Mentality is very important before doing things. How can a slave who can't even eat enough talk about craftsmanship?
Li Yue directly transferred a thousand stones of grain from Shanyang's treasury and piled it in the iron workshop.
"Starting from today, each person will receive three stones of food per month. If he can improve his smelting skills, he will be rewarded with ten stones of food!"
Three stones of grain a month, more than 360 kilograms, is enough to feed a family.
The craftsmen's eyes were straightened, and the iron officials and disciples who were being dismissed hurriedly shouted: "Your Majesty, we are also experienced craftsmen, begging to stay here!"
There must be a brave man under a heavy reward.
This group of iron officers and apprentices have been working hard for several years. Practice makes perfect and they are physically strong. What they lack is motivation.
"Then stay, one stone and a half per month." Li Yue waved his hand and asked the soldiers to start sharing the food.
Within a few days, blacksmiths from all over the country arrived one after another.
The first thing is to distribute food, and the second thing is new clothes.
Li Yue watched their smelting techniques. The method of frying steel was popular in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The pig iron was burned to a semi-molten state, then stirred continuously, and iron ore powder was added to it, and finally it was smelted into steel.
Since it is "fried", it tests the craftsman's control over the heat.
The quality of steel produced by different people is also different.
There is no rule without rules, so Li Yue immediately offered various incentives.
Bringing out a qualified apprentice will be rewarded with five stones of food. Those who exceed the target will be rewarded with five stones of food. Those who can improve the craftsmanship and quality will be rewarded with ten to one hundred stones.
Others are smashing real gold and silver, but in this era, food is more valuable than gold and silver. Gold and silver cannot be eaten or drunk, and it is difficult to buy things if you have money. Food can save lives and has better effects.
The advantage of the stir-fried steel method is that as the blacksmith becomes more proficient, the quality will get better and better, and the efficiency is pretty good, depending on how many people there are.
And it is also the easiest to solve it manually.
Smelting cannot be streamlined, but forging can.
Each step can be separated. Li Yue divided it into seven steps: forging, quenching, shaping, grinding, polishing, decoration and quality inspection.
All craftsmen were also organized into teams and teams, with captains, team leaders, team leaders, etc.
If any link goes wrong, the collective penalty will be confiscation of salary and food.
Knives, spears, spears, arrows, axes, maces, iron armor pieces, among which iron armor is the easiest to make. Zha Jia is popular in China, that is, pieces of iron armor are connected in series to resemble bamboo slips, so it is called Zha Jia.
It only requires a two-inch-long piece of cold iron to be continuously forged without heating, and beaten into a three-inch length, and then braided into a zhajia.
Tougher and lighter than fire-forged armor.
The difficulty is the crossbow, which requires a lot of things, such as beef tendons, horns, machine tools, dry wood, etc. It is difficult to make them in a short time, so you can only buy them from Jingxiang.
The assembly line is nothing new. It has been born in the Qin Dynasty. The arrow clusters, arrow shafts, and arrow feathers have very small differences and can be replaced at will. There are also craftsmen's marks on the arrowheads.
This shows that preliminary standardization and traceability have been achieved.
Of course, compared with later generations, it can only be considered a prototype.
"You will manage the iron workshop on my behalf first, day and night, divided into three departments: A, B, and C. I will give priority to supplying food and meat. Please pay more attention to it." Li Yue wanted to stay for a few more days and go back after mass production.
But after the autumn harvest, the situation in various places became obviously tense.
Fangtou, Yecheng, Xuchang, Yangcheng, Luoyang, Liyang and other places are all preparing their troops as if waiting for something.
Even Guanzhong is turbulent.
The iron workshop could be built so quickly, which is inseparable from Cao Ning's scheduling.
Coal mines, iron mines, food, and people coming in and out are not simple things.
After Yiguan moved south, the quality of the northern governors and county magistrates actually improved to a higher level.
There is no money to be made in the place, there are refugees and thieves everywhere, and you have to face the oppression of Jie Zhao. If you don't have any ability, you really can't sit still.
Some time ago, when Sima Xun was attacking a key point, heroes from Guanzhong killed prefects and county magistrates from various places in response...
"I obey the order." Cao Ning cupped her hands.
After explaining some details, Li Yue returned to Chenliu with his guards.
It's been almost a month since I went back and forth.
The autumn wind suddenly blows, and there is a chilling atmosphere everywhere.
Almost all the Heiyun troops who went out to hunt, fish, and defeat thieves have returned, including the hundreds of Heiyun Langs.
It's only been more than two months, and the momentum is obviously different.
He is a little less childish, a little more calm and capable, and more like a soldier.
Looking at the horses they were riding, Li Yue suddenly remembered the more than 200 pieces of horse armor Shi Min gave him when Shi Zun went north to seize the throne.
There are also more than 600 sets in Chen Liu's treasury.
Black Cloud Knights are mostly light cavalry. They put a layer of leather armor on their war horses and use them as heavy cavalry. The casualties of the soldiers and the wear and tear of the war horses are very high.
In the future, whether it is the Central Plains War or the Hebei War, heavy cavalry charging into battle will be essential.
This was the development trend from the Sixteen Kingdoms to the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Until the Sui, Tang, Liao, Song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, there were heavy cavalry, until the emergence of firearms...
However, there are horse armors, but there are very few qualified war horses. A set of horse armor is divided into face curtain, chicken neck, chest, body armor, back and parasitism. It weighs seventy or eighty kilograms in total, plus the armored cavalry together with Weapons, about two hundred kilograms.
The war horse is used for carrying, but if it is charged, it will not be enough.
The war horses of the Black Cloud Army are diverse, and many of them have been weak for a long time and have only been fed intensively this year.
The best war horses of this era were naturally found in Liaodong and Hetao areas.
After much selection, more than 500 horses were collected, and Hei Yunlang was equipped with them, and he barely managed to make a heavy cavalry of 200 people.
At the end of October, the weather turned cold, and the cold wind howled on both sides of the river all day long.
Hebei Xizuo sent back more and more news.
The leader of Zhao, Shi Zun, summoned the vassal kings from all over the country. Shi Jian, the king of Yiyang, Shi Bao, the king of Leping, Shi Kun, the king of Ruyin, and Shi Zhao, the king of Huainan, were all recalled to Yecheng.
Shi Bao failed to rebel, but Shi Zun did not kill him.
Shi Min transferred Zhou Cheng's army deployed in Liyang back to Yecheng.
In addition, all the Pu family changed their surnames to Fu, and Xizuo also found out that they sent people south to Jiangdong.
Chang Wei said: "Chaos in Hebei is imminent!"
After his family got it back, he was completely devoted to Heiyun Mountain.
Some time ago, Li Nong shamelessly sent someone to ask for it, but no one from Chen Liu paid attention to it. Li Yue was forging in Shanyang and had no time to meet them. After seven or eight days, he could only leave in despair.
Li Yue said: "I'll send someone to Fangtou to find out whether Pu...Fu Hong is real or not?"
The two sides are still considered allies. Fu Hong's attitude is obviously to cause a big fight, so it's better to be prepared in advance.
Chang Wei laughed and said, "Fu Hong's city is very deep. If he was willing to inform, he would have sent someone long ago. Since he didn't send anyone, he didn't want the governor to know. If it doesn't go as expected, within ten days, There will be drastic changes in Hebei."
Although Li Nong's strategy of driving away wolves and devouring tigers failed, it still left a thorn in both sides.
Fu Hong is so cautious, he must also be guarding against the Black Cloud Army.
"How do you know this?" Li Yue was not very interested in Fu Hong.
His goal is Guanzhong, and his own goal is the Central Plains. There is no conflict of interest.
"Shi Zun summoned Shi Jian, Shi Bao, Shi Kun, Shi Zhao and others to deal with Shi Min. Shi Min was a slave and monopolized all the power inside and outside. How could the Jie people be convinced? Not only Shi Min, but also Shi Zun's position was not right, there must be someone disaster."
(End of chapter)
