From Propulsion City To Multiverse

Back in the carriage.

Bai Yulou was looking through the investigation reports of various villages.

Shan Wanjing, who helped organize these things, felt the unevenness of the world for the first time. For her, the poor and dirty countryside was another world that was unimaginable.

"Is it weird? 99% of the people in this world live a similar life, you just cast a good baby."

Shan Wanjing asked inexplicably, "Why are they so poor?"

"Do you know how much land rent Dongming Pai collects? It's 40%, which is already relatively small. One mu of land can only harvest half a stone and a half of rice a year when the weather is good. A young man can only cultivate 50 mu at most. …”

"And a person needs to consume at least 6 shi of paddy rice every year for food and clothing, which means he needs to plant at least 7 mu of land. In fact, due to energy and natural disasters, farmers need to plant at least 30 mu of land before they can barely get enough food and clothing."

Shan Wanjing, who can count, quickly calculated the income of farmers for a year.

A secretary on the side explained: "We have calculated the ratio between farmers' labor energy and land area. Even if it is rough farming, it can only take care of 30 mu of cultivated land. If it is intensively cultivated, it can only take care of 10 mu of land. too bitter."

Shan Meixian, who has been silent, snorted coldly:

"Hmph! This set of yours doesn't work at all. How does the Mujin tax maintain the money for the court and the army? Isn't it going to force the peasants' food? And those aristocratic families and powerful landlords won't obediently hand over their land."

Bai Yulou replied calmly, "Madam, is my artillery any good?"

Uh... Only then did Shan Meixian think of the terrifying weapons possessed by the People's Revolutionary Federation. Obviously, she had heard Bai Yulou's implication, which was to use force to solve the problem.

When she thought that the Central Plains would flow into rivers of blood in the future, Shan Meixian was silent, and after a while she sighed:

"Why bother, with your strong boats and guns, if you choose the landlord of Huairou, you will be able to dominate the world in a few years, why did you choose the most difficult path?"

"Hahaha..." Bai Yulou screamed in the sky:

"Whose world is the world? This world is the world of the common people. The people of Li and the people are born to me, and it is not my wish to be named a prince and worship a minister.

The people of Limin gave birth to me,

It is not my wish to be a feudal lord and worship a minister;

I wish to kill the emperor for the common people,

Just ask for a new day in the world.

Shan Meixian chanted the poem softly, looking at the man in front of her with extremely complicated eyes.

A young girl like Shan Wanjing felt that this poem was very domineering and had an indescribable momentum. .

This kind of poetry in this era is a proper anti-poem.

Unconsciously, the carriage came to the vicinity of Danshui City, but instead of entering the city, it turned north and came to the ironworks of the Dongming School.

After all, the environment of the iron smelting plant is very harsh. During the process of burning charcoal and smelting iron ore, a lot of smoke and dust will be generated. Naturally, the Dongming faction will not place the iron smelting plant in the city, but build a small soil city. .

Freshwater City is about 3 kilometers away from the iron factory.

When he came to the iron factory, Bai Yulou saw the engineers who were transforming the iron factory. The technical soldiers from Zhoushan Iron and Steel Factory and the building materials company had initially integrated the 2,000 employees of the iron factory.

"General Bai, welcome to visit Tamsui Steel Plant." Hu Dali, the director of the plant, greeted him with a smile.

Bai Yulou looked at the scene: "Comrade Hu! How is the situation now?"

"We are building 3 small blast furnaces, and we have already built a cement kiln. Using the iron-making **** left over from the past, we are going to burn a batch of cement for local construction." Hu Dali replied.

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Bai Yulou instructed: "Pay attention to the bodies of the engineers, especially the dust hazards. In addition, you should prepare an extra blast furnace and a coke oven. By the way, do you have the design drawing of the coke oven?"

Hu Dali nodded: "Minister Long is ready. The next batch of supplies will bring a batch of coke oven parts. I will prepare refractory bricks and furnace bodies here."

"That's good."

Hu Dali hesitated for a moment: "General Bai, does Da Liu Qiu really have coal?"

Bai Yulou nodded: "Don't worry, Heiyiwei has already explored, and I will bring people to mine in a few days."

"Then I can rest assured. Leave the steel plant to me. In about a month and a half, the construction of three small blast furnaces, windmill buildings, punching machines and crucible areas can be completed."

Baiyulou saw that the 6 tons of cement transported from Zhoushan Building Materials Company were all used here, and still felt that the current cement was not enough.

In the construction of infrastructure, cement is as important as steel.

Liuqiu Island is often prone to typhoon weather. Wooden houses are unreliable. Without strong enough houses and warehouses, a typhoon may be destroyed by a few years of hard work.

For the manufacture of cement, there are already sufficient conditions now. After all, coal also plays a vital role in cement refining.

Coal is the core fuel in the early stage of the industrial age. For felling trees and burning charcoal, it can only be used in a short period of time. If charcoal is used for a long time, especially large-scale use, it will lead to rapid deterioration of the local ecology.

And the heat of charcoal is not as good as that of coke.

Back from the steel factory, Bai Yulou checked the recent situation, and took time to contact Zheng Sen of Hu Douzhou by telegram.

Before I knew it, another week passed.

Zheng Sen arrived at Tamsui City with 15 transport ships, escorting 2,000 refugees and 400 engineers.

Seeing a desolate Danshui City, Zheng Sen felt like he was in a different world. Whether he was born in the Pirate Universe, or in the history of the Trisolaran Universe, the surname of the country has an inextricable fate with this island.

"Revisiting the old place, things are different."

Bai Yulou ran over excitedly: "Haha, don't feel emotional, all the things in Danshui City will be handed over to you."

"You're going to explore Keelung, right?" Zheng Sen seemed to have seen the other party's plan.

Bai Yulou shrugged: "The coal problem must be solved as soon as possible. It's too troublesome to burn wood all day."

"I know you can't be idle, let's go!" Zheng Sen shook his head with a laugh.

The two of them handed over their jobs. Early the next morning, Bai Yulou brought three Mengchong ships and 150 soldiers, as well as the secretary, Shan Meixian and her daughter who were life assistants and research objects, to Keelung. Go to ~www.readwn.com~ Keelung is on the northeast coast of Daliuqiu, while Danshui City is on the northwest coast of Daliuqiu. The two are not far away.

It's just that there is some headwind now, sailing to the northeast along the coastline, bypassing Fuguijiao, and the whole journey is about 53 kilometers.

Even along the way, in order to explore the hydrological conditions along the coast, the exploration fleet slowed down and still arrived at the coast near Keelung at about 3:30 in the afternoon.

Of course, Keelung at this time is just a desolate virgin forest and coast.

On a coast suitable for anchorage, Baiyulou ordered to start anchoring, preparing to land here tomorrow after spending the night here.

According to the information, there is only a small tribe of natives with more than 300 people near Keelung. With the fully armed soldiers, Bai Yulou and others don't need to worry too much.

In the northern part of Daliuqiu, the largest tribe is in the high mountains near the Emerald Lake, with a population of more than 2,000.

In fact, it is very difficult for their primitive fishing and hunting tribes to grow and grow in population, and the natural elimination rate and food supply rate have blocked their development.