Carefree Prince In Tang Dynasty

A big sunny day. Guanzhong has begun to warm up early, and people have removed their thick jackets and gradually put on thinner spring shirts. The younger sons and masters of better family backgrounds took the maids to take advantage of this beautiful spring to go out for a walk, but Li Xin did not.

This is of course not because he doesn't want to, but because he has more important things to do.

During the previous military exercise, he found that the soldiers were eating very poor rations, so he wanted to make some canned food to improve their conditions.

The principle of canned food is simple. To put it bluntly, it is sealed to prevent corruption. As long as it is handled properly, it shouldn't be a problem to put it in a can for three or two years. However, when he wanted to realize it, Li Xin suddenly discovered the problem.

The cans that people are familiar with in later generations are tin cans. In today's Datang, if you want tin cans that are sealed enough, there is no other way than to rely on the blacksmiths to beat them with a little hand. This also means that the cost of canned food will be much higher than the current military ration, that is, millet.

As we all know, many problems are economic problems in the final analysis. Since the cost of canned food is high, using it as military rations will inevitably increase military expenditures. This is no easy task.

Therefore, Li Xin wondered whether it could be replaced by other materials.

He found several potters, asked them to make some pottery pots that could be sealed, and carefully tested their tightness. The result is not bad. When he was planning to put something in the clay pot to test how long it could be stored, he suddenly thought of the fatal flaw of the clay pot—

fragile.

During the Tang Dynasty, the transportation conditions were very poor, and the military combat environment was also very difficult. Most of the time, they were in the wilderness. How many bumps does a batch of clay pots with food undergo during transportation? There is no way to guarantee that the clay pots will arrive intact even if the straw is put on the transport truck.

Moreover, if the clay pot is completely broken, that's fine. If it just cracked a seam in secret and broke the sealing condition, it would be scary. First, the earthenware pot does not swell like tin cans, and it is obvious that the deterioration can be seen; second, the sergeants who eat canned food are all sergeants. Most of them are born in poverty, where are they willing to waste things? Maybe even if the smell is wrong, they will just eat it abruptly.

Wouldn't it become food poisoning? Aspergillus flavus is no joke.

If this killed the sergeants, Li Xinzhen would be a sinner. To make matters worse, if this affects the course of the war, it would not be an exaggeration to convict Li Xin of being a collaborator with the enemy and treason.

Thinking about it this way, Li Xin suddenly lost interest in the can when playing with the clay pot in his hand.

This thing is really nothing.

He sighed. It seems that for the time being, the soldiers can only be wronged to eat that kind of military rations.

Many things that are commonplace in later generations are actually based on the progress of science and technology and the development of productivity. It's like a small can, with advanced metallurgical technology, industrial equipment, and assembly line operations behind it...Anyway, it's really not something Li Xin can get out of his brain. After all, he is just an ordinary person.

"It would be great if the iron output could be higher," Li Xin muttered. But then he sighed again. He certainly knew that, rationally speaking, no matter how advanced Datang's steel industry was, it would not be possible to reach even one-tenth of the level of later generations in a short period of time. However, even if the cost of cans cannot be solved, as long as the output of iron is high, Datang's productivity can still be improved to a considerable extent.

Li Xin placed the clay pot on the ground and looked up at the blue sky.

The potter has been standing by the side, carefully observing the changes in the prince's expression.

Li Xin posted it for a while before he came back to his senses. Seeing that the potter was a little nervous, he smiled and said, "It's okay. You did a good job. Go to Wang Gui to receive the reward."

The potter nodded repeatedly, thanking the prince in a hurry. Li Xin, the king of Chu, was famous for his generosity. As long as he said rewards, the amount of rewards would be more than you think.

Smiling while watching the potter go, Li Xin stayed for a while, and finally decided to engage in iron.

To be honest, he is not familiar with the knowledge of metallurgy, he just knows a little bit of roughness, and the specific part has to be tried a little bit.

Based on his knowledge, the first thing he needs to do to improve ironmaking technology is to build a brand-new ironmaking furnace. Today, the blast furnace used by Datang is already quite good, with special blast equipment, but this equipment is driven by manpower or animal power, and its production capacity is seriously insufficient.

If he remembers correctly, there was a water-driven blowing device in the Song Dynasty called a water drain. This thing is built on the edge of turbulent water, and the blast effect is much better than traditional devices. With this kind of thing, the production capacity of pig iron can definitely keep up.

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