Yuan Tan probably received the report from Eastern Europe that night, and immediately felt completely at ease, because Xun Chen and others also analyzed it for him. This should be the last wave in Rome in the near future. After this wave, even if there is another wave in the future,
Even if the Romans came, they would not be as crazy as they are now.
Therefore, the subsequent war only needs to be dragged by the Slavs, and the Yuan family can buy a few years of farming time. With such a few years of buffer, the Yuan family's situation will be much better, and the subsequent strategy will be
I can move forward steadily.
The current situation of the Yuan family requires a period of rest and adjustment. After all, the meaning of the war with Rome is to safeguard the fruits of victory. Now that Rome is gone, the Yuan family can stop and digest the fruits of victory, at least near the Ural Mountains.
The black land was fully reclaimed.
"Victory?"
"The Romans are ready to retreat." A smile appeared on Yuan Tan's tired face. He has been working a lot recently. After all, the war in Eastern Europe will affect the situation in the next few years, so Yuan Tan did not make less preparations.
Now we are waiting for the results.
"What's the loss?" Xun Chen looked at Yuan Tan and asked.
"General Huangfu used some methods, and the losses are still within the tolerable range. Then our focus can finally shift to people's livelihood." The gloomy look on Yuan Tan's eyebrows also appeared after receiving the confirmed news.
Recovered a lot.
However, at this moment, Xin Pi, who was in charge of civil engineering, armament production, and city road construction, suddenly rushed over, and Yuan Tan felt an inexplicable suddenness in his heart.
"George, you came here late at night to report something important?" Yuan Tan looked at Xinpi and asked with a bit of worry, Xinpi shouldn't be in Sizhao City at this time.
"Back to my lord, the big steel furnace died today." Xin Pi was half-kneeling on the ground with a gloomy look on his face.
Yuan Tan's heartbeat stopped for a moment, and his face turned pale instantly. Xun Chen quickly stretched out his hand to support Yuan Tan, but was blocked by Yuan Tan. This small blow could not defeat Yuan Tan. This person is already a character who has been tempered for thousands of times in the true sense.
, responded quickly.
"It's been four years, right?" Yuan Tan exhaled and said.
"Yes." Xinpi lowered his head and replied solemnly.
"No one was hurt. Let the craftsmen clean it up, repair it, and bury it." Yuan Tan waved his hand and said, "Go to the Ministry of Etiquette to ask for a eulogy."
Xun Chen was also helpless. Their Yuan family's largest steel furnace had been raised to heaven. Now they had to consider whether they could come up with a new replacement. As of now, the Yuan family's steel furnace is the largest and most durable steel furnace left abroad.
, but it was a pity that it exploded in the end.
After Xin Pi reported the matter, seeing that Yuan Tan had no intention of pursuing the matter, he quickly withdrew, leaving Xun Chen and Yuan Tan here.
"I made you laugh. I originally thought that after so much experience, it would be difficult for me to be excited anymore. Unexpectedly, I am still the same as before." Yuan Tan sighed. This thing produces millions of kilograms a year.
Molten steel and molten iron supported the development of the old Yuan family. However, without this, relying on a small steel furnace would be a hassle not only to repair, but also whether the production could be restored.
"Next we need to build steel furnaces first." Xun Chen was also helpless. After all, the focus of the next work is the development of people's livelihood, so we must cultivate wasteland and farm, and the agricultural tools required for reclamation and farming are all made of iron, and this can be compared with
Weapons and equipment worth hundreds of thousands are different. This is something that really needs to be calculated in millions.
But now that the big steel furnace has exploded, the required steel production in the previous livelihood projects has become an illusion. As for importing from the Han Dynasty, transportation is a very big problem.
"Can our best craftsman here repair another one?" Yuan Tan looked at Xun Chen and asked with a somewhat hopeful tone, and Xun Chen gave Yuan Tan a roll of his eyes in return.
"We don't care about this kind of thing." Xun Chen said helplessly. If he could solve this problem, then he would be so depressed thinking about where to get at least two million kilograms of molten steel and iron.
Will the water first mix with the new year's reclamation?
Although the Yuan family also has a certain reserve of farm tools, after years of fighting, the Yuan family's smelting department is mainly used to produce weapons and equipment. Do they really think that the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of troops do not need to be armed? In this way, the Yuan family's farm tools reserves
Naturally not too much.
The plan that favored people's livelihood was only possible because Xun Chen determined the situation in Rome in advance, but even so, the production of agricultural tools was scheduled to start in March this year.
After all, he is not a guy like Chen Xi who has a large reserve of production lines. The Yuan family's production lines need to be allocated some here and some there, and the steel is also rationed.
Therefore, the preparation of farm tools that Xun Chen calculated early in the morning was based on the production scale of the Yuan family. Unfortunately, this plan has only been implemented for two months, and the steel furnace exploded.
Xun Chen's mind is a little blank as to how to use such agricultural tools. Although it is possible to cultivate wasteland without using metal farm tools but with wooden or stone farm tools, what is the efficiency?
According to Xun Chen's judgment, the Yuan family has a buffer period of at most two years, because after two years, the war between the Han Dynasty and the Kushan Dynasty will have obvious changes, and Rome will inevitably end up again to contain the strength of the Han army. By that time,
The Yuan family's energy must be put on the battlefield.
Therefore, these two years are the best period for development. According to Xun Chen's idea, the Yuan family needs to cultivate 100 million to 12,000 acres of land as soon as possible in these two years.
Only with such a large-scale grain-producing land, the Yuan family could withstand the Roman offensive in the final stage without regard to grain and grass. However, iron farm tools are finished now. You can cultivate such a land with wooden farm tools and stone farm tools.
Large-scale land? You are probably not dreaming!
"Let's try it first, build a steel furnace as much as possible first." Yuan Tan sighed, and then said viciously, "Let's make it bigger this time. We will starve the timid to death, starve the bold to death, and build a six-party furnace.
.”
"..." Xun Chen looked at Yuan Tan and was silent for a while. In the end, he still didn't say that sentence. They couldn't even guarantee that a steel furnace could be manufactured stably, and even if it could be built, there was a high probability that it would fail.
It explodes during use.
"Just try your best. If it doesn't work, ask a mason to buy a batch of stone farm tools first." Yuan Tan may have realized that his thoughts were too good, and he couldn't help but sigh.
Xun Chen was speechless and could only do this. If the scale of the grain-producing land could not be guaranteed, many problems would arise later, so the steel furnace must be solved as soon as possible.
Chang'an, Wen peeled off a rice dumpling, dipped it in some honey, and stuffed it into Stina's mouth.
"It's so sweet, this is delicious." The pope looked very happy. The Dragon Boat Festival came just a few days after the Chang'an imperial meeting. Wen had nothing to do and she also made some rice dumplings and cooked them in two pots. Of course, Wen
I didn’t even eat much, and everything ended up in the Pope’s stomach.
"After attending the wedding banquet of Sima's legitimate son, we will return to Sizhao City." Wen said to the Pope after wiping her hands.
"I feel like it's more comfortable to live here than in Sizhao City, and there's a lot to eat." The Pope seemed to linger over it.
"But Sizhao City is our home." Wen began to instruct the Pope.
"Ah, isn't my hometown from Great Britain?" The pope began to rebel. She hadn't finished eating Chang'an delicacies yet and didn't want to leave at all.
The corner of Wen's mouth twitched twice. The Pope has brains, but it's difficult to deal with people with brains who pretend to be stupid. I think Wen doesn't know how to deal with the Pope now.
"Forget it, let's stay for another month or two." Wen said with a sigh. She knew that the Pope had no bad intentions and just wanted to eat, drink and touch pandas in Chang'an.
"Sister is so kind." The pope hugged Ms. Wen and said with a smile.
"Also, don't build any illegal buildings randomly in the garden." Seeing the Pope licking his lips and about to smear it on his clothes, Wen quickly pushed the Pope away, and then warned, "This way
All buildings in China have system requirements. You can repair them randomly at home, but you still have to be careful here in Chang'an."
The Pope tilted his head, wasn't she building a steel furnace? Is this considered an illegal construction?
Although the Pope is Yuan Tan's little wife, and the Celts mainly work as blacksmiths under Yuan Tan, the Pope has never paid attention to the steel furnace. In fact, the Pope is not clear about many things about Yuan Tan's power, just like
Just like the last time at the gem mine, the smelting director has never been there either. She has always been acting cute as a panda in the Yuan family courtyard...
When he came to Chang'an, the Pope noticed that there was such a thing as a steel furnace, and then the Pope was interested in this +50. After all, the Celts were one of the first nations in the world to have the ability to smelt steel, so when they saw the blast furnace,
This kind of industrialized product, as the essence of the entire nation, shocked the Pope, and then he started to do it himself.
In fact, this is driven by the mainstream evil gods within the Pope and his own subconscious, because the two cores that build the Pope, whether it is the Celtic hero or Stina's subconscious, are very shocked by this thing.
After all, the most advanced smelting in Europe during this period was Celtic. When the Romans were using bronze, the Celts began to use iron. So when he saw higher-end technology, the Pope couldn't help but start to imitate it.
and learning.
"Madam, there's molten steel!" Just as Wen was educating the Pope, the housekeeper rushed in very excitedly, even neglecting the etiquette. The Pope tilted his head, and Wen was confused, and then the two came to
In my backyard, I watched the three-story twisted and illegal building producing molten steel.
Wen fell into silence. She had gone into the Yuan family's smelting department. Her eldest brother was not as big as him. Moreover, the furnace did not explode and was still producing molten steel. As for the landscape and garden being bulldozed, it was not a problem. The problem was that the repairs were done.