Liu Tai didn't expect much from the steam engine in a short period of time.

After all, even if he vigorously promoted it, he wanted to popularize the steam engine to the whole social production, not just make an iron lump, and then said that China had made a revolutionary breakthrough in steam technology in the fourth century.

To some extent, I should be looking forward to the civilization of steampunk.

After all, the steam engine is simple, the principle is understood, and the craftsmen who do the work are the others, but when they change the internal combustion engine or electric energy, they don't know how to use the principle of the internal combustion engine, and they don't know how to save electricity, so how to develop these two civilizations!

The principle of the steam engine is simple and crude, only the original steam engine production tools can enter thousands of households, and coal burning is used to replace human resources, even if they can't see the arrival of the industrial age, but it is enough to make China enter the industrial civilization.

And the expectations for Ge Hong are actually similar to this steam engine.

I didn't expect him to be able to make any achievements in ten or twenty years, others don't know, but don't you know the difficulty!

Even if Ge Hong is the greatest chemist of this era, if he really wants to find the basic elements from scratch, and even study the basic periodic table, I am afraid that he needs to bury Ge Hong in it.

Maybe even the entire Jindan sect will be buried in the great task of finding the sixty-four periodic tables.

So for Ge Hong's research, the only thing he needs to do is to give him money and keep trying.

To a certain extent, what Ge Hong is doing now is the basic theory of materials science that belongs to this era.

If there is a breakthrough in Ge Hong's aspect, then the development speed of the entire Huaxia will be able to advance by leaps and bounds.

For these basic researches, as an official, all they can do is give them some useless money and food support.

Compared with the basic research that Ge Hong is looking for, what Xie Fei is doing is the realization of the application level.

To be honest, Xie Fei has also been with him for a while, and Liu Tai understands that Xie Fei is not the kind of scientific research person who is good at getting to the bottom of things.

He's more of a gifted manager, he's good at technology and he knows how to use those who are good at technology.

Therefore, let him manage each project, Xie Fei can manage it in an orderly manner, and the progress of each project is often summarized in his hands and reported to Liu Tai, and new technologies can make breakthroughs every year.

This is also the reason why Liu Tai feels more and more that Xie Fei is a little easy to use.

The only pity is that this person has no family background, and if he develops according to a normal dynasty, it will be more difficult for him to climb to a high place.

Even if you climb to a high place by chance, if you don't have a jealous family, you are afraid that you will become an outlier in officialdom, and then you will be wiped out in the blow of the family.

But under his own hands, it is very good for Liu Tai, after all, in these years, technical managers who understand both technology and management, and are people who can manage more than 100,000 large-scale organizations, how can they not be talents.

And soon at noon, Meng Dong arrived at Liu Tai's mansion almost on time and was introduced into the mansion.

When he saw Liu Tai, he saluted Liu Tai, and after the two sides exchanged courtesy greetings, Liu Tai spoke:

"This war medical battalion needs to go with the army, how are the preparations?"

"There are 363 registered doctors in the medical battalion, except for the 33 who stayed behind, all the 330 doctors followed, and 1,421 assistants were also carried, so the medical battalion had a total of 1,784 personnel accompanying the army, and the medicinal materials were ......."

At this time, Meng Dong was reporting to Liu Tai the data he had prepared a long time ago.

"Don't tell me that!" Liu Tai stretched out his hand to stop Meng Dong's words.

Meng Dong was a little stunned when he heard Liu Tai's words, he thought that Liu Tai was looking for him to report this.

"Just tell me what you're missing!" Liu Tai looked at Meng Dong and said seriously, "I'll give you what you lack." ”

Hearing Liu Tai's words, Meng Dong didn't react for a while, after all, this county prince seemed to be too arrogant.

At this moment, Liu Tai looked at Meng Dong in front of him and said seriously, "Although the medical battalion was established at the beginning of my army, especially in the Battle of Changping in the Han and Jin Dynasties, it played a miraculous effect.

You and I both understand that medical battalions have always been in a situation where there is no medical treatment to help wounded soldiers, and medical battalions are incomplete.

But this time I hope that our medical battalion will not run out of medicine again, and I hope that every soldier of our army will be saved! ”

"Please rest assured, since the recovery of Qingzhou, you have asked us to open a medicine garden on the hills of Qidi to grow herbs.

All the herbs that nourish blood and heal injuries are all dried before the winter of this year, and then ground into powder, which is specially prepared for use on the battlefield, especially the medicinal materials that replenish qi and blood.

If there is really any problem, it is that our doctors have limited loads, and many medicinal materials cannot be sent to the front line like us! ”

Liu Tai said: "I will give you a batch of slips, allocate 2,000 donkeys for you, and be responsible for transporting materials for you."

In addition, you make a list of the remaining medicinal materials for Chu Yu, and he will prepare the medicinal materials as much as possible when he raises food.

However, the main medicinal herbs have to rely on your plantation at the beginning, and it is definitely not enough to collect medicinal herbs from the people of Qingzhou! ”

"Grace to Duke Xie, before I join the army, I will definitely arrange the collection and planting of medicinal herbs in the plantation!"

Meng Dong said to Liu Tai, "For the time being, we only have to transport medicinal materials, and as for other things, we have prepared as much as possible." ”

"Have you found the hemp boiling powder of Hua Tuo that I once said?" Liu Tai looked at Meng Dong and couldn't help asking.

Meng Dong replied: "Back to the county prince, I checked the miscellaneous books sent by General Wang, and we did find the recipe for hemp boiling.

But there is a special medicinal herb here, which requires a special flower called mandala that is poisoned by the body, and this kind of flower has never been seen before.

You need to find the seeds of this kind of flower from those monks who came with poison, so that it is possible to make hemp boiling powder! ”

When Liu Tai heard this, he couldn't help but feel a little helpless, and the so-called jailer burned the green bag book or something, it was just a legend, anyway, Liu Tai didn't believe it.

He asked people to sort out the various miscellaneous books that Wang Mi gave him before his death, which contained a large part of the inheritance of the Wei and Jin dynasties, which is also the reason why his steel industry can develop so fast.

Because it not only has its own advanced ideas, but also has a strong accumulation that belongs to this era.

And the herb of Ma Boiling Powder is a little different from the steel technology, because this recipe does have it, but the materials needed for the recipe need to be found in another biographical essay, and it is a pity that this essay cannot be found, so it can only be slowly explored by Meng Dong and other doctors.

Liu Tai can't help it, after all, it's good that Wang Mi can send some essays back, you can't let him send every one of them, it's normal to lose some.

It's just that this matter has happened, and it has become a castle in the air to restore the hemp boiling, and now it is very good to be sure that the mandala flower is the main medicine.

"Still doesn't work?" Liu Tai heard this and said, "Since this is the case, then the only way is to let them bite the towel and be sober for the operation, and the selected doctor can treat the external injury, see the blood, and know some embroidery skills!" ”

"Please rest assured, don't forget, I have followed you to the battlefield several times, and I naturally won't be unclear about what kind of healer is needed on the battlefield!" Meng Dong was full of confidence in Liu Tai.

When Liu Tai heard this, he also nodded approvingly, no matter what, for Liu Tai, because although Wang Jun's soldiers may not be more elite than his own soldiers, they are more numerous, and they also master the technology of horses.

In this case, Liu Tai knew that unless Wang Jun led the army to attack directly, the two sides would definitely be more of a constant fight between the rangers and the squad.

This kind of fight is actually the most dangerous and the most consuming of soldiers' lives.

And often both sides will not give up this seemingly small, but inevitable confrontation.

In such a battle, although the loss between the soldiers and soldiers is small, the loss rate is very high, and for Liu Tai, if he wants to continue such a war model, the medical battalion is indispensable.

Each time the medical battalion was able to recapture a warrior from the hands of the Grim Reaper, it would have one more veteran who had gone between life and death, and at the same time, it would give more spiritual encouragement to the scouts who went to be the rangers.

It doesn't matter if they fight with the scouts as soon as they make a move, as long as you can make sure you can get back, the medical camp can save you.

The psychological comfort that this brings is actually more important than the medical effect itself.

discussed some follow-up details with Meng Dong, compared to Xie Fei's important but not urgent matter, Meng Dong's matter was both important and urgent, so he sorted out these things one after another, and sent them to Chu Yi and asked him to focus on them.

"Buddhists from India, mandala flowers? Forget it, wait until the war with Wang Jun is over, and send someone to Pingyang to find it.

I remember that during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Buddhism began to develop gradually and even flourished, and I didn't feel it at all.

However, compared with the Han people, the Xiongnu should be more resistant to Buddhism, if there are any monks preaching, theoretically, they should go back to visit Liu Cong...... What a pity! ”

There was no way, since there was no anesthetic, there was only physical means to immobilize the soldiers all over their bodies, and stuff things in their mouths to prevent them from biting their tongues in severe pain.

But thinking about it, they are all Chinese characters fighting on the battlefield, and if they can survive by enduring the pain, I believe that the vast majority of people can do it.

Liu Tai no longer dwelled on this matter, but began to order the soldiers to prepare and go north to deal with Wang Jun.

And with Liu Tai's official order, Qingzhou began to be formally mobilized, and the soldiers began to prepare, pack their bags, and follow Liu Tai to establish meritorious deeds, at least in terms of morale, Liu Tai's soldiers are still quite high.

After all, they followed Liu Tai all the way to fight, and the soldiers at the bottom became soldiers, that is, they sent land, houses, and women, and even as long as they had a son, even the future of their son was arranged.

Originally, when a person really no longer feels sorrowful for survival, it will be very empty.

But now Liu Tai has established nationalism for them, taught them the Book of Han, and understood the corresponding truth.

Now they are following Liu Tai to the battlefield, not only for their own ambition to make contributions, but also to really feel that they and others should restore the Han family.

A remnant of the defeated army like Wang Jun, who fell into the Jin court, should have been swept into the garbage heap of history.

Liu Tai was not polite, this time he took 50,000 soldiers, as well as Liu Ming, Zhou Ping, Ge Xin, Xi Jian, Liu Yao and other generals to take the initiative to go north.

Before leaving, Liu Tai also gave Chu Yu the authority to decide when Tian Yu and Su Jun would take their soldiers north and go straight to Youzhou.

The problems encountered along the way also need Chu Biao's cooperation, the accessories of the catapult, the configuration of the wheelbarrow, these bits and pieces all need to be dispatched by Chu Ao.

It seems that Chu Yi is in the rear, but in fact, he has no less things to deal with than Liu Tai in front, and even more things to deal with in some cases.

And Su Jun and Tian Yu, after a sea trial, also clearly know the problems they may encounter along the way.

Don't say it, because the draft is deeper than the ship and the light boat, so the ship and the light boat can easily pass the route after trying it, but the fourth-generation ship collided so it hit the reef a lot.

The only thing to be thankful for is the fleet rescue effect brought about by the sealing capsule technology and damage management capabilities, at least this allows these fourth-generation ships not to be damaged once and sink directly.

suffered a loss, this shortcoming was recorded by the two, and the next time the fifth-generation ship was made, it was slowly improved for the defects of the fourth-generation ship.

Therefore, in Liu Tai's view, after any product is produced, it must be taken to the market to smash.

As long as there is demand, it doesn't matter what shortcomings the product has, just keep updating it again and again.

Don't say anything, there was no in ancient times, it's like there is no era, if you don't develop, if you don't improve, then there will never be.

The shipping technology of Huaxia from the Qin Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty did not have an essential leap in energy and materials, but only a continuous change in production technology.

And such a technology only needs to be continuously iterated, so it is only a matter of time before the fourth-generation ship is born to a ship similar to the Ming Bao that can sail on the sea, not whether it can be productive.

Now Tian Yu and Su Jun are satisfied to watch the fourth-generation ship they have worked so hard to build undergo large-scale maintenance, and at the same time, they don't have to think about building a fifth-generation ship in a short time.

But it was still too late to make a certain degree of repair, so Su Jun planned to go to Xie Fei to see how many hundred steels he could produce in the next few months, and whether he could make the craftsmen into iron sheets.

Let this 100 steel be wrapped in the belly of the fleet to reduce the direct impact of the reef on the hull.

Because he knew the priority of the surprise attack on Youzhou, Su Jun believed that this reasonable reason could be dispatched to the remaining steel in Su Jun's hands.

And even if this layer of iron sheet is damaged in the impact, it doesn't matter, as long as the plan to attack Youzhou is over, and when you send the ship back for repair, you can pick off this layer of iron sheet and smelt it again.

(End of chapter)