Qian Song

Chapter 364 The World's Most Powerful Army
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Sometimes Li Cun has to admit that genetics are really amazing.

Concubine Qian Gui was really clever in giving Li Cun these children.

Especially Li Hang, the first son of Concubine Qian Gui to Li Cunsheng.

This kid is not yet 15 years old, but he already has more than a dozen inventions and creations.

Yes.

Li Cun admitted that many of Li Heng's inventions were ideas he gave to him.

Like a solar heater, like a hand-cranked corn thresher, etc...

One of Li Heng's most impressive inventions to Li Cun was the improved biogas digester.

In this era, there is no such convenient, energy-saving and environmentally-friendly fuel as natural gas, and the development of electrical appliances is far from the time when home appliances appeared (after all, there is only one small hydroelectric power station in the world now, and ordinary people simply cannot There is no access to electricity), so people need a lot of firewood for cooking and heating.

If the family raises cattle and other livestock, rice and wheat stalks are reserved for cooking and cooking, the cattle will lack forage in winter, and if they are reserved for forage, they will lack firewood for cooking.

The invention of biogas digesters can undoubtedly improve this situation to a great extent.

Cooking with biogas not only saves a lot of firewood, but also saves all the trouble of burning firewood, which is clean, hygienic and convenient.

As long as you take some livestock manure and domestic garbage generated around the house and pour them into the biogas digester, you can produce biogas.

At the same time, this has also changed the sanitation of the environment, making the inside and outside of the home cleaner and more hygienic and beautiful. The livestock and fodder are also sufficient, and the key is to save a lot of firewood.

However, after the biogas digester has been used for a long time, and the pipes and equipment are aging, it is prone to air leakage, and it is repaired here and there.

And once some air is mixed in the biogas, there will be a danger of explosion when it is burned.

The most troublesome thing is that the biogas digester needs to continuously add raw materials and water, so the garbage in the pond accumulates over time, and it needs to be cleaned every month. Every time it is cleaned, it is very laborious. If it is not operated properly, it may die from the biogas pool, as methane gas is poisonous.

In addition, if the amount of material added to the biogas digester is too small, the gas production will be small. When using biogas, the biogas will not be enough, which will reduce the firepower and affect the use effect. It is easy to break and leak air.

At the beginning, when Li Cuncun and Qian Guifei and other researchers from the Imperial Research Institute proposed the concept of biogas digesters, they explained the problems of biogas to Qian Guifei and asked them to find ways to solve these problems.

In addition, Li Cun also gave a preliminary solution, that is collective production.

But even in collective production, biogas digesters still have the problems mentioned by Li Cun.

But then again, in this period when there is no natural gas, electrical appliances have not yet been developed, and wood cutting is too laborious, energy-saving and environmentally friendly biogas digesters are still very valuable.

Therefore, Li Cuncai told the researchers of the Imperial Research Institute such as Qian Guifei about the biogas digesters, and wanted them to see if they could find a way to solve the hidden dangers of these digesters.

As a result, the speaker is unintentional, but the listener is interested.

Li Heng, who was only 11 years old at the time, actually used a cantilevered inclined pond with high and low spans that Li Cun had never thought of or even seen in his previous life, which perfectly solved the problem of cleaning up the garbage in the biogas digester.

In addition, other researchers from the Royal Research Institute have picked up on the omissions, and the Daqian imperial court will send professional people to manage the biogas digesters intensively.

Biogas began to be used on a large scale.

Taking Nanjing as an example, almost [-]% of households have used biogas now.

Moreover, this number is still increasing.

Of course, Li Cun also knew that biogas must be an excessive item.

In the future, both the development of electrical appliances and the development of natural gas will surely replace biogas.

But it is undeniable that at this stage, biogas is still more practical.

The key point is that Li Heng was able to solve a huge disadvantage of the biogas digester at the age of 11. Li Cun could see that Li Heng was a genius inventor just like his mother Qian Guifei.

After that, as long as there is an opportunity, Li Cun will chat with Li Heng to inspire Li Heng.

As a result, Li Hang really lived up to Li Cun's high expectations, and helped Li Cun develop a lot of useful things, including greatly facilitating life, and at the same time making people's daily life more colorful, no longer sunset And information, and promote the production efficiency and working hours of various industries and accelerate the development of various industries and service industries.

It can be said that Li Heng is the Edison of this era.

The point is, Li Heng is only 15 years old now, and his future has infinite possibilities.

Li Heng was not among Li Cun's children who came by train this time. They were Li Heng's younger siblings. Li Heng and his mother Qian Guifei were preparing to demonstrate the latest generation of trains to Li Cun.

Concubine Qian Gui gave Li Cunsheng's third son, Li Yan, after meeting Li Cun, she pulled Li Cun's sleeve and said, "Father, let's go, get on the train, we will take Father to the test track."

Before Li Cun could say something, Li Cun's pro-army leader, the Huben Army, was in control of Yang Yizhong, and he blocked Yang Yizhong decisively: "Officials, no, gentlemen don't stand under dangerous walls. After all, this train is still here. In the experimental stage, it is hard to guarantee that there will be no problems, and if the officials take the train, it will not be good for us and other guards, so let's go by horse-drawn carriage."

Back then, when Li Cun transferred Yang Yizhong to be the leader of his pro-army, everyone thought that Li Cun was just a tactic to slow down the army. The army was handed over to a surrendered general, and even Yang Yizhong felt that Li Cun had been promoted secretly, and his official career was completely over at this point.

But what surprised everyone was that Li Cunzhen handed over one hundred thousand Tigers and Ben army to Yang Yizhong's hands.

At that time, after the military reform, Li Cun selected the elite of 150 elites from the more than [-] million troops in the country at that time, formed his own pro-army, and used the "Hu Ben Army" that was crucial to the Daqian Dynasty as his own. The number of the pro-military.

——Although the rest of the dry army retained some of their original names in order to flaunt their achievements in the founding war, such as Beiwei Army, Tabai Army, Youyi Army, etc., but the official names are actually all replaced by numbers, such as You Yi's army became Ma's first army, Beiwei's army became Ma's second army, and so on.

In addition to being composed of elite soldiers and strong generals, the Huben Army was the only one among all the armies of the Dagan Dynasty. Two armies (that is, 2 people) were equipped with flintlock muskets, red cannons, and improved tiger squatting cannons. Advanced firearms, and an army of [-] elite cavalry.

It is no exaggeration to say that the Huben Army is the most powerful army in the world, bar none.

However, Li Cun did not hand over the most powerful army in the world to generals such as Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Wu Jie, Liu Kai, etc., or to Zhao Han'er, Kong Lengzi, Er Ganzi, Zhang Goudan, Sun Sandai, etc. The absolute confidants of Wu Lin, Zhao Li, and Li Yanxian are also good choices, but they handed over the Huben army to Yang Yizhong.

Undoubtedly, this must have reassured the hearts of those surrendered generals. Whether it was Zhang Jun, Liu Guangshi, or anyone else who came from the Zhao and Song Dynasties, they all served in the Daqian Dynasty with peace of mind since then.

But in this way, the civil and military officials of the Daqian Dynasty could not sit still.

Seeing that Li Cunzhen was going to hand over his own safety and the Huben army to Yang Yizhong, a second-tier general who had just joined from the Western Song Dynasty, the civil and military officials of the Dagan Dynasty advised Li Cunzhen to think twice before acting.

There are radical ones, like Yue Fei, who bluntly say that Yang Yizhong is unreliable and must not accompany the officials.

And a fool like Kong Er directly asked for Li Cun to be the leader of the pro-army.

Li Cun's original pro-army leaders such as Wu Lin, Yan Guangxiao, Zhang Goudan, Er Ganzi, and Wang Sheng also had the same idea as Kong Er's fool.

But Li Cun considered:
In history, Yang Yizhong performed very well no matter in the suppression of thieves, the mutiny of Pingmiao and Liu, or the battle against gold.

Yang Yizhong has experienced more than 200 large and small battles in his life, and he charged forward in almost every battle, with few defeats.

It is precisely because of this that after the Miao Liu Mutiny in history, Yang Yizhong was finally favored by Zhao Gou, and gradually took charge of Zhao Gou's old guard army.

After Yang Yizhong took charge of Zhao Gou's pro-army, he not only completed the defense work well, but also prevented Zhao Gou from wandering like he was in the first half of his life. Or fight against the Golden Army.

In this way, Zhao Gou, who did not trust military generals and was extremely suspicious, handed over all the three offices (that is, the front office, infantry department, and horse army department in charge of the soldiers and horses of the Zhao Song Dynasty) to Yang Yizhong for the first time. Moreover, Yang Yizhong has been in charge of the central military and political power, and he has not fallen for nearly 20 years.

After the Jinren broke the alliance, Yang Yizhong participated in the famous Battle of Zhegao. He defeated the elite cavalry of Wushu with long axes and became one of the few Song generals who defeated Jinwushu.

Of course, because Zhang Jun was greedy for merit, he was ambushed by the Jin army when he marched into Haozhou, and Yang Yizhong also suffered a big defeat, which made his resume tainted.

But on the whole, Yang Yizhong is definitely one of the most skilled and daring generals in the Southern Song Dynasty, a well-deserved general, and a first-class commander.

Later, Wan Yanliang punished and killed Wan Yan Quan for usurping power, and led his army to invade the south in order to stabilize his regime.

Out of the consideration of defending against the enemy, Yang Yizhong proposed "Ten Strategies for Preparedness for the Enemy".

But this was framed by Yang Yizhong's old comrade-in-arms, that is, Zhao Mi, who was also a general under Zhang Jun's subordinates, as "happy meritorious deeds".

Yang Yizhong knew that Zhao Gou was suspicious, and he had been in power for a long time, which would easily arouse Zhao Gou's suspicion, so he offered to resign.

But in the next few years, Wan Yanliang continued to invade the south, and Song and Jin began to fight again.

During this process, the Song army had many defeats, and the literati in the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty who did not understand military affairs invited Yang Yizhong out several times to rescue them.

Yang Yizhong was good at fighting, he had great insights into the military, he was also familiar with the military situation of the Song and Jin Dynasties, and he was the oldest (at that time, all the generals who were at the same time as Yang Yizhong were basically abolished by Zhao Gou and Qin Hui. lost), the generals obeyed, so they played a big role.

Yang Yizhong finally worked in the Song Army until the second year of Xiaozong Qiandao before he died of illness at the age of 64.

This can be said to be a huge miracle in the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty, which had high distrust of generals.

Yang Yizhong's strategy is conservative and he pays more attention to defense, but he often takes the lead in battle and behaves very bravely.He has strong coordination ability and is good at handling the relationship with the imperial court, so he is very suitable for positions such as Minister of Defense.

In addition, Yang Yizhong also has a lot of experience in ordnance manufacturing. He once invented the Mahuang crossbow to make up for the shortcomings of the enemy's bow. In other words, he is still a general who can accept or even take the initiative to research new weapons.

Regarding Yang Yizhong, the biggest controversy is estimated to be his performance in the Yue Fei case and the peace negotiation in history.

Yang Yizhong was the supervisor of Yue Yun and Zhang Xian, and he was Zhang Jun's favorite general, and had a good relationship with Zhao Gou, so many people suspected that he was also involved in the frame-up of Yue Fei.

In addition, after the peace talks between Song and Jin Dynasties, due to Qin Hui's persecution, many generals in the Southern Song Dynasty were transferred from active duty one after another. Only Yang Yizhong was able to hold the Dianqian Division for more than ten years without falling down. People have to suspect that he has an ambiguous relationship with Qin Hui.

Li Cun was not sure whether Yang Yizhong was really a treacherous minister, a "sister eunuch".

But what Li Cun knew was,
Yang Yizhong opposed the killing of prisoners, and this kind of thing was very common in the Song army at that time, including Han Shizhong. Only a few generals such as Yue Fei did not kill prisoners, and Yang Yizhong was one of them;

Yang Yizhong did not agree with Zhao Gou and Qin Hui's foreign policy of cede territory and seek peace. He once strongly opposed the cession of the strategically important monk Shangyuan, and hoped that in the Kingdom of Jin, "return the old soil, damage the old currency, and restore the boundary of Baigou." "Based on negotiating with it;
Yang Yizhong loved talents very much, and he once defended generals such as Li Xianzhong and Dong Xian. It can be said that the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty still had the power to fight against the Kingdom of Jin, and Yang Yizhong contributed a lot.

The above facts show that Yang Yizhong is unlikely to be a despicable person like Qin Hui. The reason why he is on the side of the official is probably because of his close relationship with Zhang Jun and Zhao Gou, as well as being affected by the situation at that time. limit.

Even so, what Yang Yizhong did in the group led by Zhao Gou and Qin Hui was more about "seeking things" than "seeking people."

Song history did not classify Yang Yizhong with Zhang Jun and Liu Guangshi, which seems to illustrate this point.

Generally speaking, Yang Yizhong is a more successful political soldier than Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, and Zhang Jun. He can build up the army to the greatest extent without touching the power in the court, and preserve the strength of the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty. .

Moreover, Yang Yizhong was able to stay with Zhao Gou, who distrusted the generals to the extreme and was ruthless, for more than ten years. Whether it was his loyalty or his scheming, Li Cun admired him.

The Huben Army is different from those old-age armies. It is a new-age army that focuses on firearms.

To be the commander of the Huben Army, one must be a general with a particularly flexible mind who can accept novel weapons and equipment and new tactics.

At the same time, as Li Cun'an's army, neither Li Cun nor the Huben army can have trouble. Therefore, as the commander of the Huben army, he must not rush forward, but must be extremely prudent.

Yang Yizhong undoubtedly met all these conditions.

And Yang Yizhong has proved in history that he is absolutely a loyal person, even if the object of his allegiance is an extremely bad emperor like Zhao Gou, and even later he resigned because of Zhao Gou's suspicion. When the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty needed him, he also returned to serve without hesitation, and he did not lose his temper.

On this point, it has to be said that Yang Yizhong is indeed much more mature than Yue Fei.

In this life, Li Cunmiao and Liu destroyed the Western Song Dynasty and captured Zhao Gou before the mutiny. Therefore, Yang Yizhong and Zhao Gou did not have much intersection, and Zhao Gou did not appreciate Yang Yizhong as he did in history. The person who really appreciates Yang Yizhong is Li Cun, and Li Cun is the Bole of Yang Yizhong who has not been reused before.

Plus Li Cun is now the only emperor in China.

Under such circumstances, Li Cun believes that Yang Yizhong will definitely be loyal to himself as he was loyal to Zhao Gou in history.

No.

Li Cun asked himself, the personality charm of Zhao Gou who built a unified dynasty from scratch is not the same as that of Zhao Gou, and he is more able to win people's hearts than Zhao Gou, and he has never been as unfeeling and ungrateful as Zhao Gou. Therefore, Yang Yizhong should be more loyal to himself.

Therefore, despite the persuasion of many people, Li Cun insisted on handing over the Huben Army to Yang Yizhong for control.

But then again, the Huben Army is the foundation of Li Cun's life, and it is also related to the safety of the Daqian Dynasty. Besides, those civil and military officials who persuaded Li Cun were all good intentions.

Based on these, Li Cun finally adopted the compromise proposals put forward by civil and military officials, and transferred Sun Sandai, who had reorganized and taught the surrendered army of the Western Song Dynasty, back to serve as the capital supervisor of the Huben Army. He was transferred back to serve as the chief of staff of the Huben Army, and the second officer who would rather be a soldier by Li Cun's side than to return to Li Cun's side was transferred back to serve as the deputy commander of the Huben Army, which provided sufficient insurance for the Huben Army.

But although Li Cun transferred back three trusted generals to help Yang Yizhong control the Huben Army, Li Cun mainly discussed with Yang Yizhong about the training and tactics of the Huben Army.

Moreover, even if Li Cun did not bring his two favorite generals, Yang Zaixing and Yao Xing, he would definitely bring Yang Yizhong by his side to protect him.

It even appeared when Li Cun was guarded by Yang Yizhong alone.

Everyone can see Li Cun's trust and respect for Yang Yizhong, especially Yang Yizhong.

Yang Yizhong didn't say anything on the surface, but while training the Huben army to howl, he also arranged for Li Cun's security work to be impeccable, so that Li Cun would never be in any danger.

Just like now, even though he knew that Li Cun's journey to the test track by train was not risky, Yang Yizhong still insisted on letting Li Cun go in a carriage that he could control any danger, even if Li Yan and other princes, princesses and Yang Yizhong Arguing with reason, Yang Yizhong refused to budge.

Although Li Cun also felt that it was definitely not dangerous for him to take the train to the test site, because Yang Yizhong was too careful, but Li Cun still chose to follow Yang Yizhong's arrangement.

After Li Cun had spoken, Li Yan and the others could only cast a resentful glance at Gujing Wubo's Yang Yizhong, and then prepared to follow the carriage to the test track.

However, Li Cun saw that Zhu Fengying and other women were very interested in trains, so he asked Li Yan and the others to take Zhu Fengying and other women to the test track by train, leaving only Zhu Lian and Yun Erzongji to accompany him to the test track in a carriage...

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