Chapter 1072: Yellow River Ship War Estimates
"Bring the system to Datang ()"
"Old Yao, take ten sets of this kind of jars back, and give them to people. Keep one set for yourself, and don't let your two sons keep one."
At the same time as the front line in Lijiazhuang, Li Yi met Yao Chong and others.
He put out a set of enamelware, and several people wanted to laugh, but Yao Chong was the only one with a gloomy face.
Yesterday he said that he would let Li Yi solve the problem of iron rust, but today he came to discuss other things, and Li Yi took it out.
This rhythm is too familiar, it seems that every time Yao Chong said something, Li Yi had already prepared it in advance.
Yao Chong thought he should breathe oxygen, it was not good, and he was going to fall.
Is his life so bad? Is it always so unlucky?
"What's wrong with my son?" Yao Chong continued to stare.
"It's just that you have made great contributions to Datang, otherwise I would have dealt with your son long ago." Li Yi was not polite at all.
Yao Chong's arrest had nothing to do with corruption, but his family did not do good things.
Is Wei Zhigu wronged? When he went to inspect Henan Prefecture, Yao Chong's son handed him a note, asking him to protect someone who was corrupt and committed treason.
If he protected someone, he would be sorry for his majesty and his position; if he didn't, he would be worried about being punished by Yao Chong.
He refused, and came back to tell his majesty, but was betrayed by his majesty again.
Isn't it because you, Yao Chong, are so important? Is this something that people should do?
"If you want to protect me, I will protect you. Am I afraid of you? I... Does this thing work? Don't take out something and deceive people."
Yao Chong's voice was low at first, but he turned around and raised it again.
"There are five people in the group now, and there are five people outside, one set for each person." Li Yi didn't have the time to argue.
"Others can guarantee it at a glance. Isn't it just putting a layer of glaze on the outside of the iron sheet?" Yao Chong flicked the enamel pot with his fingers and found the secret.
"I'll lend you a kiln, and you go and burn it slowly? Do you know how big the fire is and how long it takes?" Li Yi curled his lips.
"You can test it out after all, and then you won't be able to sell it at a high price. This thing is so expensive." Yao Chong was still stubborn, and he shook the enamel pot with his hand.
"Ten coins, ten coins when you sell it in the future, and pay one coin tax." Li Yi said according to the price agreed before.
Yao Chong lowered his head and drank tea from the enamel pot, and didn't say anything.
The price was too low, and it was not enough to test a lot of things.
More importantly, he thought that if it was sold so cheaply, Li Yi would make the recipe public in the future, and everyone could burn it.
Whoever got it first and kept trying, it is estimated that all the kilns would be able to burn it before they tried it out.
"But do I have to let others know the recipe?" Liu Youqiu also thought of this problem.
"First burn military kettles, and then release them after I make a profit. Others don't make much profit from producing this thing. With that fire, it's better to burn porcelain.
I'll look at the export aspect, burn a little, and send it to Guangzhou to take it out. If people outside accept it, I won't make it public yet."
Li Yi said his calculations.
Once it is made public, everyone will burn it, and the price will be difficult to control.
He wants to burn some with patterns, the kind that is glazed twice or three times, specifically for export.
Those without any patterns are for the people of the Tang Dynasty.
Let the Guangzhou Maritime Customs stop it. If they encounter pure enamel, they are not allowed to flow out.
"We came here this time to ask, what is the use of warships entering the Yellow River?" Li Rizhi knew the situation of enamel and explained his purpose.
"Warships can only be steamships. There are none at present. Other ships going there will be a hindrance, which will force the Tibetans to take the opportunity to build more small boats and rafts at Sister Lake to burn our ships."
Li Yi disagreed. The warships were sent over with great difficulty, but were targeted by the Tibetans.
If the Tibetans could not build large ships, they could build rafts. The army had to find a way to protect the warships, which was putting the cart before the horse.
"What if the Tibetans now build more small boats and rafts?" Yao Chong raised his own question.
"It means they want to take the initiative to attack and raid our army from the water. We are waiting.
The speed of the boat is there. Wherever they gather, we will move our people to the corresponding place for defense.
If there are too many rafts, our boat will go to the middle of the river to launch a rocket to blow up the people on the shore, and then take the rafts back."
Li Yi thought about it and wondered what so many rafts would be used for. Obviously, it was for counterattack.
The speed of the army on land and the speed of the boat in the river are there.
The army can retreat during the day and then go around from a far distance. In order to cooperate with the army, the raft must move first and keep an eye on the boats.
In addition, it is easy for boats on the Yellow River to go downstream, but it is difficult to go upstream.
Using rafts on the Yellow River, bamboo poles are not enough. You can't find the bottom. You can only use oars and row slowly.
If oars are so easy to use, why do we need trackers?
This is the Yellow River in the flood season, not the ditch at the doorstep.
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On the west bank of the Yellow River, Zhaxi Kure’s tent was in the back, and he didn’t dare to set it up in front.
Even the most beautiful and largest tent was not his, and someone was going in and out of that tent, looking busy.
He was afraid that if he was exposed, he would catch up with the headwind or tailwind, and the Tang army’s hot air balloons and big kites with explosives would fly over.
Knowing the location during the day and flying at night, he would be killed by a careless explosion.
At this moment, he was thinking about shipbuilding and rafts. The tools he used were sheepskin rafts and paddles.
He saw the ship drawn by Bo E in the intelligence, including a rough structural diagram, but no detailed one, so Bo E couldn’t dismantle the ship.
He rented a boat, and when there was no one around, he pulled it to the shore and studied it carefully.
The research was almost pushed back into the water and could not be dismantled. He rented the boat in the name of Tubo.
Boyan no longer has any outside manpower, and they have all been taken care of.
What if he took a boat trampled by the Tang Dynasty and took the opportunity to kill people and seize the boat? No concrete evidence was found before, but now there is evidence to kill him directly.
But Boyu gave detailed drawings of other things, a threshing machine, a grinding mill, and a washing machine.
Connecting rod transmission is the same in theory, and you can figure out how to build a ship just by thinking about it.
Tashi Kure was recalling that he wanted a ship that could go up and down the Yellow River freely.
And there were sheep for the sheepskin raft, and the tribes who came with them brought horses, cattle and sheep, and asked them to kill all the sheep to build the raft?
That way, when the war is over, even if they win, they will starve to death.
When the weather gets cold, what do you eat? Expect to eat some highland barley? Either kill the yaks too, as they won’t eat the meat and won’t be able to withstand the cold.
"Can the raft be rowed?" Tashi Kure asked the Qianhu of the tribe where he had been staying.
Qianhu looked lost and shook his head: "I can't paddle, the raft is too big, the wood is heavy, and most of it is in the water. I don't dare to paddle against the current."
After saying that, he returned to his previous dull look, feeling sad.
Guan Lin's family disappeared, and through the description of the person who went to find it, there was a secret passage underground under Guan Lin's family.
Apparently the Guan Lin family hid or ran away.
I treat his family well, why don't you come with me?
Who will I see when I get sick in the future? If I had known it would run away, it would be better to catch it and take it with me.
"It's time for me to take medicine." Tashi Kure suddenly said and yawned.