"This Gao Renhou actually retired from the army? This king thought that he would fight Dongchuan in Guozhou. ”

Hearing that Li Hong recovered Guozhou without losing a single soldier, Li Ye was also a little surprised.

The rebellion in the three states seemed to be a big battle, but in fact it only lasted for a month. The direct cause of this rebellion was the commercial tax, and of course, the deeper reason was the influence of the Chen clan in the three states.

However, Li Ye still looked down on the Chen family, and this so-called influence was destroyed in a short time under the devastating attack of the Tiance Army.

The reason why the rebellion was put down so quickly was because of Li Ye's control of the army. After the state garrisons were weakened, even a rebellion would not become much of a climate, but it also exposed a problem, under such a rebellion, the local garrison with weak troops was also somewhat difficult to deal with.

If only one state rebels, it may be enough, but if three states rebel at the same time, the troops of each state will be a little overwhelmed.

Of course, the direct reason for such a quick pacification was that Gao Renhou withdrew his troops.

If it weren't for Gao Renhou's intervention, the rebellion in the three states would not have occurred at all, and perhaps the time for the rebellion to be put down could have been advanced. It's just that because of Gao Renhou's intervention, Guozhou gained and lost. This made Li Ye's dissatisfaction with Gao Renhou even stronger, and he still had the idea of wooing Gao Renhou at the beginning.

"It is estimated that he saw His Highness's determination, so Gao Renhou was also weak-hearted. After all, he occupied Dongchuan not long ago, and Yang Shili has been working in Dongchuan for many years, and he still has some influence. Pei Rong guessed.

"By the way, didn't it say before that some of Yang Shili's relatives and subordinates fled to our territory, what is the situation now?"

"Temporarily settled in Lizhou, Yang Shili's personal soldiers were disbanded by General Liu, and most of them were incorporated into the Right Tiance Army." Pei Rong explained.

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"Your Highness, there is something I hope Your Highness will consider carefully." Sun Ye hesitated.

"What's the matter?"

"Li Zhen's business! Although the Chen clan participated in the rebellion, after all, only a part of their clan participated, but Li Zhicheng killed a man over the age of ten of the Chen clan, is this a bit too much? It's cruel. ”

"Extraordinary moments, extraordinary actions. But this is a bit too much, Zhang Wei, send someone to warn Li Zhen, let him stop in moderation, don't go too far. Li Ye commanded lightly, unimpressed.

Since it is a rebellion, then pay the price. To be honest, for the criminal law of the Tang Dynasty, he still feels that it is still a little light, although it is not as strict as the Qin Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, but it is not good if it is too light, how to deter people?

Because of this, even if Li Zhen killed a lot of people in Langzhou, Li Ye had already heard about it and didn't deal with the other party, if Sun Ye hadn't mentioned it, he might have pretended that this incident hadn't happened.

Although Li Zhen did a little too much, Li Zhen also brought him a lot of benefits in Langzhou. Just by copying the house, nearly two million yuan were copied, which is a huge amount of money.

Of course, nearly half of this money came from the Chen family, and the rest were other families and those merchants.

Just one Langzhou, so much money and grain have been copied, you can imagine how rich Langzhou is. Of course, after this rebellion, Langzhou's economic development will be greatly affected in a short time, but after a year and a half, it is estimated that it will be able to recover.

Without Zhang San doing business, Li Si can do it, and I believe that someone will fill these vacancies soon. Langzhou is close to the Jialing River and has convenient transportation, which is destined to not be sluggish.

"Yes, Your Highness." Zhang Wei bowed.

Sun Ye was a little disappointed, and wanted to persuade him again, but when he saw Li Ye talking to him, he knew that the other party did not want to severely punish Li Zhen, so he did not continue to persuade him. He knew that if he kept chasing after him, the other party was likely to come in the opposite direction, which was not without precedent.

The place where Li Ye stayed at this time was located in Chenggu County, specifically in a village north of Chenggu County and close to Huangshui.

In front of him, there was a relatively large building, and the entire radius of a mile was densely packed with buildings.

This is the workshop of the Ordnance Division.

The place where Li Ye is standing is a workshop for making Tang knives, and dozens of workers are beating vigorously and then tempering.

Unlike the previous production process, the main task of this workshop is to quench and harden it.

At the beginning, many people didn't understand why Li Ye ordered this, including Qingyangzi, but Qingyangzi also had to admire Li Ye's cleverness.

That's right, it's assembly line work.

The traditional horizontal knife production process has to be completed from the initial smelting to the final horizontal knife production, and the whole process lasts for a long time. And for the Ordnance Division, which is halfway home, there are not so many skilled craftsmen who can complete this whole set of processes.

As a result, the production capacity of the entire Ordnance Division is very low, and the quality of the horizontal knives produced will vary depending on the level of craftsmen.

The main thing that affects the quality of the horizontal knife is the level of craftsmen.

However, Li Ye designed the entire production process as an assembly line, with the smelter responsible for smelting, the thumping responsible for thrashing, and the quenching responsible for quenching, so that the value of the small number of skilled craftsmen can be fully maximized.

Moreover, in the whole production process, Li Ye also introduced a lot of machinery beyond the times to ensure the quality of weapons and the speed of production.

Of course, this is not too outrageous, even if Li Ye knows what machine tool or something, but knowing is the same thing as making it.

What Li Ye introduced is actually not too difficult to understand, just like a hydraulic forging hammer.

The hydraulic hammer is a type of machinery that appeared at the end of the Middle Ages in Europe, which uses water power to hammer weapons. This is much better than beating a man, and a man beating a weapon is a man holding a half-finished piece of iron with a tong, and a man with a hammer.

Manpower beating is already slow, and after a few blows, it will have to stop because of lack of strength. The iron is easy to cool, and after cooling, it can only be reheated again before it can be hammered.

That's how the thousands of tempers came about, but the human pounding can't be much in a day, so the speed will naturally slow down. After all, a sophisticated horizontal knife has high requirements for craftsmanship. And the hydraulic forging hammer solves this problem,

Hydraulic forging hammer, using the kinetic energy of water, pushes the hammer to hammer hard, not to mention labor-saving, and the efficiency is high, and the hammering effect is far better than manpower.

This is also why the workshop of the Ordnance Division is set up at the edge of the river, if you come to the river, you can find that the entire west of the Huangshui River, for several miles, is densely packed with waterwheels, and the scene is called a spectacular.

Strictly speaking, the hydraulic forging hammer is not a rare thing that is difficult to make, although Li Ye does not know how to make it, but after he said the general working principle and shape, the carpenter of the Ordnance Department quickly made it.

The principle of hydraulic forging hammer is the same as that of water mill, which uses water power and gravity to drop the hammer. With a little improvement, it has become the hydraulic forging hammer that Li Ye wants.

It's just that at present, there is only one hydraulic forging hammer in the Ordnance Division, which not only occupies space, but also affects efficiency. Therefore, the carpenter of the Ordnance Division Miscellaneous Weapons Institute is overcoming the forging hammer of the machine, which is also a reference to the machine hammer, and can lift several sledgehammers side by side at the same time, not to mention the efficiency.

It's just that this forging hammer is more troublesome, and it is still in the process of overcoming difficulties.

In addition to hydraulic forging hammers, hydraulic exhaust fans, etc., it is to improve productivity through hydraulic power anyway.

"See Your Highness."

It was not the first time that Li Ye had come to this workshop of the Ordnance Division, so many people had also seen Li Ye, and when they saw Li Ye, they all saluted.

"You are busy, don't worry about this king."

Li Ye commanded lightly.

As an important part of Li Ye's military strategy, the stronger the Ordnance Division, the more he has no worries about expanding the army.

If he could, he was still considering whether he could sell weapons in exchange for money and food in the event of overcapacity.

"Dao Chief, what is the current production capacity of the Ordnance Division?" Walking in the workshop with some fever, Li Ye asked Qingyangzi who was accompanying him.

Although it is not the hottest smelting workshop, there is also a furnace here because it is quenched, and the natural temperature is not low. The craftsmen in the workshop were all sweating profusely, and even though the weather was already cold, many of them were naked, but they were still sweating.

"Back to Your Highness, after moving here, the current horizontal knives of the Ordnance Department have produced 15,000 handles, an average of 5,000 handles a month, and there is no problem to meet the expansion needs of the Tiance Army。。。。。"

Li Ye calculated that there were more than 300 workers in the Sword Institute of the Ordnance Division. On average, every two people can produce more than 30 horizontal knives a month, that is, every two people can produce one horizontal knife a day.

This is only the production of horizontal knives, you must know that the sword institute also produces Mo knives, barrier knives, instrument knives, long swords, etc.

According to the previous production method, it would take three days to produce a horizontal knife for two people as a combination. Over the course of a month, these 300 craftsmen could only produce 1,500 horizontal knives.

Isn't the difference between 1500 and 5000 that big?

But now, in addition to the production of horizontal swords, the sword shop also needs to produce other swords, so it can't all be used to produce horizontal swords.

In this way, the efficiency gap is obvious.

Even if you are a two-person group, you can produce more than 5 horizontal knives in a day. The previous production method was to produce 1 shank in three days, isn't this difference obvious?

Hearing this productivity, Sun Ye on the side was also taken aback.

He didn't know much about the Ordnance Division. He is Xingyuan Yin, and the Ordnance Department is not under his control, so he naturally does not know what the production capacity of the Ordnance Department is, but when he heard this number, he was still frightened.

"Daoist Qingyangzi, can the money required for a horizontal knife increase compared to before?" Sun Ye couldn't help but ask.

"Back to Sun Fu Yin, not only did it not increase, but it dropped by one, and the quality of the knife did not decrease."

Just when Sun Ye wanted to ask, Zhang Wei didn't know when he came to Li Ye's side, and said in a low voice, "Your Highness Qiqi, Jinzhou is here to report, and Li Jian, under Lu Yanhong, has led the army to join His Highness." ”

"Li Jian?"

Hearing this name, Li Ye was a little surprised, is this to let himself gather all the loyal and martial capitals? Except for Lu Yanhong, the other seven people have all been or have been under their own command.

He knew that when Lu Yanhong was leaving, Li Zhen had written a letter of persuasion to Li Jian, but in the end, Li Jian did not take refuge in Li Ye, but followed Lu Yanhong to Shannan Dongdao. Unexpectedly, now Li Jian actually came to join him, and he also brought 5,000 soldiers and horses, which made him a little surprised.