Chapter 166 War Measures (Part 1)

Li Jun brought Li Tingzhi, Wen Tianxiang, Liao Shenggong, Du Dayong, Lu Xiufu, Huang Yongshan and others to come. They all smiled happily, as if they all had gold and silver. Of course, they saw so many good things today, especially Li Jun planned to build a few more assault forces, which meant that the Southern Song Dynasty had more sharp sword troops, so how could they be unhappy?

"I am in the morning and meet the emperor." Chen Bi bowed to Li Jun who stepped into the room.

Li Jun was very happy when he heard this, and grabbed Chen Bi and said, "It's Chen Bi. You came in time. I have a lot of things to ask you to understand the situation. Just come here, so as not to send someone to invite you."

Chen Bi and Huang Yongshan were the science and technology pillars of the Southern Song Dynasty. They were not only great scientists, but also the heads of the entire science and technology industry. They knew better than anyone else about the situation in science and technology. Li Jun naturally wanted to find him to understand the situation when he returned to Lin'an. This was not a casual statement.

"I heard that the emperor is back, so I came to apologize to the emperor." Chen Bi was very guilty.

Li Jun was surprised and said, "What happened to you? Come on, sit down, and get down." Li Jun warmly greeted Li Tingzhi and the others to sit down.

Li Tingzhi and the others knew that Li Jun did not like vulgar etiquette and had no airs, so they thanked him and sat down.

"I was unable to produce more nitroglycerin, which made the steel cannon unable to be used. I am unforgivable and I would like to ask the emperor to punish me." Shen Bi looked ashamed and extremely guilty.

Li Jun smiled and said, "I thought it was something, it's just this. You can make nitroglycerin, which is an amazing achievement in itself. You should remember merits and be guilty of any sin. No one can guarantee that this scientific matter will be successful, so don't take it in your heart. Don't worry about this. As long as you work hard, you can't create more now, and you will definitely create nitroglycerin that we can't use in the future."

"Thank you, the emperor." After sinking, he couldn't let go and said, "But, the emperor, those cannons..."

Li Jun interrupted his words and said, "Don't worry, the cannon will ring again, and they will be of great use during the Northern Expedition." Just as he was about to explain the reason to Shen Bi, Duan Ganmujin said, "Emperor, the emperor is the queen."

"What are she doing? If you want to say something from your heart, you have to wait for me to go back." Li Jun thought strangely in his heart. As soon as the thought arose, Queen Quan walked in with a few eunuchs, and these eunuchs were carrying food boxes.

The Queen's fragrance came in full bloom, step by step, as beautiful as a beautiful scenery, and said to Li Junying: "I will meet the emperor."

"The queen is exempted from gifts." Li Jun smiled and said, "Is there anything wrong with the queen coming?"

Queen Quan said in a slight anger: "What the emperor said is as if I can't come if I have nothing to do." He said to the eunuch: "Set it up." Under her command, the eunuch took out the food in the food box and put it on the table. Queen Quan said: "Your Majesty, you have worked hard on your way and you must be hungry. I have cooked a few side dishes for you to fill your stomach. Lord Li, Lord Wen, Lord Lu, General Liao, General Du, Lord Huang, Lord Shen and others have important matters to report to the emperor, and you monarch and ministers will eat and talk."

She is really lovely. Li Jun never expected that she came for this matter. Now Queen Quan is becoming more and more considerate. This is very different from Li Jun's first visit to this world. It is no longer just the three words "supporter of a good wife".

"The one who is close to the vermilion is red, and the one who is close to the ink is black! If you get closer to the kind of people, you will become what kind of people. Some people say that you have to make friends with whatever kind of people you want to be. It seems very reasonable." Li Jun sighed in his heart that the great changes in the Queen's entire heart and said, "How dare you get the Queen."

Queen Quan smiled and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, it is my responsibility to take care of the emperor. Your Majesty, this rice is made of hybrid rice sent by Li Bihu. It tastes good and is very fragrant. Your Majesty, please try it out. Your Majesty, I will leave. Dear sirs, please accompany the emperor." Yingying took a picture and retreated. Li Jun saw it very clearly. The look of expectation in her eyes when she retreated, and Li Jun knew the meaning of it.

Watching Queen Quan leave, Li Jun greeted Li Tingzhi and the others to sit over and said, "Come on, we are disrespectful to the queen, so it's better to obey your orders. It's easy to do things at the dinner party, and we have a meal while talking."

"Thank you, thank you, thank you, Empress." Li Tingzhi and the others sat over after thanking each other.

Li Jun took a sip of the rice and praised: "It tastes good, soft and fragrant, you can try it too."

Wen Tianxiang took a bite and said, "It's really good. This is the most delicious white rice I have ever eaten."

"Then you need to say, can Lao Yuan's technology be fake? I really didn't expect that Lao Yuan's invention in another time and space would benefit people in this time and space. It's really merit. If Lao Yuan knew about it, he would definitely brag about his awesomeness again. If you knew the story of reporters almost swelling his belly with rice from Lao Yuan, I wonder what you thought?" Li Jun thought in his heart and said, "It's delicious, you can eat more and don't waste it."

It is true that the reporter almost broke his belly by eating Professor Yuan’s rice. It is said that several reporters went to Professor Yuan’s laboratory for interviews. Professor Yuan invited them to lunch. The rice was made of hybrid rice. A reporter ate five bowls in a row and couldn’t even walk. The reporter sighed that it was the most delicious rice he had ever eaten. (Note: The story that Professor Yuan broke when he was interviewed by reporters after winning the National Highest Science and Technology Award is not fictional.)

Li Tingzhi responded to Li Jun's call and swallowed a big mouthful of rice and said, "This Li Bihu really has a few tricks. He planted two acres of late rice this year, harvested more than 1,000 kilograms, and gave the emperor a hundred kilograms."

While cooking rice, Lu Xiufu expressed his opinion and said, "If this hybrid rice is widely promoted, it will not take long before the Chinese people will have to go hungry. Everyone can eat rice. This is a great thing with great merit."

"What Lord Lu said is very true. When the people eat well, their physical fitness will be improved, and the quality of the army will be improved. This is a strategic measure." Liao Shenggong fully utilized his strategist's mind and said: "Master, this matter should be carried out quickly and promoted as early as possible."

Li Jun nodded and said, "If the achievements made by Li Bihu are good enough, the court will naturally promote them all. However, no one can do anything about science, and the technology is immature and cannot be rushed. At present, the best way to increase grain output is to work hard and use a lot of fertilizer. By the way, Shen Bi, how much sulfuric acid is produced in you?"

"Return to the emperor, I am incompetent, and I can only produce tens of thousands of kilograms of sulfuric acid in a month." Shen Bi blamed himself.

Li Jun comforted him and said, "You can't blame you for this. Our conditions are just like this, and it's useless to be anxious. What are the reasons for the low yield?"

"The emperor, it's mainly because he lacks manpower and equipment." Chen Bi replied.

Li Jun concluded: "In one sentence: it is not enough investment. It is easy to deal with, we just need to increase the investment. The output of sulfuric acid must be increased. With sulfuric acid, many things will be easier to deal with. In this way, don't produce nitrifying glycerol first, concentrate people to produce sulfuric acid."

The power of nitroglycerin is already well known to everyone here. It is their dream to produce nitroglycerin in large quantities. Unexpectedly, Li Jun wanted to stop its production. Li Tingzhi and the others were unbelievable, thinking that something was wrong with their ears, they looked at Li Jun in surprise.

Li Jun understood their shock very well and said: "Our technical conditions are immature, and the production of nitroglycerin is not high, which is not much different from that of us at present. If we force production, it will occupy a large amount of resources. If these resources are used to produce sulfuric acid, the production of sulfuric acid will increase a lot. Of course, the technology of nitroglycerin still needs to be studied, but it is not produced."

"Prince, sulfuric acid is mainly used to produce nitroglycerin. If nitroglycerin is not produced, sulfuric acid will be useless." Li Jun tactfully mentioned the acid and did not stop the production of nitroglycerin.

"Sulphuric acid is known as the 'mother of industry', so how can it be useless?" Li Jun sighed in his heart that Chen Bi was a little lacking in knowledge and smiled: "There is not useless, it is a lot, and your output is not enough at all. I will give you a goal. Can you produce one million kilograms a month?"

"So much?" Chen Bi was so scared that he almost spit out a mouthful of rice from his mouth. The monthly yield of one million kilograms of sulfuric acid was nothing special for the Southern Song Dynasty at that time. It was already very good that Chen Bi was not scared to the ground.

Li Jun said leisurely: "It's not too much, it's too little. If the sulfuric acid is enough, we can produce more fertilizer and the grain output will be greatly improved. Xiangfu, you arrange it and collect all the bones, pigs, cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock bones, and leave them to Shenbi to deal with."

"Your Majesty, what's the use?" The bones of pigs, cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock are useless except for feeding them to dogs. Li Jun actually asked Li Tingzhi to arrange them to collect them. Let Li Tingzhi be resourceful and difficult to be curious about everything, and he had to be curious and blurted out.

Not to mention Li Tingzhi's curiosity, even Liao Shenggong and others were like him, writing a full face of curiosity.

"Break the bones and then use sulfuric acid to process them. Clean the sulfuric acid, filter and dry them. It is a good fertilizer." Li Jun understood the curiosity in Li Tingzhi and the others, and explained to them: "With silicon fertilizer and farm fertilizer, our grain output will be greatly improved, and there will be many people who don't have to go hungry."

The main fertilizer of crops comes from the three elements of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. For the Southern Song Dynasty, the possibility of producing nitrogen fertilizer was zero, so it was impossible. Potash fertilizer was not easy to produce, and phosphorus fertilizer could be produced as long as there is sulfuric acid.

The bones were broken and treated with sulfuric acid. The fertilizer produced was phosphorus fertilizer, which was used by British scientist Gilbert in the 19th century. For the Southern Song Dynasty, there were no other things, and there must be bones, so there would be no problem in making phosphorus fertilizer.

Not to mention the ancients like Li Tingzhi and others, even modern people don’t know much about this method. They were all so surprised that their mouths filled with rice were opened and they looked at Li Jun stupidly.

After a while, they cheered in unison.

The straightforward Lu Xiufu commented: "If you succeed, it will be a real turn from a waste into a treasure."

"Yes!" Li Tingzhi and the others agreed. Although they only had one word, they expressed his good mood.

Li Tingzhi showed the extraordinary talent of an outstanding politician and said: "Your Majesty, I think it is possible to cultivate more sulfuric acid production personnel and then distribute them to all parts of the country to produce sulfuric acid." Instead of producing sulfuric acid and transporting it to all parts of the country, it is better to send people to produce sulfuric acid. This principle is obvious.

Wen Tianxiang added: "Also, a special fertilizer production factory can be set up, and they can collect the bones, produce fertilizers with sulfuric acid and sell them to farmers." In this way, the imperial court can achieve the goal without paying a tael of silver. This is a very good idea.

Liao Shenggong followed and said, "Emperor, the imperial court will inevitably be unable to establish so many fertilizer manufacturers across the country. The imperial court can concentrate its main efforts to produce fertilizers in several major grain production areas. For example, Jiangnan, Lingnan, Huaihe River Basin, Chengdu Plain, Guanzhong Plain, Hanzhong Plain, and Jianghan Plain." These places are rich places and are also the main grain production areas of the Southern Song Dynasty. If the grain output in these places is increased, the problem will be much easier. This is a strategic layout that focuses on the overall situation, and only people with strategic vision can think of it.

"You each have a plan, and you have finished everything I want to say." Li Jun made a summary speech.

Shen Bi suddenly felt energetic and said, "Prince, please rest assured. I will immediately train a large number of people in this area and dispatch equipment."

"Thank you for your hard work in this matter." Li Jun was very satisfied with Shen Bi's performance and said, "If you have any difficulties, you can tell Xiangfu, Xiangfu will help you solve them."

Modern phosphate fertilizers are produced by using phosphate ores through sulfuric acid, but in comparison, the technical difficulty of using phosphate ores is much more difficult. The problem is much easier to deal with using bones as raw materials. Li Jun’s plan is to use bones as raw materials first, lay a certain technical foundation, and then use phosphate ores to produce phosphate fertilizers when the conditions are ripe. If this is achieved, the grain output of the entire Southern Song Dynasty will achieve a leap.

"Prince, please rest assured. This is a major event that concerns the national economy and people's livelihood. I must cooperate with Lord Shen. I will give you whatever Lord Shen wants." As an outstanding politician, Li Tingzhi naturally understands the importance of food to a country and takes on heavy burdens without hesitation.

Li Jun put down his bowl, wiped his mouth, and said, "This rice is so delicious, it makes people happy to eat it. If the people eat such rice in the future, will they all be persistent?"

This is a joke. Li Tingzhi and the others thought that Li Jun would say such a joke at this time, almost spitting out the food in his mouth.

However, Li Jun's joke was not over. He continued: "If there really is such a day, it will only be a blessing to be a waste of money!"

This sentence sounds like a joke at first glance, and only after careful consideration can I understand the meaning of it. In ancient times, due to low productivity and insufficient food, many people suffered because they could not eat enough food. No one could explain it clearly. Many people never had a few meals of rice in their lives. It can be said that they spent their whole lives in hunger. If it was really as long as Li Jun said that, even if they were to die of rice, it would be happiness.

The food crisis existed in China's thousands of years of history, and it also existed in the "Wenjing Governance" and the "Zhenguan Governance" praised by historians of all ages. During these two periods, when they were famous for their "prosperity", the grain in the granary was layered and layered, and they were almost moldy, while the people were still hungry, and those historians did not mention it.

In order to maintain survival, the people fully utilized their "creativeness". Bibimbap with wild vegetables is good and can still be accepted. Some people use sleep to escape the torture of hunger, but the more they sleep, the poorer they are, the more they eat, because they have no time to work, and there is no gain. Another solution to the problem is that women save food and leave it to men at home, because men have to do heavy work and have no energy if they are not full, and these women can only drink porridge for their lives. (Note: It is true that they solve the problem of hunger when they sleep. One of the examples is related to one of the top ten marshals. Women drink porridge in Shanxi, because there are many people here because they are very poor.)

"Emperor!" Li Tingzhi and the others were moved, with tears in their eyes and they could not speak.

Li Jun shook his hand and stopped them from talking, saying, "With food good, it will not only benefit the people, but even the livestock will also benefit from it. Xiangfu, choose the best millet to feed our war horses, and all war horses must be fed with essence."

It is natural for people to think that horses eat grass. However, if war horses only eat grass, their combat power will be greatly reduced and they cannot fight tough battles. Only by feeding the war horses with essential materials can the war horses have a long strength, which means that the Song army will have better mobility and can quickly maneuver from one place to another. This is also a strategic measure.

Li Tingzhi was a habitual soldier. A person who was well versed in horse nature naturally understood the truth and said: "I obey the order."

"In addition to feeding millet, you also need to feed eggs, one per day." Li Jun continued: "This matter must be implemented in national destiny."

Feed the war horses with eggs and millet, and the war horses will be fat and strong, which is of indescribable importance to the upcoming decisive battle between the Central Plains.

"Emperor!" The two strategists, Liao Shenggong and Du Dayong, knew the significance of this move and were very excited.
Chapter completed!