On the bustling streets of Luoyang, there are countless pedestrians coming and going, and the horses driven by the groom's hard work pull more trucks around, these streets have been expanded again and again, and now with the addition of the manpower traffic light system, the situation of a bunch of trucks blocking the road has finally been eliminated.

Yuan Yun looked at the street from the car window, and couldn't help but think of the scene in the previous life, and Luoyang seemed to be developing according to those standards, cement masonry buildings, and even public transportation carriages, and large hot water supply systems, everything looked familiar and unfamiliar.

Looking at all these changes in front of him, the corners of Yuan Yun's mouth unconsciously rose a little, if Luoyang a few years ago was still barely maintained, now Luoyang is a well-deserved industrial monster, agriculture has completely become the city's auxiliary, just to supply rations.

Luoyang is now full of working class, they have no fixed land, and even many people have forgotten the skills of farming, they go in and out of the workshop every day to work, and then at the end of the month they receive a good salary, in exchange for all kinds of living needs, this is the mode of their survival.

In this regard, people from the beginning of the doubt, to the current complete acceptance, in the middle of a lot of disputes, and even by some people boycotted, but these have passed, the development of Luoyang is obvious to all, the residents here are also the happiest people in the world, now want to get Luoyang's household registration, it is more difficult than ascending to the sky.

"When will Aunt Bian go back?" Cao Zheng suddenly poked his big head out of the carriage and squeezed on Yuan Yun's side.

Yuan Yun stuffed Cao Chong's head into the carriage with great disgust, then turned his head and shrugged his shoulders and said, "This should be asked of you, Lao Tzu is just the son-in-law of the Cao family, and you are the descendant of the Cao family." ”

Cao Chong sighed, then raised his head and fell on the soft collapse, and then said very unhappily: "If Aunt Bian doesn't leave, I will have to go to ask for peace every day, which is too much time, and the most angry thing is that Aunt Bian still refuses to move to Brother Cao Ang's mansion to live, and I don't know what is good about your Yuan Mansion." ”

Yuan Yun glanced at Cao Chong with slanted eyes, and immediately sighed, and said: "My life is not easy, now my study has become Aunt Bian's, you just come to say hello every day, but I have to face her for a long time every day, and there are people who are more miserable than me?" ”

When Cao Chong heard Yuan Yun say this, he sat up straight in an instant, and then laughed: "Now I feel happy, it's strange to say, knowing that my brother-in-law is worse than me, I immediately feel good, haha." ”

Yuan Yun kicked Cao Chong angrily, and then changed the topic and said, "How is the progress of the machine tool between you and Ma Junlong?" ”

Cao Chong instantly showed a face full of confidence, and then replied proudly: "Looking for my brother-in-law to go out today, is to let you see our results, water conservancy-driven machine tools are already in the past, and now the new machine tool powered by a gas engine, I don't know how powerful, the thick steel plate can be flattened as soon as the head is pressed, those drill bits are even more powerful, what kind of steel plate is like tofu in front of those drill bits." ”

Speaking of this, Cao Chong paused slightly, then glared at Yuan Yun and asked, "How does my brother-in-law know what kind of thing is called a diamond diamond, which can easily cut steel plates?" It looks like a gemstone, and I don't want it to be so strong, but the material is too hard to find. ”

Yuan Yun smiled and said, "If this kind of thing is paired with gold and silver, it will naturally be a great jewelry, but we need it more now to expand production, so no matter how much you like this thing, you can't turn it into a luxury product." ”

Cao Chong was stunned for a moment, and then said with a dry smile: "Brother-in-law said a little late, when Sister Qiao Ya and Yang Aruo got married, I made a necklace as a congratulatory gift, I'm afraid Sister Qiao Ya is now hanging around her neck all day long." ”

The corners of Yuan Yun's mouth trembled, and in the end, he could only shake his head helplessly, and said, "Only this once, not for example." ”

Cao Chong shrugged his shoulders and said disappreciatively: "It's really not enough, just let Xiao Ai look around, or let Guo Yi come, anyway, they are all masters of mineral searching, especially Guo Yi's family, who are basically excellent miners." ”

Yuan Yun sighed: "I just don't want to use diamonds to make luxury goods become a trend, now there are too many rich people in Luoyang, once everyone begins to pursue this, we will buy it in the future, I am afraid the cost will be very expensive, which is very unfavorable to our machine tool manufacturing at present." ”

Cao Chong didn't seem to be worried about this at all, and immediately changed the topic and said: "Ma Jun and I made the first batch of bullets, completely according to the standards given by my brother-in-law, at first I thought it was the most difficult, but now I found out that the most difficult thing is to make the spring of a new firearm, this thing has too high requirements for steel, Mr. Pu Yuan doesn't know how long he has been struggling, and now he has barely made so many of them, and this amount can only make a dozen muskets." ”

Yuan Yun frowned instantly, he didn't expect the problem to be stuck here, but the manufacture of springs is only a matter of time, after all, Luoyang's steelmaking skills are now very mature, and Pu Yuan has long been familiar with repeated experiments, and it is only a matter of time before he discovers that steel materials suitable for making springs.

"I really want to see the kind of repeating gun designed by my brother-in-law with my own eyes, but this spring has greatly slowed down our progress, and now we can only make single-shot guns, which is really unwilling." Cao Chong complained again, and then lay down again.

Looking at Cao Chong's unorthodox appearance, Yuan Yun's face was full of wry smiles, now Cao Chong is more and more influenced by himself, walking, sitting and lying almost like himself, this has been taught by Bian I don't know how many times, but Cao Chong didn't take it seriously at all, but felt that this kind of appearance was chic and handsome.

After grabbing Cao Chong, who was lying down, Yuan Yuncai said: "Spring aside, now that we have bullets, the speed of loading has been greatly improved, even if there is no repeating gun, only relying on the rifles we have produced now, the gunpowder army is still waiting for a qualitative leap, and now how great their combat power is, even I dare not imagine." ”

Cao Chong immediately continued: "This brother-in-law doesn't have to worry about it, it is estimated that soon our gunpowder army in Luoyang will go to the front line, but I am worried that our rifle manufacturing will not be able to keep up with the progress, after all, it is a very expensive and labor-intensive thing to replace the configuration of 5,000 people." ”

Yuan Yun nodded and asked, "How many people have been armed now?" ”

Cao Chong smiled bitterly and said: "Just five hundred people, after all, many crafts are new, plus there is also the training of soldiers, it is already a good progress to be able to arm five hundred people." ”

Yuan Yun shook his head and said: "It's still too slow, Sun Ce has now occupied Guangling County, and the soldiers are pointing directly at the entire territory of Xuzhou, although your father sent General Xiahoudun to guard it, but everything is too hurried, I am always worried that General Xiahoudun will not be able to resist." ”

Cao Chong glanced at Yuan Yun, and did not continue to talk about the war in Xuzhou, but hummed very unhappily: "If brother-in-law is worried, then why didn't you come to the workshop earlier to help, you are idle at home all day, and I don't know what suspicion you plan to avoid, isn't it because we gave Yang Aruo more than a dozen artillery pieces privately, but my father plans to remove your title, do you care about that broken brother-in-law?" ”

Yuan Yun smiled bitterly and said: "My second sister Qiaoya would be fine if she didn't marry Yang Aruo, but now that they have married, it is very different, I don't see that many old officials in the court are already impeaching me, saying that I am establishing a deployment in private, I don't hide at home these days, I'm afraid your father will cut the title of Lao Tzu immediately, don't say it, I really care about me as a marquis." ”

Cao Chong looked puzzled and said, "Doesn't my brother-in-law often say that he doesn't care about any official rewards?" Why do you care so much about a broken marquis? ”

Yuan Yun snorted and said, "Because it is very majestic, with this title, Lao Tzu sees those old officials in the imperial court, first, you don't have to bow your head, and second, you don't have to bow down, of course it's very important." ”

Cao Chong really didn't understand Yuan Yun's logic, wasn't it just some court etiquette, and he didn't know why Yuan Yun cared so much, but he didn't know that Yuan Yun, a modern person, was born with a spirit of resistance to such a thing.

The frame soon moved into the forge workshop, where gunfire was now heard every day, and rows of craftsmen were constantly testing the newly built rifles.

It wasn't until Yuan Yun's frame drove in that everyone immediately put down the rifles in their hands, and then retreated to a safe distance.

The reason why the management is so strict is because when Yuan Yun came to watch the rifle test firing before, a Cao Ren who had been lurking for many years actually raised his gun to shoot at Yuan Yun, perhaps because of luck, the newly made rifle turned out to be dumb, and the fine man saw that the matter was exposed, and swallowed the poison in an instant.

When investigating later, it was discovered that this craftsman had been serving in the workshop since the new city of Xudu, and he had endured it for so long until it was exposed today, which can also be seen how radical Cao Pi is now, and he actually wants to send someone to assassinate Yuan Yun directly.

It was also from that day that all the craftsmen in the important workshops began to be purged and a very detailed inventory by Cao Ang, Xu You was almost a little brutal when he did this, and even Ma Jun and Pu Yuan did not let go of the inspection of the craftsmen.

The reason why Xu You is so rigorous is because he knows very well the importance of Yuan Yun to Luoyang, and now he has bet all the hopes of the entire family on Luoyang, so he can not let Yuan Yun have any mistakes.

After this investigation, a lot of clues were really found, there were several old craftsmen who had served for many years, and they disappeared inexplicably, one of them was even a distant relative of Ma Jun, and after these people disappeared, none of them dared to ask, Ma Jun planned to persuade all his relatives to retire, and in the end Yuan Yun came forward to keep it.

After Cao Ang experienced this incident, not only for the workshop, but also began to rectify the whole city of Luoyang, all the customs clearance regulations were also reformulated, and the Wei Qi, who was in charge of the law and prison, was expanded by Cao Ang, and almost all the safety regulations came out of his hands, and the set of forging workshops was also formulated by him.

Bang!

After Yuan Yun let go of a shot, he looked at the target in the distance and felt very satisfied, at least the bullet hit the target, but before he could start showing off, he heard that Xiao Liu next to him also fired a shot, which hit the bull's-eye, and then this thing was very skillful and immediately released another shot, which was still a bull's-eye.

"You like guns so much, don't you? Then get all the bullets here. Yuan Yun put down the next sentence and walked aside.

Xiao Liu glanced at the basket of bullets handed over by Yuan Yun, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, his own lord estimated that he was stingy again, but he didn't care very much, he hadn't come to practice shooting for a long time, and he just recovered today.

So soon, there were bursts of gunfire on the shooting range, and Yuan Yun and Cao Chong sat on the side and drank tea, and after Xiao Liu shot half a basket of bullets, Ma Jun and Pu Yuan finally arrived, both of them had a pair of black eyes, as if they hadn't slept for several days.

Yuan Yun looked at the appearance of the two of them, and could only comfort: "This kind of thing is not so urgent, why do you have to work so hard, the coming day is long, let's study it slowly." ”

Ma Jun immediately replied excitedly: "Lord...... My lord, I ...... We ......"

"We've found the steel to make the springs." Pu Yuan replied for Ma Jun very impatiently.