Chapter 528 Food Raiders Plan (Seeking votes and subscriptions)
After Niu Wei and others walked around the market for half a day, they began to look for Da Shu, the governor of Liuyang County, to arrange some work for them. After all, they have different identities and cannot be allowed to participate in many things.
Luo Chong also made many suggestions behind this matter. It is not impossible to let them do the hard labor of digging the river, but that job does not require skills, so it is not easy to arrange Jinwu Guards to contact them, because ordinary hard labor is not attractive to the Xin tribe at all.
But it is not good to leak too important technology to them, otherwise it is easy to raise tigers for harm.
Finally, Luo Chong thought about it and divided all the hundred of them to various places. Some people were assigned to the newly built Weishan County Liquor Factory to let them participate in all the brewing processes.
Luo Chong had considered this arrangement. First of all, the technology of brewing is still in its infancy in the Han tribe, and there is no sophisticated technology, so it is okay to let them participate.
Secondly, brewing requires a lot of manpower, material resources and time, especially a lot of food, which is a heavy burden for a country. There have been many brewing controls in history.
Liquor is the culprit of grain. It is true that the more liquor there is, the less grain there is, and the heavier the burden on the country is. The reason why Luo Chong arranged this is to increase the burden on the Xin tribe.
Imagine that if the custom and technology of drinking and brewing wine can be spread to Zhudao, it will definitely consume a lot of their grain. With less grain, the population growth rate will decrease, and other livestock will definitely decrease. In this way, the development of the Xin tribe can be curbed, especially alcohol, which is addictive.
Some people were also assigned to help others farm, but they could only grow barley and wheat. Barley and wheat are used for brewing wine, and the consumption is large. However, the current per mu yield of the Han tribe is relatively low, with only more than 300 kilograms per mu.
As long as they learn to grow barley and wheat, Luo Chong doesn't need to make special arrangements. They will secretly hide the seeds themselves. Finally, when they leave, as long as they are not searched too strictly, they can take the wheat seeds away, or even give them some directly.
Of course, Luo Chong would not have any good intentions towards his enemies, or competitors, but this was not a conspiracy, but an open one. It was obvious that they were setting a trap for you, and it depended on whether you jumped into it or not.
He not only wanted to teach the Xin tribe how to make wine and drink, but also to teach them how to eat pasta, noodle soup, noodles, pancakes, scallion pancakes, steamed buns, dumplings, etc. The purpose was to make them like pasta thoroughly, and finally teach them how to grow wheat and get seeds.
In this way, while brewing consumed a lot of food, pasta and wheat were popularized in the Xin tribe. Originally, one acre of land planted with corn could grow 1,000 kilograms and feed two people. Now, not only the growth cycle of wheat was extended, but the yield was also reduced to 300 kilograms, which required three or four acres of land to feed one person.
The Xin tribe's food reserves were greatly reduced.
Secondly, there are soybeans. Soybeans were passed on from the Xin tribe last year, but Luo Chong wanted to feed them back with soybean oil extraction technology, methods for making soy products such as soy milk and tofu, peanut seeds, and various ways to
eat peanuts. The purpose of doing this is the same as planting wheat, that is, to reduce the planting area of the staple food of the Xin tribe, let them grow more supplementary food, and then use various methods to consume them, such as planting beans and then pressing beans for oil. In the end, a lot of manpower, material resources and time are invested, but only some soybean oil can be obtained, which cannot be eaten as a meal, so the food is naturally reduced. The
cultivated area of high-yield corn has been reduced, and the original farmland has all been changed to plant low-yield wheat and wheat, soybeans and peanuts that cannot be used as staple food. In addition, the consumption of grain by brewing wine will make 70% of the population of the Xin tribe lose their survival rations within two years.
The population will not drop sharply, but if the lower-level farmers cannot eat, history has proved countless times that there is only one result, "rise up in rebellion."
Even if no one rises up, it doesn't matter. Luo Chong can send undercover agents from the Jinwu Guard to lead the rise up and lead the farmers who can't get enough food to overthrow the rule of the old power in the Xin tribe.
During this period, the Han tribe will provide various material support to the rebels, and can also teach them to go fishing at sea. At that time, they can promote rice with a short growth cycle and high yield to fill their stomachs again.
Don't underestimate rice. Although rice may not have a high yield like corn, it is not much different. The most important thing is that rice is a refined grain, which is completely incomparable to coarse grains such as corn.
In this way, the Han tribe can gain both fame and fortune, firmly grasp the hearts of the people at the bottom of Zhudao, and let them know that the Han tribe is countless times better than the original Xin tribe. At this time, Luo Chong will come on stage again and re-establish order. If necessary, he may move all the population of Zhudao to the mainland, and then replace a group of his own people to completely occupy the territory of the Xin tribe.
This plan is called the Food Plan by Luo Chong, which uses all kinds of delicious food to burden the Xin tribe, completely crush them, and then the Han tribe will take over.
The first half is an open plot, and it is mainly about promoting food, so there won't be much resistance, after all, no one can resist the temptation of Chinese food.
The second half is a conspiracy, but the Han tribe basically doesn't participate. Even if the Xin tribe fights hard, it won't have any impact on the Han tribe. Except for the fact that it takes a little longer, the whole plan is perfect.
Only Luo Chong and Jin Yi knew about this top-secret plan. Even the Jinwu Guards who were going to go undercover only knew their own tasks and knew nothing else, because sometimes the less you know, the safer you are.
The 100 people of Niuwei were divided into several groups, brewing wine, growing wheat, pressing oil, grinding soy milk, making tofu, and another group was assigned to the official kiln for firing porcelain. There were more than a dozen people in each group, and there were one or two Jinwu Guards undercover around these people, working with them day and night to prepare for future lurking.
After arranging the recent activities of Niuwei and his group, the entire contact and lurking process was handed over to Jin Yi to manage. Luo Chong let it go and only asked Jin Yi to report to him every few days. Then he went to the newly built shipyard in Liuyang County to give them some technical guidance.
The Han tribe wanted to quickly intervene in the affairs of the south, and even build a city on the grassland within three years. This was impossible without fast transportation. Now there was only one way to quickly improve transportation capacity, and that was to develop shipping.
Shipping is well-known for its heavy load among various modes of transportation, which is even better than trains. It can be said that in the era when there were no trains on land, water transportation was the most efficient and fastest mode of transportation. In addition, most of the counties of the Han tribe relied on rivers for construction, so the advantages of shipping were even greater.
This day, Luo Chong came to the shipyard and saw that the craftsmen were studying the drawings he gave, and some were processing wood, or building some special facilities required for shipbuilding, such as steamers (steaming dragons).
This is an extra-long board processing facility. The main body is a boiler and a 30-meter-long long cage. The whole board can be steamed in it. The purpose of doing this is to humidify the wood. At the same time, it is also necessary to use high temperature to soften the wood, increase the toughness of the wood, and make it bend into a more rounded arc. It is an indispensable step in processing shipboards.
Of course, it is also possible to use fire to bend, but the efficiency is too slow and does not meet Luo Chong's requirements for shipbuilding speed.
And because the boat is not very big, it is easier to build in many aspects. First of all, the use of materials. For a 20-meter-long boat, its main backbone and plank must be more than 20 meters long.
It may not be easy to find trees that tall in modern times, so a lot of splicing techniques need to be added, but Luo Chong does not need it here. There are many towering trees over 20 meters tall, so many woods are used as whole pieces, and there is no need to splice from the middle, which saves a lot of time and trouble.
The main backbone of the boat is relatively thick. It extends from the bow to the stern. The largest keel is upturned at the bow, forming a rounded arc. However, this part cannot be steamed. The wood can only be soaked first, then roasted with fire, and stretched and deformed with various ropes and winches. Slowly roasting is the most time-consuming step.
Secondly, there are a large number of ribs that also need to be roasted. It took a full week to make the keel used for a boat, and this is just a small boat.
On the day of keel assembly, Luo Chong was personally on the scene to guide.
The long backbone was erected in a shed by the river, which was the factory building. It was built to facilitate launching after it was built, otherwise it would be difficult to tow such a huge thing.
Then the ribs were installed. Each rib was very large. After all, the width of the boat was six meters, so the ribs were also six meters. Without a gantry crane, it would take more than ten people to lift them.
Some people lifted them on both sides, and some people directed them in the middle. Then they accurately spliced the snaps in the middle of the ribs with the grooves on the backbone, and then used a long-handled wooden hammer to tighten them, so that the two parts were seamlessly inlaid. Finally, they drilled holes in the joints with manual drilling, poured fish bladder glue, and drove in wooden nails to completely lock the two parts.
A 20-meter-long inland sailboat has ribs every half a meter, with a total of 40. Some are wide and some are narrow, and the curvature is different, but the ribs have been numbered and annotated in advance. The workers only need to install them in the order marked on the drawings.
After all the ribs are installed and reinforced, two long wooden boards must be nailed on the top first. This is to determine the distance and angle of each rib first, and then the planks are laid.
However, the laying of the planks this time is different from the previous hand-rowed boats, because this one is larger and has a keel, so the planks are also divided into two layers, one is to better prevent water leakage from the bottom of the boat, and the other is to increase buoyancy. Because in the case of two layers of planks, an air layer will be generated between the inner and outer layers to increase buoyancy, but this only exists at the bottom of the boat. On the two sides of the boat, they are basically single-layer.
But more importantly, this kind of 20-meter-long ship uses iron nails, large iron nails, for the connection method of laying the planks. This has become the largest iron-consuming workshop after weapons and tools, because there are too many iron nails, various connecting hooks, and various nails used to build a ship, and this is not counting the heavy weapons that may be loaded on the ship.
In the Age of Discovery, a third-level battleship would use dozens of tons of iron, which is really no joke.
Although they also counted the iron cannon as the iron consumption of shipbuilding
(end of this chapter)
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