Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 47 Welcome
With the new year and new weather, Huangmenting is far from being as embarrassed as last year.

After one year in Xinye, they strictly followed Shen Chen's practice to recruit refugees, open up wasteland, and build manors. Now they have more than 2 acres of land and a total population of about [-].

The number of clan members has also grown from 50 in the middle of the year to 120. They do not need to engage in agricultural activities, and they train and strengthen their combat power all day long.

Although the number of these soldiers is not large, Shen Chen's request is to train in the direction of elites, and it is absolutely not required that the number of soldiers is as large as possible.

Deng Mao and Shen Zhen had served as the frontier regular army of the big Han in their early years, fighting against the Xianbei people who were in full swing more than ten years ago, and they have a deep understanding of how to train the elite in the army.

Therefore, under their training, these 120 people can be regarded as small-scale and quite effective.

A few days ago, a Huangjin cottage in the Dabie Mountains saw that Huangmen Pavilion was building a manor, which looked quite wealthy, so they sent more than 1000 people to attack, but they were defeated.

The key to this victory is not the bravery of the soldiers.

After all, many people are on the battlefield for the first time, and the enemy is still ten times stronger, so it is normal to be timid before the battle.

The important thing is that their weapons and equipment are much stronger than those of the Yellow Turban bandits.

The weapon is a ring sword made of steel, and the upper body is also wearing a small armor, and the equipment is in a crushing posture.

But what about the Yellow Turban Army?
What is better is the ordinary wrought iron ring head knife, there are still a lot of gaps, and many of them are even rusted.

The worse ones are simply pig iron kitchen knives, farm tools, hoes, stone and wooden sticks, and there is no armor at all.

With such a huge gap in equipment, Huang Menting's soldiers were invulnerable, and when they were fighting each other, they could cut the opponent's weapon in two with one blow.

However, the Yellow Turban Army could not compete with them at all. Under the leadership of Deng Zhao, Shen Zhen and others, Huang Menting's soldiers rushed to kill the Yellow Turban Army and fled.

There are two main reasons why Huangmenting's soldiers can have such good equipment.

One is the birth of the blast furnace steelmaking method.

In fact, there was a steelmaking technology in the Han Dynasty, called the fried steel method, which is a relatively advanced steelmaking technology that can decarburize steelmaking evenly.

However, the problem with the fried steel method is that pig iron is used for production. If the decarburization work is not done enough, there is a high probability that wrought iron will be produced.After decarburization, the temperature inside the furnace is not enough to form molten steel.

In other words, the most important thing is to grasp the degree of decarbonization work.Not decarburized enough, it's just wrought iron.Too much decarburization to form molten steel, and the resulting iron will be very brittle.

At that time, charcoal was used for firing, and the steelmaking furnace could not reach the point of smelting molten steel. Therefore, under such circumstances, people found another way and invented a hundred steelmaking methods.

Steelmaking is to heat wrought iron to a temperature close to whitish, and then forge it with a hammer to remove the inclusions in the steel and reduce the size of the residual inclusions, so that the composition tends to be uniform, the structure tends to be dense, and the grain size is refined. Granules, improve the performance of steel.

It's just that this approach sounds good, but it is very inefficient.A piece of pig iron is forged into a piece of steel, it needs thousands of hammering.

The source of the idiom "hardened and tempered" lies in the forging process of the sword embryo.

Once the blacksmith makes a mistake, it may cause all the efforts to go to waste.

Therefore, even if the method of frying steel was invented, the production of steel in the Han Dynasty was very low.

It requires extremely skilled blacksmiths to continuously forge to be able to produce steel, and it is impossible to mass-produce it at all.

And Shen Chen used the pouring method to manufacture the blast furnace.

The iron ore is heated to a liquid state, and then wrought iron is added to the liquid state, and the two are mixed to directly turn into molten steel due to a chemical reaction.

The efficiency of such steelmaking is almost a leap-forward improvement.

Why before the invention of the steel filling method in the Tang Dynasty, my country's steel production was appallingly low, and the total steel production in the Western Han Dynasty for more than 200 years was only 17855 tons.

After the Tang and Song Dynasties, the annual output could reach tens of thousands of tons, and even 20 tons in the Ming and Qing Dynasties?
The reason is that the emergence of steel filling method is a dimensionality reduction blow.

Although it is not like the British Industrial Revolution in the 80th century, using steam power to produce [-] tons per year, compared with forging steel, the efficiency is still a thousand times higher.

In addition to steelmaking technology, the second direct reason is that Nanyang is rich in resources.

As a vast plain comparable to the Guanzhong Basin, it is rich in important resources such as coal mines and iron ore.

Among them, there are more than ten Han Dynasty iron smelting sites excavated near the urban area of ​​Nanyang City in later generations, and there are countless other places.

There must be minerals near the Shahe River where the Huangmen Pavilion is located, but most of them are buried underground, and there are no open-pit mines.

The mining technology in the Han Dynasty was relatively low, and it was only useful for open-pit minerals. If they were buried a little deeper, they would either not be found, or even if they were found, they would not be able to mine them.

Fortunately, Fuyang County, which is not far from Huangmen Pavilion, is Chantie County, which later became Tongbai County. There is a mountain named Tongbai Mountain, which was named Dafu Mountain in the Han Dynasty.

According to the data unearthed in later generations, there is a huge open-pit iron vein here.

In fact, not only in the Han Dynasty, but also in the Tongbai Mountain mining area in later generations, there are a large number of small and medium-sized mining enterprises. The mountains contain huge amounts of gold, silver, lead, zinc, copper, iron and other mineral resources. It is a world-class mine. mineral resources.

In the Han Dynasty, due to limited mining technology, it was impossible to dig out all the hundreds of tons of gold mines, thousands of tons of silver mines, and tens of millions of tons of iron, copper, zinc, lead, alkali and other minerals that were discovered by later generations in the Tongbai Mountain mining area. things.

But even the exposed natural iron ore is already very large. Later generations dug up thirteen Han Dynasty iron smelting sites in Tongbai County, and there are even more that have not been excavated. The iron ore reserves are amazing.

In addition to the minerals produced in other places in Nanyang, which have not been exhausted after thousands of years of mining, we can know how many natural resources this place contains.

So to some extent, Nanyang is really a treasure land.

It's just a pity that it is in the war zone of the Central Plains, and there is no stable environment for the perennial wars. As a result, even with such abundant natural resources, they cannot be used by people.

However, although there are such good resources in the Nanyang Basin that no one is using, Huangmenting is gradually developing based on it. After it grows in the future, it may be able to use it as a base to radiate around.

On December 26, Deng Hong returned to Huangmen Pavilion with his new wife and Shen Chen.

Deng Mao and others led the villagers to welcome them.

The current Huangmen Pavilion is not what it used to be. The farmland stretches as far as the eye can see above the fertile fields, and the rice paddies are criss-crossed. Farms, villages, ponds, and mulberry forests have sprung up.

In addition to farming, there are also traditional mulberry industry, breeding industry, animal husbandry, etc., which seems to be a huge manor economic system.

The major families in the Eastern Han Dynasty established their power at the bottom of the country according to this manor system.

Now the Deng family has built a manor like a family, and at the same time there are people who are officials under Liu Biao. Coupled with the background of the descendants of the Deng family, they can barely be regarded as a local gentry.

Shen Chen and the others took a boat from Xiangyang, went up the Baihe River, disembarked at Xinye, and then headed towards Huangmen Pavilion along the Shahe River.

So the welcoming team is at the entrance of the village west of Huangmen Pavilion.

Under the leadership of Deng Mao and others, many newly joined refugees were also summoned to welcome them. The several kilometers long post road was full of people from Huangmenting, and the convoy slowly came from the west.

The reason why it is so grand is first of all to let the bride see Deng's strength and heritage, otherwise if the husband's family is not strong, Deng Hong may be despised by the bride.

The second is to appease the people at the bottom of the township pavilion.

Most of the newly recruited refugees are homeless people who escaped from the Central Plains or Guanzhong wars.

They are afraid of war and hunger. If Huang Menting does not show a certain strength, it will be difficult for these people to have a sense of belonging, and they may flee again in the future.

So this welcome ceremony is very necessary.

Seeing that Deng Hong's family owns such a huge manor, Mrs. Cai will not despise Mrs. Deng.

The low-level people will also feel at ease when they see that the Deng family has senior officials under Jingzhou Mu as their backing.

This is killing two birds with one stone.

But what is strange is that it is said that the Deng family member married a bride, so why is there a child standing beside her?
Could it be a second marriage?
Many of the new arrivals at Huangmenting looked puzzled and discussed in private.

"Is that Mr. Deng Langjun who our Huangmenting Deng family works under Liu Shijun's tent in Jingzhou? He looks really good-looking."

"It's like the bride."

"A Niu, don't talk nonsense. If it weren't for Mrs. Deng, we would have starved to death."

"Huh? Why is there a child beside me?"

"Could it be Deng Langjun's child?"

"No way, I heard that Deng Langjun's wife just married, how can she have a baby so soon."

Everyone was puzzled.

I don't know why that child can come back with Deng Hong.

However, these outsiders didn't know that the fact that Shen Chen was in charge of the Huangmen Pavilion was deliberately concealed.

First of all, he asked to keep a low profile. In order to prevent Mu Xiuyu from appearing in the forest, he must not be known to outsiders.

Secondly, it is also to protect the face of the clan, otherwise those refugees will have to doubt whether their choice is correct when they know that the controller of this village pavilion is a child.

Therefore, the refugees from outside only know that Huangmen Pavilion is currently run by several elders of the Deng family including Deng Mao and Deng Kai, and that outside it is respected by Deng Hong, who works under the tent of Liu Shijun in Jingzhou. Didn't know about Shen Chen's existence.

Shen Chen didn't care about these false names either. For the upper class dignitaries, the appearance of a child prodigy was not surprising.

Because child prodigies are recorded in many history books, such as Xiang Luan Ganluo, etc., even in their circle, there are a lot of child prodigies.

Kong Rong is one of them.

As for the people at the bottom, they don't read and practice calligraphy, they don't have much knowledge, and they don't know history, so naturally they don't know the concept of child prodigy.

They will only put their inherent thinking on it, and they will not believe a child's words instinctively.

Just like when we were in Xuzhou back then, if Cao Cao's massacre of Xiapi hadn't happened, those villagers in Huangmenting would not have believed that Shen Chen's words were true.

So in many cases, there is no need to be too conspicuous among the people at the bottom. Shen Chen can indirectly influence people like Deng Mao, and then let them carry out the execution.

After the convoy entered Huangmen Pavilion, Deng Mao and Deng Kai greeted them.

"Big brother and second brother."

"My son-in-law and my second uncle."

Cai very politely bowed his knees slightly, which is often seen in TV dramas, right hand on left hand, left hand on left hip bone, legs together, knees bent, and head slightly bowed.

On the contrary, after Shen Chen got out of the car, he just yelled, "Eldest Uncle, Second Uncle."

"You guy."

Shen Zhen came over and squeezed Shen Chen's ears, and said, "I used to salute the foreign minister's uncle and the second uncle, but after going to the academy, I even forgot the etiquette?"

"It hurts."

Shen Chen bared his teeth, thinking clearly that they want to run the clan by themselves, and they are about to become the clan leader, why should they be less polite?Moreover, they are all acquaintances of elders, and it seems natural to bend down and salute every day.

But in the eyes of your parents, no matter how capable you are, you are still just a child, and you will still be taught how to teach, so he really has nothing to do with Shen Zhen.

Deng Hong was still kind-hearted, and said with a chuckle: "My son-in-law, use some force, yes, I don't think it's okay to pull the ears, you have to spank the butt."

Shen Chen rolled his eyes when he heard it.

The farce was quickly stopped by Deng Mao, and the group began to walk towards the Xiangting.

It wasn't until then that the refugees around knew that this child belonged to the Shen family and had just gone to Xiangyang Academy to study.

Outside the township pavilion, if the dozens of miles outside the Huangmen Pavilion were just ordinary rural farmland, then the place where the first thousand villagers lived was already a manor.

The outside is made of bricks fired in the cave and rammed earth to build a wall. It is about two miles wide from north to south and four miles long from east to west. A large number of houses, high oars, watchtowers and other fortifications have been built inside.

In terms of fortifications, there are only these at present, but in terms of life, there are vegetable fields, canals and even a small part of farmland, and there are tunnels hidden underground that can lead to the rear mountain forest.

This is a standard Han Dynasty manor structure, if it is further upgraded, it will be a city.

It's just that the manor has not been repaired and perfected. For example, various fortifications have not been built, and the tunnel excavation work has not been done well.

This requires specialized military craftsmen to build, and Huang Menting does not yet have such professional talents.

Even Shen Chen didn't know what to do with the defense equipment of the Han Dynasty.

He does know golden juice.

Although it seems that it is not an honorable thing to say it, but if there is really a large-scale enemy attacking, Shen Chen really can only think of using burnt gold juice to repel the enemy.

Amidst the hustle and bustle, Deng Hong Chenchen was welcomed into the manor and formally entered his own territory.

The seven aunts and eight aunts rushed forward, surrounded by relatives.

Cai immediately felt the enthusiasm of the country people.

Because those relatives just praised her when they caught her. She was a little embarrassed to say that someone was kind, virtuous, and housekeeping.

The most powerful thing about girls in rural areas is their mouth. Now that Deng Hong is in full swing, no one would foolishly offend him, so naturally they would praise the bride.

Surrounded by relatives, Deng Hong first took Cai to the ancestral hall to worship his ancestors.

This is standard etiquette.

Only in this way can he officially enter the Deng family.

Soon after the ceremony is over, there will be a banquet. Compared with the banquet where one person sits for one seat for aristocratic families, the countryside is less particular.

Except for the core figures such as Deng Mao, Deng Kai, Deng Hong and Cai who had their own banquets in the house, the villagers held a banquet. Firstly, they celebrated this year's good harvest together, and secondly, they could be regarded as blessings for the newlyweds of Deng Hong and his wife.

The new year will be in a few days. During this banquet, the old man of Huangmenting is also celebrating the arrival of the new year in his own way.

　Let me tell you the bad news, that is, I have to write only 4000 words a day these days, and I must strictly control it, not too much.The reason is that I signed the contract on August 8th. So far, I have been on the new book list for 15 days.So according to the current situation, if I update 15-2 words a day, I will be off the list in 30 days at the fastest and 20 days at the slowest, which will reduce a lot of exposure.So in order to stay for the remaining 6000 days, I can only write 10000 words per day.But don’t worry, the post is 6 words, but the writing will definitely not only write that much. From the stage of being off the list to being put on the shelf, I have a big explosion, and I guarantee a minimum of 9 every day.

　　
　
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