The Huining Ordnance Preparation Institute is actually just a blacksmith workshop, and it usually only recycles old weapons and repairs them for the use of village soldiers. The previous batch of 7,000 township soldiers www.biquge.info have been transferred to Lanzhou with their families, and they will not be transferred back in the future.

At the beginning of this year, a group of newly recruited township soldiers was only 5,000 people, and in the future, as a reserve soldier in Huizhou, and the regular soldiers of the Zhenyuan Army will also be transferred back, and there are many old weapons after the war, which are just transferred to the township soldiers, and they are currently being repaired, so the ordnance preparation institute seems to have been very busy, but in fact, it is only a disguise and half concealed, and it also doubles as a wholesale sale of farm tools, which is income.

The real ordnance preparation institute is located in the Guangxiang Military City, located in a small mountain depression, there are no villages in the surrounding twenty or thirty miles, it is completely an isolated military industrial city, and the people who live here are craftsmen and their families, but there is only one battalion of garrisons, Zhang Yue thought that the guard strength was still a little less, so he asked Wen Yuankai to transfer an additional regiment, and Li Duojin led people to be stationed here to ensure safety and confidentiality.

As soon as Zhang Yue drove the carriage into the city, he listened to all kinds of dry sounds, especially in the cold forging armor workshop, where the big hammer fell, and the sound came and went, and it could be heard from afar. Zhang Yue was already thinking about building plate armor, but he needed a hydraulic workshop, and it was not suitable in the military city. The armor pieces now are forged by hand, and the wire can also be stretched to create ring armor.

This part of the south of the city is a craftsman's residential area, as well as a military office with a large courtyard building, Li Liangbi and Li Duojin are still waiting in front of the door, and Xu Pingzhong and Suo Keda are in charge of the craftsmen.

"The carriage has been remodeled well, and its performance is much better than the existing one, but the types of drawings I have drawn, you can test it first, and there are all kinds of military crossbows, which are shaped as long-range three-hundred-step Fuyuan crossbows and two-hundred-and-fifty-step arm crossbows, which should be used for direct use in vehicles, or shelves can be built for manpower to carry the march, and it should be possible to set it for four people; The 160-step crossbow at the medium range was lighter and more suitable for the horse, and the infantry army should be strengthened to 200 paces, but it should not be too laborious to wind. The 120-step wooden single crossbow is a close crossbow, and the infantry can be equipped in large quantities. There are still problems with the thirty or forty step Zhuge Repeater, which needs to be improved as soon as possible. ”

Zhang Yue sat on the top, thinking and talking, his fingers subconsciously knocking on the table. Li Duojin was flying with a pen on the side, recording all of them, these are all tasks, and the military industry research and development is also trying in this direction.

"In addition, it is necessary to adjust the management team, and the three assembly line departments of armor making, knife and gun, and crossbow making are still located here, and there is no problem that the driving parts and military tableware can be moved to the vicinity of Huining. Boots, hats, shoes and socks can be handed over to the weaving workshop, is it still Liu Xiansheng who is in charge over there? Zhang Yue suddenly asked when he said this.

"Liu Xiansheng is mostly in Guanzhong, and occasionally comes over to take a look, all the women from the soldiers' families are working, and the one in charge is Ming Jinpeng's wife, Mrs. Dong, and the fish lady of Hao Tianying's family is also in charge of the accounts over there, and they are still quite capable." Li Liangbi replied with a smile.

The quilt workshop mainly makes ordinary clothes for soldiers, not military uniforms, those regular clothes are ready-to-wear, and small people can also wear them, which are transported by caravans to various places to sell profits and increase income. At present, a large amount of cotton is planted in Huizhou, and a large amount of cotton cloth has been produced for export.

"Alright! Sent someone to inform the construction of a furnace to burn glaze earlier, has it worked? "Zhang Yue only cares about glass now, which is necessary to make telescopes, and it is very troublesome for the large corps to fight without this assistance in this era.

"It's been built, I heard that the Western Regions produce colored glass, we burned a few bottles that are not very decent, there are naturally formed patterns, and it is a little difficult to make it transparent. The materials are also prepared, but quartz ore is difficult to find, and there is also a lack of soda alkali and soda ash as the lord said, and calcite, there are no karst caves in the north, and it is difficult to find them in large quantities. Li Liangbi smiled bitterly.

"Haha...... It's great to be able to burn it, let's go check it out! Zhang Yue was pleasantly surprised when he heard this, and heard that glass first appeared in the Warring States Period, but it was called glaze and was regarded as a luxury product.

Zhang Yue thought of it and went out with great interest, Li Liangbi hurriedly stepped forward to lead the way, and soon arrived at a courtyard surrounded by a high wall in the west of the city, but it was quite empty, until he entered the greenhouse inside, and saw that there were several empty cellar-like pond kilns inside, a bit like a shaft furnace for smelting iron.

"What? Fired without materials? Seeing that there didn't seem to be any work here, Zhang Yue asked in disappointment.

"It's just that the materials are not ready! Only a little quartz sand still costs a lot of money, and there is everything that has been burned in two kilns before. Li Liangbi called an old craftsman and asked him to take all the glass pieces that he had burned.

After a while, several craftsmen came over with the box, put it on the ground and opened it, and inside the box was all lumpy and colorful, with very few transparent parts, which obviously could not be called glass. Zhang Yue picked up the two small pieces and collided with each other a few times, making a pleasant ding dong sound, which was very hard and unbroken.

When I opened another small box, there were two strangely shaped, colorful bottles, and there were two clusters of transparent colors, but this should be a problem of heat and materials, as well as forming technology, but it was very close to the glass.

"Are you using the kind of mold I said? To blow the sticky mold of a solid dough and a hollow dough, the inner wall must be smooth, I guess you won't blow it. Zhang Yue thought it was a little funny, because when it was formed, it was indeed blown manually, so that it was exhausted from the exhaust port to avoid bubbles.

"Exactly, the materials were all wasted at the beginning, and I didn't expect it to come out just after groping for two bottles, and now they are all stopped, waiting for Song Dequan to collect and transport them from other places to test again." Li Liangbi smiled helplessly, although Zhang Yue said what he wanted to do with the telescope, he had never seen it, and it was difficult to understand the significance of Zhang Yue's doing.

Zhang Yue didn't explain much, let them try these things a few more times by themselves, and they would be able to find out their experience, anyway, these are not achieved overnight, and they need a lot of money. The Hehuang garrison is still in a state of food shortage, at least until next year, the states can barely be self-sufficient, Zhang Yue stayed in Huizhou for more than half a month, decided to leave for Jingzhou, collect all the summer tax grain, and continue to transport grain subsidies to Lanzhou.

However, the seizures in this battle are also rich, miscellaneous worn-out weapons and armor must be transported back to Huining for repair and disposal, cattle and sheep, horses, pack horses, donkeys and mules and other livestock need to be sold for money to reward and pension soldiers, and there are also a lot of yaks, which are very valuable, but they are not in a hurry, and they can be dealt with slowly. Zhang Yue could first transfer money from the Huihe Commercial Bank to reward the soldiers. But there is still a batch of about 30,000 war horses, and Zhang Yue plans to bring them with him when he returns to Beijing.

At the beginning of May, Zhang Yue returned to Jingzhou, and it happened that Dou Yan, a scholar from Tokyo who came to announce the decree, also arrived, this Dou Yan is also a native of Youzhou, and it is said that he is Dou Yi's younger brother, and his literary talent is very good, and he is very valued by the emperor.

Zhang Yue thought about it and understood that since Dou Yi and Zhao Kuangyin were close, then this Dou Yan was naturally from their line, Feng Qianhou arranged for them to live in the Jiedu Mansion Yayi House, and Zhang Yue did not summon him after returning to the house, but only urged the state government to prepare for the collection of summer taxes and grain as soon as possible.

Half a month later, Xuan Chongwen led the generals of the Western Expedition back to Jingzhou to receive the decree, and brought back 30,000 war horses by the way, and Zhang Yue sent someone to receive them, so he arranged for Dou Yan and the Zhongshu Sheren who had been recuperating in Jingzhou for a few months, and now recovered, to announce the edict in the hall of the government office, and then send them back to Beijing first.

After explaining the aftermath, he handed over the reward money to the various armies to take his own soldiers back to the garrison and distribute them to the soldiers, and the generals who received the promotion should return to Beijing with him to thank him. Especially for the new festival, you must return to Beijing to formally accept the seal and receive the handsome seal through the ceremony, and then you can return to the station to take office, which is a series of cumbersome things.

Then he sent Erlang Zhang Cheng to go to Huining with Quan Daojin to serve as a counselor of the Fourth Regiment of the Zhenyuan Army, and later under Fu Zhaoji and Du Ximi. There are also 2,500 elites of the Changyi Army, including the teaching battalion, the heavy infantry regiment, the heavy cavalry battalion, and the scouts of the Ya Army, who were transferred to Lanzhou and entrusted to Xuan Chongwen to continue to carry and expand.

In the future, the fighting of the Jingzhou Changyi Army will be reduced, the town soldiers will withdraw the brigade, and the number will be reduced to 10 regiments and 10,000 people, and the township soldiers will be fixed to 5,000 people, and the actual military power will also be handed over to Xue Wenqian, Bian Ji, Gao Changhai, and Du Yanhui.

Niu Congxu, the staff of the Jiedu Mansion, was promoted to the judge of Jiedu, and the rest of Liu Wenchang, Xi Qingping, Zhou Delin and others were also promoted, leaving only one vacancy for the position of secretary of Jiedu.

Zhang Yue has already sent people to negotiate with Zhang Jianxiong to train new soldiers according to the new military system, and to transfer new officers from the two major training battalions in Huining and Lanzhou to lead the troops.

If someone is interested in a little investigation, they will find that Zhang Yue's sphere of influence is very large, and his strength and prestige are also very strong. Even if the Changyi Army is downsized, if you add the subordinate Zhenyuan Army, there are 17,000 people, and nearly 40,000 town soldiers in the four sections of Jianwei, Xining, Huaide, and Huaixin in Hehuang, plus 17,500 town soldiers in the seven armies of Liangzhou, and 20,000 town soldiers under the jurisdiction of the Songpan Jingluo Envoy, a total of more than 90,000 troops can be used at any time. The reserve of the township soldiers, the quota of the state councils, is not yet in this number.

If you count the nearby friendly armies such as the Lingzhou Shuofang Army, the Pizhou Jingnan Army, the Yanzhou Zhangwu Army, the Qinzhou Xiongwu Army, the Hanzhong Xingyuan Mansion, the Wuping Army that met Langzhou Medicine in the south, and the newly established Wuding Army with Yuezhou after Yang Shouzhen responded to the Battle of Huainan at the beginning of the year, it is already very considerable.

Therefore, Zhang Yue also knew that he would be transferred away or stay in Tokyo after returning to Beijing this time, so as soon as the Hehuang war was over, he asked Dang Jinfu to go to Shazhou to see Cao Yuanzhong, and there was no news after more than two months, but Zhang Yue could not delay any longer.

By the end of May, Zhang Yue had finished arranging the funeral, and brought Feng Qianhou and Li Duoshou, two cronies, Yang Xuanli, Shen Jingang and other 300 cavalry soldiers to escort the female dependents of the family, and Xuan Chongwen and other generals and thousands of soldiers escorted 30,000 war horses all the way back to Beijing. (To be continued.) )