Duan Wenjun left Ma Xinyuan behind and followed him to Duan Wenjun's temporary room here.
"Old Ma, our black iron horizontal sword is basically a success, but I still have two things that you need to study quickly." Duan Wenjun looked at Ma Xinyuan and spoke.
"What?" Ma Xinyuan was stunned when he heard this.
"Take a look!" Duan Wenjun handed him the sketch on the table.
"Is this a crossbow?" Ma Xinyuan frowned slightly when he saw the first sketch.
But when he saw the dimensions marked on it, he immediately rejected his idea, "No, ordinary crossbows wouldn't be so small."
"This thing is a type of crossbow, called a hand crossbow." Duan Wenjun nodded. "Because it needs to be fired with one hand, it must be made much smaller than ordinary crossbows."
"The key to the hand crossbow is that we have to use steel wire in this winch." Looking at Ma Xinyuan's frown, Duan Wenjun continued, "And because the hand crossbow is smaller, in order to increase its lethality, I Some adjustments have also been made to the crossbow arrows, you can see here..."
Duan Wenjun explained to Ma Xinyuan while illustrating how to make and process it.
Mo Shoucheng on the side looked at him with curiosity. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't figure out how Duan Wenjun could have so many strange ideas in his mind.
He was thinking about whether he should ask Divine Doctor Hua if it was true, as he said, that he cut open Duan Wenjun's head to check and then sewed it back together. Duan Wenjun was still safe and sound?
If it's true, should Doctor Hua try to cut it open?
It just so happens that I can satisfy my curiosity and see if his head is really different?
Duan Wenjun briefly explained to Ma Xinyuan the time for a cup of tea, and Ma Xinyuan roughly understood what he was thinking.
However, it is not easy to make the width of a horizontal knife with the Baili Steel that is now being created.
It is not an easy task to create such tough steel wire, and it requires repeated trials.
Ma Xinyuan opened the sketch of Chapter 2 again. Looking at the thing on the drawing that looked like a dagger but was not a dagger, he was stunned again.
This seemed to be the first time he had seen it.
The young master actually designed two new weapons.
"This thing is called a three-edged military thorn." Duan Wenjun started to explain. "This thing should be easier than making a horizontal sword. After all, its blade is thicker and easier to control."
Seeing Ma Xinyuan nod his head, he continued, "The most critical thing in making a three-edged military spur is that the angles of these edges must be regular, and the blood grooves must be clear..."
Another cup of tea passed, and Ma Xinyuan understood everything.
"Old Ma, I need to ask you to put more thought into these things. I must get fifteen sets before the end of this month. In each set, there is a black iron horizontal knife, a triangular military spur, and a hand crossbow. Fifty crossbow arrows, what’s your problem?”
"You want it before the end of the month?" Ma Xinyuan was obviously surprised, "In such a hurry?"
"Yes, if you need any help, just tell me and I will try my best to satisfy you." Duan Wenjun nodded.
"The mine needs to increase the mining volume. We need more iron ore with better quality." Ma Xinyuan frowned. "I also need twenty young men to assist the current masters in their work."
"Okay! It's up to you. I'll tell Uncle Fu as soon as I get down the mountain!" Duan Wenjun nodded.
Ma Xinyuan went to rest, and Duan Wenjun took Mo Shoucheng back to the Duan family compound.
After giving orders to Uncle Fu, he hurried to the back of Nanpo.
The wasteland behind Nanpo was bought by Duan Wenjun some time ago.
The reason why he bought it was because Duan Wenjun took a fancy to the kiln soil there.
This is a good clay embryo for making red bricks and blue tiles.
Today, several brick kilns and tile kilns have been opened there.
Now that the care of Nanpo and the operation of the mulberry fish pond are back to normal, Chen Wenjing is no longer as busy as before.
So the affairs of the kiln were handed over to him.
Seeing Duan Wenjun coming over, Chen Wenjing looked very excited, "Shaodong, this tunnel kiln method is really easy to use. The output of each kiln is four or five times higher than the average flat kiln."
Duan Wenjun nodded, "That's good! According to the current speed, can we complete the bricks and tiles required for the renovation of our Duanjia Fort before the year?"
"According to the current speed, it should be no problem." Chen Wenjing nodded confidently, and then changed the topic and said, "My young master, do you really want to build red brick houses for everyone?"
"Wen Jing, when have I ever lied to you?" Duan Wenjun smiled upon hearing this, "I promised everyone that not only the people from all over Duanjiabao will celebrate the New Year in their new houses, but also the people from Moon Island, We must also strive to move them all there after the new year.”
"Don't the people who come to Moon Island already have a place to live?" Chen Wenjing was a little confused. "Why do we need to build new houses for them?"
"Wen Jing, when they came here, you made the arrangements yourself. Did we promise that they would not be able to live in the temporary area after the Chinese New Year? Naturally, we have to arrange a place for them to live. Or that? In short, we can provide food and housing, but we cannot feed them. They have to work to earn money and use the money they earn to exchange for things."
"Shaodong's family, actually I have always been confused. Wouldn't it be nice for the people on Moon Island to always live there? Why do we have to ask them to change places?" Chen Wenjing frowned and continued.
"Do you still remember why we arranged for them to live there in the first place?" Duan Wenjun asked without answering.
"I'm worried that they may cause riots, so that the guards in the castle can stop them in time." Chen Wenjing replied.
"That's right!" Duan Wenjun nodded. "These few months have passed. In fact, most people have kept to themselves. In fact, they had no choice but to join the bandits before. Now that they have a way to survive and make money, it is easier to settle down." Come down."
"In our Duanjiabao area, there are many large and small houses. When our new house is completed, there will definitely be many more houses according to the plan. It is just right to allocate them to them. Let them join the house, which will make people happy. They feel more like they belong, and there’s less chance of natural riots happening.”
"When their minds are stabilized, they can easily settle down in life and work, and slowly they will integrate with us and truly become our Duanjiabao people."
"After they move in one after another, we can use the vacant houses to accommodate more people."
Chen Wenjing was shocked when she heard this: "Young master, are there any more bandits who have been recruited and will be sent here?"
"No." Duan Wenjun shook his head, "But haven't you noticed that many outsiders have been coming to seek refuge recently?"
"Those refugees?" Chen Wenjing was startled again, and said with a worried look on her face, "Young master, please forgive me for talking too much. We now have eight or nine thousand people in Duanjia Fort. If we take in more refugees who have come here, what will happen if we continue to accept them?" Will it be overcrowded and cause trouble?"
"That's why I asked you to burn bricks and build a house as soon as possible!" Duan Wenjun sighed, "Our Duanjiabao is short of people, and your young boss is short of people! Every workshop is short of manpower, and the mines in the back mountains are even more That's true. I hope they can bring more people, the more the merrier..."
