After arranging Zeng Alu, Li Qingyuan went to the blacksmith workshop to have a look, the great man once said that the power comes out of the barrel of the gun, Li Qingyuan thought it was true, and he did not attach importance to the barrel of the gun since the beginning, I am afraid that at this time Li Qingyuan did not know which ravine to fight guerrillas.

The workshop has always been the top priority of Li Qingyuan's attention, from the beginning of the group production system, to the later introduction of the piecework wage system, Li Qingyuan for every step of firearms production has carefully studied and re-studied, to see if it can be done faster and better.

Unfortunately, he was not a mechanical genius, and he only explained the mechanical principles and mechanical principles he learned in school to these craftsmen, and then let them play on their own.

People often say that where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and Li Qingyuan is convinced of this, and Li Qingyuan often grasps the big and lets go of the small things when it comes to other things, and turns a blind eye to the intrigue between logistics and the people on the mountain.

However, Li Qingyuan never relaxed his efforts to make firearms workshops, and formulated strict discipline second only to the army, organized craftsmen to compile operating specifications, and strictly controlled the entry and exit of materials and finished products.

In order to control the firearms workshop, there is even a special guard unit on the side of Taihang Mountain, and this force can only be dispatched by Li Qingyuan.

Although only the appearance version is produced here, Li Qingyuan's supervision of the workshop has never been relaxed.

When I arrived at the workshop, I saw black smoke covering the valley from a distance, and when I got closer, it was even more smoky and noisy, Li Qingyuan had long been accustomed to this, and after looking around, everyone was nervously busy with the things at hand.

In the end, Li Qingyuan came to a wooden shed, which was the Luliang artillery workshop, and the artillery was known as the god of war, and Li Qingyuan would certainly attach importance to it, especially when he was about to enter the era of all firearms.

At a time when the Qing army may also be equipped with advanced firearms on a large scale at any time, it is not safe to rely on the equipment of firearms with a longer range in order to gain an advantage.

Technology can leak at any time, how long does it take to produce a musket? How long can the advantage gained by musket technology be maintained?

But artillery is different, artillery is a system engineering, the technology is more complex, the production takes longer, and it takes more time to successfully train a qualified artilleryman.

Of course, now Li Qingyuan's so-called artillery workshop is just producing some tiger squat guns, but Li Qingyuan does have a big dream, he has a complete steel production technology and technology, and there are a lot of artillery design drawings, and what is lacking now is skilled workers.

Therefore, even if Li Qingyuan lets these workers practice, he must practice well, starting with small cannons and slowly making them bigger.

It is impossible to do it in one step, the so-called materials in Li Qingyuan's hand are also downloaded from the Internet, will the things on the Internet tell you everything?

Often you ignore the things that you have brought in a sentence may cause failure, so you still have to master the technology step by step.

Not to mention anything else, as far as these craftsmen in Li Qingyuan's hands are concerned, that is, the level of making iron and making farm tools, the manufacture of this tiger squat cannon is all learned and sold, and the master craftsmen here have only participated in the manufacture of more than ten artillery pieces in Taihang Mountain, and then they are pulled over because they need people here.

Including the fire hammer workshop here, many people are watching what others do, while learning by themselves, and those who can't learn are asking.

Not to mention anything else, a barrel is made by novices in experiments, and only one out of three can be used, and the skilled hands in Li Qingyuan's hands can only ensure that four out of five can be used.

These are not what makes Li Qingyuan helpless, what is even more helpless is that 99% of these people don't know what they are doing this for, they only know that they learn from others, and if others do this, then he will do it too!

Li Qingyuan once saw a blacksmith striking iron once and paused, very strange and asked him if his arm hurt, he said no, it was learned from the master, Li Qingyuan called his master to ask, it turned out that his master taught him that day his arm flashed, so he had to rest after fighting.

It's not funny, it's that someone does it, just like the old gunpowder formula, what a mess and a lot of it, for generations, thousands of years, 99% of people only know to follow the rules.

Li Qingyuan doesn't need everyone to be an engineer or a scholar if he wants to innovate, but it's not enough to rely on skill.

Fortunately, Li Qingyuan now has thousands of blacksmiths and blacksmith apprentices in his hands, although Li Qingyuan has not yet taught them any systematic knowledge, but this day is not far away. When Li Qingyuan arrived, everyone was studying around a wooden cannon mold.

The molding sand has been prepared, the wood fan is polished and smooth after it is made, and the mold is started, the fire in the small smelting furnace has been burning, everyone saw Li Qingyuan coming, they all surrounded him, Li Qingyuan waved his hand: "What should I do, what are you doing around me?" There is a reward for getting the cannon out early! ”

Everyone started to make molds, and Li Qingyuan watched the workers busy with their work, and they couldn't produce results for a while, so they went out again.

The next stop is to go to the smelting place, this is the place where iron ore is smelted into pig iron, because of Li Qingyuan's attack, the furnace that was originally being smelted suddenly ceased fire, resulting in the scrapping of three furnaces, Li Qingyuan wanted to see why the furnace was scrapped.

When I arrived at the place, the workers were dismantling the bricks that could be used to build a new furnace, and it could be seen from the demolition that half of the ore burned in it had melted into a big lump at this time, and this thing was not like a stone, and it would be broken when knocked.

This is a small iron mine, although it is only a small mine that has never been marked on the map, but there are also millions of tons of reserves, which is enough for Li Qingyuan in one or two decades now.

This is the first iron mine that Li Qingyuan completely controlled, so the first thing to occupy was to restore production here, in order to complete this task, Li Qingyuan not only called back the original miners, but also the captured thousands of Qing soldiers also put in to help mine the ore.

It's a pity that these people cut off their heads, and they can't solve the hatred in their hearts when they let go, so they simply rush to the mine.

The new furnace was designed by Li Qingyuan himself, and with the addition of a heat storage chamber and a hot gas recovery system, according to the data, it can save one-third of the coke, and then the efficiency can be increased by more than half.

Li Qingyuan would come over every day to take a look, and watching him build it little by little, Li Qingyuan became more and more happy.

According to the information, this kind of furnace produces wrought iron, and if you are lucky, you can produce steel.

Li Qingyuan was looking at the workers' furnace body, when suddenly the communication soldier came and said in Li Qingyuan's ear: "General, our village chief over there in Woxia Village was shot coldly. ”