The craftsman camp will be an important department under Ye Qing for a long time in the future, although the weapons in the flood can be exchanged from the spirit book, but the technology is still in their own hands. Otherwise, who can guarantee that they have enough spirit coins to exchange at any time.

As soon as he stepped into the gate of the craftsman's camp, Master Ling Zheng came out with a group of craftsmen, there was no precedent for craftsmen to be officials in the desolate world, but Ye Qing decided to distinguish between skilled masters and ordinary craftsmen, so that these people had a greater sense of responsibility and honor.

First of all, in the costume, Ye Qing asked people to embroider two crossed hammers on the white robe, and under the hammer, embroidered stars. Like Ling Zheng, it is two iron hammers, plus three stars, the 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 craftsman battalion moved here, Ye Qing had not come in person, and if there was anything that needed to be studied, he directly called Ling Zheng to the Dao Lord's Mansion, and it was the sample of the chariot from the last time, which was also sent by his own soldiers.

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

"I've seen Lord Lord!" Ling Zheng greeted Ye Qing and the others, but immediately became puzzled again. The lord had never been to the craftsman's camp, and this time the chariot was only sent out for a few days before he came to the door, so it was not because of the chariot that there was a problem.

Ling Zheng asked with some confusion, "Is it because the chariots sent by the last batch are there problems with the craftsmen's camp today?"

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

Ling Zheng had already put his heart down when he heard that there was no problem, but then Ye Qing's words made his face a little pale, there were still many problems, he was old, it was impossible to write these down at once, so he had to gesture to the apprentices around him with his eyes, hoping that they could keep it firmly in their hearts, so that they could ponder it later.

"Let's go, take us to see your craftsman's camp!"

"Your Excellency, please!" Ling Zhengdao.

"My lord, this is the ironmaking team, which specializes in improving the quality of pig iron. There are several small iron mines in our territory, but the quality is not very good, there are too many impurities, and they must be retrained before they can be used to make weapons, otherwise weapons are very easy to damage. Ling Zheng introduced to everyone as he walked.

For the quality of the weapon, Ye Qing and Li Xin and other generals who led the troops were deeply touched, fortunately, after a period of research, coupled with the technology provided by Ye Qing, the level of ironmaking in the territory has been improved to a certain extent.

Although there is still a slight gap with the barbarian knife now, it is mainly a gap in experience, and now the weapons produced by the craftsman battalion are cut against the barbarians, and they will not be damaged in a short time.

"Then what is the quality of the iron you re-smelted?" Ye Qing asked as he looked at the molten iron that was tumbling in the furnace.

"It depends on the quality of the pig iron. Ling Zheng said cautiously. "Now the weapons we are making are still between the tenth and the hundredth refinement. The better the weapon, the longer it will take to produce, and as far as the weapon is concerned, it is simply not able to meet the needs of the army at present. ”

Now the technology of steelmaking is still very backward, even with the technology provided by Ye Qing, it is not possible to improve it all at once.

During this period, Ye Qing provided several methods to improve the output and quality of steel for the craftsman camp, of course, the specific effect has to be known through experiments.

These things do not have a certain accumulation, it is difficult to see results in a short period of time, Ye Qing can only play a role, as for how to do it, it is theirs, anyway, he will only talk on paper, and he will not know anything about it.

A group of people saw the knife workshop, the arrow workshop, the carpentry workshop, and went satisfied, and now the efficiency of the craftsman camp is still very good, although the technical level needs to be improved!

In the blink of an eye, it was early autumn.

For more than six months in the spring and summer, Ye Qing was immersed in dealing with the big and small affairs of the territory, completely gathered the hearts of the people, and turned Qingyun City and the surrounding places into his own territory (it will be called Qingyun Collar later).

According to the custom of floods, those with a population of less than 10,000 people are called villages, those with a population of more than 10,000 and less than 100,000 are called towns, and only those with a population of more than 100,000 are qualified to be called cities. Above this is the county level, which can basically accommodate a population of about one million

The current Qingyun Collar, after more than half a year of development, has a total of one city, five towns and 31 villages in the entire territory, with a population of nearly one million, and has completed the initial reform in accordance with Ye Qing's requirements, implemented the separation of military and political affairs, and set up an administrative hall under the lord's mansion to be responsible for the government affairs in the territory, and the army is directly responsible for Ye Qing himself.

In the past six months, the number of Ye Qing's army has not increased much, each village is stationed with a hundred-person team, and a thousand-person team is stationed in a town, in order to be responsible for guarding and clearing the local fierce beasts, and ensuring local security, there are 50,000 troops stationed outside Qingyun City, and with the addition of 5,000 people and horses as Ye Qing's personal guard, the entire Qingyun Army's army is just over 60,000, but it has been greatly improved in terms of quality.

In the past half a year, Ye Qingyou has successively written several spiritual books, all of which are about enlightenment education, namely "Kindergarten Qionglin", "Xunmeng Pun Sentence", "Sound Rhythm Enlightenment", etc., but the grades are not very high, and they are basically hovering in the third or fourth grades.

It is also thanks to these spiritual books that Ye Qing is now a scholar with a humanistic position, and he has initially possessed the ability to use spiritual books to fight.

In order to raise more spirit coins as soon as possible, very early, Ye Qing asked Fu Bo to go to Xuancheng with the rubbings of these enlightenment spirit books, find the study Zhai where they cooperated last time, and cooperate.

The study did not disappoint Ye Qing either, and gave him a very high remuneration, so that he now basically has an income of nearly 100,000 spirit coins every month, which is still because he did not take out the medical spiritual book and holy book "Plague Theory", otherwise the income will increase even more.

Ye Qing, who had the spirit coin, gave his personal guards and all the officers above the centurion a set of weapons exchanged from the "Actual Record of Military Training", including armor and various standard weapons.

Ordinary soldiers use weapons imitated by the craftsman battalion, although they are inferior to the ones exchanged, but they are a great improvement over the ones they originally used.

It can be said that in the past six months, the entire territory has undergone earth-shaking changes, as long as the enemies who come to attack do not exceed 100,000, Qingyun Collar can resist it.

At this time, it has been autumn, at this time the crops are gradually ripe, the four fields look at a green and yellow, although the wind and rain are not smooth in the past half year, but there is no big famine, the farmers see in their eyes, smiles on their faces one by one.

However, Ye Qing's good days are coming to an end, the human race is weak, and before autumn, the barbarians will inevitably come out of the border counties to rob them, so as to have sufficient supplies to survive the cold winter.

Although Qingyunling is not the first line of the border pass, according to the experience of previous years, there will still be some barbarian soldiers and horses who will break in.

Smoke rose everywhere, mourning was everywhere, and the entire northern border of the Terran race was once again shrouded in a thick atmosphere of fear, and the barbarians who had just arrived last year had come again. Everywhere they passed, smoke billowed from the clouds, and the village that had just been built was reduced to nothing in a spark, and the pitiful little possessions were lost after the soldiers.

What's even more heartbreaking is that this time the soldiers are not here for supplies, but to kill everyone they see as the final result, and where the horse's hooves pass, there is no one left.

One piece after another of the information was placed in Ye Qing's lord's mansion, and he frowned, "What are the barbarians doing? Isn't it the most important target of their raids, why didn't they leave any chickens and dogs in the place they passed this time?"

The intelligence department in charge of Fu Bo has made some achievements so far, and the entire chaotic hills, as long as it is not too secret, Ye Qing can know it in time.

Just like this time in the mouth of the barbarians, although the barbarians have just entered the territory of the human race, and there are still thousands of miles away from the Qingyun Territory, the information of the barbarians has already reached Ye Qing's hands.

"Young Master, last year, we wiped out more than 6,000 barbarians at one time, causing Mu Tuorong, a small tribe, to lose its ability to survive, and tens of thousands of people were frozen to death and starved to death in one winter, which has never happened in the barbarian tribes on the border. ”

"And this time, the barbarian commander in charge of the chaotic hills happens to be the superior of the Mu Tuorong tribe, a medium-sized tribe called Azhe, and the patriarch is called Wanyan Azhe. ”

"It is said that Yan Azhe is the illegitimate son of a large tribal patriarch, and he had to bring his men to the border because he suffered a serious exclusion from his father's tribal life.

All the information was compiled by Fu Bo, and naturally he knew much better than Ye Qing.

In order to save face, Wanyan Azhe brought most of the troops in the tribe this time, plus the tribal soldiers attached to him, the strength is almost 100,000. “