Chapter 269: The Yellow Bird Mountain Fort
Huayi's distinction is a pit dug by Wang Yuyou for the Qing court. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe Qing court killed the scholars who dared to resist, and then used the so-called Taoist system to educate other scholars to be loyal to the monarch and loyal to the imperial court. Even if the barbarian became the emperor, he was also the Son of Heaven, and he wanted the world's scholars to be loyal to the Tartar Emperor.
It is precisely because of this that the Qing Dynasty ruled for more than 200 years in real history, and in the middle and late periods, every time the Qing court was in danger, it was a group of Han scholars who jumped out and saved the Qing Dynasty again and again.
During the rebellion of the Three Feudatories, Zhou Peigong formed a new-style Huguang Green Battalion to resist Wu Sangui; By the time of the Miao Yao uprising during the Qianlong period and the White Lotus uprising during the Jiaqing period, the green camp had also rotted, and in the end, it was only by relying on the regimental training formed by the Han gentry that the Miao Yao uprising and the White Lotus uprising were suppressed; By the time of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the regimental training was also rotten, and it was Zeng Guofan who formed the Hunan Army, suppressed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and saved the Manchu Qing again.
The distinction between Huayi and Huayi that we want to engage in now is to tell the readers that the orthodoxy of China is above the so-called monarchs and ministers. The Manchu rulers sitting in the capital were nothing more than foreign barbarians, they were not worthy of the Chinese Taoism, and the scholars who served them were just a group of minions. In addition, Wang Yuyou is also ready to reveal that the foundation of the Qing court is actually the Eight Banners, and it is not really regarded as his own people at all.
In the three major cases in Jiangnan, the blood stains of Jiangnan Shizi have not dried, and it has not been a few years since now, and there is still a deep impression in the memory of many readers.
Hunan is the hardest hit area by Hong Chengchou's so-called theory of monarchy and ministerhood, but Hong Chengchou himself is a shameless villain who betrayed the old master.
Although the Qiongzhou army killed Hong Chengchou, it still needs some effort to eliminate the bad influence left by Hong Chengchou.
Huayi's distinction hit the soft underbelly of the Qing court, but the Qing court could not kill all the scholars, they needed a group of cynics to defend them.
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In the tenth month of the lunar calendar, the climate in Wuchang has become cooler, which is the happiest thing for those migrant workers working on the construction site. When the weather is cold, they don't have to brave the scorching sun and work in a steamer-like environment. The sun is warm in winter, and Wuchang in October is not too cold, which is the best season.
Such weather is simply bittersweet for Liu Feng, who was recruited to build fortifications, and he has already lived a happy life.
Compared with those people who died on the construction site in the hot summer, Liu Feng is a lucky person. Three months ago, in Wuchang, the scorching sun was scorching, but in order to catch up with the schedule, the Qing army forced the people to work under the scorching sun, and as a result, people fell on the construction site every day. Liu Feng survived the most difficult moment, and was later transferred to the mountains by the river to build a fort.
There is shade on the hills, and the working conditions are much better. There is also a tall and majestic building on this mountain, which is more than ten zhang high, called the Yellow Crane Tower. This mountain, called Huanghu Mountain, is the commanding height outside the city of Wuchang.
The Qing army built a fort on Huanghu Mountain, directly built a furnace for casting heavy artillery on the mountain, and under the guidance of the little Buddha Lang machine, directly cast 8,000 catties of giant artillery, which was named Wucheng Yonggu Invincible General Cannon. Because the cannon is larger, the shells that can be fired are heavier, more gunpowder is needed to fire, it has stronger kinetic energy, and because the shells are heavier, they are less affected by external factors, and the hit rate is also much higher.
However, the gun was heavy, and the disadvantages were obvious: it was difficult to rotate the muzzle, it was difficult to adjust the high and low firing ranges, it was difficult to reload ammunition, and the rate of fire became very slow.
It is precisely because of these shortcomings of heavy artillery that there are only eight such heavy guns on the fort, and the remaining more than 300 guns are ordinary artillery between 500 jin and 3,000 catties, the medium ones are called Weiyuan General Cannons, and the more than 2,000 catties are called Shenwei General Cannons, which are mainly used to deal with threats from the water.
The amount of work on the fort was huge, and in order to prevent the pirates from attacking the fort from land, there were also fortifications scattered on the mountain. The price of red mud was too expensive, and the imperial court did not introduce so much red mud, and most of the old methods were used to build forts and mountain fortifications: glutinous rice, lime and mud were mixed, and stones were glued together with this kind of thing to build very strong fortifications and forts.
Liu Feng stood on the edge of a pond, and was instructing the people to pour the freshly steamed glutinous rice into the pool, and also added brown sugar, and then put in white food mud, lime, star fruit vine juice, poured water, and several people held thick wooden sticks, stirred in the pool, and when the stirring was even, it could be used to build fortifications.
"Lord Xue is here!" Just when Liu Feng was directing the people to work, a shouting order suddenly came.
Lord Xue is Xue Fengzuo, he is a god in the minds of craftsmen and people! Xue Fengzuo and his student Mei Wending were always able to come up with all kinds of novel methods, and their master and apprentice not only created sophisticated firearms, but also made many instruments for measurement.
Xue Fengzuo has high attainments in physics and mathematics, and what Liu Feng admires the most is that Xue Fengzuo can actually use the stars and moon in the sky to calculate the latitude and longitude where he is currently located, and can calculate the average wind speed of the annual monsoon according to the latitude and longitude and the speed of the earth's rotation. Liu Feng also heard Xue Fengzuo and Fu Lang Jiren arguing, saying that the sun is not fixed, and the sun is also in motion, so the sun is not the center of the universe.
Liu Feng is not surprised by this: the sun revolves around the earth, of course, it is moving!
But Xue Fengzuo told Liu Feng that the earth is spherical, and what we have under our feet is called the earth.
Liu Feng didn't understand this, the earth is spherical, so won't people on the other side of the earth fall?
What Xue Fengzuo and Franco said, Liu Feng didn't understand at all. For Liu Feng, the most useful thing about Xue Fengzuo's mathematical research is the setting of the fort gun emplacement.
The position of each cannon, the position of each fortification, was carefully calculated, and the fire could cover any area in front of the battery, and there would be no dead ends!
Xue Fengzuo also created a large number of triangular and various strange-shaped instruments, which are said to be able to measure celestial bodies, as well as what altitude and relative altitude can be measured.
Making precision instruments, Xue Fengzuo is definitely a good hand. Talking to the Franc machine, Xue Fengzuo can also speak fluent Franc Machine.
Liu Feng is actually very interested in casting artillery and building precision instruments, and every time Master Xue comes, he will seize the time to patiently ask for advice. It's just that Master Xue is too busy and really doesn't have much time to teach himself.
"Lord Xue!" Liu Feng walked up to Xue Fengzuo and saluted.
"It's Liu Feng!" Xue Fengzuo didn't have the frame of a big official at all, he looked very approachable, and greeted Liu Feng warmly, "What you said the other day, boil the water, and the steam can push the lid of the pot, so can you use the steam to pull the vehicle?" This can be done theoretically, and Nan Huairen built a car that could move around on its own. The old man and the disciple who did not make it were able to study for many months, and they also built a car that could move around on their own. ”
Then, Xue Fengzuo asked him and Mei Wending to work together to copy a small car made by Nan Huairen.
The car had a pocket-sized high-pressure boiler on it, and a copper tube was led out of the high-pressure boiler and aligned with the blades. After heating the boiler, the water inside boils and high-pressure steam is sprayed onto the blades. And it turned out to be a miracle: the blades turned at high speed! Through the gears, the wheels are turned!
The small car, running on the ground, although not fast, has already shocked everyone: a car can run by itself without being pushed by people or pulled by animals!
If Wang Xinyu was present, he would definitely be stunned: this is a steam turbine! More advanced than a steam engine!
But why did the steam turbine come into practical use later than the steam engine? That's because steam turbines have very high requirements for blades and insurmountable difficulties in materials science. Therefore, the steam car built by Nan Huairen can only be a toy, but cannot really be put into use.
Just when Xue Fengzuo and Mei Wending took out the car that could walk automatically, a pair of eyes in Minzhuang stared at them. A dark-skinned man lowered his hat and thought to himself: I have to do it as soon as possible! This person is very important to us! Must come over!
This Minzhuang is actually an agent of the Heaven and Earth Society, named Zhao Qian.
Xue Fengzuo told Liu Feng: "You are very studious and very good at observing problems, and the old man plans to accept you as a student!" ”
Indeed, Xue Fengzuo still likes Liu Feng very much, this person is very smart and very studious, although he is just a farmer, but he has made an improved gun carriage and improved some mechanical devices, if he can be trained well, he is a talent.
Liu Feng hurriedly knelt on the ground: "The grass people have thanked Lord Xue!" ”
Five days later, Xue Fengzuo and Mei Wending's master and apprentice came to Huanghu Mountain again. This time, they had a small retinue of only twelve loyal guards.
When the master and apprentice came to the mountain, they didn't notice that in Minzhuang, there were several faces that they had never seen before.
"Do it!" Zhao Qian issued a code.
More than a dozen people rushed towards Xue Fengzuo and Mei Wending's master and apprentice, and at the same time, several green battalion soldiers around them also suddenly showed their well-made crossbow machines, aiming at Xue Fengzuo and Mei Wending's guards.
Several one-and-a-half-foot-long crossbow arrows were shot out, and before the five guards could understand what was going on, they were shot through their bodies and nailed to the ground.
One of the guards was about to draw his sword when a sharp crossbow arrow whizzed, pierced his eye, pierced his head, and fell to the ground on his back.
Zhao Qian waved his hoe, and with a single hoe, he knocked down one of the guards.
More than twenty agents of the Heaven and Earth Society moved at the same time, and in the blink of an eye, all twelve guards were brought down. (To be continued.) )