In the past, and in most of Neustria today, the production of an arrow for arrows required the following processes:

First, the excavated iron ore is burned with charcoal to obtain a metal mass, which is then stretched out to make a standard piece called an iron rod.

Then, the blacksmith went to the mine or bought it from a merchant, put it in his own furnace, burned it with charcoal and bellows until it was red and soft, clamped it out with pliers, cut a section from it, beat it repeatedly to remove the slag inside, and hammered it out to create the desired arrow shape.

It's a complete handicraft job, and it has to be done by someone who is strong and skilled in the craft of a blacksmith, and if he is not strong enough to pick up a blacksmith's hammer, God knows what it will be.

Is it efficient......

After watching it, you can understand three points for the line of the villain king in the blockbuster movie "Braveheart", "Let the Scots go first, and their lives are cheaper than arrows......

And the arrowhead production in the territory of the Great Demon King is not like this at all.

She has a blast furnace.

Although it is a blast furnace at the level of BC.

But she could rely on this B.C.-level blast furnace to produce cast iron - molten iron flowing into a mold and forming it all at once - and not a single one of the rest of Neustria, or even the northern countries, had such a process! Compared with the traditional ironwork of Neustria, the gap between the two is like the gap between the large machine industry and the traditional handicraft industry!

A blast furnace can produce one ton of molten iron at a time, that is, one ton of iron.

Of course. Such a fast production also has a number of weaknesses, such as: The blast furnace cannot be stopped, unlike the traditional blacksmith furnace, which can even be engaged in other occupations throughout the year. Just when people need them, just a little stove, a bellows can be pulled to work, and it takes at most an hour to make an iron tool, convenient, flexible, and fuel-saving - this blast furnace has a huge investment, and it can't be stopped, it's like a terrible hell monster. Swallowing untold amounts of fuel, iron ore and lime, pouring out bright and beautiful molten iron, creating untold iron tools and equally untold amounts of pollution, roaring and dragging the hard-seated diocese of Turnest into the Iron Age.

Once the iron arrow is formed, it needs to be polished to remove the burrs on it and sharpen the arrow more sharply.

This job does not require strong labor and no professional skills, down to a three-year-old doll. Old men and women who are half deaf and half blind at the age of seventy, as long as their IQ is not outrageously low, can undertake this subcontracted work, and those who have other occupations. For example, farmers, fishermen, etc., after they have finished their day's work. I don't mind grinding a few arrows to make some extra money.

The way of production organization that combines the large machine industry with the traditional cottage industry has always existed in both the East and the West. Far away there is the germ of capitalism in Italy, and there is near. During the period of resistance against Japan, there was a shortage of large machines, housewives to buy merchants to lead foreign yarn to weave homespun cloth and then sell it to the bag buyer (a pound of finished cloth for a pound of raw yarn, only the slurry money earned, such a meager salary can only be done by housewives) Of course, what is more well-known is that after the change, those small shops that are exported are hairpins, lighters, toy cars...... All of the parts are produced by the factory machine and assembled by the women and children of the contracted families in their spare time.

Because there is no need to consider labor insurance, there is no cost of supervision, it is all piecework, which avoids the loss of workers' passive sabotage, and the dolls participate for free, so the efficiency of this method is not low, even in the 21st century in the globalized world market competition is also competitive, not to mention the medieval where the dolls crawl everywhere.

The work of sharpening arrows and repairing arrows and feathers was subcontracted out in this way, and then, subcontracted by the clever ghosts, and finally, God knows who did it - sometimes, it was the mother who subcontracted it to her children, and sometimes, it was the country tenants who subcontracted it to the city cook, and in the process, the three-year-old child laborers that the Great Demon King had never dreamed of, and the maids of the enemy camp all enthusiastically joined the army, oh no, they were involved in her new armament plan......

Fortunately, the big devil still takes the acceptance of the work very seriously, and now the person in charge of the acceptance is the granite-headed old Baden, who has professional skills and is not emotional, and he is really a good acceptance personnel. Thanks to his rare temperament, the contracting work did not lead to disastrous consequences.

Moreover, the new armament plan launched by the Great Demon King at this moment has also encountered an opportunity that would not have happened.

Those who had been plundered by the Laccades had suffered great losses, especially the food and forage they had amassed. It is likely that before the harvest of their crops in the fields was harvested, they were forced to sell their remaining possessions—cattle, farm implements, and so on—to merchants and lords at a low price of three cents and two cents.

After selling their cattle and tools for a temporary bargain, they are powerless to redeem them, and in the next farming season they will have their crops reduced by the lack of cattle and tools, and they will fall into a vicious circle until they sell all their land, even what little bit of land, they have become slaves.

Therefore, when the fields are damaged, it is a great opportunity for those landlords and merchants who are keen on land annexation.

In his work "Asking for Rain", the writer Zhao Shuli has exquisitely described the psychology of the landlords.

"My leader's begging for rain is just a thing, but in fact, it's good if it doesn't rain -- because half of Jindouping is mine, and when it rains, I naturally count the amount of grain I get, and if it doesn't rain, I can slowly buy the other half at the price of a bucket of rice and an acre of land."

And now, they get extra work.

After finishing their work in the fields, they sat at home, and the whole family went into battle together, and by the light of the fire in the fire pit, they did the work of sharpening arrows and repairing arrows, so that they could earn the bread they needed so much, and they no longer had to take what little property they had to go to the merchants and lords.

Even the students were caught up in this system of arms subcontracting -- they picked up goose feathers along the road to and from school -- and it was the norm during this time, and during this time, whoever didn't take a good look at it could turn into a pitiful bald man in the blink of an eye - although geese were no less effective than dogs, but the bears and children would run away when they saw them......

Louis sighed.

In the past, even if there was no pay, this kind of activity that bear children liked to see must have been indispensable to him, but now......

"Madame said you are not allowed to bully the goose."

Ahh!!h (To be continued......)