What you promise someone else must be done, not to mention that someone else is still the emperor. Although the original shopkeeper had no intention of selling the restaurant, in the face of the price offered by Shi Yiwen, he naturally no longer insisted on it.

In the next two days, Shi Yiwen was not idle, it will take some time for the restaurant to be transformed into a money shop, but the construction of the arsenal on Wanping's side has come to an end.

Wanping's "arsenal" was built in the Lugou River, which is less than a mile away from Wanping City, which is the Yongding River in later generations, but this name is more than a hundred years later, two and a half months ago, it was still a wasteland, but now it has erected several factories that are completely different from traditional buildings, these simple factories with brick and wood walls are built according to the drawings provided by Shi Yiwen, the structure is far simpler than ordinary houses, and many small factories in modern times are using this kind of brick and wood structure with fast construction speed and low cost.

The size of the factory is small, with only four 6-meter-wide and 15-meter-long buildings side by side, but even so, it still looks quite spectacular.

"The factory building is very fast, has the aqueduct of the waterwheel been dug yet?"

Shi Yiwen asked as he walked.

"Young master, the canal is almost dug, and a layer of stone has been laid in the canal."

As he spoke, Liu Yu led the owner to the Lugou River.

"Owner, although the Lugou River is full of water, but this river is good all year round, and the water wheel cannot be too far away from the river, so our factory is built in this place, the terrain in this area is high, so the water wheel should be bigger......"

Looking at the canal that had been dug by the river to divert water and drive the waterwheel, Shi Yiwen nodded and said.

"It's natural, right, are there enough craftsmen in the factory now? I'm going to build something these days. ”

The factory is built, but the core of the factory is the machine tool.

Of course, in the seventh year of Wanli, Shi Yiwen certainly did not expect to build the kind of machine tools in later generations, and even the so-called machine tools did not need many metal parts.

The carpenters invited by the factory are all first-class carpenters in the capital, and sometimes, Shi Yiwen only explains a little, and they understand his intentions.

"You see, this boring machine is a wooden shaft, which is driven by a waterwheel through this turntable, and then it has a grinding stone embedded in its tail......"

When Shi Yiwen explained the boring machine for grinding the barrel, the carpenter on the side hurriedly said.

"Childe, I understand what you said, it's actually the round grinding of Zhuoyu that has been magnified, well, it's almost ...... in appearance."

"It's not the same, Zhuoyu uses a foot pedal to exert force, and this one uses a waterwheel."

Listening to what the carpenters said, Shi Yiwen found that he really underestimated the ancients, and listening to the carpenters comparing the equipment used in jade, Shi Yiwen naturally thought of the grinder. As for the "piercing" is the cutting machine, as well as the boring similar to the modern processing of the "punching", surprised by the wisdom of the ancients, Shi Yiwen found that he borrowed from the book of the West in the early 18th century used to make muskets hydraulic boring machine, simple is not worth mentioning, at most it is a borrowed concept. Even those carpenters took the initiative to help him improve some places, after all, Shi Yiwen also drew simple drawings based on some pictures.

As for the hydraulic forging hammer, it is not a problem for the carpenters, after all, as early as a thousand years ago, the "water millennium" was made, but no one has ever developed it to forging, but even so, when Shi Yiwen proposed this "forging hammer" similar to the "water hammer", it still shocked the people present.

Especially when the hydraulic forging hammer weighing 100 catties clattered the red iron into iron pieces, not to mention the carpenter, even Zhang Sixi and the others were dumbfounded.

"This, so that you can strike iron?"

As a blacksmith all his life, he never dreamed that he could strike iron without manpower.

"Master Zhang, do you think this water hammer is troublesome?"

Shi Yiwen asked with a smile,

"Save money, save effort, that's it, when making the pipe, you don't necessarily use a heavy hammer, but also use a light hammer ......"

Without waiting for Zhang Sixi to finish speaking, Shi Yiwen pointed to the factory and said.

"You see, this factory is the future forging workshop, specializing in the production of forging parts, I am going to make more than 30 hydraulic hammers in a row, there are light hammers and heavy hammers, if you need to use a heavy hammer, you will send a heavy hammer, if you want to use a light hammer, you will send a light hammer, what do you think?"

Seeing that the red piece of iron was easily beaten into iron pieces, Zhang Sixi, who was quite unhappy in his heart, said.

"Childe, look at what you said, you have such a good family, and there is still a need for a rough person like me."

Even if he was just a blacksmith, Zhang Sixi could see that the hydraulic hammer had taken away his livelihood.

"Master Zhang, look at what you said, I can't do without you and other masters in this factory, after all, when this pipe is hit with a heavy hammer and when it is struck with a light hammer, you have to pay attention."

Shi Yiwen, who knew what Zhang Sixi was worried about, reassured.

"Besides, don't worry about anything else, as long as you enter my factory, I will never treat you badly, how much money do you earn a month? Five taels? Six taels? Or seven taels? I give a master like you a salary of six taels, as for apprentices, I give a tael, and an average master, three to four taels, what do you think? You usually have a season that is low and high. In the factory, the harvest is guaranteed by drought and flood, and the wage should not be low, right? ”

Looking at Zhang Sixi and more than a dozen other blacksmiths with a smile, Shi Yiwen directly offered his conditions, most blacksmiths earn five or six taels of silver a month, but that is also the off-peak season, sometimes there may only be two or three silver cars a month. Before, he didn't make an offer because he didn't have the capital to negotiate, but now it's different, with a hydraulic hammer and a hydraulic rifling bed, now the bargaining power is in his hands.

"This, this ......"

Zhang Sixi and the others exchanged glances with each other. In the end, Zhang Sixi arched his hand.

"Childe is like some benevolence, if I don't say a word, then I can't wait."

The words are all kind words, and the reason why Yiwen will say these things after he has seen the hydraulic hammer is nothing more than to tell them a fact - either they will enter the factory to work, or they will be eliminated by the hydraulic hammer in the future.

In the next few days, even the grooved rolls were made together with the rolling iron plates, and if the wrought iron plates were forged into usable slats with a hydraulic forging hammer alone, it was still time-consuming and laborious, but with the use of the plate rolling machine it was easy to roll a sufficient number of iron plates, and its technical difficulty was not great, as early as the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Europe.

The reason why this rolling mill was built so quickly was entirely due to the fact that Shi Yiwen took several scrapped train axles from the space and used them to act as cylindrical rollers, which was borrowed from the advanced experience of the base, and only needed to press the iron rolls, which was actually a simple two-roll profile rolling mill driven by water wheels.

After half a month of busy work, the equipment of this 16th-century "modern arsenal" was finally completed, and the factory was almost ready to be put into production.

Just when Shi Yiwen ordered the trial production to begin, Zhang Sixi raised a new question.

"Owner, we don't have the cold bones to make guns, the original cold bones are all made of three feet, three coins, too short and thin, not suitable, you want to make four feet long 7 coins, the cold bones have to be thicker, at least five and a half feet long."

"Cold bones?"

"Childe, it is a steel core as thick as chopsticks, and high-quality steel should be used, and when making pipes, it is wrapped with a red-hot wrought iron plate, and ...... with a hammer."

Without waiting for Zhang Sixi to finish speaking, Shi Yiwen went out first, and when he came back again, he carried a bundle of round steel bars taken from the construction site, and then took out one and handed it over.

"This is just the right thing to do cold bones, what, there are 20 in total, it's not enough for you to talk about it."

There are dozens of tons on the construction site of the space.

The moment he took over the round steel, Zhang Sixi's eyes lit up.

"This ...... It's a good steel! It's a bit of a waste ......."