The night was as quiet as water. Fu Xiaoguan sat at the table and carefully looked at Xishan's latest report.
The production of cement has stabilized, with daily output maintained at around 1,000 kilograms. Feng Xi built a small kiln and is tinkering with new proportions, hoping to increase the output and make the cement more adhesive.
This is very good. What Fu Xiaoguan hopes is that they can exercise their subjective initiative, make progress through exploration, identify shortcomings, and then improve them.
The perfume workshop currently mainly produces two types of flowers: chrysanthemum and camellia. After all, these two flowers were originally planted by the villagers. However, after Zhang Xiaomei tried to make perfumes from these two flowers, she discovered a problem, that is, the fragrance was not right, it was too light, and almost inaudible.
Zhang Xiaomei adopted a method to blend the osmanthus essence she had produced before with the essences of these two flowers, which balanced the original strong smell of osmanthus and made it more fragrant. The current production uses this method - Zhang Xiaomei's own idea, because she couldn't find Fu Xiaoguan, which made Fu Xiaoguan look at this woman with admiration. Thinking that Wang Qiang and Zhang Xiaomei's wedding was scheduled for the end of the year, and now it is the end of the year, he has to ask tomorrow whether their wedding has taken place.
The alcohol workshop is now back on track. In addition to supplying the perfume workshop, it has stored about a thousand kilograms - this is because the output of the perfume workshop is not high. The report asked whether it is necessary to suspend the production of alcohol. After all, this thing consumes a lot of grain and also reduces the output of the three wines: Xishan Qiongjiang, Xishan Xiangquan Tianchun, etc.
The new distillery is now dozens of times larger than the original, with hundreds of masters and thousands of laborers. Master Liu has divided these masters and laborers into three groups, each producing one of the three types of liquor. Currently, Xishan Qiongjiang produces 200 kilograms per month, Tianchun 3,000 kilograms per month, and the highest-yielding Xiangquan, the 32-degree liquor, produces around 6,000 kilograms.
The wine cellar at the foot of Xishan Mountain only stores Xishan liquor, and now there are about a hundred kilograms of it - after all, the new winery has only been in operation for two months, and the rest has to be supplied to the royal family.
Finally, it’s about Fenglin Mountain.
With the investment of nearly 30,000 people, the road into Fenglin Mountain is expected to be completed around the New Year. Feng Si has already brought a thousand people in. A lot of outer rocks of Duanhun Mountain have been excavated. In the early stage, manpower was used. Half a month ago, a kind of explosives researched by Li Yi and others were used, which greatly improved the progress of mountain excavation.
Feng Si has already started building an iron smelting furnace. Once the road is completed, he will have sufficient manpower and will be able to mine ore within the next year.
Seeing this, Fu Xiaoguan pondered for a moment, then took a charcoal pencil and found a piece of paper to start drawing.
He painted a blast furnace, which was relatively primitive, but it was already a groundbreaking existence in this world.
This thing requires at least a huge blower. As for the source of power, Fu Xiaoguan still wants to use a waterwheel, which is bigger than the waterwheel on the back mountain of Xishan.
After rubbing and painting for a long time, Fu Xiaoguan felt that this was the way it should be. He would have to send someone to call Feng Si back tomorrow. If he followed Feng Si's traditional method, the output of iron smelting would not be high, and there would be too many impurities, which would not meet Fu Xiaoguan's requirements at all.
This whole process lasted until late at night, and the light in Su Mo's room across the street was still on.
Su Mo and Bai Yulian sat opposite each other and drank.
"How about it? Now you believe that I didn't lie to you." Bai Yulian asked with a smile.
"Well," Su Mo nodded. "What's the point of him doing all this? Haven't guns and firearms long been proven to be unsuitable for battlefields?"
"I don't know either, but if others have proven that this thing is not suitable for battlefield use, he might prove that it is a deadly weapon on the battlefield."
Bai Yulian paused, then continued, "Think about it. On the battlefield, the killing range of a bow and arrow is roughly two hundred steps, while the range of muskets and rifles is much greater than two hundred steps. However, these things are slow to reload, their accuracy is poor, and they are also affected by the weather. But what if all these flaws were corrected? Could it change the way warfare is conducted?"
Su Mo had reservations about this. The shortcomings were all known, and the Firearms Bureau had probably researched it for a long time, but there was still no improvement. This naturally showed that it was quite difficult. Could Fu Xiaoguan do it on his own?
Fu Xiaoguan was not sleepy, so he ran to Su Mo's room and started drinking with them.
Su Mo asked about this matter by the way, but what Fu Xiaoguan said was far beyond his expectations.
"It's actually not that difficult. A flintlock rifle... This thing I want to develop is called a flintlock rifle. Just wait and see. I'm sure it can be developed. A team of a thousand spearmen can defeat an enemy force of at least five thousand—don't believe it? As I said, just wait and see."
Not to mention Su Mo, Bai Yulian didn't believe it either. Of course, since they were just waiting to see, they had to wait for the flintlock rifle to be made.
Fu Xiaoguan took a sip of wine, pulled out a few sheets of paper from his bosom, and handed them to Bai Yulian. "I once wrote a policy paper on how to conduct war in the Shangjing Palace, but it was rejected. This is certainly more advanced than that policy paper. Take a look at it first. I'm not discussing this with you, but you must follow my method from now on."
Bai Yulian took it and looked at it: Special Operations Guide.
What the hell is this?
Then he continued to read word by word, his beautiful eyebrows becoming more and more furrowed. He actually forgot to drink. Occasionally he would meditate and count his breaths, then read again and think again until he finished.
These few thin pieces of paper completely overturned Bai Yulian's imagination. He was a veteran and had been promoted to the position of cavalry captain.
Although he practiced martial arts in the sword mountain, he also read countless military books.
His lifelong ambition was to become an invincible general, but the darkness in the eastern border army ruined his ideal.
He brought back five hundred soldiers, thinking that as Fu Xiaoguan's business grew bigger and bigger, he would definitely need a lot of bodyguards to protect it, so he decided to find a job for these soldiers.
That's all.
But at this moment, after reading these few pages of the guide, the passion in his heart that had long been dormant suddenly began to boil again!
This is not a military book, it goes far beyond a military book!
This is a brand-new way of fighting, which emphasizes the combat capability of individual soldiers and the coordination and cooperation ability of small units. Especially the training methods, weapons and equipment, composition of arms, etc. are completely different from the armies of all countries in the world!
"Digest it well, I'll tell you what to do tomorrow." Fu Xiaoguan drank the wine in one gulp, stood up and patted Bai Yulian on the shoulder, "Trust me, no one is more professional than me at this!"
After Fu Xiaoguan left, Su Mo took the few pages of paper handed to him by Bai Yulian and started reading them. His expression was exactly the same as Bai Yulian's.
Then the two of them looked at each other, and after a few breaths, Su Mo asked, "Is this... really possible?"
Bai Yulian laughed bitterly: "I think this is really possible!"
Su Mo looked outside the door, but there was no trace of Fu Xiaoguan.
Who the hell is this guy?!
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