The Sacred Ding

Su Ling guarded her identity as a concubine, and did not want to appear in the public at the same time as Chen Li, so she returned to Tianjiya first.

Chen Hai took the cheeky Qi Hanjiang and walked to the Zhudian, the meeting place of the Xuegong in the middle of Juquanling.

The craftsmen and craftsmen apprentices rushing to and fro, seeing Chen Hai pouring out their salutes, Chen Hai also responded one after another nodded.

Zhang Xiong, Zhao Ruhui, Guo Hongpan, Xue Cun and the others realized that there was such a big movement outside. It was not that Qi Hanjiang was playing treasures, but Chen Hai was in his busy schedule. Back to the Tianji Academy, we welcomed him into the conference hall of the Bamboo Palace.

It is also a coincidence that Zhang Xiong, Zhao Ruhui, Guo Hong judge and the others are also gathering in the bamboo hall to discuss matters.

Different from other sect or clan discussions, where everyone sits down and sits on long cases, Zhudian’s discussion is based on a round table system, which is qualified to reach a higher-level and discuss the highest-level affairs of the school All the Tianji-class craftsmen gathered around a long oval table to discuss matters.

Looking at the furnishings in the side hall, Chen Hai thought not without malice, if these old fogeys in daoist robe were all put on suits or white coats, wouldn’t they be the same as Earth?

Thinking of Earth, Chen Hai felt sad for a while, fearing that there would be no chance to return to his hometown.

He randomly found a seat and sat down and asked Zhao Ruhui and the others: “Master Zhao, what are you discussing today?”

Except for Zhang Xiong as the culprit of the Xiqiang rebellion, and Two or thirty thousand clansman was exiled outside Liquan by Chen Hai. Zhao Ruhui and the others joined the Tianji Academy. They did not have the obligation to perform to Longxiang Camp and Chen Hai, but resisting the invasion of barbarians is the righteousness in itself, everyone. It is an unshirkable matter, Zhao Ruhui and the others gathered again today, and they are still discussing how to do their best to support the construction of the Yuchengling line of defense.

Listening to Zhang Xiong and Zhao Ruhui talking about what they had discussed before, Chen Hai nodded slightly, and a lot of work is still proceeding in an orderly manner in the direction he expected, saying:

” The barbarian army began to shrink to the north. This winter’s defensive battle is coming to an end, but the Yuchengling line is far from stable, and the pressure on subsequent construction is even greater. The input of young and strong labor has been negotiated with Tianshui County a few days ago, Zhou The Chinese, Wu, Qu and other tribes will no longer block landless poor households and move north to Yandangyuan to find a livelihood. It is estimated that nearly 200,000 people will move to settle along the middle reaches of the Guanhe River this year. However, Hengshan needs two more sophisticated tools and common materials. It will take three years to build many workshops, and they still need to be transported from Liquan in the early stage. It’s just that the current capacity of the three Fengyan airships is too limited and they are continuously used. At the same time, the pressure of maintenance is also great-a more important issue. Yandangyuan, as a plain of the Pingchuan River, has vertical and horizontal lakes. Even if there are minerals in the ground, it cannot be mined. The large amount of copper and iron ore needed for building a city can only be mined from the deep mountains at the western foot of the Qintong Mountain. A big trouble…Do you have any better ideas?”

Qintong Mountain’s gold-quenched iron is extremely rare, and there are many common iron and copper mines. Tianji Xuegong has long discovered more than a dozen in the west. Large-scale copper-iron ore veins, but the biggest difficulty at present is to transport huge amounts of copper-iron ore from the deep mountains at the western foot of Qintong Mountain every year.

The capacity limit of the three Fengyan airships is six 100,000 Jin, plus the main components such as airbags, dragon wrecks, davits and Fengyan steam boxes require regular maintenance, repair, and replacement. The limit is one year The capacity is 100 million catties.

At the same time, the loading and unloading of copper and iron ore into the Fengyan airship is quite inconvenient.

Before, for the needs of the war, Chen Hai assembled thousands of strong laborers at the Xilu mine, specifically for the mining, loading and unloading of copper and iron ore, and barely maintained this matter, but this is Extremely uneconomical.

The previously built Tongkou City only considered 35,000 soldiers and horses to be stationed, and the city wall was only built to a height of three meters; and the real Tongkou City in the future must be considered to resist the invasion of the blood demons and be able to accommodate nearby Tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of people can hide in to avoid disasters. On the one hand, the area of ​​the city is expanded on a considerable basis, and the height of the city wall needs to reach 20 meters or even higher.

At this time, I still want to melt iron to build a city, and in the future, I will build ten major cities on the Yuchengling line. The consumption of copper and iron ore is far from the concept of 100~200 million catties. .

Everyone talking at once discussed. Some people suggested that in addition to the three Fengyan airships already being built, more Fengyan airships should be built. Some people suggested building a plank road against the cliffs of Qintong Mountain. It is also suggested to use the waterway of the Tonghe River in the deep mountains at the western foot of Qintong Mountain for transportation.

Each suggestion has limitations.

The wind and flame airship cannot be built fast, and the repair cost after it is put into use is actually not low. Not to mention, if an airship is used so frequently, the airbag needs to be replaced once a year, which requires 2,000-3,000 High-quality animal skins; even if there are ten Windflame airships, they are actually far from meeting the demand for capacity.

To build a plank road is to drill holes in the cliff’s steep wall to insert beams and pillars, and then pave bamboo and wood section by section. However, the width of the plank road is limited, and it is easy for a carriage to pass in one direction. The Qianli plank road from Quanquan to Hengshan is not something that can be completed in a year, and the final capacity is far from meeting the requirements.

The Tonghe River connects Liquan with Hengshan Mountain and Tongkou. However, the Tonghe River passes through the deep mountains and ridges at the western foot of Qintong Mountain. There is a 3000-meter drop in height. The flood risk is not to mention the entire river. It also formed a waterfall-like discharge, making it difficult for boats to pass.

Otherwise, the current land and water passage would have been formed from Hengshan to Tongbei, and there is no need to wait until now.

However, when it comes to the transportation of bulk materials, using river channels is undoubtedly the most convenient and economical way.

“cough cough!” Chen Hai coughed slightly, interrupting the discussion, and with a wave of his hand, from the Tianji Academy to the Qianli or so Terrain Map in Yandangyuan, slowly in a light curtain Present.

“The cost of transporting with Fengyan airships is too high. Even if there are ten or even twenty airships, it is impossible to transport 1 billion catties of iron ore out of Qintongshan every year, not to mention the need for Fengyan. There are too many places for airships. It is not impossible to build plank roads, but it requires a lot of manpower and material resources in the early stage, and the future transportation capacity is also limited. This is something to be done, but it can only be done slowly. A road connecting Hengshan was built within the year, even if it was successful. The early energy should be placed on the Tonghe River. The Tonghe River winds out from the eastern foothills of Qintong Mountain and flows westward through Liquan, leaving Qintong. Behind the mountain, go all the way to the north and towards the vast sea. In the Qintong Mountain, there are also countless streams and lakes, which can connect the mining sites with the Tonghe River, and we can even reclaim more in the western foothills. Many fields came out…”

In addition to clansman such as Zhou Jun, Wu Meng and Cao Shan, Chen Hai also admitted refugees and prisoners of war in Juquanling in his early years, and later Zhang Clan moved in with more than 20,000 criminals. The population of Liquan has long been as large as 300,000.

Liquan Mountain has a lot of land and little fields, and it is a loss that in addition to the Tianji Academy, the various cliques can accommodate such a large population in the Liquan Dazao Workshop.

Of course, in order to relieve the pressure on the land and grain, Chen Hai was also very early in the deep mountains west of Juquanling, almost on both banks of the Tong River, looking for relatively open valleys, flat dams, and building villages. Some landless poor moved in to cultivate.

At the same time, in the deep mountains, there are also some indigenous villages. There are also hundreds of thousands of mountain people living in and out of the world.

Now the only way to connect the Tonghe River is to form an extremely rare waterway channel between Hengshan and Liquan. The minerals in the deep mountains of the western foothills of Qintong Mountain are naturally not difficult to transport out, but Heng In all, the amount of engineering is much more difficult than building a simple plank road.

Simply impossible to accomplish this within five years.

“It is impossible to completely penetrate the river channel, but it is not too difficult to transport copper and iron ore downstream in one direction,” Chen Hai said, “One thousand four hundred to the west of Tonghe. Here, there are mainly four main stacks. For example, to the west of Juquan Lake, there is a cliff that is more than a hundred high, but we set up a transfer station at the top of the cliff to transport hundreds of millions of iron and copper from the top of the cliff. It’s actually much easier than transporting it up from the bottom of the cliff. You even need to stick to the stone cliff and build a slide to dump the iron ore down…”

Think about it, everyone. Millions of catties and tens of thousands of catties of copper and iron ore are first concentrated in front of the cliff and dumped directly under the cliff of 100 meters. It is definitely much easier than transporting it to the cliff of 100 meters…

Transportation is one thing. At the same time, how much manpower and material resources are needed to mine such a huge amount of copper and iron ore in the hinterland of Qintong Mountain every year?

Everyone frowned at the thought of this.

Hengshan and Tongkou are short of manpower. Can they tap 200,000 young laborers into the mountains for mining?

Chen Hai has considered this for a long time. Mechanical Puppet Technique has to apply what he has learned. If by this time he still needs to use manpower to dig ore with one hammer and one pick, he will have the reputation of being inferior to the Palace of Heavenly Mechanism. , He took out a stack of pictures from the storage ring and handed them to Zhang Xiong, Zhao Ruhui and others to see.

There are more than a dozen kinds of drawings and conceptual drawings such as scrolling blade mining vehicle drawings, rail transportation drawings, etc. Zhang Xiong and Zhao Ruhui are dazzled and confused, especially the scrolling blade mining vehicle. It is to install the mining parts on the front end of the Tianji locomotive, which can also be driven by the wind flame power box.

Of course, when Zhang Xiong, Zhao Ruhui, Guo Hongpan and the others saw the drawings of the mining vehicles, they all thought that if the mining parts were replaced with spiral sharp blades, would it be all traditional dense formations? Including the lance heavy armor formation created by Chen Hai himself, will they all be wiped out?

I want to come at this time. I was outside of Yuchi City, so I didn’t get the slightest injustice to lose.

Zhang Xiong, Zhao Ruhui and the others suddenly became confused again, I believe Chen Hai is absolutely impossible to think of this, and once Longxiang Camp is equipped with such a war chariot, it is used in conjunction with a heavy-bore crossbow. How could the simple monster war soldiers resist? Do they still need to spend so much effort to build a city in Yuchengling by melting iron?

Chen Hai spent so much effort to build a city by melting iron in Yuchengling. Is it really the monster warriors who guarded it?

Of course, Chen Hai didn’t say anything, Zhang Xiong, Zhao Ruhui, and Guo Hongzhen didn’t think about it. They just asked: “Is this mining truck going to be manufactured in secret?”

Chen Hai nodded, I believe that Zhang Xiong and the others have already understood the great value of the mining vehicle structure. Zhao Ruhui was asked to supervise the production of the mining vehicle, and then Zhang Xiong was left to speak alone.

Zhang Clan was defeated under Yuchi City. More than 20,000 clansman was exiled to Liquan by Chen Hai with Zhang Xiong, but Liquan was too narrow. Most of Zhang Clan clansman was even the breadwinner. There is no arable land, and the overwhelming majority have arranged to work in many workshops. Don’t even think about resuming the life of the past.

Chen Hai wants to move a part of Zhang Clan clansman to Hengshan and Tongkou to settle down, so that most of Zhang Clan clansman will be separated and take root in Yandangyuan.

Speaking of a high-quality population, Chen Hai also has the 20,000 dísciple of Zhang Clan. After several years of polishing and refining, he has tempered their frivolity, arrogance, and disdain for the bottom. After dropping, it should be worthwhile.

Zhang Xiong also knows that this is Zhang Clan’s re-emergence in Yanzhou, and it is also a good opportunity for the real rise. Naturally, he will not fail to agree. He seriously kneels down in front of Chen Hai, saying: “Everything but with The lord ordered!” He was really willing to vote in front of Chen Hai’s account.

“Duke Zhang does not need to be courteous, the world is difficult, we just wait for mutual support.” Chen Hai helped Zhang Xiong up and said.

Worried about the repetition of the blood cloud wasteland, Chen Hai returned to Tianjiya to find a clean room, urged the snake bracelet, and then again, sneaked into the blood cloud wasteland again.