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Chapter 479: The Great Surprise

With the wider and wider area under Li Qing's jurisdiction, the scale of the craftsman battalion is also constantly expanding, and the generous remuneration and social status of the craftsmen in Dingzhou have greatly improved, so that the craftsmen from all over the country have flocked to invest, and the number of master craftsmen has increased year by year, which has also made other places in Dachu strengthen the control and monitoring of experienced craftsmen in their own areas, and strictly prohibit them from leaving their residences at will. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The town has now expanded several times, although the Dingzhou Craftsman Battalion is militarized, but outside the Craftsman Battalion, the town that has developed by relying on the Craftsman Camp is inhabited by the relatives and families of the craftsmen, and the craftsmen will get a day off every few days of work, at this time they will return to their own homes in the town to share the joy of family with their families.

The social housing of the craftsmen has improved, and the pockets have also swelled, and there are shrewd merchants who have set their eyes on this place, and I don't know who was the first to buy land and houses here, and start trading, and then the number of merchants who came here to do business increased like a blowout, and now the number of people here has exceeded 50,000, which is the size of a small town.

In the past two years, with the blowout development of the craftsman battalion, Lu Yiming simply separated all the areas of the craftsman battalion after asking Li Qing to agree, and established a pocket county governance unit, because the county lives in the craftsman and their families, Lu Yiming named him Shengong County, appointed officials to govern, and directly under the management of the Dingzhou Prefecture.

Although Shengong County is administratively directly under the Dingzhou Prefecture, in fact, there are several other departments in his head that can also govern his specific affairs, one of which is the Military Marshal's Mansion, because almost all of Dingzhou's military industry is produced from here, his importance can be imagined, and the second is the Dingzhou Logistics Department headed by Zhong Haotian directly under Li Qing.

The state government is only responsible for the daily management of Shengong County, maintaining law and order, and collecting taxes, while the military division office has set up a service yamen here, mainly to place orders from the army to the logistics department, and more to coordinate, place orders or receive goods. In view of the importance of the craftsman battalion to the entire Dingzhou, Zhong Haotian simply moved the yamen of his management department to Shengong County, and Ren Ruyun, the head of the former craftsman battalion, is now the deputy director of the logistics management department, in charge of the research and development and production of military products.

This time, Li Qing went to Shengong County because a craftsman under Ren Ruyun made a hammer. Li Qing naturally knew the importance of the hammer for large-scale forging armor, and after receiving the report, he decided to take a look in person as soon as possible.

In front of Li Qing was a huge fubi guy, watching the hammer with the sound of the wind, roaring and falling heavily, under a few blows, an iron plate had been beaten extremely thin, Li Qing couldn't help but smile with satisfaction, although there was a gap than he expected, but it was already very good to be able to do this, and as time went by, these skilled craftsmen would naturally improve little by little.

"Good, good!" Li Qing said with satisfaction: "With this big guy, it is possible for us to equip our soldiers with plate armor made of fine iron on a large scale, which can make the burden on our soldiers lighter and more protective." Director Zhong, Lord Ren, on behalf of all the officers and men of the whole army, thank you. "In the past, because the plate armor was too time-consuming and labor-intensive, Dingzhou only made a small amount of it, and it was distributed to middle and senior officers or special operations departments, and the soldiers still used old-fashioned armor, which was not difficult to make, but the cost was high, and the soldiers wore it on their bodies, weighing dozens of catties, which also greatly limited the combat ability of the soldiers. If plate armor can be manufactured on a large scale, a set of armor will be reduced by almost half, and half of this saved will be reflected on the battlefield, which is more abundant physical strength and more vigorous combat effectiveness.

"Don't dare to be a handsome compliment!" The two hurriedly bowed.

Zhong Haotian said with a smile: "Xia Guan doesn't understand these things at all, and almost all of them are handled by Lord Ren. ”

Ren Ruyun has been an official for a long time, but now he also knows that the sedan chair has been carried by everyone, and when he heard Zhong Haotian praise him, he hurriedly said: "If it weren't for Lord Zhong's support, we wouldn't have been able to make this thing, Dashuai, at the beginning, this thing was completely a money-consuming master!" ”

Li Qing couldn't help laughing, any technology is a money-consuming master in the development process, some can earn back thousands of times after success, and some have become a bunch of expensive waste after being developed, "You guys got me here, won't it be just this little thing?" ”

This made everyone laugh, and Zhong Haotian said: "My lord is aware of everything, and there are indeed some good things." ”

"Then take it out, what are you doing hiding it?" Li Qing said with a smile.

Everyone hugged Li Qing and came to a bungalow not far from the hammer, but there were hammers that seemed to be ten times smaller, and there were countless craftsmen who were busy inside, making the cut plate armor wool smooth with that thing, looking at those dexterous instruments, they had actually used the connecting rod device.

"This is after Lord Ren made the large hammer, he buried himself in the house and tinkered with it for almost a month, and the efficiency is amazing, countless times faster than the workers with small hammers!" Zhong Haotian sighed and said, "Dashuai, to be honest, I didn't think much of the craftsmen before, but when I arrived here and saw that they were constantly creating new things, and almost everything they came up with brought huge benefits to our Dingzhou, I was really ashamed!" ”

Li Qing looked at Zhong Haotian and said with great appreciation: "You have this kind of thought, it means that you have matured a lot, in our Dachu, it has always been a scholar who is high, yes, I do not deny that it is very important to know books and etiquette, a nation, if you don't read, it is impossible to make progress, but we can't read dead books, we can't always hold the books of sages and sages to memorize, how to innovate and develop is more important." As the saying goes, three hundred and sixty lines, the line is the champion! ”

"Handsome and wise!" Zhong Haotian nodded and said, "If these craftsmen just hold the skills passed down from the older generation, there will be no today's craftsman camp, under the leadership of Lord Ren, the craftsman camp is changing with each passing day, and new things come out every once in a while, in this regard, Lord Ren can be regarded as my teacher." ”

Ren Ruyun on the side said uneasily: "Lord Zhong said, you are full of poetry and books, and I can't read a few big characters, so you are worthy of being your teacher?" Besides, many of the original ideas of this craftsman camp were personally carried out by the marshal, and I just turned some of the marshal's ideas into reality. ”

Li Qing laughed, "If you are a threesome, you must have my teacher, so you don't have to hold each other's stinky feet." By the way, Lord Ren, I look at you, it seems that there are still good things that have not been taken out? ”

Ren Ruyun was taken aback and said: "Dashuai, how can you even know this, I just have a little idea about that thing, and I don't have any eyebrows at all when it comes to how to act!" ”

Li Qing laughed, he just said casually, he didn't expect this guy to really have something. Ren Ruyun is now a weapon master, and even he hasn't come up with a practical way yet, so the power must be not small.

"Whether you have eyebrows or not, just say it and listen to it, maybe I can pay you a little attention!" Li Qingdao.

"Marshal, please!" Ren Ruyun bowed and said.

Everyone came to a huge room dedicated to Ren Ruyun's work, the room was messy, full of all kinds of materials, there was even no place to plug in, seeing everyone's surprised eyes, Ren Ruyun's face couldn't help but redden, and said again and again: "There is no time to clean up, handsome, adults, don't be surprised!" ”

Everyone cautiously saw the suspicious pin, and followed Ren Ruyun to a slightly empty place inside, where there was a table, which was obviously where Ren Ruyun handled official business.

Pulling open a cabinet, Ren Ruyun took out a small box, opened the box, and solemnly placed the contents on the table.

"What is this?" Everyone was amazed, and in the small box, there were things rolled up in paper, and there was a short rope left on it.

Li Qing's heart exploded, isn't this thing the most ordinary firecracker he had ever seen in his previous life? How could Ren Ruyun have it?

His hand trembled a little, slowly twisted one, held it in his hand and watched it repeatedly, the excitement in his heart was beyond measure, after coming to this world, he didn't think about making it a weapon, but in this Da Chu, the use of gunpowder is a blank sheet of paper, no experience at all, and there are no basic things like saltpeter, so he has always buried this idea deep in his heart.

"How did you come up with this?" Li Qing's voice trembled a little, and everyone looked at Li Qing strangely, in their eyes, what could these gadgets do, but seeing Li Qing's expression, it showed that this thing was extremely important.

"Dashuai, you know this thing?" Ren Ruyun was also extremely surprised.

Taking a deep breath, Li Qing nodded and said, "I've heard of it, if you use a little fire, it will explode with a bang!" ”

"So you know, handsome!" Ren Ruyun looked disappointed, originally thought that it was a strange thing to live in, but he didn't expect that the big man would already know.

"How did you come up with this?" Li Qing suppressed his excitement and asked.

"I didn't make it up." Ren Ruyun said a little embarrassed, "This is an apprentice in the craftsman camp, he used to be a Taoist priest, and he followed his master to learn some of the practice pills, and then the Taoist temple was dilapidated, and his master was also killed by the rebels, he went through several tosses, arrived in Dingzhou, and finally entered the craftsman camp as an apprentice, just assigned to me to help, not long ago he found a mother-in-law, on the day of the wedding, he made a few such things to help the fun, that day I was also there, saw this thing, I didn't care at the time, and then I came home and thought, If this thing is made bigger, and there is more of this medicine in it, wouldn't it be able to be used as a weapon? ”

Li Qing interrupted him, "It's not that the bigger the better, but the ingredients of this medicine determine his power!" "I took a few turns around the room, and in my excitement, I almost tripped over the messy objects, which made the others sweat.

Standing firm, Li Qing said to Ren Ruyun: "Set up a special research team to specialize in the study of this thing, let that apprentice, no, promote him to a master craftsman, be responsible for the development of this thing, Ren Ruyun, you personally sit in charge, Director Zhong, this group wants money to give money, and people to give people." ”

"Yes, Dashuai!" Zhong Hao agreed, and then asked hesitantly: "Dashuai, is this thing very powerful?" ”

Li Qing breathed a sigh of relief, "If it can really succeed, it will change the form of war in the entire Great Chu, do you say it is powerful?" ”

Hearing what Li Qing said, Ren Ruyun also became nervous, "Dashuai, we must step up our research and strive to improve his power as soon as possible." ”

Li Qing had calmed down at this time, this thing was not something that could be achieved overnight, and said with a smile: "You don't have to worry, improving the power of this thing is only the first step, and when he has enough power, let's talk about something else." After you make him so lethal that day, tell me again, three or five years, it doesn't matter, we have time! ”

Turned around and said to everyone in the room: "This matter is listed as the top secret of Dingzhou, and everyone is not allowed to reveal a little rumor, Tang Hu, after going back, notify Director Qingfeng to record, all the people in this room, and those who will come into contact with this project in the future, all for the record, in addition, let Qingfeng send a special team over to be responsible for the security of this team." Report directly to her. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to ***(***.***) to vote for recommendation, ***, your support is my biggest motivation. )