"Ahh Li Xiang sneezed twice fiercely, then looked at the carpenter embarrassedly and motioned for him to continue.

Moved to the weapon workshop at the foot of the northwest mountain of Mingyue Village, master craftsmen such as Carpenter, Lei Cheng, and Zhen Laoshi, representatives of the public high school such as Li Mengkong and Xiong Chengwen, and the radar that took over Li Xiang's laboratory were all there, listening to the improvement of the weapon workshop together.

Carpenter cleared his throat and said in a subdued tone, "This rectification of the weapons workshop took a total of three months. The first month was preparation, mainly in the new workshop at the foot of the mountain, where the iron-making furnace and other things were ready; The second month is rectification, mainly the standardized production process, and the use of tables and charts; The third month is the official production, and the new assembly line is adjusted. ”

"The new ironmaking furnace has two pots of molten iron, and the air intake tract is sealed and the air can be heated in advance. The old iron-making furnaces can be dismantled, and the two new iron-making furnaces can be directly made into knives and guns after using double-row spiral fans. At the foot of the West Mountain, a higher iron-making furnace will be built, and by that time, the three iron furnaces will be opened together, and 10,000 catties of iron will have to be smelted every day, which is still a conservative estimate. "Carpenter is already a little embarrassed when he talks about this. Except for Li Xiang and Lei Blacksmith and others, everyone else was shocked, this output is higher than the sum of two or three states in Da Zhou, right?

"Every weapon has a number. For example, in this knife, from the molten iron, to the forging, to the final quenching, everyone who handles it must engrave their own number on the handle. There are tables of how much is produced every day, who they are, and what kind of work they do. Every time a knife completes a process, it must be measured with a mold and a ruler, and if it is too bad, it will deduct money. The carpenter was very excited when he said that the money was deducted, and the many apprentices who were watching wailed.

With the flow chart, production streamlined, and quality standardization, the new weapons workshop basically achieved three "small goals". Li Xiang was very proud in his heart, and putting this "model" workshop in the northwest corner of Mingyue Fort was also a kind of supervision to other workshops, so as not to have anything like regression after he left. As for the several top-secret laboratories in the northeast corner of Mingyue Castle, Li Xiang would keep an eye on them, and there could be no mistakes there.

After the carpenter finished speaking, Radar began to talk about how good the new iron-making furnace was, and made a prismatic spear head on the spot for everyone to see. One apprentice forked a red-hot piece of iron, and the other apprentice shook the handle to control the falling mallet, and after a few dozen strikes, the two handed the iron to the next group. The two apprentices of the next group quickly hammered out the shape on the mold, and finally the clay and quenching were personally applied by Radar, and then handed over to Li Xiang.

It was actually a little hot, and Li Xiang handed the gun to Yang Yingdong. Yang Yingdong skillfully assembled a spear, and then violently exerted force, and a three-millimeter-thick wrought iron plate broke in response, and a cheer rang out at the scene.

Li Xiang looked at the gun head and found that the wear was not very serious, so he nodded with satisfaction. Before leaving, Li Xiang announced that he would increase the food in the weapons workshop and add an extra bowl of salted meat porridge every day.

The production of straight bows, spears, single knives, and shields was all put into the weapons workshop, and the paper workshop, the winter clothing workshop, and the coke workshop, which did not have many secrets, were thrown into the Mingyue Collection. There is also a little advance consideration by Li Xiang, the pollution of these workshops is too heavy, so Li Xiang chose to move them for the health of the villagers.

Liu Chengdong handed over a copy of the detailed information of the Jurchen Liao War to Mingyuezhai, and Li Xiang was silent after reading it, but Liu Susu, Zhao Bo and others all knew that Li Xiang smashed a lot of furniture that night.

The war between the Jurchens and the Liao State finally affected Mingyue Village, and Li Xiang, Li Mengkong and others came to the gate of the village and found that the hungry refugees were already about to surround the village.

"Give me food, sir, the doll is dying of hunger." A middle-aged woman with a shriveled upper body held the baby in her arms and pleaded inside.

"All right, great good man." A scrawny old man, almost starving, had no choice but to plead from his throat.

"Take me, just give me a stutter." Several orphans and orphans kept kowtowing in front of the gate of the village, begging to be slaves and maids.

Li Xiang's face was terrifyingly dark, and Uncle Zhao beside him gritted his teeth and said: "It must be a good thing that Huang Liren did again, otherwise the homeless people will only appear slowly, and they won't come so many at once." ”

Zhang Qingping, Yang Yingdong and others stood behind Li Xiang, weapons in hand, ready to fight against possible plots at any time.

Huang Liren's provocation this time was indeed very tricky, and he also saw the weakness of Mingyuezhai. The gentry in the south all began to produce cold-proof clothing, down jackets and ironware, which caused the income of Mingyuezhai to plummet. Now Li Xiang is building Mingyueji again, and he has to enclose the core area of Mingyuezhai with a fortress, and the pressure has increased greatly.

Aren't you engaged in yellow and white household registration? Didn't you hire homeless people to build a large number of buildings? I'll just hold the pass, and when the time comes, I will directly send you a few thousand people, and see what you do!

Li Xiang also knew that there was the shadow of Zhang Tianlei, the commander of the Xunyang Xiang Army, and it was estimated that he wanted to take advantage of the weakness of Mingyuezhai to get more benefits. Taking a deep breath, Li Xiang decided to take a three-pronged approach to solve this wave of refugees.

The most important thing is to let Yang Jianchuan, Liu Decheng, Qin Zhong and Ding Shihang and other young people select guards from the homeless people and march to the vast mountains to the west and north, Li Xiang knows that this mountain will not have a problem feeding millions of people.

There were many places in the 800-mile Qinling Mountains that were controlled by bandits and homeless, and Li Xiang moved these homeless people to reclaim the land, collect medicine, cut wood, and hunt, and soon became self-sufficient with the support of Mingyuezhai. If it goes well, these thousands of people in front of you will soon disappear, and no matter how many displaced people there are, they can digest it.

Then there's internal digestion. Doctors, scholars, and craftsmen were picked out as soon as possible, and strong people or those who had expertise in some aspect were recruited into the garrison. Orphans are treated the best, and they are directly recruited into Mengxue and the new barracks, and Li Xiang takes out his last savings to do this.

Finally, there are a large number of old and weak women and children, so there is no need to worry. The first batch of workshops in Mingyueji will be established soon, and not only will the garment workshop, paper mill and shoe and hat workshop in Mingyuezhai need a large number of old and weak women and children, but the workshops opened by other gentry will also recruit people to work.

After pacifying the homeless people and checking that the salty porridge was okay, Li Xiang sat down with a group of merchants and gentry representatives. The north of the small river of Mingyue Village is the core area, and the meeting is held in the council hall to the south. The representatives of Mingyue Village are on the left, and the gentry and merchants are on the right.

The two sides first discussed the investment issue of Mingyueji. Guards need money, management needs money, and dealing with the government requires money. Who pays, how much, and who supervises these issues are all important. What are the functions of the management body of Mingyueji, and how to ensure money and food, these issues are also very complicated.

Then there is the problem of land management in Mingyueji, which is easy to solve, directly lease the land to the merchants, and then each family builds its own building, and what is built is what it is. Mingyueji is just to build a few small villages in places that are easy to defend on the periphery, and there is no intention of building a city wall at all, which would be too arrogant.

It was not until mid-moon that the two sides basically reached an agreement. Mingyueji will be supervised by Mingyuezhai, Lin Zhifu and the Huang family, and firms with more management fees can send people to manage the accounts together. In terms of guarding, the west and north are in charge of Mingyue Village, the east and south are in charge of Xunyang Xiangjun, and the appetite of Yaxing is solved by the Xunyang government.

It wasn't until late at night that Xiong Chengwen, Lei Lei and others ended the negotiation with each other, and walked to the back hall with a tired face, only to find that the owner of the village was sitting opposite Zhang Tianlei's uncle Zhang Wanli and eating wine. Li Xiang motioned for them to sit down, and then had another drink with Zhang Wanli.

"Master Zhang, what do you think of these two boys?" Li Xiang pointed to Xiong Chengwen and Radar and asked Zhang Wanli.

Zhang Wanli is Zhang Tianlei's staff, his grandson once participated in the attack on Mingyue Village and was captured, Zhang Wanli had a tacit understanding with Liu Chengliang for the safety of his little grandson. After Li Xiang talked to Zhang Wanli, he found that this old man was quite proficient in practice, so he thought about slowly digging the other party over. Zhang Wanli is drinking a little too much now, and with a flick of the chopsticks, the two young people immediately sat upright.

"Just look at tonight's verbal battle, to be honest, the old man has never seen such a tight contract. Responsibilities, obligations, compensation, everything is clear at a glance. I really should tell the gang of people who are waiting to die to see what a contract is, don't always use a big stick to press people, and always think about eating and taking indiscriminately. ”

The radar carried Mr. Zhang away, and the child who had been striking iron since he was a child was as strong as a cow. Xiong Chengwen's eyes rolled, "The owner of the village, oh no, the master wants to dig Zhang Wanli over?" ”

"What do you think should be done?"

"Start with his grandson and get twice the result with half the effort."

"Oh, tell me more about ......"

Time back to the afternoon of the same day, when Li Xiang racked his brains on the wall of Mingyue Village to arrange the displaced people, He Ruifeng had just come out of Mengxue.

"Look, it's He Xiaosilly!"

"Don't say that, people are very smart, and his father is stupid."

"I look stupid. Big fool and little fool, the house is full of fools. ”

"Hahaha!"

The He family kid ignored these people, these people who laughed at him were all sons and even descendants of the Huang family, and He Ruifeng was not less oppressed by them. He Ruifeng resisted twice, but those people were so excited that they almost stripped him naked.

When he arrived at the front of the house, He Ruifeng saw Steward Huang staggering out, followed by his nervous parents.

"Lord butler, please say a few more kind words in front of the master." He Lishi said as he stuffed a piece of silver into Steward Huang's sleeve. Steward Huang burped, shook his sleeves and walked away.

He Ruifeng returned home, finished dinner, and began to warm his book by the dim oil lamp. The sound of his parents talking outside came through the mottled walls, always distracting him.

The lady of the He family swiped the needle in her hair, and wept while doing needlework, "The head of the family has persuaded you many times, but you always don't listen." What's wrong with staying in the village to live, the family is harmonious and beautiful. Even if the government finally lays down Mingyue Village, can it still kill all of us people? ”

"Besides, the owner of Liu Laozhai has become a general, and the family business of the village can't be kept?"

"What Master Huang said is good, what is it to build a workshop together, divide it. As a result, the Huang family kicked your skills away after learning them, and the copper money they received every month was not enough for their son's expenses in Mengxue. ”

"There are also those big houses and two rooms of the Huang family, just like weasels, they don't even let go of the little property left by our family, and no one in the village takes our property. Five times today, ten times tomorrow, I see that our family will be eaten and wiped clean by the Huang family sooner or later, and there will be no bones left. ”

He Lishi became more and more flustered, "I'm not worried about my son's future." Besides, Master Huang has seen the holy people, who would have thought that he would be so unsophisticated. The knowledge of assembly lines, tolerances and standard molds taught by the little master was taken out, the information of iron ore was taken out, and the construction method of the straight bow was taken out, but in the end there was nothing to do. Whether the little master is too good or the people outside are too bad, I really don't know......"

In addition to adding Huang Liren to the hatred list, He Ruifeng's resentment towards Li Xiang and Mingyuezhai became even stronger. The boy of the He family thinks that Li Xiang and Liu Chengdong should teach the Four Books and Five Classics in Mengxue, invite famous teachers, and only care about smart children like themselves; Cao Wenwen should not go out of the door, and honestly wait to be a concubine for herself; The workshops of Mingyue Village should all be prepared for the children of saints like themselves, and only when they become a big official can they protect the safety of Mingyue Village.

Liu Chengdong, a Wufu er; Li Xiang can only be a workshop leader; Liu Susu is not worthy of being a concubine for herself. He Ruifeng kept writing and drawing on the paper, and his face turned very red.