Small Landlords of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 54 070. Superb Liquor
"Is this Tai Shici mad with anger? Why does he always like to attack our navy camp at night? Could it be that he thinks there are too many warships..."

Sun Quan, who was standing on the Yu Huang, was somewhat puzzled. In the past half month, Tai Shici had carried out seven or eight consecutive night raids, and made comments every two days, and they all chose to do so in the middle of the night when the fog was thick.

"There must be fraud in this..."

Zhou Yu looked at the warships in the distance on the river. Tai Shici had more than 500 warships this time and began to attack the warships and warships.

The opponent's hundreds of ships rushed aboard and were densely packed with soldiers. From a distance, it was estimated that there were as many as [-] soldiers. If Taishi Ci rushed into the navy camp, the consequences would be disastrous, but Taishi Ci did not rob the camp.

Cheng Pu's army was stopped outside Lujiang County by Xu Huang. It was heard that Gao Shun of Yuzhang County had crossed the Yangtze River and was stationed near Lujiang County, but Jiang Qin was blocked by Zhang Liao's heavy cavalry in Panyang.

"It's the Fire Warships again... isn't it said that the Jingzhou navy lacks ships and fast arrows? They seem to be short of fast arrows, but what about the ships?"

Huang Gai also couldn't figure out what was going on. The army was not as good as the Jingzhou army in fighting Soochow. The navy was Soochow's trump card, but it could not break through the Lujiang blockade. He didn't know how long it would take to invade Jiangxia.

Except for the large ships in Jingzhou, all the small ships have been sent to Lujiang County to be used as fire fighting ships to attract firepower. Tai Shici has borrowed a total of 200 million feather arrows from Soochow in the past half a month. This is Soochow half of the armament stockpile.

"Report to the Commander-in-Chief, we have run out of arrows. Should we transfer them from Jianye..."

A humble general ran up to Emperor Yu to report to Zhou Yu.

"Yu Jian... Yu Jian... Oops, we fell into Tai Shi Ci's trick..."

Only then did Zhou Yu react, and immediately ordered the soldiers to stop shooting, while Tai Shici's navy stopped shooting arrows, Ming Jin withdrew his troops and went back home.

"Do you want the governor to..."

Huang Gai also saw what was going on, and he wanted to call on Zhan to attack Tai Shici and others.

"No need, the fog on the river is too heavy, and the enemy still has fire warships, and Tai Shici always has a building boat to follow, so he must have been prepared to be seen through. After dawn, the whole army will attack. Not enough arrows, it won't last long..."

Zhou Yu said with a gloomy face.

The next day, the Soochow navy attacked again, continuously attacking Taishici water camp in Lujiang, and borrowed 200 million arrows. In addition, the Jingzhou workshop rushed to work day and night and had 300 million arrows. Taishici was confident that he would guard Lujiang until the beginning of spring.

While taking care of Lingling in Jiangxia, Wang Hao urged Ma Jun to transform the warship. Since the keel shipbuilding technology has been stolen by Jiangdong, only by upgrading to higher technology can he surpass Jiangdong Sun's.

Now Jiangxia is also a five-story ship, and with the keel technology, this shield sea battleship ship is 28 feet long and 200 feet wide. It has six rows of poles at the front and rear, and can carry more than [-] people. People, with a draft of more than five feet, definitely surpassed any large warship in Jiangdong.

This battleship can be put into service after early spring, but Jiangxia's shipbuilding speed is too slow, it will take two or three years for the warship to surpass Jiangdong, and the Sun family also has keel technology, so it is hard to say whether it can surpass Jiangdong in three years!

This time, Wang Hao asked Ma Jun to transform the warship. In the past, warships were propelled by manpower, that is, paddling to drive the warship. A building-built ship like Gai Hai could not be driven without 120 helmsmen.

And Wang Hao came up with an idea, which is to use the principle of a carriage to assemble rollers on the shield sea, and only 30 people can drive the shield sea battleship.

Once Wang Hao led Lingling and others to a picnic, and when he saw the boiling pot lid, he suddenly thought of something, the steam engine of the sixteenth century, Wang Hao and Ma Jun discussed the transformation of the drive, and finally followed Zhao Feng's veiled woman to think After finding a way, the simple version of the steam engine finally appeared at the end of Han Dynasty.

Wang Hao has already guessed the identity of this veiled woman, but he has not confirmed it 100%. However, it is very simple, just ask Chen Jing to send someone to follow her, or just stay at Huang Chengyan's house for a while.

Huang Yueying, the only female inventor in the Three Kingdoms, is definitely a household name, but she never thought that Zhao Feng could hook up with her.

The wooden horse and ox cart, Kong Ming lantern, Zhuge Liangnu, and the Bagua array are all belonging to the Huang family. After Zhuge Liang loses Huang Yueying, he will definitely lose his luster.

It is also because of the steam engine that the launch of the shield sea battleship is delayed until next year. By then, the speed of the shield sea battleship will be at least [-] knots. This era has not changed the speed of [-] knots. Therefore, the shield sea battleship will become the overlord of the waters.

Huang Yueying really deserves to be a talented inventor. Wang Hao mentioned wine-making technology to her. If there is a steam engine, distilled wine can be brewed, which is a high-concentration alcoholic wine.

And Huang Yueying actually brewed distilled wine. When Zhao Feng told Wang Hao the news, Wang Hao couldn't believe it. You must know that distilled wine was a product of the eighteenth century, and Huang Yueying could do it with just a few words from Wang Hao. This shows her intelligence.

The shield warship is about to be launched, and Ma Jun's workshop has already started working on new warships. All the warships in the workshop have begun to be replaced. During this period, the workshop cannot provide any warship for Wang Hao.

Therefore, even if Tai Shici guarded the Lujiang River until the beginning of spring, Wang Hao could not provide him with more warships. What will happen in the end? Whether he will be annexed by the Sun family to the counties of Yangzhou like in history, this Wang Hao has no idea. , but Wang Hao will eventually get back his own things, that is, the entire Yangzhou, including Jianye and other places.

After Huang Yueying stopped brewing baijiu, baijiu became the most popular wine in the Han Dynasty, definitely not one of them, and the price of each pot of wine was five taels of silver, and the supply was still in short supply.

In the Han Dynasty, 20 taels were equivalent to one gold coin, one 24th of a tael was equivalent to one baht, and one copper coin was five baht. In other words, one gold coin should be 96 five-baht coins.

When Dong Zhuo controlled the government, he minted a batch of small coins. This batch of small coins completely inflated the market. Many people no longer believed in any metal coins and chose to exchange gold, silver, brocade, etc. for things. In this era, in addition to In addition to gold, silver and wealth, people would rather store food until it becomes moldy than exchange it for metal currency.

One five-baht coin used to buy a sesame seed cake, but now three five-baht coins can't buy one sesame seed cake. There are 96 five-baht coins per gold (about 13 grams), and three five-baht coins can only buy one sesame seed cake. (Fifty cents).

A half-pound bottle of liquor sells for five taels of silver, which means that one kilogram of liquor sells for 13 grams of gold. When this figure was calculated, Wang Hao was shocked.

(End of this chapter)