Nowadays, the industrial park no longer operates during the day and rests at night as before. But because of the tense situation, three of the five blast furnaces are always running twelve hours a day, and the other two are resting. They continue to refine high-quality iron ingots every day and then send them to an iron-making company not far away for further processing. Refining city finished product.
The same is true in the iron-making company. The craftsmen are divided into three shifts and are busy every day.
The iron and steel smelting companies on both sides, coupled with the continuous flow of raw ore and furnace carbon from the wharf, made the entire Yongchuan City industrial park increasingly "vibrant" amid the decline of all industries.
This almost pathological phenomenon is becoming more and more common in the Hong Dynasty.
Everything goes to the military, and the needs of the front line come first. Anyone and anything that dares to hinder the front line will be torn to pieces by all forces of the country and the DPRK.
This is not all about the feelings of family and country, but also the instinct of not wanting to die and not wanting to lose what is in hand.
At least until news of an obvious defeat comes from the southern front, the Hong Dynasty will maintain its current posture of working together as a nation.
This attitude of giving everything is correct, but when a large amount of resources are tilted and there is a lack of effective supervision, there will always be some loopholes, and then those who are interested will take advantage of the loopholes.
Late at night.
The sound of metal being smashed could be heard in the iron room of the iron factory, as dense as falling raindrops. There is a clear division of labor. Craftsmen and apprentices complete the ironware in the front, and after each process, the finished product is finally formed, and then handed over to the workers who assemble it for subsequent processing. Including cutting, oiling, wrapping and packaging into boxes.
From the beginning to the end, everyone in every link worked hard. They may be making money for themselves, but in fact they are also contributing their strength to the front line.
Once these ordnance comes out of the iron shop, it will eventually be transported to different warehouses for storage. Then people from the Ministry of War Yamen will pick up the goods and load them onto the ship.
The entry and exit are based on the old ordnance production rules, and can only be moved after being signed and reviewed by the Yamen, the Military Corps, and the City Lord's Palace. Although it is troublesome, it ensures that ordnance does not flow to places outside the military as much as possible.
But now all resources are tilted, ordnance is moved frequently, and when the situation is urgent, the old rules become cumbersome. The pursuit of efficiency and production capacity can only give up some regulatory links.
For example, starting from the blast furnace, adding three or five more carts to a furnace does not have much impact on the furnace. As long as there are skilled masters to check it, there is no possibility of anyone seeing these changes. The result will be that there will be more than a dozen pieces of refined iron when the furnace is opened. And if the extra fine iron is piled together, who can detect it if I accidentally remember it incorrectly? It doesn't matter at all!
The extra iron ingots will then be sent to the iron making companies, and this amount is still hidden in the accounts. The craftsmen don't know, they will just beat and refine it as usual. After the craftsmen pass through one link after another, the final product will naturally be a little more. And this amount is incompatible with the number of iron ingots in the accounts and the number of finished products theoretically produced. But this part is also covered up.
It sounds complicated, but in fact the loopholes were openly exploited under everyone's noses, and it only needed to get through a few links.
In the last box of soldiers and armors, there was an extra piece that could not be accommodated, and then disappeared during transportation.
Or a large crossbow, which is also not included in the account, and also flew to no one knows where after coming out of the iron room. No one cares about it or even knows that there was such an extra large crossbow.
Once or twice, it doesn’t seem like a lot. But you must know that the blast furnace works twelve hours a day, and the craftsmen in the iron room of the iron factory also work in turns at twelve hours. In just a few days, there were already dozens of crossbows and armors that had been "invisible" produced and "invisible" disappeared without even realizing it.
Bailang, one of the few people who knew the whereabouts of these "invisible" armors and crossbows, was looking at the large crossbows and armors wrapped in oil paper hidden in cloth boxes in a cloth warehouse at the dock. Seeing them stacked up one by one made Bai Lang smile.
"How much in total?"
Yang Xiu beside him was also happy. After having tasted the power of ordnance before, he was eager to get more of these things. In addition, now that there are white waves in front of him, he is not weak at all now.
"Zu Dao, a total of ten large crossbows and six pieces of armor. Tomorrow there will be military personnel coming to pick up the goods at the dock, and they will load a ship and leave, so tomorrow will be an empty day, and then the rhythm of shipments will resume again.
Zuodao, what do you think of these things? "
Bai Lang smiled and said, "Do you really want to go there?"
"Hehe, Zuodao Mingjian, the brothers below are also looking forward to this."
"I can give you things, but there must be a limit. You can only have the upper limit of the number of crossbows and armor that the city lord's mansion gave us before, and you cannot exceed it.
The rest will be taken to Daomen Village by the next group of brothers who are escorting the food. "
Yang Xiu could understand the first half of Bailang's order. It's just to be on the safe side and not take unnecessary risks. At the same time, he also appeased the city lord's palace and let them see that the sword hall did not use the weapons they gave them indiscriminately. And although the situation is tense now, there is no possibility of any major changes in the short term for the sword hall, and there is no need for so many ordnance.
But if the sword shop doesn't use it, then it won't give all the equipment to the brothers who go to Daomen Village, right?
"Zu Dao, will this attract the covetous attention of those thieves in Daomen Village?"
"Coveting? Didn't they agree to let us rent the land in the cottage because they coveted our money and supplies from the beginning? What's the harm in letting them covet it more now?"
"But."
"No, they already covet what we have in our hands. Whether it's money or supplies. Their only goal is to let us save more in the past, and then while strengthening themselves, they will seize the opportunity to steal our things.
However, in addition to the geographical advantages of Daomen Village, they actually have other things in their hands that can make us profit. Ordnance flying over is just bait. They won't do anything just for this little weapon. But they will definitely take the initiative to contact us and find out where our weapons come from. "
"What good things can Daomen Village have?" Yang Xiu was still puzzled.
Bailang waved his hand and explained: "Do you still remember the news from the brothers that the smell of prepared medicinal materials often appears inexplicably in Daomen Village?"
"I still remember." Yang Xiu nodded, but he didn't understand why Bailang suddenly mentioned this. It seems to have nothing to do with deliberately placing ordnance in Daomen Village to show off, right?
"What if I said that those medicines are not simply concocted medicinal ingredients, but are used to make elixirs?"
Yang Xiu's eyes bulged when he heard this, and he immediately understood Bai Lang's plan.
(End of chapter)
