When the battle between Wang Han and the Temujin tribe ended, Wan Yankang immediately turned his horse's head and galloped towards the Starfire tribe.

When he returned, Wan Yankang was still thinking in his heart, if someone from the Starfire Tribe was unwilling to return to White Horse City, what should he do, should he let him stay, or should he be forcibly taken away?

When he returned to Starfire Valley, Wan Yankang found that Ye Siming had already ordered everyone in the tribe to pack up, and as soon as he arrived, all the tribe members could leave for White Horse City.

Ye Siming led a few dozen people, from a group of horse thieves to a Xinghuo tribe with 3,000 warriors and a population of nearly 10,000. His prestige in the tribe at the moment can be described as in the sky, and no one dares to disobey an order.

Different from the galloping cavalry in battle, the Starfire tribe all returned eastward, and nearly 10,000 people carried tents, pots and pans, drove cattle and sheep, and marched slowly and leisurely.

The journey of four or five hundred miles, which took nearly ten days, took him to reach White Horse City.

The war between the Kereh tribe and the beggar tribe has just ended, and there is no time to take care of the movements of the Starfire tribe. The small and medium-sized tribes between Starfire Valley and White Horse City are all close to White Horse City at this time, and no one comes to fight the autumn breeze without opening their eyes.

After the Starfire tribe moved eastward, the original grassland was empty, which happened to be cheaper than the tribe on the left.

There were suddenly nearly 10,000 people in White Horse City, and it was suddenly much more lively.

The arrangement of the fighters and the resettlement of their families are the top priorities at present.

Wan Yankang originally wanted to keep the three thousand cavalry of the Starfire Tribe basically immobile, and after a little rectification, he could form two battalions.

Fan Junping privately raised a different opinion: "Marshal, I suggest that the new cavalry be scattered and mixed with the cavalry in the city. ”

Wanyan Kangqi asked, "Why?" ”

In order for a unit to develop combat effectiveness, in addition to the basic quality of its soldiers, necessary training and a relatively stable establishment are among the important factors.

Fan Junping said: "Dashuai, the Starfire tribe is newly returned, and most of its people call themselves the people of Starfire, and they do not claim to be people from White Horse City. The people of its tribe only know the power of the Yetou people, but do not know the name of the handsome. If it is not mixed when it is newly returned, it will be even more difficult to rectify it in the future. ”

Wan Yankang pondered for a while: "I'm afraid that Master Ye will have ideas. ”

Fan Junping said with a straight face: "With my understanding of General Ye, this matter only needs to be said openly, if he has no dissenting intentions, he should fully support it." ”

Wan Yankang nodded: "Okay, I'll talk to Master Ye today." ”

As Fan Junping expected, Ye Siming expressed his full support for the mixing.

Wanyan Kang reciprocated by appointing Ye Siming as the deputy marshal of White Horse City, and if he was not there, the officers in the city would be headed by Ye Siming.

The 3,000 cavalry of the Starfire Tribe were strictly screened, and after eliminating 1,000 people, the remaining 2,000 men and horses were completely scattered and mixed with the original army of White Horse City.

After the mixing was completed, Wan Yankang found an embarrassing matter that needed to be solved urgently.

The armor of the original army in White Horse City was all transported from the Jin Kingdom, with a unified system and excellent equipment. As for the 2,000 men and horses of the Starfire Tribe, most of the armor was plundered, with a variety of styles and uneven quality.

Zhongdu can transport soldiers and armor from the grassland every year, but there are only 10,000 people. With the development and growth of White Horse City and the gradual increase in the number of soldiers, it is definitely not enough to rely on the support of the Central Capital alone.

What's more, Wan Yankang is always worried about the outbreak of certain things in his heart, if there is no support from Zhongdu at that time, how should White Horse City deal with itself?

Do it yourself, have plenty of food and clothing. After Yan Kang remembered these two sentences, he immediately found Fan Junping and Ouhua to discuss the development plan of White Horse City.

Hundreds of miles of grasslands and mountains from Gyeongju to Baekba City were all under the rule of Wan Yan Kang. The newly attached herdsmen of the Xinghuo tribe, plus the original herdsmen in the city, the number is only twenty or thirty thousand, and these hundreds of miles of grassland are enough for them to herd horses and sheep.

And Wan Yankang vaguely remembered that there were a large number of high-quality iron ore hidden in the mountains and forests from Gyeongju to White Horse City, and if it could be mined and smelted, it would be able to achieve self-sufficiency in the future.

Wan Yan Kang meant that a separate department should be set up to be responsible for mining, smelting, and building armor.

When Ouhua heard this, he immediately came to his senses. He and Fan Junping both serve as cultural and educational personnel in the Shenbing base, but they have their own expertise. Fan Junping is good at planning, but Ouhua likes to tinker with some mechanical objects, which is quite a bit of a Mohist apprentice.

After Yan Kang came to the base instructor in White Horse City, there were only two civil officials, Ou Hua and Fan Junping. Now that the rules in the city are all set, and the two of them have just been idle for a while, Ouhua immediately volunteered to take over the work of the new department after hearing Yan Kang's meaning.

After some discussion, Wan Yankang decided to set up a craftsman department and appointed Ouhua as the minister, who was fully responsible for mining, smelting, building armor and the research and development and production of various offensive and defensive equipment.

Wan Yankang selected a company of soldiers from the army to distribute to Ouhua, and asked him to personally select three students from the first phase of the Divine Soldier to serve as the team of the craftsman department.

The funds of the craftsman department, Wan Yankang waved his hand, and fifty percent of the financial balance of White Horse City was used by the ministry. If you need to increase the funds, you can also add them as appropriate after asking Yan Kang himself for instructions.

With people, money and materials, Helvar is full of confidence and begins to carry out work in full swing.

Finding high-quality iron ore is the first task of the craftsman department.

Ouhua personally led his subordinates to go up the mountain immediately, and released a reward of 1,000 taels of silver to find clues to the iron ore.

Five days later, the bounty was taken.

When Ouhua led people to look for iron ore, Wan Yankang had already mobilized the power of Huang Jide and other merchants to recruit blacksmiths who knew how to smelt and craftsmen who could make fine armor from all over the country.

Blacksmiths are easy to find, but craftsmen who can make fine armor are hard to find, especially craftsmen who make bows and arrows, and they are even more scarce.

What do you say?

In these years, most of the craftsmen who could make armor worked in the imperial court.

The craftsmen in the opposition have rough skills and too few people.

After Yan Kang thought about it, he wrote a handwritten letter to Li Xi'er, asking him to be responsible for getting a hundred craftsmen and ten masters for himself.

In exchange, Wan Yankang could let the members of the Yicheng Football Association give Li Xi'er.

Li Xier was overjoyed when she received the letter, this member of the Football Association has at least 200,000 taels of income every year!

In the face of the huge temptation, Li Xier immediately went on the horse to visit the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, explained his intentions in a big way, and dug up the corner of the Ministry of Industry.

Li Xi'er, the big Buddha, opened his mouth to ask for someone, how dare the Ministry of Industry dare to be lazy, especially Li Xi'er also sealed a generous gift of five hundred taels of gold.

But for the Ministry of Industry, ordinary craftsmen are easy to obtain, but masters are treasures.

Li Xi'er made a lot of hard work, and in the end, the Ministry of Industry Shangshu only gave five masters, but added twenty ordinary craftsmen.

Li Xi'er also knew where the bottom limit of the Ministry of Industry was, so she had to give up, and wrote back to Wan Yankang to explain the situation, even apologize, and said that Wan Yankang could transfer slightly fewer molecules.

When Wan Yankang saw one hundred and twenty-five craftsmen, he was already overjoyed. In his heart, he expected that Li Xi'er could get half of the craftsmen, and he would have already completed the task.

If there is an iron mine and a craftsman, everything is ready, just waiting to be harvested.

Wan Yankang put forward a request to Ouhua that the quality of the newly built armor in the city should surpass the existing armor level of the Jin Kingdom. The standard bows and arrows of White Horse City are all set to be a stone bow.

In addition, Wan Yankang also put forward the idea of building a new ace army, the horses and equipment of this army must be above the ordinary troops, the horses used must be one in a hundred, and the bows and crossbows used must all use two-stone strong bows.

In Wan Yankang's vision, it will be difficult for White Horse City to increase its strength rapidly in the next two or three years, so it can only enhance the military strength of White Horse City by improving the quality of individual combat.

In addition to high-intensity training, the craftsman department under the helm of Helvar is the core of improving combat power. Wanyan Kang set a strategic goal, within a year, to let all the soldiers of White Horse City complete the dressing.

Helvar is full of confidence and declares that he will complete the task.

A month later, Ouhua was tired and thinned, and his originally thinning hair was lost by 20%.

However, the production of the craftsman department is far from reaching the preset output.

According to the strategic goal set by Wan Yankang, the production of the craftsman department in one month needs enough for 1,000 people to change clothes.

But the January period has passed, and the output of the craftsman department is only enough for 300 people to change clothes.

The salaries of craftsmen in the craftsman department have doubled, and Helvar has established various incentive regulations.

These more than 100 craftsmen are all conscientious, and there is no half of them who are lazy and slippery.

The final production is less than one-third of the preset task, which makes Helvar very big. Helvar did some research and found that if the requirements for equipment were relaxed, the monthly production could be at least doubled according to the quality of Jinguo's existing armor.

But Wan Yankang's request is to keep improving, and the equipment he produces must be better than the existing armor of the Jin State, otherwise he will spend so much money and food, and it will be meaningless to promise to become a member of the Football Association.

After listening to Ouhua's report, Yan Kang immediately changed into civilian clothes, brought a face towel, and went to the craftsman department for a day.

After returning to the Shuai Mansion, Wan Yankang called Ouhua: "Minister Xiao, the problem has been found." ”

Ouhua raised his eyebrows: "Young marshal, say quickly, say quickly." ”

"Five masters, each with about 20 apprentices, this method is feasible, but it is only the initial stage of production management."

"Of these five masters, two of them are good at making armor and knives, two are good at making bows and arrows, and one person is above everyone else, and they are very good at making armor, knives, and bows, but the apprentices and craftsmen brought by these five people do everything and are not good at anything." Speaking of this, Wan Yankang stopped talking.

Ouhua instantly understood: "What the young marshal meant, we should make the best use of it, if the armor is good, let this group concentrate on the armor making, if the knife is good, concentrate on the knife, and if the bow and arrow is made, concentrate on the bow and arrow!" ”

Wan Yankang knocked on the table: "If this point can be adjusted well, the production efficiency should be increased by fifty percent." ”

Ouhua was overjoyed at first, and then said with a bitter face: "That's still not the task......

Wan Yankang stretched out a finger and smiled slightly: "If there is something that can be done well, you, the head of the craftsman department, will be able to sit back and relax." ”

Helvar's eyes widened, and his ears pricked up.

Wan Yankang said: "The fine division of labor, armor making, knife fighting, bow and arrow making, are all composed of many steps, an apprentice craftsman, to reach the level of these masters, at least eight to ten years of hard work, this has to be taught by the master sincerely, without selfishness." But how long does it take for an apprentice to master only one of the steps? ”

Ouhua opened his mouth wide, and then slapped his thigh violently: "The young marshal is wise, the young marshal is wise!" ”

After the excitement, Ouhua looked at Yan Kang's head and stared at it for a long time, as the saying goes, he is extremely smart, the young marshal is so smart, why is there no sign of the top!

After Yan Kang's assignment, Ouhua implemented a fine division of labor in the craftsmanship department, and the five masters were each responsible for making armor, making knives, and making bows and arrows, and taught apprentices.

At the same time, Helvar recruited 300 school-age youths in the city to join the craftsman department to enrich the manufacturing force.

Wan Yankang is very strict with the management of the craftsman department, although Ouhua was worried about the lack of production, but he was even more afraid of attracting newcomers to leak secrets. At this time, after the craftsman department began to divide labor finely, Ouhua was relieved to boldly recruit people.

New recruits are only a part of the assembly line, and they can't master the overall process of making armor, let alone participate in the core links. In this way, even if these new recruits have the details of other tribes, they will not be able to learn the core secrets.

In the second month, the production of the craftsman department showed a blowout trend, which was more than double that of the first month.

In the third month, the production of the craftsman department increased steadily, tripling compared to the first month.

A year later, the craftsman's department overfulfilled the task, and Ouhua received 30,000 taels of silver from the treasury and distributed the silver reward in public.