Yang Cong was most concerned about the production of weapons and equipment at this time, because he had already seen that the reason why the border army could not defeat the Tartars was mainly due to the problem of weapons and equipment.

Although the weapons and equipment of the Tartars are similar to those of the border army, but they have horses, and the impact of a horse is four or five hundred catties, that is to say, even if they don't make any effort, they will cut it with a knife with the impact of the horse, which is also a force of four or five hundred catties.

Now, it is definitely impossible to compete with other people's cavalry, because people are specialized in raising horses, and it is not a problem to gather 50,000 or even 100,000 cavalry, and there are not many war horses on the Ming side, most of them are also sold for money by those corrupt officials and corrupt officials, from Shanxi to Shanxi, six border towns, it is good to be able to pull out 60,000 war horses, and compare cavalry with others, it is purely to find abuse, if you want to defeat the Tartar cavalry, you can only rely on weapons and equipment.

At this time, it must be too late to make muskets and artillery, these two things are not purely handmade, and some auxiliary facilities are also needed, such as the sand field for pouring sand molds, the platform for drilling gun barrels, the machine for digging gun barrels, and so on.

Of course, the machines mentioned here are not semi-automatic or fully automatic machines in later generations, but purely manual machines, however, these machines alone need to be prepared for a month, and three months is not enough to add the preparation site, prepare materials, trial production samples, test performance, etc.

The muskets and artillery of these years are not made and can be used, many of them are blown up after a try, as for the reasons for the explosion, there are many, Yang Cong has no time to think about these, in short, there is no half a year of preparation and experimentation, and he does not want to create qualified muskets and artillery, at this time he can only build some thunder and fire dragon chariots first, and deal with the attack of the Tartars first.

This thunder and fire dragon chariot is not said to be able to be built, just to prepare the site and materials or something is estimated to take a month, and the Tartar is still about three months to fight, the time is quite tight, and he is more anxious.

Early the next morning, he took Shen Lian and a group of brocade guards to the original Zhang Mansion, which is now the Ministry of Industry, and the supervisor of the Xuanhua Factory.

He ran to Zhang's mansion to take a look, good guy, it's lively inside.

It turned out that the plaque of Zhangfu didn't know whether it was taken away by the people of Zhangfu or demolished by Wang Xuan, there were only a few hooks left on the gate, and a few carpenters were busy making new plaques inside the door, and Wang Xuan was pulling Xue Nantang and Li Du, as well as a few old men, around the middle of the square in the front yard to discuss something.

Yang Cong leaned over to take a look, and it turned out that there was a sketch of Zhangfu in the middle, and Wang Xuanzheng pointed to it and arranged it, and he didn't even notice that he was coming.

He stretched out his head and listened for a while, and was finally discovered by Xue Nantang on the side, Xue Nantang hurriedly arched his hand and said, "My lord, you are here." ”

Yang Cong hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No need to be polite, no need to be polite, you continue." ”

This year is not so casual, the distinction between the noble and the lowly can be clear, Wang Xuan saw Yang Cong coming, and hurriedly stopped and gave a salute, and the old men were even more respectful.

Although he is not a big official, in the eyes of these military craftsmen, it is already considered to be the top of the sky, in the past, where would they have thought that the dignified inspector would stand and talk with them, if it wasn't for Yang Cong to stop them, they would probably all lie on the ground.

This guy seems to be a little redundant, forget it, ask about the general progress and leave.

Yang Cong simply asked, "Sir, how is this land, when will the construction start?" ”

When Wang Xuan heard this, he said with a sad face: "This land is spacious enough, and there are many houses, as long as the carriageway is tidied out, but this material is a bit difficult to do. ”

Yang Cong has considered materials or something, such as gunpowder, just pull it directly from the Wang Gong factory in the capital, a thunderbolt will only be one or two catties of gunpowder, 10,000 will be 10,000 catties, and a dozen or so carriages are enough, as for the wood, the mountains are everywhere, just cut it directly, and the clay is easy to find, just dig it directly.

For example, when attacking a city, a ladder or a siege vehicle is built, and when you see a tree, you can cut it down, and whoever dares to stop it is not cutting down a tree, but cutting people.

This thunder and fire dragon chariot seem to need these materials, Yang Cong was a little puzzled: "What materials are missing, wood or clay, who else dares not let us cut or let us dig it?" ”

When Wang Xuan heard this, he said embarrassedly: "There is no shortage of wood and clay, but there is a shortage of pig iron." ”

Pig iron?

A thunderbolt is half a catty of iron needles in it, and a fire dragon chariot needs to cast some pig iron thorns or something in front of it, and a hundred catties are dead, how much pig iron can be used?

Yang Cong really couldn't figure it out, if the lack of pig iron for casting cannons was about the same, that guy, a cannon had to cost at least a thousand catties of pig iron, didn't he start casting artillery yet, so he didn't think about the problem of pig iron at all.

He was a little puzzled: "This pig iron doesn't need much, it can support more than 200,000 catties, can't a Xuanfu Town make up this bit of pig iron?" It's really not good, I'll pay for it, how much does it cost, you say. ”

Wang Xuan couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, as if there was pig iron on the ground.

He was stunned for a while before he carefully reminded: "My lord, pig iron is not allowed to be hoarded privately, let alone bought and sold privately, these are all under the control of the imperial court." ”

fainted to death, didn't I just come to patrol on behalf of the imperial court, who would dare not sell it?

Yang Cong really didn't understand, the salt is also under the control of the imperial court, it is very easy for him to get hundreds of thousands of catties, but this iron can't be done, what's the situation?

He said with a little anger: "Is there someone who is stuck to make money?" ”

Looking for death, these corrupt officials dare to make money with pig iron, Lao Tzu wants your life!

Wang Xuan shook his head and sighed: "That's not it, this Xuanfu doesn't have so much pig iron at all, presumably the capital won't be able to make up so much pig iron for us for a while." ”

Faint to death, it's impossible, dignified, such a large territory, hundreds of thousands of catties of pig iron can't be scraped together?

How can it seem that in the previous life, I heard that a large steel mill has an output of tens of millions of tons at every turn?

Yang Cong said inexplicably: "Is Daming so short of iron, why haven't I heard of it?" ”

Wang Xuan shook his head and sighed: "Alas, there is no shortage of iron ore in the Ming Dynasty, and there is iron ore in the mountains north of Xuanhua City, mainly because no one mines it." ”

Yang Cong was even more confused, what the hell is going on?

He was puzzled and said: "If you have iron ore, dig it, isn't there a smelting method for pig iron in the "Five Elements Chapter" you edited, this doesn't seem to be very troublesome, right?" ”

Wang Xuan understood that Yang Cong didn't know how strict the imperial court's control over pig iron was.

Just kidding, you can dig if you want, that's going to cost your head.

Yang Cong is not an official of the Ministry of Industry, so it is normal that he does not understand this.

He shook his head and sighed: "Alas, my lord, this iron ore does not dare to be dug casually, and mining iron ore without permission is more serious than selling illegal salt." ”

Fainting, so bad!

Selling illicit salt is going to kill the head, and this illegal mining of iron ore is even more serious than the crime of selling illicit salt, is there a mistake?

He is patrolling the imperial history and representing the imperial court, what is mining iron ore privately?

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