The upper cabin was large, with a large number of semi-finished and finished products piled up inside, and a large number of small wooden poles and iron arrowheads were stacked beside each craftsman, and the small ones in front of him were glued.

They sat on a small stool, took the small arrows on the left and right, and the small wooden stick in their right hand applied the glue, and then glued to the small arrows, and when they were sure that they were secure, they placed the whole arrow on the empty table on the right.

When there is a sufficient number of finished arrows on the empty table, a special craftsman will be responsible for collecting them and placing them on the drying rack in the cabin, waiting for the drying to be completed, and then they can be used.

The number of craftsmen on this level is controllable, you can have as many as you need, and the temporarily recruited craftsmen will soon be able to do it, after all, this kind of work has no technical content, it is too simple.

The first few processes are not difficult, as long as the front line needs arrows, it is trivial to increase the output tenfold, and it can be done by adding more craftsmen.

There are many shelves in the cabins, on which are densely packed with finished arrows, which are still in the drying stage, and as soon as the arrows are completely solidified, they will be gathered up and packed in bundles of fifty, that is, tied with rope.

After that, each twenty bundles would be packed in a wooden box to facilitate transportation, and the arrows would be transported smoothly to the front line and handed over to the Ottoman and Artik forces.

As for why the arrows are standing in the wooden box, it is natural to preserve, the arrows are easy to be damaged when placed in the open air, how strong the thin wooden strips can be, and at the same time, the viscose is also afraid of sunlight and rain erosion, so the wooden box can better protect these arrows and allow them to be used normally.

There are a lot of arrows that are being dried, and there are also many arrows that are completely dried, and they are bundled together and stacked at a very high height, and the military ship responsible for the production of wooden boxes is on the other side, and many craftsmen are busy sending the finished wooden boxes over, and then, loading twenty bundles of arrows, and then carrying them to the shipping area for storage.

Li An needed to personally inspect the quality of the arrows so that he could feel more at ease, so he picked up a bundle of arrows, gently untied the rope, and checked them one by one in his hand.

"Yes, well done, all qualified, hahaha!"

Li An smiled happily, he was very satisfied with the quality of the craftsmen's work, and all of them could be qualified if they checked a bundle at will, which showed that most of the products produced were qualified, and the pass rate was close to 100%.

"Li Shilang, the military industrial ship has not yet reached the maximum output, if necessary, it can increase the output tenfold, and it is not difficult to produce hundreds of thousands of arrows a day."

Subordinates proudly report.

Li An nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, very good, you can maintain such a high output, I can rest assured, Ottoman and Artik will soon face the expansion of the army, the demand for weapons is very high, especially the high-consumption weapons such as arrows, there is an extremely high demand, first maintain the current output, as long as necessary, ready to expand production at any time." ”

"Yes, my subordinates understand."

The subordinate answered.

At present, ninety percent of the arrows produced are the arrows needed by the repeater, one is because the repeater consumes arrows relatively quickly, on the other hand, only Datang has the experience and ability to manufacture repeater arrows, if the Ottoman and Artik are allowed to produce repeater arrows, they do not have this ability at all.

A lot of normal arrows were also produced to better support the Ottomans and Artik, which had to be paid anyway.

In addition, there are a lot of spearheads made of spearheads, and they are all much more advanced than the long-haired heads that Ottoman and Artik have, after all, Datang's metal smelting technology is incomparable to these small countries, and the metal smelted by Datang is more strong and durable, and the probability of battlefield damage is much lower than that of their own weapons.

As for the spear shaft, it is just made of wood, and Datang does not provide it for them in order to facilitate transportation, and they should be able to solve it easily.

Armor belongs to defensive weapons, but also an important equipment of an army, since ancient times, the Chinese dynasties and generations of armor attach much more importance to armor than to weapons, ordinary people with a knife and bow and arrow is nothing, but if you have armor, it is suspected of rebellion.

Many dynasties have stipulated that as long as a piece of armor is hidden, it constitutes a crime of treason, but possession of a spear and a bow and arrows is not a crime.

Of course, if you have a heavyweight weapon like the Fuyuan crossbow and the Mo knife, it is also a crime, because an ordinary person, you don't need to have such a powerful weapon at all, to deal with the beasts such as jackals, tigers and leopards, it is enough to have a spear and a bow and arrow, what do you want to do with the Fu Yuan crossbow, Mo knife and armor.

Because the Huaxia court was more sensitive to defensive armor, Li An did not support the Ottoman and Artic armor, and it was enough to support their weapons and to be benevolent and righteous.

After getting out of the first military ship, Ang Lee went to two more military ships, different from the first military ship to produce arrows, the second steam ship mainly produced melee weapons such as spearheads, and the third military ship produced repeater crossbows and Fuyuan crossbows, of course, there were some auxiliary items, such as baggage carts and wooden boxes.

After the production of these military materials is completed, people will be sent directly to the Ottoman and Artik camps in the north, and the people responsible for the transportation task are not the Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses, but the local ordinary merchants, they will get a certain amount of payment, of course, it is Artik and Ottoman who pay, and in order to ensure the safety of these merchants, Ottoman and Artik will send some soldiers and horses back to escort them.

After inspecting the three military ships, Li An returned to his residence with great satisfaction, took the map, and began to study the next plan.

Now that Artik and Osman have achieved a lot of success, the completely set goal is not difficult at all, and Ang Lee also needs to start preparing for the next construction plan.

The city of Aden is a completed city, the port and commercial facilities, including the city walls, are intact and have not been damaged by the war in the slightest, so there is no question of reconstruction and much planning, just possession of the city is enough.

However, with the further prosperity of commerce in the future and the opening of the canal, the current scale of Aden City is obviously too small, and it still needs to be further expanded to meet the needs of future commercial expansion, so expansion is a task that must be completed.

It's just that on the issue of how to expand Aden City and how to expand the port of Aden City, Li Ang still needs to carefully consider it, and he must not be sloppy in the slightest, so as not to cause irreparable losses.

There is no doubt that the port will have to be expanded, because with the influx of more ships, the current size of the port in Aden City will sooner or later be unable to accommodate it, and a larger port will have to be built to accommodate more and more ships.

There are several locations in the vicinity that are more suitable for building a port, all of which are suitable for building a large port, but which one has the most advantages will require careful comparison to determine.

Some locations have good port conditions, which can save the cost of building ports to the greatest extent, some locations have large water areas and can accommodate more ships, and some locations are close to the old port of Aden City, which has location advantages.

In short, the several locations provided by his subordinates to Li An have their own advantages and disadvantages, and it is entirely up to Li An to determine which new port to build.

And after reading the information of these ports, it was difficult for Li Ang to make a final decision for a while, after all, these ports have their own advantages and disadvantages, and it is indeed difficult to choose.

If all these sites are built into ports, it is obviously not possible, even if all of them need to be built once, then there must be a priority and priority, at least one by one needs to be built, and the first one must be the best port.

When he can't make up his mind, Ang Lee will also choose to discuss it with his subordinates, after all, what about the three stinkers and Zhuge Liang? What's more, his subordinates are all Tang officials, not stinkers.

"There are more than a dozen suitable ports, this is difficult for the official, which one is better? Do you have any opinions, let's talk about it! ”

Ang Lee kicked the ball to his subordinates, trying to get them an idea.

"Li Shilang, since there will be more and more ships in the future, it is better to build it in the largest port! The waters here are large enough to build a port ten times larger than the existing one. ”

One of the subordinates spoke.

"No, the port has not been used up yet, there is no need to build such a large port at once, and besides, although the territory of this place is large enough, the water is too shallow, and the cost of building a port is too great, I am afraid it is not easy to raise so much money from Aden City! Forcibly apportioning a lot of money would make the merchants of Aden dissatisfied, and it was not appropriate to ask the imperial court for money, but it was better to choose a port with the best terrain, the cost of construction was relatively small, and the funds needed for construction could be easily obtained. ”

Another subordinate said.

"This place is very good, but it is a little remote from the original port of Aden City, if this is built, it will not be the port of Aden City, but just a port, and it will not play much role in the prosperity of the business of Aden City, or it is more reasonable to choose this place near the original port, in this way, you can slightly expand the city wall, so that the new port and the original port are in the same city, so that it is most in line with the current interests, as for the rest of the places, after the commercial development will be faster in the future, and the city of Aden can not accommodate itand build a new city in that place, forming a sister city with the city of Aden. ”

Another subordinate disagreed.

After listening to the answers of several subordinates, Li An thought carefully for a long time, and finally felt that what the last subordinate said made sense, since there is only one city in Aden City nearby, the new port must be as close as possible to Aden City, so as to play its due role, and the proximity to the city is also convenient for mobilizing the materials needed for construction from Aden City, so that the construction of the port can be completed better and faster, and the cost can also be controlled at a very low level.

"So be it! Choose the location closest to the port of Aden City! This is also easy to manage, you go down separately to arrange, recruit craftsmen as soon as possible, it is best to start construction immediately, go quickly! ”

Li An opened his mouth to arrange.

Several subordinates heard the order and went separately to prepare, it would cost a lot of money to build the port, but Li An had a lot of money in his hands, and there was still a lot of surplus in the funds obtained from robbing pirates and doing business along the way, which was enough to support the current scale of construction, and after taking over the city of Aden, he would soon be able to obtain a large amount of various tax revenues, which was enough to make up for the expenses of building the port.

After the construction of the port is completed, the Datang fleet can also go to the new port, thus freeing up more commercial space for the old port and further promoting the prosperity of commerce.

In the royal city of Khorasan, the newly appointed caliph al-Mansur was in a very bad mood, and even on the verge of collapse.

In order to sit on the throne, he sent Abu *** to lead almost all the elite soldiers and horses to the north to encircle and suppress Abdullah, but he did not expect that the Ottoman and Artik in the southwest suddenly joined forces and swallowed more than a dozen cities of the Apos Dynasty in one go, and they were still advancing north at a faster speed, and at the current speed of advancement, they would soon be able to occupy the entire peninsula.

And Mansur deployed very few soldiers and horses on the peninsula, a total of less than 30,000 people, among them, the most elite 10,000 Khorasan cavalry, has been wiped out, and the remaining soldiers and horses are scattered in various cities, and they are not elite soldiers and horses, it is difficult to resist the Ottoman and Artik coalition forces, and the most terrifying thing for Mansur is that behind these two people, there is actually the support of the Tang Empire, so the situation is even more complicated.

Mansur doesn't have much troops in his hands now, because the soldiers and horses have been transferred to Abu ***, the main army is all in the north, and the tens of thousands of horses he only has are left to defend Khorasan and the royal city, and they must not be easily transferred, otherwise, once Khorasan is lost, the situation will be even worse.

"What is the situation with Abu ***, has he not captured Abdullah's lair yet?"

Mansur yelled angrily.

"Caliph, news came back from the front, saying that Abdullah was cowering in his lair and did not come out, there was enough surplus food for half a year, and the loss of attacking with all his might was too great, General Abu *** had given up the attack and adopted a siege strategy, as long as the siege lasted for half a year, Abdullah would be starved to death, and we would win without a fight."

The subordinate next to him said.

Mansour said angrily: "Half a year, how can I have half a year for him, the two bastards Osman and Artik, with the support of the Tang Dynasty, have rebelled in the south, or it won't be long before they will occupy all the rich peninsulas, and even enter Khorasan, we can't wait any longer, we must let Abu *** return to the army as soon as possible, destroy the Osman and Artik in the south first, Abdullah let him live for a while longer!" ”

Obviously, Mansour was already helpless, and he had no choice but to transfer back Abu *** and the main army.