It turned out that the new house of the Dingbei Iron and Steel Academy had finally been built, and Medical Officer Xiao Liu sent soldiers to call Li Deyi to go over and have a look. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 According to the school he knew, in the northwest corner of Dingbei County, he found a flat place facing the Xiaoqing River in the north and built thirty large tiled houses. Fifteen smaller rooms were used as Datongpu dormitories, three larger tiled houses were used as schools, and the other rooms were left to Li Deyi to arrange by himself. In the middle of the group houses is a patio that can be two acres in size.

When he arrived at the place, Li De glanced at the courtyard that took more than two months to build, and the joy in his heart was mentioned. Li Deyi looked up at the plaque hanging at the door, and the six big characters of "Dingbei Iron and Steel Academy" personally inscribed by Master Sun Lao Medical Officer, and suddenly sighed in his heart: "Finally, it is my turn to assign a lot of homework and embarrass others!" Wow gahaha...... No, now that I'm a principal, I should have less homework! ”1

Such words suddenly popped up in his heart, Li Deyi himself was stupid, he stood there for a long time and didn't come back, he didn't know why this was at all? Well, I think, it's about the memories of the past at work.

Medical Officer Xiao Liu looked up at the plaque written by the master and stared at the junior brother, he didn't move for a long time, and the whole person kept standing there stupidly, just thinking that something was wrong. Today is a great day for the new school to be built, and there can be no mistakes. Doctor Xiao Liu approached and asked with concern, "What's wrong?" Master's hand shook again, and he made a typo again? As he spoke, he looked up carefully at the plaque.

Li Deyi asked his senior brother to ask this, came back to his senses, shook his head, shook off those inexplicable thoughts, and replied: "No, Master's writing is very good." Senior brother, let me ask you something. ”

"You say." Doctor Liu said while taking Li Deyi to the school. "Senior brother, when you were learning art from Master, did Master assign you homework?" Li Deyi asked. "It's arranged, what's wrong?"

Li Deyi then asked, "How is the arrangement?" Doctor Xiao Liu said: "The homework that Master assigned to me is so that I can better understand what he is taught by the old man. Just play this role, why do you arrange so much? Li had a little head, and he had a number in his heart.

Looking around, Li Deyi mentioned again: "Senior brother, we have to send some retired veterans to guard the gate, and we can't let people come and go at will, in case there are fine works mixed with us in the future." Our Weibei camp is now famous, and there must be someone who has been eyeing our every move and wants to find out our details. In the future, I plan to make this school the kind described in "The Romance of Taizu Dingchao", a place where thousands of sets of steel armor are produced per day, and there are no swords and guns. Now we have to look at everything in this school strictly, and we can't let outsiders learn it. ”

Letting go of the inexplicable jumping thinking of the junior brother just now, Doctor Liu nodded, although he didn't know why the junior brother was so confident. However, there are still two or three hundred veterans who have retired from the Weibei Battalion, and this request is very easy to fulfill, and now there are just some soldiers who have retired from the previous battle against Guo Wuchang, and they can be called to guard.

"Some of our disabled soldiers haven't been resettled yet, you see......" Medical Officer Xiao Liu asked. After all, this school is the work of the junior brother, and it is not easy for Medical Officer Liu to arrange people to come over at will. Li De nodded and said, "Senior brother, it's best to be the kind of bachelor who hasn't married yet." If you have already started a family locally, you have worries in your heart, and it is easy to be taken advantage of. ”

Medical Officer Xiao Liu pondered for a moment and said, "There are two people who meet your requirements, they are both singles recruited from the homeless people, and they escaped from the butcher's knife of the Tuliao people alone. Later, we recruited troops from the Weibei Battalion, so we recruited them in. When they were at home, they were honest farmers. The last time they hit Shimaizhou, they were both injured, one broke an arm, the other broke half of the palm, retreated, and no longer went into battle. ”

Li Deyi said: "These two are both recruits who have just entered the battle formation, and they are still treated as recruits, right?" Senior brother, give these two people an ebony card with the treatment of first-class soldiers. If you want to use them, you must ensure that they share weal and woe with our Weibei camp. Doctor Xiao Liu said: "Okay, I'll take care of this matter for you when I go back, and I'll send them tomorrow." ”

As soon as Li Deyi followed his senior brother to visit the newly built academy compound, he brought the blacksmith and the five hundred steel students into the academy and arranged for them to live separately. These 500 students all slept in a dormitory in Dalianpu, where more than 30 young and strong people lived in one dormitory, with large wooden plank beds on the upper and lower floors. The blacksmith master had his own separate place to live, and each person had a separate tiled house. This blacksmith master has another family house built by Weibei Camp in Dingbei County, and the school is just a temporary residence.

"This is the temporary residence of the three of you in the future, the time is pressing, the house can only be built so big first, and it will be built slowly in the future, so let's do it first." The blacksmith looked at the three big tiled houses that belonged to him, and Le's tears flowed out, and he was so excited that he wanted to kneel down for Li Deyi. Li Deyi hurriedly stretched out his hand to help the three of them up, and said, "You are not craftsmen now, you are all masters of our Steel Academy." In our Weibei camp, you don't have to kneel down when you see anyone, you can just bow your hand. This is the ebony card I promised you, and it's all gone. ”

As he spoke, Li Deyi took out three ink-dyed ebony plaques, on which were engraved a small hammer, with a name in the middle and a carved ornament below. This was specially ordered by the old medical officer Sun, which was slightly different from the ebony card of the soldiers, as a status symbol of the three blacksmith masters.

The blacksmith held the wooden sign in both hands, and couldn't help but tremble with excitement. The eldest Zhou Quan couldn't hold back his tears, and cried: "I can't imagine that I have lived a long time, and one day I will be able to get rid of this cheap status." In the past, this was unthinkable. As soon as Li De saw that the emotions were stirring at the moment, he didn't bother them, and walked out quietly to see how those students were placed.

Now these 500 trainees, each of them has been given an old military uniform cut from the Weibei Battalion. Although it is old, it is better to have a uniform style, and five hundred people are wearing one style of clothes at the same time, which looks very good. Li Deyi gathered these 500 people into the courtyard, encouraged them, and encouraged them to learn the technology of forging steel and smelting well, so that they could become the official personnel of the Weibei battalion as soon as possible in the future, and they would be given ebony cards for soldiers when the time came.

Now these five hundred people, each of them temporarily has only one ordinary wooden plaque, engraved on the front of their respective numbers, from one zero one to six zero zero, exactly five hundred. Their names are engraved on the back of the plaque, and their red handprints are also left on it. Li Deyi also recorded the details of these 500 people in detail, and left a fingerprint for comparison for future use.

After eating, Li Deyi asked the blacksmith to start teaching the students. Weibei nourishes the money of these 500 students, but it is not blown by the wind out of thin air, it is all exchanged for blood and heads by the soldiers, so it is necessary to grasp every minute and every second of learning. During the afternoon class, Li Deyi also followed behind and listened carefully, and picked up a hard charcoal pen to carefully write down what he listened to on a piece of paper.

The three blacksmith masters were just cheap servants who were called and drunk before, and they had to kneel and kowtow when they touched an official the size of a sesame seed. Now this identity has changed drastically, and he has directly become someone else's mentor. When they were in class, their mouths were trembling when they spoke, and they often had to cough deliberately to take the opportunity to stabilize their excitement.

After listening to a lecture, Li Deyi would talk to the blacksmith who was teaching, saying that they were speaking very well and encouraging them to stabilize their emotions and continue to teach the students.

In the days that followed, Li Deyi would bring 53 children to the school every morning to attend literacy classes with the 500 people here. In the afternoon, I stayed in this new school to listen to the lectures together, and carefully wrote down what I heard. The three blacksmith gentlemen were a little nervous at the beginning of the lesson, but after so many days, they gradually let go.

In fact, if the blacksmith had mastered the art of forging steel and smelting it every day, it would have been all talked about in ten days. But the work of a blacksmith is not something that can be done by listening, it must be combined with a lot of practical practice.

On this day, the batch of iron ore that Li Deyi asked for was finally sent from the mine to the school. Li Deyi waited for this batch of iron ore for a long time, and after the previous battle, the Weibei battalion also had a lot of swords and armor that needed to be repaired, and he had to come with the weapons and armor of the soldiers first.

Now iron ore will be so tight, mainly because in the past few years, I have not found more people who can look for iron seedlings. The existing iron ore mine in Weibeiying is still maintained by the small iron mine that Luo You and the two apprentices found before, and for such a long time, Luo You has never found a larger iron seedling.

Fortunately, there are only 10,000 soldiers in the Weibei Battalion now, and they have not made a large number of armor, but only made knives and guns, and this small iron mine can barely deal with it for the time being. Therefore, Li Deyi was able to successfully come to this batch of iron ore this time. Now that the iron ore has arrived, Li Deyi immediately asked the blacksmith to start preparing to try the newly built blast furnace.

This blast furnace is a small blast furnace imitated by the blacksmith in the huge blast furnace of the Royal Iron and Steel Bureau in the city of the gods. This kind of iron-making blast furnace was also built for the first time in Weibeiying. Before this, the iron-making furnaces in the sword and armor battalion in the Weibei camp were all small stoves, but they were the kind often used by folk blacksmiths.

Now, looking at the small blast furnace imitated by the huge blast furnace that was newly built to imitate the Royal Iron and Steel Bureau, Li Deyi is full of expectations, looking forward to making a furnace of good iron. Li Deyi learned from the mouths of the three blacksmiths that the huge blast furnace in Zhongshen City was said to have been built under the supervision of the founding ancestor of the Ping Zhou Dynasty, and it has been preserved after several generations of emperors have been continuously repaired. It's a pity that when the Tuliao people attacked Zhongshen City, the huge blast furnace had been completely demolished by the Tuliao people.

According to Zhang An, one of the three blacksmiths, the Taizu blast furnace in Zhongshen City was too huge to meet the requirements of the blast furnace bellows by manpower and animal power, so the blast furnace was built on the side of the Shuangshui River in Zhongshen City, and the bellows could be pushed by water power to send enough wind into the furnace, and the furnace heat could reach high enough.

Li Deyi circled the blast furnace twice, stood under the earthen staircase leading to the top of the furnace, waved his hand, and asked people to bring in iron ore and prepare to start smelting the first furnace of iron. This first furnace of iron, Li Deyi decided to do it himself.