the white road is smashed with money, the Black Tiger Gang already has a hegemonic demeanor, but this overlord is very strange, that is, so far the same people have not found that they have done a thing that their peers are doing!

Is this a gangster or not, sometimes even Heizi and Huzi are asking themselves, and they always feel uncomfortable if they don't do something illegal and undisciplined, but their real boss Lu Wan comes and goes like the wind every time, and the dragon sees the head and the end, and every time they are given the task of procurement, all kinds of procurement!

At this moment, in the middle of the snowy night, Lu Wang once again gathered the backbone of the Black Tiger Gang to discuss the matter, saying that the discussion is good, but in fact, it is arranging tasks, and the first thing is gunpowder, which has always been in charge of Kuroko, although he can't figure out what Lu Wang is doing with so much gunpowder, but he likes to do this work very much, because he finally has the appearance of a little black and astringent!

Freighter, you pass this on to the company, ask them to buy me a freighter, and then give me a quote! Lu Wang smoked a cigarette and stood at the window looking at the snow scene outside, although the shipbuilding technology of the Ming Dynasty is already the world's first, but that thing is time-consuming and laborious after all, and it is urgent to buy a ready-made freighter for use and can be used as a training ship, and slowly train a group of modern crews!

Procurement, still procurement, one of the reasons why ancient shipbuilding is time-consuming and laborious is the backwardness of tools, and the biggest reason for Rwan's return this time is the purchase of these tools, chainsaws, nail guns, etc., it is a large amount of expenses, it seems that he has to tighten his belt again!

After explaining, everyone went back to their rooms to rest, but Lu Wang did not feel sleepy at all, sat on the windowsill and smoked and looked at the snowflakes outside and fell into deep thought, that is, how to stimulate the economy of Daming, or how to inject a shot of vitality into Daming's economy! And then the reality is that the Ming Dynasty is now poor and innocent, let alone developing the economy or industry, and he doesn't even have to eat, and he doesn't know how many people freeze to death and starve to death in a day!

What made him even more disappointed was that the Ming Dynasty was obviously a treasure but opened the door to this treasure for a while, and the food and drink depended on him to purchase from later generations, although it stimulated the economy of later generations, but this is not a long-term solution after all, the Ming Dynasty must be able to support itself and have enough food and clothing! But now, although he has the heart, he is powerless, because he is busy with peace and war.

The war cannot be settled for a while, and the industry of the Ming Dynasty cannot develop in a short time, but you should make plans now, and you can't always rely on future generations to procure! Lu Wang thought about it and finally made up his mind, then first develop the iron-making and steel-making industry of the Ming Dynasty and then export it to the world!

Of course, this plan is not a handful, first of all, I have to consult relevant professionals to teach cash smelting technology, and then go back and talk again, build a professional team, find iron ore, mining and smelting, easier said than done, mainly for technical reasons, I feel that I am about to become an encyclopedia, because I have to learn everything!

Timber! Lu Wang suddenly saw a pile of wood in the yard, and a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, what is the thing that Daming is most lacking now, and can export it to future generations at the fastest speed, and the answer is instantly paid for the wood on the water!

Although Daming is not short of coal, iron ore, and oil, but it is not easy to take, equipment and technology and so on need to be matched, and they are now busy fighting wars obviously do not have so much energy, and now the iron ore coal in the future is not scarce, oil is in short supply, but now they have no technology to take it in a short time!

But wood is different! The lack of timber in later generations has reached the point of being stretched, the population density is large, and the consumption of paper is even more appalling, so the speed at which trees are cut down is also amazing, but now in the Ming Dynasty, there are few people and wide land, and more importantly, there are deep mountains and old forests everywhere, and there are many trees, which is what Lu Wang saw with his own eyes!

Although the materials for heating and lighting fires in the Ming Dynasty at this moment are trees, after all, the demand is too small, and the branches of firewood are enough, and the trunks are almost only used to build houses.

This is really a happy discovery, Lu Wang was excited and almost didn't sleep all night, and even wanted to return to Daming overnight to send out the news, but he still controlled it, after all, it was late at night, after all, there was still a war over there, after all, he had to go to Wenzhou and Yiwu tomorrow to transport goods, and then he had to fly to the rice country! (To be continued......)