Chapter 41 Planning of the Arsenal
Looking at Li Yuanba who was surrounded by people, he signaled his personal soldiers to separate everyone and come to the front of the newly released steel ingots.
Old Man Zhu was following his apprentice, constantly beating the steaming steel ingots.
As the ingots were smashed down one by one, Mars kept popping up, but the steel ingots were almost unchanged!
"Good steel!"
"It's really good, it's really good!"
Among the onlookers, someone shouted:
"Prince, let your guards cut them with a knife and try it."
When Li Yuanba heard this, he nodded and signaled to the guards beside him. He didn't know how to test it, just be a silly horse.
The guard pulled out his own sword and everyone moved out of the way. He saw him condense his breath with his shoulders, exhaling and roaring, and the sword light fell.
"Bang!"
When everyone saw that the steel knife that was chopped on the steel ingot had already been curled.
"Okay! Good steel!"
The personal guard slashed down with force, and the tiger's mouth was cracked. Unexpectedly, the steel ingot was so hard.
Now, a group of people were more enthusiastic than Li Yuanba, the initiator, and surrounded Yang Haoliang again.
Li Yuanba took his personal guards with satisfaction to find Liu Nier.
After entering Loufan City, I didn't walk far away, and I saw a yard near the wall, with crowds of people and traffic.
The cars and people at the gate never stopped. The appearance of Li Yuanba and others caused a commotion, causing the originally smooth traffic to pause at the gate, causing traffic jams.
After the people in the yard came out, they guided the traffic. Li Yuanba and others entered the yard in a slightly embarrassed manner.
Liu Nier stood behind the railing on the second floor of the yard and said to Li Yuanba with a smile:
"It's rare. You Li Sanlang finally came to see me one day."
"I have never had time to see you."
"Okay, I don't know you yet. You're staying in your comfort zone every day. It's rare to leave the door and come up!"
Liu Nier signaled Li Yuanba to come upstairs and turned back to the room.
Li Yuanba quickly walked upstairs, walked to Liu Nier's room, and saw a completely different scene from what he imagined.
The room was divided into two teams, and a group of accounts on the left were constantly making plans, while Pilibala made a sound, while the group on the opposite side was constantly recording.
Liu Nier looked at Li Yuanba proudly and said:
"How about it, how is the headquarters of my business? It's not inferior to the central army's tent, right?"
"It's not bad, but what are these people?"
"Oh, this is not Taiyuan's account. You need to check it. The two places are separated by one, and the account must be checked every five days."
Li Yuanba looked at everyone's busy appearance and pulled Liu Nier out and asked:
"The steel mill just now has produced steel, and the texture is good. Next I will build an arsenal to build weapons and armor. Do you have any recommendations in your hands?"
Liu Nier shook her head and said:
"Army? Is it a weapon workshop? If someone is sent to settle accounts or start a business, I will not say anything here. The people here will take them away at any time, but I will have to use a knife and a gun. I can't arrange it. Why don't I ask Aye? Someone under his command will definitely be able to do this."
Li Yuanba thought about it but shook his head and said to Liu Nier:
"We have plundered a lot of craftsmen from Taiyuan, and it would be a bit too much to ask for it. But I have an idea. I think there will naturally be capable people in this iron ore production place. Moreover, I don't need anything like Jiang Moye, I just need some people who know how to make irons."
Liu Nier laughed:
"Sanlang, stop teasing me, do you know that it takes two or three months for the craftsman to build the simplest armor. Without a master craftsman, no matter how good your fine steel is, you can waste it."
Li Yuanba looked at the beauty in front of him with fun and said:
"Or we can make a bet that I only have thirty or fifty blacksmiths who can make our arsenal produce more than 100 pairs of armor every day, and the steel knife will be used to make the left and right."
"Okay, bet if you want to bet. Although I know I may lose to you, I really want to know how this arsenal was made?"
"It's nothing more, just two machines are made, and a fool can create armor and weapons."
"What machine is so powerful?"
“Pressing and rolling mill.”
"I don't understand, are these two machines very powerful?"
"Haha, one can make steel ingots like steak cakes into steel plates, and the other can hammer the steel plates into fixed shapes according to their shape. Do you think it's amazing?"
Liu Nier called Li Yuanba bragging. She was not unfamiliar with blacksmiths. If blacksmiths had these two machines, they would indeed be fools who could create magical weapons. But there was no record since ancient times. Even Li Yuanba's so-called kingdom of heaven would have some common sense, right?
Li Yuanba didn't explain, and called a personal guard and asked:
"What's your name? When did you follow me?"
"Brother, my name is Ma Rulong. I chose the last time the prince was in the military position and chose the personal guard!"
"Okay, it's an old man, do you dare to be an official?"
Be an official? If you ask a Chinese person, if you dare to be an official, then almost all men, women, young and old, whether poor or rich, will tell you a word:
"dare!"
"Okay, I'll order you to be the chief officer of the arsenal now. I'll be the first official of the military government stationed in my royal palace. I hope that the steward of the military government is here. You can report to her in the future and ask him for money and food from the arsenal."
"Yes, the prince. I have met the princess!"
Liu Nier's face turned red and she said in a slight anger:
"If you don't learn well, you won't dare to learn from your prince. Manager Liu, you will be responsible for connecting with Ma Rulong in the future. By the way, Sanlang, what is his official position called?"
"Just call the factory director, it's easy to remember."
What? It was purely because Li Yuanba was stunned by the positions of those officials of the Sui Dynasty for his own convenience.
"The factory director, the chief of the first factory. Yang Haoliang from the steel mill is also the factory director?"
Li Yuanba remembered that he had created a military government, but now he was still an empty schema. He only confirmed that Liu Nier, the chief steward, was equivalent to the later Minister of Finance. The government's chief officer can only be himself. Now he has set up steel mills and arsenals first, but he has no chief officers in the core key departments such as civil affairs, justice, police, transportation, and industry.
It seems that we have to speed up the progress of our work and let our personal guards come out to work. It is boring to guard ourselves all day long. With the military value, the person who can kill us in the world has not been born yet.
"Yes, Yang Haoliang is also the factory director. He asked him to integrate all the iron ore plants here as soon as possible. If he really doesn't want to cooperate, he will ignore it and increase the steel output first."
Li Yuanba said to the newly appointed director Ma Rulong again:
Chapter completed!