Chapter 7 Topaz (Part 1)
It has been a month since Youzhou immigrated to Xinyouzhou, Xinyingzhou and Xinmozhou.
Qin State had already had a complete set of effective methods to resettle immigrants. Before Tuoba Lu moved away and the new immigrants came in, Yuanfeng had already driven the three battalions of Kizil to the south bank of the Caspian Sea.
At this time, the country of Dobastan had three provinces in New Mozhou (Rasht), New Youzhou (Surri), and New Yingzhou (Gorgan). Each province has three to four counties, and each county has a castle. As the provincial capital, Rasht, Surrey, and Gorgan are even more famous big cities in the Caspian Sea.
Otherwise, with the great cannibalism, after they took Azerbaijan and Armenia, they did not take Dorbastan before the Battle of Talas.
The Dobassel was a mixed race of Greeks who migrated from the Roman Empire, Genoa and Persians, and the North Caucasians who gradually settled. They had both advanced construction technology and the most advanced farming technology throughout the Sassanian Persian era.
It is said to be a big city, but the largest city of Surrey is just a radius of five or six miles. After the Great Qin State moved 200,000 households to immigrate at one time, such a city was obviously not enough.
In the past ten years after the Suye Army captured the Hezhong and Kizil Port, in addition to working hard to build five battalions of naval troops, they also built a very large fleet of ships traveling between Atlau City, Kizil Port, and Azerbaijan Baku Port on the north of the Caspian Sea.
As mentioned above, there are nine warships in a battalion of the Sailye Army, one of which is the flagship, and four main warships. There are four small clutches that are reconnaissance and notification, and patrolling, which is exactly the same as the Daxia Kingdom in the previous life.
The regulations were similar, but since it was still in the Tang Dynasty, Persia, and Europe were still in the Middle Ages, there was no need to build a large ship with several layers of straight decks like in the late Ming Dynasty.
The largest flagship is about 40 meters long, 10 meters high, and eight meters high. It is divided into three layers. At the bottom is still the bottom warehouse containing the watertight cabin, which is mainly used to load materials. The middle layer is the combat layer, with a straight deck, and twenty cannons of 800 kilograms and half kilograms, ten cannons on both sides, and one cannon at the beginning and the end.
The first deck is equipped with four masts, the main mast in the middle is hung with four cross sails, the masts on both sides are hung with three cross sails, and the bow is a spinnaker.
Unlike Western ships (Persians, Romans) at this time, the ships of the Sabrei Army still had large rudders and multiple slops. Whether it was a rudder or slop, two or three people could not move, and a winch was necessary. For China, this device continued from the Han Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty and almost never changed.
However, when Sun Xiurong got to the hands of him, he naturally made a lot of simplified designs, using pulley sets and winchs, and the two of them could flap the huge oar and rudder, so that they could drive in and out of the port without wind.
This technology is beyond the reach of any force in the world today. If artillery is added, it will be a heaven-defying existence.
In fact, there is a navy leader named Shattered Ye Army that can dominate the Caspian Sea. However, the Xhosa people opposite each other had a large number of slave ships. Although the slave ships looked thin-skinned and stuffed in the Firearm Age, they were still very powerful at this time.
The ship still adopts a pointed end and wide tail design, which is different from most ships that are raised high at both ends in the East and West at this time.
The large ship can have fifteen sailors, fifty gunners, and one hundred and fifty combat soldiers. Medical staff, chefs, carpenters, blacksmiths and other auxiliary personnel are configured according to 10% of the combatants, with fifteen.
The total number is 230 people. According to their size, they can also carry 500 people or 5,000 stones of supplies.
The size of medium-sized ships is 32 meters * 8 meters * 6 meters, the total number of artillery is sixteen, the same is eight hundred kilograms, and each is half five hundred kilograms, and the total number is one hundred and sixty people, which can carry additional supplies of 300 people or 3,000 stones.
The size of the boat is 16 meters * 4 meters * 3 meters, and it is equipped with some small cannons on the first deck, and only one sail is set up. The total number of people is 41, and an additional 50 people or 500 stones of supplies can be loaded.
In addition, in recent years, the Sailye Army Shipyard has built a transport ship equipped with only six artillery according to the style of a large ship. In this way, the bottom warehouse, the middle deck, and the head and tail cabin can load personnel and cargo, only a small number of combat personnel can be needed, and an additional 1,000 people and necessary supplies can be loaded.
So the Saiye Army only needs three such large ships in one battalion. In addition, considering that the Saiye Army is mostly cavalry and has built some horse ships according to the design of the Datang horse ship. Since it is a horse ship, there is no need to set up artillery. The middle deck is all horse houses. In order to prevent horses from falling and getting injured, they are actually tight cabins that fix the horses, with a manger in front of them placing forage and fresh water.
The horse ship is naturally larger than the large warship. Although it is also a pointed design, the length and width ratio is much smaller, with a width of twenty meters and a length of sixty meters. The entire middle cabin is equipped with four rows of horse houses, with an aisle in the middle and two rows of horse houses connected together on both sides. The heads of the two horses are opposite.
There are fifty horse houses in each row, and two hundred in four rows.
In other words, even such a horse ship can only carry two hundred war horses, and one battalion has at least three thousand war horses. If auxiliary war horses are added such as auxiliary side vans, the number will be even greater. Therefore, a large ship for transporting personnel needs to be equipped with five such horse ships.
For one battalion, three large ships, at least fifteen horse ships!
Even if the family is big and the industry is advanced, the technology is advanced, and the money is willing to spend money, Ye Jun has only barely collected enough transport ships in the past few years - that's it, almost all the income from trading with the Xhosa people has been poured on it.
According to Sun Xiurong's idea, with the combat power of the Leaf Army, if a regular battalion could be quickly transported to a certain place, for example, the port of Derbint, which belongs to the Khanate of the Khanate, the sea route is about a thousand miles. According to the speed of the slave ships of the Xhosa people and the reality that they can only travel eighty miles a day.
The Shattered Ye Jun, equipped with a compass, astronomy and a large number of sails, can sail directly to the opposite Baku Port at a relatively easy-to-master angle, and then head north along the west coast of the Caspian Sea. It can travel day and night, with a speed of more than twenty miles per hour, and it will arrive in two or three days.
This is the secret that the goods of Shattered Ye Jun have great price advantages. A ship of three thousand stones is required. If you use camels, it will require at least three thousand camels, and the cost is naturally ridiculously high. Even if you use a slave ship, the voyage is as high as twelve days, and a large number of slaves and crew members are required, which is several times the cost of Shattered Ye Jun.
This is the only reason why Sun Xiurong tried his best to get close to the Caspian Sea. He was not to show off his martial power, but to build a trade channel in this world that is more powerful than martial power!
After approaching the Caspian Sea, you can use the narrowest part between the Volga and Don Rivers that is almost stuck together. It is only more than twenty miles away to dig the canal and use the Caspian Sea-Volga and Don River to enter the Black Sea.
After entering the Black Sea, with the sea power of the Shattered Ye Army, entering the Mediterranean is no longer a dream.
But before that, he had to have a solid base near the Caspian Sea.
Due to the thousands of miles of desert between us, Atlau's base is actually very thin, and the surrounding area is even more so.
Only Dorbastan can gather a large population, set up large workshops, and become an outpost for the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
Two hundred thousand households are one million Dingkou. According to the usual practice of the Suiye Army, when the immigrants entered Hezhong, Ma Lin, the governor and garrison commander of Zhaowu Prefecture, organized about 10,000 people, plus the recruitment of 5,000 local civil servants from Tuobasishan. According to the practice of 100 households as a village, 300 households as a township and 3,000 households as a county, about 2,000 villages were set up in three counties, Xinyingzhou, Xinyouzhou and Xinmozhou.
In the past, Tuobasi alone naturally had villages. At this time, the obsessive-compulsive disorder of grassroots officials of the Saiye Army was infected. The more they had to be moved away, and the fewer they had to be made up for.
Finally, the cottages were built entirely of adobe walls, with 1,500 people in groups, and completed the construction of the cottages with extremely high efficiency before the new immigrants arrived.
When the immigrants arrived, they could only move into empty houses. However, in the river, the wooden workshop of Saiyejun had already transported the wooden boards for making furniture to Kizil Port. After transporting them to Dorbasidan by large ship, the immigrants could assemble them by themselves under the guidance of Saiyejun.
Therefore, before winter, it is possible to let immigrants live in new houses and open up land in winter (the temperature is around ten degrees Celsius). However, during the entire winter (three months), these 200,000 households still need the grain from the Saiyejun. It will take eight months before the autumn harvest. According to the calculation that one person needs two stones of grain for eight months, one family needs ten stones, and two million stones for 200,000 households!
If it were the Roman Empire and the Great Food Empire at this time, this would be an unfinished task, not to mention the Xhosa Khanate.
Only the Shattered Ye Army, although the butt was still in the eighth century, the brains of their leaders came from the 17th century. The Sttered Ye Army was able to complete this task according to the three-year storage period. Before, it was possible to use the Amu River waterway to transport food and grass to Kizil Port and then to Dorbasidan. If livestock were still used, it would be impossible to complete the task.
From this point alone, you will give a thumbs up for Emperor Yang of Sui to open the Grand Canal from the south to Hangzhou and the north to Youzhou. If this person continues to recuperate after opening the Grand Canal, instead of investing millions of manpower in the direction of Liaodong at once, there will definitely be nothing in the Tang Dynasty.
Shipping is the kingly way at this time!
If there was no shipping, even Sun Xiurong would not dare to put these 200,000 families into a strange foreign land at once.
But no matter what, now he succeeds.
But only half of it worked.
In order to realize its next plan, in addition to reopening the land, setting up a large number of workshops in Tubasishan is the top priority.
The next step was to bring 10,000 craftsmen to the Ministry of Works, the cousin of Xi Yuanli, the Minister of Works of the Ministry of Works, who came here with a lab in Tianshan University and was a cousin of Xi Yuanli, the Minister of Works of the Ministry of Works. Now Xi Yuanjing, who is now a doctor of the Ministry of Works, also thinks the same.
"Dubasidan has no coal, so he can only burn firewood first. After the coal from Haibei Prefecture can be easily transported here, then re-arrange it according to the operating instructions of the Ministry of Industry."
"After taking down Zhezhe City, the natural sulfur nearby can be used, and transported to Kizil through the Chilchiko River-Medicine-Salt Sea waterway to Kyzil, and there will be about a thousand miles of desert on the way, but even so, it is more cost-effective than distilling sulfur from pyrote ore."
"There is no saltpeter here, so we can only rebuild the compost for compost. The compost cannot be separated from the castle. Only by gathering a large number of people can the filth it produces can be used in large quantities. According to the plan of setting up a county of 3,000 households, at least fifty counties need to be set up."
"Fifty counties need fifty counties..."
When he thought of the fact that he had a lot of urgent things to do in Hainan Prefecture, Xi Yuanli, who had always been calm, couldn't help but scratch his head.
And if Sun Xiurong was here, he would naturally be sincerely happy that people like Xi Yuanli could now think with the "Tiandaoism" thinking.
Chapter completed!