C187 (1/2)
”Since there's no fire, let's move around. We can't continue to freeze.” After Yang Lin finished speaking, he took the lead to walk on the ground. Seeing the girls moving about on the ground, Yang Lin couldn't help but think that if there was music, it would be very satisfying to let everyone dance and dance.
While everyone was chatting in the tent, an hour had unknowingly passed. But the fire still did not ignite, Yang Lin could not help but be angry. He shouted loudly towards the outside of the tent, ”What's going on? It's been half a day, why haven't you lit the fire yet?”
Yang Lin's loud shout scared the maid outside and she quickly kneeled on the ground, crying out: ”Lord General, the fire seed has been extinguished, why haven't we lit it yet, we've already sent people to other places to get it.”
Hearing the maid's words, Yang Lin had no choice, he knew that this era was entirely dependent on the fire element, if the fire element was extinguished, then it would be very troublesome. Fortunately, this was the army, because there were a lot of people holding the fire, otherwise, igniting a fire would not be an easy task.
Although the fire seed could be preserved, it was still inconvenient. In a cloudy, rainy day, the fire either wet out, or because there is no dry firewood to connect and put out the fire. If the seed of fire was extinguished, people would worry and borrow it from the people in the vicinity, because there were not many people around at that time, so it was easier said than done. He didn't know how long he would have to wait to find the wildfire again.
After entering the Iron Age, there appeared a method called ”flint”, which was developed based on the above friction method. This method of taking fire has been circulating in China for generations, and it was not until the match came out that it gradually disappeared.
At this point, a thought occurred to him that if he were to invent matches, it would be a good way to make money. It was easy to produce a match, but the skill content was still quite high. According to the current technology, it would take at least a few hundred years for a prototype match to appear, and a real match would have to wait for more than a thousand years.
He immediately took out a brush and a piece of paper, and began to recall the raw materials and craftsmanship needed to make the matches. He was familiar with industrial production. With the current conditions, it would not be difficult to produce matches, but with the large number of fresh slave as workers, they could still be exposed.
”What are you writing? What is this nonsense? ” The few girls gathered around, looking at Yang Lin's runic symbol, it was as if they were falling from the clouds. Qin Yi and Qin Yao were especially curious and could not help but ask softly.
”Hehe, don't underestimate this kind of thing. This is a treasure that we made a fortune on.” Yang Lin pointed to the silk silk on the table and laughed proudly. He believed it. If the whole country used his matches, he could feed half a million cavalrymen without a problem.
When Yang Lin finished writing, a fire was lit and the tent was slowly heated up.
Early in the morning, Yang Lin called Yang Hu and Yang Bao over and explained to them: ”Yang Hu, you will be responsible for finding a remote mountain area with a circumference of a hundred kilometers and move all the people in the mountain area, making them Wasteland soldier s. After that, no one is allowed to enter or leave the mountains. I want to build a secret base. Yang Bao, you take charge of finding the things that I wrote on the paper, the sooner the better. It's strictly confidential, understand? ”
”Understood, Lord General.” Yang Bao and Yang Hu had always only asked, never asking anything.
”No matter how cold the winter in Guangyang is, I'll run a firewood factory and a gunpowder factory to see if you're cold or I'm hot.” Thinking about it, Yang Lin could not help but smile.
In the past, he was worried that he would not be able to protect himself and that the things he produced would instead harm himself, so Yang Lin had never produced these advanced things. Now that he had a foundation of his own and had a powerful army in hand, he should gradually push out some useful things.
After breakfast, Yang Lin was in his tent trying to recall what things he could gradually produce, when a personal guard suddenly came in to report: ”Lord General, Guang Yang Tai Shou Jiang Li is at the entrance of the camp seeking an audience.”
”Oh …” Didn't this Guangyang taiwai just see you yesterday? Sigh … After that, there will be a lot of trouble. ” Yesterday, when the army had entered Guangyang City, the Guangyang taiwai led the Guangyang officials out of the city to receive them. They had only just met, Yang Lin bitterly laughed and said, ”Call him in.”
”Guang Yang Tai Shou Jiang Li greets Lord General.” With that, he bowed.
This Jiang Li, was transferred here from the Luoyang after the original taiwai Liu Wei was killed by the xanthopanax. Since they had met yesterday, Yang Lin did not stand on ceremony with him. He waved his hand to allow him to stand up: ”Get up, Master Jiang Li.”
”Thank you Lord General.” Jiang Li crawled up, stood respectfully by the side, and cupped his fists towards Yang Lin: ”Lord General, yesterday there were too many people talking, and there were some things that were inconvenient to say to the public, so I came here specifically to see Lord General.”
Oh, please speak, Master Jiang Li. Yang Lin laughed and asked the janissaries to move a seat for him.
”Thank you Lord General.” Jiang Li sat down and said slowly: ”Lord General, do you know how much wheat is worth one catty in Guangyang City?”
”I don't know.” Yang Lin really did not care about this matter and could not help but look at Jiang Li in curiosity.
”Six dollars a catty of wheat!” Jiang Li's expression was very heavy.