Chapter 450 Rapid Development During the War
Speaking of which, Wang Anshi has always wanted to form a professional public security team and a construction team, and plans to give them a "business staff". However, Sima Guang and other Neo-Confucian Party firmly oppose that people below the head of the capital have a staffing position. Can it be considered that the service needs to pay for Mao? For Mao, the staffing position needs to be provided?
Wang Anshi said, "I just have to do this."
So the new servant law began to be implemented. The Song Dynasty had professional and staffed public security teams. However, Wang Anshi was in a state of decline and Sima Guang strongly abolished the servant law. All the police again "laid off and found a way out". The young leaders found a group of "temporary workers who did not receive wages" to do these tasks. It was considered to serve the country, and it could also be called community joint defense or something.
These are the century-long fights between Wang Anshi and Sima Guang over the organizational issue. The two of them are real mortal enemies and they both say that each other is heretics.
Well, it's getting far.
The final preparations were underway at the Fire Dragon position, and a big soldier started poking the cannon barrel with something similar to a mop.
It was originally rumored that it was a false proposition to masturbate before firing a flintlock gun, but for cannons, it is necessary to poke the inner tube with a mop before firing the cannon.
A lot of people watching looked strange, which seemed a bit like those shameless things? In view of this, a few guys with surprise skeletons made new words, describing the things between men and women as "firing a shot".
After hearing the new lyrics from these dirt-faced people, Wang Rong almost fell down and sweated. It turned out that I made this allusion again?
"Get out of the way, you can't, I'll do it."
Chen Ergou was excited and kicked a soldier away. He took the peculiar mop and stabbed it into the barrel a few times. He wanted to temporarily form a "smooth surface" to achieve the greatest fit with the shells so that the most effective Jose movement could be made.
While operating, Chen Ergou explained to the melon-eating crowd.
Mu Guiying couldn't stand these uneducated soldiers, so she said with a look of a pot: "Damn it, let me hang you up in public, hurry up, hit you quickly... set off firecrackers!"
"Yes!" Chen Ergou stood at attention.
Put a large gunpowder paper bag in, poke it with a mop a few times, and then stuff it in the shells.
This process has a touch. After a masturbation similar to "foreplay", the shells entered not only tightly, but also smoothly. This can be felt by Ergou, and Ergou is very satisfied with this.
"fire!"
Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom
More than seventy fire dragons began to roar one after another. The field cannons with shock-absorbing and force-release devices were like dominoes falling down, and they shrank in turn after firing.
The momentum is amazing, the scene is very shocking, and neat!
I saw the mud wall targets erected on the other side of the Huangshui River being swallowed up in a series of roars.
Such a wheel unloading design will consume a certain amount of power and range, but it can effectively protect the wheel system and gun body when the materials and technology are still immature.
Despite this, it is enough. The range of this batch of fire dragons reaches more than 2,500 steps. If the positional battle with the Xixia army is required to be officially launched next, this is an effective means to suppress the Xixia cavalry cluster from a long range!
Dong Wen and Qingyi Ghost Chain did not understand cannons, but after seeing it, they understood that this was the positional war artifact, and the fire dragon deserved its name, and they contained unparalleled dragon power.
"Awesome!"
"Wow, it's so scary."
"The Buddha is above, this is the absolute power to avenge my Hehuang!"
"I'm very glad that Song State is not our enemy."
As a result, religious thoughts were serious, not amazed but worshipped. With pious thoughts, people knelt in the snow and kowtowed.
Now they fully believe that the Song Dynasty is the kingdom of gods, and they can apply dead objects to form the power of fire dragons to urge some evil enemies.
Dong Wen and Qingyi Ghost Chalk half-opened their mouths to the momentum brought by the fire dragon's roar, which was a little embarrassed. They were trying their best to avoid the influence of the Song army in this area, but in fact, the strength is king, and just a round of fire dragon's volleys had such a worship effect.
This is human nature, people always yearn for advanced and powerful power. Just like Japan worships the United States, China's Luo Huizi worships Japan.
Looking at the embarrassing expression of Qingyi Jieguizhang's faces as if they were from the bottom of the pot, Wang Yun's mouth was skewed. This is the meaning of advancedness and this is the result they wanted.
If Dong Jiong and Qingyi’s ghost sign were not cooperated, the benevolence and righteousness of Song State could not be spread, so you should use muscle pressure. This method will definitely be feasible for a certain period of time.
Regarding field artillery, there are now more than 70 pieces in two phases, and the third phase will be shipped soon, and the total number will be more.
This requires a considerable amount of combat power to be organized into artillery.
After repeated argumentation and experimentation, Mu Guiying pointed out from the technical level: from maneuver to maintenance, from professional and effective transportation, gunpowder storage, efficient connection of shells, to maneuver, retreat, cleaning, maintenance and other work, four gunpowder soldiers, two artillery gunners, two executive gunners, one main gunner captain and one deputy gunner, and some cattle and horses are needed to participate.
Only ten people can effectively achieve the complete deployment of a fire dragon. In the future, many people will become second-line artillery soldiers if they can be seen.
Wang Rong disagreed with Mu Guiying's view, and Yu Xuezhong smiled and said, "The aunt is conservative. There is no need to save manpower on this. In order to achieve more effective maneuvering and connection, it can be relaxed. More than fifteen people are responsible for a fire dragon, and there is no need to participate in the war horse. Because the war horse will be greatly affected by the fire dragon, even if the fire dragon is maneuvering, the war horse cannot run fast. In this case, the war horse is far less reliable than the human being. So in the third period, there are more than 200 fire dragons in total. I think two reorganized troops can be stripped out for transfer and matching."
Ma Jinxi frowned and said, "Even if our army has been reorganized by Jishi Army, its main force is still weak compared to Xixia. In this case, transferring too many main force from the front line will probably have an impact?"
Wang Yun shook his head and said, "There is no impact, on the contrary, it is beneficial. The Jishi Army is not the Funing Army. Even if the ideological problems are being grasped, the combat quality cannot be solved in the short term. In this case, too much deployment of them on the front line is a negative factor affecting morale and combat efficiency. Deploying the largest number of them on the second line is a second-line troops with strong technical professionalism and no need to fight with real swords and guns. On the contrary, it is an act of appeaseing their hearts and increasing morale."
Mu Guiying said deeply: "Yes, the biggest source of the morale and combat power of the Funing Army is that my husband turned the hand-to-hand combat that requires real swords and guns into a more technical long-range strike. Whether others admit it or not, I dare to say that no one in the world wants to die, and effective troops who dare to fight are difficult to train. Basically, it is only the more than a thousand teams of General Di Qing, and even the Funing Army is not as good as them. But the number of people who dare to participate in long-range strikes will expand to more than fifty times. My husband's flintlock gun was born, which greatly lowered the threshold for war from a technical level, and will have a subversive impact on the future war pattern. With the update and improvement of technology and ideas, war is no longer a game for brave young men. This indicates that the war potential of our Song Dynasty is rapidly strengthened in the rapid reform of my husband."
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The temperature dropped rapidly since it started to snow, and it was already very cold.
In the Volunteer Army Command, Wang Yun was wearing a hairy bear, with many warm pots around him.
At that time, the desk was considered a concubine and was sent to the command center. Now Wang Yun reviewed many documents under the dim oil lamp on this desk.
Wang Rong had to interfere in the war. In addition to the Volunteer Army, there were also many things to be involved in the Machinery Industry Bureau. For example, the railway construction plan from Daming Prefecture to Tokyo, Suide Army to Baoan Army also required Wang Rong to intervene.
Construction is not a problem. Now the Industrial Bureau’s own “First Railway Engineering Bureau” has not yet begun to be established, but the initial form of the First Railway Design Institute is considered to be under the Industrial Bureau. Some people were drawn from Funing County, and some of Shen Kuo’s people were transferred, so this team will design and demonstrate the two railways.
After the plan is established, it will be handed over to Ye Wushuang or his uncle to build it.
Regarding the funding issue, Wang Rong was not in Beijing and could not find Wang Gongchen to coordinate. Now he initially planned to use the "Mechanical Industry Regulations" compiled by Wang Rong to raise funds by spontaneously.
In fact, it doesn’t cost much money to build a railway now. In addition, the money to buy land from local prefectures and gentry is probably not more than twelve guan per mile, so even if it is built for two thousand miles, it is only tens of thousands of guan.
However, Wang Rong needs to build an effective fundraising environment and soil now. In the future, he can bring out liquidity more smoothly from the hands of the rich tyrants of the Song Dynasty.
Construction in the wilderness era was so cheap. Twelve Guanyili was already very cheap. It was because the Song Dynasty had a more generous political guidance and some political correctness had to be followed to ask for this price. Otherwise, how much would General Grant cost the railway construction cost of railways during the great development of the western United States? The railway costs per mile were paid by the federal government to capitalists no more than two dollars.
The US dollar was indeed very valuable at that time, but the purchasing power was as high as the Song Dynasty. How could an oligarch like the Pacific United Railway use two dollars to build a railway per mile?
It is also very simple. Without the demolition fee, the native nail households blocking the road are killed by the American cavalry, turning them all into fertilizer on the land.
Then use a large number of black slaves, working at least 18 hours a day, and those who die of illness and exhaustion do not need to pay praise, just bury them under the railway. Just hire a few white people with good marksmanship and set up a "railway police station" under the jurisdiction of the railway company, and successfully and effectively kill a few waves of black slaves who have a rhythm or escape. The remaining slave workers enter the "automatic rate". They do not even need white supervisors to be present, and they can do their jobs very well and quickly.
This is the two dollar railway. At that time, these oligarchs were extremely awesome to the former East India Company. Their own railway police stations were not too often in front of the local police stations or even guards. Even some state governments were "demolitioned" by them, because sometimes the state governments were also considered nail households and blocked their railways to pass through.
The beacon empire that combines thousands of halos, freedom, democracy, enlightenment, legal system, and human rights over sovereignty, actually rose like this.
The empire that started with the sun never set, the royal capital of London was shrouded in smog for a long time. Not to mention black slaves, they were their own "formal white workers", and their average daily working hours were also fifteen hours.
There will definitely be no success for nothing, or success is by no means accidental. The Song Dynasty was relatively lazy. Now the 12-hour working system for state-owned enterprises formulated by Dalian has begun to be criticized by some scholars and literati, sweatshops and other words have begun to appear. So compared to those rogue empires, this is definitely a lack of stability maintenance and publicity work, and it is still not vulgar enough.
We must take this opportunity to build the most railways while it is still more than ten jin per mile.
In addition, the "development and construction funds" accumulated by machinery factories and smelters have not only been used for production expansion, Dalun has announced that it will invest in the research and development of new transport ships.
This is because the transportation bottlenecks in the Song Dynasty are becoming more and more obvious, and many main railways will not be opened very quickly, so inefficient river transportation needs to be reformed, namely, large ships with steam engine thrust.
The ship that uses sails and manpower is really weak.
But there is a problem here. Even if the second-generation steam engine has been effectively miniaturized, it is still large and heavier overall. In this case, it is impossible to match small ships for inland rivers. Therefore, at least a thousand-ton large ship must be developed.
Using steam engines to remove clumsy and high sails, large ships can indeed pass through arch bridges in various places, but there is another problem. Most of the inland rivers are shallow, and large ships must not drift deep. Therefore, they face the inability to use steel, and high buoyancy wood with a specific gravity of 0.7. In addition, they can only be "super-low draft, ultra-low center of gravity".
In this era, the Song people's shipbuilding skills were indeed the most profound. However, the structural strength of the flat-bottomed ship was originally defective, and it also required large tonnage load-bearing, and it also needed to match it with a steam engine with large vibration and low thrust-weight ratio.
This creates a problem and requires manpower and material resources to overcome difficulties.
To be honest, iron ships are really easy to build and even cost low. But wood is another scientific and technological idea. To build a flat-bottomed wooden ship that is load-bearing and efficient, long-distance transportation will not fall apart under the rumbling steam engine, it requires a very powerful and systematic wood craftsmanship foundation.
Fortunately, the technology of bridge and shipbuilding in Song Dynasty is definitely ahead of the times. There are a large number of people with carpentry foundations among the people. Just like the chair built by Lao Luo’s father in Funing County at that time, Zhan Zhao cannot break up. Now it requires investment to collect as much of these technical talents as possible in the large state-owned enterprise of the Machinery Industry Bureau.
This is the extra work of the Great Devil in the War.
Mu Guiying, Ma Jinxi, Chen Ergou and others watched him with their own eyes review and sign three different plans for "Developing Flat-bottomed Mechanical Powered Wooden Boat" submitted by Shen Kuo.
Yes, three plans will be launched together.
In terms of understanding wood, Lao Luo’s ideas were somewhat different from Shen Kuo. The two had differences on the plan of the flat-bottomed ship. In addition, through Zhang Fangping’s relationship, a set of solutions for reference were "stealed" from the secrets of the craftsman's supervisor. So there were three solutions, and Wang Rong allowed them to verify them together.
The reason why the old hooligan Zhang Fangping was so active in finding connections to get secrets of craftsmen was to attract investment for Beijing, because the shipyard under the Industrial Bureau decided to be built in Beijing, and its name was Beijing Shipyard.
"It's amazing, the big devil has a no-no deal with the old hooligan again."
Chapter completed!