"Little lady, have you seen my eldest brother and second brother in the past few days? On the way back today, I was still thinking about the rare time off for a day off, and I had a good get-together with the two of them in the evening~"

Hou San, who was shirtless, was half-lying at the head of his bed, and asked so lazily in his mouth.

However, although his face looked a little tired, his face was much better.

This goods returned home at about nine o'clock in the morning, and then they had a good time with their own mother.

By the time I was satisfied, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon, that is, at half past eleven in the morning.

Of course, the above is not important, the young couple have been separated for so long after just a few days of marriage, and it is quite understandable to be a little warmer.

And when faced with the inquiry of his own man, his daughter-in-law was busy sewing a piece of clothing.

To be more precise, at the request of the Street Office, some of the old clothes and pants that were sent down were first changed to the style of the robes of the Great Song Dynasty Forbidden Army.

Next, on the shoulders, knees, elbows, and other areas that are prone to wear, reinforce them with some extra rags and put some unsightly patches.

After it is completed, it will be handed over to the street office again, and the number of pieces and handwork will be exchanged for some rice noodles.

Eventually, the altered old clothes will be redistributed to the new soldiers to be used as training uniforms for daily training.

Hou San also enlisted in the army, and only then did he know that the new army of the Great Song Dynasty lacked everything, but he didn't even have to issue battle clothes, at least for the time being.

Because of the original Kaifeng City, the Great Song Dynasty court stocked a large number of fabrics and robes.

Either it was sent to the camp of the Jin people in the first place, and it was used as part of the compensation for the Jin people's retirement; Either they were burned by the Jin people before retreating, seeing that they couldn't take them away.

As a result, some time ago, Hou San's new army could only train in their own clothes.

Even if the current training is just a simple queue, military posture, etc., the training subjects such as costing clothes and rolling have not officially begun.

But most of the clothes on Hou San and the other new soldiers are almost exposed.

So in desperation, Kaifeng Mansion could only use grain in the people, and bought some surplus old clothes back, planning to change it, and deal with the current situation first.

As for the official uniform, it will have to wait a while.

When exactly will it arrive? It is said that it will have to wait until the newly established Department of Commerce of the Ministry of Households, and the former Oiran who is specifically in charge of it, the current Household Department Servant and Concubine Princess.

When to find a way to get enough of a large number of fabrics?

However, under the crooked beating, such a situation can be regarded as the daughter-in-law of the three families in the city, this kind of woman who can't carry it on her shoulders and can't lift it in her hands solves the problem of her source of survival.

As long as you work hard to sew for the rest of the day, there is no problem to barely eat your stomach......

After listening to her man's question, the little lady immediately answered:

"In the first four or five days, the second brother came to our house to deliver a bag of millet, but I saw it once; The second brother let me tell you, he is afraid that he will have to live in the workshop recently, and it will take a while to come back.

But the words of the eldest brother have never been seen these days; I saw his sister-in-law Jin Lian yesterday, and said that she was helping a noble person to do things, and she didn't have to worry about eating at home. ”

After hearing this, although I knew that today was a rare holiday, I was afraid that I would not be able to get together with the two sworn brothers.

But knowing that the two of them now have a good errand, they also let go of all their worries.

After closing his eyes, he was ready to sleep well, and waited until noon to eat a meal of noodle soup made by his daughter-in-law, and then had a good time in the clouds.

Hou San tossed so hard, not because he had been holding back in the new barracks for half a month, but because he had already had some internal injuries.

It's just that after coming back, I also learned from my daughter-in-law that the primary school run by the imperial court has begun to teach.

As long as the children are of school age, they can go to school, but at that time, they will be divided into two different schools for men and women.

More importantly, the primary school run by the imperial court not only does not need to be restrained, but also manages a lunch at noon every day.

Just for this free lunch, almost all the people in the city sent their children to school.

On the one hand, so many royal families, officials, and wealthy merchants in the city were captured by the Jinren; In many people's homes, there are no adults left to work, and children staying at home is just a waste of food.

On the other hand, Kaifeng City is at the feet of the Son of Heaven.

The people of Kaifeng City, who don't know the truth that 'everything is inferior, only reading is high', and the family couldn't afford to be restrained before, and it was just that they couldn't afford to read.

Now that they are in charge of a meal, they are naturally willing to send their children to school.

Therefore, Hou San also thought in his heart that he would let his daughter-in-law conceive a child as soon as possible, so as to continue the thin bloodline of their old Hou family.

It is best that after completing their studies, they can roll their names outside Donghua Gate in the future and give their old Hou family glory to their ancestors......

******

It was night, and when the night had just darkened, Hou San had already fallen asleep.

What he didn't know was that his second brother Xie Ergou's work today, or the evening shift, was just the beginning at such a time.

The reason why this is so is because of the words of Grandpa Langqing, the secretary of the Ministry of Employment.

The new army was waiting to be fed and the equipment was desperately lacking, and in order to complete the full armament as soon as possible, the people in the workshop could stop, but the machines could not stop.

The so-called machines are actually some of the most commonplace and even antique hydraulic hammers in the modern plane.

But for Xie Ergou, it really is a knife that pulls his ass and opens his eyes.

Since the age of thirteen, he has been learning to strike iron with his master, and for the first time he knows that there is such an ingenious way to escape the most tired and proud sledgehammer.

I saw that Grandpa Wolf Qing let him build several embankments on the Xu River.

In such a way, the water flow difference between each other was about six feet.

In this way, when the water flows on the blades of the large waterwheel built along the river, it pushes the waterwheel to rotate, and also drives a large hammer to the ground and automatically beats it on the iron felt through some bronze gears and levers.

It can be said that as long as the water in the river does not dry up, this hammer will be hammered forever, saving an unknown number of degrees of manpower.

And the hydraulic forging hammer can not be said to be tired; The strength of each hammer is not known how long it is stronger than that of Xie Ergou, a sturdy man.

The effect of forging iron is naturally better than that of manpower.

The only problem is that there is a limit to the number of dams that can be built by hand in a river, and so is the number of such hydraulic hammers.

Therefore, in order to use this good baby to the extreme, Xie Ergou and these blacksmiths were divided into two shifts day and night, and the two of them relayed the tools.

In this way, Xie Ergou, who still had eye feces in the corners of his eyes, replaced Old Man Sun who was on his shift.

Seeing that a good iron ingot on the stove next to him had become red under the heating of the coke oven with an automatic blower device, the temperature was definitely enough.

Directly holding a large tongs in both hands, he picked up this piece of red iron ingot with ten catties and put it on the iron felt of the hydraulic forging hammer.

Suddenly, in a very rhythmic sound of striking iron, the originally long iron ingot began to deform.

At the same time, some red powder also kept falling off in the process of this beating.

As a veteran who has been striking iron for almost 20 years, Xie Ergou naturally knew that this was an impurity in iron, and he was beaten out vigorously in repeated forging.

The cleaner these impurities are removed, the better the quality of the iron.

If it can be forged hundreds of times, the final products will be the legendary hundred steel.

It's just that in the past, I wanted to get a piece of steel, and I just wanted to forge it by hand, and I don't know how much time and effort it would take.

In less than two quarters of an hour, the hydraulic hammer was so magically struck out.

And the overall appearance gradually formed a curved steel plate weighing more than ten pounds.

At such a time, there are not many impurities that come out of each hammer; Xie Ergou hurriedly took the steel plate away and put it on the side.

Like a stream of water, another apprentice soon took over the follow-up.

The apprentice took a small steel drill, picked up the hammer and struck it, leaving a finger-sized hole in the four corners of the plate.

Holding another steel seal, after a hammer came in the lower right corner of the armor, a mark of a wolf's head was left on it.

After all this is done, it is put into a vat of quenching oil on the side.

In the rest of the time, the plates will be transported to the next workshop, where they will be fitted with some straps for fastening, some cushioned leather cushions, and a piece of plate armor that can only protect the chest and abdomen.

This thing, plus a helmet and an iron mask.

The above three-piece set is all the armor that the wolf Qing and they have prepared for the new army musketeers in the future.

As for the mark of the wolf's head on the armor, it was just a little thing that the wolf Qing tossed out of his personal bad taste.

Don't look at such a small workshop with only three hydraulic hammers, but at the end of a day and a night, it is enough to produce more than a hundred cuirasses.

In terms of work efficiency, compared with the original manual beating, I don't know how much stronger.

So much so that Xie Ergou and other blacksmiths are completely clean every day.

It's just that when Hu Biao saw such a statistic, he gave only one evaluation in his mouth: "No, it's too slow......"