Crossing the Yellow River is the territory of Hedong County.

"Your Highness, there are twenty counties under the jurisdiction of Hedong County, with 213,400 households and 987,500 people!" After getting off the boat, Ji Di introduced the situation of Hedong County to Liu De on the side: "Hedong County is located in Anyi, so the capital of Wei State, there is Wuxian Mountain in the south, there is a salt pond in the southwest, and it is rich in the world!" ”

Liu De naturally knows this.

Hedong County is known as the source of the Three Jin Dynasty.

The royal ancestors of the three kingdoms of Zhao, Wei and Han during the Warring States Period all walked out of Hedong County.

Even now, Hedong County is also known as the hometown of the marquis of the world.

In addition to the Pingyang Hou Cao Shen family, in the east of the river, there are Fenyin Hou Zhou Chang family, Jiang Hou Zhou Bo family, Yi Hou Chen Shu family, Changxiu Hou Du Tian family, Yuan Hou Liu Ci family, etc., that is, the Yuan Hou with the least food yi, there are 2,200 households, as for the Wan Hu Hou is two: Pingyang Hou and Jiang Hou.

Liu De looked at the land under his feet, his eyes rolling.

Why did he have to come to Hedong?

Why Hedong?

The real reason is not that he wants to investigate Zhou Yangyou's problem with the locust plague, it is not worth wasting a month on a quasi-prince of the Han family.

It's not the so-called look at Pingyang Hou Cao Shou, that excuse, even the cheap dad doesn't believe it!

The real reason is that there is black gold buried under this land!

Hedong County belonged to Shanxi in later generations, and Shanxi's coal bosses were famous throughout the country, and Shanxi's coal mines were so famous that many of them could even be mined in the open air.

Coal is the source of industry and the driving force of technology.

The Industrial Revolution was for the pre-AD world. It's still too lofty.

Liu De felt that even if he used three generations of time and spent a hundred years to make technical reserves and preparations, it would not be too much.

But settle for less. It is possible to use the abundant coal resources in Hedong to help military smelting and vigorously develop and promote blast furnace steelmaking.

The blast furnace thing looks high-end and high-grade, but to put it bluntly, it is just a simple and crude work of strength.

Don't say anything else. The great, leaping, and advancing presided over by the Taizu of the Celestial Empire, and the people of the whole country made steel together, and even the peasant uncle could build an earthen stove. to make steel......

The technical content, Liu De even thinks that it may not be as difficult as the current rhubarb crossbow manufacturing, not to mention the Chinese-made repeater that now belongs to precision instruments.

Although, the steel that is smelted may have more impurities or something. The quality is a little worse or something. But that's steel, too!

Think about it, if you can use the rich coal resources of Hedong County to smelt one million catties of steel a year, even if the quality is poor, it is better than pig iron, right?

This million catties of steel of poor quality can still crush the Huns and beat the sticks!

What's more......

Liu De remembers, the early nineteenth century. Britain produces only one million catties of iron a year, but it has created an empire on which the sun never sets.

In this pre-AD world. With an annual output of one million catties of steel, it is not an exaggeration to beat the world, right?

And this is possible at this time!

In the process of Qin Shi Huang's unification of the world, the ordnance workshop of Qin State had an annual output of one million catties of bronze or more!

At this time, the Zhuo family and the Cheng Zheng family, the two big iron merchants in Linqiong, also smelted two or three hundred thousand catties of iron a year.

Although these numbers can only be converted into half of the output of later generations, this is also scary enough.

With today's Han national strength and Shaofu's strong human resources, it is not a fool's dream to control Hedong County and produce millions of catties of crude steel annually in the future!

Now, Liu De only needs to complete three things to move towards this ambitious goal.

The first thing is to turn the county guard of Hedong County into his people.

In other words, Zhou Yang has to be charged with a crime if he is not guilty!

If they are guilty, then they must be pursued and beaten......

This is the innocence of the puffer!

Second, Liu De needs to overcome the desulfurization technology of coal, otherwise, the sulfur content in most coal will make the already poor quality steel even worse, but even if this technology is not solved, it doesn't matter!

Who called it in this day and age, there is too much coal buried in the ground!

Big deal, just use coking coal to make steel!

Anyway, Liu De remembered that there were several famous coking coal mines in Hedong County, which was later in Shanxi, although I didn't know where they were, as long as I had the heart, I could always find them!

Thirdly, he also needs a large technical team and a team of supervisors to be responsible for solving technical problems.

Although the blast furnace steelmaking can also be played by the farmers and uncles of later generations, at least, it is necessary to solve the structural technology of the bricks for the blast furnace and the blast furnace, right?

But this is not in a hurry, first grasp Hedong County, slowly look for those coking coal bonanzas, find enough coking coal mines, and then solve this problem, it is still too late, it is really not possible, it is not impossible to directly start the local method, it is just to reduce some efficiency.

Liu De has even figured out where to find the coal diggers.

Ahem, starting this year, Han and Hungary will enter a period of relative peace for more than ten years.

In the context of the easing of relations between the two countries, Liu De felt that he could consider making a deal with the Xiongnu and let the Xiongnu sell some slaves from the Western Regions to come to mine.

In addition, Wei Man Korea seems to be a bit domineering, so it would be good to find an opportunity to kill him, and then go to the Samhan Mountains behind Wei Man Korea's ass to grab some wild sticks and come back to dig coal.

Speaking of the Western Regions, Liu De thought about it, it seems that there are several countries in the Western Regions that were established by the descendants of Alexander's Eastern Expeditionary Army, like Dawan or something......

Ahem, it seems good to buy some blonde white slave girls and come back?

After climbing the science and technology tree, planting the fields, and the crude steel production bursting out, you can push the Huns back, drive the Huns to Europe to make love with the Romans, and let the whip of God come in advance.

In the previous life, Liu Che's Xiongnu strategy, the pros and cons of Liu De were all in his eyes.

Liu Che's strategy is good at everything, but for these barbarians, it is still too disciplined!

Since Liu De read the history of the undisciplined rise of the Europa people in the history books, he has felt that if a nation wants to be strong, developed, and hegemonic, it must suck the blood of other nations, use the flesh and blood of barbarians to lay the foundation for my prosperity, and use their bodies to build roads, dig rivers, and open mines for me.

For the countries of the Western Regions, when it is time to use it, it should be resolutely used, and it can be discarded when it is used up.

It is even possible to learn from the British, pull one faction to fight another, and constantly beat them into infighting, so that in a few decades at most, they can completely digest the Western Regions, expand the territory of the Han dynasty to Central Asia, extend to the Indian subcontinent, and finally colonize India, achieving immortal greatness!

And doing these things, Liu De felt that he had no guilt at all.

Which of the nations and countries that are now active in the Western Regions have survived to the 21st century?

Since they are doomed to perish, doomed to perish, why not let them contribute to the rise of the Han family?

"The Han family has its own system, and it is a bully and miscellaneous! The inner king and the outer tyrant are the truth! Liu De said in his heart: "Liu Yu, you open your eyes and watch carefully, see that I will teach you a good lesson, for barbarians, there is no need for benevolence, only dead barbarians are good barbarians!" ”

Later generations of Americans, for land and resources, offered a reward for the scalp of the Indians.

Originally, there were tens of millions of Indians in the United States, to say the least, right?

In just two hundred years, the Indians were almost wiped out!

With such great achievements, Liu De feels that he can learn from it! (To be continued......)

PS: Ahem, there should be a more ~ in the future

Well, thank you for the tips from Su Shanhe and FYZZE and other gentlemen~

Ahem, I continue to work hard~

By the way, playing genocide before the Common Era should be a universal value, right?