After seeing the power of the musket, the attitude of the dragon group towards the musket was divided into two poles.

On one side are people like Granny Xi and Liu Jianbai, who believe that the musket is powerful and simple to operate, so that weak people also have the ability to shoot high-level monks, and they will definitely set off a huge storm on the rivers and lakes in the future.

On the other side were Takagi and Cheng Dapeng, who believed that although the musket was powerful, it was very troublesome to reload, and there was only one chance to shoot on the battlefield. After a miss, it will be reduced to a lamb to the slaughter, so it can only be used as a sneak attack occasionally.

In fact, the majority of people have such thoughts, and even Situ Qingyun thinks so.

They believe that the reason why the dragon group was able to achieve success in the first battle was mainly because the enemy did not understand the musket explosives. If they had known about muskets and explosives beforehand, the Dragons wouldn't have been so lucky today.

So these people stubbornly believe that although musket explosives are extremely powerful, they are always an external force! Only a strong monk can dominate the rivers and lakes, otherwise the Thunderbolt Hall, which is good at firearms, will not be just a second-rate force.

Seeing that everyone was discussing this matter, Situ Qingyun hurriedly said: "Okay, everyone don't talk about it anymore, whether it is musket explosives or Wind King Divine Jade, these things must be kept strictly secret." Because as long as one thing leaks out, we will be targeted. So from now on, no one is allowed to talk about anything related to it, and you understand! ”

"Yes, understood!"

"Got it!"

When Cheng Dapeng, Yin Yufeng and the others heard this, they immediately nodded in response, they naturally understood the seriousness of this matter, so they quickly buried this matter in their hearts.

So after resting for a while, the people of the Dragon Group quickly evacuated, and in order to get away from the center of the storm as soon as possible, Situ Qingyun didn't even enter Yuezhou, so he went back to Weicheng directly.

However, Situ Qingyun was a little too nervous, because no one cared about them at all. After checking the situation at the scene, Zhuge Qinghong and Miao Pavilion directly accounted for the Thunderbolt Hall, who called the most slippery firearms in the rivers and lakes to play Thunderbolt Hall!

So inadvertently, the dragon group once again dumped the black cauldron to Thunderbolt Hall. However, Perak Hall did not suffer a loss, and with this achievement, Perak Hall's reputation in the rivers and lakes became even louder. As for whether Perak Hall wants to use this to increase its reputation, I don't know.

And when the rivers and lakes were in chaos because of this matter, Li Yun ignored the foreign affairs in Canglan Mountain, and only wanted to be a farmer.

Farming is a science, and planting a good field is a university question, but fortunately, Li Yun, who is a descendant of Yan Huang, has good farming genes.

So after a period of low-key farming, the Vermilion Bird Army can be said to be different from what it used to be!

At this time, the Suzaku Army was no longer in the same predicament as it was at the beginning, with two or three kittens and dogs, and the number of combat troops alone exceeded 3,000 people, and if you count all non-combatants, the total number has exceeded 10,000. Fortunately, Canglan Mountain is extremely extensive, and with the assistance of Linquan Village, it is not a problem to hide tens of thousands of people.

At present, the Suzaku Army is in the critical period of farming, so there are more non-combatants than combat troops. Because those non-combatants are the key to Li Yun's farming plan, and the solid backing for the development of the Vermilion Bird Army in the future!

Most of these large numbers of non-combatants are technicians and workers trained by Li Yun, and it is not easy to train a qualified technician, and it is far more difficult than training a soldier.

Now the Vermilion Bird Army is still in the farming period, so there is time for Li Yun to cultivate slowly, if he waits for the incident, I am afraid that Li Yun will not have the time and energy to do this kind of thing.

Moreover, these technical personnel directly determine the equipment and combat effectiveness of the Suzaku Army in the future.

Because of the strength of the Qianyuan Empire, Li Yun already knew something, so if he wanted to defeat this powerful feudal empire, Li Yun could only hope for firearms. And these technicians and workers are the greatest guarantee for the future Suzaku Army to equip firearms!

Therefore, Li Yun spends most of his time training these technicians, not combat troops. Therefore, these technicians are the greatest achievements of Li Yun's busy work these days, and they are also the most precious wealth that the Vermilion Bird Army currently has.

Fortunately, Li Yun's hard work was not in vain, and the long-term sweat and hair finally brought the brilliant results of farming, an industrial base that has begun to take shape!

The manufacture of firearms requires a well-developed industrial system, even if it is very primitive and rudimentary, but it is by no means comparable to ordinary handicraft workshops.

However, it is very difficult to build a complete industrial system from scratch. But fortunately, Li Yun has solved the most difficult theoretical and design aspects with his mobile phone, and the rest is to train workers and mechanical equipment.

Cultivating workers is very simple, copy some textbooks and build a school, and then train them part-time. But mechanical equipment is not so easy, there is no industrial machine, Li Yun does not have the superpower of iron, everything must really start from scratch.

In the past, when Li Yun copied the materials, he copied many drawings of simple industrial equipment during the first industrial revolution, but in simple mechanical equipment, it is also an industrial product.

Some simple wooden equipment is fine, but large equipment such as turning, milling, planing, grinding, and drilling is difficult.

However, the most difficult theory and design part has been solved by Li Yun with his mobile phone, so the biggest problem now is how to turn the things on the design drawings into real objects.

As the saying goes, if there are difficulties, you have to go up, and if there are no difficulties, you have to create difficulties! For these equipment, Li Yun does not expect high performance and efficiency, as long as it can meet the most basic machining, so after lowering the standard and weakening the performance, everything can still be improvised.

Therefore, Li Yun decided to use the simplest and most primitive method to make these equipment, that is, to enlarge the parts and polish them by hand!

The specific method is very simple, the small parts are forged by the blacksmith, and the large parts are directly poured, so that the basic shape of the part is made first, and the rest is frustrated by the craftsman with a file. After the frustration reaches a certain level, it is applied to a wooden grinder, and then it is sanded little by little.

Although it is not possible to turn, mill, drill, etc., it is possible to polish little by little using a grinding wheel and a grinding stone. Like the two guide rails of the lathe, it took more than a month to grind them out!

As for the other parts, such as gears and bearings, they are all polished by hand little by little by those skilled old craftsmen.

Of course, before that, Li Yun first unified weights and measures, and tried his best to make the most accurate measuring tools that could be made at this stage.

So in this improvisation, those mechanical equipment were finally made.

As for the power source of the equipment, Li Yun uses animal power in a unified manner, with large livestock such as rhinoceros beasts pushing the roulette wheel, and then amplifying and adjusting the gear pitch to finally drive the machine tool.

And tools like those used in machine tools are forged by special personnel. For this reason, Li Yun deliberately dismantled some jewelry, took some diamond diamonds, and used them to set them on the knife to make the cutter head. He even melted a divine weapon and used smelted spiritual metal to make a knife.

Spiritual metal is the best material for monks to forge swords, because spiritual metal has outstanding performance and can also transmit true qi more efficiently, so it is extremely precious. Back then, Situ Qingyun's master died in the hands of Huangfu Longjian because of a piece of spiritual essence iron mother.

And this piece of spiritual metal was originally a long knife, which was the heirloom of the owner of the big knife village. After the big knife village was destroyed, the knife was in Li Yun's hands, but in order to get a suitable knife, Li Yun melted it without regret.

Only by personally participating can we truly understand that these mechanical equipment are not easy to come by, and Li Yun and those technicians have made great efforts to achieve this.

In order to stimulate the enthusiasm of craftsmen, Li Yun rudely placed a gold mountain directly in front of the factory, as long as there are craftsmen who complete the task or have innovative inventions, they will directly give cash rewards on the spot. Originally, those craftsmen were still very frightened after coming to Canglan Mountain, but under the stimulation of gold, everyone was like chicken blood, so Li Yun was able to mobilize everyone's enthusiasm to complete all this.

As the so-called sharpening of knives does not mistake woodcutters, they focus on the establishment of basic industries, although there is no profit in the early stage and the investment is huge. But when these basic industries have a certain scale, the reporting to you will be immeasurable.

However, with the expansion of Li Yun's industrial layout, the demand for steel is increasing day by day, and the plan to infiltrate Qingping County has just begun, so the steel crisis of the Suzaku Army is becoming more and more serious. In the past, you could buy some steel through the black market, but the price of black market steel is extremely high, and if you buy too much, it may also attract the attention of people with a heart, so Li Yun is not less worried.

However, in the civilian and economic fields, the development of the Suzaku Army has been much smoother.

With a good start to soap, perfumes, glass, porcelain, spirits, medicines, etc. are in full swing. However, not all civilian factories were located in Canglan Mountain, and many of them were actually operated outside the mountain in the name of merchants, just like Song Dacheng's mountain goods store.

These industries operated by the Vermilion Bird Army outside the mountains not only provided Li Yun with considerable development funds, but also undertook the task of serving as an intelligence base and recruiting talents and transporting materials for the Suzaku Army.

Among them, the most successful development is a chain restaurant. As the saying goes, people take food as the sky, and the recipes copied by Li Yun are added, so it is difficult for the restaurant's business to be popular.

What's more, Li Yun is willing to give profits, and each restaurant will share a large amount of income to the local landlord. Therefore, Li Yun's restaurant blossomed everywhere in a very short period of time, radiating to the surrounding area at an extremely terrifying speed.