Chapter 181 Mazu Blessing
The civilian gunman stepped on the accelerator hard, and the bulky bulldozer spewed black smoke, and pulled a long string of flat-bottomed carts out of the bronze door with vibration. Due to inertia, the speed increased as it went further back, and it became smoother after pulling out one-third of the way. It felt like pulling an oiled enema out of the anus, and Yan Xu, who was pushing from behind, didn't need to use any effort.

Such a commotion was naturally quite noisy, but by the time it reached the village the sound was much quieter, because the pig farm was behind a low hill and separated by a high wall. However, what really reassured Yan Xu were the pig manure and pork.

For such a large pig farm, pig manure is naturally produced every day. Yan Xu asked people to pile the pig manure in a pit outside the wall. The village chief would regularly organize people to take it away and then distribute it to the people in the village to fertilize the fields. For this reason alone, no one wanted anything to go wrong with the pig farm.

Not to mention that the village's store can sell a slaughtered pig every day at a very cheap price, and people in the village are given priority. The rest will be sold to people from other villages. This makes the people in Goujiazhuang feel even more superior. They carry baskets to buy meat with their heads held high. The dogs in the village have bones to gnaw on every few days.

Because of these two advantages, Yan Xu's pig farm has been running smoothly until now. No one asks about it, and no one dares to break in. If the kids in the village dare to run to the back mountain, they will be beaten to a pulp.

Whether the closed breeding in the pig farm is reasonable or not, why the employees are more silent than each other and never go to the village, the people in Goujiazhuang don’t care at all. As long as they can get real benefits, they can pretend not to see anything.

Not to mention that with the expansion of Yan Xu's industry, many young people in the village have returned from other places to work with him, and grain and vegetables can be sold directly to supermarkets. It can be said that now the village chief's words are not as effective as his.

As the bulldozer slowly slowed down and stopped, the long trailer occupied most of the cement yard.

At present, the open space behind the pig farm has been surrounded by a high wall, and the ground has been hardened with cement, which is large enough to accommodate all flatbed trucks.

However, these are not all, because most of the machines of that era were large, black and heavy, and it was impossible to get them all at once, so Yan Xu brought the part that was to be sent to the Japanese world this time.

Due to the restrictions of the Japanese world, a long line of flatbed carts were dismantled and replaced with mules pulling carts, following Yan Xu to the Japanese world.

The workers have already built a decent factory building on the open space at the foot of the mountain. The machines to be transported will be placed here, and the periphery will be guarded by the flag bearers and ninjas hidden in the dark.

After installation and debugging, the machine can be put into production soon. Anyway, it does not require electricity. As long as there is coal, these steam engines can operate. There happens to be an open-pit coal mine on the secondary island. The amount of reserves is unknown, but it should be no problem to supply a few steam engines.

Because there were sufficient manpower and the machinery was simple, the installation and debugging were completed in just one day.

After adding water and coal, the law of boiling water began to show its supreme power. The heavy steam engine started slowly, transmitting the force to the gears and levers, and then converted it into mechanical power.

Yan Xu, who witnessed this scene, felt a little emotional, because this meant that the seeds of industrialization had been completely planted by him. How far it could grow in the future depended on how much energy he put into this aspect.

The technical ceiling of the Japanese technicians is not high, but they have no problem operating these steam machines. Soon a Dresser striker rifle was placed in front of Yan Xu.

This is a modified breech-loading rifle with a smaller caliber and a shorter barrel. Naturally, its power is not as good as the original one, but it is the only one that can be used by Japanese soldiers so that they won't fall down on the spot after firing a shot.

Even so, this gun is still not something that can be used by a teppo ashigaru, so the one who tested the gun was the taller and stronger teppo hatamoto.

Because the weight of the whole gun was reduced a lot, the iron gun hatamoto, who was less than 1.5 meters tall, could still operate it relatively freely, smoothly rotating and pulling the bolt with one hand, then loading the paper shell bullet, and finally resetting the bolt. With a bang, the ammunition was successfully fired.

After testing hundreds of rounds, this breech-loading rifle, which was outdated even in the late Qing Dynasty, actually showed quite good performance and was very stable. The firing rate was almost ten rounds per minute, the effective range was 500 meters, and the best range was within 100 to 200 meters.

The only reason is that because it is a paper shell bullet, the propellant residue in the barrel needs to be cleaned frequently. However, due to the simple structure, this is not difficult and does not require much training.

With these machines, as long as there are enough people, thirty Dreyse striker rifles and five thousand rounds of ammunition can be produced every day. If the most troublesome gun barrels are replaced with seamless steel pipes in the modern world, the output can reach fifty.

The efficiency is quite good and can already meet Yan Xu's needs. He only needs to accumulate for a period of time before he can launch an attack on the main island.

However, there is still a sea between the secondary island and the main island, and problems such as demons and monsters need to be taken into consideration. Therefore, in order to prevent the ship from sinking into the sea and feeding the fish, in addition to the steam sailboat, Yan Xu also needs to add a few more insurances, such as asking the patron saint of navigation, the goddess of the sea, Mazu, to take charge.

Yan Xu didn't believe it, so he invited this great god to come. Anyone who dared to sink his boat would be trapped even if Bai Suzhen came.

In order to be on the safe side, Yan Xu specially asked Chen Deli to use a lot of connections to invite a statue of Mazu that has been worshipped for more than a hundred years.

This statue of Mazu wears a crown, a shawl and holds a ruyi in her hand. She looks majestic, graceful and dignified.

It was obviously carved with great care. I don't know how many nice words I said and how many favors I used to invite him.

With respect, Yan Xu brought the Mazu statue to the Mazu Temple in Dayou City, and then blessed it to upgrade the luck. Suddenly, divine light flashed, and the surrounding seas were calm, showing tranquility and peace.

The Mazu Temple granted him the abilities of calming waves and rescuing people in distress. The former allowed him to walk on flat ground in the harsh ocean climate, while the latter enabled him to gain good deeds.

Although good deeds are not virtues, they have extraordinary magical effects and can even allow those who have not yet completed their spiritual practice to accumulate good deeds and ascend to heaven.

However, Yan Xu valued the power of salvation of the Mazu Temple more, so in addition to bringing the first system half-demon soldier Apo to the temple to be a sea-patrolling yaksha, he also built three subsidiary shrines, one large and two small, to worship the dragon girl Fukushimahime, the rain girl and the wet girl respectively.

The three shrines each contribute an ability, but because their compatibility is so high, they are combined into an ability of good weather and good harvests, which even Yan Xu found unexpected.

Unfortunately, the range is too small, at most a town, but with the offering of incense, this ability will gradually increase.

Under the guidance of the Moroboshi family, warriors and soldiers worshipped Guandi, fishermen and merchants worshipped Mazu. As for farmers and civilians, they preferred Mazu between the two gods. After all, they did not need fighting and killing, nor did they expect to make a fortune from business. Living in peace and safety was a blessing.

(End of this chapter)