Chapter 081, Blacksmith Shop, Zhaoxian Pavilion (Five Watches, Seeking Collection)
Lu Bu and Guo Jia were both overjoyed, and Lu Bu said, "Chen Gong provided such valuable advice when he first came, it is really a blessing for our army, then this matter will be handled by you, you make a detailed plan, give it to me to see, if there is no problem, I will promote it to the barracks."
When Chen Gong first came, he was praised and adopted by Lu Bu for the first time he made a suggestion, and he was naturally very happy in his heart.
Immediately agreed.
On the second day, Chen Gong drafted a plan and handed it to Lu Bu, and his tuntian system was divided into two types: Mintun and Juntun. Mintun every 50 people for 1 tun, Tun placed Sima, which is placed on the Diannong Captain, Diannong School Captain, Diannong Zhonglang General, not affiliated with the county. The harvest is divided with the state: those who use official cattle, 6 officials and 4 people;
Those who use private cattle are divided equally between the government and the people. Tuntian peasants are not allowed to leave Tuntian casually. The army is tuntian with soldiers, and 60 people are 1 battalion, which is guarded while tuntian.
After reading it, Lu Bu felt very satisfied, and handed over this matter to Chen Gong to take full responsibility, and asked Guo Jia to fully cooperate and promote.
Chen Gong first confiscated the barren and ownerless farmland into the possession of the state, and organized a large number of displaced people recruited into groups according to the establishment of the army, and the state provided land, seeds, cattle, and farm tools, which were cultivated by them, and the harvest was divided proportionally between the state and the peasants in the tuntian.
In this way, the peasants' enthusiasm for production has been aroused to a great extent, and the peasants can not only fill their stomachs, but also have some surplus grain when the harvest is good, and the people are naturally very happy.
The news soon spread, and the people of other counties heard about it and fled to Gohara County to join the production.
Lu Bu felt that this was not enough, and that if the soldiers and civilians wanted to eat meat, they must promote economic development.
Guo Jia led Lu Bu to walk on the street.
Guo Jiadao, "The recruitment of soldiers must be equipped with equipment, weapons, the imperial court only issued equipment within the establishment, most of them still need to be prepared by ourselves, and the current equipment is also a big problem, the weapons and equipment in the hands of the soldiers are too worn, if there is really a war, they will suffer a big loss in weapons and equipment." ”
"Let's take a look at the nearby blacksmith shop," Lu Bu began.
The two of them went straight to the largest blacksmith shop in Wuyuan County under the leadership of Guo Jia.
If you want to make a good weapon, the first problem to solve is iron!
What is the most important thing in ironmaking? Raw materials and temperature, of course!
Where do the raw materials come from? Melted all the weapons? That's not enough!
And the temperature? What to do?
Fortunately, at the end of the Han Dynasty, people had already begun to use coal, and there were several large coal mines and iron mines in Wuyuan County, but they were not put into large-scale production.
In ancient times, the status of blacksmiths was very low, and their income was barely enough to make ends meet.
This also has a lot to do with their own strength, ordinary blacksmiths can only make some agricultural tools, iron. Those with a little strength have long been requisitioned by the imperial court to the ordnance prison.
With Lu Bu's prestige, he bought this blacksmith shop for a small amount of money.
Immediately, Lü Bu ordered people to melt all the weapons and equipment that could not be used in the arsenal, and then use the "steel filling method" invented during the Northern and Southern Dynasties to refine the best steel.
Of course, the blacksmith foreman at the head was skeptical of Lu Bu's approach. Thousands of tempers to produce good steel, this is the words left by the ancestors. Like Lu Bu, mixing pig iron and wrought iron together makes steel, which is too simple, right?
Under the guidance of Lu Bu, the blacksmith led by the blacksmith built a simple blast furnace with corundum, silica sand, ashlar and other high-temperature resistant materials at that time, and then used the reciprocating bellows to make the wind power of one-time input greater, which greatly improved the efficiency of work.
Now, everything is ready, only the steel is owed! Lu Bu smiled confidently, waiting for the final result.
"Oh my God! What molten steel! Good molten steel! After the first molten iron of the small blast furnace came out, the blacksmith at the head said excitedly.
I really didn't expect that such a simple method can achieve the effect of a large number of tapping! If this operation continues, then this blacksmith shop will undoubtedly be the first blacksmith shop in the Han Dynasty!
The other guys in the blacksmith shop threw worshipful glances at Lu Bu.
Lü Bu ordered Dian Wei to send soldiers to guard the blacksmith shop, not allowing strangers to enter, and to prevent others from stealing the shop.
Then he ordered Zhou Cang to lead the soldiers to recruit villagers to go up the mountain to mine, and now the blacksmith shop is already there, as long as they can produce coal and iron ore, they can forge their own equipment, so as to save a lot of expenses.
The matter of weapons and food has been solved, and the economy should be vigorously developed at the moment, and more soldiers can only be recruited if they have money and food in hand.
In the hall, dozens of bamboo slips were placed on the table, and Guo Jia was handling government affairs.
Lu Bu was reading the book of war, planning the next direction of development.
Xi Zhicai strode into the big tent and said, "General, these are all the factories and workshops in Wuyuan County, a total of one hundred and six, the largest of which is the Jiangnan Textile Factory, Jiangzhou Leather Factory, Tianquan Distillery, there are three or five hundred workers, and the others are some small workshops, which are not in the climate."
Lu Bu nodded, not caring, "Within a year, I want the industry of Wuyuan County to develop rapidly, how to operate it, you can introduce the best technology, the best talents, recruit the most workers, vigorously develop industry, manufacture items and sell them, of course, it is not blind manufacturing, such as what is most lacking in the market, we will make it."
"General, please rest assured, as long as there is money and food, these are not a problem, but at present, Wuyuan County is sparsely populated, in addition to developing the economy, we also have to promote the fertility of the population, as long as there is a population, in order to make a region rise rapidly", Guo Jiadao.
"I have also thought about population fertility before, I don't know what Guo Jia and Zhicai think, so I can express my own opinions."
"We can give out a bonus birth plan, and the more children you have, the more land you get, and every child you have in each family gets a bonus from the state and county.
At present, the peasants do not have enough to eat, they do not have warm clothing, and they dare not have too many children, if there is encouragement from the state and county, plus support, they will definitely be more willing to give birth.
In this way, within three to five years, the population of Gohara County will definitely be able to double."
"Okay, this plan is very good, and the detailed rules and regulations will be handed over to Feng Xian to formulate."
"No"
"General, at the moment we are employing people, and there are indeed very few people available.
We don't just need fierce generals like Zhang Liao and General Li Guang, as long as we have the ability, we need them, I suggest that the general should set up a recruitment hall, as long as the person has the ability can be recruited into the army and used", Guo Jia said in a calm tone.
Lu Bu was shocked, yes, he only cared about training troops and developing the economy, how could he forget about this matter, he should have done this a long time ago.
Although the economy was relatively backward at the end of the Han Dynasty, there were all kinds of strange people and righteous people, and it was imperative to recruit talents.