I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 632, Steam Train

In the Dagan country, the treatment of middle and high-level craftsmen is extremely high, and it can be said that they are the rich class and the middle class.Such people already live very well in Dagan, and they are also very satisfied with their lives, so naturally they don't want to take the risk of coming to a wild place like Yizhou.Even though Yizhou has already gained a reputation in the big business because of the brown sugar, people's ideas cannot be changed in a short while. At this time, Yizhou is still a wild place in everyone's mind.

Therefore, there have been very few craftsmen in Yizhou in recent years, and even if there are craftsmen, they are generally junior craftsmen, and their skills are not very good. It is still possible to make some simple products, but it is too complicated to make high-tech things. , these craftsmen can’t do it anymore. The various factories in Baoxin Lane can only make very basic products, such as small fishing boats of 100 shi, simple sickles, and if they want to make ocean-going transport ships, Yizhou still lacks enough Senior Shipwright!

But Bao Xin wanted to develop the industry in Yizhou. Obviously, these high-level craftsmen were a big problem. Tian Feng asked Bao Xin: "The captain can continue to give up a little bit of brown sugar, and ask the prefects from all over the country to send a few middle-class craftsmen." Give us high-level carpenters, blacksmiths, and potters, and Yizhou will get these high-level craftsmen, and then let them have apprentices, so that after a few years, our craftsmen in Yizhou will not lose much to Daqian inland!"

Bao Xin shook his head and said, "If I want to get some junior craftsmen, I still have the face. But even in this way, I can't get too many. It is too difficult, almost impossible, to find such talents as middle and senior craftsmen. There are not many high-level craftsmen left, and every prefect is very precious, it is impossible for them to be sent to Yizhou, and even if the prefect is willing, those high-level craftsmen will not be willing."

The prefects all over the country are trying to find ways to develop industries. Xu Wei said that industrialization is the future, and they all keep it in their hearts. Not to mention heavy industry these days, but light industry is really profitable, so the prefects everywhere also attach importance to industrialization. Skilled craftsmen, the most important thing. With the development of industry, there is a shortage of skilled craftsmen everywhere. They are still trying to find ways to get more craftsmen. How can they send their own craftsmen to Baoxin!

Bao Xin still has self-knowledge about this point. There are already tens of thousands of people in Yizhou from Dagan, but there is almost no craftsman among them, and most of them are farmers farming!

Tian Feng said helplessly: "It's good that this matter is in Dahan. In Dahan, artisans do not have a high status. With the official position of captain, let alone a few artisans, it is easy for them to settle in Yizhou!"

Bao Xin said helplessly: "But in Dagan, a school lieutenant does not have such great power. If I dare to mess around, Guo Daxian will not spare me, and the ruling party will not spare me either!"

Tian Feng had a flash of inspiration, and he immediately said: "Lieutenant, it is very difficult for great craftsmen to come to us, but there are also many big Han craftsmen, and their skills are not bad. They not only make iron, but also make equipment and farm tools. Not much worse than the craftsmen of Dagan, but their status in Dahan is much worse. Not to mention officials, even businessmen have a higher status than them. We can find a way to let the merchants of Dahan help us bring some craftsmen to Yizhou Island Settling down, Yizhou absorbs the strength of Han craftsmen, and the various factories will definitely develop rapidly!"

Tian Feng's words finally came to Bao Xin to find a shortcut to develop industry. He immediately asked Tian Feng to help contact Dahan's businessmen and hire some craftsmen to come to Yizhou!Especially craftsmen who build ships!
Tian Feng used to be a celebrity after all, and he has some relationship with Dahan, especially now when Dagan is strong and Han is weak, no one knows when Dahan will be annexed by Dagan, and the merchants of Dahan also want to leave a way out. But now that Tian Feng has become Dagan's subordinate, it has become more important and has a higher status to the merchants of the Dahan and the nobles of Jiangdong.

As far as Bao Xin is concerned, the industrial development of Yizhou, especially the development of the shipbuilding industry, is related to whether he can participate in the final decisive battle against the big man. In the case of the navy, you can join the attack on Yangzhou.

Bao Xin knew that the battle of Hanzhong had reached a critical moment. If Hanzhong was conquered by the government, Yizhou would not be able to hold it, and Yizhou would not be able to hold it. The upper reaches of the Yangtze River will be occupied by Dagan, and the defense line of the Yangtze River will be announced to be dug. It will be completely annexed by Daqian in a few years, so Bao Xin knows that his time is running out!
Hanzhong Dagan army camp!
At this time, on the road outside the camp to pass the customs, everyone looked at this place curiously!

There are two all-steel tracks on the road in front of them. The steel monster-like car is running slowly on this track. When the car keeps running, it keeps smoking and beeping. The soldiers around jumped in fright, and everyone looked curiously at this weird car without a horse, but it could walk on its own.

There are several four-wheeled vehicles connected behind the strange vehicle. They are connected by hooks. The vehicles are full of sacks full of grain. The people present did a random calculation and found that the grain was close to hundreds of stones. Pull, even if it is a rail carriage, eight horses can hardly pull these grains, but at this time, this weird cart is pulling hundreds of stones of grain and moving slowly, and it is moving faster and faster with the sound of whirring.

Zhang Baiqi said in surprise: "The ruling, is this the train you mentioned?"

In order to reduce the consumption of transporting grain and grass, Xu Wei finally brought the primary train he made to Hanzhong, and laid wooden tracks in more than a dozen lots at the same time on the road from Guanzhong to Hanzhong at any cost. Also laid the rails!
Xu Wei proudly said: "That's right, this is the train I mentioned, it is a sharp weapon that can change the world. In the future, the history of the world will be divided into two parts because of the truck, one is the history before the train is made, and the other is after the train is made. history! There is no train in the sky, and the ancient civilization is like a long night!"

This remark was originally made by someone who flattered Confucius. Xu Wei remembered that although Confucius was great, this remark was a bit too much, but if it was used to describe the steam engine of the train, it would not be an exaggeration at all. Its appearance broke the chaos Reincarnation has brought the world into a new development track.

Zhang Baiqi looked at the running train and said with a smile: "This train is good. It can support ten carriages. It can reduce the consumption of dozens of people. If we use this kind of train to transport our grain, only [-] people can Maintaining the food and grass consumption of our dozen or so troops can reduce the food consumption of our army by several million shi."

Xiang Kai looked at the train and said with a smile: "With the magic weapon of the train, it will be even more difficult for us to compete to consume the Han army!"

Xu Wei said with a smile: "Hundreds of thousands of people help our army transport food and grass. It's a waste of manpower and material resources. It's much better now that we have trains!"

At this time, trains are still extremely primitive and accidents are prone to occur, but this is already more than ten times larger than the transportation volume of horse-drawn carriages.Xu Wei just wanted to use this war to verify the practicality of the train!Therefore, several craftsmen are also arranged on the train, and they are always ready to repair the train.

The train can be said to be the brightest jewel in the industrial crown of this era. It took Xu Wei three years and billions of dollars to manufacture the parts of the train. The most original train.

According to Xu Wei's estimation, this locomotive has about a dozen horsepower and can transport 100 shi of grain on the rails.The running speed does not exceed 30 miles, and it needs to stop for maintenance and replace parts every hundred miles, so it can be said that there are a lot of defects.But the appearance of primitive trains represented that Dagan has officially entered the era of industrialization.

Of course, the meaning of this train goes beyond bringing Dagan into the industrial age.Xu Wei even planned to use the train to promote the development of the heavy industry in Daqian.Although Xu Wei didn't want to admit it, the big money industry at this time was basically light industry and handicraft industry, and only the iron and steel industry could be regarded as heavy industry.Other factories supporting the steel factory, such as agricultural tool factories and weapons manufacturing factories, can only be regarded as handicraft industries.

There is still a big gap from the heavy industry in Xu Wei's vision. An important system construction of heavy industry, a train requires a large number of factories to produce and manufacture parts, and a large number of factories are required to manufacture the factories used to manufacture train machine tools. Although it looks like a nesting doll , but even a locomotive with only a few hundred parts still needs a system to mass-produce and continuously improve the standards of each part of the train.

The final result of the development of large-scale industry is to use standard parts as much as possible. There is no system integration. It takes hundreds of years for businessmen to do it themselves. According to the natural development in history, the age of steam will take 150 years to reach its peak. !
Xu Wei has no steam plot, and he doesn't want the steam age to develop in this world for more than a hundred years, so he intends to be the leader. Of course, he didn't take the initiative to have this awareness, he just imitated the era he lived in.Xu Wei came to this era, high-tech products all pay attention to the development of the industrial chain, so as to adapt to the rapidly developing information age, so he also used the experience of the industrial chain to manufacture trains.

For Xu Wei, the rapid development of heavy industry is also conducive to the development of materials science. Xu Wei also has a deep sense of urgency. Under his magic reform, the number of people who died in troubled times has been greatly reduced in this world. Population, according to Xu Wei's experience of the times, if the population of a Jiazi is tripled, the population of the Han Dynasty will soon exceed 5000 million.

However, struvite has become less and less due to large-scale mining. A large number of farmers in the interior of Dagan no longer use struvite because it is not cost-effective. If no substitutes can be found, Dagan’s grain production may experience a period of continuous reduction. In addition, the morale of this world is still hundreds of years old, so it can be said that the crisis of troubled times has not been completely lifted!Xu Wei's only choice was to find a substitute for struvite, synthetic ammonia!

Although Xu Wei doesn't know what the formula for synthetic ammonia is, he knows that urea should be synthesized from ammonia in the air. At worst, he tried to find a way to use the formula in chemistry class. It should be possible to experiment with it in decades. Besides the chemical formula, Synthetic ammonia also needs to be able to produce high-temperature and high-pressure steel to manufacture synthetic ammonia reactors. This is thanks to the fact that he has read too many industrial-flow novels to know this.And this requires the development of materials science to manufacture ammonia reactors.With synthetic ammonia, the world can get rid of the food crisis.

It can be said that Xu Wei has already formulated his plan for the next few decades, and he will change his job to become a scientist when he dominates the world!
But Zhang Baiqi and the others heard Xu Wei describe the train in this way, and understood that Xu Wei attached great importance to the train even beyond their imagination!At this time, the train was brought to the battlefield, obviously to let them see the power of the train and make them pay attention to it!

And Zhang Baiqi and the others must admit that the effect of the train is very great. When the entire Hanzhong and Guanzhong railways are connected, more than a dozen locomotives not only run on this simple railway, but also transport the grain and grass equivalent to the transportation of tens of thousands of people. Because these trains transport grain, the number of people in Sili has been reduced by half, which greatly saves the manpower and material resources of Sili, especially manpower. These people in Sili can now build their own hometowns instead of wasting money on transporting grain and grass. above.

Moreover, the use of trains to transport grain and grass is also convenient for Zhang Bai to ride them to guard against the sneak attack of the Han army, allowing the Dagan army to use fewer troops to guard their grain roads.It can be said that the appearance of the train has increased the bargaining chip for the big army to win!

The competition between the Dagan army and the Han army has reached the most critical time, and the frontal battlefield has fallen into a stalemate. For more than a year, Liu Bei's army did not do nothing while hiding on the mountain, but kept digging trenches, trenches, With the efforts of hundreds of thousands of Han troops, many mountains were hollowed out by the Han troops. In this case, the artillery power of the Dagan army was reduced to a minimum.

Both sides began to attack against the weak resistance.For example, the Dagan Army is often attacked by Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong with small troops to raid the troops transporting grain and grass.Now if Xu Wei wants to ensure the safety of his food road, he must send more than 2000 guards to ensure safety. Otherwise, there are too few people, and the army transporting food will easily be attacked by Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong. !
And Xu Wei was not to be outdone, he played in the enemy's rear, he was an ancestor, he was trained by the Celestial Dynasty since he was a child, he had never seen any tactics of fighting in the enemy's rear.Xu Wei is the best person in this world who is good at attacking the enemy's rear!

So Xu Wei also dispatched more than a dozen small teams of his own, and these people crossed mountains and ridges into Shuzhong.

Of course, after these small teams entered Shuzhong, they were not going to attack the Han army's army transporting grain and grass. They were too small to have this strength.

After these small teams entered the middle of Shu, they began to do what they were best at. They first entered the villages in the middle of Shu, helped the local people resist the raids of the central government of Shu, and repelled the officials' petty officials several times. Gained the trust of the local people!

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