The generals in the army were still very convinced of Shi Bao's arrangement, and Shi Baobu defeated Li Kui and was slightly worse than Wu Song. Ma defeated Zhou Tong and was on par with Sun An and Yang Zhi. Although it is inevitable that there is some moisture in the martial arts competition, but the general martial arts are there, and even the two leaders in the army, Luan Tingyu and Wang Jin, also praised Shi Bao's martial arts.

Shi Bao also has a set of training, patient, patient, and can share weal and woe with the soldiers, Chao Gai observed for a while, and he is still relatively relieved of Shi Bao.

Zhu Wu went to Danyang to recruit workers, and it is estimated that it will take a long time to go, after all, the people there are not familiar with the place. In addition to staying in the barracks these days, Chao Gai is running to the Liguo Iron and Steel Plant.

In the weapon casting area, the blacksmiths in other workshops are shirtless, picking up sledgehammers, striking iron, and forging weapons. Now the main casting is the cavalry knife and the Yanling knife. Tens of thousands of knives are already in stock in the arsenal, but production continues.

In a newly opened workshop, a small boiler drives a small steam engine, and the flywheel of the steam engine rotates, driving large machine tools. The machine is bulky and loud to work with, clicking, clicking, clicking.

The thin steel plate was brought over, pushed in, clicked, clicked a few times, and soon stamped into a model of the Pu knife, and the blacksmiths took the model to burn the fire, and then forged, which greatly saved time.

"Manager Tang, this machine is too godly, and it is too powerful, it can directly smash the appearance of a knife out." The blacksmith said happily to Tang Long.

Tang Long wiped the sweat from his forehead: "What's more, it's amazing, this machine is top dozens of craftsmen." You all have to learn how to operate it, the owner said, and you have to experiment with the new machine today. ”

As he spoke, Chao Gai arrived.

Tang Long said: "Brother, what kind of machine is being tested today." ”

Chao Gai said: "It's still a steam engine, but what I want to do today is to stamping the armor." ”

If it is said that the construction of weapons is laborious, it is acceptable, but the damage to manpower caused by armor building is something that Chao Gai has always been unwilling to bear, and it is too time-consuming to build a piece of armor. Generally, the iron and steel factory made the armor, and when it came to Song Wanna, it was assembled into armor. But it is a laborious job to create a nail piece, and now that there is a stamping machine, it is natural to stamp, especially the shoulder pads on the shoulders, which have a special shape and are extremely laborious to build. Today's test stamping is this, the master of the experiment is from the new Jeju Machinery Factory, first get the stamping model out, then start the steam engine, slowly push the two-millimeter-thick steel plate over, pull the switch, the ramming sledgehammer quickly fell and lifted up, one minute stamping 20 shoulder pads of the steel plate. Tang Long picked it up and looked at it, the stamping is not good, it is not very good-looking, and it is far from being as good as the stamping Pu Dao.

Chao Gai said: "The experiment, there is no success, several more experiments, once this press experiment is successful, our armor problem will be solved." ”

Tang Long said: "Brother, don't worry, as a blacksmith, I naturally know the importance of this matter. ”

Chao Gai said: "If the big accessories are not good, let's first stamping some small pieces and trying to stamp some arrows with wolf teeth." ”

The so-called wolf tooth arrow arrow is very sharp, the front is iron and the back is the arrow shaft, in the pure manual era of arrow building is not only labor-intensive, but also slow, a battle of 20,000 people will be used as many as hundreds of thousands of arrows, this consumption is very large, even if the victorious side has to recycle the arrow, reuse.

The machine tool master changed the mold and began to stamping the wolf's tooth arrow, this time it was really different, the stamping was fast and good, just like a sewing machine, stamping out twenty at once, hundreds a minute.

Seeing that a blacksmith like Tang Long touched the sweat on his forehead, he exclaimed: "Obediently, you can produce tens of thousands in an hour, and you can punch 100,000 arrows in a day, which is enough for a skirmish." From the point of view of producing arrows alone, this machine is worthy of a hundred skilled blacksmiths. ”

In addition to large machine tools such as stamping machines, there are also machines for punching, grinding, and polishing, which are also driven by steam engines. These small steam engines can even do not burn coal, but can only dry firewood, so they emit less pollution.

The steelmaking workshop also uses a steam engine as the power blower, the furnace temperature is greatly increased, and the quality of the steel is significantly better than before.

When there was no one else, Tang Long asked: "Brother, this steam engine is used on a large scale, and the craftsmen probably can't use it so much, especially those school workers, are they going to have no work to do?" ”

Chao Gai said: "Other factories have also had such concerns, although the application of machines has greatly saved manpower, but necessary workers are still needed, and in many places machines cannot replace people." There will definitely be no layoffs in the short term, and the development of two or three years may be like transferring a group of craftsmen from other places to work in new factories. Of course, it's still the original statement, our factory is not an iron rice bowl, those who don't work hard, are lazy to eat, and those who are lazy and slippery will be fired. ”

Tang Long said: "I am relieved when my brother says this, and I can also reassure the workers." ”

The Limin Woodware Factory in charge of Lu Tam, with the production of water wheels and horse-drawn carriages as its main projects. Recently, it has also been equipped with steam machine tools, especially the huge steam saw, which is responsible for sawing wood, fast and good, and the thickness is uniform.

The woodworking machine also has the function of sawing, planing and drilling, which is very convenient and easy to use. The production has gradually realized the power of steam, and the rise of the steam engine has also led to the development of another industry, that is, tree planting.

The reason why we plant trees is because there are a large number of small steam engines, which use black smoke billowing from coal, pollute the air, and burn mainly firewood, mainly willows and poplars. Because some people bought this kind of firewood, the enthusiasm for planting trees in the countryside was very high, and Chao Gai took advantage of the situation to guide it, and the whole of Jeju set off a tree-planting boom, planting willows and poplars on the banks of the river, walnuts and peaches in front of and behind the houses, and planting pepper, pear trees, jujube trees, mountain red and other tree species in the barren mountains and wilderness. The planting amount is very large, counting in the tens of millions.

The industrial power, represented by the small steam engine, stirred up a thousand waves with one stone, and accelerated the expansion and development of Jeju's regimental training strength, and various materials continued to accumulate, and the produced goods were sold to various places in exchange for a large amount of money, materials, and so on.

Chao Gai is beautiful, every day either in the barracks training or to the factory to check the work of the steam engine.

Let's say that Duan Jinzhu's business has exploded this year, from dozens of people at the beginning, to the scale of 300 people and 1,000 mules now. And the status is also rising in a straight line, it turned out that they were all sneaky in the Liao Kingdom, and now the nobles on the grassland of the Liao Kingdom have to live in Duan Jingjing. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Duan Jingzhu purchased 1,000 mules of tea from Yuncheng Trade City, of which 200 mules were high-end tea, and there were also some spices and spices. The customs clearance all the way went smoothly, from Zhending Mansion into the border of Liao, and then north to the grassland. Duan Jingzhu is not blindly selling goods on the grassland, it will be very passive, there are two long-term cooperative tribes, and basically this bit of goods will be divided directly.

Tea, spices, and daily iron products are all good goods on the grassland, and the prices are very good. Because it is early winter, there is already a thin snow on the grassland, so the herdsmen's horses are sold cheaply, because the white hair wind on the grassland, the snow is half a meter later, and the strong Mongolian horses will have losses, because the horses are frozen and hungry in winter, and they are easy to be attacked by wolves, so they want to sell their horses when they see the caravan coming.

Duan Jingzhu is very calm, although there is no problem at all in acquiring three thousand or two thousand horses, but Duan Jingzhu has only acquired one thousand tame iron hoof horses, mainly mares. Keshten is the bravest warrior in this tribe, and he also has a good relationship with Duan Jingzhu.

Keshten took Duan Jingzhu's hand and said, "I have the best gift in the world for you, because you are my answer." ”

Duan Jingzhu said, "Oh, what a gift, let me see." ”

Keshten took Duan Jingzhu to a stable not far from the yurt, and the steppe people rarely built the stable unless the horse was particularly precious. Duan Jingzhu was also stunned when he saw it, the five BMWs, the real sweat and blood BMWs, although they did not give Chao Gai the dark clouds and snow, but they were all extremely rare good horses. One male and four female, the male is a black horse, mixed with no miscellaneous hair on the upper and lower body.

The female ones are golden, white, red, and spotted.

Duan Jingzhu couldn't put it down, went over to touch the horse's mane, and said: "Keshteng, where did you get the sweaty horse from, this is a specialty of the Western Regions, you don't have this grassland." ”

"The horse thief robbed it, and I snatched it from the horse thief, how do you like it?" Keshten asked.

Duan Jingzhu said: "A horse is a good horse, but a gentleman doesn't win people's love, this gift is too valuable, and I can't accept it." ”

Keshten said: "Immortal heaven is above, I am an eagle on the grassland, and the words I say are like water spilled out, do you look down on me?" ”

Duan Jingzhu said: "Okay, I'll take it, but my dear An'a, what do I give you back, I don't have any treasures." ”

Keshten untied the scimitar he was wearing on his waist, handed it to Duan Jingzhu, and said, "This is the scimitar we use every day, you must have a way to get it." ”

Duan Jingzhu is no stranger to the Mongolian scimitar, and the Mongolian cavalry uses the scimitar the most. The blade is seventy centimeters long and the handle is twenty centimeters long. It's not heavy, but it's powerful.

Duan Jingzhu said: "How many do you need?" ”

Keshten was very happy and said, "I knew you could get at least three thousand, and the more the better." How about a scimitar for two horses? ”

Duan Jingzhu took a Yanling knife from his entourage and said: "Mass-produced knives are all made by ordinary blacksmiths, but there are not a small number of high-quality treasure knives, in terms of the price of the Central Plains, a treasure knife costs a thousand times, and an ordinary knife only needs hundreds of times." So you want so much, it can only be an ordinary knife, similar to this one. ”

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