Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 260 My Barracks My Soldiers
Before rebirth, a TV program said that the average age of people in the Tang Dynasty would be 30 years old, Fang Jun didn't really believe it.If it was the beginning of the Tang Dynasty and the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, it would be about the same. There were 36 roads against the king, 72 smoke and dust fighting each other, and there were no ordinary people in ten.

As for now, Fang Jun doesn't believe it anymore...

Take a look at the few people in front of you, they are gray-haired and old-fashioned, just a few of them can raise the average age of the entire Guanzhong by several percentage points...

"This..." Fang Jun pointed at the dozen or so old men, and looked at Wen Shutong in disbelief: "Does Master Jianzheng let them work for the lower officials, or let the lower officials take care of them?"

These few people are so old that their hair is gray, and the wrinkles on their faces almost match the dried orange peels, so none of them are under sixty, right?It's hard to embarrass Wen Shutong, even if you search the whole Guanzhong, you may not be able to find such a few people...

Wen Shutong is also a little embarrassed. It is true that he is a little older, but his young self is still working. Isn't it a waste of resources to hang out with you?
"Nephew, you must not underestimate these few people. Although they are a little older, they are all ingenious old craftsmen, and they are all priceless treasures of our Armory Supervision! Almost all of them lead The apprentice who came out..."

Wen Shutong explained gently.

Fang Jun looked at him, thinking that the apprentices of the apprentices of these apprentices have started to lead apprentices, right?

But forget it, even though they are a little older, they seem to be in good health, and the work I arranged for them is not heavy, and they are more stable when they are older.

Seeing that Fang Jun had acquiesced, Wen Shutong quickly beckoned the clerk over.

"You go and get the map of our workshop in the south of the city, and ask Fang Shao to select a piece of land as a workshop for trial production of new weapons."

The clerk quickly agreed, and trotted to find a map with a severely distorted scale.Looking at the map, Fang Jun couldn't help grinning. The mountains, rivers and rivers are like graffiti of elementary school students, but the general direction is still clear.

He knew that the ancients did not realize that the earth was spherical and did not understand projection technology, so when drawing maps, they were not based on the scale of the earth projection, but a technique of "drawing squares according to the plan", which is why they look seriously distorted.

He didn't have any special requirements for the place he needed, but the fewer people the better, so he randomly drew a circle on the map near Zhongnan Mountain, and the circle was about [-] mu of land.

Before leaving, Wen Shutong probably felt that it was unkind to assign these dozen or so old-fashioned craftsmen to Fang Jun, so he gave it to a clerk named Li Tuo.This man was around thirty, with a stocky body and quick eyes, so he was clever at first glance, so he could be sent by Fang Jun.

I can't run errands, I have to assign those old grandpas...

Leading a group of old men out of the Military Arms Supervision, Fang Jun became more and more frustrated. Are we going to set up a senior Yangko team?

I had no choice but to send the coachman who delivered the iron ingots, and go back to Zhuangzi to call for a dozen or twenty young men, and get a few carriages by the way, while I walked slowly with the people.

There's no way, I can't even think about it soon...

Fortunately, the servants at home came out from Zhuangzi in Lishan, crossed Baqiao, did not enter Chang'an City, but walked directly south around the city wall, and within an hour they caught up.

Fang Jun let the old craftsmen get into the carriage, while he and his servants rode tall horses along the path along the Fengshui River all the way to the foot of Zhongnan Mountain.

The workshops of the Armament Supervisor are one after another, spreading out at the foot of the mountain, like a small town.

The piece of land that Fang Jun chose was at the innermost part of the workshop, but when he got there, he saw a faint row of dilapidated houses halfway up the mountain to the south.

Fang Jun frowned. He doesn't need much good hardware, but keeping secrets is the top priority. If he sets up a workshop here, doesn't it mean that he is completely exposed to others?

"Is that above a house or a village?"

Fang Jun asked the clerk named Li Tuo, who scratched his head, obviously not knowing, but heard an old craftsman on the carriage say: "It was a barracks in the former Sui Dynasty, but it was abandoned during the reign of Wude. Upwards, over a few ridges, is the Meridian Valley Barracks."

In ancient times, there were six main roads across the Qinling Mountains to the southwest and surrounding areas. From west to east, they were: Chencang Road, Baoxie Road, Tangluo Road, Ziwu Road, Kugu Road, and Wuguan Road.

The mountains in the Qinling Mountains are high and the valleys are deep. Although these six roads are all dangerous, they have been breached or stolen many times in wars throughout the ages. Among them, the Ziwu Road in the Ziwu Valley is one of the six ancient roads. It is the only precarious fortress that has been plotted to smuggle people many times, but has never succeeded.

Therefore, there is the admiration of "Qinling Six Paths, Ziwu is the king".

With both a military camp and such a fortress, the condition of secrecy is simply blessed. Fang Jun was overjoyed and asked Li Tuo, "Can a certain workshop be set up there?"

"Wherever the young prisoner wants to be, he can be there. This piece of land is all wasteland, no one cultivates it, and the barracks has been abandoned for a long time, so there must be no problem."

Li Tuo looked very respectful, but he couldn't help complaining in his heart: As long as you don't make trouble in the military prison, our supervisor can do whatever you want...

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This abandoned barracks is located in a small valley, and there is even a small stream flowing in the middle of the valley.It's just that it has been abandoned for too long, and the houses built of yellow mud have been dilapidated by the wind and rain, and it is really unbearable to live in.

But it's hard to live Jun...

He didn't go to the Ministry of Industry to transfer people to help repair the house. It's not because of his style, but because Lu Zesong is in charge of the Ministry of Industry. The Fang family has its own engineering team. Liu Laoshi's second son, Liu Tianyang, who was kidnapped by his uncle to "not do business", has gained some fame in the Xinfeng area since he learned how to cook a kang from Fang Jun. Helping masons, panning kangs, building houses, and laying walls, took a lot of work.

After the beginning of spring, a large number of houses for victims of disasters gave this patchwork "atypical engineering team" a valuable opportunity to practice their mobile phones, and they finally looked good.

Fang Jun gave an order, Liu Tianyang turned down all the business at hand, and led five No. 60 people to kill Zhongnanshan.

Carloads of red bricks and bags of cement were continuously transported to the mountains. All the remaining barracks were torn down and demolished, and spacious and bright houses were erected one after another.

At the same time, Fang Jun, who received "strong support" from Wen Shutong, ordered the officials in charge of procurement of the Military Weapons Supervision to purchase the items needed for "trial production of new weapons" according to the list he had drawn out.

Sulfur, nest yellow (also a kind of sulfur), flame salt, asu, dry lacquer, starch, bamboo sticks, yellow dandelion, yellow wax, clear oil, tung oil, turpentine...

It made the official in charge of procurement dizzy, and even Wen Shutong was dazzled when he saw the list: Is this a trial weapon, or a dog skin plaster?

Naturally, Fang Jun wouldn't explain it. Could it be that he told them that this was to open a Pandora's Box?

That's right, he was planning to get out the black powder!
Farming peoples are always at a disadvantage to nomadic peoples. Even the Han and Tang Dynasties at their peak had victories and losses for each other. When they were strong, they drove these grassland peoples far away. Once they weakened, those grassland peoples revived again. Clanking and iron hooves broke through the defenses, burning, killing and looting.

Counting the history, the person who has made the most achievements in dealing with the prairie cavalry is Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di.

How did these grandparents do it?
According to the combat principle of "Shenji blunderbuss at the front and cavalry at the back", the Shenji Battalion cooperates with infantry and cavalry to fight, defeat the Mongolian cavalry, and chase death to the north!

It can be said that only firearms are the only way to contain the cavalry!

Now Fang Jun can't make a renju gun, not even a matchlock gun, but he can make black powder!

Black gunpowder has appeared in the notes of Chinese alchemists since the eighth century, but the best formula for making gunpowder with saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal did not appear in China and Europe until at least the middle and late Ming Dynasty.Since then, it has killed people and bled wildly, and followed the footsteps of European colonists to conquer most of the world.

Fang Jun opened Pandora's box ahead of time, and the course of history will be completely different.

However, he couldn't take out the black powder directly...

　The state is quite bad. I wrote, modified, deleted, and wrote this chapter for nearly four hours... I will take a bath and sleep later, and I will try to write three chapters at night!

　　
　
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