Chapter 153 Saltpeter
Chaotian Palace is a Taoist temple. There were many Chaotian Palaces in the Ming Dynasty, mostly built during the Jiajing period of Emperor Daojun. Before that, Chaotian Palace was in Nanjing. This name was decided by Emperor Hongwu Zhu Yuanzhang, which means to pay tribute to the emperor.
The Chaotian Palace in Nanjing has many identities in history. It was originally the place where Wu King Fuchai and Sun Quan smelted weapons. Later, it was sometimes a temple, sometimes a school, and sometimes a temple.
But in the Ming Dynasty, although it was still a Taoist building, there were the Sanqing Hall and the Wansui Hall in front of it, there was also the Xiyi Pavilion, which also undertakes the mission of the children of bureaucrats to study the etiquette of the emperor before the imperial court.
Chaotian Palace is a good place, and Asia does need such a place. Emperor Wanli has given many gold medals but has not been given yet. The leaders of these tribes will go to see the emperor when the situation is stable in the future, but they will build a Chaotian Palace with their own hands?
To be honest, Chen Mu never thought about a large-scale project like this. He ordered the largest building complex to be covered by it, the United Cannon Temple position on the Nanyang Military Palace, Weidao, to let him go to the Temple of Cultivation?
However, in Jincheng, the people there have been prepared to build large-scale buildings.
The way of resettling the people in Wu Zhongxing, the magistrate of Jincheng, was similar to Changsheng. After learning about the way Zou Yuanbiao resettled more than 60,000 people, he also followed suit, but he placed the people in the four directions of north, south, east and west of the Zhuangyuan Bridge, and all production was the best.
Jincheng is a blessed land. In the north, there are towering redwoods that grow to fifteen or sixteen feet, surrounded by two or three feet; in the south, there are large gold and copper mines waiting to be excavated, which cannot be taken out; in the west, the coast is full of fishing and salt benefits, and in the east, there are mountains blocking the desert, and in the mountains there are birds and animals, which can be hunted and made.
More than 20,000 immigrants combined with the people of Zheng Tu's tribe to let more than 50,000 people in Jincheng County settle in two hundred miles across, scattered between thousands of miles, and did not encounter the dilemma of food shortage like Changsheng County.
Tens of thousands of people from Zheng Tu's army were originally the people under the jurisdiction of Jincheng County. Their production did not start with the arrival of the Ming army, nor did it stop due to the conquest of the Western army. Although the food was planted with a little less food, it could provide the food that people needed to survive.
What's more, there are particularly large Yi tribes in the north, and there are particularly fierce black-footed men hundreds of miles away from the northeast.
The Blackfoots were defeated in the war with Wu Zhixian County. Now some of the most vicious and unwilling to compromise have migrated eastward. The Blackfoots, who are still in the land bordering the Yi tribe, have also become hospitality under the education of General Zhenshuo's cannon.
They are much richer than the Yi people. The two large tribes of Jincheng, Yi people and Blackfoot can get a lot of food in trade.
To be fair, if a war makes Wu Magistrate feel like a governor, then he is now the governor of a province.
Because a county town is much more difficult than a provincial administrative district that has been formed in thousands of years and has been governed for hundreds of years, and there are much more things to manage.
For example, in addition to the routine work of governing the county and defending the battle, Wu Zhongxing was also editing the county annals, and specially assigned six people from the county to follow him to go deep into various places to understand the way the natives and the people live, and to distinguish everything along the way.
The main purpose is to recognize and record the five insects of herbs and zodiac scales. For example, the huge sequoia they used. In the county annals, people's understanding of this plant is that the tree pattern is beautiful, the material is light and soft and tough, and can be used as medicine on the body and can be used in construction, bridges, furniture, medicinal materials, animal husbandry and tanning skin.
Needless to say, any tree can provide these uses, but medicinal materials, animal husbandry and tanning are not all good.
The roots, leaves, bark, wood, cones, and fir festivals of fir can be used as medicine. This is what the immigrant doctor said.
As for animal husbandry, it is because the fir trees are very large, and large geese are widely distributed from the Hei Shui Martell Islands. They are the main livestock for local people's livestock. The hearts of some fir trees that have grown for more than a thousand years usually rot, but the outer layer of the fir trees is still intact. Local people will call such trees a goose pen and raise geese inside.
Tanning leather is made of glue brought out from tree bark, just like a goose circle. People in the Ming Dynasty usually did not do this. Although people in the Yuan Dynasty used tanned leather, they were only used for some special purposes. The most common process is lime hair removal and nitrification of tanned leather.
But here, people used fir bark to extract a kind of earthy yellow candle glue to tan and dye it, which is why the leather goods of Indians are all original.
This skin is also called vegetable tanned skin, which is very hard and thick.
Wu Zhongxing is becoming more and more adept at Jincheng. At this moment, even if he exchanges the domestic prefect for him, he will not go.
No one will miss the opportunity to show off one's own strengths.
In a very short time, four golden gardens, six wooden gardens, three rubber gardens, three leather gardens and four grain gardens, two tiled gardens and one nitride garden were set up in various parts of Jincheng County in the north and south. Each garden is a factory, but it has different names according to the different uses of production.
Jincheng not only produces gold ingots and copper ingots, but also produces a variety of specialties such as flour, wood, leather goods, bricks, tiles, cannon glue, and simmering.
In ancient times, people believed that nitride was a specialty of China because only Chinese people could refine naturally-generated nitride.
Of course, this era was different. Following the Yuan army's western expedition, saltpeter, known as Chinese snow, was taken to the Arab world and then introduced to Europe. The method of farmers making saltpeter from alkaline soil was also taken away.
As for alkaline earth, the less rainfall, the more alkali is contained in the places, so the nitrite craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty concentrated in the northwest, so Chen Mu was able to obtain saltpeter from the cave.
The huge mountains running north and south in the east of Jincheng County blocked the water on the west coast, and the scarce rainfall on the east side of the mountain range caused a large area of alkaline earth.
The riders of the Black Cloud Dragon ran eastward through the gap in the mountains. They stepped out of the road with their war horses and found a tribe called the Huni people in the endless alkaline earth desert. Hulan, the leader of the horse team, hit it off at first sight.
This is a land that has not been harmed by the Westerners, because no grass grows here except for the sporadic cactus. In contrast, the men of the Hugni are all good hunters, and those who cannot hunt will starve to death.
In Hulun's eyes, the excellence of a Mongolian soldier depends on three points. First, if he is an excellent shooter, then an excellent warrior, and finally an excellent cavalry.
The Hugnis have completed the first step.
However, Wu Magistrate did not intend to let him recruit soldiers on the spot. There were already many soldiers in Jincheng, including Koreans, Jurchens, Mongolians, Japanese, and these warriors of all races who were promising and promoting martial arts were everywhere. Compared to recruiting soldiers, Wu Magistrate cares more about the alkaline earth under the feet of the Xuni people.
Of course, the arrival of Daming also brought new technology, piled up manure and made nitrogen. However, Wu Zhixian, which focused on people's livelihood, did not apply it in the county because it was fertilizer. Moreover, it was raining all the time on the west coast, and the effect was not good, and the yield was very low. Saltpeter could not produce low.
China, which has the alkaline earth extraction process, has never lacked saltpeter. The alkaline earth in the northwest and caves in the southwest. This technology has made the Beiyang Army's current rotary shooting tactics, and their guns and cannons all come out.
If we use the naphthalmologist's saying that it is a thousand days of salt, it is not as good as a general's shot; then the pile of manure and salt will be used to make a slight battle for five counties a year, and a tough battle will last for one day.
It is all exaggerated, but it is better to use alkaline earth to boil nitride than to pile manure. As long as there is suitable alkaline earth, Jincheng County is also trading.
Chapter completed!