A part of Hedong County also belonged to the later Shanxi, so there were also two places where iron ore was produced in Yong'an and Puzi, which were close to Bingzhou, which was also an important reason why Zhang Yi was eager to subdue Yong'an and Puzi. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In addition to Yong'an and Puzi, there is also an iron mine in Qushan, which is close to Anyi, but after Chen Yu was cleaned up by Zhang Yi, the iron mine was stopped, and then the matter of rushing to plant wheat and the influx of displaced people made Zhang Yi forget the iron mine for a while, and now everything has been straightened out, Zhang Yi handed over the important task of domesticating carrier pigeons, together with the mining of iron ore, to An Changshi to be responsible.

"Return to the lord," An Changshi, who was riding on the horse, turned around and clasped his fist at Zhang Yi and said: "The subordinates have arranged for people to do the pigeon matter, but the situation of the return is not ideal, because there are not many local pigeons in Hedong County, and the subordinates have sent people to purchase outside Hedong County, and they are also trying their best to hire those experts who know how to breed birds according to the requirements of the lord, but with little success......"

Halfway through the matter, An Changshi peeked at Zhang Yi's expression, and saw Zhang Yi's displeasure on his face and hurriedly continued: "However, the matter of iron ore mining, the subordinates have already arranged it, according to the requirements of the lord, all the miners in addition to the fixed monthly fixed 1,000 five-baht money, there are also ten catties of rations per person, and in addition, according to what the lord said, the reward system has been implemented, the more mining there is, the more rewards, and now the iron ore in Qushan has resumed mining." ”

An Changshi is worthy of being an old oilman in the officialdom, like Zhang Yi explained to him, if one thing is done well and one is not done, when he reports something, he will definitely report what he has not done well, and then report what has been done, so that even if Zhang Yi blames him, he will not blame him very much.

Sure enough, hearing that the iron ore had resumed mining, Zhang Yi's originally frowning brows gradually relaxed.

Although the Eastern and Western Han Dynasty collected all the minerals to the imperial court, they only focused on gold and copper mines, and the management of iron ore was not very strict.

The magistrate for the pig iron in his hand, generally leave a small part, most of the rest are sold to the people, plus the two Han Dynasty for the private casting of weapons is not strictly controlled, so the private casting of weapons is not a lot, but will not be large-scale casting, because the authority of large-scale casting weapons, only Taishou has, and if Taishou wants to expand the ordnance, it only needs to report to the assassin, the court does not pay attention, to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, like the secret large-scale expansion of ordnance, has long been common.

Zhang Yi is now the general of Zhengsanpin and the real person in charge of Hedong County, so no one cares about such things as mining iron ore, smelting pig iron, and casting weapons.

After listening to An Changshi's report, Zhang Yi nodded and said: "The treatment of miners must be guaranteed, if the people in your charge deduct the miners' wages and rations, in addition to the execution of those directly responsible, even you will definitely not be spared, in addition, those craftsmen who are responsible for smelting pig iron, in addition to wages, are all supported according to the salary of the eight-grade civil officials, and the blacksmiths who cast the blades, those with poor skills are also treated according to the eight grades, and the good skills are promoted to the seventh grade." ”

After talking about things related to iron ore, Zhang Yi changed his words and mentioned the matter of carrier pigeons.

"As for those experts who feed pigeons, they are also seven-grade treatment, and those with good skills are promoted to six-grade treatment," After thinking about it, Zhang Yi said to An Changshi: "You tell the people below that if you find a skilled pigeon master, I will reward you with one hundred taels of gold, but if you dare to fill the number, I will definitely not let them eat and walk around." ”

"No, my subordinates understand," After agreeing respectfully, An Changshi turned his head and saw that the foundry was about to arrive, and hurriedly pointed to Zhang Yi and said, "Lord, the foundry is not far ahead." ”

Looking forward along An Changshi's fingers, Zhang Yi vaguely saw the words of Hedong Foundry, so he hurriedly grabbed the horse's belly and rushed over.

The forging place where Zhang Yi went now is a relatively large forging that has been newly established recently, and it is not the same as the one Zhang Yi went to before, so Zhang Yi didn't know the way.

As soon as he entered the foundry, Zhang Yi immediately felt that the temperature inside was more than ten degrees higher than that outside, and after he stepped into the foundry, he felt a heat wave hit people.

"Hehe, it hasn't officially started yet, it's so hot, it's really a bit hot," grinning, Zhang Yi took off the brocade robe outside, and said to Master Chen beside him: "Old Chen, take out your newly cast weapons, and let Evil Come and Zhongye will check for you." ”

Lao Chen is the treasure that Zhang Yi got from the homeless people, when Lao Chen and his family fled to Anyi, they saw him and his eldest son were about to starve to death, if it weren't for Zhang Yi's subordinates who put him and his eldest son into Xin'er Village, and poured a bowl of rice cereal alone, he and his eldest son are now only afraid that they have already fed wild dogs, and when Anyi City recruited workers later, Chen Lin learned that Lao Chen is actually a family of iron, and it has been passed down for ten generations to his generation, he has skilled forging skills, and his two sons have not bad forging skills.

As soon as Zhang Yi's voice fell, Lao Chen immediately waved at the few little apprentices who had been waiting on the side for a long time, and those little apprentices hurriedly ran in front of Zhang Yi with two guns and a few knives.

After seeing the knife in the little apprentice's hand, Zhang Yi's eyes showed a look of expectation, but Wen Ping showed a puzzled look, because the knife the little apprentice was holding was different from the ring head knife he wore on his waist.

First of all, the knife held by the little apprentice does not have the iron ring on the handle of the ring head knife, but is replaced by a knife stock that is slightly larger than the handle of the knife, the handle of the knife is about 30 centimeters, there is a knife wall between the handle and the blade, the blade is about 1.3 meters long, about 13 centimeters wide, the whole body is slender, only the tip of the knife is slightly upturned, the single edge, the unedged side is slightly thicker, and there is a blood groove on one side of the knife body, which looks similar to the ring head knife, but it can be clearly seen that it is different.

Stretched out his hand to take the knife handed over by the little apprentice, Zhang Yi danced twice casually, and asked Wen Ping to pull out his saber and the knife in his hand to fart, as Zhang Yi held the handle of the knife with both hands, and slammed it with Wen Ping's saber, a metal crisp sound immediately came into everyone's ears, and then Wen Ping's saber broke in response.

After cutting off Wen Ping's saber, Zhang Yi hurriedly looked at the knife in his hand and found that the blade was still intact.

"Good knife, really good knife." Looking at the knife in his hand, Zhang Yi nodded again and again.