"Lian Baihu, what do you say about this crescent moon valley?"

Xiucai suddenly said: "There are more than 20,000 people, more than 3,000 soldiers and horses..."

This was abrupt, and Lian Biao was confused at first glance.

"How is Emperor Taizu Hongwu?" Xiucai asked an inexplicable question again: "In his early years, Hongwu herded cattle and sheep, worked as a beggar, and became a monk, creating a Ming dynasty for three hundred years. ”

Lian Biao was even more confused.

Xiucai's eyes flashed: "You say, what about adults compared to Hongwu?"

Lian Biao was stunned for a moment.

"This—" He was dumbfounded, and only after a long time did he say, "Can't it be compared, right?"

Xiucai sneered: "Why can't you compare?

Lian Biao shook his head.

Xiucai said again: "The adults are wise and kind to the people, and I think they can also be compared to Hongwu." At the beginning, Hongwu was just a small colonel of the righteous army, how many people did he have in his hands? The chaos of the Ming Dynasty is a pot of porridge, which is a good opportunity to compete for the deer. Even hundreds of households, you and I are the cronies of the adult's beginnings, the future founding heroes, the marquis and the generals, and the name will go down in history. ”

Lian Biao was dumbfounded when he heard this, and a hot current rose faintly in his heart. He didn't know how biased Xiucai's words were, but he also felt enthusiastic about the name of the marquis and the general.

Yes, even an animal like a thief can have the momentum it has now, the Ming Dynasty is about to end, why can't your own adults replace it?

People are ambitious, and if they are always rolling in the dust, ambition will not matter if they are ambitious. But if you can meet the wind, your ambition will be realized, and it will naturally sprout and blossom. He couldn't help but reminisce about Xiucai's words and felt that it made sense.

Taizu Zhu Hongwu, isn't he also a grassroots in the dust?

Zhu Hongwu can start and win the world, why can't Yingyi?

In troubled times, the grass hides the dragon and snake, and it is nine days in the face of storms and clouds. His heart was beating wildly, his blood was rushing to his brain, and his face was red.

Xiucai looked at it with a smile, and said at the right time: "The future is great, but we must also take it step by step." You and I are old people who started as adults, and we must do our best to be cautious and prudent for adults. When adults turn into dragons, you and I will naturally be rich and prosperous. ”

Lian Biao nodded fiercely, his eyes as if he wanted to eat people.

At this time, Uncle Huai came.

Sun Xiucai was overjoyed, nodded with Lian Biao, and hurriedly took the lead to welcome him out.

......

On 13 May, Ying Yi gave an account of the army's training, and the secretaries of logistics and other aspects were also in place, and they all explained everything, and Ying Yi went straight to the mountains.

The first stop is Bibo Valley.

More than half a month has passed, and Bibo Valley already looks like it.

Er Niu, Pu Tie Hammer and Jiang Xi followed behind Ying Yi.

"The Golden Word and Fire Word Workshop started five days ago. Jiang Xiru said: "On the first day, there were only 50 qualified gun heads, and on the second day, they doubled to 100, and the output increased day by day, and as of yesterday, the daily output had reached 300." Production is expected to increase further, with a total of 3,000 tips taking up to six days. ”

Jiang Xi was one of the officials sent by Sun Xiucai to be in charge of the accounting of income and expenditure. Three officials, headed by him.

Jiang Xi is also a showman, and he once worked as a bookkeeper for a large family, so he has experience. There are not many shabby talents like him in Ye County. Those who had a way left on their own, but many of them were relocated to Crescent Valley. is now recruited by Sun Xiucai to do things for Yingyi.

"Since the arrival of his subordinates, so far, the Bibo Valley Workshop has consumed 2,350 catties of iron, 15,800 catties of grain, and the final expenditure of silver taels is expected to be 227,28 yuan this month. ”

Ying Yi listened to his account, the words were clear, the words were organized, and I felt very satisfied.

The final consumption of iron, grain, and silver did not exceed Yingyi's expectations. Since the start of the Jinzi and Huozi workshops, 800 finished gun heads have been produced, which consumes less than 1,000 catties of iron. However, the consumption of iron for the various tools required in the early stages of the two workshops was higher than the consumption of the production of the gun heads themselves in the past few days. It was inevitable that the workshop would start for the first time.

There are more than 200 craftsmen in Bibo Valley, plus the families of craftsmen who have all migrated, there are five or six hundred people. The laborious work done by the craftsmen is all pot-bellied men, and the total amount of more than 15,000 catties of grain eaten in ten days is also in Yingyi's expectations.

The estimated expenditure of the silver remuneration is also roughly in line with Yingyi's expectations.

Before he entered the fire word workshop, a blazing breath came to the surface. The main responsibility of the Fire Word Workshop is smelting.

The smelting technology of this era naturally cannot be compared with that of a few hundred years later. For the time being, there are only two iron furnaces in the Huozi Workshop, and the limit of iron smelting per day is 1,000 catties. Burning wood and heating it with a blower is very labor-intensive.

Seeing Yingyi and the others coming in, the leader of the craftsmen of the Huozi group hurriedly greeted him.

He was naked, and his red skin was dripping with sweat.

"Your Excellency!"

Ying Yi waved his hand and looked at the two iron furnaces: "The limit of the iron furnace, can one only produce five hundred catties of iron per day?"

The leader of the fire word team said: "My lord doesn't know. Because of the urgent need for gun heads, there was no time to build larger, more refined furnaces. ”

"Oh. "Yingyi is clear, the urgency of the gun, this is no way. He asked, "What about the best furnace and how efficient is it?"

"A house produces 5,000 catties a day. The craftsman lowered his eyebrows and said: "The villain once worked in the big iron workshop in Nanyang, where the iron furnace smelts ore every day, and the iron produced is this number. ”

"Ore... Five thousand catties a day...", this figure can be completely ignored after a few hundred years, but in this era, it is already very powerful. The Zhuxia nation has come all the way to the present, although there have been repetitions in all dynasties, but the technology is advancing as a whole. From a purely personal handicraft workshop, it has now formed a certain assembly line scale and large workshop. Don't think that there are no assembly lines in this era, but they are not as regular as they were hundreds of years later.

If an iron furnace smelts 5,000 catties of refined iron a day, as long as there are enough iron furnaces and the ore can keep up, it should not be a problem to produce dozens of tons a day. Of course, that is still a bit far away for Yingyi.

"Can the re-smelting of ready-made iron only meet this standard?" asked Yingyi again.

To this question, Pu Tiehammer on the side replied: "If you go back to your lordship, the secondary smelting of pig iron and crude iron requires a strict formula. The formula of the secondary smelting of refined iron in the Huozihao workshop is Li Sansi's. In this way, the quality of the iron smelted is higher, and the tip can be forged directly. If you use crude iron, you need to beat it more than ten times with the ancient method to forge a qualified gun head. The process of secondary smelting is more time-consuming than the primary smelting of ore. ”

Ying Yi immediately understood, this is probably similar to smelting alloys? This is a talent! He looked at Li Sansi, there was such a formula!

He said to Jiang Xi: "The formula is extremely important, I will not take advantage of it, and I can't use it for free." ”

As he spoke, he turned his face to Li Sansi and said, "Craftsman Li, if you offer the formula, I will reward you." How about fifty taels of silver for the first time? After that, for every two thousand catties of steel smelted according to your recipe, you will get another tael of silver. ”

If you want a horse to run, you have to give it grass. People attach great importance to technology, often passed on from master to apprentice or family members, and once an accident occurs, the technology is very likely to be lost. The root cause is that technology is not profitable. Once the technology spreads, it will soon be all over the world, and the original owner of the technology will not get a copper plate.