"Lian Baihu, what do you think of this Crescent Valley?"

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

This was abrupt and Lian Biao suddenly felt confused when he heard this.

"How was Emperor Hongwu of Taizu?" The scholar asked another inexplicable question: "Hongwu had herded cattle and sheep in his early years, worked as a beggar, and served as a monk, creating the Ming Dynasty for three hundred years."

Lian Biao was even more confused.

The light flashed in the scholar's eyes: "You said, what if you think sir, compared to Hongwu?"

Lian Biao was stunned for a moment.

"This..." He was silent and said after a long time, "Can't you compare?"

The scholar sneered: "Why can't you compare? A man with courage, can Hongwu compare?"

Lian Biao shook his head.

The scholar said again: "I think it is better to treat the people well. I think it is comparable to Hongwu. When Hongwu started his career, he was just a small school of the rebel army. How many people did he have? But he already has a foundation. The country of Ming Dynasty was a mess, which was a good opportunity to compete for the destiny. Even hundreds of households, you and I are the confidants of the adults, and the future founding heroes, and the title of marquis and generals is no problem."

Lian Biao was stunned when he heard this, and a heat surged in his heart. He didn't know how biased the scholar said, but he was also excited about the title of marquis and generals and left them in history.

Yes, even animals like thieves can have their current momentum, and the Ming Dynasty is about to end. Why can't my own master replace him?

People have ambitions and always roll in the dust, so ambitions don’t matter if they are ambitious. But if they can encounter wind and have the possibility of realization of ambitions, they will naturally sprout and bloom. He can’t help but recall the scholar’s ​​words and think it makes sense.

Isn’t Taizu Zhu Hongwu also a grassroots in the dust?

Why can't Zhu Hongwu start a family and win the world?

In the turbulent times, dragons and snakes hide in the grass, and when the wind and clouds fly over the sky, his heart beat wildly, his blood and energy rushing into his mind, and his face is red.

The scholar looked at the smile and said in time: "The future is great, but we must also do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our best to do our

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

At this moment, Uncle Huai came.

When Sun Xiucai was happy, he nodded to Lian Biao, and hurriedly took the lead in greeting him.

......

On May 13, Ying Yi explained the military training matters, and the clerks in logistics and other aspects were in place. He explained them all, and Ying Yi went straight to the mountain.

The first stop is Bibo Valley.

Half a month has passed, and Bibo Valley is already very good.

Erniu, Pu Tiechong and Jiang Xi followed Ying Yi.

"The Golden Font and Fire Font Workshop started construction five days ago." Jiang Xi said seriously: "There are only fifty qualified gun heads forged on the first day, and the second day they doubled to 100. The output has increased day by day. By yesterday, the daily output has reached 300. It is expected that the output will be further improved, and the total number of three thousand gun heads will take up to six days."

Jiang Xi was one of the officials sent by Sun Xiucai to be in charge of the accounting records of income and expenditure. The three officials were led by him.

Jiang Xi was also a scholar. He used to work as a accounting manager for wealthy families, so he had experience. There were not many destitute scholars like him in Ye County. Those who had a way left by themselves, but many of them were moved to the Crescent Valley. Now they have been recruited by Sun Xiucai to work for Ying Yi.

"Since the subordinates came to office, the Bibo Valley Workshop has consumed 2,350 kilograms of iron and 15,800 kilograms of grain. The final expenditure for silver is expected to be 227,780 kilograms of silver this month."

Ying Yi was very satisfied when he heard his account report, his words were clear and his words were organized.

The final consumption of iron, grain and silver did not exceed Ying Yi's expectation. Since the start of the Jinzi and Huozi workshop, eight hundred gun tips have been produced, which consumed less than a thousand kilograms of iron. However, the iron consumption of various tools required in the early stage of the two workshops was higher than the consumption of the production of gun tips in the past few days. It is inevitable that the workshop will start the first time.

There are more than 200 craftsmen in Bibo Valley, and five or six hundred people have been moved. The labor work done by craftsmen are all big-bellied men, and in just over ten days, they are also Ying Yi’s prediction.

The estimated expenditure of silver remuneration is roughly in line with Ying Yi's expectations.

Before I could enter the Huozi Workshop, a hot breath came over the pavement. The main responsibility of the Huozi Workshop is smelting.

The smelting technology of this era naturally cannot be compared with that in a few hundred years. The fire-sized workshop has only two iron-melting furnaces at the moment, and the limit of iron smelting per day is 1,000 kilograms. Burning wood and heating with a blower is very labor-intensive.

Seeing Ying Yi and others coming in, the leader of the Huozi Group craftsman hurriedly came up.

He was naked and sweaty on his red skin.

"grown ups!"

Ying Yi waved his hand and looked at the two iron-melting furnaces: "The limit of the iron-melting furnace, can one only produce 500 kilograms of iron materials per day?"

The leader of the Huo Group said: "I don't know. Because the gun tip is urgent, the larger and more refined iron melting furnace has no time to build."

"Oh." Ying Yi knew the urgency of the gun, and there was nothing he could do about it. He asked: "How is the best iron melting furnace?"

"A building produces five thousand kilograms a day." The craftsman lowered his eyebrows and said with his eyes: "The villain once worked in the Da Iron Floor in Nanyang. The iron-melting furnace there smelted ore every day, and the iron material produced is this."

"Ore...5,000 kilograms a day..." This number can be ignored after hundreds of years, but in this era it has become very powerful. Although the Zhuxia people have been repetitive throughout the dynasties, technology has advanced overall. From pure personal handicraft workshops to now, a certain assembly line scale and large workshops have been formed. Don't think that there is no assembly line in this era, it is just not as regular as it is hundreds of years later.

If an iron-melting furnace refines 5,000 kilograms of iron every day, as long as there are enough iron-melting furnaces and the ore can keep up, it should be no problem to produce dozens of tons per day. Of course, that is still a bit far for Ying Yi.

"Can the resmelting of ready-made iron materials only meet this standard?" Ying Yi asked again.

Pu Tiehui on the other side answered this question: "Sir, the secondary smelting of pig iron and rough iron requires strict formulas. The formula for secondary smelting of fine iron in the Huozi workshop is Li Sansi. In this way, the iron material smelted is higher quality and can be directly forged. When using rough iron, you must use ancient methods to beat more than ten times to forge a qualified gun head. The secondary smelting process is more time-consuming than the primary smelting of ore."

Ying Yi immediately understood that this is probably similar to smelting alloys? This is a talent! He looked at Li Sansi and actually had such a formula!

He told Jiang Xi: "The formula is extremely important. I will not take it skillfully and cannot be used for free."

As he said that, he turned to Li Sansi and said, "Craftsman Li, I will give you a reward. For the first time, fifty taels of silver, how about it? Every time you smelter two thousand kilograms of steel according to your formula, you will get another one tael of silver."
Chapter completed!