Chapter 1202: Untitled

Su Fan naturally trusts Zhang Jiao very much.

The Taiping Cult is developing so rapidly now; as for science, more than a dozen schools have been established here in the Taiping Cult.

In the schools alone, there are more than fifteen thousand underage children.

This is still because there are not enough teachers; otherwise, there would be more schools.

Of course, there are also many night schools for adults, all taught by those Taiping Cult acolytes as teachers to the common people.

Of course, workers in factories have also begun to learn to read.

This valley town can be said to be thriving, absolutely rare in the world.

Zhang Jiao's ability can be seen, and those factories are also increasing.

Su Fan followed Zhang Jiao and looked at the military factory; now, the workers in the military factory alone are no less than ten thousand.

The "military personnel" inside can be said to be all Zhang Jiao's disciples, with Zhang Niujiao as the leader.

I have to say, this is very magical. Historically, Zhang Niujiao could only be considered a Channel Commander, but now, he has become a military industry expert, and is still improving black powder and steel cannons.

Now the largest artillery in the Firearm Battalion is the 32-pounder cannon, which is the most powerful muzzle-loading cannon. To continue to improve the power of the artillery, one can only change the gunpowder and the breech-loading cannon.

Zhang Niujiao is researching the reform of gunpowder; these Taiping Cult disciples, especially the Daoist disciples, can be said to be the top research personnel.

Once they like it, their research momentum is quite terrifying.

Zhang Jiao took Su Fan and toured the entire valley.

"Your Excellency, what do you think of the Taiping Cult now?"

"Not bad! In just a few years, the Taiping Cult has developed so rapidly that even I did not expect it."

Su Fan is naturally very satisfied, especially the degree of industrialization; the Taiping Cult is too rapid here. The Dao of Science itself is not to say it is contrary to Confucianism, but generally speaking, few who practice Confucianism will accept it.

But Zhang Jiao promoted the Dao of Science so quickly, which makes Su Fan very happy. He can see that the luck in this valley is strong, and the human luck has descended; although it cannot form a Luck Golden Dragon, it already has a prototype.

Obviously, Su Fan's plan has also succeeded.

The Dao of Science, the technology path, already has a prototype; next, it will wait for it to grow slowly, and then the Law of Technology will truly grow stronger.

Although this time may take a long time, it has already begun, and there is no need for Su Fan to help anymore.

He only needs to guard Zhang Jiao; if Zhang Jiao wins, then the technology path will be enough to develop.

"This is also thanks to the knowledge you gave, Your Excellency. That knowledge is too powerful for the improvement of all aspects. Even if there are no cultivators in the future, relying on these factories, the Taiping Cult is enough to support the world."

Zhang Jiao also couldn't help but sigh. Those factories are too powerful. Just take the steel plant; it really makes Zhang Jiao feel terrified.

Although steel cannot be compared with the alloy refined gold refined by those cultivators, for an ordinary army, the improvement is very large.

Their fifty-thousand-strong Taiping Cult army can be said to be all in steel armor, and even at the officer level, some alloy refined gold refined by cultivators is integrated into it to increase its defense.

It can be said that the defense of the Taiping Cult army is the strongest in Liu Han.

After all, an army where everyone wears armor is already very terrifying, and the Taiping Cult's is still all steel armor; steel armor is harder than iron armor, and the defense is stronger.

Just in this respect, the Taiping Cult army has a very large advantage.

When two armies fight, in close combat, when they truly fight, the Taiping Cult soldiers have too much of an advantage. With this steel armor, unless the enemy army is all Transcendent soldiers, otherwise, the weapons of the enemy soldiers cannot break their steel armor defense, so how can they kill?

Weapons, armor, and proper training are also the reasons why martial generals can fight one against many in the mortal world, and even one against a hundred.

Ancient soldiers wore too little armor, while those martial generals were all in iron armor, plus they ate well, and each had great strength; against those ordinary soldiers, the advantage was too great.

And in this world, the Taiping Cult is also the same.

At least in close combat, unless the enemy soldiers are all martial artists of the Divine Strength Realm, their weapons cannot pierce the steel armor, but relying on their powerful strength, it is enough to shake the Taiping Cult soldiers to death.

However, such people are too few.

Even among the imperial troops in the borderlands, those in the Divine Strength Realm are all Platoon Leaders or even Company Commanders.

Ordinary soldiers, facing the Taiping Cult soldiers, can only wait to be slaughtered; the Taiping Cult had already experimented with this when they went to suppress bandits before.

One battalion of five hundred people, facing three thousand mountain bandits, can be said to be hanging and beating them; those were just new recruits, but in the end, only three died in battle, and dozens were injured, mostly minor injuries.

And those three thousand mountain bandits, just those killed alone were one thousand, and nearly two thousand were captured.

Such battle damage is simply terrifying.

You must know that this was the first battle; subsequent battles were even smoother. After experiencing several wars and seeing blood, the Taiping Cult soldiers' combat effectiveness went up another level.

In every battle, there was almost no loss.

Even if there was, it was facing the Transcendents among the mountain bandits.

Among the mountain bandits, there were also some martial artists in the Divine Strength Realm, Internal Strengthening Realm, and even the Qi Refining Realm; these were the biggest threats to the casualties of the soldiers.

And steel armor and steel weapons can be said to maximize the improvement of the soldiers' attack and defense.

All of this is the steel plant.

And the steel plant can be built because of that science; the future Taiping Cult will not lack steel, and what is steel? It is weapons.

In the future, as long as there are enough people and grain, then the Taiping Cult can have as large an army as it wants, and it will not be restricted by anything at all.

And besides the steel plant, other factories are also very useful; the machinery forged by those machine factories, used for farming, also has too great an effect.

Greatly increasing the yield per mu in the farmland; in these few years, the yield per mu of the farmland in this valley has also been climbing steadily, higher year by year.

Besides the role of fertilizer, it is those agricultural tools, because they can plow the fields deeper, so the fertility of the fields is also greater.

All of this was brought by this Excellency.

Once the Nine Provinces use these, then in the future world, there will be no one who will starve to death.

And the future of the Taiping Cult, the hearts of the people will be very terrifying.

No one can threaten the Taiping Cult in this regard.

Zhang Jiao's gratitude, Su Fan does not care.

"Mengling, you must watch over this side. I will set up an illusion array here, which can maximize the possibility that the outside world will not be able to discover it."

"However, the Taiping Cult will eventually have to stand out; you must be prepared to deal with the possibility." ===== CHAPTER 1203 =====