nucmednet Chapter 320: Divine Martial General Cannon
Chapter 320: Divine Martial General Cannon
Today, the population of Luancheng is increasing, and many villages have begun to be built.
After the families of Yuan Shan and others arrived, Zhao Sheng arranged for them to have twice as much land in the surrounding area as before, allowing them to continue to cultivate it, and expanded Yuanshi Town into Yuanshi County.
Yuanshi Town was transformed into Yuanshi County.
The most excited ones were Yuan Shan and his subordinates.
Zhao Sheng considered that Yuanshi County was a first-level administrative unit and sent officials to assist. However, the position of county lieutenant, who directly controlled military power, was still held and appointed and dismissed by Yuan Shan.
However, some laws and regulations must be implemented in accordance with Luancheng laws.
The land ownership belongs to Luancheng, and the use rights belong to the collective ownership of Yuanshi County.
And land taxes are almost negligible.
Yuan Shan was very satisfied with this.
Once a county town is established, it must be built according to county-level standards.
Roads, cities, etc. all need to be built urgently.
Taking into account Yuan Shan's possible doubts, all of this was invested by Luancheng first, and would be gradually repaid from commercial taxes in the future.
All the Yuan clan members who migrated here were able to participate in the construction of the city, and they would be paid for their labor.
This also made the Yuan clan members deeply feel Zhao Sheng's kindness, and they all persuaded Yuan Shan that the Yuan clan must be loyal to the prince and to Zhao Sheng.
Everything was carried out according to the procedure. Except for the county magistrate and county magistrate who were sent by Luancheng, the rest of the affairs were still controlled by Yuan Shan.
Yuan Shan naturally had nothing to be unacceptable about this.
The expressway station from the capital to Dingzhou was also set up near Yuanshi County. Zhao Sheng showed special favor and gave half of the operating rights to Yuan Shan.
At first, Yuan Shan didn't take it seriously, until it opened and he realized that it was simply a treasure trove.
What Zhao Sheng likes most is the Yi Yu area.
Not only did their Weiyuan attract the attention of several retail investors in Dingzhou and Weizhou, but the trade park jointly established with the Cui family was already half completed.
This time, the two Cui families joined forces and spent a lot of money.
For security reasons, the Cui family unexpectedly proposed hiring a security team from Weizhou to defend the park.
Cui is not stupid. Even if he hires the security team from Weizhou, Zhao Mingyi will also arrange the same number of people here.
Zhao Mingyi is really smart and capable. As his territory continues to expand, he is extremely busy and always lacks a capable helper.
"Chief Steward Cui, I am the newly assigned Gong Shangque, here to serve you."
The young man in front of me was a little thin, but his eyes were bright and gave him a smart and capable look.
"That's great! I've been running around these days and I'm so busy. How come you came alone?"
Zhao Mingyi looked at the young man in front of him, looked behind him, and asked with concern.
Last month, he wrote a letter to Zhang Chun, asking him to transfer Gong Jianyiren over.
Finally, a young man like this came.
"There are others, but they will arrive a little later. Don't worry about this matter. I will assist you with various trivial matters."
Gong Shangque said humbly.
"Okay, I'm relieved to have you here. Oh, did you tell me what position you're in?"
Zhao Mingyi acted cautiously. Since he was sent by his superiors, he had to ask clearly.
"The specific position was never mentioned, only that I would be your assistant."
"Assistant, um, hello, assistant. From now on, you will be Weiyuan's assistant. If needed, you will also be an assistant in the cooperative trade zone."
"I'm your assistant, no matter where I am. To make a distinction, I'll be your special assistant, Mr. Zhao from the Trade Zone."
"Well, you young people still think that the title of Special Assistant to the Trade Zone sounds good."
Zhao Mingyi smiled happily. He didn't quite understand the new terms that Gong Shangque mentioned, but he found them sounding fresh.
In fact, Gongmen Jiadi also came with Gong Shangque, but he was in the dark at the moment.
In fact, the public office is still the superior of the public. There are some things that the public office can order the public to do.
Of course, they can also cooperate with each other.
The Nalan family, who lived across the river, simply built a warehouse and stored some horses there to transport goods.
On the grassland, it is extremely difficult to travel by horse-drawn carriage, and horse shipping is the most convenient and stable way.
There is a long street between Weiyuan and Cui's Yiyu Trade Park.
All houses here are available for rent.
It is adjacent to the Beiyang River in the north, so this road is called Beiyang Road. Because it looks like a street, people call it Beiyang Street.
Beiyang Street is not very long, and it is only six miles to Zuoweiying.
Sanli Street was originally built as a commercial street.
There is a place where ships dock on the Beiyang River.
Here, the Cui family built a restaurant.
It is called Wangjiang Tower.
Due to the cooperation with Weiyuan, visitors to Weiyuan can enjoy a 50% discount by showing their ID card.
This is also the only restaurant here on the riverside.
Because the planning of Beiyang Street is decided by Weiyuan and Trade Park, if you want to do business here, you cannot act arbitrarily.
Opening a restaurant again has become a luxury.
As a result, Zhao Mingyi was also quite smart. He opened a branch here of the business that Zhao Sheng had given to the Zhao family, such as the production of tofu and other products.
All the raw materials such as tofu for Wangjianglou are supplied by them.
Because the spices are sold by the Cui family.
Otherwise, the spice business here would belong to Zhao Mingyi.
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The Huns in the north cooperated in harassing Bingzhou, but failed to achieve the desired effect and had to retreat again.
After Conikoda of Liang State acquired cannons in Shangjun, he also found some craftsmen and imitated many cannons.
Due to material problems, it has always been limited to small-caliber artillery.
Shi Li's army had smoke cannons, and they named their small-caliber cannons Huben cannons.
And according to the range, two-stone and four-stone cannons were developed.
The so-called two stones are two hundred steps, and four stones are four hundred steps.
If it is any bigger, the barrel will explode.
This is also due to the lack of refined iron.
The Xiongnu were not to be outdone and used their subordinates to find out the manufacturing methods of these cannons of the Liang Kingdom, including the production process of gunpowder.
After Yi Yu became a free trade city, the Nalan family purchased a large number of crude iron ingots from Yang County.
With these iron ingots, they also began to develop artillery.
During this period, the artillery they developed were all ignited by matchlocks and were the most primitive types of artillery. Due to the materials used, their firing power was limited and their range was not far.
However, the Huns made an accidental discovery that adding dry milk powder to gunpowder had a surprising effect.
Especially in the aspect of smelting iron ingots, the problem of insufficient strength in the past has been overcome.
This is thanks to a type of coking coal and kaolin that appeared on the grassland.
They found that the coking coal had a higher temperature.
Iron smelted from iron ingots wrapped in kaolin has excellent toughness.
Kaolin wasn't readily available everywhere, but the resources within their range were enough to make many high-quality gun barrels.
Then, bad news came from the Huns.
They have the Shenwu General Cannon.
It is said that this cannon can fire a projectile a thousand steps.
"Fuck, what kind of magical operation is this?" Zhao Sheng couldn't help but swear after learning about the situation.
"Is there no way for us to stop them?" asked Zhao Yongsheng, who came to discuss things.
"No, I have no idea. It seems that some situations are about to change." Zhao Sheng said with a worried look on his face.