The last conscience of the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 185 The place where canned food is produced

Canning, especially canning in tin barrels.

To use sugar, large food merchants have long introduced the white sugar technology.

Liang Xin had seen it. It was not as white as snow, but the color was relatively lighter. Some craftsmen were working on new methods, hoping to make sugar as white as snow.

Canned yellow peaches.

Liang Xin took a bite and felt good.

"Liang Zhong, share some. You can give my father a taste of a jar and then accompany him to the palace."

"Yes."

Liang Zhong understood that he must be filial to the officials.

After Liang Zhong went out, Liang Xin served a small bowl to Cao Tan, but Cao Tan said, "Cook it and eat it."

“It’s delicious when cold.”

Xu Shizhen helped Cao Tan and said, "It won't hurt anyone if you cook it hot and eat it."

"It's up to you." Liang Xin didn't object.

Arranging people over there to heat the place, Liang Xin said: "If this craft is perfected, the weapons supervisor can earn tens of millions of dollars every year. If the caravan going west needs it, whether it is fruit, meat, or vegetables, they will be able to do it." If necessary. You can also sell it to the Khitans and Dangxiang people. The income will be turned into machetes and armors, and the Khitans and Dangxiang people will become more friendly."

After hearing this, it took a cup of tea for Cao Tan to come back to his senses. He covered his mouth and smiled: "Forge more heavy cannons."

Liang Xin shook her head: "It's difficult. With such a large casting process, there are too many pores in the castings. The process is still being improved. You can't even count on it next year. However, the ejection type of fireworks is expected to be used next year, although there are only three It’s a ball that’s only an inch, but it flies three miles, which is quite satisfying.”

While he was talking, the yellow peach over there was already heating up.

No need to boil, just heating is enough.

Cao Tan prefers canned water to yellow peaches.

Cao Tan asked: "I heard from Jingyu that you arranged for the weapons supervisor to build eight thousand pairs of fine steel armor. The old armor-piercing method was used, not our new armor?"

The new armor-piercing method Cao Tan mentioned is the kind of armor-piercing method.

The masks of the walking armor can be raised and lowered, making it very flexible.

Liang Xin turned her head: "You are talking in layman's terms, what's wrong with the armor? The old armor materials were not good enough. This time I used fine steel armor pieces that were two and a half inches wide and three and a half inches long. It's cold. Forged, the defensive power of a single piece is almost three times that of previous armor, but the weight is only half."

Liang Xin was not talking nonsense. The maximum defense power of iron sheets is 400 pascals, while the tempered and fire-extracted steel sheets can reach more than [-] and close to [-] pascals. The defense power of bows and arrows is quite good, and the advantage of large films is Can protect against blunt force injuries.

Most importantly, there are many combinations possible.

If the soldiers feel they can do it, they just stack it a little denser, which is equivalent to three layers of thin steel plates in part.

Feeling that I don't have enough strength, I layered it a little looser and it was also two layers.

There are gaps in the single layer. It is estimated that no elite soldier would do this. After all, he once wore infantry armor, and the weight of pure armor was more than 50 kilograms.

This does not include weapons, food, water bags, axes, hammers, bows, arrows...

The elite soldiers of the Song Army carried a hundred kilograms to kill on the battlefield, and their physical strength was quite outstanding.

Liang Xin then said to Cao Tan: "Shen Chong is arranging people to conduct experiments to see if this new type of armor can withstand beatings better than infantry armor. Of course, the future is the era of firearms, and making new armor is also to train craftsmen to improve their steel craftsmanship. .According to the current purely manual craftsmanship, it is still possible to make a pull-bolt spray gun, but others cannot be made. The three-eye iron spray gun is the most reliable."

Cao Tan said: "I have recently calmed down to study. The strongest army is only external force. If the country is strong and the soldiers benefit, it can be invincible in the world. In the Qin Dynasty, one person serving as a soldier could support seven family members. This Only then can the Qin army be invincible."

Liang Xin laughed: "Madam, you have become more powerful. In other words, the national treasury cannot bear the war every year, and there will be sacrifices in the war. This time, I estimate that the number of elites killed by the Western Army will not be less than 1. Ordinary There are also [-] soldiers, not to mention miscellaneous soldiers and auxiliary soldiers, but if they don't fight, the damage to the people in the northwest will probably be much higher than this."

"Let's fight. After the fight is over, let them earn tens of millions of dollars, just as a pension."

After finishing speaking, Liang Xin stood up and went to the table, picked up a pen and wrote a proposal.The content is probably about banning salt.

The purchase of green salt from Xixia is prohibited in the northwest.

When Cao Tan saw it, he immediately objected: "Husband, do you know that salt was banned during the reign of Renzong and Zhenzong, which caused many border tribes to turn to the Xixia people."

Liang Xin did not answer and continued to write: Send troops to destroy the Hengshan tribe.

The reason is very good, because the Hengshan tribe once belonged to the Song Dynasty, but when the salt ban was issued, it betrayed the Song Dynasty and went to Xixia.

Cao Tan gave advice: "Husband, you are powerful, how can you be kind?"

Liang Xin went on to write: After annihilating the Hengshan tribe, he showed kindness to all tribes and allowed each tribe to send caravans to Bianjing to start trade routes.

After finishing writing, Liang Xincai explained: "In the past, Xixia traded green salt with us, which was their main source of income. At that time, we banned salt. After banning the income of Xixia people, it also cut off the source of income of many border tribes. It was wrong at the time. It’s different now, the salt lake is in my hands, the inexhaustible salt lake.”

Liang Xin is right.

When Renzong and Zhenzong banned salt, it was to control Xixia, but the northwest lacked sources of salt.

At the moment, the salt lake is under control, not to mention the small salt lakes, but also the big one, Chaka. Liang Xin feels that if they are all dug out, it will be enough for the people of the Song Dynasty for hundreds of years.

It’s just that transportation is a bit laborious.

Fortunately, there are many local tribes, and they are definitely willing to dig and transport salt in order to make money.

After hearing this, Cao Tan said: "Husband, you are wise."

Hahaha!
Liang Xin smiled so hard that he couldn't close his mouth. He also felt that he was quite outstanding.

At this time, Zhao Ji in the palace ate canned yellow peaches and ordered Liang Shicheng to personally divide these and deliver them to the palaces. He was in a very good mood.

There are also those who eat yellow peaches.

It's just a jar.

Shen Chong is in Guangzhou now, how can I describe him, and his student and assistant Ning Ren.

frenzied!

Liang Xin and he studied blast furnace steelmaking in order to increase steel production.

He and Ning Ren built two new things in Guangzhou.

The heads are the same and the steps are the same.

The previous infantry armor was iron armor, densely packed iron armor.

The current new Bu Ren armor is a pure steel armor with dense fish scales. It uses the upgraded version of Bu Ren armor. It has more than 2000 armor leaves and is still made of pure steel. The weight is increased by two kilograms.

Putting it on a wooden figure and cutting it with a knife is already a waste of energy.

Then the second appearance will come.

An iron pipe with a diameter of about two inches and a length of one foot and three inches needs two people to carry it. It is placed on a wooden frame and contains a handful of iron beads. They are all three-thirds in diameter, equivalent to one centimeter of small iron beads. .

Thirty steps.

There was a fan-shaped wooden board in front of him, one inch thick. If the wood had been inferior, it would not have been able to withstand the blow.

Ordinary poplar boards are only three inches thick to barely block it.

Only when the thickness reaches five inches can it be completely protected.

(End of this chapter)