Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 153 Ginger Is Old and Spicy
The organizational system of the Tang Dynasty is usually based on three levels of "Tao", "State", and "County", which can be compared with the provinces, prefectures, and counties of later generations.At the military level, it is collectively referred to as the general manager. The general manager is equivalent to the governor of later generations, and the prefectures and counties under his jurisdiction are different. In particular, the governor of Bingzhou (later changed to governor) has jurisdiction over the military affairs of the 24 surrounding states of Bingzhou.

In his weak years, Chen Ying was the head of Lingzhou and also in charge of the military affairs of the six states.In fact, this is a big pit. The Fengzhou referred to in the Tang Dynasty was not Fujian Fengzhou (Jin’an County) but Nanhengzhou (Wudan Town, Wengniute Banner, Inner Mongolia), which was located in the Eastern Wei Dynasty. Later, it was changed to Fengzhou. However, after being annexed by the Turks at the end of the Sui Dynasty, it was not until Li Jing attacked Yinshan at night in the fourth year of Zhenguan that Fengzhou was reintroduced into the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

Today's Fengzhou governs Jiuyuan and Yongfeng counties.Shengzhou governs Hebin and Yulin counties.The three counties of Shuofang, Dejing, and Ningshuo in Xiazhou (all within the border of today’s Jingjing), the three counties of Lingzhen Township, Kaiguang, and Rulin in Yinzhou. Although Suizhou has eleven counties under its jurisdiction, Huazhou has seven counties under its jurisdiction. And eggs, at this time it was still Liang Shidu's territory.

Looking at the 34 counties in the seven prefectures (including) nominally assigned to Chen Ying, however, in fact, only the five counties of Lingzhou (Huaiyuan is still in the hands of the Turks) can be used for Chen Ying’s command, and the others are not in the Turkic people’s hands. In the hands, it is in the hands of Liang Shidu. In fact, what Chen Ying got was just a short title.

Hearing that Li Yuan wanted to reward Chen Ying with great righteousness, it turned out to be such a heavy reward method.Li Gang was so angry that he didn't give Li Yuan any face, and closed his eyes and mouth tightly.

Li Jiancheng also trembled with anger when he heard this.But his self-cultivation is really good, otherwise he would go crazy on the spot.However, since then Li Jiancheng has also clearly realized that his royal father is really afraid of him, otherwise a little Chen Ying would not treat him so harshly.

Li Jiancheng turned around, not daring to meet Li Yuan's gaze, he was afraid that if he couldn't control himself, he would get angry with Li Yuan.

"Father, this is inappropriate!"

Shang Shuling and Qin Wang Li Shimin suddenly said: "Father, Lingzhou has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times. Now Lingzhou is in charge of the six states' military mansions, but it only governs three subordinate mansions. There are only [-] soldiers. Not enough to defend Lingzhou!"

Li Yuan nodded and said: "What the people said is very true. Lingzhou only governs the three prefectures, which is really too small. Then reorganize the Eastern Palace Right Guards into the Dingyuan Army on the spot, and govern the six prefectures. Chen Yingwei The Dingyuan Army is in charge of the horse and infantry. The soldiers and horses under the jurisdiction of the Lingzhou General Manager's Mansion have been changed from the original three mansions to six mansions, and the right guard rate in the Eastern Palace... Choose a good family in Chang'an and rebuild the right guard rate!"

Li Jiancheng was shocked when he heard the words, and almost fell down.He finally understood Li Yuan's real intention at the moment.

It turned out to be this powerful army led by Chen Ying!Chen applied the soldiers and horses of the sixteen regiments of the four prefectures led by the right guard of the East Palace, defeated the Turks four times in a row, beheaded more than [-] ranks, and captured more than [-] Turkic people, including seven to eight thousand soldiers and horses from Liang Shidu.It's just because the performance of Chen Ying and You Weisu is too eye-catching.

With such a terrifying combat power, Li Yuan really didn't dare to put this uncontrolled army in the sleeping place of Chang'an City.Don't be afraid of [-], just in case, if Li Jiancheng has malicious intentions and sends troops to counterattack, I am afraid that there will be [-] troops of the left and right Wuwei in the guard (full number, usually the left and right generals or the left and right Wuwei generals) The general led the army to go out, so the formation of the left and right military guards is dissatisfied) really can't resist it.

There is a saying that ginger is old and spicy.In the end, Li Yuan was still the master of the game, and with a few words, he lightly stripped the elite soldiers from the four prefectures led by the right guard from Li Jiancheng.

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Due to messaging problems, Chen Ying was not aware of what happened in Chang'an.At this time, Chen Ying was following a group of craftsmen, playing with mud every day. After more than half a month of trial and error, Chen Ying finally found this clay under a heavily weathered volcanic rock. Although there was no chemical instrument to test the detailed ingredients, after calcination After the test, the performance of this refractory brick was good. Chen Ying guessed that it should be due to luck and the soil happened to contain high silicon, so the high-silicon refractory brick was manufactured by accident.

Solved the problem of refractory materials.

Chen Ying ordered people to start building blast furnaces on fire.

Blast furnace steelmaking is a revolution in industrial history.During blast furnace production, iron ore, coke, and flux (limestone) for slagging are loaded from the top of the furnace, and preheated air is blown in from the tuyeres located at the lower part of the furnace along the periphery of the furnace.At high temperature, the carbon in coke (some blast furnaces also inject auxiliary fuels such as pulverized coal, heavy oil, and natural gas) burns with the oxygen blown into the air to generate carbon monoxide, and removes the oxygen in the iron ore during the process of rising in the furnace. Thereby reducing iron.The smelted molten iron is released from the iron hole.The non-reducible impurities in the iron ore are combined with fluxes such as limestone to form slag, which is discharged from the slag outlet.The gas produced is exported from the top of the furnace, and after dust removal, it is used as fuel for hot blast stoves, heating furnaces, coke ovens, boilers, etc.

Before the construction of the blast furnace started, Yang Ze approached Chen Ying: "Director Chen, this iron workshop must not be built outside the city!"

"Then according to Yang Changshi, this blast furnace must be built in the city?" Chen Ying asked with a smile: "But is there such a big place in the city?"

"Yes, there is no! You can mobilize the people to relocate!" Yang Ze said righteously: "The Turkic people are short of iron. If the iron workshop is built outside the city, it will definitely attract the peeping of the Turkic people. If the Turkic people can Wai Tie Fang has obtained a large amount of steel, and it will surely become even more powerful!"

Chen Ying was full of black lines when he built the blast furnace in the city.What kind of brain is this to come up with such a "smart plan"?
During iron and steel smelting, a large amount of toxic gases will be produced, such as carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, manganese and its compounds, chromium and its compounds, benzene and its related compounds, carbon monoxide, trichlorethylene, sulfuric acid, and ammonia.Tar, asphalt, etc.These can lead to contact dermatitis as well as chemical burns to the skin and poisoning from lead and its compounds.For workers who operate blast furnaces for a long time, it is very easy to suffer from silicosis and various skin diseases.

If the blast furnace is built in the city, it means that the people in the city will be in a high-dust, high-temperature, and high-noise environment, which means that this is a joke with the lives of the people in the city.What's more, steelmaking not only requires a lot of coal, but also a lot of water resources.The water source of Lingzhou City mainly relies on Karez wells and underground wells. It is not a problem to meet the daily water needs of the people in the city, and it is absolutely impossible to supply the huge smelting needs.

Of course, even if the water resources are sufficient, long-term smelting will damage the quality of the groundwater and cause heavy metals to exceed the standard. Not to mention the people living in the city now, even the next generation of babies will be affected.

Chen Ying said with a smile: "When making steel, it consumes a lot of water and coal, and the transportation alone is enough to keep the whole city's vehicles flowing through it, which seriously affects the travel and life of the people. It is better to choose a site outside the city to build it! "

"But the blast furnace was built, and the Turkic people came here, so what should we do?" Chen Ying smiled disapprovingly: "If you have a supervisor here, why should you be afraid?"

"Director Chen, you are the right guard of the Eastern Palace, and your real job is to protect the safety of the Eastern Palace!" Yang Ze said: "If the imperial court recruits the general manager and the general manager to return to Beijing, what about Lingzhou?"

Chen Ying was silent for a moment.

He is the right guard of the Eastern Palace, one of the ten guards of the Eastern Palace, and it is a special case to lead troops temporarily to aid Lingzhou.He must be going back to Lingzhou.I am building a lot of construction in Lingzhou, I am afraid that in the future, I will just make wedding dresses for others for nothing.

(End of this chapter)