After the refusal of marriage, in order to prevent the possible retaliation of Qin Muhou Dong Shou, the Zhaoyang Pavilion Marquis Mansion has successively moved most of the craftsmen of the Medicine Master Garden to Juquanling for half a year, and at the same time, about half of the young children in the disciple camp of the Huanglongyuan Taoist Academy have been transferred to the Shichengling Taoist Academy next to Juquanling to practice. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In addition to Zhou Jun, Sun Gan, and Chen Zhang, who continued to stay by Chen Lie's side and entered Heyang and Lichuan with Hexi soldiers and horses, Su Yuan, Zhao Shan, Qian Wenyi and others also led the three hundred followers of the Tinghou Mansion to temporarily live in Juquanling.

Even so, there are still serious shortages of people in Juquanling.

Especially in the infield, there are only more than 100 skilled craftsmen and craftsmen, who are responsible for the casting of weapon weapons such as crossbows, machine chariots, and puppet gauntlets of the military pawn, as well as the smelting of quenched iron.

In fact, the casting infield of the mountain behind Juquanling has invested a huge amount of resources unimaginable to others.

In addition to the use of the top-level flame gathering talisman array, the two small furnaces alone are reinforced with six or seven thousand catties of refined iron, otherwise the daily output of quenched iron is difficult to reach 10,000 catties.

And like the cutting tools of many core components, they are all cast with the top-quality refining materials, and they are refined into the Xuanfu Dao Seal, which can be said to be not weak yellow-level middle-grade and upper-grade Xuanbing.

Now that so many resources have been invested, the production system of the infield has gradually improved, but to truly give full play to the casting potential of the infield, it still depends on people.

Perhaps the clans and clans were too urgent, and the Juquanling side wanted to let go of the restrictions on the infield, and select three hundred craftsmen from the outfield to enter, but nearly twice as many people rushed to sign up first. Moreover, these five or six hundred people have a not weak cultivation foundation, and they are also all accomplished in the casting of puppets and armor, and the blind people also know that most of them are the eyeliner that has penetrated into each family.

Thinking that the infield would soon be completely penetrated by the eyeliner of the various families, Zhou Jingyuan was awakened from time to time in his dreams at night, but Chen Hai insisted on this, and he could only accept it head-on.

The only thing that can make Zhou Jingyuan feel a little comforted is that the Juquanling foundry is still very different from the traditional foundry.

In a traditional foundry, a group of craftsmen and craftsmen led by a senior craftsman are responsible for all the manufacturing processes of the puppet beasts.

Juquanling, on the other hand, separates the manufacturing of the puppet beast into eighteen processes, and each group of craftsmen and craftsmen is only responsible for one of the processes. In Zhou Jingyuan's view, this can control the leakage of secrets as much as possible, after all, the core component casting can still control the hands of his own people for the time being.

Chen Hai's implementation of assembly line operations is to reduce the demand for the number of senior craftsmen, and more importantly, to greatly improve efficiency.

Assembly line operation is a production method that has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people on the earth, but it is an unimaginable innovation in Yanjing.

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Ning Chan'er recuperated from her injuries for two days, and then left quietly without saying a word, and with Ning Chan'er left, there were twelve craftsmen.

These craftsmen who quit without saying goodbye, everyone guessed that they were the eyeliner of the Red Eyebrow Sect, and this time they should return to Yunmengze with Ning Chan'er to assist in casting the crossbow of the machine.

Every day, new craftsmen and craftsmen come to join them, and it is normal for someone to leave, Chen Hai asked Zhou Jingyuan to open one eye and close one eye.

It seems that Juquanling will leak a lot of secrets because of this, but it can also get a large number of skilled craftsmen and craftsmen available, even if you don't consider that the Rakshasa Demon will invade Yanzhou on a large scale at any time, there are advantages and disadvantages.

After the Mojia Workshop was on the right track, with two young craftsmen of the Ming Realm in charge, Chen Hai had more time to stay in Juquanling to ensure that all aspects of the work in the infield could be quickly put on the right track, and after the selection of more than 300 familiar craftsmen for use in the infield, the trial production process of the mechanical crossbow and the warrior-level puppet gauntlet was greatly accelerated.

Su Yuan successfully opened up the ancestral knowledge sea, and Juquanling finally had Su Yuan and Wu Meng, two powerhouses of the Ming Awareness Realm, to support the scene. And Su Yuan himself is also a craftsman, and he has some expertise in refining.

He presided over the affairs of the inner government in the Zhaoyang Pavilion Marquis Mansion, and he was in charge of the foundry of the Medicine Master Garden. Most of the armor foundry in the pharmacist garden has been moved to Juquanling, and it is also appropriate to hand over the affairs of the casting infield to Su Yuan at this time.

In the following months, the Great Yan Empire's war with the Black Yan Army in Lichuan, Heyang and other places has also been in a state of stalemate, and there has been no progress for a long time.

Chen Hai believed that the crown prince Yingdan and the others knew very well in their hearts that even if they defeated the Heiyan army as quickly as possible and recovered Heyang, Yanmen and other counties, Emperor Yitian and King Yingshu would not be able to allow them to lead 200,000 tiger troops into Gyeonggi through Qinglongyu again.

Except for the Ning clan, which has already suffered a big setback, without the support of the other seven clans of Jingjun, the elite of the 200,000 Tiger Ben Army cannot retreat into Gyeonggi, and there is no place to establish a foundation outside, and it will not be able to support it for long.

Instead of going north to Heyang and fighting a hasty decisive battle with the Black Yan Army, it is better to occupy the river between Mengjindu and Wuliang Mountain and slowly operate.

And there is a threat of the Black Yan Army on the northeast side, and the prince Yingdan's troops are strong and strong, and they may return to Gyeonggi at any time, although Yanran Palace and the eight clans of Jingjun are a little incompatible, but the contradiction will not be obvious for the time being.

After the rapid expansion of the Xiyuan Army and the Suwei Army, the number of soldiers also stabilized at 200,000 and 60,000.

This is almost the limit of the supply of the counties to Gyeonggi at this time, after all, the resources consumed to maintain the war readiness on the front line of Mengjindu and Wuliangshan are extremely huge.

The Black Yan Army still regularly sent people to Juquanling to buy armor and weapons.

In addition to quenching gold arrows and quenched gold halberd spears, the Black Yan Army mostly bought and sold a large number of quenched gold armor pieces from Juquan, and even directly took the quenched iron ingots and transported them to the foundry set up by the Black Yan Army in Jiyang to forge the armor by themselves.

By this time, not only the Black Yan Army, but also other forces, had almost figured out that in addition to the so-called inheritance behind the training records and the puppet technique, the core advantage of Juquanling that was really coveted by the heavens and men was the sufficient supply of quenched iron.

At this time, it is not difficult for all the forces to guess that Juquanling is to dig ore from the bottom of Juquan Lake and directly smelt quenched iron.

In the winter of the 75th year of Emperor Yitian, the daily output of quenched iron in Juquanling has exceeded 20,000 catties, and the total output of quenched iron in a year under the control of the three counties in Hexi under the control of the Dong clan is only 1 million catties, which is only equivalent to the output of Juquanling for one and a half months.

At this time, the forces of all families figured out that Juquan Lake contained amazing wealth, but it was too late to make a single move.

With the support of the prince Cai Chou, the Hexi Metropolitan Protectorate transferred Zhao Ruhui, Xie Kun and others, who were close to the Zhaoyang Pavilion Marquis Mansion, to serve in the Shicheng Ling Daoist Academy.

In addition to increasing the number of disciples of the Shichengling Daoist Academy and increasing the foundry, an additional 500 Dao soldiers were also transferred to strengthen the defense of the Shichengling, forming a horn with Juquanling.

Hexi and Qintong Mountain are separated by Tianshui County, and Juquanling is nominally attached to Zhaoyang Tinghou Mansion and Hexi, but across Tianshui County and the continuous mountains at the western foot of Qintong Mountain, the Dong family is beyond the reach of the whip and cannot directly control Juquanling.

The Dong clan's deployment is also to guard against those forces with bad intentions, monopolize the treasures at the bottom of Quanhu Lake, and kick Hexi aside.

In exchange, Juquanling wanted to supply a certain amount of quenching material to the foundry under the Shichengling Daoyuan at a low price, and at the same time, the foundry in Juquanling also officially recruited dozens of craftsmen led by Sun Buregret from the Taiwei Sect.

Regardless of whether his heart continues to be loyal to the Dong family and the Taiwei Sect, this is a bargaining chip that Chen Hai must give up.

Qintong Mountain is the jurisdiction of the Xiyuan Army, and at this time there are still 40,000 elites of the Xiyuan Army stationed in Qintong Pass, Nanzhangfu and Tongbeifu.

If it is not agreed that the Taiwei Sect will directly extend its tentacles into the core of Juquan Ridge, without the clamping of the Dong clan and other forces in Hexi, Chen Hai will really have no excuse to prevent the British king from sending troops to control Juquan Lake.

In any case, Juquan Lake was controlled by Juquanling at this time, but it did not belong to Juquanling.

Even if the British king won't tear his face with Hexi and other forces, he obviously won't let Hexi completely control Juquanling, after all, no one knows how much quenched iron can be smelted from the mineral sands at the bottom of Juquan Lake.

As the most important casting material for the top mortal iron armor and the yellow-level Xuan soldiers, the annual output of six or seven million catties of quenched iron in Juquanling is enough to change the pattern of the world;

Chen Xuanzhen wrote a letter suggesting that Ji Yuanren and Xue Cun's Mojia Workshop move west to Tongbei Mansion, and also directly choose a place to relocate on the east side of Juquanling before winter.

Although the Mojia Workshop is still under the direct command of Chen Hai, it actually represents the existence of the power of Yanjing and the eight clans of Jingjun in Juquanling - the garrison of the Xiyuan Army in Tongbei Mansion has been withdrawn, and at this time, in the name of building Tongbei Warehouse, 5,000 elites have been transferred to station.

In addition to the forces of the Shichengling Daoyuan and the Mojia Workshop representing the eight clans of Hexi and Jingjun, at the beginning of the winter of the seventy-fifth year of Emperor Yitian, Juquanling recruited more than 2,000 craftsmen and craftsmen from outside Tongbei Mansion.

Some forces didn't even hide it, and directly sent the Mingqi Realm refiners to Juquanling, as well as opened a foundry near Juquanling, and sent more craftsmen and craftsmen over.

Juquanling is not qualified to recruit disciples, and it cannot directly impose personal restrictions on the craftsmen and craftsmen recruited, so it cannot prevent the flow of craftsmen and craftsmen between different foundries.

In the winter of the 75th year of Emperor Yitian, the Miao clan in the northern region, the Zhao clan in the southern region, the Gu clan, and the Shu clan in the southwest region all obtained the permission of the Tianshu Yuan to open a Taoist academy near Juquanling.

The purpose of many forces working so hard is to covet the huge and cheap supply of quenched iron in Juquanling.

If only three or five Enlightenment Realm powerhouses were transferred to rate three or five hundred elite combat power, they could ensure that the supply of their own quenched iron materials would more than double, and they could also obtain sufficiently sophisticated armor and weapons from Juquan Ridge.