Chapter 60: Inspecting the Weapons Workshop

Li Cunhuan naturally asked Li Kuangshou for help, but Yang Zhongping is not a fuel-efficient lamp. immediately obstructed it, and finally distributed it to Li Cunhuan, but it was just ten little guys who had just become blacksmiths for less than a year, and it was estimated that they were not enough to succeed and more than to lose.

But Li Cunhuan's men were not fuel-efficient, and the first strategist Chen Changfeng stepped out and immediately came up with a way to find more than 50 blacksmiths and more than 200 apprentices from the prisoners of the landlords.

These people were originally blacksmiths in the hands of the landlords, and on the one hand, they naturally cast weapons for the landlords. However, more blacksmiths are actually just repairing farm tools and making farm tools. Their main role was to squeeze the last penny out of the peasants' hands for the landlords.

But that's not going to work, after all, they're now being asked to make weapons, not farm tools. If the farm tool is broken, then go to repair it, but if the weapon is broken on the battlefield, it is a matter of no life. There is no endless road, Li Cunhuan thought hard about the two of them for two nights, let Li Cunhuan come up with an assembly line, and immediately let the people below implement the assembly line.

This greatly alleviates the difficulty of having manpower but not technology. After all, he also put the weapons workshop into operation, and at the same time, Li Cunhuan did not forget to stuff five hundred slaves into it. The weapon said that if the slaves learned the skills and became blacksmiths, they would regain their freedom. It greatly stimulated the motivation of these slaves.

On the one hand, it is for concealment, and on the other hand, it is also for cost savings. The weapons workshop was set up in the middle of two iron mines, and Li Cunhuan sent another 100 soldiers in two batches to guard in turn. Although it is not an impregnable wall, not even a mosquito can fly in, but it is not something that anyone can steal into.

Fifty personal soldiers led by Sha Yuke to protect him, forcibly all the way, to the outskirts, and Yelu Abaoji led the captors to come to protect.

The captors are actually ancient special forces, and their role is to capture valuable enemies alive in enemy-occupied areas and bring them back, and there are other special judges to dig up valuable information from the enemy's mouth. However, Li Cunhuan was not so pedantic, and he directly asked people to teach these captives how to use severe torture to obtain valuable information. It is not ordinarily difficult to bring back a living person from the enemy-occupied area, and Li Cunhuan does not want to waste the life of the captive general.

And these capture generals, naturally, are not only superior in force, but also proficient in small aggregation techniques, such as the practical and simple small battle formations such as the Sancai Array. These people were all selected by Li Cunhuan and Yelu Abaoji from the Khitan captives, a total of 100 people, plus the original capture generals, Li Cunhuan added some elite soldiers in the back, a total of 200 people, and these capture generals are all under the management of Yelu Abaoji.

Of course, in order to prevent these Khitans from escaping, none of the selected Khitan family members were killed or defiled by the Danzhou soldiers in the war. At the same time, there are wives and children, and preferably parents. In this way, on the one hand, they will not have much resistance, and on the other hand, they will not dare to run away casually. Even Genghis Khan, a ruthless man who was most happy to rob other people's property and other people's wives and concubines, had to give in to his mother's plea.

After all, more than ten or twenty years of nurturing kindness is not so simple to draw a clear line.

Under the escort of the ancient special forces, Li Cunhuan came to Shitan Mountain without incident. As the name suggests, Mt. Carboniferus is a mountain rich in carbon. Coal is actually coal, and it is also a high-quality anthracite. However, the charcoal was not discovered by Li Cunhuan, but by Chen Yike, and it was not "invented" by Li Cunhuan for refining and refining. It turns out that as early as the Western Han Dynasty, there were already people who used coal to treat iron, well, in today's words, it is said to be coal.

Now the coal is mined by 250 slaves, and the other 250 slaves work as coolies for blacksmiths, and at the same time do not forget to steal teachers, and strive to become free men one day sooner. Li Cunhuan is very fair, the slaves are rotated among themselves, and they are rotated once a month.

"Your Excellency!" As soon as he came to the vicinity of the gate of the weapons workshop, a petty official with a short stature and a flattering face pounced on him and gave Li Cunhuan a big gift of kneeling down on his knees.

Li Cunhuan looked at the person in front of him suspiciously, and did not speak, the eldest grandson Chengliang on the side walked up, leaned into Li Cunhuan's ear, and reminded in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "This is the supervisor Zhao Chao." ”

The supervisor is a turbid official who does not enter the stream, and from the bottom of the nine products, he is also the person with the largest official position in the workshop.

Li Cunhuan nodded and asked, "You get up." It's been seven days since I started forging weapons, and I think you have that in mind, right? How many weapons can you craft for me this month? ”

As soon as Zhao Chao heard Li Cunhuan ask this, he immediately knew that Li Cunhuan was a practical person, so he quickly put away the flattery on his face, stood up, and said: "According to the assembly line you taught, the time to make weapons is much shorter now. Every month, you can guarantee the production of 100 spears, 100 square shields, 30 sets of chain mail, 10 sets of bright light armor, and 50 horizontal knives! A hundred bundles of arrows. ”

Li Cunhuan frowned when he heard this. "Why don't you have a crossbow? Didn't I order the creation of a battalion dedicated to making bows and crossbows? Can't you even make a bow or a crossbow in a month? ”

When Zhao Chao heard this, he was frightened and hurriedly knelt down again and said, "This is not that the lower officials are not doing their best, but that what you ask for is a compound bow." When it is necessary to take six materials, the six materials are gathered, and the ingenuity is it. Analyze the bow trunk in winter, treat the horns in the spring, treat the tendons in the summer, close the materials in the autumn, put the bow arm in the bow box in the cold winter, and repair the appearance in the severe winter. In winter, the dry wood of the bow is naturally smooth and fine. In spring, the corners are naturally moisturized and soft. In summer, you will not be entangled. Autumn closes all the woods, white and tight. If the bow body is fixed in winter, the bow will not be deformed; In the severe winter and extreme cold, the glue and paint are completely dry and solid, so the appearance can be repaired. Attach the bowstring in the spring and store it for another year before it can be used. However, after two years, it will be possible to produce a steady stream, and there will be no need to wait at that time. This subordinate can guarantee that after two years, a hundred bows will be issued every month! And the crossbow also takes two or three months to complete, so there is no way for this subordinate to shorten the time. I hope your forgiveness! ”

When Li Cunhuan heard this, his frowning brows tightened even more. According to Zhao Chao, it generally takes at least two years for the compound bow to be fully made. Li Cunhuan waited, and he was most afraid that Liu Rengong's guy couldn't afford to wait, so he attacked Lu Long after two years.

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