Chapter 4349 4351 [Blessing From the Immortal Official]

Afterwards, Song Que found the officials in charge of farming and distributed seeds of potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, peppers, peanuts, tomatoes, carrots, sunflowers, etc.

Find the most capable farmers, choose the best land, and cultivate carefully according to the requirements of planting.

He wanted to see if these seeds were really as good as Xiang Nan said.

If it was really as Xiang Nan said, those seeds had high yields and great uses, then the Lingnan Song clan would be rich, and the people's livelihood and economy would be greatly improved.

By then, there would be people with food, soldiers with people, and taxes with people. With soldiers, taxes, and food and wages, would there be any fear of not being able to dominate the world?

Even if he promoted these high-yield crops and made tens of millions of people no longer suffer from hunger, he would also be praised as "Buddha of Ten Thousand Families" and "Tzu Chi All Living Beings", and even Cihang Jingzhai and Jingnian Zen Temple could not compare with him.

It can be said that he gained both fame and fortune.

Glass, soap, curved plow, woodblock printing, etc. were also very useful. He also recruited craftsmen and prepared to build a workshop for production.

Glass was very precious in ancient times, and its defective colored glaze was regarded as one of the seven treasures of Buddhism.

In "Journey to the West", Sha Seng was a general who rolled up the curtain, but he was demoted to the lower world just because he accidentally broke a colored glaze lamp, and he had to suffer the pain of a sharp sword piercing his heart every day.

Therefore, if glass can be mass-produced, it would be no different from discovering a silver mine.

Soap is still very useful for nobles. It is very effective for bathing and removing dirt.

You should know that nobles attach great importance to their appearance. In the Shang Dynasty, they paid attention to washing their hair every three days and bathing every five days.

The items used by nobles for washing at that time were also very high-end, such as pancreas made from pig pancreas, soap water made from soap, sesame oil, egg white, osmanthus oil for hair care, etc.

However, these are not as effective as soap. Soap's decontamination ability is really super strong. Song Que couldn't put it down after using it once.

The telescope is even more powerful. It can actually see everything several miles away clearly.

If it is used on the battlefield, there is no need to worry about any ambush. It can be observed early.

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"Kou Zhong, where did you get these inventions and seeds?" Song Que asked curiously.

"Uncle, these are all gifts from the gods." Xiang Nan smiled, "I am learning to build a small blast furnace from the gods recently. When the time comes, I will be able to smelt steel and produce 30 million kilograms of steel a year."

"30 million kilograms of steel?!" Song Que was shocked when he heard it.

The annual steel production of the Sui Dynasty was only about 5 million kilograms. If the blast furnace can produce 30 million kilograms of steel a year, it would be really amazing.

You must know that steelmaking technology has always been high-tech in ancient times, and many places simply cannot master this technology. Therefore, cast iron and porcelain, tea, silk, etc. have always been the bulk of ancient Chinese exports.

For example, there are a large number of iron pots in the No. 1 shipwreck of the Southern Song Dynasty; during the Ming Dynasty, the Tatars applied for the opening of the trade many times because the grassland people did not have iron pots and could not even cook mutton...

With good steel, you can make good weapons and armor, so the word "golden swords and iron horses" is used to describe the prosperity of the army.

In the drama "The Legend of the Two Heroes of the Tang Dynasty", the reason why Li Shimin was so famous and invincible was that he had a black-armored elite cavalry under his command, which belonged to the heavy cavalry.

In the era of cold weapons, this was like a tank. When encountering those poorly equipped bandits, they directly formed a formation and rushed forward, and the other party could not resist at all.

At that time, once the formation was in chaos and the army was scattered, they would naturally be defeated.

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"Not only that." Xiang Nan smiled and took out a black lump, "Uncle, look at this..."

"What is this?" Song Que looked at the black ball and asked in confusion.

Xiang Nan smiled and took out the fire starter. He lit the fuse and threw it far away.

There was a loud bang, followed by fragments flying across. In an instant, dust and sand rose in a radius of dozens of meters, and trees, flowers, and even the ground were destroyed.

"..." Song Que was so shocked that his eyes widened when he saw it.

"This... this... what is this?" he said in amazement.

Although his Eight Styles of Heavenly Sword is more powerful than this, how many people in the world have such martial arts skills as him. I'm afraid that ordinary martial arts masters don't have such great power when they take action.

"This is called a grenade, also called palm thunder. It is made of ceramics on the outside and filled with explosives and iron sand. Once it explodes, the area within a radius of dozens of meters will be affected. If it doesn't explode, it will be seriously injured." Xiang Nan explained, "If you don't believe it, look at these trees. All of them are hit by iron sand..."

"The power is indeed extraordinary." Song Que looked at the trees and saw that the iron sand was embedded very deeply. If it were a human, even if he didn't die at the time, he wouldn't live for too long.

Because the iron sand is hit into the body, it can't be taken out at all, and it will soon be infected, fester, and fever... There were no antibiotics in ancient times, and at this time it was basically dead.

And its range is dozens of meters in radius, and at the least, it can also affect dozens of people. This is much more lethal than a bow and arrow.

"If it's fired with a cannon, it will be even more terrible." Xiang Nan said, and brought another cannon barrel, then stuffed the shell into it, and after lighting the fuse, there was a loud bang.

A spherical projectile shot out, flew thousands of steps away, and then exploded, and objects within a radius of dozens of meters were affected again.

"It can hit so far?" Song Que was even more surprised when he saw it.

With his martial arts, he could draw a strong bow of 20 stones and shoot arrows a thousand meters away. Such a divine shooting is rare in the world. But Xiang Nan shot thousands of steps with one shot, and the power is obviously much stronger than one arrow.

The key is that his operation is very simple, just ignite. Even the elderly, the weak, women and children can probably operate it. With such a powerful weapon with a long range, what kind of army can't win, what kind of city can't be conquered? !

"This is called a cannon." Xiang Nan explained, "There is also a single-person musket~"

As he said, he took the spear, pulled the trigger, and shot out. A few hundred meters away, a hole immediately appeared on a tree.

"So powerful." Song Que was amazed when he saw it.

Even for an excellent archer, it is not easy to shoot a hundred steps away. It requires a good bow, training, and a strong physique and sufficient logistical supplies.

In comparison, it doesn't take much strength to pull the trigger, but the range is much longer than that of a bow and arrow, and the power is much stronger than that of a bow and arrow.

If his army is fully equipped with this kind of long spear, plus dozens of artillery, let alone ordinary bandits and rebels, even the black armored elite cavalry of the Li family are no match for his Song family army.

"Kou Zhong, I was right about you, you are really good." Song Que patted his shoulder and said, "With your ability, it's a pity not to be an emperor."

"Uncle, I took out these things not to compete for the Central Plains." Xiang Nan waved his hand and said, "In fact, the world is so big, why bother to fight for one place. As far as I know, there is a lot of potential in the south."