The crowd greeted Liu Feng under Wu'an City, whose faces were flushed, breathed a sigh of relief, although it was nearly a hundred miles away, it was not tiring, but the scorching sun was too poisonous, which made him a little uncomfortable.

"The commander of the Wu'an battalion, Zeng Yu, led his troops to welcome the city lord!" Zeng Yu stepped forward to stroke his chest and saluted a military salute, and everyone behind him also saluted.

Liu Feng jumped down from a dozen steps away, laughed, and said, "Commander Zeng is too polite, this poisonous day is too sunny, so much that you and your brothers will suffer." ”

Zeng Yu bowed down and said, "Just let the city lord review my Wu'an Battalion sergeant!" As soon as the words fell, the sergeants who had stood hard for half an hour were demoralized, and they raised their heads and bowed to Liu Feng.

"Brothers have worked hard!" Liu Feng stepped forward to take a closer look, the sergeants lined up outside the city, although they stood for half an hour under the scorching sun, their momentum was undiminished, and the sweat stains on their bodies were even more easily visible, he hammered the chests of several sergeants, and said to Zeng Yu: "Your Wu'an battalion is fast to become an army, and in just over a month, you have trained such a fierce sergeant!" ”

Zeng Yu smiled: "These sergeants are old sergeants who follow their subordinates, they just couldn't keep up with the food before, but they have only recovered for more than a month, and they will become more elite in the future!" ”

Hearing this, Liu Feng was even more refreshed, and laughed: "Okay! Good! I'm waiting for you to train a more elite sergeant to come with me! Let's hurry into the city, don't let the brothers suffer too much, beware of dehydration! ”

The sergeants of Ancheng, Liu Feng felt at ease, although these sergeants were not as elite as his personal guards, but they were also the number one elite soldiers of this era, but they were still a little lacking in spirit after a long period of malnutrition, but the fierce momentum in their eyes was not inferior to the sergeants of the personal guard battalion.

Zeng Yu was also simple, he didn't put on a big banquet, he washed the dust for Liu Feng, just made a simple arrangement in the barracks, Zhou Tieheng, Cao Zheng and others, who were still a little worried about Zeng Yu's arrangement, saw that Liu Feng did not have a trace >of annoyance, and naturally dined with the sergeants in the barracks, so that Liu Feng did this, so that the sergeants in the Wu'an camp also looked at this young city lord differently

After the meal, Liu Feng did not let Zeng Yu and the other chief officials accompany him, so he went straight to the refinery with Za Xiong, the main purpose of his visit to the Wu'an camp this time was not to inspect the soldiers of Wu'an, but to discuss the matter of iron-making with Zamule.

Now Liu Feng's several battalions have not been fully equipped with armor, and the iron materials stored everywhere before are building weapons, waterwheels, building city walls, restaurants, etc., and there is not enough iron materials to make armor, and he knows the importance of armor to the sergeants in the cold weapon combat stage, if there is enough iron, he will arm the sergeants under his command to the teeth.

And Wu'an City is exactly a place that Liu Feng wants to focus on, which is not only the key point to guard the southward movement of the wolf, but also an important production area of coal and iron in Cizhou, but after more than ten years of war, the mine refinery here has long been dilapidated.

After more than a month of repair, a smelting furnace in the refinery has also started, the already hot weather, the smelting furnace is even hotter, Liu Feng walked to this refining furnace, about five meters high, the craftsmen did not know Liu Feng, and did not pay attention to him, Ren is sweating like rain to the refining furnace to load all kinds of raw materials, and craftsmen on the side of the wind, Liu Feng stood by the furnace for a long time and couldn't stand the high temperature, had to leave far away, but the craftsmen at the furnace were very energetic, he secretly said in his heart: "Zamul still has some ability." ”

At present, what they are smelting is only pig iron, and they cannot directly make weapons and armor, and they have to go through the iron shop to process them again before they can make weapons.

When I walked to the iron shop in the refinery, I heard the sound of clanging hammers, and the sound of zamul urns filling the entire iron shop.

Seeing Liu Feng Zaxiong coming in, some familiar craftsmen stepped forward and saluted, Zamulezi Zaxiong was also behind Liu Feng, and he didn't know how to salute for a while, but Liu Feng took a step forward and took Zamule's arm and said: "Zha Zhu, these days, it's hard!" ”

Zamule came to his senses and said, "It's not hard, the first batch of pig iron has just been smelted, about five hundred catties!" ”

When Liu Feng heard this, he was a little happy and said, "Okay! Good! This month, the money of all craftsmen in the refinery will be raised by 30%! He knew that the craftsmen at the furnace were indispensable.

The craftsmen in the shop were full of joy, Liu Feng waved his hand, and said, "What is the situation of the refinery now?" ”

"Now we can guarantee the smelting of raw iron every month, and if we increase the manpower and build an iron-making furnace, the output can still be expanded!" When it came to the matter of the iron shop, Zamul said in a calm and affirmative tone.

To make a pair of iron armor, at least 30 catties of pig iron are needed, or even more, if more than 10,000 soldiers in Cizhou are armoured, at least 350,000 catties of pig iron are needed, which does not include, to make three-edged spears and knives and farm tools, etc., the gap is not ordinarily large, fortunately, there is already coal and iron on the Purple Mountain, and there is no need to spend silver money to buy coal and stone.

Liu Feng pondered for a while and said: "You don't have to worry about manpower, I will transfer you another 500 people, but you have to increase the output of pig iron to nearly 10,000 catties per month." ”

The craftsmen looked at each other when they heard this, Zamul also frowned a little, and said in embarrassment: "I'm afraid it's difficult to do, just increasing the number of manpower can't solve all the problems, we don't have an experienced furnace furnace, even if we build a furnace, the output will not increase much for a while." ”

Zaxiong's cold water woke up Liu Feng, as the saying goes: "Ten thousand high-rise buildings rise from the ground!" He realized that he was in a bit too hasty.

Liu Feng thought for a while, waved his hand and said, "Call the current master craftsman of the refining furnace, let's discuss together, and we can always find a way!" He couldn't solve this thorny problem for a while, so he could only brainstorm it together.

While everyone was thinking, an old craftsman of forty or fifty years old, hunched over, peaked, and his face full of wrinkles was a little panicked.

Zamule stepped forward to introduce Liu Feng and said, "City Lord, this is Master Bei Yuanliang, the furnace craftsman in Wu'an City, and now he is also a senior craftsman in our Cizhou. ”

Seeing this, Bei Yuanliang stepped forward in awe to bow down, but Liu Feng couldn't see this, and waved his hand early and said, "Master Bei, there is no need to be polite, please come to discuss the matter of refining the furnace." ”

Hearing Liu Feng talking to him so kindly, and seeing Liu Feng at the refining furnace just now, Bei Yuanliang relaxed a little, but his hunched back still couldn't stand up, and he arched his hand and said, "Please also ask the city lord to command!" ”

Liu Feng carefully inquired about various matters in the furnace department, and he found that the current production method is still a little disjointed, the division of labor is too general, and a relatively complete production chain has not been formed.

Seeing that Liu Feng was listening to them very carefully to explain the various matters of the iron shop of the refinery, the craftsmen opened the conversation box and mentioned all kinds of suggestions to Liu Feng more and more carefully, and at this moment, Liu Feng also found paper, listened carefully to the suggestions of the craftsmen, and wrote down three or five pieces of paper after a while.

At this time, the craftsmen were also racking their brains, Liu Feng flipped down the record, and had some plans in his heart, and said with a smile: "It is said that the three stinkers are better than Zhuge Liang!" I'm not bad, I have so many ways in less than half an hour. ”

The craftsmen also smiled modestly.

Liu Feng cleared his throat and said, "According to the suggestions made by all the masters and some of the difficulties that our refinery is currently facing, I will also tell you my thoughts!" ”

Seeing that the craftsmen were listening intently, Liu Feng said slowly: "First of all, the craftsmen and miners of our refinery will be given monthly rules according to the classification of craftsmen in Cizhou, that is, the fifth-class treatment of apprenticeship primary, intermediate and senior masters, which is fundamental. The craftsmen who had not yet been treated with rank were also full of joy.

"In addition, we have to carefully divide the craftsmen and masters in the iron shop of the refinery, miners, transporters, furnace workers, casters, fitters, hammers, etc., except for senior craftsmen, the rest of the craftsmen and masters will all work according to the type of work they are familiar with, and bring apprentices." Seeing that the craftsmen were also nodding approvingly, Liu Feng continued

"Thirdly, since our furnace is small, we will work together to build a large new furnace at the Purple Mountain, so that we can save manpower from mining, transporting stone and smelting."

Seeing that everyone was pondering, Liu Feng said with a smile: "For the time being, in the next few days, it will be up to Chief Zha to lead you to do things well, and I will fully support you." ”

Liu Feng's eyes were shining, and he said: "Don't be afraid of any difficulties, if you encounter any problems in the future, you can also sit together and discuss carefully like today!" ”

Everyone laughed when they heard this, today's Liu Feng's unique discussion also opened everyone's thinking in disguise, some problems were solved by everyone as soon as you said a word, and for a while they were full of enthusiasm and pride.