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After the reorganization, there are more than 700 people in the craftsman workshop in Feihu County. Li Zuojiang also re-chose the location of the workshop, and set it not in the city, but on the Juma River outside the city. The reason why the outside of the city was built was because it was convenient to go up the mountain to cut timber, and because it was necessary to use the water power of the Juma River. To smelt iron requires high temperatures, the previous method of the workshop is to make several large skin bags, with manpower or horses, cattle and livestock to blow the wind, but the experienced Li Zuojiang changed this, but to use water power to blow the wind, so that can greatly save manpower and animal power.

Although Li Chongjiu is not too good at iron smelting, he also knows that the most important thing in iron smelting technology is temperature. The melting point of iron is more than 1,500 degrees, so the ancients used the method of blast furnace to increase the area of the deepening furnace to increase the temperature in the furnace. And the furnace temperature is not enough, so he can only hit the so-called Mianmian iron in Fang Cai Jin Cao's mouth, cut it horizontally with a knife, and the fracture is white.

Hundreds of people worked together, and the workshop was built in just a dozen days. In the new workshop, Li Zuojiang arranged 100 people to build the blast furnace and 100 people to build the waterwheel. The rest of the hundreds of people were recruited together, and Li Chongjiu asked them to collect the iron weapons in the city again, and first build the iron arrowheads.

Once Yuyi Town is built next year, the forces of the Cangtou Army can penetrate deep into the area of Wuhou Qinshui, and they can start trying to rescue the Murodi tribesmen from the Khitans and merge them into their command. Of course, this is bound to have a vicious battle with the Khitan Eight Divisions that control tens of thousands, Li Chongjiu thought for a while, defeating the Khitans in the field is an unrealistic fantasy for the time being, and the only thing that can be sustained is to rely on Yuyi to strengthen the city and block the Khitans under the city. Since it is to defend the city, it is necessary to take a strong bow and a crossbow first, and with the current level of the craftsman, it is still impossible to create armor, swords and other things for the time being, Li Chongjiu can only equip the iron arrow first.

Although the arrow is small, but there are also exquisite, the arrow light arrow is divided into wolf teeth, duck grass, out of the tip of the four flutes, four kinds of chisels. And crossbow arrows and bows and arrows are divided, crossbow arrows are slightly shorter, and bows and arrows are longer. As the saying goes, the bow should be strong, and the arrow should be long, and the stronger the bow, the more long the arrow.

If you want to go one step further with the current level of the craftsman's craftsman, you can only start with the big bow. The Cangtou army is now striving to achieve the standard of one bow per sergeant, and everyone in the county under his command can shoot a bow. It would take years for a high-quality bow to be made, but now there is not so much time, only a quick way.

As for the bow, Chen Jincao and Li Zuojiang came up with a way. They first cut down the stout and sturdy bamboo, and then cut it into two vertically, and then cut the bamboo into sections, and tied it with rope at both ends, so that the bamboo bow can shoot fifty or sixty steps, and for the defense of the city, with iron arrows, there is barely no problem.

The newly recruited 600 county soldiers were equipped with big bows, and then began to practice archery. With the current strength of Feihu County, weighing the power of the nearby thieves, Li Chongjiu only needs them to be able to hold the county seat. As for the strong crossbow, at the moment, it can only be used as an arm-drawn crossbow, and the workshop currently only has a progress of ten pieces a month. As for the crossbow and the waist crossbow, it is better to wait for the blast furnace waterwheel to be built before putting it into research.

The winter snow is falling, and the year old is quietly passing.

The original family mansion has now become the residence of the dilapidated people in the county, although the winter snow falls, but the people of Feihu County have lived a fairly warm winter, and everyone's face is full of joy. And the craftsmen and county soldiers who have been busy for several months were allowed by Li Chongjiu to take a holiday and take a day off to reunite with their families. Li Chongjiu gave each of the county soldiers a bucket of corn for the festival.

As for the craftsmen, the newly incorporated craftsmen also have a delicious taste. Chen Jincao ordered several pigs to be killed, and they were also remediated and wrapped with meat filling and flour to form prison balls. The craftsmen ate soup cakes, prison pills, and pots of thick pork bone soup, and everyone's faces were shiny, and they felt a little more comfortable than when they were thieves.

Li Chongjiu did not force these thieves to work, but made them serve half a year's labor to atone for their crimes, and after half a year, they could stay for themselves and be granted land to cultivate near the county seat. Therefore, the thieves did not have much intention of being passive and slacking off, and just after this year, the blast furnace waterwheel was built together.

The snow was falling, and Li Chongjiu sat in the county hall and settled the affairs of Feihu County. The top priority of government affairs is iron smelting, cast iron, and craftsman workshops, which were handed over to Chen Jincao and Li Zuojiang, while the 1,000 county soldiers were handed over to the county lieutenant Gao Chu, and the lord Bo Zhao Wansan handled the large and small government affairs for him.

One by one, after Li Chongjiu opened the spring and the snow melted, he set off to lead his two hundred armor horsemen to return to Huaihuang Town, and it was a big deal to open the town of Yuyi City in the coming year, and it was a big deal to ask Li Yuan for marriage. Li Chongjiu walked in front of the county yamen, looked at the snow, and couldn't help sighing, I don't know how Li Zhiwan was doing this year in Jinyang. The generous gift he prepared for the Li Mansion, I don't know if Su Su has sent it to the mansion for him.

Just as Li Chongjiu was thinking about it, he saw that in the midst of the heavy snow, the sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded, from far to near.

"Lord Hou is overjoyed! Exultation! ”

The war horse spewed white air, and Chen Jincao's face looked like snow was hanging on it. He rode his horse to Li Chongjiu, got off the horse and came to Li Chongjiu, and said, "Master Hou is very happy! ”

In the county government on the side, Zhao Zhubo, Xi Cao, the secretary and others all went together, looking at Chen Jincao's happy face, they didn't know for a while, so they were crowded with people in front of the door. Li Chongjiu smiled: "Take your time." ”

Chen Jincao immediately took out a red cloth from his arms, opened it carefully, held it in front of Li Chongjiu like a treasure, and said: "Master Hou, it's done!" ”

Li Chongjiu weighed the black bumps in the red bridle, swarthy and swarthy, and weighed it in his hand, only feeling heavy and with a hint of heat.

Chen Jincao almost burst into tears, and said in a trembling voice: "Master Hou, fortunately, our blast furnace has become, this is good iron!" It's really iron! ”

He couldn't help but think of a passage at the moment, the Han people came from Yanhuang, from a region in Henan, enough to chase the four Yi, and now there is a prosperous era in China, what do you rely on? When Siyi was still using stone as weapons, our ancestors were already using copper and bronze arrows, and when Siyi used copper as weapons, our ancestors had used iron swords and crossbows; When it came to Siyi, when it was finally possible to use iron as a weapon, our ancestors were already wearing iron armor and holding steel swords.

In the Western Han Dynasty, China's iron-smelting technology happened to be mature, and it was applied to weapons on a large scale for the first time. At that time, Wei Qinghuo Qubing led the Han cavalry with a ring-headed sword, wearing iron armor, galloping on the grassland, expelling the Huns, and sweeping Mobei. Therefore, since China, the martial arts of the emperors of the past dynasties have been more prosperous than the Han Dynasty.