Daqin Fusu: It is difficult to start the battle

Chapter 37 Qin Banliang System (please recommend and collect)

Sima Chang recalled it for a while, and said: "According to His Majesty's calculation, the price of materials and labor costs is 1 yuan and 15 pieces. After a while, the price will drop after the craftsmen become proficient."

Meng Tian nodded and thought in his heart: 1 yuan and 15 yuan, the head of Guizhou with a poor family may not be able to afford it, but the residents of Xianyang City can still afford it!

After all, winter is about to pass. According to the situation in previous years, almost all the vehicles that come and go to the streets of Xianyang after a period of time are carts transporting salary carbon from Nanshan.

In order to ensure the supply of firewood in Xianyang, how many years will not be exhausted to the death of a few ghosts (a kind of prisoner, who specializes in chopping firewood)?

If the honeycomb briquettes made by His Majesty are really useful, it will not only increase the national funds, but also let the ghosts in various counties in Naishi breathe a sigh of relief...

Feng Quji asked: "I heard that when Shi Nirvana burns, it will produce poisonous gas and have a peculiar smell. I'm afraid it's inconvenient to use indoors?"

Expert!The old man seems to have come prepared!But there's no way around that. Who would let most of the coal dug up now be bituminous coal?But I have sent people to look for Taixi coal at the foot of Helan Mountain... Fusu remembered the words of the tour guide who later generations once visited the Forbidden City.

Zhang Han, the young general, came out and said, "What the prime minister said is true! According to what your majesty said, the poison of coal lies in incomplete combustion. It is fine for ironmaking, but if it is used indoors, it will kill people and kill you if you are not careful. invisible!"

"Your Majesty also said that all things generate and restrain each other. The way to restrain coal killing people is to mix yellow mud and water into it, and then use hollowed out bamboo poles to vent most of the smoke outside!"

Fusu looked at Zhang Han who was talking eloquently, and shook his head with a smile. People in this era will not understand when you tell them that carbon monoxide is produced due to insufficient combustion, or that bituminous coal contains sulfur.

In his original plan, the users of briquette were the Longxi army who went on an expedition against the Qiang people and built Linqiang County on the edge of Qinghai Lake, and the prisoners who built the Great Wall.

The briquette stove plus honeycomb can provide them with a steady stream of hot water, as well as resist the cold heat.

As for underburned carbon monoxide?
Hehe...their huts are not so tight, and some smoke leaks out!
Moreover, the current Daqin is in an era of high temperature. Until the early Western Han Dynasty, the Guanzhong Plain could grow citrus and other southern fruits.

And according to reports, someone once found a white rhinoceros in the grasslands of Shangjun!
So Fusu wants to take advantage of this warm period to cut as much as possible from the cake of the earth for the Chinese civilization, so that even if the prodigal son later fails, the foundation of the ancestors can last for a while... Support By 500 years there must be a king!

The plan at this stage is to rely on Jincheng County to reduce the living space of the Qiang people and the Huns, continue to put pressure on the Yuezhi in the west, and strive to let them join the family, so that the Hexi Corridor can be taken down without bloodshed.

After that, we will open the Silk Road, strive to make the half-liang the only currency of the Silk Road countries, establish the Qin and half-liang system, draw blood from countries in West Asia, and Europe, and use the money earned to reduce the burden on the people of Daqin, so as to avoid the Jiu Laoqin, welcome Peigong's tragedy!

In order to allow Li Xin to gain an absolute advantage, Fusu also prepared a big surprise for the Xianling Qiang people!

Fusu saw that Feng Quji and the others knew about briquettes, so he signaled Sima Chang to lead the way to another place where horses neighed from time to time.

Meng Tian frowned, watching a reddish-brown war horse being drawn into a strange iron cage, and then fixed by several ropes.

He asked inexplicably: "Your Majesty, why is this so?"

Fusu smiled and said: "The shoe is a new thing for the horse. In order to prevent it from kicking and hurting the craftsman, I specially designed the iron cage. There are ropes on the top to prevent the horse from moving around. There are iron ropes underneath. It can prevent the horse from kicking."

Meng Tian went in and checked, and found that, as Fusu said, the cage and ropes only restricted the horse's movement and wounded people, and did not hurt the horse itself.

Fusu nodded to Li Cheng, and the latter immediately understood, so he ran to the stable and brought out a tall horse with a shoulder height of more than 1.4 meters.

Immediately afterwards, he directed two soldiers to put on horse armor for the horses, and with the help of several other soldiers, he began to put on a new set of heavy armor.

After a while, the heavy armored cavalry, or armored cavalry in Fusu's memory, appeared in front of Meng Tian and others.

Li Cheng was wearing a set of heavy armor that combined plate armor and piercing armor. Except for the two observation slits on the full-encircling helmet, it almost protected every weak spot on his body.

The horse armor on the war horse is also protected from head to tail, with face curtain, chicken neck, chest, horse body, and rear.

"This..." Meng Tian, ​​Qiang Li and others couldn't help but surrounded him, wanting to touch the armor on Li Cheng's body, but their outstretched hands froze in mid-air.

That way, it looks like a groom official who uncovers the bride's hijab!

But from Li Cheng's perspective, he didn't realize that he was surrounded by a group of idiots at all.

He moved his hands with iron gloves. Although he couldn't use a bow and arrow, he was not affected by holding a halberd or drawing a sword.

Then he shook his neck, and saw Qiang Lu who was breathing rapidly in the gap of the helmet.

"T-Taiwei, what are you doing here?"

"Take off!" Qiang Yan said concisely.

"Take off!" Meng Tian cherished ink like gold.

Wei Liao was relatively reserved, although he looked at Li Cheng's armor with bright eyes, but he still walked to Fusu's side,

asked:

"Your Majesty, I wonder how many such cavalry there will be when the cavalry sets out tomorrow?"

Fusu stretched out a hand and opened it: "Five hundred heavy cavalry."

Wei Liao nodded, then shook his head again, five hundred heavy cavalry is enough to deal with Xianling Qiang, but it is far from enough to deal with the Huns that may be encountered!

Fusu said: "My old Xiangguo, what restricts the development of heavy cavalry is not iron and riders, but good horses!"

Wei Liao frowned and asked, "Your Majesty, what do you mean by that?"

Fusu converted the data in his mind and said: "Taking Li Cheng as an example, he weighs about 280 catties, his weapon and armor weighs 100 catties, his horse armor weighs 40 catties, and other things, the horse's weight is more than 400 catties. "

"And the weight of a horse should not exceed one-third of its body weight, preferably not more than one-quarter!"

"That is to say, a war horse ridden by a heavy cavalry must weigh at least 1200 catties."

"Among the tens of thousands of excellent war horses, I only picked out more than 400 that are usable, less than [-]. We still have to go to the Longxi Army to find them."

Wei Liao sighed helplessly, without saying a word, he knew that the current Qin Ma was less than six feet tall at the shoulder and weighed about 1000 to 1100 catties.

ps: In the Qin Dynasty, one catty was equal to half a catty today, 280 catties was equal to 70 kilograms, one foot was 23.2 centimeters, and six feet = 139.2 centimeters.

(End of this chapter)