Chapter 370.Yanshan Snow, Yanshan Blood (13)

"Sandbags to build a city?"

Looking at Xiao Daguan with a flattering look on his face in front of him, Qiong Tailang of Daohai Zongyuan and Mu Lan, who presided over the expansion of the outer city of Zhuozhou, repeated those six words expressionlessly. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

But with just these six words, Xiao Daguan felt that the temperature around him had suddenly dropped a lot, and even the tea soup in the bamboo cup in front of him no longer emitted heat.

However, Mu Lan just replied without interest: "I know about this, but at the moment, the construction of the city is important, and the matter of sifting sand cannot be delayed, Brother Xiao still needs to pay more attention." ”

After saying this, this Qiong Tailang picked up the pine cup carved from bamboo roots in front of him, and said: "I have talked about tea for a long time, and I don't treat each other well, and I changed the fairy soup." ”

With his words, a young man who was no more than sixteen or seventeen years old, dressed as a warrior, walked into the fortification room with two soups.

The custom of the Liao State is to welcome guests and order soup, but in the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty, it is to welcome guests to order tea and send guests to soup, Xiao Daguan knows that this is the Song humane official in front of him who is impatient to listen to himself and say more, and order soup to send guests.

He had no choice but to take the kiln pot from the young soldier's hand with the black glaze and the silver quill in it, and slightly dip the medicinal soup boiled with atractylodes, red dates, almonds, etc., to his lips, and then took his leave.

Seeing Xiao Daguan's back leave, Mu Lan hurriedly took a sip of the fairy soup, pushed the soup cup away, and buried his head in the pile of documents in front of him again-

Whether it is building materials such as cement and steel bars, or Taoist magic objects such as Dongxiao bamboo and Xuanji Zhu, at least at this stage, they are all strategic materials that cannot be requisitioned on the spot by the Song and Liao countries.

Regardless of anything else, in terms of the smelting scale of the Great Song Dynasty at this point in time and space, the iron supervisors of each road only produce two million catties of iron in a year, and there is more pig iron and less wrought iron.

Under such a situation, even if Xu Xuanling's tiger skin can be used to transfer iron materials from Hedong Road and other places, a large amount of pig iron is not suitable. However, if the blast furnace and pig iron are built to make steel, it is even more unrealistic in the current situation where the war situation is about to break out, and the steel bars used as building materials can only be transferred from Daohai Zongyuan.

At this stage, a demote like Xiao Daguan, who is still in the period of observation and use, naturally cannot let him handle such a major event as the regulation and control of strategic materials. Therefore, in the construction of urban defense in Zhuoyi Erzhou, how much various materials were used and where they were used depended on middle and lower-level Taoist officials like Mu Lan to personally make detailed accounts for future checking.

I was so busy that I was busy until midnight. The middle orderlies sent Mu Lan two meals, but this Qiong Tailang didn't care about eating a mouthful, only swallowed a Bigu Dan, and went on to busy with his business.

It wasn't until the moon and stars were scarce that Mu Lan finished the day's work. He took a sip of the bamboo root cup and took a sip of the leftover tea that had already been cold, and slowly walked out of the big tent in his temporary office.

Outside the big tent is the construction site, and you can see orange lights cruising around from a distance, and it is the Taoist soldiers carrying octagonal glass wind lanterns who are on guard and patrol.

In the original time and space, the maritime merchants of the Wanli period began to traffic Murano glass from Venice on a small scale, and during the Kangqian period, the British lead glass was indispensable in the clocks imported by the Thirteen Lines of Guangzhou, and there were large and small glass kilns in Shandong and Guangdong, not to mention the glass factory built by Jesuit missionaries hired by the Qing Palace.

It's just that as the Jesuit missionaries grew old, thirty years after Qianlong, the Qing Palace Glass Factory gradually couldn't make transparent colorless glass, and still walked back to the traditional imitation jade glazed ware. The technology of the folk glass kiln has gradually declined, and even the Manchu clan nobles in Beijing have gradually lost the use of Cao Xueqin's various glass lamps, and have returned to the old road of using donkey skin, sheep's horn and other colloidal materials to make lampshades.

This decline ended with the diffusion of technology guided by the Money Gang and Daohai Zongyuan, followed by the large-scale popularization of glassware, as well as the decline of traditional industries such as lamps and mirrors. Even the time-honored brand of Xue Huigong's bronze mirror, which was inherited from the Song and Yuan dynasties in Huzhou, was finally beaten by the glass mirror and could not turn over. If it weren't for the fact that a small number of Xue family mirror workers were recruited by Daohai Zongyuan to assist in casting all kinds of Daomen magic mirrors, I am afraid that this old craft would simply be cut off.

As Mu Lan, who has been in charge of civil construction, what he sees in his eyes is more than just a simple and official thing as "the light of the new era".

Walking around the construction site and determining the progress of the project, Mu Lan walked by the foundation of the city wall, but happened to see two acquaintances: Yin Xiaolou and Xie Mingxian, the pair of sworn enemies.

As classmates and comrades, why is the relationship between these two so bad, Mu Lan didn't care at all, just stopped at the magic mirror in Xie Mingxian's hand.

The magic mirror was as bright as silver, and the turtle button, the acquired hexagram, and the true shape of the eight-sided talisman that should have been cast on the back of the mirror were faintly transformed into the flowing light and shadow of the mirror, showing a strange scenery where the real and the illusory were intertwined.

Compared with the brass mirror that flashes white in yellow, has a poor texture and is easy to rust, this magic mirror cast by copper and English mixed hardware is a real work of art.

Retracting his appreciative gaze from the magic mirror, Mu Lan nodded slightly towards Yin Xiaolou and Xie Mingxian, and was about to turn around and leave, but he was about to be held down by the guy who looked like a pirate leader more than a Taoist official: "Lao Mu, do you have so much time to go out for a walk tonight?" It just so happens that our round of night patrol has just ended, and we are planning to go to the cafeteria to get some food and drink to warm up, take a walk, count me as the East today!"

For the title of "Lao Mu", Mu Lan, who is not a few years older than Yin Xiaolou, refuses, but in the face of Yin Yasha's self-acquaintance, implicit hints, or direct rejection, it basically will not play a role. Mu Lan just maintained his usual face as a supervisor on the construction site, and nodded slightly: "It's the two of you." ”

Although the cafeteria is twelve-hour-a-day, there is nothing good to eat in the middle of the night. Basically, it is mainly non-perishable pickled foods such as kimchi, salted eggs, salted fish, smoked sausages, and air-dried meat. Most of the Dao soldiers of the Daohai Sect followed the Qi Refining Technique of the Soldier Family, which was simplified from the Hussar Heart Seal, and in order to ensure that their internal qi was strong, the intake of fat and protein was an indispensable part.

However, as a Taoist official from the Lihuo Cutting Academy, Mu Lan had also been to those food factories that were specially supplied to the Taoist soldiers of the two provinces, and knew how those meat products were processed.

Fish sausages are made from a variety of white meat fish, rinsed in salt water to remove odors, and then sent to a special meat grinder to completely separate the bones from the meat. The slurry surimi is mixed with sweet potato flour, spices, and medicinal salts for preservatives and poured into the casing for aging.

The method of bacon sausage is similar, except that the food factories under the management of the Money Gang are rare misers in the world, and they will never waste a little material. When a pig enters the sausage workshop, it is destined that every organ in its body will become a part of the **, and even the bones will not be left. After the pork bones are boiled, they are ground into bone meal for feed.

As for how much meat is used in the sausage, it is all minced anyway, and the spices are put to cover the taste, and I can't eat it anymore when I am free.

Since then, Mu Lan has completely lost interest in the meat in these supply armies, but the Taoist officials rarely have the opportunity to open meat in the battlefield. In order to ensure the abundance of true qi, most of the supplies of the Taoist officials during the battle were Bigu Dan and medicinal wine that replenished vitality. As for whether the Bigu Pill and the medicinal wine are used in the ordinary Yellow Essence Poria Cocos, or the specially cultivated Spirit Grass Exotic Flower, it depends on the grade of the Taoist official.

Just like now, Yin Xiaolou got a few bottles of rice wine with green colors, a few pieces of puff pastry and poria cake with heavy oil and sugar, and a plate of spring rolls and dried bamboo shoots with thick marinade.

took a bite of Poria cocos cake, and the taste of being too sweet and greasy with too much molasses and grease rampaged in Mu Lan's mouth, completely overshadowing the unique fragrance of Poria cocos, and as for the soft and faint aftertaste, it was impossible to taste at all. But Mu Lan was not in the mood to comment more on this kind of battlefield dessert, just quietly listened to Yin Xiaolou speak:

"The so-called Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty is also a bit dishonest, telling them to camp in the city honestly, and that little Captain Yao insists on going to the outer city to join in the fun. If it weren't for you, Xie Dajian Jun, who was troubled, I would have directly broken that guy's dog leg with a whip! But don't say it, this surnamed Yao's martial arts are only ordinary, but his equestrian skills are really good, and he runs really neatly, and he is lame on the horse, but he doesn't fall to the ground, and he really wants to give him a Liujia arrow!"

"That's not a cat or a dog, it's Yao Pingzhong, the adopted son of Yao Gu of the Xihe Army. The Yao family is second only to the Chongjia generals in the Western Army, and at present, our army is still dominated by the Song army, if you really want to shoot him, now we have to enter the state of being attacked by the enemy. Although I don't think it's a big deal to be besieged by the Liao army and the Song army, the mission is the mission!"

"Speaking of the siege, the original city defense of Zhuozhou City is nothing, Lao Mu, you repaired the outer city earlier, and we will be at ease sooner. Our tactics, relying on the fortress to achieve the maximum firepower output, if there are not enough manpower, we will personally take our subordinates to help you transport sand and cement, this is absolutely the same for everyone!"

Seeing Yin Xiaolou patting his chest in front of him, Mu Lan laboriously swallowed the molasses poria cake in his mouth that was too viscous, and looked at Yin Xiaolou and nodded: "Manpower?" I really need it, but it's not to ask the brothers to do coolies, but to do a good job of supervising the team." ”

"Overseer?"

"Zhuoyi Erzhou has entered the wartime system, rushing to build a fortress is a battlefield, destroying the progress of the project is desertion, cutting corners is throwing in front of the enemy, Xie Jian Army, what do you think should be done?"

Xie Mingxian responded coldly: "All military laws are engaged!"

(End of chapter)