At this point in time, Xu Chu did not agree with Fei's sneak out of the city.
In the city, the guarding power will undoubtedly be stronger and more comprehensive.
It’s not that there will be danger when you get outside the city, but after all, the decisive battle is imminent, and the risk of one point being reduced by one point. If Fei Qian encounters something unexpected, how can he fight? Fei Qian is now a symbol, a symbol, and a banner representing the new forces in Guanzhong. There is no way to avoid any mistakes.
Ke Feiqian insisted on going out for a walk, but Xu Chu had no choice but to accompany him.
Fei looked at Pingyang subtly.
I am in Pingyang, but I cannot see Pingyang.
Only by withdrawing from it can you see Pingyang.
Pingyang has city walls, and more than one circle.
There was no city wall in Chang'an, or after Fei sneaked into the main Guanzhong, there was no new city wall. The original city wall of Chang'an can be said to be the palace wall at the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty. The city lived in the emperor's close ministers and servants serving the emperor, while the various tombs and towns in Chang'an were home to civil and military officials and ordinary houses.
So from a certain perspective, today's Chang'an is more similar to the system of later cities, with a model divided by core administrative areas, living areas, and leisure areas. Pingyang is no different from the traditional Han Dynasty city layout. The first ring is the core, the second ring is the commerce and administration, and the third ring is the ordinary people and other facilities.
Pingyang has three rings.
Originally, Xun Chen wanted to build the Fourth Ring Road, but was stopped by Fei Qian.
There is no need for this.
Especially after the artillery appeared, the city's defense ability was invisibly reduced to a very low level.
Fei Qian was not sure whether artillery would promote China's desire to advance outside, but it would undoubtedly break the construction of the original manor system.
This is his fiefdom and his starting point.
What exactly can a person do in the Three Kingdoms?
This problem once plagued Fei Qian for a long time, and even made him feel a little confused for a while.
At the beginning, Fei Qian felt that since he was in the Three Kingdoms, if he didn't collect philatelics, could he still be called the Three Kingdoms? Just like the Three Kingdoms games he played, if he could not be matched with the three elite teams of Wei, Shu and Wu, and could not gather all the eight beauties, it would be a waste snack...
This mentality makes Fei Qian feel a free state in the early stage. Others are on the ground, but their minds are in the sky. They float and look down, and they don’t feel that there is anything wrong with their attitude towards people and things around them.
Fortunately, Fei Qian had a status as a Lang official at that time, and he was considered a scholar of the Han Dynasty. Most of the scholars at that time, especially young students, looked like this, so it did not show how beautiful Fei Qian was. It was not how good Fei Qian did at that time, but that there were too many teammates from aristocratic families...
So when will Fei Qian really start to stand on the land of the Three Kingdoms and stop floating?
It was probably when Fei Qian came into contact with the "real" at the bottom of Lushan. It was not that the things Fei Qian had learned before were all fake, but the books he had obtained from Pang Degong of Lushan were all "alone" and "original"!
You should know that many of the history books Fei Qian read in later generations have been compiled a lot.
For example, Braidao, she professionally "composed" the Ming Dynasty for three hundred years, and then interestingly, the one who helped "composed" was Ji Xiaolan, who was known as the strongest man. This was a bit interesting to all the loyal and brave men and adults...
Therefore, when Fei Qian first saw books that had not been "deletion and blocked" or "compiled" by Confucius' disciples, something was touched in his heart.
Knowledge and truth should not be held hostage by a few people and then used to deceive the majority of ordinary people.
The Han Dynasty was an important source of this historical river.
Why not start to explain seriously from this source and face history?
Only by not blocking or deleting everything is left to the descendants of China can descendants have more wisdom and greater gaze, rather than being blinded and sunk by those falsehoods.
"Zhongkang." Fei Qian called out.
Xu Chu replied, "I am here."
Fei was silent for a while, "Zhongkang, you're going to go into battle. Are you ready?"
Xu Chu said proudly, "I am ready!"
Fei Qian nodded, and after a moment he suddenly asked, "Then... Zhongkang, what is true or false?"
Xu Chu was stunned for a moment and said, "The truth is the ultimate truth of the world; the false is similar to the false statements of the world. The truth is like the brightness of the sun and the moon, and cannot be concealed; the false is like the shadow of floating clouds, and cannot be relied on. The truth is like the hardness of metal and stone, and cannot be destroyed; the false is like the color of dew, and it is destroyed in a flash."
Fei Qian nodded and said, "This is a manifestation."
"Preface?" Xu Chu was stunned for a moment.
Fei Qian did not answer, but turned around and said, "Let's go and go to the artillery camp to take a look."
In the west of Pingyang City, there is a specially divided area, with a wall of earth and stone, and a guard post standing, with high alert.
This is the place where artillery and related artifacts are temporarily stored.
Fei Qian soon entered the camp.
The artillery was displayed under the shed in the camp and covered with linoleum.
Half of these artillery were pulled back from Jinyang.
Fei Qian stepped forward, lifted the felt blanket covered by the cannon, stroked the cannon's body, and felt the heat hidden under the cold...
Um?
Why does it feel a bit weird?
No matter what.
"This is the truth..." Fei Qian said to Xu Chu.
Xu Chu frowned and pondered.
When the great craftsman Huang Dou heard the news, he came in a hurry.
"How many of these... can be used?" Fei Qian asked.
Huang Dou stretched out his finger and said, "Only these are still useful... These, like this, are a little damaged..."
There are still some problems with metallurgy technology today. After attacking Jinyang, nearly half of the artillery suffered damage to varying degrees and withdrew from the combat sequence.
"The material is still a bit uneven." The great craftsman Huang Dou took out his round belly and took out his carry-on detection tool to measure it at the muzzle for Fei Qian to see, and then patted the cannon body with his thick fleshy hands. "Look at this side, it's a little curved... This should be because it's not infused... It's a pity, it's a pity."
The lifespan of the artillery at this stage is very short, just like these artillery used their lifespan to exchange for the glory of the moment.
Fei Qian nodded and said, "This may be related to the quality of the ore."
Huang Dou thought for a while and agreed, "There may be residues left during the second refining, so I need to find a way to deal with this."
Today, Beiqu can be said to be a huge metallurgical factory. Coarse copper and iron ingots from all over the country are transported to Beiqu, and the coal mines in Luliang Mountain are emitting black smoke almost every day.
Huang Dou is now mainly responsible for the production of artillery, so the cannons transported from Jinyang this time are of course tested by Huang Dou. If you can continue to use them, you will continue to use them. If you can't use them, you will need to be pulled back to Beiqu and melted and cast into coins.
Perhaps there can be a separate variety of coins in the future?
Artillery coins?
These artillery trained on the battlefield cannot be re-dissolved and cast into new artillery.
Metallurgical technology still needs to be developed...
Fei Qian was also helpless about this.
However, artillery has become a huge improvement from nothing. The rest is to let everyone see it and feel good. People will automatically push these guys and get better step by step.
"From mining, you should pay attention to it," Fei Qian reminded Huang Dou, "You should find some craftsmen, based on these situations, starting from the ore of the cannon, and all the final use results of the cannon, and then compare them with each other according to the actual situation to see which ones can be improved and which ones need to be strengthened... By the way, I heard that someone refined copper into silver some time ago?"
Fei Qian didn't understand metal, but he understood that of course copper could not be refined into silver, it was just a white copper similar to silver.
But this is a good thing.
This does not mean that Fei Qian wants to use white copper to pretend to be silver, because the weight of white copper and silver themselves are inconsistent. If you really want to do this, it would be like using other metals of the same white color to pretend to be silver.
You are either idiots yourself or treat others as idiots.
Even if you are not a professional craftsman or an ordinary businessman, you can know the authenticity of the currency as soon as you get started. What's more, metals are not only different in weight, but also their own gloss, hardness, flexibility and other characteristics. If you really want to make the fake fake, the price will not be more expensive than before.
This is why it is difficult to imitate the formula as long as the formula is not leaked.
The emergence of white copper indicates that a new branch has appeared in copper smelting technology, and it is also a manifestation of craftsmen's innovation.
Fei Qian naturally needs to give encouragement.
Huang Dou was quite surprised when he heard Feiqian's words. He thought Feiqian wanted to punish that guy. Because there was a guy who said he could refine silver, but he used the silver wrapped in the outer skin to deceive Feiqian, and Feiqian directly refines it...
"This is different." Fei waved his hand and said, "Intentional and unintentional, it is completely different. If you study and make fakes for pretending to be silver, then even if you have the results, you should kill them. But if you make it unintentionally, you should register it, consider how to reproduce it again, and study its specific purpose... I mean the specific purpose, the real purpose, rather than counterfeiting this or counterfeiting that."
Fei Qian thought about it and recalled the few remaining memories, "For example, it is used to prevent rust? I think it should be a try."
There are too many craftsmen in Chinese history that have emerged.
But these inspirations are either lost in the end or become playful items for some nobles and nobles, enjoying utensils, and then disappearing their subsequent developments.
For example, the "Quillust Incense Burner" in the Han Dynasty was a very typical item. A copper container with charcoal placed inside and placed in the quilt. No matter how it churns, it will not leak out. It can also keep warm. Because the quilt incense burner is spherical, there are two or three concentric rings between the spherical shell and the hemispherical furnace body located in the center. The furnace body has a short shaft at both ends of the radial direction, which is supported in the two radial holes of the inner ring and can rotate freely. The inner ring is supported on the outer ring and the outer ring is supported on the inner wall of the spherical shell. The support axis of the furnace body, inner ring, outer ring and inner wall of the outer shell are perpendicular to each other in turn. Due to gravity, the furnace body always maintains a vertical horizontal state no matter how it rolls.
And this structure is called a gyroscope in modern times...
In the Han Dynasty, there was not only this "incense burner" but also a goose-shaped lamp that could freely rotate the lampshade to cover fireworks, a translucent mirror that refracts the characters, a bronze tent structure that was essential for the nobles of the Han Dynasty to travel and fight at home, and a track cart for automatic calculations. Even fine bronze calipers appeared during the Wang Mang period...
Of course, this bronze caliper was also regarded as a "evidence" of Wang Mang.
So much precious wisdom is regarded as a toy for aristocratic families.
This is the result of scholars, peasants, industry and commerce ranking first.
Since Fei Qian wants to make the "four people equal", he naturally has to do this, instead of just shouting slogans.
Fei Qian again instructed Huang Dou to carefully check the artillery, shells, and related artifacts, and then left this heavily guarded area with his guards.
"Do you understand?" Fei Qian asked Xu Chu.
"Seeking truth and seeking justice?" Xu Chu said.
Fei Qian nodded, "Let's go, let's go to the military camp again."
In the southern suburbs of Pingyang, there is a military camp that is being further expanded.
Because the cavalry from Yinshan Shangjun Northland and other areas need a residence for both men and horses, they have been expanding. Fortunately, there was a relatively abundant space left, and now it will not be embarrassing to expand some temporary residences.
Fei Qian originally brought Pingyang not many people, but there were many people in the northern part of Shangjun, Yinshan. Some patrols and supplementary soldiers were recalled later. In addition, some Southern Xiongnu and Qiang people joined the army. Now there are more than 10,000 people in this camp.
However, these more than 10,000 troops are obviously not all elite.
These people are now basically tied to Fei Qian, especially after Fei Qian launched the "Theory of the Four People", some middle-level military academies who read a little and understood a little truth all understand that their current path is getting wider and wider.
Officials are no longer limited to only scriptures, and only children of the gentry can take charge, but all the four people can take charge!
This is enough to make many military academy non-commissioned officers feel excited. Therefore, during the expansion of the camp, almost none of them are watching and not working with their hands on the side. Everyone is selling their strength. Because they know in their hearts that they can find better and farther paths on Feiqian's territory in the future. Now, they are working hard for themselves when doing things for Feiqian, aren't they?
What else is there to say?
Even ordinary people around us came to join spontaneously.
Not to mention anything else, I can get a meal for a day and I can get the salary, so I will never be deducted.
There are also some refugees who originally fled from Hedong who led their children to the army, pestering the military academy to get their children to join the army and gain wealth. The military academy's non-commissioned officers said over and over again that the cavalry recruited soldiers through the recruitment department, and once a year...
There were cheers and cheers in the school grounds from time to time.
The newly added Xiongnu and Qiang people changed their military robes from the Han family. Teams of people tested their strength, shooting skills, and there were wooden stakes for testing and chopping in the distance. These Southern Xiongnu and Qiang people would take off their original leather robes and officially become members of the cavalry army. Under the same command, they could also receive the same treatment.
Fei Qian didn't go to the schoolyard, but just took a look from a distance and went around the back camp.
Before the troops move, food and grass will come first.
In the back camp, in the straw shed, on a long stove, there were a long row of large pots, steaming hot and cooking soup.
Food in the military is generally simpler, either rice is served with pickles or cakes are served with soup.
A group of soldiers were busy, and suddenly someone saw Fei Qian coming and shouted: "General Cavalry!"
The shouting suddenly scared many soldiers.
"ah!"
A group of soldiers were carrying a wooden basin of cooking cakes. When they heard the shouts, they shivered. The cook cakes in the basin fell out two or three, rolling on the ground.
One of them happened to roll in front of Fei Qian's feet.
"Meet General Cavalry!"
Everyone in the shed quickly put down what they had on hand and was half shorter.
Fei Qian smiled and bent down and rolled in front of him to pick up the cakes, "Let's get up!"
Everyone responded one after another, then stood up and stood there solemnly.
Fei Qian patted the pancake in his hand, blew it again, and then broke off a small piece. Before Xu Chu could react, he put it directly into his mouth.
『…』 Xu Chu frowned when he looked aside.
It’s not that Xu Chu thinks the cakes are dirty.
As long as people who have had a little military life know that this little bit of mud is nothing.
Xu Chu was just trying to prevent all risks as much as possible, even if this risk was very subtle.
Fei Qian glanced at Xu Chu's expression, and even smiled, she didn't continue to eat it. She pinched the pancake in her hand, nodded and said, "The pancake is well made..."
The two or three gangs standing next to him fell to the ground when they heard this, and they all trembled with joy when they spoke, "Thank you... Thank you, the cavalry, praise you..."
Fei Qian nodded, signaled the guards to help the chefs up, then stepped forward and lifted the lid of a soup pot, took the spoon and sucked it a few times.
Very simple soup ingredients, sheep bones and vegetable soup.
There are a lot of oil on the surface of the soup.
The bones have obviously been stewed for a long time, and most of the meat on them has fallen off, leaving only a few scattered tendons.
I stirred it with a spoon at the bottom of the soup pot, and some minced meat floated up.
Fei Qian was about to drink the soup with a spoon when he saw the look that Xu Chu cast, so he put down the spoon helplessly and said to the leader of the soldiers beside him: "We must be willing to put salt. Everyone is a man who makes energy. It's not enough to eat without salt."
The leader responded repeatedly, patting his chest to ensure that Fei Qian would definitely feel relieved.
Fei Qian nodded, left the Houying, and on the way, he gave Xu Chu most of the cake in his hand, "This is also true."
Xu Chu subconsciously took the broken piece of pancake, looked at the mud stained on the pancake, and was silent for a moment, suddenly raised his head and said to Fei Qian: "Lord, I understand..."
Fei Qian looked at Xu Chu, "Do you really understand?"
Xu Chu took out a handkerchief and wrapped the cake in his arms and patted it. "This battle is not for the vain righteousness, but for the truth of people's livelihood! The lord first looked at the craftsmen, then the farmers, and then the soldiers, so this kind of thing can be said to be the truth of the Han Dynasty!"
Fei Qian smiled, "No, understand this, Zhongkang can lead the army alone!"