After the discussion of Shangshu Mansion, Xiang Ying, the thousand-man general of the Shuyang Army, and the deputy general Yi Ji carried the former Xiao Chang'an Ju deputy lieutenant Qiang Yuan to the north of Jianyang.

The next day, the Shuyang army went north, and Qiang Yuan took the lead in entering Fangcheng Mountain with more than 200 people, and the next day, Xiang Ying and Yi Ji also each led a team of men and horses into Fangcheng Mountain again.

The hunters in the mountains also saw that there were more people in the mountains, and they still carried all kinds of weapons, but they were also too frightened to go into the depths of the mountains, for fear of encountering villains.

After the Huayang army entered Fangcheng Mountain, there was no trace, and instead a group of bandits named "Yongqiu Zhong" appeared in the territory of Zheng State, plundering everywhere and crossing the border between Han and Zheng.

Lin Yuyan didn't care too much about the news of this "Yongqiu people", because all kinds of craftsmen recruited by the second emperor brother also came to report one by one, and in addition, the Miyang Iron Mine that was handed over to Shanglin Yuan also sent people to hand over.

Han Kui sorted out his household registration and was busy in every way, but Lin Yuyan also fell into the well, but he didn't expect that the busyness would fall on him in an instant.

These craftsmen include bronze craftsmen, clay masons, carpenters, stonemasons, etc., many and miscellaneous, and Lin Yuyan must use these craftsmen if he wants to be self-sufficient in Lin Yuan.

However, the different things of these guys also give Lin Yuyan a headache, for example, to create the simplest hunting tools such as a wooden stick spearhead, these guys often like to complete a whole one by themselves, from choosing a wooden stick, cutting and slipping, to building a spearhead, and connecting it, without letting others interfere at all.

But the simplest wooden stick with a spearhead would take days, and at this speed, it would take months to build a finished spear or something.

Lin Yuyan was unacceptable, and then wanted to choose the assembly line method for casting, but found that a more serious problem came.

There is no unified weights and measures in the motherland!

This caused the spearhead of one craftsman to be cast on the wooden stick of another craftsman, and there was no connection at all.

Lin Yuyan had a gloomy face, looked at the hundreds of craftsmen in front of him, and asked sharply, "How long is a foot?" ”

Suddenly, these people chattered and quarreled.

"Stretch out your arm, to the elbow joint, almost a foot ......."

"No, no, this foot is too long, it should be with your hand open, and the thumb and little finger are stretched out to the maximum, this is one foot."

"You're not right......

Seeing this, Lin Yuyan also shouted at them: "Enough! ”

There is no unified weights and measures assembly line production, there is no way to apply it to practice, so unified weights and measures have become a top priority!

As a result, these craftsmen changed positions with Lin Yuyan and began to set the so-called weights and measures.

Nowadays, what is commonly used in life is nothing more than length, capacity, weight, and area.

Lin Yuyan is used to using the decimal system.

And the first one is to determine the length.

Lin Yuyan abolished the chaotic quadruple system, heparchmental, octal, twelve, and hexadecimal systems of the original martial kingdom.

Lin Yuyan clearly stipulates that one zhang is equal to ten feet, one foot is equal to ten inches, and one inch is equal to ten.

Thinking that he came up with it, Lin Yuyan used inches to determine the length.

"Fetch some fragile sticks!" Lin Yuyan commanded the two craftsmen.

Immediately, the two craftsmen brought back a thin wooden stick.

"You, you,......, you, you, come forward for me!" After getting the thin wooden stick, Lin Yuyan casually pointed out ten people and walked out.

The ten people also walked out when they heard the words, and then Lin Yuyan handed over a few more people, distributed the thin wooden sticks in their hands, and said, "Measure their middle knuckles, how long the bottom section is, and break the stick into how long." ”

"Whoa!" The craftsmen with thin wooden sticks in their hands also responded, and then according to Lin Yuyan's request, they went to measure the length of the lowest joint of the middle fingers of the ten people.

It didn't take long for Lin Yuyan to get back ten inch-long wooden sticks with a slight difference in length.

Lin Yuyan picked out the shortest and longest of the two, and then asked people to bring over the silk thread and measure the total length of the remaining eight inch-long wooden sticks.

Fold the thread in half three more times, and obtain one-eighth of the length, before he said to the crowd: "This is the length of an inch!" ”

Someone brought out another wooden stick and drew it to a foot in length.

Lin Yuyan held a one-foot thin wooden stick in his hand, looked at the craftsmen and asked, "Is there a bronze craftsman?!" ”

There are now only a few craftsmen here, but there are enough craftsmen in the area.

There were several bronze craftsmen who came out.

Lin Yuyan handed them a few determined ruler wooden sticks and said, "You build a bronze ruler for all craftsmen, one foot long, with a scale on it, and the name of the craftsman engraved on the back, and each craftsman carries it with him to prove his identity!" ”

"Yes!" These bronze craftsmen took the road with them.

Now that the unit of length has been determined, the rest is easy to do.

The weight unit is easy, but there is no need to make it as fine as the length unit, Lin Yuyan selected a few weight units commonly used in the martial arts, such as liters, buckets, and stones.

You must know that in Wuguo, the Central Plains are the same weight unit and capacity unit, a liter of grain is a pound of grain, but the conversion unit of bucket and stone is different, Lin Yuyan used the decimal system, that is, the bucket was set into ten catties, and the stone was set into a hundred catties.

Lin Yuyan asked several people to find different rice buckets to come back, and by removing the largest and smallest ones, they got a more pertinent wooden bucket capacity.

As for the area unit, but when applied to the acreage, Lin Yuyan also used three units nearby: cent, mu, and hectare, one hectare is equal to 100 mu, and one mu is equal to 10 mu.

A field is four zhang long and two zhang wide, each mu is twenty long, four zhang wide, and there is not much difference from the mu system prevailing in Wuguo today.

So it took a whole day to establish weights and measures, and Lin Yuyan was quite complacent, and then set out to give these craftsmen the status of craftsmen.

Foundry!

As for the location of the foundry, it must be near the water, and it must also be close to the iron ore area.

Lin Yuyan stared at Lin Yuan's map and looked at the logistics, but he never found a more suitable direction.

Because the foundry will be a place for large-scale production of ironware, there is a great demand for water, and it is also polluting, especially for smelting raw iron, which consumes water.

After thinking about it, Lin Yuyan felt that it was impossible to establish an integrated foundry, so it was better to directly smelt raw iron around the iron mine, and then build a foundry on the left bank of the Tang River, and directly transport the iron ore to transport pig iron to create finished ironware.

Lin Yuyan thought about it, and there was only one way to do it, and now it was necessary to do it on both sides, Tang He built a foundry, and a lot of labor was required to dig iron ore in the original Miyang Iron Mine, and in addition, it seemed that some iron-making blast furnaces would be built, but this thing didn't seem to be so easy to get.

Thinking that there are so many things to do, which is not easy, Lin Yuyan is also upset.

It's not much, it's just a complaint, Lin Yuyan just started to lay out, and now the autumn harvest in Shuyang is coming to an end, and the more than 6,000 subordinates can just use it.

After silently thinking about how to distribute it in his heart, he instructed Jing Yi beside him: "Jing Yi, send a message to Lingwu De of Shuyang, saying that I want 2,000 people to go to Miyang, and in addition, the prisoners sentenced to death do not have to be beheaded, and they will be escorted directly to Miyang!" ”

"Yes!" Jing Yi nodded in response.

Lin Yuyan weighed the Miyang iron mine, and Wu Guo had not yet mined it on a large scale, so it was not very difficult, perhaps it was an open-pit mine under the surface.

As for the construction of the iron-making blast furnace, it seems that it is necessary to have a breath with the Yang Ling, after all, it is indeed difficult to hide such a big movement in the territory of the Yang.

The hundreds of craftsmen recruited also rushed to the Tanghe site the next day, and Lin Yuyan's second brother Gongzi Xin also sent a talent that Lin Yuyan urgently needed.

That is, the second son of the court worker, the second son, the foil tin.

For this person, Lin Yuyan also learned the details, the Gong Dafu Fang Luo is already old, and the Foil clan is constantly fighting, this Foil Tin was expected to serve as an official and a half in the Wuguo Bing Casting Bureau under the rule of the Gong Dafu, but after all, it was because of the concubine and the fear of recruiting people, and he was squeezed out of the Foil Clan.

When he heard the news of Gongzixin's recruitment of craftsmen, he came to take refuge, who knew that he was sent to the boiling Shanglin Garden that had been rumored recently, and it was really a blessing for Saiong to lose his horse.

This foil clan is said to be from the land of Wu Yue, and the ancestor is a master of sword casting and knife casting, so he also has a lot of research on craftsmanship.

For example, it was not that Fin Tin took the letter of recommendation from Gongzi to Lin Yuyan's attention, but that this person chose an excellent place for Lin Yuyan when he chose a foundry location on the left bank of the Tang River among most craftsmen.

Backed by mountains and facing the Tang River, the terrain is neither high nor low, just sheltered from the wind outlet, and it is also the most convenient to get water.

This made Lin Yuyan interested in him, and thus found out that he was the second son of the Gongda Doctor.

Lin Yuyan felt that after almost that, he was promoted to the director of the foundry, in charge of the foundry.

Hearing Lin Yuyan's promotion, Foil Xi was also grateful, not long ago he was kicked out of the family by his brother-in-law, living on the streets, penniless, and the future is unknown, who knows that after a short change, he was allowed to enter the place of Shanglin Yuan.

It's really hard to figure out what life encounters are.

In addition to sighing, he was also grateful to Lin Yuyan, he was silent, and he couldn't say anything beautiful, but after scanning the surrounding terrain, he also secretly resolved in his heart to do a good job of building a foundry.

Now that the address of the foundry has been chosen, Lin Yuyan also plans to rush to the Miyang Iron Mine tomorrow to see how the Miyang Iron Mine is.

PS: One inch is about 2.5cm, and one mu is about 500 square meters.