As long as the transportation between the Western Region and Guanzhong continues, Pei Xingjian can sustain the war even if it has ups and downs.
Li Ji still had a lot of regrets on his face even though he was wearing armor, "I have never fought against the cannibals. I really want to go out and fight them."
Chen Yaojin stroked his beard and said, "It's too much to let these young people take the credit."
Just as he was talking, Li Jing came over in cloth clothes, and behind him there was a group of soldiers pulling iron barrels.
"I'll leave these to you." Li Jing said calmly.
"Here!" Li Ji bowed his hands and called for people to pack the iron barrels and gunpowder into the cart.
Li Jing handed over another brochure, "This is the artillery usage that I have compiled these days. It also records the tactics of war that I have learned recently. I have occasionally gained experience in battle formations of tactics, but I have never used them on the battlefield."
Li Ji took the booklet with both hands and said, "Thank you very much."
How much he can learn depends entirely on Pei Xingjian's understanding. This artillery is a new thing to the military generals, and it seems inappropriate to judge based on past experience.
There were more than 800 iron barrels packed, and some of the defective ones were taken to Lishan for repair.
Cheng Yaojin said loudly: "Don't worry too much about Mao Gong. These artillery cannons are more than enough to flatten a mountain. Why worry about him eating 600,000 soldiers and horses?"
Li Ji nodded in response, "The military plane must not be delayed. General, I will take my leave."
Li Jing nodded and said, "Well, go ahead."
After sending away the artillery, Cheng Yaojin felt empty in his heart, "A certain family hasn't run out of fun yet."
The grapes in Weibei began to ripen in July. Shangguan Yi was walking under the grape trellis, feeling worried.
Li Xiaogong asked: "What should we do?"
At first, Lishan Grape Planting did not notice such a thing because the number of acres planted was small.
Shangguan Yi can only attribute the reason to quantity.
The Gaochang people on the side were still talking in Gaochang dialect, and his words were in Guanzhong dialect mixed with Western Region dialect.
It sounded very laborious, and he had to repeat it several times before he could understand the meaning clearly.
There are not so many birds and insects in Gaochang, and there is no experience in controlling them.
Now there are Li Xiaogong's tribe who are driving away the birds and insects.
Shangguan Yi took the booklet in his hand and added: "Deploy a large net around the fields to prevent birds, then wrap all the unripe grapes with fine gauze, and pick all the ripe grapes."
Hearing this, Li Xiaogong shouted to his own song: "Did you hear that?"
"Here."
Shangguan Yi took out a bunch of copper coins and handed them to the Gaochang man, but the man was still unwilling to accept them. He said in unfamiliar Guanzhong dialect: "Lishan is our benefactor, we dare not accept them."
After saying that, the Gaochang man turned around and left without accepting any copper coins.
Li Xiaogong picked a few bunches of better grapes and said, "Someone, please send them to Lishan Mountain for the little princess to taste."
"Here."
The grape harvest has been full of twists and turns, from the beginning of ripening and lack of fertility, to now pests and birds.
The grape yield of Guanzhong cannot be compared with that of Gaochang. The yield of Gaochang is one stone per mu, while the yield of Guanzhong is only 50% of that of Gaochang.
In short, the grapes were grown, and Li Xiaogong was very happy.
But Shangguan Yi was very sad. The climate in Guanzhong was not as good as Gaochang, nor was it as unique as Gaochang.
"I'm afraid the ideal of the county prince will be difficult to realize."
Li Xiaogong asked in confusion: "How do you say this?"
Shangguan Yi explained: "In order to grow these grapes, Lishan has used a lot of manpower and material resources. In our Lishan terms, it is the cost. The higher the cost, the lower the price of grapes, otherwise no one will grow grapes in Guanzhong."
"People tend to be profit-oriented. It's the same for Lishan and it's the same for others. If the profits from growing grapes can offset the costs, it can naturally be implemented in Guanzhong."
Li Xiaogong couldn't understand these words. He was calling for help, "These grapes are given to His Majesty, those grapes are given to every household in the clan, and these are given to a few friends of a certain family..."
The prince of Hejian County was immersed in the joy of harvest, while Shangguan Yi left Weibei with sorrow.
The work of growing fruits and vegetables in Taifu Temple is progressing very quickly, and both Gaoling and Lantian counties have tasted the benefits from last year to now.
Carloads of fruits and vegetables are being sold to Chang'an. At a time when mutton prices continue to fall, the prices of fruits and vegetables are rising rapidly.
There are also many salted duck eggs and slaughtered poultry.
The two counties have benefited from the benefits provided by Lishan, as well as Lishan's downstream manufacturing and transportation, and have become rich in the past six months.
This made several other counties in Guanzhong jealous, and magistrates from other villages and counties often blocked Shangguan Yi on the official road outside Lishan Mountain.
"Shangguan Shaoqing, our village and county are willing to devote 300 acres of land to grow cabbage."
One of the county officials spoke, and people immediately gathered around him and said, "Shangguan Shaoqing, my village and county can also grow grapes."
"Yes! We will do whatever Lishan asks us to do."
We are all so poor. Seeing the neighboring villages and counties making money following Lishan, our eyes are so red that they bleed.
It’s only strange that he didn’t agree to Taifu Temple’s request in the first place.
Shangguan Yi was surrounded by a group of county officials and waved his hands repeatedly: "Everyone, everyone!"
Everyone calmed down. Shangguan Yi straightened his clothes first and then said: "Weinan is not suitable for growing grapes. It does not have the water and soil of Weibei. Even though we are only separated by a river, the difference in water and soil is huge."
Seeing that everyone had finally calmed down, Shangguan Yi said again: "Everyone, go back and plan the land and plan first. Our Taifu Temple will observe the water and soil, and we will have plans for what land is suitable for planting."
After saying these words, Shangguan Yi walked into the village, and the county magistrate wanted to catch up. When he saw the officers and soldiers at the entrance of the village, they all took back their steps and stood at the entrance of the village talking.
The marriages of Prince Li Chengqian, King of Wei Li Tai, and King of Shu Li Ke have all been decided. Li Yue listened to the news from her aunt and stared at the pot of grapes in front of her.
"Is this a discussion among aristocratic families everywhere?"
"His Majesty is very angry because of the news coming out of the palace."
Li Yue whispered: "Father's attitude is already obvious. If the prince does not marry with their family, he will isolate the court from them."
"Mom, daddy said he was going to repair the cannon in the workshop, and he will eat it only after it is repaired."
As Xiao Qingqing spoke, she reached out to get the grapes to eat.
Li Yue said seriously: "Wait until your father comes to eat."
"Ah..." Xiao Qingqing pursed her lips and said aggrievedly: "Mom is always like this, always thinking about daddy."
Aunt Wang smiled and said: "You are a little princess. Naturally, Her Royal Highness the Princess and the County Marquis are thinking of you."
Xiao Qingqing sat on the bench aggrievedly, holding her chin with one hand, looking at the grapes eagerly, waiting for her father to come.
In the workshop, Zhang Yang opened a misfired primer device, and the primer inside had exploded.
"His Royal Highness King Jin, bring the oil lamp."
After hearing what his brother-in-law said, Li Zhi lit the oil lamp and put it on the table. He also observed it carefully and asked curiously: "Why is this happening?"
Zhang Yang explained: "Lishan's forged iron technology lacks flexibility, and it would be better if it was replaced with brass."
Li Zhi whispered: "Then why not use copper?"
"Copper is very expensive, and it is today's currency. In the past, a lot of fine copper was used in the country to build steam engines."
"Isn't there a lot of copper coins in Lishan?"
Zhang Yang still shook his head, "His Royal Highness the King of Jin thought too simply. Copper coins can no longer be used for casting. They mixed a lot of impurities when they made copper coins."
Li Zhi couldn't help but nod, watching his brother-in-law take out all the broken parts inside.
Then he carefully looked at the oil lamp with the primer's mouth, and Zhang Yang said again: "Have you seen, Your Highness, King Jin? The internal threads have cracked. Once the amount of primer is too much, it will easily misfire."
Li Zhi nodded in understanding.
As he was talking, Zhang Yang noticed his daughter standing outside the workshop with a look of grievance on her face.
Seeing this, he put away the parts, got up and washed his hands to eat grapes. His brothers and sisters were all there by the Huaqing Pond.
Li Zhi followed and washed his hands, "Sister Huang has been studying trees all day recently."
Zhang Yang nodded and said, "Well, it's pretty good."
Li Lizhi is always planting trees these days. She is studying the distribution of water, soil and vegetation in Guanzhong, such as poplar, cedar, poplar or ginkgo.
After washing his hands, Zhang Yang invited his younger brothers and sisters to eat grapes.
Li Xiaogong had so many grapes delivered that there was a bucket of them.
There were so many grapes that could not be eaten at one time, so Zhang Yang gave a lot of them to the villagers in the village.
The bear at home doesn't like eating grapes, so he just lies by the Huaqing Pool and basks in the sun.
After eating too many grapes, Xiao Qingqing lost interest in it. After rinsing her mouth with tea, she walked to the house on her short legs, found her father's tool box, and took out a wooden comb from the box.
This wooden comb was very wide, and she combed Xiong Da with difficulty. The wide wooden comb was able to comb out a lot of bear hair from the neck to the back.
Then put the bear hair on the cloth and silk aside and collect it.
Seeing this, Zhang Yang helped his daughter comb it together and whispered: "These bears are afraid of the heat, so comb them more."
Ever since, the younger siblings also joined in the activity of grooming the bear.
There are enough bears in the house, one for each of the younger siblings.
The daughter's strength was not strong enough, so Zhang Yang had to comb the area she had combed again. The bear looked like he was enjoying it.
They will shed their hair in the summer. Xiong Da is too big. Xiao Qingqing got tired after a while. She sat next to Xiong Da and looked up at him, "Why are you so big?"
Xiong Da's black eyes were staring ahead in a daze.
Zhang Yang combed the bear's fur, patted its back and said, "Go and wash it."
Upon hearing this, Xiong Da stood up and walked into Huaqing Pool, swimming carelessly.
Lishan's production is in full swing, and the overall production and dispatch planning of Lishan falls on Xiaowu and Xiaohui.
In the library, Xiao Wu looked through last month's accounts and whispered: "If you want to increase production capacity, one steam engine is simply not enough."
Xiaohui nodded in agreement. She took up a pen to record the production status of each factory, "At least three more steam engines will be added."
When Lishan adapted to the steam engine, it also relied on this driving source. This kind of machinery driven by human power could greatly increase production capacity.
It has been a long time since Lishan was involved in carpentry work. Mechanization has become the current direction of production.
Lathes need to be designed more precisely and improved with steam engines.
Xiao Wu turned over a page of accounts and added, "Brother Niu and the others said they can build a steam engine in three months at the earliest."
Xiaohui nodded and said, "Then let's calculate the cost."
The two of them were sitting opposite each other, and just as they were calculating the current situation, they heard the words beside Huaqing Pool.
Xiao Wu and Xiao Hui both looked outside the library, where the master was taking the princess and princes to run and exercise.
"Do you know why we need to train you?"
"Exercise physical fitness, exercise perseverance, and be tenacious and not afraid of overcoming difficulties." The children replied in unison.
"Okay, let's run five more laps!" Zhang Yang said loudly.
Li Zhi wanted to cry and slap himself, why did he say such a sentence.
After running eight laps around Huaqing Pool, the princess and princes only had the strength to breathe, and they all fell to the ground.
Li Fu and Li Ming ran the slowest and had not yet reached the finish line.
Zhang Yang applauded: "Come on! We must run to the finish line."
The pace is very slow, slower than walking. This is a requirement of physical training. You cannot give up or give up halfway. No matter how slow you run, you must reach the end.
Finally, the two of them reached the finish line and fell down tired.
Li Zhi felt his heart was burning and his heartbeat was fast. He couldn't hold it back and vomited it out, followed by Gao Yang and Dong Yang.
Zhang Yang held a booklet and recorded the results of this physical exercise, "You guys are throwing up. Eat more vegetarian dishes tonight and don't eat too greasy."
Li Zhi held a wooden basin and vomited again.
The three girls, Dongyang, Gaoyang, and Qinghe, had pale faces and their broken hair stuck to their foreheads because of the shouting. They didn't care about the princess's elegance, and they all gasped for air.
Zhang Yang counted the time in his mind, "Okay! Everyone stand up!"
Li Zhi slowly raised his head with a look of despair on his face, "Brother-in-law, I can't survive. I can't stand up."
Zhang Yang shouted: "I can't bear this little pain. Where is your perseverance? What should you do when you encounter difficulties in the future? This is not only training your body, but also training your mind."
Seeing that the children were silent, Zhang Yang started to count with a straight face, "One! Two! Three..."
Afraid of being punished, they helped each other get up.
Zhang Yang added: "Move your limbs and feet, otherwise it will be very painful tomorrow morning."
In the end, the words contained some concern, and it was not for their own good. Xiao Wu and Xiao Hui snickered and looked back.
A high-intensity physical fitness test once a month is enough.
It was a pity that the grapes he had just eaten were spit out like this. Zhang Yang sighed while feeling quite satisfied with the results of this test.
Proper exercise and nutritional supplements from Lishan food will help them grow a lot.
"Brother-in-law is a monster. No matter how long he runs, he never gets tired." Li Zhi said while moving his ankles.
Gao Yang and Dong Yang nodded in agreement.
In fact, unconsciously, they became more united, and even they themselves were unaware of this change.
The children are getting stronger and stronger. Li Fu and Li Ming, who were originally in poor health, are getting stronger and look better.
In the evening, we need to prepare more carbohydrates, rice, noodles and meat for them.
Zhang Yang walked to the kitchen and saw his wife and daughter making dumplings.
She has an inexplicable obsession with dumplings, which is the only food she is good at.
Seeing that her husband was covered in sweat, and the sweat had soaked his chest and back, Li Yue handed him a pot of water.
