Daming kill

Chapter 32 Surprise again and again
After only being silent for a while, Song Baolai couldn't hold back any longer. He scratched his head and saw Li Ping frequently.

Finally, he opened his mouth in a flattering way and said: "Brother, wait until the day when our conditions are good and stable. I will build you a small blast furnace. Let's make steel with an indigenous method. There is a shortage of iron materials." It should relieve a lot."

"what?"

Li Ping didn't realize it. Of course, he wasn't surprised by Song Baolai's quick adjustment speed, but the dizzying word "little blast furnace".

After confirming it again, Li Ping's eyes widened in surprise.

"I'll go, you know this too? Damn, if you do this, we'll be great. You're such a treasure!"

Seeing Li Ping's surprise, Song Baolai proudly said: "Brother, don't worry. I always thought that I was the only one among us who couldn't get on the stage! I never imagined that what I thought was useless could be so big here. Useful! Brother, I didn’t say anything, you train your soldiers, I’ll make things for you, and we’ll come up with some tricks.”

Li Ping's mood suddenly improved, and he looked around excitedly.

Then, he was attracted by a large area of ​​various pots half buried in the soil not far away, so he pointed and smiled and asked, "Oh! What kind of tricks are those things!"

"Oh! That, I didn't do that. It was done by an expert. You can't guess who it is? You can't guess what it's for?" Song Baolai had a look of admiration and mystery on his face.

"Tell me, don't be a fool!" Li Ping said angrily, which left him guessing.

After Song Baolai laughed, he said with an incredible expression: "Those were all done by Zhao Lanyue. I just beat her up and worked hard for her. We missed that girl! I didn't expect that, she She knows how to raise chickens, and she knows how to raise them on that scale, she is a big expert! In the past few days, she has come to help every day, and she is proficient in building chicken coops, feeding and so on."

Zhao Lanyue and Gao Lei came here to stay temporarily a few days ago. Li Ping knew about it, but he was busy training the army, so he only met them politely on the day they came.

The current situation in Xiangyang City makes these two women dare not go anywhere, and there is no place for a walk, so they can only hold back in the palm-sized place in front of and behind the house every day, and they are probably going crazy.

After knowing that Li Ping had found this backing place, the two were moved.

When the place looked a little better and it was ready for people to live in, they couldn't bear it any longer and immediately came to relax together.

Originally, they also wanted to bring Zhao Meiling together, but Zhao Meiling was not interested.

Currently, they live in one of the best houses in the security camp.It was an old house that was not too badly damaged, and it was Song Baolai's original residence.

After they came, Song Baolai had no choice but to find another place.

"But what does this have to do with raising chickens?" Song Baolai didn't explain clearly, but Li Ping continued to be confused.

As for the large-scale chicken raising, he was not surprised. He knew that the core of that kind of large-scale raising was actually the feed. If the problem of feed could not be solved, it would be useless to do anything. The ancients were not fools.

"Oh! This is for raising earthworms." Song Baolai laughed dumbfounded.

"Raise earthworms?"

"Yes, raise earthworms for chickens to eat! This way chickens grow fast. It's just that earthworms are not easy to dig, and digging at most is just a trivial matter. So Zhao Lanyue thought of earthworm breeding to solve the feed problem from the root. I just made a lot of pots and so on, and it’s called pot breeding technology.”

"This is a big deal!" Li Ping was finally taken aback.

The protein content of earthworms is very high, which is of course much better than letting chickens find worms to eat or feed weeds. It is an ideal feed.If earthworms can be successfully bred, large-scale chicken farming will become half, which is of great significance.

"Isn't it! If this is cultivated, chickens can eat enough earthworms every day, and they won't grow old and fat." Song Baolai is also very emotional.

"How could she do this?" Li Ping couldn't help being curious.

"I don't know, and she won't tell me if I ask. My family used to raise a few chickens free-range, but I really don't understand this kind of large-scale breeding. However, if her method is really useful, the large-scale chicken breeding If it is done, it will solve a big problem for us, and we can have meat every day, and it won't be like now, every day is so boring." Song Baolai looked forward to it.

Raising chickens, ducks and pigs was originally ranked as the second priority by Li Ping.

To train the army, solving the heat supply is the key. Without high-protein food, it is simply nonsense. The little energy provided by rice and wild vegetables will be exhausted after only two laps.

Therefore, Li Ping urgently needs a large amount of high-protein food sources.

However, in this era of meat products, it is far from being possible to meet the demand whether it is robbing, buying or waiting for rewards from above, so we can only hope to do farming by ourselves, but large-scale farming does not exist in this era, and the core is feed The problem cannot be solved.

Now that he sees hope, can Li Ping not be excited?

"This is really great news! Don't worry about why she understands this. It's very rare for her to come to us to help. You must support her well. This is a big and urgent matter, and it can't be sloppy." Li Ping couldn't help it. Live and tell again.

Song Baolai clicked his lips and said with a smile: "Brother, you should relax! If you are not active in eating meat, why should you be active? We can't do anything else, but we are also from a serious background in farming and production. , these matters will never be confused, I must keep an eye on them, and I will not let them go until I have learned all the techniques."

"I don't worry about your work." Li Ping was in a good mood.

"By the way, when it comes to Zhao Lanyue, there is another person! That Gao Lei is not idle either." Song Baolai turned the subject abruptly at this moment.

"Oh?"

"Isn't Gao Lei a dentist! Seeing that Zhao Lanyue is busy all day long, she has also helped a lot in our clinic. Although she is only teaching everyone about hygiene, how to disinfect, isolate, and clean Clothes, treatment of minor illnesses, etc., but they are much better than our half-immortal, half-doctor guy who basically doesn't understand anything. After all, a dentist is also a doctor! And she can make alcohol!"

Li Ping was a little puzzled: "Why are they so active? Is it because of a burst of character!"

Song Baolai nuzzled and said: "I reckon I'm probably too idle, and I don't have a mobile phone or a TV. Doing something is better than just sitting around!"

"Too."

But then Li Ping remembered something was wrong, so he asked again: "You said that making alcohol is a good thing, but do we have something to make? How do I remember that it needs food?"

"Isn't that right! Brother, Gao Lei and I have pinched several times over this matter, so I just gave her a little bit and let her help her all the time." Song Baolai also pouted.

"That's how you win? She's a bit of a clean freak, and she can't be satisfied with making alcohol that can be disinfected!" Li Ping was a little skeptical about Song Baolai's combat effectiveness.

"Of course it's not that simple. I promised to provide her with enough sweet potatoes in a few days to stabilize her."

"Sweet potato, where did you get the sweet potato?" Li Ping felt that his heart was not working well.

"It's a change! Didn't you give me all the money? You said this thing is useless, can you exchange it for something? Then I spent some." Song Baolai was surprised by Li Ping's surprise again. .

"Can this thing be bought now?" Li Ping was a little disbelieving.

"Of course I can. I went to the wharf along the river the day before yesterday. There were many big merchants' boats there. I just wanted to see if I could buy some rare and usable things. Then I saw a boat with several sacks on it. sweet potato.

This thing is easy to grow and has a large yield, but I don’t know why Xiangyang doesn’t have it, and it’s not expensive.

After careful questioning, he found that there were still a lot of potato seedlings on board, so I bought them all, thinking that just these potato seedlings could be planted for another season.When you harvest, you can earn a lot!It can be eaten, and it can be used as alcohol for Gao Lei.

As for the matter of re-cultivation, when the crop is stable, a large number of seedlings can be raised, and the whole problem in the future will be solved. "

Li Ping is really speechless, it seems that this luck is not good at 01:30, is it possible that he really has the aura of the protagonist?
Sweet potato is definitely a god in the food industry, because it is not generally high-yield, but super-high-yield.

Li Ping knew that sweet potatoes had been introduced to China in the late Ming Dynasty, but he had never seen them, so he never thought of them.

In fact, sweet potatoes, a kind of fetish, did not gain a lot of popularity in the late Ming Dynasty, and I don't know why.Otherwise, the Ming Dynasty, which was affected by the Little Ice River, might have a chance to breathe.When it was fully popularized in the early Qing Dynasty, it became one of the main reasons for the rapid population recovery and growth.

Now that Li Ping met him, he naturally couldn't let it go.

Having sweet potatoes does not mean that the current situation of food shortage will be solved, at least you have to plant them!It will take a long time to wait for the harvest.

But this high-yielding crop represents hope.

In addition to the sweet potatoes and the rush to plant late rice that they plan to concentrate all their manpower on in the surrounding area in a few days, as long as they can survive 3 months, they will have a great guarantee of food.

Li Ping tried his best to smooth the air, but still couldn't help it, so he clenched his fists and punched the air twice, and couldn't help shouting a few times, attracting a few workers in the distance Looking sideways again and again, Song Baolai was even more dumbfounded.

After Li Ping told Song Bao about the importance of sweet potatoes, Song Baolai was also incredulously amazed, but he lamented that he didn't read enough books.

Plant the sweet potatoes well, and there is no need for Li Ping to instruct them carefully.

Then, both of them happily chatted about other duties in the camp.Such as the manufacture of spears, blunderbusses, whistles, bugles, cloth shoes, leather boots, military uniforms, armor, soap, gunpowder, bows and arrows, long knives, shields, etc.

At the beginning, based on the demand for various materials and the production conditions and manpower they had at the current stage, Li Ping and Song Baolai jointly determined the materials they were striving to obtain and the list of materials that needed to be produced, and determined each production material. Priority number of production has been identified, and the best way to maximize material replenishment is strived for.

Judging from the current situation, their grain reserves and the production of common people's livelihood materials are the most optimistic.

The production of clothing and shoes is not bad, and the remaining raw materials should be able to meet the minimum needs of the existing troops. Of course, this also has a lot to do with the large number of employees in the clothing, shoe and various crafts industries in Xiangyang.

Many of the city residents who defected to Li Ping possessed one or another kind of craftsmanship, which is also a typical feature of the social division of labor in ancient times—the city is a gathering place for handicraft industries, such as Liu Xiaohui, the neighbor of the silly big Liu San, who relies on giving people clothing life.

However, the production of weapons such as spears, broadswords, bows and arrows is not optimistic. The shortage of raw materials is the main problem, and the lack of mature craftsmen is also a big problem.With a small amount of iron materials, we can only give priority to the production of the most common ordinary weapons that require less materials. At least everyone must have one in their hands.

The manufacture of bows is also very troublesome. The materials, working hours, and good craftsmen all seriously restrict the production. What's more, there are very few people who can use them after they are made.

It takes years to cultivate a qualified archer, but Li Ping dare not give up when there is no substitute at present. After all, the bow and arrow is still the only long-range projectile weapon in his army at present, and it plays an indispensable role. important role.

But no matter what, Li Ping was very grateful and more and more at ease.

A large amount of general production knowledge and production plans in the era of the knowledge explosion is a huge treasure trove. Coupled with his proficiency in the production system of small workshops, Song Baolai is basically at home in handling production matters.

Examine and check and balance the person in charge of each stall painstakingly, think hard about how to build, talk about common sense and principles with a group of ancient chickens and ducks with dry mouth, and think about how to produce every novelty all night Come out, Li Ping doesn't need to worry about these, he just needs to tell Song Baolai what he needs and what he wants to achieve.

On the way back to the training ground, Li Ping had already hummed a ditty.

There are too many surprises today, Song Baolai, Song Baolai, this is really a treasure sent to him by God!For the first time, Li Ping had doubts about their arrival in this era. Could it be that this was not arranged by God?

(End of this chapter)