Chapter 149 Leaving Jiannu as a Fertile Land

Chapter 148

Cheng Shijie's requirements for the arsenal are not very high. Even if he cannot make a bolt-action rifle, he must at least make a breech-loading rifled rifle.

The principles and templates have actually appeared in southern Liaoning. Now, both Thunderbolt guns and Folang machine artillery are breech-loading smoothbore types. It makes no sense to deliberately pursue the range of this kind of artillery and fire guns, because the shells are exiting the chamber.

At that time, without the rotational force imparted by the barrel or the rifling of the barrel, the cannonballs and bullets actually had no accuracy.

The elite shooting range of the Thunder Gun is only about 80 steps. If it exceeds 80 steps to 150 steps, the first hit rate is only less than 70%. From 150 steps away, the accuracy is only less than 30%. From 200 steps away, the hit rate is only less than 30%.

It depends on where the bullet is willing to go.

Fortunately, what the Thunder Gun requires is not precision, but a rough range, forming a dense rain of bullets and covering the enemy with fire.

The same is true for the Fo Lang machine gun, but its stability is much better than that of the Thunder Gun, but four hundred and fifty steps is already the limit. Six or seven hundred steps has such a range, but it requires luck. The artillery of the Kong Youde rebels

The position was hit by the first round of three rapid-fire rounds. This was not normal. It can be said that it was mostly luck.

If Yuan Shiliang is asked to launch a second round of artillery fire at the same distance, Yuan Shiliang will probably not be able to do it. In this case, a complete change of equipment is the most wasteful situation.

Therefore, the technical reasons have not been resolved. The current Ning Navy Artillery Force has less than 2,000 people and a total of less than 240 artillery pieces. As for fire guns, the three divisions only have 12,000 fire guns.

The combat units also include a large number of spearmen, sword and shield soldiers and crossbowmen.

When it comes to designing guns, it is actually not that complicated. It is just a matter of changing concepts. The current objective technical level is already very good. Cheng Shijie just introduced the development trends of future handguns and artillery to the R&D craftsmen of the Gun Bureau.

Then the specific design is handed over to professionals. I believe the craftsmen of the Guns and Artillery Bureau can give Cheng Shijie a satisfactory answer.

"The new prototype gun... actually already exists, but..."

"Why didn't you tell me earlier if you had a new gun?"

Cheng Shijie immediately stood up and said: "Go and have a look!"

"The new gun has not yet been finalized. It is just a prototype gun. There are too many problems and the failure rate is too high. The Gun Bureau is still improving. The craftsman responsible for developing this gun originally wanted to report it to the commander, but... Autumn Harvest, the commander is too busy.

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Cheng Shijie smiled bitterly and said: "How much does the autumn harvest have to do with me? I neither went to the fields to collect potatoes nor put the autumn grain into the warehouse. Now during the autumn harvest, I am just an idler!"

"Actually, it's because there is not enough safety guarantee, otherwise they would definitely invite the commander to participate in the new gun experiment!"

With the successful example of Su Huaicai, all the craftsmen are actually working hard and preparing to do a big job. Once successful, let alone earn a meal, they can even leave an iron rice bowl for future generations.

"How's the artillery going?"

"Slow progress!"

Zhou Yandong was embarrassed to say that Cheng Shijie posed a big problem for the craftsmen, because the artillery he needed not only had a long range, but also had to be powerful enough, light enough, and capable of being loaded and fired, and running away after hitting it.

These requirements stumped the craftsmen.

The more powerful the artillery, the barrel of the artillery must be thicker and longer. In this way, the barrel of the artillery will definitely be thicker. If the tube wall is thin, there will not be enough bore pressure. But once the artillery needs to be light, it cannot be used.

The barrel is made thin.

Cheng Shijie knew how difficult it would be for later generations of howitzers or cannons, so he took a step back and prepared to develop and equip mortars. Compared with traditional artillery, mortars have many advantages. The most important advantages are simple structure, easy operation, and very suitable for education.

Not tall Ning navy soldier.

In addition, for a long time, the Ning Navy's face-to-face enemy was only the Jiannu cavalry, which moved quickly against the Jiannu cavalry. The terrain in Liaodong was also suitable for the large-scale movement of the Jiannu cavalry. Traditional artillery, even the lightest Folan machine

Artillery also moves slower than mortars.

The movement of mortars is also more convenient than traditional artillery. It is very difficult for traditional artillery to move in places where there are no roads in Liaodong, so it is difficult to accompany the troops. However, as long as the caliber of mortars is not too large, it can be done and accompany the infantry to move quickly.

, suitable for a variety of complex terrains, can be loaded and used, hit and run.

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Liaodong Economic Strategy and Appeasement Envoy Yamen, Ning Haijun General Military Mansion, backyard, Nuangeli.

Gao Qiqian was hugging little Jiaxin who was already learning to speak. Little Jiaxin was now chubby. She stretched out her hand to tug Gao Qiqian's fake beard hard, and Jiaxin tugged at the beard that was all over her face.

Bits and pieces.

Gao Qiqian was not angry, but very happy.

From time to time, he would hold candies to lure Jia Xin to call him grandpa.

But Xiao Jiaxin doesn't like this.

Ever since Cheng Shijie brought Yang Yuniang and Xiao Jiaxin back to Liu Ji Inn, and later to the Cheng Mansion in Zhoucheng, including now, Xiao Jiaxin has been living with Cheng Shijie.

Now Yang Yuniang is also busy with banking and accounting matters, and has almost no time to take care of little Jiaxin. Xiaojiaxin is not Yang Yuniang's biological daughter, she is just a prop used by Yang Yuniang.

In order to take care of Xiao Jiaxin's life, Cheng Shijie hired a wet nurse to take care of Xiao Jiaxin. Her identity became confused. In the eyes of others, Xiao Jiaxin was Cheng Jiaxin, just like Cheng Anning and Cheng Anjing.

Cheng Shijie's adopted daughter.

In less than a month, Gao Qiqian followed Cheng Shijie selling sweet potatoes and potatoes and earned more than 600,000 taels of silver.

The money was earned cleanly. Even if he sued the emperor, Gao Qiqian would feel confident. This was money he had earned based on his ability, so he could use it with peace of mind.

However, I don’t know since when, the story of “the bones of slaves can fertilize the land” has been spread in southern Liaoning. At first, it was just spread in the streets and alleys, and soon spread to every corner of southern Liaoning, and then like

Like a plague, it spread to the rear and spread throughout southern Liaoning in the blink of an eye.

Gao Qiqian was also curious and very worried because he sold Cheng Shijie's high-yielding crop seeds to almost all the Huangzhuang stewards. Especially those Huangzhuang stewards saw the yield of these crops with their own eyes and donated generously to buy the crops.

seed.

Gao Qiqian made more than 300,000 taels of silver from selling sweet potatoes, and more than 200,000 taels of silver from selling potatoes and corn. In less than a month, he made a net profit of more than 600,000 taels of silver.

Now he is more worried about one thing. If these seeds are true to the rumors, they need the bone powder of the slaves to grow well and have high yields. From then on, the problem will be big.

The stewards of Huangzhuang did not have the ability to obtain the bones of slaves. If they sold crop seeds to the stewards of Huangzhuang and officials, and if the production was reduced because of the lack of powdered bones of slaves, Gao Qiqian would be outraged by the public.

He is not afraid of offending a few insignificant imperial stewards, nor is he afraid of offending a few officials. If he arouses public outrage and all the eunuchs in the inner court turn against him, he will not be able to sit down as a part-time supervisor of the Ninghai Navy.

"Father-in-law, why are you here?"

When Cheng Shijie came back, he was a little tired. He wanted to take a bath to relieve his fatigue and get up and hide here. He could only talk to him patiently.

Gao Qiqian handed the Jiaxin in his hand to the nanny next to him. The nanny picked up Jiaxin and was about to leave. But when the little Jiaxin saw Cheng Shijie coming in, she stretched out her little hand and shouted to Cheng Shijie: "Yeah... Yeah!"

Seeing that Xiao Jiaxin wanted to be hugged by Cheng Shijie, Cheng Shijie smiled slightly: "Come on, give me a hug!"

Cheng Shijie reached out and picked up Xiao Jiaxin.

Xiao Jiaxin showed a sweet smile to Cheng Shijie. She stretched out her little hand and showed Cheng Shijie the trophy in her hand.

The wet nurse knew that Cheng Shijie and Gao Qiqian were going to discuss important matters, so she wanted to coax Xiao Jiaxin to leave Nuange.

Waiting for the wet nurse to leave Nuange with little Jiaxin in her arms,

"Cheng Jinglue? Did you really grind Jian Nu's bones into powder and scatter them on the ground?"

Gao Qiqian also said that the rumors are false. Not all cultivated land in southern Liaoning is high-yielding. Some land produces only 2,600 to 700 kilograms of sweet potatoes and potatoes. Although this product is not low.

, there is a clear difference with the fields using bone meal. This is only the difference in the yield of sweet potatoes and potatoes, but also the difference in traditional food crops.

"true or false?"

Cheng Shijie looked at Gao Qiqian and said, "Does Eunuch Gao think this is true?"

"Our family also hopes that it is true, but the rumors outside have their own noses and eyes, and we don't know who to believe!"

This is actually a knowledge blind spot. Human bones contain a lot of phosphorus, calcium, and organic salts, which are the main elements of fertilizers. Ning Haijun’s military fields are indeed sprinkled with bone meal. Most of these bone meal are not human bones, but

The bones of cattle and sheep purchased from Jiannu were originally garbage that Jiannu did not need.

However, Ning Haijun bought it at a price of two to three cents or even five cents per catty. Since then, Jiannu felt that he could make money, so he took the initiative to collect the bones that had been discarded before and gave them to Ning Haijun's merchants to exchange them for salt and iron.

pot.

A bag of two kilograms of salt can produce a hundred kilograms of bones. A herdsman can easily get hundreds or thousands of kilograms by collecting them. In this way, these bones are taken to southern Liaoning and ground into powder with a stone mill, which is used as fertilizer.

Scatter it in every field.

"My father-in-law, think about it. There are more than five million acres of farmland in southern Liaoning, and more than three million acres of it are sprinkled with bone meal. How much bone meal is needed?"

Cheng Shijie sighed and said: "Where can Mr. Cheng find so many bones of Jian slaves to make bone powder?"

Gao Qiqian's voice became shrill: "There are more than three million acres. If you spread one or two kilograms per acre, it will only cost fifty or sixty thousand kilograms. But our family heard that you made seven or eight thousand loads of bone meal!"

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"Father, whether you believe it or not, this is actually a coincidence!"

Cheng Shijie did buy five to six million kilograms of bone meal and five to six million kilograms of dried cow dung, because these bones are actually cheaper than cow dung. Cow dung is what slaves need, and they also use cow dung.

He came to boil water for cooking and even roast meat. Later he found that bones were cheap, so he bought a large number of them.

In addition, many cattle and sheep in Jiannu froze to death last winter. These frozen cattle and sheep had to be slaughtered on the spot, the bones removed, and made into beef jerky or mutton jerky.

"Then potatoes and sweet potatoes are grown in Guan Nei, and the yield is..."

"The yield may not be that high, but it will definitely not be less than two thousand catties per mu. If it is good land, it will not be a big problem to harvest three to four thousand catties!"

Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "The key is to use the right planting methods and timely drainage. Don't worry, once these sweet potatoes and potatoes are planted, there will be a bumper harvest next year and countless living people. By then, my father-in-law will be able to raise thousands of families to Buddhahood!"

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"Our family doesn't want thousands of families to be promoted to Buddha, I'm just afraid that it will... cause complaints!"

At first, Gao Qiqian looked down on Cheng Shijie, even if Cheng Shijie had a great victory in Haizhou. But with the harvest in southern Liaoning, Gao Qiqian knew that both the court and himself had actually lost control of Cheng Shijie.

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Even though Gao Qiqian has never actually fought a war, he can still tell whether an army can fight. He has seen the Guan Ning Army's army, including the Tianxiong Army of Daming Prefecture. He has also seen it.

These troops are not enough to look at in front of Cheng Shijienin's navy.
To be continued...