In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 160

Of course, such efforts are worthwhile. He has now obtained two thousand elite and loyal cavalry, one thousand sailors, thousands of workers, and thousands of reserves.

At this time, Zhao Yurui had walked hundreds of steps, and there were simple houses everywhere along the road, and there were old people and some craftsmen who were building new ones.

Suddenly, a familiar voice came from not far ahead.

"Stand at attention, stand still, don't move."

Zhao Yurui smiled openly and hurried over.

Li Pingbao and others followed suit.

There is a newly leveled ground here, like a playground, and there are more than 100 teenagers standing on it, Quan Da, Mo Xiaoqi and others are training them.

According to Zhao Yurui's requirements, among these family members, teenagers over the age of 15 have to go through a year of military training before they can be used as a reserve team. When they are free, they can work at home, and they can do whatever they want.

Among the two thousand households, there are more than 100 teenagers over the age of 15 who are currently training for a full year.

Of course, they have to learn to read and write every few days, and there is an hour every day to learn to read and write.

Zhao Yurui's persuasion to read and write was very effective, because he said that as long as you learn how to read, you will be able to become military officers in the future, and you will be able to serve as civil servants in the future.

I don't want you to be familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, various Confucian classics, learn to read, and simply read some books.

So every household was very active, vying to send their sons to be literate.

"Your Majesty's queue training technique is very good. After training, the soldiers are very disciplined. On the battlefield, 100 people can be used as 500 people." Li Pingbao usually refuses to accept anyone, even Li Pingxia. In Wei Wangfu, Zhao Yurui defeated them with a few teenagers, and he was quite convinced.

After arriving in Jeju Island, Li Pingxia also used Zhao Yurui's training method, usually in the morning queue training, and then Li Pingxia trained in the afternoon.

"Discipline and courage are the first steps to victory on the battlefield. Believe me, as long as we persevere in training, our army will surely be the strongest in the world in the future." Zhao Yurui said very confidently.

"Your Majesty is wise." Li Pingbao said hastily.

The closest to Taniguchi are the two thousand military households. After passing through the military households, you can see a place surrounded by wooden fences to the west.

A large number of horses and people are on the scene.

Li Pingxia is training with people.

Each of the two thousand elites has a horse, but now they have just started, and they have not practiced riding in a wider area.

Zhao Yurui didn't go there, but looked from a distance, Li Pingxia was over there, and Qian Wu was also there.

Qian Wu saw Zhao Yurui and ran over quickly.

Li Pingxia also saw it, but he didn't run over, and continued to say something there. This person has such a personality, and he doesn't know how to flatter. Of course, Zhao Yurui doesn't mind.

"Meet Your Majesty." Qian Wu stepped forward and said.

"What is Li Pingxia teaching? I don't think any of you ride horses?"

"He is asking everyone to raise horses, and he has to deal with horses every day, saying that war horses are our good brothers and friends, and we will take them home every day from now on." Qian Wudao.

Li Pingbao also immediately said: "The war horses were just assigned to households three months ago, one for each household."

I used to practice formation and foot tactics before.

"Okay, will they raise horses when they bring them home?" Zhao Yurui asked.

"General Li taught everything. Every day at Shen time (about four o'clock in the afternoon), we will take the horses out together, go for a run on the plain outside, and let the horses go."

Zhao Yurui looked up and saw that 2000 people were more, plus [-] horses would occupy a lot of space, covering a large area, estimated to be one to two hundred acres, and because it was in a valley, it was uneven, so it was difficult to stand. Everywhere.

"How did he teach so many people?" Zhao Yurui asked again.

Li Pingxia's method is similar to their queue training, first select the smarter and quicker learners, a group of dozens of people, teach a few groups, and then teach them separately, how many people each teach.

Li Pingxia walked around during the process, and raised points from time to time.

There is also a monthly assessment, and if the horse loses weight, it will be punished.

Just like today, they are evaluating a new thing.

Li Pingxia asked everyone to lead their horses twenty steps away, and then asked everyone to call their horses by their names.

He asked everyone to name their horses.

If the name is called, the horse will get closer as soon as possible, which proves that this person raises horses well.

If the horse doesn't pass after barking for a long time, it proves that the person didn't care about raising the horse at all.

Zhao Yurui was amazed when they heard this, they never thought that Li Pingxia's military training was so miraculous.

They have been in Jeju Island for more than half a year, and it has been three months since they got the horses. Li Pingxia has not started to practice riding, archery, cavalry tactics, etc. The main thing is to practice discipline and horse breeding. Even riding has just begun, jogging every day.

This sounds slower, but it really means slow work can produce fine work. After a few years, it must be the best of the best.

Seeing Zhao Yurui's silence, Li Pingbao thought that Zhao Yurui was unhappy, and immediately said: "My tenth brother is relatively slow in training soldiers, but when he comes out in the future, he will definitely be the best of the best."

"No hurry." Zhao Yurui laughed loudly, and reached out to pat Li Pingbao: "This king is still young, I have plenty of time, let him practice slowly."

Li Pingbao breathed a sigh of relief, because he was afraid that King Wei would think that Li Pingxia had nothing to do.

Suddenly Zhao Yurui thought of a question: "How do you deal with horse manure?"

Zhao Yurui asked them to deal with chicken manure and duck manure before, but they didn't expect how to deal with horse manure.

There is a pond in the valley, and both Zhao and Rui threw freshwater fish, such as chicken feces and duck feces, and threw them directly into the pond to raise fish.

There are many uses for horse manure, and it can usually be fermented as fertilizer.

But in Jeju, they chose a better way.

There is plenty of sunshine here, and the forest cannot be felled indiscriminately, so they are collected uniformly, and after drying, they are used as firewood.

Horse manure burns very well after being dried, and it is delicious to cook with fire.

A horse can defecate about ten to thirty to forty catties a day according to its size, and about one-third of it can be obtained after drying, which is equivalent to more than ten catties of firewood.

"In this way we can save a lot of firewood." Li Pingbao finally said.

"Okay, haha ​​not bad." Zhao Yurui was very satisfied and continued to walk forward.

This time I came to a river, turned right along the river, and soon saw a row of mountain walls.

This place has reached the easternmost point, full of mountains, and the sides of the mountains are full of people, many of whom are digging holes.

They dug holes at the foot of the mountain and used them to burn charcoal. There are also large iron buckets in many places, all of which are used for burning charcoal.

This is the site of the Firearms Bureau.

There are now more than 500 craftsmen in the Firearms Bureau, all of which were poached by Zhao Yurui's sea-going ships from various places along the coast with high salaries.

Then, [-] households were selected from among the immigrants and distributed to the Firearms Bureau, which was specifically in charge of the Firearms Bureau.

The person in charge is Liu Fu, Tang Bo, the stonemasons who first took refuge in Zhao Yurui, and Zhang Xiaoshi, a boy from the palace.

It's true that Liu Fu is a mason, but he was the first to join Zhao Yurui, and then introduced his in-laws firearms maker Tang Bo, and the two families followed Zhao Yurui.

Now the two are the person in charge here, Liu Fu basically does not have to do any work, he is in charge of management, Zhang Xiaoshi is in charge of supervision and assessment, and specializes in assessing product compliance and issuing rewards and punishments.

Qin Chen is in charge of military equipment such as the Craftsmanship Bureau and the Firearms Bureau, but now that several bureaus are almost completed, Zhao Yurui will definitely come to visit them often.

Knowing that Zhao Yurui was coming, Liu Fu, Tang Bo and Zhang Xiaoshi soon came to Zhao Yurui.

Zhao Yurui was watching the family members at work.

The craftsmen are responsible for making the firearms, and the family members will take part of them to help.

It's all charcoal here.

Generally speaking, there are many ways to burn charcoal, and there are two most commonly used ones.

One is to dig a cave dwelling on the hillside. After the cave is filled with wood, it is ignited and burned, and then covered, and holes are left on the top to allow the wood to undergo incomplete combustion and carbonization in the kiln, and volatiles escape.

The other is to let the craftsman make a large iron barrel, put the wood in the iron barrel, burn the fire under the iron barrel, leave smoke holes on all sides to ensure the air flow, burn on the fire for several hours, and then cover the smoke holes to make it go through incomplete combustion And carbonization, and finally cooling, after opening the iron drum, it is exquisite self-made charcoal.

The charcoal made from the former can be used for civilian heating, and the latter is very suitable for making gunpowder.

Zhao Yurui's wood is mainly imported from Korea and Japan, and they use hardwood to burn charcoal, which is about three to one, four to one, that is, thirty to forty catties of hardwood produce ten catties of charcoal.

But the weather in Jeju Island is warm, and charcoal is basically not used for heating, so Zhao and Rui are mainly for making gunpowder.

Cave dwellings produce [-] catties of charcoal every month, and about [-] to [-] catties of wood are used.

This is mainly used for indoor meetings in winter and for work, and the unused ones are stored for later use, and about [-] catties can be stored every year.

The rest of the manpower is to use large iron barrels to burn charcoal that can be used to make gunpowder.

"How many catties of No. [-] charcoal (which can be used to make gunpowder) are produced per month?" Zhao Yurui asked.

"Return to the king." Liu Fu said: "Now it is basically maintained at about 60 catties per month." That is, [-] catties a year.

The output is a bit low, but what affects the output is not their lack of manpower, but the supply of wood.

The wood on the island should not be cut as much as possible, and only imported from Korea and Japan.

At present, Zhao and Rui can import about 200 million catties (about 1000 cubic meters) from the two countries every year, which is barely enough to burn charcoal.

In addition, there are other places to use, including building houses, cars, weapons, shields, water tankers and other purposes, and some of them need to be stored for future shipbuilding, so imported wood is not enough at all, and it is often transported from the Southern Song Dynasty. Come and support.

Zhao Yurui really wanted to use charcoal to make steel.

However, the cost of charcoal steelmaking is high, and only Brazil can afford it in the world. Brazil is rich in forest resources, and charcoal is used in many places to make steel.

Charcoal is a good substitute for coke, but because of its high cost, most places cannot afford it.

Usually, ten catties of charcoal can be used to smelt one catty of steel.

If you want to train 40 jin of steel, you need [-] jin of charcoal and about [-] jin of wood.

Zhao and Rui are currently storing wood and charcoal for future steelmaking.

"Is there not much wood in stock now?" Zhao Yurui asked.

"Back to your Majesty, if the number of imports this year is still so large, we still won't be able to use it." Not to mention the wood that needs to be transported from the Southern Song Dynasty, or cut a part directly on the island.

(End of this chapter)