Kai Fu Han

Chapter 318 Warm water boiled frog

"Father is the dean of the Government Affairs Council, and everyone carries the sedan chair, so the work of his propaganda department will naturally go smoothly. But I read the previous issues of the newspaper, and Luo Gao's control over the content is still very stable." Zhou Xin A long way.

"really."

In the fourth issue of the People's Daily at the end of the year, Liu Xinqi was patrolling outside. Luo Gao had no conditions for Liu Xinqi to review it, so he directly finalized and published it. Later, when Liu Xinqi came back, he took a look at it and found that Luo Gao had basically grasped Liu Xinqi's intentions. In the newspaper ’s content review is more cautious than Liu Xinqi’s.

"Newspapers have just been born, so some things are correct."

The two of them passed by a tavern, where someone was already reading a newspaper. The tavern was crowded with people listening to the newspaper, and the waiter was walking back and forth, making it very lively.

"Everything else is good, except for the small story section at the back, which I feel is a bit inappropriate and not serious enough." Zhou Xinyuan said.

"Most people don't like to watch serious content. The story page is very useful. We can integrate the viewpoints, right and wrong, values, world view, outlook on life, etc. that the league wants to convey to the people into small stories, so that The common people somehow feel accepted and infected." Liu Xinqi explained.

"I see, this is an 'allusion' written in popular language."

Allusions refer to recognized characters and events that have educational significance and are familiar to the public.Of course, the short stories in newspapers cannot be called allusions, but their functions are basically the same, and the only difference is the scope of coverage.

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When Liu Xinqi returned to the office, he found Xu Zhong waiting for him at the door.

After asking him to come in and sit down, Liu Xinqi asked, "What happened?"

"It's not a big deal, but I think we should prepare in advance, so I came here to report to you."

"You say it."

After Xu Zhong's report, Liu Xinqi understood the beginning and end of the matter.

On December [-], the first year of Jingyan, after Laiyang was captured, all seven counties in Denglai were recovered by the Xinghan League.

With the soldiers attacking Laiyang freed up, the liquidation of the mine owners in the Laizhou area accelerated.

In order not to overly stimulate these mine owners and prevent them from jumping over the wall in a hurry, Xinghan League adopted the strategy of "boiling the frog in warm water".

That is to say, those mine owners are prohibited from restricting the freedom of miners, and then they announce a very favorable resettlement policy for those miners, promising to place them in factories, construction teams, road construction teams, etc., not only to provide food and housing, but also generous wages and holiday.

The most important thing is that everyone who accepts resettlement will be given the opportunity to come and go freely.

The miners in the hands of the mine owners in the Laizhou Mountains are basically slaves bought from the mines, and freedom is very attractive to them.

The resettlement policy of the Xinghan League caused miners to flee the mining factories in large numbers. Under the supervision of garrison troops and field troops, most mine owners did not dare to restrict the miners' freedom privately.

However, the number of garrison troops and field troops was small after all, and supervision could not be comprehensive. Some small mine owners were so vicious that they could not see the situation clearly and began to secretly restrict the miners from escaping. Some mine owners even killed some mining slaves in order to scare the monkeys.

"This is a trivial matter, which can be dealt with later. The important thing is that we listen to the spies who sneaked into the miners' team and find out that these mine owners have started to connect with each other. There should be some conspiracy. Now because no spies have entered the trusted crowd of the mine owners, so The specific situation has not yet been investigated clearly.”

"You are too cautious in this matter. They are in the territory of our Xinghan Alliance, and they can still turn him upside down. Order them down, let the spies catch their tongues and interrogate them, and understand what these mine owners want to do as soon as possible. Don't be afraid of alerting the enemy. .”

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Tang Zhou reported Zhang Jiao's rebellion, which led to Zhang Jiao's hasty revolt.Liu Xinqi understood Xu Zhong, and he was also worried that if he caught one or two mine owners as a tongue-in-cheek, it might prompt those coal mine owners to start revolt in advance. "It's the leader!"

When Xu Zhong went out, Liu Xinqi immediately asked the guards to call Liu Xinang over.

"Assemble the Fourth Field Regiment, carry three days of rations, and head to Phoenix Ridge to station as soon as possible to deal with possible troubles caused by the mine owners. Your subsequent supplies will be transported by the garrison from Penglai and Huang County."

"Yes, Confederate."

The current garrison troops in each county can actually deal with the mine owners. The purpose of gathering the Fourth Field Regiment is just in case, to prevent the mine owners from causing trouble and causing excessive casualties to the people.

On the tenth day of the first lunar month, Liu Xinang led the Fourth Field Regiment out of the city.

Liu Xinqi did not follow, but stayed in the alliance headquarters. There were many things in the alliance, and Liu Xinqi no longer needed to personally participate in such a chaotic war.

After seeing off the Fourth Field Regiment, Liu Xinqi went to the research institute to check the latest progress of Xinghanmeng's technological development.

When he entered the institute and found Liu Zhimu, Liu Zhimu was at the cannon foundry.

Looking at the new artillery being polished by workers, Liu Xinqi couldn't help but ask about the performance of this artillery.

"This artillery is prepared for the new six thousand stone warship. It is still in the experimental stage. This gun is an experimental model." Liu Zhimu explained: "The performance has more than doubled compared to the artillery in the Battle of Huangshui last year."

This artillery drew on the experience of transforming musket bullets, and made the solid shells into a conical shape, with grooves at the bottom, inlaid with a thin layer of cork, using pure iron as the material, smoothbore cannon.

Because it is a ship gun, there is no need to limit the weight of the gun body too much, so the total weight of the gun exceeds one thousand kilograms. The gun body is six feet long, with a caliber of two inches and double diameter (referring to the ratio of the distance from the fire gate to the muzzle to the inner diameter). 20.

Because the gun body can be made heavier, the tube wall is very thick, especially the very rear breech tube wall, which can carry huge bore pressure, and the charge amount is tripled compared to the previous artillery.

Improvements and enhancements in various aspects finally enabled the effective range of this artillery to reach five miles.

"Within five miles, we can break the side walls of a two-thousand-stone fortune ship." Liu Zhimu concluded.

"What if we use explosive bombs?" Liu Xinqi asked.

At present, the explosive shells made by Xinghanmeng can't bear too much pressure, otherwise it will cause the shells to explode in the barrel, so the advantage of this gun that can withstand huge chamber pressure is not obvious.

"The safe shooting dose is one-third of that of solid bullets. It can be fired two miles away, up to three miles away, but it is basically not accurate."

The blooming bullet does not require the potential energy of the shell itself to cause damage, so if it can be fired, it can cause damage by the power of the re-explosion. Therefore, the amount of powder used is two-thirds less than that of the solid bullet, but the effective shooting distance is only half.

"It's very good. With this kind of artillery, we can use the 'kite flying' tactic at sea." Liu Xinqi said.

The invention of the paper kite has a long history. It is said that it was invented by Han Xin, the founding hero of the Western Han Dynasty.At that time, the prince Chen Xi rebelled against Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty. Han Xin colluded with Chen Xi and made paper kites as a signal for internal and external cooperation.

"Put paper kites?" Liu Zhimu was puzzled.

(End of this chapter)