Guo Jing was quite ashamed and said: "The talent of the uncle, the villain did not learn half a point, otherwise he would not have fallen into Jizhou to make a living, and he was ashamed to see his ancestors, why should the lord be like this?" ”

Wen Yuan arched his hand and said: "I deeply admire Mr. Youdao's teaching regardless of his background and rewarding his juniors, I just hate that I can't be born twenty years early and study under Mr. Brother Guo is a high-level gentleman, he must have real talent and real learning, and he is growing steadily, and he is not without opportunities. ”

Guo Jing's expression was excited: "The lord has won the award, and the villain can follow the lord's left and right, this life is enough." In the future, you will practice diligently, so as not to fall into the prestige of the Lord. ”

Wen Yuan smiled with satisfaction: "It is true that you can't be left behind in the matter of practice, but I still have one more important thing to entrust to you today." ”

"Although the lord commands, the villain will go to the soup and die!" Guo worshiped in the tunnel.

Wen Yuan raised his hand to help Guo Jing up, and said: "Today's performance on the school field, you did a good job, I have already remembered it, the military camp is vulgar, most of the sergeants and soldiers are brave and ruthless, rude and unliterate, in the long run, there will be enmity between each other, I see that you are very talented for teaching the soldiers, and I want you to do the military consolation, specifically responsible for picketing the military stroke discipline, resolving conflicts and disputes between the soldiers, and teaching the soldiers to understand the righteousness of things, what do you think?" ”

"The lord is so trusted, the villain will definitely do his best!"

Wen Yuan warmly encouraged, and finally personally sent Guo Jing out, only to let out a long breath.

Wen Yuan had considered the establishment of a consolation officer in the army as early as when he was founding the army, just because there were too many trivial matters when he was training the army. I haven't found time to operate, and in addition, there are very few people in the army who can read and write and write, and there are many people who take care of their own affairs.

However, Wen Yuan can occasionally hear rumors of private fights in the army, and even more soldiers in the same place form groups and faintly confront each other, the previous battle of Yangjiabao, there was a ** woman incident, two soldiers who were beheaded by Wen Yuan, it seems that they were raised by soldiers in other places, if this kind of signs are allowed to continue to exist, Wen Yuan's dream of strengthening the army can not only not be realized, but the combat effectiveness of the army will be damaged by internal friction, therefore, as soon as the matter of the county soldiers boycott came out, Wen Yuan put the matter of solving the soldier's discipline on the agenda.

Fortunately, Wen Yuan found Guo Jing at this time, he had read books for a few years, knew everything, and had been in the market for a long time, knowing how to deal with these rude men, the most important thing is that Wen Yuan could feel Guo Jing's absolute loyalty to himself, and with such a person as a consolation, Wen Yuan could finally let go of one thing that Wen Yuan had been worried about.

Since then, there is another gentleman surnamed Guo in the barracks, and after the officers recognize the words every day, they have to listen to him talk about some principles of loyalty and humanity, such as how Dong Zhuo is brutal, how the lord Wenyuan is sympathetic to the soldiers, originally the officers don't like to hear such big truths, but this gentleman surnamed Guo is very angry, and within a few days he became familiar with the officers, and gradually they began to like his lectures in a similar style of storytelling.

After dealing with the affairs of the army, Wen Yuan came to the newly built blacksmith workshop in the camp the next day, only to see that it was hot, more than a dozen blast furnaces were neatly discharged, the coal next to the blast furnace was as high as a hill, and several craftsmen pointed to dozens of apprentice craftsmen to agitate dozens of leather baskets, checking the temperature of the furnace from time to time, and the condition of the pig iron in the furnace.

During the Han Dynasty, the smelting technology of frying steel has appeared, which is the main method of turning pig iron into steel or wrought iron in ancient China, which was invented in the late Western Han Dynasty. The method is to heat the pig iron into a liquid or semi-liquid state, and constantly stir it to make the carbon and impurities in the pig iron continuously oxidized, so as to obtain steel or wrought iron. The "Taiping Sutra" written in the Eastern Han Dynasty also said: "If there is an urgency, the engineer will hit the stone, ask for the iron, and smelt it to make water, and then make the good work ten thousand forging, and it will become Moye." "Moyer" is the name of the ancient sword. The steel frying process is easy to operate, the raw materials are easy to obtain, it can be continuously produced on a large scale, the efficiency is high, and the quality of the obtained steel or wrought iron is high, which is of great significance to the steel production and social development in ancient China.

As for the blast technique, since the Spring and Autumn Period, ancient Chinese smelting craftsmen began to use the wedge, which was generally sewn from cowhide, and each blast furnace was equipped with several blower to blow the air to increase the furnace temperature. It has been agitated by manpower or animal power before, and it was not until the Eastern Han Dynasty that the technology of water discharge and drum appeared, but although Xiaquyang is north of the Hutuo River, it is still a severe winter, the river is frozen in ice, and the water flow is also small, and if you want to use hydraulic power, you need to wait for the snow to melt and disappear in the next year.

For the time being, Wen Yuan can only use manpower to drum up, but fortunately, the scale of the iron shop workshop under Wen Yuan's command is still small.

The fire was blazing, and Wen Yuan's face was full of red light, only to see that the pig iron that had been processed into uniform particles in the furnace was constantly melting and softening under the action of high temperature, and slowly turned into a red and slightly white porridge, and several craftsmen used tools to stir-fry for a while. When the molten iron in the furnace is heated enough, and then pour the molten iron into the pre-made pottery fan, you can get a furnace of wrought iron, and then the wrought iron is repeatedly folded and quenched and forged under the charcoal fire, and after thousands of tempering, you can get a furnace of good iron and even steel.

Wen Yuan had seen the ancient smelting technique in a book before, and today was the first time he had seen it, so from beginning to end, Wen Yuan watched it carefully, and did not disturb the busy craftsmen.

It wasn't until a furnace of molten iron was finished here that the foreman found out that Wen Yuan had arrived and hurriedly came over to pay a visit.

The foreman's surname is Zhao, he is an old man of nearly fifty years old, although his hair is scattered, his figure is extremely strong, he only wears a pair of trousers in the cold winter moon, and a leather apron hangs on his naked upper body, and his knotted muscles are shining with sweat under the firelight.

Zhao Laohan's family has been blacksmiths for several generations, and his ancestral craftsmanship has made him famous among blacksmiths in the area of the bureau, when Wen Yuan searched for blacksmiths in Xiaquyang, he was the first to find him, and this old man was not ambiguous, and after Wen Yuan promised a good reward, he didn't say a word, and followed Wen Yuan with a few sons and apprentices.

Wen Yuan comforted him with kind words, and then asked about the progress of the workshop.

Since the beginning of December, the eighth workshop began to make fire operations until now, a total of more than 70 furnaces of iron have been trained, after folding, quenching and forging, more than 4,000 catties of pig iron, 6,000 catties of charcoal, a total of more than 800 catties of steel, more than 2,000 catties of wrought iron.

Steel is naturally used to cast weapons, wrought iron is made into armor leaves, and pig iron can also be used to cast knives for soldiers.

According to Zhao Laohan, there are now 113 craftsmen in Wenyuanjun, including 17 skilled craftsmen and 96 apprentice craftsmen, including 63 iron-making craftsmen and 50 forging craftsmen. In contrast, making armor is much more complicated, after all, the forging of armor pieces is much more time-consuming and laborious, so although there are hundreds of armor pieces forged every day, these few days, there are only ten sets of finished iron armor sewn! According to this calculation, the workshop will not be able to produce more than fifty pieces of iron armor in a month! Wen Yuan understands that the fundamental reason for this situation is that there are too few craftsmen.

In fact, fifty pieces of armor per month were already quite a remarkable number at that time, because at that time, even leather armor made of only a few pieces of animal skin was very small in the army, and iron armor was a luxury that only high-ranking generals in the army deserved, and many soldiers even wore only number coats to the battlefield.

But Wen Yuan has always cherished the lives of his soldiers, and the elite soldiers he has worked so hard to train can't afford to be consumed, in his mind, it is best to equip as many soldiers as possible with iron armor, otherwise he will not let each person carry a bag weighing twenty pounds of dirt during training.

In comparison, the weapons can be slowed down, after all, these Tianwenyuan sent troops to suppress bandits several times, and they were greatly funded by Julu County, and they had a lot of weapons in their hands, but this iron armor was in short supply, which always kept Wen Yuanji in mind.

Therefore, before leaving the blacksmith workshop, Wen Yuan specially told Zhao Laohan that the matter of iron smelting and forging soldiers can be suspended, but only this matter of forging iron armor must be stepped up, and the output of iron armor must be increased to more than 100 sets no matter what.