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Chapter 631: Secret

The craftsman battalion, no, now it should be called the first arsenal in Dingzhou, the development to the present, the scale has been quite large, covering an area of dozens of miles, its scale is larger than Fuyuan County, and the level of officials responsible for the management of the arsenal is much higher than that of Fuyuan County, like the previous supervisor Ren Ruqing was directly promoted to the Ministry of Industry, Fuyuan County is more responsible for the logistics supply here, and the eating, drinking and Lazar of tens of thousands of craftsmen in the craftsman battalion is not a trivial matter, and the daily cost is huge. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoJust by providing the life of the craftsmen here, the people of Fuyuan County have benefited a lot. Now there are a large number of people living here, in the periphery of the first military factory, there are many shops, selling all kinds of goods, the craftsmen in the arsenal are well paid, and they are willing to spend money, this area is much more prosperous than Fuyuan County.

When the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds, and here, there are a large number of spies from the major forces, and it is also an indisputable fact, you know that I know that the former branch of the Statistical Survey Department here is also extremely busy, and every day there will be people taken away by the Statistical Survey Department for interrogation, and everyone is not surprised that the special service of the Statistical Survey Department in black uniforms suddenly rushed into a certain store, shackled a certain boss, or a man, or a merchant, and dragged him away.

But under normal circumstances, the black-clad investigation department agents do not walk on the streets, but more of countless plainclothes mixed in the crowd, or acquaintances who often chat and fart with you, or an honest person on the street that everyone knows, whose real identity is the secret agent of the investigation department, in short, here, the investigation department has laid a dense network to protect Dingzhou, a vital department.

But today, the common people suddenly felt that something was wrong, and early in the morning, the special service of the Investigation Department dressed in black rushed out of the somewhat gloomy yamen where they usually lived, staring at everyone on the street with wide eyes, making everyone sweat in their hearts, and they didn't know who was going to be unlucky.

But soon, there was news that the marshal of Dingzhou was going to inspect here, and now everyone has entered the craftsman camp, and now, they don't know that the craftsman camp is now called the first arsenal, of course, in less than two days, this name will spread all over Dingzhou, and it will also spread all over the world.

There is a strict division of areas in the first arsenal, and the outermost part is mostly some civilian products, such as horse-drawn carriages that earned a lot of silver for Dingzhou, etc., and there are also windmills, water wheels, cotton mills and a series of things.

In the most core area, the wall is more than ten meters high, and on the sentry towers, the strong crossbow flashes a faint cold light, and before the wall, there is an open area hundreds of meters away, and even the weeds in this area have been shoveled away.

In this core area, there are mainly two factories, one is the workshop where Xu Xiaodao is responsible for refining steel, and the other is a unique weapon in Dingzhou, such as a hundred round crossbow, a first-grade bow, and a repeating hand crossbow, which has just been developed and has not yet been installed.

In the past few years, Xu Xiaodao has been constantly exploring new processes, and the quality of hand-refined steel is getting better and better, and the ore produced from Yiling Iron Mine is refined into pig iron on the spot every day, and then transferred here to be processed into all kinds of weapons needed in Dingzhou. Xu Xiaodao completely belongs to the type of technical maniac, unlike Ren Ruqing's successful transformation, and now he has become an official to the Ministry of Industry, although Xu Xiaodao is now of a very high rank, even the director here Zhao Sanshan is also lower than his level, but he is still the same as in the past, unkempt, wearing an official uniform on his body, wrinkled, and a lot of holes burned on it, even if he is by Li Qing's side at this time, he still looks thoughtful, and his mouth is still chanting words from time to time.

Li Qing especially likes such people, the little bit of steelmaking knowledge he knew back then was all taught to Xu Xiaodao, and Xu Xiaodao has been innovating over the years, and the skills are no longer stronger than Li Qing's half bucket of water, with Xu Xiaodao, this is the treasure knife that sharpens iron like mud in Dingzhou, and the broken iron armor is like an armor-piercing arrow wearing tofu, with a strong steel spring, etc., and these steelmaking processes are the first-class top secret in the military factory, like Xu Xiaodao himself, there is the Statistics Department of the year, The current Supervision Yuan is assigned to him with special guards, and his family has long been taken to live in the inner city of Dingzhou.

Zhu Hui, as General Xuanwei, is responsible for the perimeter security of the arsenal, and he has been here once, but although Dong Mingyang is Fuyuan's parent official, this place is not under his jurisdiction, and today I am fortunate to follow Li Qing to set foot in the core secret area of Dingzhou for the first time, my heart is excited, my face is crimson, and I don't know which foot to take for a while.

In the warehouse, rows of freshly made weapons are neatly placed, shining with a faint cold light, and workers are greasing them, and then tightly encapsulating them, and it will not be long before these weapons will be distributed to troops all over Dingzhou.

The division of labor in the arsenal is extremely strict, the use of assembly line operations, each performing its own duties, each person only needs to refine a technology, and the creation of weapons was divided into a number of processes by Ren Ruqing, there are connecting channels in the workshop, after a process is completed, it is quickly sent to the next process, from one end of the plant to the other, a finished weapon can be put into storage.

Although it was a quick visit, just on some key factory inspections, but it also took half a day, lunch in the factory, Dong Mingyang, Zhu Hui and others were told that they could return to their posts, no longer have to follow the handsome, looking at Zhao Sanshan, who came to inform them, both of them understood a little, in this arsenal, there must be some extremely important secrets, which are not qualified to know at their level.

But today the two of them are already very happy, how vast the territory under Li Qing's jurisdiction is now, whether it is the county order, or General Xuanwei, there are countless of them, and most of them are afraid that Li Qing does not recognize them at all. Today, the two of them followed Li Qing for most of the day, and they must have left an image in Da Shuai's heart, at least Da Shuai knows that there are still such two people under his command, so in the future career, compared to people of the same level as them, the two of them will be much more ingenious.

Li Qing let the two of them leave, it is indeed an extremely secret thing, and the great reason why he came to the First Arsenal today is because of this secret.

Gunpowder!

Since two years ago, knowing that there is the most basic gunpowder in this world, Li Qing has invested a lot of money to develop gunpowder, Li Qing knows that in the era of cold weapons, once gunpowder appears, then the development of hot weapons will become an irreversible trend, maybe this process will take a long time, maybe there will be too many setbacks in the middle, but as a person who knows the final result, Li Qing will never give up, even if his troops are now dominating the world.

Now that he knows this thing, so Da Chu is so big, maybe in any corner, there will be people who have discovered this thing and are working hard to develop him, if he is obsessed with the myth that the Dingzhou army is invincible, then, once the opponent takes the lead in launching hot weapons, he will become a complete loser.

In the room, Ren Ruqing stood opposite Li Qing, which surprised Luo Daoming, "Ren Shangshu, when did you get here?" disappeared from Dingzhou City inexplicably, no wonder Yan Nanfei wants to attack you for not doing your job properly and being idle? ”

Ren Ruqing laughed hehehe: "Lord Yan doesn't know the details, I don't blame him, I have always been responsible for this matter, although I am gone, but this project is too related, I dare not hand it over to others at will!" ”

Luo Daoming looked at him a little inexplicably, and then looked at Li Qing. Li Qing said with a smile: "Okay, Daoming, you can know about this matter now, so far, except for the participants in this project, there are only a handful of people who know about this project, I, Qingfeng, Lao Ren, Lu Yiming, General Gu Hao, who is in charge of the security of this project in the Statistical Survey Department, and now I add you!" ”

Luo Daoming's eyes looked at the person who was standing on the side, an inconspicuous person in General Mingwei's uniform, Luo Daoming knew that this person was Gu Hao, and he suddenly realized in his heart, no wonder this time to clean the core personnel of the Investigation Department, although Gu Hao was on the list, he did not move, but was promoted from the original General Mingwei to General Xuanwei, the original reason is here.

Seeing Luo Daoming looking at him, Gu Hao smiled slightly, and clasped his hands into fists.

"Gu Hao has been in charge of the security of this project for several years, conscientious, in the past two years, he has not returned home once, and his food and accommodation are here, and this project has not known to the outside world until now, and General Gu Hao has contributed a lot!" Li Qingdao, "Daoming, you understand why now, right?" ”

Luo Daoming nodded, and shook his head again, "Lord, what kind of secret is this, so mysterious." ”

Li Qing said with a smile: "If we succeed, we will hunt the world without much effort." ”

"What?" Luo Daoming was taken aback, in his opinion, such a great feat as dominating the world can only be taken one step at a time, like walking on thin ice, how can it be effortless to get to the big handsome, "Is this possible?" ”

Li Qing turned to Ren Ruqing, "Old Ren, let's talk about it, this time a major breakthrough has been made, which can be regarded as an extremely important step on the road ahead." ”

Ren Ruqing nodded, "Yes, lord." We have finally found the best ratio of several basic raw materials of gunpowder, and in the past two years, we have been constantly exploring, purifying, and experimenting, and in the process, dozens of experimenters have been killed and wounded, and now, we have finally found the best ratio. ”

"Good!" Li Qing stood up excitedly, "How many finished products have been made?" ”

Ren Ruqing shook his head with some regret, "Lord, there are not many finished products, we don't lack charcoal, and we can also get sulfur, but we don't have saltpeter as a raw material!" So far, it is still impossible for us to produce on a large scale! ”

"Saltpeter!" Li Qingdao: "This is indeed a problem, I know that there is a way to collect a certain amount of saltpeter, but the yield is not high!" ”

"My lord, do you know how to get the pins?"

Li Qing said with a smile: "The main thing is to find saltpeter mines, I know that there is a composting method to produce a certain amount of nitrate, but the purity of this nitrate is not high, and the purification is not small!" ”

Ren Ruqing said excitedly: "Composting method? I understand, my lord, I won't tell you, I used to squat in the pit to collect nitrate, purification is not a problem, we have already solved it! ”

"Not being able to produce in large quantities is not a problem, and we don't need him for the time being, now let's go and see how powerful your baby is!"

Li Qing stood up.

Ren Ruqing walked to the corner of the wall and pulled a mechanism hard, and the wall slowly opened with the sound of Titicaca, revealing a deep passage.

"My lord, please!"