Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 148 Political Storm

At this time, Chen Ying was like a child who saw a group of ants falling into a pit and had a pile of sand at hand, so he couldn't help but have the idea of ​​pushing the sand over to bury the ants.

This thought startled Chen Ying, he didn't know why he had such an impulse, because it wasn't the original plan—could it be the evil thoughts in my heart?But when this idea appeared, it seemed so natural.

Sentenced thousands of people to death with a wave of hands - what a great authority, although it is evil, it is full of temptation.Chen Ying suddenly understood why Xiang Yu, Bai Qi and others did such a big evil, or it was not just a military need, or it was also a hidden psychological impulse.

Fortunately for these captives, what was waiting for them this time was not buried alive. The reason why Tang Jun drove them here was because it was difficult for them to escape here.

But at this moment, looking at the more than [-] people crowded together underneath, Chen Ying didn't know how to choose.

Buried alive?

Maybe it really is a solution to the problem once and for all.

All the Hus are afraid of power but not virtue. In the second year of Longshuo ([-]), Xue Rengui led the Tang army to fight Tie Le in Tianshan Mountain. Tie Le sent dozens of generals to challenge. With three arrows, three enemy generals died on horseback. The enemy army immediately became confused when they saw it. Xue Rengui commanded the army to take advantage of the situation to cover up and kill them.Because Tie Le had harassed the Tang border for decades, Xue Rengui ordered the surrender soldiers to be buried alive on the spot to eliminate future troubles.

In the first year of Yongchun (682), Shanyu Duhu Mansion (ruling today's Inner Mongolia and northwest of Helinger) inspected and descended to the tribal officer Ashide Yuanzhen to defect to Ashina Gudulu who claimed to be a Turkic Khan.Ashide Yuanzhen invaded Bingzhou (now Taiyuan, Shanxi) and the northern border of Shanyu Duhufu, and also invaded Yunzhou. Xue Rengui was ordered to conquer.The Turkic people asked: "Who is the general of the Tang Dynasty?" The answer was: "Xue Rengui." The Turkic people said: "I heard that General Xue was exiled to Xiangzhou and died. How can he be resurrected?" Xue Rengui took off his helmet and went to see them The Turkic people took a closer look and were shocked. They all got off their horses and lined up to bow, and gradually fled.Xue Rengui took advantage of the momentum to pursue, defeated the Turkic army, beheaded tens of thousands of people, captured more than [-] (sometimes [-]) people, captured more than [-] camels, horses, cattle and sheep, and won the great victory in Yunzhou.

Kill them all, so as to create your own invincible reputation!Chen Ying felt excited when he thought of this.When Chen Ying was about to wave his hand to give orders, he saw a Turkic woman holding a young child in her arms, and the child was crying loudly.

Seeing this scene, Chen Ying's heart softened again.After all, he can't be Xue Rengui, and he can't be a general who makes the enemy surrender!
Chen Ying roared loudly: "Do you want to be slaves for the rest of your life?"

Du Shanguo translated Chen Ying's words into Turkic.Hearing Chen Ying's question, all the prisoners shook their heads!

"Now the manager will show you a clear way!" Chen Ying then roared: "There are eleven large and small coal mines near Lingzhou, and you will be assigned to your respective coal mines. Forts, ten forts are towns, all divided into 33 towns, whether they are excavated or transported, the manager doesn’t care how they work, but the three towns that dig the most and the fastest, the manager will give you an amnesty, pardon the three towns Your status as slaves, you will be exiled from the Tang Dynasty!"

Baiji is a kind of household registration system in the Tang Dynasty.Household registration in the Tang Dynasty was divided into nine classes, namely upper upper class, upper middle class, upper lower class, middle upper class, middle middle class, middle lower class, lower upper class, lower middle class, lower lower class!In addition to these nine classes, there is also the Baiji, the so-called Baiji is an account book written on white paper, which is specially used for belonging to various clans.Above the white registration is the yellow registration, which has nothing to do with the royal family, but just represents a higher level of household registration.It can be regarded as free farmers, merchants, artisans and the like in the Tang Dynasty.

It can be said that the white nationality in the Tang Dynasty is almost equal to the green card of the United States in later generations.The people of the Bai nationality still enjoy the protection of the Tang army and the constraints of the law.

The prisoners of war suddenly boiled, and almost no one was moved.To become a commoner of the Tang Dynasty, even if it is only Bai Ji, during the five-year examination process, as long as there is no violation of laws and disciplines, taxation according to regulations, and no bad records, it cannot be converted into Huang Ji.Really live a good life.

Chen Ying went on to say: "If you dare to mutiny or escape, you will be killed immediately after being caught! Anyone who reports anyone who tries to escape or make trouble will be rewarded with ten stones of food!"

Chen Ying's setting is heaven on one side and hell on the other.

From this day on, eleven mines outside Lingzhou City began to dig coal crazily, and all the Turkic prisoners of war worked hard at the same time. Soon, Lingzhou City completely used charcoal or dry firewood instead of coal.The coal consumed is far less than the coal dug out, and the coal in Lingzhou City is piled up, and it is almost impossible to put it down.

Looking at the thick smoke everywhere in Lingzhou City, there is steaming heat everywhere.The coal that cannot be consumed, Yang Ze thought about building all the streets and alleys in Lingzhou into heated kangs, so that people would not feel the cold on the streets.

Hearing Yang Ze's crazy idea, Chen Ying quickly stopped.

Maybe Yang Ze really dared to do this.

Chen Yingdao: "No matter how much coal there is, we can't waste it like this. It's so bad. I checked the county annals of Lingzhou and found that Lingzhou is rich in iron, so I divided some of the Turkic prisoners of war to mine iron ore, and let the excess coal be used for ironmaking! "

"How can coal make iron?" Although Yang Ze is not good at making steel, he also knows that charcoal must be used to make iron, and it is high-quality willow charcoal.This is the most basic common sense.

In fact, this common sense in ancient times is wrong.No matter what Chen Ying said, he was a highly educated person in later generations. Of course, he understood that because coal contains more harmful components, it will affect the quality of steel when it is used for steelmaking.Whether it is steelmaking or ironmaking in later generations, in fact, it is not direct coal, but coke.Coke is relatively pure and suitable for steelmaking and ironmaking.

The construction of blast furnaces is not complicated. The "Great Revolution" in the late 50s called on people all over the country to make steel. Even some primary school students, villagers in production teams, and salespersons in grocery stores formed iron-making groups to build blast furnaces to make steel. Ironmaking.The technical level of those blast furnaces is theoretically capable of making iron, but the technology is not good enough, so most of them are left alone.

Chen Ying approached Lin Chuanfu and explained the blast furnace in his memory to Lin Chuanfu.

Lin Chuanfu, as a professional, quickly brought up the technical difficulties encountered in the blast furnace with refractory bricks and bellows.

Refractory bricks are refractory materials fired from refractory clay or other refractory raw materials.Pale yellow or brownish.It is mainly used to build smelting furnaces, which can withstand high temperatures of 1°C-580°C.Also called fire brick.Such as refractory clay bricks, high alumina bricks, silica bricks, magnesia bricks, etc.

Although Chen Ying knew about high-alumina bricks, silica bricks and even magnesia bricks, all he knew was a name, and he had never seen any style.What's more, in this era, chemical elements are still blank. It is really not an easy problem to find these materials.

Chen Ying was not intimidated by the difficulties. He asked the troops to teach Wei Wenzhong, Gao Yunquan and He Yuejing to be responsible for training, and he led a group of craftsmen such as Lin Chuanfu to conduct experiments.

That's right, Chen Ying adopted a very stupid method, which is to use clay of different materials to conduct repeated experiments.Just as Chen Ying was preparing for the large-scale steelmaking in Lingzhou, the battle report of Chen Ying's battle in Lingzhou also reached Chang'an.

Chen Ying didn't know that he, a butterfly from another world, caused a political storm in Chang'an.

(End of this chapter)