Daming: Apocalypse of Longevity

Chapter 90 Inner City and Outer City

However, although the soldiers who have been here are very curious about this mysterious base, no one will explore and investigate the secrets of the base in order to satisfy their curiosity. After being in the military camp for a long time, they deeply understand "The more you know, the more dangerous you are."

Zhang Boyu and his soldiers, who were originally sent as the guide and escort for Sun Yuanhua and his party, naturally became the garrison of the base. In addition to not being allowed to tell the outside world about the situation in the base, they were not allowed to leave the base privately.

Although he has not received clear instructions so far, Zhang Boyu has been vaguely aware of this. He may have become a part of this secret base established by the imperial court, and his future and destiny have also been linked to this secret base. Tied together.

Zhang Boyu is not a new recruit. He can live in thousands of households and still has a lot of skills, whether he is serving as a soldier or serving as an official. Therefore, when he realized his current situation, he quickly changed his position. He will not be able to return to Yulinwei for a while. The commander-in-chief of Yulinwei has never given him a military order. In this base, the biggest official is Sun Yuanhua. He wants to mess around in the base. , then you have to run errands for Mr. Sun properly.

Zhang Boyu not only worked very hard for Sun Yuanhua on errands, he also strictly restrained his subordinates and asked them to run errands in the base properly. Therefore, Sun Yuanhua was very comfortable using sergeants like Zhang Boyu.

After a month of overtime construction, the space inside the mountain was large enough, at least enough to accommodate the construction of a small and medium-sized cannon foundry. Seeing that the cannon foundry was about to be completed, Sun Yuanhua immediately approached Zhu Tianqi. Shu, asked Zhu Tianqi to allocate supplies and start preparations for cannon casting.

Zhu Tianqi was a little surprised after receiving Sun Yuanhua's memorial. He did not expect that Sun Yuanhua would build the base to such an extent in such a short period of time. He originally thought that it would take them two months just to dig cave dwellings, so He didn't even have time to think about helping them raise and allocate the production materials needed for cannon casting.

But now that they had dug the cave and started building a cannon-casting production workshop inside the cave, Zhu Tianqi naturally did not dare to delay. He hurriedly found Xu Guangqi and ordered him to quickly arrange manpower to go to Zunhua to purchase iron ore and produce. For wrought iron ingots, another person was sent to the Shanxi Chief Envoy's Office to purchase coal and transported to Sun Yuanhua's office.

But when it comes to casting cannons, Zhu Tianqi is actually a little worried, because his understanding of Sun Yuanhua comes from historical materials. Whether Sun Yuanhua's knowledge and cannon-casting skills are as good as those recorded in historical books, Zhu Tianqi also wants to make a mark question mark.

And although I had sent Sun Yuanhua a lot of professional books for his reference and study, after all, Sun Yuanhua did not have the subject knowledge basis of modern physics and chemistry. Therefore, even if he looked at very simple things, when he came to him, he was still confused. How much can you understand and how much can you understand?

Thinking of this, Zhu Tianqi simply took out a pen and paper and wrote a reply letter of more than ten pages to Sun Yuanhua, in which he explained the key points of smelting and casting in detail and in a simple and easy-to-understand manner.

However, although Zhu Tianqi is a science student and he understands the theory, he does not know how effective it will be in practice. Therefore, this letter can only be regarded as providing some advice and inspiration to Sun Yuanhua. Sun Yuanhua will definitely need to continue to practice it himself. Only by exploring and learning can we truly achieve results.

Since the purchase of iron ore and coal was something Zhu Tianqi attached great importance to, the people on errands below did not dare to neglect it, and it was delivered to Yinchuan Station in less than half a month.

As for the location of the base, these officials transporting iron ore and coal did not know. The instructions they received were to transport the materials to Yinchuanyi in Yan'an Prefecture under the jurisdiction of the Shaanxi Chief Envoy Department, and then wait for the local police station to send people to respond. .Because the letters from the court were delivered in advance of the materials, the garrison at the base had already arrived at Yinchuan Station to wait. After the two sides handed over the materials, the officials responsible for transporting the materials could return to Beijing, and then the materials were transferred to the garrison at the base. Transported back to base.

However, these garrisons are only on the periphery of the base. They do not even have the authority to enter the inner city gate. Although they are permanent residents of the base, they can vaguely guess what is going on inside the inner city gate of the base, but they do not There is no right to enter inside.

The main tasks of these garrison troops on weekdays are to guard the city gates outside the base and patrol the surrounding areas, as well as to take over and transport supplies.

After these iron ore and coal were transported back to the base from Yinchuanyi by the peripheral garrison, they were first stored in the large warehouse outside the inner city gate of the base. The outer city of the base is a stretch of open and flat valleys that are several miles in length. The area is larger than The inner city in the small canyon is several times larger.

However, there are currently only barracks for the garrisoned sergeants, and then there is a large warehouse built on the mountainside in the central area. It is half made of wood and half cave dwellings. As more and more materials are stored, this large warehouse has been Dig the kiln deeper and expand it.

After the supplies were put into the warehouse, someone reported the news to the inner city gate guard, and then the soldiers in the inner city came out and went to the warehouse to transport the supplies into the inner city.

This time, Zhang Boyu personally led people to transport the supplies. Zhang Boyu also received instructions from Sun Yuanhua. He was worried that his men could not handle the errands and delayed Sun Yuanhua's important events, so he came over in person.

After entering the large warehouse in the outer city, Zhang Boyu first checked the newly entered iron ore and coal against the list, and then ordered his subordinates: "Listen up, let's move the iron ore first on our first trip. , please note, only move stones, not iron ingots, load ten carts and then take them back to the inner city!"

The subordinates were a little puzzled when they heard this, and seeing that Zhang Boyu didn't move, they were afraid that they had heard wrongly and moved the wrong thing.

When Zhang Boyu saw this, he couldn't help shouting angrily: "What are you doing here, Du Chu? Move it quickly. Don't you understand I asked you to move rocks?"

This time, everyone heard clearly that Master Qianhu had indeed asked them to move the rocks. They immediately no longer hesitated and stepped forward to move the iron ore to load the truck.

Although Zhang Boyu scolded his men so happily, he was actually wondering in his heart. He couldn't understand why Mr. Sun was so anxious to cast cannons and why he didn't use ready-made iron ingots but told him to transport the iron ore back. , to take the iron ore back, you have to refine it into iron ingots first, wouldn’t it take a lot of extra work?

(End of this chapter)