Chapter 22 Pre-war preparations
Seeing the letter from the Portuguese, Liu Jingtian was taken aback: "What?
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And the other party is a large group of people wearing white stockings and having colorful big wavy curly hair...... Uncle Bearded......
Thinking of those European aristocrats in fancy costumes, Liu Jingtian was also drunk: Let me vomit first!
However, it is not good not to give an explanation for such an important matter.
"It's okay, tell them, about it, of course! But let Brother Long go about it!"
The calculation on the Portuguese side is very loud: North Africa, an ancient land, is full of countless nationalities and forces, all of which are problems left over from history. You might as well let these demons deal with some guys who are particularly troublesome and can't do it themselves for various reasons......
In the end, you don't have to pay a penny, you can also collect the stolen goods at a low price, let the demon take the blame and block the gun, and the domestic businessmen of the big nobles secretly enter to do business behind the scenes, which is simply wonderful!
It's no wonder that the reputation of the devil is so stinky, and everyone is endlessly tempted......
Liu Jingtian didn't think about it that much. Although I know that most of the other party is not well-intentioned, but recently, various industries in the city have been booming, and grass has begun to grow in everyone's hearts - the locals who were 'non-violent and non-cooperative' before have begun to send a message through the kobolds: Tell your great demon king to buy some slaves, we are short of manpower here!
Having said that, it is impossible to attack any town or the like in a short time -- a certain qualified arms dealer has already sold all his field artillery, and the rest are the big guys on the fortress.
I can only wait for a while, and after the next wave of 'ductile iron cannons' comes out, we can go sideways.
During this time, the people of Agadir also began to adapt to the kobold's 'socialist slavery system with kobold characteristics'.
In fact, as soon as the kobold came, they directly eliminated ninety percent of the 'exploiting class', because they broke up countless big families, and essentially cleared the debt relationship between everyone.
In addition, taxes are more reasonable, social order has also been greatly improved, and even if there is no 'production and construction corps,' the living standards of the aborigines will inevitably improve."
After that, various reforms such as agriculture and handicrafts were also carried out with reference to the township enterprises of later generations. Unified weights and measures, standardization of industrial parts, refinement of various types of work, and large-scale factory production have brought about the result that although the number of craftsmen has not changed much, the output has begun to skyrocket......
Although it is still very rough in management, how can the economic model that took half the world hundreds of years to sum up lose to these medieval guys?
Most of the indigenous people are already starting to feel the change in their standard of living. Some hard-working guys even started looking for part-time jobs and received two salaries. At the same time, there will always be losers in change. Those rich N generations who are not diligent and do not distinguish between grains and grains, there is not a single servant left around them, and they are forced to work, and all kinds of bricks and trenches are indispensable, so they are naturally full of complaints. However, these toothless tigers, no matter how loud they shouted, Liu Jingtian didn't care.
Thousands of people have thousands of faces, and among the 'superior people', there are also those who have hitchhiked. Looking back, many of the backbone personnel of those 'major corps' turned out to be guys with some status before-merchants, captains, tax collectors, and so on.
In fact, there is no way to do this, management ability, rarely born, more is practiced year after year. These guys who have been promoted, their actual work ability is basically stronger than that of kobolds, if it weren't for the fact that 'my big dog country has its own national conditions here', kobolds would have worked for them almost the same.
Perez, the former captain of the Guards, and others are probably the most successful of them. Negotiations with the Portuguese one after another allowed several of them to show their skills and rise in status.
In the beginning, everyone was positioned as a business representative of kobolds. Later, Liu Jingtian didn't know what else to sell in addition to cannons in these years. It doesn't matter, the business representative goes down to investigate and investigate, and gets a PPT or something.
Perez and the others sighed: "This is really a lot of work for the capable......"
Fortunately, running around, wages began to rise. It's a pity that it's a planned economy at all now, and you can't spend it even if you have money -- the traversers still have money for the time being, and they don't need to send white notes, and they still seem to be more conscientious.
Gradually, Mr. Perez, the excellent account manager and market researcher, became surrounded by more secretaries, coachmen, washerwomen and other followers. Of course, it was the traversers who picked the rest, but he was still deeply moved......
At present, all walks of life are still being restructured, and trading cannot be opened for a while, these guys are like firefighters, and they are thrown by Liu Jingtian to various 'factories' to see what is easier to sell, and by the way, they can also manage production. When I turned around, I saw that they had all become acting factory directors, acting village heads, acting district heads, and so on......
Everyone was stunned, and inevitably thought a little: As a high-end person of the 'Whitedoug Company', I can barely be regarded as a veteran, right?
Can we expand our business a little more? Can we hire more employees? So that we can also rise to the top......
For one reason or another, the kobolds are probably ready to send troops. Next, look all at the artillery factory.
Liu Jingtian has recently been working on the high-temperature quenching process. Because there was no suitable temperature measurement technology, we had to start by designing a thermometer. There is a brief introduction to the bimetal thermometer in the book, which uses the principle of thermal expansion and cold contraction to measure the range. The maximum measuring range can be up to 1,000 degrees. But what materials to use and how to determine the scale can only be developed from scratch.
Only then do you know the difficulty. He was now mingling with a group of pottery, iron-working, charcoal-burning natives and kobolds, tossing little by little with the crucible furnace. On the one hand, relying on the eyesight of these masters, they strive to reproduce the ideal temperature environment in the textbook, and the feasibility of experimental theory;
On the other hand, the half-finished 'metal thermometer' is easy to make, but it is exhausting to fumble for the scales. After thinking of countless methods, I finally followed the information table in the book and found various references......
For example, impurity-free pure iron, melting point 1538 degrees, pure copper, melting point 1083, pure lead, melting point 327...... Anyway, it's trying to purify all kinds of metals, melting, measuring repeatedly, and tossing repeatedly.
Separated from him by a wall, Brother Long is also working hard.
It's a great job to design decorative patterns for cannons! The problem is that Brother Long's eyes are not high, and he can't see people with his own skills.
It doesn't matter, we are a generation standing on the shoulders of giants, and we can copy!
So he took out a few Grandpa Mao from his wallet: "Look, how about this pattern, it's beautiful and powerful!"
Everyone was shocked: "It's too much!"