Later, we talked about how to arrange Song Chen. This was within the scope of Song Chen's prediction. Lu Wenhuan arranged for Song Chen to be the seventh-rank Chengyi Lang and was responsible for all the craftsmen in Xiangyang.

Song Chen rolled his eyes. Isn’t this a free job?

As for Qiu Yingying and Shang Yidao, they are spies from the Imperial City Division, and they can do what they should do. He is inconvenient to speak out.

Since Li Ruyun also came with Song Chen, he would be responsible for Song Chen's safety.

To put it bluntly, they all have nothing to do here in Xiangyang, and Song Chen himself is not willing to do this. Could it be that when he comes to such a famous battlefield in history, he is just a staring observer? That would be too expensive.

However, he couldn't think of any good solutions to solve the current dilemma at this time, so he had to accept this arrangement.

Then they went up the city to see the "test run" of the cableway. At this moment, Song Chen had free time to observe these soldiers. Although they could not be described as listless, they all had good luck.

No, logically speaking, Xiangyang would not be so short of food. In the original history, there were three years left, that is, 127 years, when Lu Wenhuan surrendered due to the severe shortage of materials in the city.

So even without him, Song Chen, the little butterfly, Lu Wenhuan could still stay for three years. Why did he feel like he was not full of these soldiers?

After asking the young sergeant who was about the same age as him, he realized that Lu Wenhuan had implemented a rationing system several months ago, and each sergeant could only get a little food, even himself. At present, Song Chen believes that this person has fulfilled his responsibilities as a minister.

Only Song Chen in this world knows that this person will collapse in three years, completely become the minion of the Mongols, and become their vanguard.

What kind of strategy should he be treated with? At present, he must have no rebellion. Could it be that he forced to rebel? It is undoubtedly stupid to do this. If you cooperate with him wholeheartedly? It seems that you are unwilling to accept it.

I have to take one step at a time!

"Song Chen, I've made an action on the other side of the mountain. I don't know what they will send." Lu Wenhuan occupied Song Chen's telescope again. He couldn't put it down and hinted several times that Song Chen would give it to him. This thing would be more effective in his hands. However, Song Chen played a good job of pretending to be stupid and fooled it.

There was a sack hanging on the ropeway there. How could Song Chen not know what was contained? Because it was arranged by him that he could transport 300 kilograms of pork at a time. At this speed, it would be no problem to transport twenty times before lunch time. Six thousand kilograms of pork were barely enough for the 20,000 Xiangyang defenders to fight for the teeth.

The second time I sent a wooden box. The soldiers who were very excited to guard here opened it with anticipation and saw that they could not eat, wear, or burn, and even had weapons. They all booed dissatisfied.

"What do you know? This is a winch. With it, it can transport it twice as fast." Lu Wenhuan was quite knowledgeable and immediately saw its purpose.

After Song Chen commanded these soldiers to get the hinged cart ready, he asked Lu Wenhuan to see the material status of the Lin'an Treasury.

"What do you want to see these things?" Lu Wenhuan asked without comment.

I originally thought he would refuse directly, because Song Chen made this request a little bit out of line, regardless of official rank or responsibility, but Lu Wenhuan did not mean to completely reject it.

"General Lu, as an official in charge of the craftsmanship in Xiangyang, I want to see what materials can be used and build the workshop as soon as possible!" Song Chen finally found a reason that was barely reasonable.

"Okay, I'll take you over and have a look!" Lu Wenhuan was unexpectedly straightforward this time.

This guy actually came to be a "tour guide" in person, which made Song Chen confused about what Lu Wenhuan sold in the gourd. He was definitely not a good person to meet.

But first follow him to see what is most lacking here, and make a list of materials. You should know that Song Chen has another responsibility to build a cable car. The fact that this cable car supply line is also under the responsibility of Song Chen, which is his biggest reliance in Xiangyang.

Xiangyang's supplies are quite huge. They are placed in twenty-four large warehouses. Almost every warehouse is full of piles. Among them, the most food is occupied, and the other ones contain cured meat, weapons, winter clothing, firewood, etc.

Firewood only accounts for one warehouse, but coal accounts for only one-third of the inventory. No wonder when Lu Wenhuan surrendered, Xiangyang's grain was not in a hurry. What was short of was the fuel to cook the grain. When the most difficult time, it was even necessary to demolish the houses to cook fires, so that they could eat cooked food, which shows the difficulty.

Song Chen did not think that the generals of the Song Dynasty were so stupid that they could not even think of this problem. Why not give firewood first? Xiangyang was surrounded and let those soldiers fight for their lives and send some rotten wood over, which no one could figure it out.

These fuels are large in size and they will send a boat to death. They may not even be able to cook a meal for the defenders. However, Song Chen thought of a solution, that is, coal.

At this time, the Song Dynasty had already started to use coal, but it was not popular yet. It was not because of other reasons. Coal was subject to factors such as transportation and mining, and was much more expensive than wood. In addition to special uses such as iron smelting and porcelain firing, only wealthy families usually use coal to cook rice.

The thermal energy of coal is much higher than that of wood, and it seems feasible to use precious transport capacity on coal.

However, there is still not enough persuasion. In fact, Song Chen cannot even convince himself and must go further.

At this point, Song Chen was full of bitterness, such words as model workers and overworking death lingering in his heart like shadows.

Because he had to work overtime again to invent it, this time it was a commodity that had long been eliminated by later generations - honeycomb coal. Here, Song Chen would like to apologize to the blue sky and white clouds of the Song Dynasty.

The thermal efficiency of honeycomb coal has been improved by more than three layers on the basis of coal. One can be burned for two hours, but the supporting ones also require honeycomb furnaces, honeycomb coal manufacturing equipment, and other things.

Then it led to the most core problem of money. Song Chen was not spared. His winery, Taofang, Liulifang, and Hongguiyuan were all preparing to expand their scale. It would be good if he didn't ask him for money. Now he was calling him to spend 10,000 or 20,000 yuan, which was really not possible.

Besides, even if he is rich, Song Chen cannot pay out of his own pocket. This is a matter of principle. Those censors who ridiculed and ridiculed him would definitely say that Song Chen destroyed his family business and had a lot of plans.

If you ask the court for it, it is still a question whether the court agrees. Even if the court agrees, should the court play a role in resource allocation?
Chapter completed!