As soon as the new joiners came, the biggest problem faced by the cottage was that there was no place to relocate, and everyone had to find a place to live.

The back mountain of Luoliang Mountain has become a bare mountain after a large amount of logging and stone collection some time ago.

So Tang Xidong asked the new people who went up the mountain to reclaim a large field at the top of the back mountain, and then built a new ten-hole brick kiln on the original basis of the brick kiln.

Building a house requires a large number of bricks, so the kiln must be expanded.

After taking time to open up the field, new houses began to be built on the top of the hill.

Rows of houses, open very neatly, this time there is no yard in front of the house, only narrow lanes, paved with bluestone slabs, the room is not big, but enough for a family of four or five people to live, each family is on the fire.

Although it is not grand enough, it looks very fresh and tidy from the outside, and it is even warmer like spring when living inside.

The small house suddenly captured the hearts of the villagers who had just gone up the mountain.

After the house problem was solved, Tang Xidong thought it was time to find out the iron ore vein.

Among the more than 1,000 people brought back by Liu Dagou twice, there were a few miners with coal mining experience, so Tang Xidong arranged more than 30 people for them to start looking for iron ore.

On this day, the blacksmith led the apprentice to report that after many days of manufacturing improvements, the first repeater had been made, and he was invited to check it out.

When Tang Xidong heard this, he hurried to go.

When I entered the blacksmith shop, I saw Hu Jiao holding a repeater and a crossbow gun, standing in place and fiddling with joy.

As soon as he saw Tang Xidong coming, Hu Jiaozi hurriedly handed over the repeater gun in his hand.

Tang Xi Dongwei looked carefully at his hand, and found that it was not the all-iron version he expected, but a semi-iron version, or a synthesis of pig iron and wood.

The handle is wood, the barrel is wood, and the runner part is made of pig iron, and this repeater gun is different from the one invented by himself, the previous crossbow gun was invented with a lever to string the cow tendon, and this one, the clip was directly changed to, a flat groove, and then exposed a small iron handle, the cow tendon passed through the iron handle hole and the two became one, the iron handle was made into a firing pin shape in the flat groove, and the cow tendon ejection firing pin hit the tail of the arrow with the inner track of the flat groove, and it could be launched.

It looks more like the body of the gun in later generations, Tang Xidong tried it, and found that this winding is more reasonable than his previous tie rod winding, as long as one arm is supported, one hand pulls the iron handle back, you can wind the cow tendon, and the biggest advantage is to ensure that every time the cow tendon catapults the firing pin is just right at the end of the arrow.

The imagination of the working man cannot be underestimated.

"Sir, Xiao Lao'er has tried many times and found that if all pig iron is used, the weight will reach seventy or eighty catties at once, and the pig iron model is not easy to carve, so it can only be changed to this." Hu Jiaozi looked at Tang Xidong cautiously.

Seeing Tang Xidong's approving nod, he relieved his heart and showed joy.

Tang Xidong took a short arrow, tried firing, and found that the repeater gun in front of him was really just right, first, the weight was just right, after the ox tendon bullet was fired, it was not like the previous wood, because the gun body was lighter, it was easy to hold the old deviation. The second is the accuracy of this repeater, which is very accurate, and when fired three times in a row, it can accurately shoot at a target within a range of three centimeters. The third is its range, which has been increased a lot, and it can shoot at least 100 paces away.

Tang Xidong himself is very satisfied, although it is not as powerful as the firecracker, but it is not much worse, and it has many advantages.

"Okay, Master Hu has worked hard, I will ask for credit for you at the owner of the village, and I will set the reward for you first, everyone in the blacksmith shop has a share, fifty catties of grain per person, and ten taels of silver. Master Hu added 50 catties of grain and 40 taels of silver. ”

As soon as Tang Xidong's voice fell, everyone in the blacksmith shop hurriedly thanked him.

"According to the standard of this repeater gun, another two hundred will be built, and if the iron material is insufficient, the waste weapons in the cottage warehouse will be smelted, and the wooden version of the repeater gun made before will be taken back first, and it must be made by Seiko. If you do a good job, there will be a big reward. Tang Xidong put down the repeater gun in his hand and said.

"In addition, Master Hu, there is one more thing that needs to be troubled by you and the other masters." Since Tang Xidong came to the blacksmith shop, he naturally wanted to explain the matter of the railroad tracks to them.

Since the greenhouse is about to be done, the matter of natural rails must also be put on the agenda, and no matter how busy you are, you can't delay farming.

Considering the shortage of iron on the mountain, Tang Xidong asked Hu Jiaozi and Huang Laosan, who was led by the carpenter, to cooperate with the iron and wood, first making the wood shell and embedding thin steel rails.

After explaining, Tang Xidong left the blacksmith shop.

Get ready to go and see the carpenter's progress.

The carpenter's shop is actually not far away, only a little more than 100 meters away from the blacksmith's shop.

When he arrived at the carpenter's shop, Tang Xidong saw rows of crossbows made in the courtyard.

This thing has no technical content, but it is modified from the original ladder.

Tang Xidong probably looked at it, there were thirty pairs, think about it, there are still not enough cow tendons, but put it on the city wall, although it is a little nervous, but for the time being, it can only be like this.

The crossbow gun is still much more important than the city defense crossbow, so you can only do it tightly with the crossbow gun first.

In addition to the crossbow for defending the city, there are also tracks that have not yet been connected, which have been made, and are waiting for the blacksmith to create a thin iron sheet embedded in it, and then it will be fixed and assembled on the mountain road.

The same reward encouraged the carpenters, and Tang Xidong left in the grateful eyes of the carpenters.

Two more days followed.

Liu Dagou once again led a large number of people up the mountain, and at the same time sent back the news that Hongdong City was besieged by the rebels day and night, and Pingyang City also closed the city gate, and now I heard that the sergeants of the Pingyang Guard Station are being mobilized to come to the rescue.

There are more and more displaced people under the mountain, and many villagers from other places have gathered at the foot of Pingyang City.

After all, it is a prefecture, and when the war comes, many people immediately think of going to Pingyang Mansion.

In addition, the miners also came with news that the location of the iron ore can be determined now, but it is not easy to mine, because the ore vein is on the side of San'in, and San'in is a continuous cliff, and there is nowhere to stay, if you want to mine, you need to start from Shanyang.

When Tang Xidong heard this, his heart was half cold, from Shanyang to Shanyin, when did he have to dig it, wouldn't it be a tunnel, the amount of work was too big and it was not safe.

So for the time being, we can only stop first.

In addition to figuring out the location of the iron ore, a new situation has made the whole cottage boil.

After nearly half a month, wheat seedlings were finally revealed in the two experimental fields of the first terrace.

This is a piece of news that makes the whole cottage boil, and everyone who gets the news runs to the test field to check it out as soon as possible.

The people who saw the wheat seedlings jumped and shouted excitedly, and the older ones even knelt on the ground and looked up to the sky and cried.

These people, in fact, are farmers, they have been cultivating for generations, and their feelings for the land are like their own lives.

But the sudden appearance of the Xiaoice climate made it rainless and the earth without food.

But at this moment, in this small corner of Luoliang Mountain, food is really grown.

When you grow food, you have hope of living.