Ji Han Grand Commander

Chapter 415 409. Industrial Base
"...Yang Yi, a military officer in the Prime Minister's Office, is a man of outstanding talents and knowledge of government affairs. Last year, Yizhou County was plundered by the traitor Yong Kai, and people's livelihood was in decline. Therefore, Yang Yi was specially appointed as the Chief of Yizhou County to comfort the people, reorganize the administration, and govern Yizhou County as before. This is the decree."

After a few days, the official imperial edict from the palace was issued. Yang Yi, wearing official uniform, knelt in the hall and received the imperial edict of exile from Liu Chan.

The expressions of the ministers around him varied, but most of them were indifferent, and a few were gloating. After all, Yang Yi had a bad temper and offended many people, but few people were on good terms with him. Now that he was in trouble, everyone was respecting him enough by not adding insult to injury.

"Thank you Lord for your grace."

Yang Yi knelt on the ground, with a bitter taste in his mouth. He knew that he had caused a great disaster this time, and it would probably take at least three to five years for him to return to Chengdu, the political center.

"This matter ends here, and do not mention it again in the future. There is also an imperial edict, which must be sent to Jingzhou immediately at an expedited speed of 800 miles, and must be delivered personally to the Grand Commander Feng Xi."

Liu Chan's face was serious at this time, and he already had a hint of the nobility and majesty that only belonged to an emperor. The ministers in the hall did not dare to object, and soon someone rode a horse at full speed out of Chengdu and headed straight for Jingzhou.

"See, what did I say? This method of drilling holes and screws with the opposite pattern will definitely make the assembly stronger."

In Jingzhou, Feng Xi was still staying in the arsenal, studying some strange things with Fu Zixun and a group of master craftsmen.

Now Feng Xi has submitted his strategy to Chengdu. It will probably take another ten days or half a month for Chengdu to reply. So, in addition to sending an official document to Yangzhou, asking the navy to increase its training efforts and letting all shipyards work at full capacity to build ships according to his requirements, Feng Xi can only continue to supervise in person and improve Jingzhou's technological capabilities.

What Feng Xi is demonstrating to the craftsmen now is a very common but indispensable thing in the future: the screw.

Casting screws is not very difficult, and you can easily make a lot of them with a mold and some molten iron.

Although the texture of this kind of earth screw is not so fine, it still has a basic function. Feng Xi personally took the screwdriver and mallet that he had been asked to make before, and easily screwed four screws into a small wooden chair. He used a flat-blade screwdriver to twist it a few times, and the screws that penetrated into the wood quickly fixed the mortise and tenon structure below.

"Similarly, nails were invented before. Now that you have structures like nails and screws, you have to find ways to use them in other inventions to improve their quality and durability."

Relying on his vision of the future, although Feng Xi cannot personally improve the current inventions of Jingzhou, it is still very easy for him to provide an idea.

Today, Jingzhou has basically gotten rid of the most primitive manual labor in terms of tools. New energy tools such as pedal tools, hydraulic tools and even steam tools have appeared.

For example, foot-operated looms and sewing machines are not difficult to make as long as you use gum eucommia to replace rubber.

In addition, the weapons in the army have also improved a lot with the rapid development of science and technology in Jingzhou. Needless to say, the new gunpowder weapons have increased rather than decreased compared to the time of attacking Wu, and they are no longer the crude things used before. Even some of Feng Xi’s dreams are slowly becoming a reality, just waiting to shock Cao Wei during the Northern Expedition.

Even ordinary cold weapons have made rapid progress due to the improvement of forging and smelting technology in Jingzhou. Just like a well-known joke in the future, if a kitchen knife from the millennium was thrown into ancient times, it would probably be a magical weapon.

The casting techniques in the cold weapon era had a great impact on the sharpness and durability of weapons. However, in Jingzhou today, even the blades are sharpened with a pedal-operated grindstone, and ordinary broadswords can be sharpened with a fine grinding stone. As for bows and crossbows, they are the strengths of the Han army. Thanks to the standardization and mass production that Feng Xi has always emphasized, Jingzhou now has some signs of industrialization, and its production capacity is extremely high.

For example, for the most common arrows, one furnace of steel in Jingzhou can produce hundreds of thousands of arrowheads. In comparison, the arrow shafts are more troublesome to make. However, this is only a comparison. If the arsenal's production capacity is fully utilized and all materials are available, it is not a big problem to assemble nearly 100,000 arrows a day.

After knowing this number, Feng Xi even joked with Xu Shu with a smile: "If Zhou Gongjin had made things difficult for the current prime minister during the Battle of Red Cliff, I'm afraid the prime minister would have told Zhou Gongjin that it doesn't take ten days, one day is enough to make 100,000 arrows."

Life in Jingzhou seemed to be so dull, at least compared to Chengdu, it was indeed extremely dull. After all, there was no one blind enough to dare to provoke Feng Xi or talk nonsense.

"Grand Commander, His Majesty's imperial edict has arrived."

However, a few days later, the messenger from Chengdu finally arrived. Feng Xi had previously reported on a major national strategy, so it was reasonable to be more formal, so Feng Xi followed the etiquette, took the imperial edict, and read the reply carefully.

All that nonsense finally translated into one sentence: "You'll be given three years to do whatever you want."

Feng Xi nodded. After all, it was still a little hard to believe what he said that Cao Pi would definitely die in three years. So, giving himself three years to develop Izu and conquer Wa Island was the result of discussions in Chengdu.

It is estimated that no matter how much Zhuge Liang spoke for himself, the final result would be that he would turn his attention to the Northern Expedition three years later.

Fortunately, Feng Xi was not talking nonsense, he came prepared. Cao Pi's death was a foregone conclusion, and he had to find a way to expand this advantage.

"By the way, it seems that Cao Rui is still just the King of Pingyuan now."

Feng Xi thought for a moment. Although he had to be busy on his side, he also had to find time to entertain Cao Wei.

You must know that since Cao Pi came to power, the infighting among the brothers of the Cao family has been quite serious. He has sent many spies to infiltrate Luoyang before. Now let's see if he can do something more ruthless to Cao Rui.

Of course, there is another important person, Sima Yi.

However, due to various previous rumors, Sima Yi now lives in seclusion and rarely goes out. It seems that he and his two sons are relatively law-abiding and have not attracted too much attention.

"That won't do... Sima Yi, you want to quietly hide behind the scenes and avoid the limelight. Have you asked me?"

Feng Xi touched his chin and thought for a while, then pulled out a piece of white rice paper, picked up a pen and wrote some words on it, then read it, nodded with satisfaction, folded the paper, and went to find Huang Quan and Xu Shu.

(End of this chapter)