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Volume 1: The Arms Dealer¡¯s Feast Chapter 282: Continue to do business

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    Walking on the hardened road leading from the pier to Youth City, Zhang Tiejun said: "That's because some things are more important than bricks. For example, water tanks"

    Zhang Tiejun talked bit by bit about the development of the Eighty Days Youth City where Lushan left.

    After the Lushan ship left, there was no need for so much labor on the head, so work began on the construction of the Youth City - of course it was also the home of these immigrants, and it was scheduled to be allocated to them after three years of work.  There is plenty of wood for building houses, but there is no cement or asphalt for paving roads.  In the end, it was decided that Youth City would first use a hardened pavement made of loess and white limestone - this kind of hardened pavement can be directly laid with cement or asphalt pavement on top.

    The houses are built one by one.  But the living facilities are still far behind. You must know that this is Australia in the Stone Age, and the indigenous tribes were so poor that they had almost nothing.  Carrying water from the river was not an option, and it was unsanitary, so the construction team used a precious piece of hundreds of meters of plastic pipe taken from the Lushan to build a water tower and fountain leading to the city center.

    This fountain is not for viewing, but the water intake point of Youth City. Now Chuanzhong is not able to provide tap water to every house. Whether it is water pipes or faucets, it is a problem. The construction of the water tower has already  A lot of modern supplies were used.

    The excess water from the fountain formed a gentle artificial stream leading from the city to the sea, where housewives did their laundry.

    Due to the shortage of supplies - such as kitchen knives, iron pots, water basins, etc., the entire Youth City is still eating from a big pot. This time, Lushan brought a lot of such daily necessities - it was not that we didn't bring them last time, but it was not enough for one household.  However, the total amount of this kind of ironware was also out of stock in many places in the extremely low productivity state of feudal society.

    ¡°These can be purchased and carried, but water tanks cannot be used - they take up too much space.  Therefore, after the adobe brick kiln was built and burned several times to harden its structure, the first furnace to start firing was pottery water jars and pottery basins - you know, according to archaeologists' findings, they were made at least 10,000 years ago.  Pottery products appeared, and some of them were more advanced painted pottery products than those produced in Australian Youth City.

    But you have to burn it even if you know it, otherwise it will be useless.  Every household must have two pottery pots and one pottery jar - and in the future, everyone wants to replace the sewer system of Youth City with pottery products. This is very convenient, isn't it?  As for cement, don¡¯t think about it in the short term - although everyone has read a few YY novels that go back to the past, and within a year or two they started to burn cement, blow glass and climb the technological tree, but due to the shortage of labor force, this  Construction of cement plants and glass plants are still in the queue.

    It will never be earlier than coking plants and steel plants, nor earlier than gunpowder factories or weapons factories and clothing factories, or even earlier than salt drying plants - everyone has already had opinions on the black salt bought from the Ming Dynasty.  , this black salt is not private salt, but official salt mixed with a lot of sand. Compared with the refined salt of Lushan Hao, the color is black. Not to mention the difference in quality, the price is quite expensive.  When this salt drying field is built, it will definitely be supplied to Australia at first. Later, when it gets bigger, it will naturally hit the official salt market of the Ming Dynasty.

    We must first meet social needs and safety before talking about other things. These immigrants are not NPCs in the game. Their loyalty will be full if they are rewarded with some money. Besides, because Australia is still eating from a big pot, there is no market at all.  You can't buy anything with money for the time being, so the rationing system is adopted.

    Take the salt drying field that is about to start construction as an example. It is supposed to use water trucks and cement-paved salt salt ponds to dry the salt.  But there is no cement right now, but there is a way to replace it, and that is to use stones.  The Mayans in South America once dug a large stone salt field near a salt spring. It is said that it has a history of thousands of years.  Once the salt fields are dug, a large amount of salt can be obtained with almost no manpower.

    In later generations, there were more than twenty people in the first batch of Lushan immigrants, such as masons, who were eccentric jobs. These people were selected to build a salt field on a stone land by the sea. In order to speed up the progress, their children and nephews were also selected.  Serve as their apprentice.

    But even with the use of steel hammers and drills, the progress in this month is far less than the progress in one day in the mechanization era. In this regard, Zhang Tiejun said that we will be able to eat our own salt in a few months.  As for the black salt that attacked the Ming Dynasty, it was really not that easy before the advent of cement.

    Naturally, there is no electricity at night in Youth City, and most people do not have access to luxuries such as candles or oil lamps. Today, Youth City still maintains the tradition of resting at sunset and working at sunrise. Except for a few departments, when it rains  The weather is a public holiday.

    The *-grade materials Zhang Tiejun asked about contained copper.  For today's Youth City, there are too many things that copper can do. Water pipes can be made of copper, and some tools can also be made of copper.?It only needs a not-so-high temperature to melt, and Youth City still has to transition to the Bronze Age before the coking plant can produce coke.

    After the Lushan came back, the military industry team that had occupied the two crucibles was immediately called off from the busy work of making guns and cannons. Instead, it was changed to process a batch of steel tools for Youth City, including steel plows, steel shovels, and steel forks.  Agricultural and living tools including steel hoes and kitchen knives - people in the agricultural group didn't think much of it in the past. Only after using this heavy and thankless iron thing to clear the land did we realize how hard it was for farmers in the past - the 1960s were remote.  Some places that do not have multi-functional combine harvesters use steel ones.  Not only are these iron objects bought from the Ming Dynasty heavy and heavy, but they have been worn out for several months and are in a state of needing to be refurbished again. Only then do we understand why the novel says that when the plowshare is broken, add a few kilograms of iron and ask the blacksmith to rebuild it.  What does it mean to hit a dozen.

    In fact, this was also the reason for the high price of salt in the Ming Dynasty. Most salt-producing areas in the Ming Dynasty still used the method of boiling the sea to make salt. This method caused a lot of losses in the iron pot. In a few months, a few kilograms of iron would have to be added for the blacksmith to make it again.  It's hard to beat, but iron is not cheaper than salt.

    The new immigrants settled into the first few dozen large houses built, where they would survive the security quarantine while being organized to focus on simple manual tasks, mainly unloading cargo from the docks - not even Australian rice.  Free food.

    However, in the end, the people responsible for running merchants and recruiting immigrants at Lushan were not able to see even one brick coming out of the oven - the brick kiln is now making water tanks and basins for the new immigrants, but the good news is that two new brick kilns have already started construction.  .  In the future, there will be many places where bricks and pottery are used in Australia. It is estimated that such brick kilns will also be used to burn cement in the future. A small brick kiln will not be enough.  As for the environmental damage caused by burning bricks, anyone who doesn't want to be a savage shouldn't think about it now.

    The people who stayed behind in Youth City and the people on the ship talked about the changes that Youth City had undergone from scratch. The only thing the crew of the Lushan could talk about was the naval battle in Macau - to be honest, that time was really  The left-behind personnel of the Lushan were greatly frightened. If the generation difference hadn't been too great, that careful plan might have been successful.

    Five hundred people gathered together and held several general meetings.  At the conference, the issue of strengthening the safety of the Lushan was approved. The local military team in Qingnian City was very busy, either dealing with poisonous snakes and insects, or driving away nearby indigenous people. Of course, the most important thing was troop training - this was also the most tiring thing for Zhang Tiejun. According to him  To put it bluntly, it was no easier than training soldiers at Yuan Shikai's small station, although most of the soldiers he trained were military households who had escaped from the Ming Dynasty.

    The military household established by Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty can be understood as the hereditary professional soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. In theory, there should be such a foundation, but this is not the case at first.  It took more than a month for them to distinguish between left and right - you said straw sandals and cloth shoes, how could there be so many shoes in Youth City because of the lack of supplies? Besides, it is really unsafe to wear straw sandals here where there are poisonous insects everywhere.

    Everyone understands that this is caused by low quality and low education, but if you want them to learn Braille, if everyone dozes off looking at the blackboard in class, few will be able to learn - the original intention of people in the Ming Dynasty to study.  To be an official is to make money - Hai Rui is an exception.  Many people think that since they can¡¯t become officials by learning this, what¡¯s the use of learning it? Although these people come here for the treatment of servants, their servants don¡¯t know how to read. In ancient times, literacy was not easy, and most people often  Being regarded as not having such talent, over time they also felt that they were not destined to be literate.

    According to Zhang Tiejun, after so many years of military training, he has never been so tired. To transform such an army, it is better to find a group of children to train from a young age. Now everyone is opposed to handing weapons to them before all training is completed, otherwise they may not be able to do it.  What a mess has happened.

    Relatively speaking, Jin Sanduo got a little advantage. Those Japanese samurai have been educated in the art of war and the art of war since they were young - the art of war refers to sword fighting, archery, iron cannon and other martial arts, and the art of war refers to strategy and military strategy.  , in addition to learning Waka, Chinese poetry and tea ceremony.  Basically, according to the standards of the Ming Dynasty, all talents belong to high-end talents - of course not eight-part essay or something like that. Learning that too much can only make people stupid.  You will understand everything Jin Sanduo taught you once or twice.

    Those who still don't understand after two attempts will be beaten, scolded, or corporally punished by being starved and locked up. Even the most tolerant Japanese samurai don't think there is anything wrong with this, because they believe that a person's mistakes on the battlefield are  It is enough to cause an army to collapse, and sometimes it is enough to change the fate of a battle or even a country - of course this is also because Jin Sanduo told them the story of a nail and an empire, a broken nail on a horseshoe.  A lame horse leg, a broken horse leg killed a general, the death of a general lost a battle, the failure of a battle destroyed an empire.

    In view of this, the safety of the Lushan can only be temporarily trusted in addition to the military strength of the Chuangzhong.There are some Japanese iron artillery teams, especially the samurai iron artillery team whose parents grew up in Youth City.

    In early November, the supplies and most of the food were unloaded. During this period, the Lushan's crucible was not idle. After leaving a large number of steel tools to the Australian Youth City, it left the port again to find more supplies, tools and supplies in Asia.  Labor Force - According to calculations by the Human Resources Group, a total population of one million - equivalent to 200,000 households - is needed to meet the current demand for labor in Youth City.

    Even if the Lushan ship takes three months to immigrate an average of 10,000 people each time, it will still take 25 years to bring back all the people needed by Youth City - in fact, 20 years is one generation. Maybe Youth City will arrive  We don't need so many immigrants now, but the whole of Australia does. If we don't open three or five sub-bases in twenty years, then the Lushan crew will be too timid.

    This number of immigrants was nothing in the seventeenth century. During the same period, European immigrants to the Americas during the Age of Discovery lasted for two to three hundred years, and these immigrants also included tens of millions of black slaves.  It¡¯s not that there are no indigenous people in the Americas, but that the indigenous peoples in the Americas, whether they are descendants of the Mayans or Indians, have developed a high degree of civilization¡ªat least much higher than that of Europe and Africa at the same time. Several pyramids were built in the Americas.  seat.  These highly civilized and self-respecting Americans did not bow to the barbarians of this era, the European invaders. As a result, the European invaders used smallpox as weapons to kill a large number of indigenous people, and at the same time, they also invaded the Americas from more backward Africa.  migrant.

    The Lushan, which left Youth Port, headed north to Nagasaki - originally it could have stopped in Manila on the way, but considering the attitude of the Spanish in Manila towards the Chinese, everyone decided to conquer Manila by force in the future - so Manila's  The Spaniards cannot see the Lushan. What if the Lushan frightens them out of courage? It is said that the meat will not taste good if they are frightened out. For those who dare to massacre, the only way to deal with them is  Tooth for tooth, eye for eye.

    This time when I arrived in Nagasaki, I unexpectedly met an envoy from the Shimadzu family.  After the Tokugawa shogunate unified the world, there were only two relatively large local forces left in Kyushu, namely the Shimazu family and the Mori family.  The Shimazu family, who were also members of the Western Army, did not look at each other with the Tokugawa family, and they had a good relationship with the Mori family - they were all allies of the Western Army at that time.

    The Shimazu family somehow learned that the Mori family had obtained new guns and steel cannons, and immediately sent people to guard Nagasaki Port, waiting for a deal with them - the downfall of the curtain has never been forgotten by the two families, especially  It was after the Tokugawa family produced a third-generation general, Tokugawa Iemitsu, who was more ruthless than Tokugawa Ieyasu.

    After the third-generation shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu came to power, the non-Tokugawa Daimyos everywhere were unlucky. Once a minor mistake was caught, they would be dealt with by extreme means such as changing the name, expelling the name, etc.  The number of unemployed ronin at one time reached up to hundreds of thousands, but this was indeed beneficial to the Lushan. Last time, most of the people who stayed in Japan to pick up their families brought back one or two hundred samurai with their families.  Bring forty or fifty warriors with their families to join Australia.

    The current salary level given to the iron artillery team in Australia is slightly higher than the level of ashigaru-head and slightly lower than the level of Hatamoto samurai. However, with so many unemployed and laid-off samurai in Japan, there is no room for choice.  It would be nice to have a bowl of rice to eat.  Many samurai had to go up to the mountains to become bandits or do odd jobs for others to make a living. Among the people selling umbrellas on the street, selling calligraphy and painting, writing letters, and setting up small stalls, five or six out of ten were samurai.

    The idea of ??the Shimazu family is very simple, to buy some fast guns and steel cannons from the Lushan.  Of course, as long as everyone understands the collapse of the curtain, there is no need to speak openly about it.

    Lushan claims to be an open door for business, so naturally there is nothing it cannot sell, especially the arms that can be produced by itself using raw materials from the 17th century - it seems that it would be good to see Japan continue to enter the Warring States Period in my lifetime.

    The Shimazu family's envoy did not come back with any price. Fortunately, the price for the copper collected by the Lushan was not bad. At this time, the Tokugawa shogunate also banned the outflow of gold, silver and copper, but who could control the high mountain general of Kyushu?  Far away.  Copper is a good thing for Australia. In addition to industrial use, it can also be used to suppress coins and make bullet casings in the future. Not all wires are made of copper - of course, rubber is still a problem.

    After the iron artillery team composed of Japanese samurai expanded again, it reached 900 people. Most of them brought their families with them and prepared to go to Australia to work as retainers rather than part-time workers.  If these more than 900 people were equipped with Type 1628 rifles, they would already be a very powerful force for Australia.

    "However, this number is still not enough. At this time, wars in the Ming Dynasty often involve tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people. If you say that you will bring a thousand people to fight, you will be embarrassed to open your mouth."  Another decision made at the 500-person meeting was to join the Ming Dynasty's war against foreign nations when necessary - a controllable process of changing history based on the preferences of the public.

    At this point, we decided to take the first step to change history from Pidao Dong.Starting from Mao Wenlong, the commander-in-chief of the town, historically this man still had a year to live. After rescuing him first, it would not be so easy for Hou Jin's cavalry to go south. The fewer times Hou Jin went south, the greater the national strength.  It will be easier to deal with the weak ones.  Although the people who traveled through the Republic did not have a good impression of the feudal dynasty, their feelings for Inu Qing were undoubtedly negative - this reason is the same as the Qing Dynasty's wanton tampering of Ming history.

    Opening the manuscripts of Qing history and Ming history, it turns out that the Tatar emperors were all diligent and caring for the people, while the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were all extravagant.  This is one of Inuqing's purposes, to make people think that it makes sense for Inuqing to replace the Ming Dynasty - but don't forget that during this period, many foreign countries implemented constitutional monarchies and became strong, while Inuqing fell behind because of the emperor's diligence and seclusion.  As a powerful country in the world, coupled with Chongzhen's diligent administration that destroyed the Ming Dynasty, it can be seen that sometimes the emperor's diligent administration is also a bad behavior - as the saying goes, one person is short-sighted and three others are responsible. It is much smarter for a group of people in the cabinet to make the decision than for the emperor to make the decision alone.  Well, the result negotiated by a group of people may not be the best, but it is definitely the least bad.

    Historically, this winter, Yuan Chonghuan was about to start cutting off the food and wages of Dongjiang Town. During this period, the mission of the Lushan was to export food and arms to Pi Island.  Of course, I want all the Lushan products in Dongjiang Town.  As for Yuan Chonghuan, he is not afraid. How can a Jinshi with a background in Eight-part essays still use sage articles to sink the armored ship Lushan? If this happened, then the 500 soldiers of the Lushan would have surrendered early.  Go towards the full power of studying the Four Books and Five Classics.  (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!)
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