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"There are still six thousand irons, three thousand long knives, five thousand armor, ten thousand longbows, and four thousand spears." The steward said as he read the booklet.

After hearing this, Xie Yu asked, "Where does this iron come from?" ”

The steward closed the booklet and said, "Our family has a mine in the south of Jiankang City. ”

"Oh, how's the yield?"

"We only produce five months a year, almost 500 jun"

"Five hundred? So little!" Xie Yu was a little disappointed, one jun was thirty catties, that is, about seven tons.

The steward smiled and said: "Young master, this iron production is already scarce, and the imperial court has restrictions on every family or person who opens a mansion, but this is also a countermeasure on the surface, if it is really mined and smelted, it will be about two thousand jun in half a year." ”

"Restrictions?" Xie Yugan smiled and thought secretly, who will see this restriction, who will listen, under the leadership of the steward, the group entered the smelter, and indeed saw dozens of craftsmen squatting in the corner of the wall, seeing so many people coming in, they hurriedly came over and saluted: "I've seen the general, I've seen the steward!" ”

The steward introduced Xie Yu, and the craftsmen all bowed, obviously they had never seen the young master of the mansion come to this messy place, and rubbed their hands with some restraint.

Xie Yu saw that these people were between thirty and fifty years old, all of them had faces as black as the bottom of a pot, and their hands were covered with hard calluses, which were obviously caused by long-term iron-making, so the craftsmen gathered around and said, "How do you make iron?" ”

The craftsmen were a little timid, and they all pushed a strong man with thin eyebrows and fine eyes, and the sweat beads on the man's forehead said: "Young master, please go to the village with the old slave to have a look." He also only said that this young master may not have seen this iron-making process since he was a child, so he took people out of the village, and when he traveled, he could see the rolling Yangtze River, there were several rows of huts by the river, and there were sentry towers under construction, and several subordinates walked back and forth around, looking inside, I saw eight bamboo rows by the river, and now they were raised high, and there were leather sewn air bags under the bamboo rows connected to four round brick shaft furnaces about four meters high, two high, two low, Xie Yu circled around the furnace, and secretly sighed that he was afraid that the refining process of this era was primitive, It turned out that the bamboo row blower had been used, and it seemed that there was no manpower, and the two bamboo rows were connected to a blast furnace and two air intakes.

Xie Yu couldn't help but climb the ladder next to the furnace wall, and everyone shouted, "Young master, be careful." ”

Climb to the top to see, only to see that the furnace is black and can't see anything, the hand touches the masonry material on the furnace to observe the inside, obviously a large amount of refractory mud is used, and the additives of the previous ironmaking are thrown everywhere, and the fingers are rubbing, it is extremely hard, and there is lime slag, it must be that the temperature in the furnace is not enough, limestone is added, he~ this wisdom, Xie Yu came down, and the craftsman introduced.

"Young master, look, there is a bamboo row over there, when you use it, take out the live buckle, put it into the river, and use the flowing river water to drive the bamboo row to make the air bag to make wind, which does not require manpower, these two blast furnaces are for firing cast iron, and the two low furnaces are cast iron and re-furnace to burn mature iron into molten iron, and you can build weapons and armor."

After hearing this, Xie Yu really admired the infinite wisdom of the ancients, so he asked: "I see that there is a white stone at the mouth of the furnace above, is this kind of white stone added when the temperature in the furnace is insufficient?" ”

The craftsman's eyes widened and he said happily: "The young master is really smart, that's it." ”

"Then how do you get the Iron Essence? (Steel)" Xie Yu asked curiously.

The craftsman said excitedly: "Iron essence is hard to find, and you can't get much in a year and a half, all of which are wrought iron burned into molten iron, concentrate powder is added to it, and it has to be stirred constantly, and then cooled to remove the residue in heating, stirring, and after cooling, you have to beat it dozens of times to get iron essence." ”

Listen to the simplicity of this craftsman, in fact, the process of frying steel is very complicated, not easy to operate, dozens of times of beating is a hundred refining into steel, very time-consuming, it is impossible to get a large amount of iron essence.

Xie Yu smiled slightly, asked someone to bring pen, ink and paper, and said, "I'll teach you a method to get a large amount of iron essence." ”

When the craftsmen heard this, they couldn't help but widen their eyes in unison, they all knew that this iron essence was difficult to refine, and the young master actually had a way to easily obtain the iron essence, so they gathered together.

Xie Ying and Xie Ju were even more speechless, as martial artists, they all knew that the weapon made of iron essence was extremely sharp, and when they raised their eyes, they saw Ma Wenbiao and the tiger approaching like a fat sheep, and immediately grabbed his collar and whispered: "Go and go, stay behind." With a wave of his hand, two soldiers were ready to come up, Xie Yu saw it and said with a smile: "It's okay, Wen Biao will be my personal guard in the future, although outsiders don't know this method, he is already his own person, come and listen." ”

Xie Ying was helpless, Ma Wenbiao was moved and didn't know what to do, if this iron essence can be refined in large quantities, the equipment must be extremely sophisticated, if the Xie family uses this method and is equipped with a large number of troops in the body, who can be the enemy? Seeing that the young master trusted him so much, he said in his heart that he was lucky.

"Beat the wrought iron into a thin skin, the thinner the better, and then beat the cast iron into a thin skin as much as possible, and pile it evenly together, remembering, the mouth of the furnace should be covered with mud with straw sandals, and then it can be fired."

After hearing this, the craftsmen couldn't help but say, "Young Master, it's that simple?" ”

Xie Yu smiled: "It's that simple, when the first batch of iron is refined, you will have to make a few of these knives and a few sets of armor." After that, drawing the style of the one-handed Tang knife and the appearance of the Song Dynasty Buren Armor on the paper, and explaining in detail how to build it, the craftsmen who listened nodded frequently.

"Maybe the time will be a little long, but don't worry, the general will cooperate with you, if you need anything, you can find him, this time will be a little busy, and I will let the subordinates inform your family that before the refining is out, you will not go home for the time being, if you refine it, everyone will have a reward of 10,000 dollars."

The details don't need to be too cumbersome, for the steelmaking quenching at this time, the maximum is to use the urine of the fast animal to cool, the craftsmen of the Xie family are the elite of the craftsmen in this era, only Xie Yu said the "steel filling method", a few more experiments, and the steel will naturally be produced, of course, the quality must not be compared with modern times, but the blades made of this steel are obviously ahead of the manufacturing process of this era.

To make a walking armor, it is only that he has occasionally come into contact with such books, not to mention that the Song Dynasty's troops are weak, but their equipment of heavy soldiers is the world's top at that time, 1,825 pieces of fine iron pieces are sewn with leather, weighing 30 kilograms, the requirements for soldiers are extremely strict, the one-handed Tang knife is extremely sharp, it is the strength of individual combat, and now if you talk about making a Mo knife to fight against the cavalry, there is no such condition and technology, you can only make a sample first, and then think about it in the long run.

The workmanship of these armor weapons is time-consuming and laborious, and the use of iron is very large, even if the Xie family has its own mine, it cannot be mined at will, so let these craftsmen practice their hands and accumulate experience for the time being, and it will be easy to talk about later.

And restricting the freedom of these craftsmen also has his own reasons, needless to say, these people all know the meaning of the young master's words, but there is a reward of 10,000 dollars behind him, which undoubtedly injects motivation into these people, and he immediately began to gather people to pull out tools and start refining.

They are different from the soldiers, who can get spoils of war in battle, and are rewarded for their bravery, so their living conditions are better than those of these craftsmen.

Xie Yu knows that he is not good at opening gold fingers, because he has little contact with these things at all, and he only puts forward opinions and methods, and the actual operation must be completed by the people below.

Seeing that the craftsmen were busy, Xie Yu smiled and said, "General, please convene the troops, I will draw three thousand soldiers from them." ”

Xie Ying clenched his fists and immediately ordered the soldiers on patrol to beat the drums.

A few people slowly walked back to the military village, Xie Ju wanted to ask the young master why he knew these things, but when he saw that there were people around, he also gave up, and with the sound of drums, the soldiers everywhere put on their armor and ran to the innermost training ground in the military village with weapons in their hands, because the middle place was already occupied by children.

In less than a moment, all the soldiers were assembled, and they stood there, full of tigers and tigers, and couldn't help but let Xie Yu praise Xie Ying: "The general is really well-trained." ”

Xie Ying hugged his fists and said: "The young master is polite, these soldiers are all trained with reference to the Beifu soldiers, and the old man is rigorous in training, so he should be like this." ”

Xie Yu smiled and said nothing, asked someone to send the fitting armor, put it on in the hall, picked up the fire dragon spear in his hand, one word, "handsome" Xie Ju and Xie Ying couldn't help nodding.

Called Xie Zheng to watch, the three of them climbed the high platform in the training ground, and saw the phalanx of more than 7,000 soldiers standing, with a forest of spears, sassy and heroic, with the flag dancing with the breeze on the sidelines, so that Xie Yu couldn't help but feel a little enthusiastic, this is every man's long-cherished wish, is the battlefield that every boy yearns for at all times, is the first step to his own success in Jiankang City, is the foundation for himself to create peace and happiness for this era, he wants to become a hard stone, yes, the stone of the Jin Dynasty, the hard Jin stone.

"Sons, the world is chaotic, the people are poor, I want to select three thousand elites among you to eliminate the chaos in the world, and return the world to the world, today, you will pass the test and become my troops, my soldiers, not only can eat meat, but also have rewards to take."

The subordinates suddenly shouted in a shocking voice: "Ninth Young Master, Ninth Young Master." ”

Xie Ying was dumbfounded when he heard this, at this time, it was already very good for the soldiers to eat and live, but thinking that his young master was different from ordinary people, he didn't speak, and he was also interested in seeing how this selection would be tested in a while, and his heart was full of interest.

It is not too much to say, Xie Yu knows that he has no prestige in the army after all, but he distracts the attention of these troops with meat and rewards, makes them full of energy, and then builds up his own army through selection, step by step, step by step, as long as he trains for a few days, and is full of trust and familiarity with each other, he can lead the troops to fight.