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Chapter 64: The Modao Army (II)

In fact, coupled with the Lingzhou craftsmen who came from Lingzhou to defect to Chen Ying, the craftsmen from Shuozhou and the sons of the Eight Haoqiang, on the construction site in the forest, the number of people at this time was close to the 5,000 mark, so many people together, and even the scene of construction at the same time was impossible to easily see in Chang'an City.

Li Xiuning has seen a lot of such a situation, when the women's army was at its peak, it had more than 70,000 men and horses, more than 70,000 troops, and the camp was a city, and it was much larger than the average county seat.

However, Li Xiuning also saw the difference. First of all, the neat row of houses, this is the temporary residence of the craftsmen, this way of arranging the room, it is like the tent in the army, neat and tidy, leaving a passage to pass, and the craftsmen in the process of walking or working, more than three people are lined up, although not like Chen Ying's Dingyuan army soldiers, neatly raised their legs and settled down, as if they were using the shadow of the army.

In fact, Chen Ying is indeed using militarization to manage the people, because militarization can improve efficiency, and the chaotic phenomenon is not seen in the forest.

When Li Xiuning came to Chen Ying's dock fort, Li Xiuning was really shocked, Li Xiuning saw at a glance that Chen Yingjian was not an ordinary manor at all, but a castle, although at this time, the city outline had just taken shape, and the tall and majestic city wall could not be seen, but from the solid foundation, it can be seen that with such foundation specifications, the city wall can be built to a height of more than three zhang.

Chen Ying was still inspecting the progress of Modao in the iron workshop, and Li Xiuning's arrival had to let Lan'er greet Li Xiuning and go directly to the steel mill, for Chen Ying, he had no secrets worth keeping from Li Xiuning.

Li Xiuning looked at Lan'er, who was clear-eyed and beautiful, and now she was still dressed as a maid, and she was faintly curious, why did Chen Ying keep entering the room for Nalan'er?

Suddenly, Li Xiuning saw a huge pond covering an area of more than 100 acres, glowing with a black luster, although it was winter, he could still smell a strong stench. Li Xiuning asked curiously, "What is this?" ”

Lan'er said: "This, Lang Jun said that the harvest in the field is too low, because of the lack of fertility, Lang Jun collects weeds and manure of people and animals to make fertilizer, Lang Jun said that if you use the field of fertilizer, the yield per mu of one acre of land can be easily doubled." ”

"Double?"

Although Li Xiuning is the princess of the Tang Dynasty, she is not a flower in a greenhouse, she is very aware of the people's livelihood accidents, the grain output in this era is extremely low, and in a bumper harvest year, but the grain production is about two stones, if it is doubled, doesn't it mean that you can feed a person with three or four acres of grain? You must know that although Guanzhong is known as 800 miles of fertile soil.

Lan'er said: "Princess Huiyu, the slave maid has not planted different land, I heard Lang Jun say, the millet species are the same, the original land is also adjacent, watering and hoeing, there is no difference, the only difference is the fertilizer used." Compost and manure are really more productive than fresh manure and urine! ”

Li Xiuning nodded and said: "If you can really double it, you don't need to double it, even if you only charge an extra three or five buckets, this palace will definitely ask for Chen Lang." ”

In terms of the country's strategic resources, grain yields per mu are extremely high in later generations due to the improvement of chemical fertilizers and biotechnology, so it can be said that China can be completely self-sufficient in grain. However, in this era, even the national strength of the Tang Dynasty will cause large-scale famine due to the famine years. The people were displaced, and even cannibalism, and a human tragedy occurred.

Lan'er smiled slightly, and said with a very resolute expression: "Lang Jun is the most knowledgeable person in the world, he said that if he can increase production, he will definitely increase production, and if he buys land this year, we can harvest a lot of grain next year......

Li Xiuning is not Lan'er, Lan'er is very superstitious about Chen Ying, even to the point of paranoia, she believes in her own eyes and judgment, as long as Chen Ying can really increase the production of Datang, Datang can collect an extra five or six million stone grain every year, these grains are in the hands of the imperial court, and the role they can play is too great.

Suddenly, Li Xiuning pointed to the busy person and asked, "Are these people Chen Lang's tenants?" ”

Lan'er shook her head and said: "That's not it, these people are all short-term workers recruited by Lang Jun, and the craftsmen are all from Lingzhou or Shuozhou to join Lang Jun, in fact, our Chen family has no tenants now......

"No tenants?" Hearing this, Li Xiuning was stunned and asked in surprise: "There are no tenants, so what about spring plowing next year?" Can you get busy? ”

"Lang Jun said that people who want to farm and make a fortune are stupid!" Lan'er sneered and said: "Lang Jun said that these people he bought will be distributed to those craftsmen who have made outstanding contributions in the future, and those craftsmen who have made outstanding contributions will not only be rewarded with dozens or hundreds of acres of fields, but also divide the houses, and in the future, Chenjiazhuang will become Chenjia Town, or Chenjiacheng." ”

Li Xiuning was inexplicably irritable in her heart: "What nonsense!" ”

Li Xiuning subconsciously felt as if she had said the wrong thing, in her shallow consciousness, Chen Ying's things should be hers, Chen Ying was so big-hearted, he would definitely ruin the family business.

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There was nothing to say along the way, Li Xiuning followed Lan'er to the Tiefang Department, but unexpectedly found that the Tiefang Department actually had a guard from the East Palace to guard outside, and the waiter was Li Jiancheng's personal guard, watching the arrival of Princess Pingyang's carriage, he hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

Before Li Xiuning entered the iron workshop, he saw Li Jiancheng and Chen Ying and dozens of other people gathered together, Li Jiancheng said to Chen Ying: "No, it's too extravagant!" ”

Li Jiancheng's extravagance is reasonable, because Chen Ying actually wants to use pineapple wood to make the handle of the Mo knife, pineapple wood is a very precious wood, the wood is tough, the wood grain is very straight, and it also has a faint fragrance, which is the best material for making longevity and pillars.

The key is that the handle of the Mo knife needs too much, the Mo knife made of high manganese carbon steel has a very strong hardness, and is more tough than high carbon steel, the blade of more than one foot six feet long, loaded with the Mo knife more than six feet long, in the battle, I am afraid that the most loss will be the handle, not the original blade, if you count the loss in training, this is not a small number, not to mention the need for a straight wood about six feet long, which is almost only a whole fruit pineapple tree stem is suitable, even if it is a tree pole is not necessarily suitable for each tree. (In the Tang Dynasty, it began to form a custom, and the total length of the Mo knife in the historical records was seven feet (one foot in the Tang Dynasty was about nine inches and three minutes now, that is, 0.307 meters, and seven feet was about 2.15 meters), of which the blade was three feet long, the handle was four feet long, and it weighed fifteen catties (equivalent to about 20 catties now). This book is not a real history, so there are some changes, please readers and friends do not take it seriously. ）

Some pineapple trees are bent, some are moth-eaten, and some are cracked, I am afraid that all the pineapple trees near Chang'an will be cut down, and it may not be enough.

However, how Li Jiancheng objected, Chen Ying only looked for the right one, no matter what the price was, anyway, Chen Ying thought about it more clearly than Li Jiancheng, not everyone can play the Mo knife, only a strong warrior can wield the Mo knife hand, the Tang army has about 400,000 soldiers, of which only 5,000 are from the Mo Dao army.

It can be said that every soldier of the Modao Army is one of the best men in the Tang Dynasty.

However, Li Jiancheng didn't know that the moment he saw Mo Dao, he became obsessed with this weapon. At this time, there were already more than fifty Mo knives made by Chen Ying, and Li Jiancheng couldn't wait to see the effect of the Mo Dao Army.

Chen Ying selected fifty strong men over eight feet tall from the left and right guards of the prince of the East Palace, wearing Mingguang armor and holding Mo swords, standing in formation.

Mo Dao is worthy of being the king of swords, although it is only a small formation of fifty people, but fifty Mo knives are lined up, which is quite imposing.

Chen Yingchong Li Jiancheng said: "His Royal Highness the Prince, do you want to see the effect?" ”

Li Jiancheng nodded.

Li Xiuning, who was standing in the outer circle, didn't show up at all, and she also wanted to see what Chen Ying was doing.

Not for a long time, fifty pigs weighing more than 200 catties were put on leather armor or iron armor one by one, and the appearance of domestic pigs in armor looked very funny, Li Xiuning couldn't help laughing.

At this moment, Chen Ying turned around and saw Li Xiuning.

Chen Ying was overjoyed, and he yelled at the fifty Mo swordsmen: "Ready, take the knife!" ”

Fifty Mo knives were raised neatly, and the Mo knives that shone like a mirror slashed down neatly. Mo knife is out, who is competing.

"Puff puff ......"

Even the sound of screaming did not sound, and fifty pigs, even with pig armor, were smashed by the Mo knife.

Li Jiancheng was dumbfounded.

Li Xiuning was dumbfounded.

Chen Ying was triumphant.