bullyxtreme Chapter 216 Mainly because of poverty
Chapter 216 Mainly because of poverty
Su Jixiang was stunned for a moment.
There is no such thing in Daxie yet. There are similar crossbows, but the expansion part is different and cannot fire continuously.
What Su Jixiang drew was obviously not something that a woman who had lived in the deep palace for a long time could come up with.
Even veterans with rich combat experience could not draw something like this.
"The palace is boring, and I've been in the cold palace for a long time, so I've learned a lot." Su Jixiang said, "You also know that the abandoned concubines in the cold palace have different family backgrounds, and what I learned from them is a bit miscellaneous. This was taught to me by an old lady, but unfortunately she died of illness in the cold palace after teaching me these things. I can't even erect a tombstone for her."
Wei Ling nodded upon hearing this.
There are many concubines in the palace who are daughters of military generals, and many of them have family backgrounds in learning. It's a pity that what they have learned becomes completely useless once they enter the palace. They have to compete for favor, so these things are of no use.
Wei Ling knew that although Su Jixiang was just a little maid in the cold palace, she was doing well, otherwise it would have been impossible for him to find a way to secretly transport her out of the palace.
So after listening to Su Jixiang's explanation, Wei Ling did not become suspicious.
Su Jixiang breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that he believed it.
Wow, Wei Ling is so smart. Next time she comes up with something, she'd better think of an excuse first.
Fortunately, her statement is quite credible...
"I think there are iron mines in Mangcheng." Su Jixiang saw that Wei Ling was looking at him seriously, and asked tentatively, "Have you ever thought about mining iron mines?"
Wei Ling then raised his eyes and looked at Su Jixiang.
What Su Jixiang thinks in his heart is his idea.
Instead of letting those people smuggle the iron ore for personal gain, it would be better to open up the iron ore and directly arm the Black Tiger Army.
But in Daxie, iron ore was under the control of the imperial court.
Anyone who mines privately is committing a felony.
This is also the reason why the iron mine has been abandoned there since they blew it up.
This time, some people in the army secretly mined iron ore and sold it to outsiders. In other words, some of the Black Tiger Army who stayed behind had dug two other mines leading to the collapsed mine.
However, these two mine tunnels are extremely secretive, and no one else knows about them except the rebels imprisoned by Wei Ling.
"It is a serious crime for Daxie to open an iron mine privately." Wei Ling reminded.
"Oh." Su Jixiang shrugged after hearing that, "Then just pretend I never said that."
"But in Mangcheng, I have the final say." Wei Ling smiled slightly, "Since my wife has this idea, I will do it."
"Don't do that!" Su Jixiang shook his head upon hearing this. "It's obviously you who have this idea, how did you trick me into thinking that? I can't afford this hat! It's too big!"
Wei Ling laughed when he heard this, "I did have this idea. The new emperor will use this mine sooner or later. I just took a step ahead of him."
"I heard someone in the cold palace talk about something called steel!" Su Jixiang asked tentatively, "Have you heard of it?"
"Steel? No, what is this?" Wei Ling asked curiously.
"Look at the picture below." Su Jixiang asked Wei Ling to continue looking.
She actually drew out the methods and steps of traditional steelmaking, and even how to build a blast furnace.
On the way to Mangcheng, she took the opportunity to look at the weapons of the Black Tiger Army while helping in the kitchen.
Their weapons are all made of cast iron. It’s not that they are bad, but the cast iron will become brittle in this cold weather.
The weapons of the generals are better made of refined iron, which is much better than those made of pig iron, but they are still not as good as steel...
Although the steel produced by the traditional steel-making method written by Su Jixiang was much inferior to real steel, it was a level better than the pig iron and refined iron used to cast weapons in the Daxie Dynasty.
After seeing this, Wei Ling suddenly stood up from the stool.
“Did you learn these in the cold palace?” Wei Ling’s voice trembled a little due to his excitement.
"Not entirely." Su Jixiang said, "There are many talented people in the palace! Even an inconspicuous eunuch might have some special skills in his family. If they couldn't survive, who would be willing to be a eunuch, right..."
"Do you know that if this method succeeds, the combat effectiveness of our Black Tiger Army will increase dramatically!" Wei Ling looked at Su Jixiang with a warm gaze.
The soldiers' weapons would become brittle in the winter in the north. Everyone knew this problem, but there was no way around it. The weapons issued by the court could only be like this. They could only dig stones even though they were guarding the iron mines. They had no idea how to cast iron, let alone the steel that Su Jixiang mentioned!
Su Jixiang's map depicts the entire process from iron ore to steel. For Wei Ling, this is something more valuable than giving him a house!
He originally had the idea of mining ore himself and casting iron by himself, so that he would no longer be bound by the shackles of the court.
And this picture by Su Jixiang is like a timely help!
As soon as I dozed off, someone handed me a pillow!
"Of course I know that, so I drew it because I thought you might need it." Su Jixiang said with a smile.
"You are simply a treasure sent to me by God!" Wei Ling put the picture down, picked up Su Jixiang and happily turned around in the room.
He kept spinning Su Jixiang until he felt dizzy, and then he put Su Jixiang down. He was still not satisfied and kissed Su Jixiang fiercely on the cheek...
"Keep looking down!" Su Jixiang wiped the place where he kissed and said with a helpless smile.
Wei Ling then continued to look through the drawings.
"Is this the armor for heavy cavalry and war horses?" Wei Ling looked at it and became more and more excited the more he looked.
"Yes." Su Jixiang smiled, "I heard you say that the Turkic horses are fast and have strong raiding capabilities. I thought that since they are fast horses, they must be lightly equipped, so their defense is very weak, so I drew this set of armor for war horses. Anyway, there is iron ore here, so it's no problem to make this!"
If the heavy cavalry armor and heavy war horse armor drawn by Su Jixiang are equipped, then not only will the Turks' fast horse offensive have no advantage, because they will not be able to break through the defense line of such heavy cavalry at all, even if you look at the entire Daxie, this heavy cavalry team will be invincible!
It’s no wonder that Wei Ling’s eyes became more and more passionate, it’s really because Su Jixiang gave too much, it’s too good!
Why didn't he think of this good thing called heavy cavalry armor!
Wei Ling reflected on it carefully, and realized that it was mainly because he was poor...
Not only have I never seen things like heavy cavalry armor and war horse armor, I don't even dare to think about them!