Emperor Zhenguan

Chapter 679 Routine Workshop Inspection
Routine inspections of workshops are considered daily tasks that the emperor would do every once in a while.When the artillery was developed before, the emperor paid close attention to it all the time.

Now, in the whole of Guanzhong, especially around Chang'an, the sides of major water systems, such as the Wei River, Fengshui, Bashui and other rivers and canals, are densely packed, and huge industrial parks have sprung up like bamboo shoots after a rain.

Many of these buildings were built by the imperial court during the natural disasters in the early years of Zhenguan.

Now, it has completely become a scale.

And in many workshops, there are huge chimneys one after another, with thick black fog floating all year round.

Smell it, yes, it's an industrial smell.

These workshops have different duties, including soap workshops, sugar workshops, tea workshops, textile machine workshops, iron and steel workshops, glass workshops, cement factories, paper workshops, and even a top-secret artillery research and development center.

In addition, there are workshops specializing in the development of agricultural tools.

In recent years, on the basis of the Quyuan plow, the emperor had someone develop a large multi-wheel heavy plow, the kind that needs eight oxen to pull it.There are also foot-operated wooden threshers.This kind of threshing machine is not complicated. It is just like the sewing machine, except that there are more threshing drums and connecting rods.The only metal parts are connecting rods, and the other parts are all wood.

In fact, it doesn't matter even if it is made of iron, because under the guidance of the emperor, the iron and steel smelting workshops have made rapid progress in technology. Nowadays, multi-purpose steel rollers are used in the construction of four-wheeled carriages.What's more, a small thresher connecting rod should not be too simple.

Over the years, the waterwheel technology of the tome has gradually been thoroughly understood by craftsmen. They even made small water pumps, which can pump water from low-lying places to high fields.

Li Zhiyun said yes after reading it.

High temperature crucibles and other mechanical instruments, craftsmen are also getting a thorough understanding of the technology bit by bit.According to Yuwen Rutong's report to him, the number of craftsmen in the workshop has exceeded [-].After a few more years, the railway track can be laid, and then try to build a horse-drawn train.The success of the rail carriage is a good breakthrough, and I believe that the railroad track will also break through soon.

Scholars, farmers, businessmen, and craftsmen have low status and low wages.But working for the emperor, the salary is high, and the status is not low, which belongs to the half-footed into the system.The craftsmen in the workshop are clean people with clean backgrounds, good citizens of the emperor.

When inspecting the workshops, Li Zhiyun focused on inspecting the artillery workshop and the hydraulic spinning machine workshop.

Needless to say, the former is the top priority, while the latter is Li Zhiyun's weapon to expand the spinning industry.In the future, there will be the hydraulic loom, the mule loom, and finally the steam engine!
All he did was to put the empire on the industrial road.

After going up, it is natural to make money, then expand, make money, and expand.The grassland is now being crazily sucked blood by Datang's handicraft products, and when they are 'eat up' by sheep, Datang will have to change places to suck blood.

After all, the grassland is not a country, but a tribe, and it is impossible to suck blood for too long.

Still better in the Western Regions.

People are stupid and have a lot of money.

Li Zhiyun thought, when the blood of the dry grasslands and the Western Regions is sucked, the population of the Tang Dynasty will explode, and so will the technology.

At that time, there will be Japan, Nanyang, and Tianzhu.

Anyway, there will be no less colonies.

In summary, the countries of the Western Regions, the grasslands, and Goguryeo belonged to the sacrificial offerings for the completion of the initial accumulation of capital by the Tang Dynasty.

After eating them, at that time, Datang will definitely have the ability to sail to the earth.

As for whether I can see that time, does it matter?
Li Zhiyun thought very clearly that what he wanted to do was to allow the Han and Tang nations to expand infinitely. As for whether the empire would last forever?

Does it matter?

How could the feudal dynasty last forever? It's a lie.

All he wanted was a sentence, wherever mountains and rivers went, they were all lands of Tang Dynasty!

It doesn't matter whether the empire is still there or not, anyway, if you want to fight, it will be your own people.

If it is smashed, the meat will also rot in the pot.

The last person to eat meat must be the people of Han and Tang Dynasties, so that's enough, it's enough.

When returning to the palace after inspecting the circle, the emperor also brought back a bamboo tube of dry food to taste.

The dry food in the bamboo tube is a new type of military dry food, and the main materials are taro and bacon.

Taro is mainly used to collect starch. The yield of this kind of crop is not low. The yield per mu is about [-] jin, and the field can produce more than [-] jin. After fine processing, more than [-] jin of fine noodles can be obtained.

The production process is fairly average and not particularly complicated.From harvesting taro, to cleaning, shredding, peeling, grinding, and beating, all the slave girls or children of various tribes did it by themselves.

Such as grinding, taro grinding is mainly by rubbing, rubbing by hand on rough riverside stones, and then rinsing with clean water to obtain crude taro starch.

After rough processing, it is fine processing. Use a mesh sieve to sieve the pulp, repeat it several times, let it stand for a second time to dehydrate, and then leave it to dry in the sun, or dry it by yourself.

The final starch obtained is quite fine, and the large particles of impurities are removed, and the remaining starch can be pressed and packaged.

Put starch and bacon and pickles together, and use the method of spreading pancakes to make pancakes.In Li Zhiyun's opinion, the taste must be mediocre, but in the eyes of Tang people who have never eaten such fine food, it is a good thing.

What's more, it is a high-energy food that supplements physical strength.

In the future, when the Tang army went on an expedition, the firemen in charge of logistics would be responsible for spreading pancakes for them, lighting fires anywhere, and they could be started with a single iron plate, which was convenient, delicious, and satisfying.

Of course, Li Zhiyun felt that the taste was mediocre after eating it, but compared with military rations, it was definitely delicious in the world.

You know, when Li Zhiyun led the army to fight, when the food was most scarce, there were even rice husks, sand, and small stones in the food he ate.

Slightly better, nothing more than pickles and rice.

Don't think that military rations are so good in this era, but they are actually very poor.

But having said that, if you can eat a full meal, it is considered a success, what kind of food in the world do you want.

When returning to Chang'an, Li Zhiyun lifted the curtain of the car and saw the people pushing the dung carts, returning home with joy on their faces.

Right now, Chang'an's dung is definitely a treasure.After the common people tasted the sweetness of fertilization, they flocked to it even more, and some even made the difference between high and low manure.

For example, the excrement from the imperial palace is the best excrement, which is stained with the noble spirit of the emperor.

The next best thing is the feces of the Duke's Mansion, stained with the wisdom of the ministers.

Once again, the first class is the manure of luxury merchants, which smells of copper to some extent.

In any case, Chang'an can now pat its chest and say that it is a first-class super civilized city in the world.

Except for the inferior Luoyang Palace in terms of scale, everything else is very powerful.

Except for the Tang people, those merchants from all over the world who came to Chang'an to do business, exclaimed, "Chang'an is also the best place!"

As for those foreign merchants, when they saw Chang'an City, the green belt, and the concrete road all over the ground, they almost knelt on the ground and shouted loudly, "Your Majesty the Holy Emperor Khan, so is my ancestor!"

There is no way, Datang is too powerful, and beat the surrounding Fanbang.

Muqiang is an inevitable thing for human beings.

Just like those grassland tribes who belonged to Datang, when they came to Chang'an, various departments frantically pumped money, just to get a Datang ID card.

It's a pity that the Datang ID card is not easy to get, and it is very difficult to get it.

Tang people's eyes are higher than the top, and they don't look down on these barbarians who are used by his emperor as livestock.

When the people in the pass saw those foreigners, they couldn't help but sneer and ridicule them.The local hooligans even play the autumn wind from time to time to get some benefits.

What, you don't want to give?

Don't you give it a try and see if the government is helping your own family or you barbarians.

(End of this chapter)