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Jizhou, Yuncheng......

Liu Ce accompanied Jiang Ruoyan to the military factory that had been in operation for more than two months under the protection of a group of guards, Jiang Ruoyan insisted on coming to see what was different about this arsenal, originally Liu Ce was against her coming to this kind of place, after all, with the concept in his mind, in his previous life, whether it was Bai Fumei or stupid Bai Tian, he was very disgusted with coming from this kind of place.

But after thinking about it, after all, she took Jiang Ruoyan's money at the beginning, and now she is her wife immediately, so she should accompany her to have a look, so that she can understand what I used to borrow money when I asked you......

But Jiang Ruoyan really wanted to see what was the difference between this military factory and those supervised workshops under her father's rule, originally during the time when Liu Ce went to northern Hebei, she and Song Yanran came to the military factory together, but unfortunately the guards at the gate politely refused their request on the grounds that no idle people were allowed to enter without the order of the military governor, which made her feel more and more mysterious about this military factory.

After entering the military factory, Jiang Ruoyan was immediately stunned by the hot scene in front of him, only to see countless workers dressed in uniform blue uniforms, constantly pulling carts of iron back and forth to the craftsmen in the factory.

"Liu Ce, what's that? Why lay two iron bars on the ground, so much wasted iron......"

Jiang Ruoyan pointed to the railroad tracks under the wagons dragged by mules and horses, and asked Liu Ce curiously.

She still has some knowledge of iron materials, and knows that Dazhou iron materials are mostly used for strategic reserves, and there are only a handful of them in civil use, so she was a little surprised by this kind of laying tracks on the ground for a while......

Liu Ce glanced in the direction of Jiang Ruoyan's finger, and replied with a smile: "Efficiency......"

"What efficiency?" Jiang Ruoyan said curiously.

"Ruoyan, take a closer look, the places where the rails are laid pass through the gates of various craftsmen's houses, and it will save a lot of time to place the carriages on the rails and move?" Liu Ce explained briefly.

"So that's ......" Jiang Ruoyan suddenly realized, and then pointed to a carriage that had just passed by and asked, "Liu Ce, what is on this car?" ”

When Liu Ce heard this, he stretched out his hand and shouted to a carriage: "Master, stop ......"

Seeing that it was Liu Ce, the worker who pulled the cart immediately stopped the carriage, flattered and came to his side and said, "See Lord Military Governor, the military governor's wife is also here, I have seen Mrs. ......."

Jiang Ruoyan said that the sentence "Mrs. Military Governor" was overjoyed, and her face couldn't help but be a little red, although she was not Liu Ce's wife, she didn't want to correct the worker's mistake just like that, anyway, it was only a matter of time.

Of course, Liu Ce was too lazy to care about this, Jiang Ruoyan and himself would marry sooner or later, so why did he need to explain to them, he just pointed to the car and said to the workers: "What is on your car?" Take a look at the ......."

When the workers heard this, of course, they did not object, and immediately pulled the curtain on the car, but they saw that it was full of brand-new pieces of iron, apparently freshly baked from the ironworks next door.

"These, all iron?" Jiang Ruoyan suddenly felt a little incredible, "How much does this discus weigh?" ”

When the worker heard this, he replied: "If you return to the military governor's wife, a discus is 200 catties, and there are a total of eight discus here, totaling 1,600 catties......

Jiang Ruoyan's beautiful eyes widened, and she asked with a face full of disbelief: "You mean, all around are pulling such iron materials?" ”

"It's not all ......," replied the worker respectfully, "but wrought iron, and washed coal, and other minerals such as refined iron, but there is not so much fine iron, less than half of wrought iron, and of course some scrap used to make weapons is transported to the cement yard......"

Jiang Ruoyan really didn't know what to say, so she silently calculated the iron material on the carriage she saw in front of her, and the amount she came up with made her feel that her head was about to get bigger.

"A carriage counts it as 1,600 catties of wrought iron, and at least 200 camel carriages are being transported, that is, more than 300,000 catties of iron, plus half of the refined iron that the worker said, a full 150,000 catties, oh my God, the craftsman workshop set up by my father in the suburbs of Yuanzhou has not had so much iron for two months, let alone refined iron, I'm afraid there is not even a chengcheng, Liu Ce, my husband, how did you do it?"

Jiang Ruoyan looked at Liu Ce beside him, but saw that Liu Ce was just stroking his nose and smiling without saying a word.

The worker saw another carriage coming behind him, and hurriedly said goodbye to Liu Ce and Jiang Ruoyan: "Lord Military Governor, Mrs. Military Governor, if there is nothing else to do, the little one will go first, so as not to block the carriage behind......

"Go ahead......" Liu Ce nodded.

Watching the carriages go away in an orderly manner, Jiang Ruoyan couldn't help but ask again: "Liu Ce, Ruoyan calculated in his heart just now, your iron material is five or six hundred thousand catties a day, let alone five or six hundred thousand catties......

"What's wrong?" Liu Ce asked strangely, "Is there something wrong?" ”

Jiang Ruoyan stared at her beautiful eyes and exclaimed: "You have come down this month, I'm afraid you will be able to withstand the amount of iron in the big week, Liu Ce, tell Ruoyan, how did you do it......"

Liu Ce smiled casually, and did not answer her words directly: "What's so strange about this, it's all the ironworks less than five miles next door, let's go, I'll take you to the workshop to see, no matter how good the iron material is, no craftsman master carefully makes it into an iron-armored blade, after all, it's just a bunch of numbers......"

Then, Liu Ce took Jiang Ruoyan to the "workshop" where swords were made.

As soon as she entered the "workshop", there was immediately a heat wave rushing towards her, making Jiang Ruoyan frown slightly, and Liu Ce instinctively blocked in front of him when he saw it, so as not to hurt her with the flying sparks.

"Ding~"

"Ding~"

After Jiang Ruoyan slowly adapted to the environment, he walked out from behind Liu Ce, but he saw that several craftsmen in cotton uniforms not far away were working together to beat a burning red Qi knife, and from the crisp sound of the metal that was beaten, it could be distinguished that this must be a knife made of fine iron, and in another place, several craftsmen with glasses and masks were holding a vernier caliper to measure the size of a Qi knife, and then wrote down all the measured data with a charcoal pen in a blue book.

Jiang Ruoyan saw that although these craftsmen were sweating profusely, their faces were full of enthusiasm and concentration, and she couldn't help but have some questions, why are these craftsmen different from what she saw in Yuanzhou? Without a little boredom and numbness, can it be so enthusiastic?

At the same time, he caught a glimpse of the Qi knives stacked next to these craftsmen, and couldn't help but wonder: "Liu Ce, haven't these knives been successfully made?" Why do you have to do it all over again? ”

Liu Ce said: "Those are only semi-finished products stamped on the die by forging hammer, and the blade still needs to be quenched and processed in order to really exert the power of the Qi knife itself, which is called fine processing......

Jiang Ruoyan was shocked: "You mean, these swords were made in advance and transported here?" Not done by a craftsman? ”

"Of course...... Liu Ce explained to Jiang Ruoyan, "the military factory implements assembly line work, and each step from iron melting to molding is separated, which can improve production efficiency, and at the same time, professional craftsmen can have more time to focus on technical operations......

Jiang Ruoyan asked again: "Then if there is something wrong with the quality of the weapon, how can it be held accountable?" Isn't that all going to be messed up? ”

Liu Ce smiled: "Ruoyan, do you take a closer look at whether there is an iron piece on the chest of those craftsmen?" It has their own number on it,

Each process will be engraved on the finished product with its own number, once there is responsibility or merit, you can find the craftsman who made this process for the first time, and there are people in charge will be recorded in the book, to ensure that the quality of each product is ......"

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