Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 94 The Compass and the Gold Team

Zhang Zhao squatted on the ground, holding in his hand a special fine iron needle that Li Shengtian ordered a blacksmith to make, and quickly rubbed it on the magnet.

After rubbing for about [-] times, Zhang Zhao quickly threaded the iron needle onto a piece of hard paper with the words "North and South" written on it, and then put the paper with the iron needle on it into a water bowl held by a miner. .

After shaking the iron needle in the water bowl for a few times, it pointed in a precise direction, and the crowd cheered fiercely
They have tried five times, and each time the iron needle points south in the same direction.

Amidst the cheers, the biggest obstacle that troubled Zhang Zhao and the others in using the hole blasting method, that is, the problem of the direction of tunnel excavation, had been solved.

This is not a small problem, because if you want to blast a big city like Shule City, the length of the tunnel cannot be short, and people in the tunnel can't judge the direction, and if they don't do it, they will dig sideways.

In later generations, GPS positioning or laser irradiation can be used to solve the problem, but in this era, it is not so convenient. In the end, Zhang Zhao thought of using a compass to confirm the direction.

In fact, he doesn't care about pointing or not, he just needs that the direction of pointing will not be deflected every time.

But it's such a simple thing, not even a compass, it's not easy to come by.

Zhang Zhao rummaged through Li Shengtian's treasury, until Li Shengtian couldn't help but come to see it in person, thinking that his nephew was going to pack his treasury, Zhang Zhao finally found a few magnets in a corner.

"Is this the Sinan mentioned in Guiguzi? It turns out that it can be made so easily. How did you know how to make Sinan?"

The left cheek was swollen high, Cao Yanming opened his eyes wide in surprise, his whole body was burning with the light of exploration.

Recently, Cao Shishi has been a little 'arrogant'. Since the fire of the gods and thunder, he has changed from a dispensable and unwelcome noble son under Zhang Zhao's command to a mysterious Cao alchemist.

He even looked down on Zhang Zhao a little bit, and said countless times that Mr. Zhang Erlang was too obsessed with power and force, and neglected to delve into the road between heaven and earth (referring to the study of various gunpowder).

So this morning, Zhang Zhao found a little mistake of his, and demonstrated to him the use of power and force, and used the unique skill of 'making a compass' to convince Cao Yanming.

No, Cao Yanming changed Zhang Zhao's address from Mr. Zhang Erlang to Uncle Zhang very smoothly.

Of course, Zhang Zhao still has a dark history of Cao Yanming in his hands. This guy said he looked down on Hu Ji before, but a few days ago he sneaked into the room of a beautiful Ogus female slave, just as he was going out after having fun It was time for Zhang Zhao to be caught.

"Servant! With this thing, we can dig directly under the city wall one by one!"

The man named Zhang Zhaoshilang was a short man with gray eyes, slightly brownish skin, purple beard and hair, obviously with Sogdian features.

This guy who can speak not-so-fluent Chinese and insists that he is the successor of Anxi Tang Jun is called Shi Chongmin. He is the real leader of the coal mine miners that the Soduo team found for him under the strong threat of Zhang Zhao.

However, Zhang Zhao felt that this guy should be more like a native of Sogdia, with the nine surnames of Zhaowu.

Now that the 50 miners have arrived, Zhang Zhao selected [-] people from the miners with poor physical conditions as agreed, and then selected [-] skilled miners.

Although these 300 people are far behind the group of miners in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in history, they can basically meet the needs of cave blasting.

These days, while maintaining a relatively high standard of food for the miners, Zhang Zhao usually started giving these miners a tough 'military training'.

Among the 300 people, 50 people are too slavish, and more than half of the other 50 people only recognize Shi Chongmin. It is not an easy task to completely tame them.

"Now that the last problem has been solved, let's go back and prepare for the review of the Great Sage Emperor!"

Zhang Zhao shouted with joy, and then pressed Shi Chongmin's shoulder.

"Team Shizheng, you need to quickly add to the drawing and writing studies of the gold-scoring team!

When can be upgraded to Fenjindu, who can become the Captain, everything depends on the strength, even if it is a certain person, it is not easy to break the rules. "

When Shi Chongmin heard Zhang Zhao's words, he couldn't help grinning in pain, "Zhang Shilang is good everywhere, eats well, lives well, and dresses well, but that's what's wrong.

To dig a hole is to dig a hole. You need to learn to read characters, and you need to be able to draw pictures. After drawing pictures, it is even more difficult to calculate. to the destination.

Zhang Zhao smiled sinisterly in his heart. This was on purpose. This kind of illiterate people in their 30s and [-]s have been illiterate for half their lives. For them, learning to read is definitely a very painful thing, let alone drawing and painting. calculated.

But he wanted to use this method to form a competition mechanism among the [-] new miners. If Shi Chongmin failed to pass the qualification, he would be very happy to replace Shi Chongmin.

The word "Fenjin" in the "Fenjin Team" also comes from Zhang Zhao's bad taste.

And he only set these 300 people as pairs instead of directly as the capital, just to prevent Shi Chongmin from turning these miners into his subordinates after he naturally became the captain.

If you don't pay attention, maybe Zhang Zhao will become the nominal leader in the end, and the relationship between him and Shi Chongmin will be like the relationship between the Central Plains Jiedushi and the lower Yajiang.

This was absolutely intolerable to Zhang Zhao, so he deliberately reduced the number of staff, and only gave 300 people to a team. He also used methods of character recognition and examinations to further weaken Shi Chongmin's leadership over the more than [-] miners.

Of course, this is also beneficial for him to see if he can discover some talents from these miners.

. . . .

In Khotan City, in the Taihua Palace, Li Shengtian was frowning and reviewing various memorials.

Ever since Zhang Zhao saw the hope of breaking Shule City, under the command of Li Shengtian, Khotan, a country in the peak state of the oasis city-state in the Western Regions, slowly began to mobilize.

It has been 70 years, since Khotan was restored to the country, the biggest desire of several generations of their Li family kings is to break Shule City and own the second of the four Anxi towns in the original Tang Dynasty.

Especially Shule, this place is too deadly for Khotan.

If Khotan can capture Shule City, then this city will become Khotan's northward bridgehead and a strong fortress against the Ogus, Ge Luolu and other tribes in the north.

On the contrary, if there is no Shule in Khotan, then the Kara Khanate in the north can be condescending and continue to infiltrate Khotan.

It could also turn Ya'erkan (Shache), one of Khotan's most affluent areas, into a conflict front, making it impossible for Khotan to take advantage of this fertile land.

Li Shengtian suddenly remembered a metaphor that Zhang Zhao had given him. If Khotan was a giant tortoise, Shule would be the shell of this giant tortoise.

But now there is no Shule in Khotan, so it will be a matter of time before a giant tortoise that has no shell and can only expose its soft flesh to the threat of natural enemies will not be able to survive.

and many more!Li Shengtian suddenly stopped writing and thought for a while, if the Dajin Kingdom is a giant tortoise, then what is he, the great sage emperor? Guitar?
"Son of Heaven! Huangmen servant, Fengtian Lieutenant Zhang Zhaozuo asks His Majesty to send officials to Yao Taugang for inspection. He expects to start digging tunnels from three miles away tomorrow. The emperor will be invited to visit Yao Taugang in three days!"

The voice of the internal officer on duty came from outside the door. Hearing that Zhang Zhao had already started preparations, he immediately forgot what happened just now, and touched his chin.

good!It seems that this kid is going to show him a more realistic blasting of Shule City!
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