Seeing the chariot that had been finalized, Li Qing temporarily decided to go to the craftsman camp to see, the location of the craftsman camp is not far from the barracks, only a few miles away, after a large number of people dispersed, the original huge old camp appeared empty, after the craftsman camp was formally established, it was located on the west side of the old camp.

As a department that Li Qing attaches great importance to, the conditions of the craftsman camp are very good, the place where they work and rest has long been built into a permanent building, almost all the blue bricks and stones removed from the ruins of the old county town have been transported to build the craftsman camp, and even the military camp has only transported part of the blue bricks and stones to build a wall and several guard towers, even Li Qing's general's mansion, Xu Yunfeng's Chongxian County Ya, until now, is still a temporary wooden house built at that time. Of course, the condition of these wooden houses has improved considerably after several renovations.

The craftsman camp has now basically become the arsenal of the Changsheng camp, more than 100 blacksmiths from the Li family in Yizhou came here from Yizhou after the beginning of the year, together with their families of nearly 1,000 people, were placed in the craftsman camp, each craftsman was granted land near the old camp, ten acres per person, a family has a few people, there are dozens of acres of land, which makes the craftsmen who are reluctant to come to Dingzhou from the prosperous Yizhou, and it is a poor and remote Chongxian County, you know, when in Yizhou, in addition to the experienced masters, They only have a meager salary, and they can barely make ends meet. But once they arrived in Chongxian, each family got dozens of acres of land, which is very unimaginable in Yizhou.

Although these craftsmen have a craft, they still do not get rid of the atmosphere of small farmers in their bones, and it is the common dream of people in this era to have their own land, whether it is an official or a businessman, the first thing after development is to buy land. These people never imagined that they would own land one day, and when they got the title deed from the county government, most of the people in the capital were like in a dream. What had been reluctance immediately turned into joy.

And for Li Qing, nearly 10,000 acres of land is really a piece of cake for today's Chongxian, although Chongxian County does not have much land, but now there are too few people, Kou soldiers are everywhere, ten rooms and nine empty, a large amount of land is barren and uncultivated, with some barren land to envelop some of the technicians he needs very much, he feels that it is too worthwhile.

The Li family in Yizhou is very aware of the inner meaning of his blacksmiths, these blacksmiths are drawn from the Li family's own craftsman camp in Yizhou, and they are best at making all kinds of weapons, and even the manufacturing drawings of some large instruments that come with these blacksmiths.

The master who led the team has been appointed by Li Qingzhila as the master of the craftsman camp, with a salary equivalent to that of the seven-rank official, and at the same time, the family has also been granted land. This made this master named Ren Ruyun grateful, this salary was something he couldn't earn in the Li family in Yizhou for a year before, not to mention that there was land? As long as there is land, he does not get a salary, and Ren Ruqing is willing to work.

Just stepped into the camp gate of the craftsman's camp, the craftsman eunuch Ren Ruyun had already brought a group of craftsmen out to greet him, the imperial court did not have the official position of the craftsman eunuch, but Li Qing decided to distinguish between experienced masters and ordinary craftsmen, so that these people have a more sense of responsibility and honor, first of all, in the clothing, there is no special official uniform, Li Qing asked people to embroider two crossed hammers on the white robe, under the hammer, and then embroidered stars. Like Ren Ruyun, it is two iron hammers, plus three stars, two hammers indicate that he is the head of the craftsman camp, and the other three stars represent that he is the most skilled master in the craftsman camp.

Under him, they were divided into several groups, the leader of the group was a hammer, and another star was embroidered according to their level, like these group leaders, generally two stars, while the ordinary craftsman was a star, without a hammer, and the apprentice did not have a star, and could only be embroidered with a star after being promoted to a craftsman. Different stars have different salaries.

After the completion of the craftsman camp, Li Qing did not come once, but only summoned Ren Ruyun and gave him the drawings of the chariot.

Seeing Ren Ruyun coming up, Li Qing almost laughed, the white robe on his body was no longer clear in color, and even his face was covered with black ash, and the few craftsmen behind him were all team leaders under him.

Ren Ruyun was really a little apprehensive in his heart, he only sent the prepared chariot to the barracks a few days ago, and today Li Qing came, is there something wrong with the chariot, it didn't meet the requirements of the general?

"I've seen the general, my lords!" Ren Ruyun rushed over like a fly, and was about to kneel down and kowtow, Li Qing stepped forward and grabbed him, and said with a smile: "Eunuch Ren, you also have the official position of my Changsheng camp, you don't need to kneel, just give up." ”

Yes! The master of the craftsman, Ren Ruyun, and the group leader under him are all stunned, and the official position? Do you deserve to be an official? Ren Ruqing said openly: "General, where is there an official like a craftsman as a chief eunuch?" He has always thought that he is just a craftsman, and compared with ordinary ordinary people, he only knows ordinary crafts.

"Of course it's an official!" Li Qing smiled heartily: "I don't care about other places, in my Chongxian County, I will be an official as a eunuch, and he is also an important official." Otherwise, why would you give you a salary equivalent to that of a seven-rank official? ”

Ren Ruyun's lips trembled a little, and the team leaders behind him were all flushed, and their breathing became short, the general was saying that his current position was equivalent to that of a seven-rank official, what is a seven-rank official, that can be a magistrate. Those are all characters who are high up and need to look up to themselves, and now they are the same? I'm an official too? The ancestors appeared, and this trip to Chongxian was too worthwhile. Ren Ruyun was extremely grateful to the chief master of the Li family's craftsman camp who kicked himself to Chongxian because he didn't know about him, without him, he wouldn't have his current status! The original hatred for him has long since disappeared.

Seeing Ren Ruyun's expression, Li Qing knew how he felt, in this era, the status of a craftsman is very low, even inferior to an ordinary farmer, unless you can mix to the level of a master master, it will make a difference.

Putting away his excitement, Ren Ruyun still asked with some trepidation: "The general came to the craftsman camp today, is it because there is a problem with the chariots sent by the last batch?" ”

Li Qing shook his head, "No, there is no problem, it is very well made, of course, it is not that there is no place for improvement, you can slowly explore it in the future, for example, to make this car more effortless to push, to run faster, to make the axle more wear-resistant, how to repair it in the shortest possible time after damage, etc., etc., etc!" ”

Ren Ruyun had already put his heart down when he heard that there was no problem, but then Li Qing's words made his face a little pale, there are still many problems, he is illiterate, he can't write these down, he can only keep them firmly in his heart, and prepare to ponder it later.

"Let's go, take us to see your craftsman's camp!" Seeing that Ren Ruyun was really a little nervous, Li Qing diverted the topic, some things cannot be achieved overnight, so you can only take your time.

"The villain leads the way!" Ren Ruyundao.

"You should call yourself a servant!" Li Qing corrected.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Ren Ruyun hurriedly said: "The villain forgot, oh, no, no, no, no, he forgot about his humble position, and his humble position is now also an official!" Ren Ruyun's words caused a burst of good-natured laughter in the audience.

"General, this is the iron-making group, specializing in improving the quality of pig iron, General, we don't have iron ore in Chongxian, we can only buy some pig iron, but the quality of these pig iron is uneven, and it must be retrained before it can be used to make weapons, otherwise weapons are very easy to be damaged." Ren Ruyun introduced to everyone as he walked. Several generals who followed knew that weapons were important to soldiers on the battlefield, and they were simply the second life of a soldier. Now they are all wide-eyed, refusing to let go of a detail, just thinking about picking out a few problems, so that this eunuch can be more attentive when building weapons, and make sharper and more durable guys, but they are all laymen, and they are good at cutting people with knives, making knives, and dreaming.

"And what about the quality of the iron you've re-smelted?" Li Qing looked at the molten iron boiling in the furnace and asked.

"It depends on the quality of the pig iron." Ren Ruyun said cautiously. "Now the weapons we make cannot be compared with the Yizhou Craftsman Battalion. Whether it is sharp or durable, it is a notch off. ”

Li Qing pondered for a moment and said, "Have you ever heard of steel?" ”

Ren Ruyun was stunned for a moment, shook his head, Li Qing couldn't help but be a little disappointed, "It's the hardness is higher than iron, but the flexibility is also better, a..."

"Did you mean fine iron?" A team leader behind Ren Ruyun interjected.

"Refined iron, yes, it's fine iron!" Li Qing's eyes lit up, "Do you know Jingtie? ”

Ren Ruyun hurriedly introduced, "General, he is the leader of this iron-making team, Xu Xiaodao." Knife, come to the front and tell the general about fine iron. ”

Xu Xiaodao was a little nervous, "My lord, when the villain was in Yizhou, he knew that the Yizhou Craftsman Battalion was developing a kind of fine iron, and the special surname that the master said was similar to what the general just said." ”

"Do you know how they do it?" Li Qing was interested.

"Where the villain is just an ordinary craftsman, I don't know very clearly, it seems that charcoal powder is constantly added to the furnace, and the villain doesn't know what it is."

Li Qing nodded with satisfaction, he knew that this was how steel came from in the beginning, but this method of burning impurities with carbon powder could not make extremely high-quality steel.

"Oh, why don't you try this method?"

Xu Xiaodao said: "This method is very easy to fail, and often makes the better pig iron become scrap, and we are now nervous about pig iron and dare not take the risk of wasting." ”

Li Qing smiled: "That's true, but you can build a small stove, try it first!" Li Qing encouraged, "I've also heard of a method of frying steel, oh, even if you say fine iron, you can also try it!" ”

"Frying steel?" Xu Xiaodao looked confused.

"Well, that's it!" Li Qing gestured, "Add charcoal powder to it, and then keep turning the molten iron over like a stir-fry." Of course, I don't know how to add charcoal powder and how much charcoal powder to add! ”

Ren Ruyun's eyes widened, "My lord, how do you know that ironmaking is a method, and we haven't heard of it?" ”

Li Qing smiled and said: "I heard what people said, I heard people say it, you can try it, well, your name is Xu Xiaodao, if you really test it, I will add a hammer and a star to your chest, how about it?" ”

Xu Xiaodao became excited all of a sudden, this is to promote himself to be a master, don't you look at Master Ren Ruyun, people are now holding the salary of a seven-rank official! The stars on the chest have not been added yet, but the stars are emerging in front of me.

After saying this, Li Qing didn't pay attention to it anymore, these things don't have a certain accumulation, it is difficult to see results in a short period of time, and he will raise his head, as for how to do it, it is theirs, anyway, he is not very clear.

The group saw the knife workshop, the arrow workshop, the carpentry workshop, and went satisfied, now the efficiency of the craftsman camp is still very good, when leaving the craftsman camp, Li Qing began to think about whether to teach them the method of assembly work, think about it or forget it, now there are more than 100 people in total, and it can't become a climate, let's talk about it later!