The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 538 Taihang Workshop
In March of the first year of Chuping (190).

After being restructured, the Taihang Workshop has almost become the largest military equipment workshop in the Taihang Mountain area. The weapons and armor produced here are all of the highest quality.

In the past, the Taihang workshop was filled with a high-spirited atmosphere. Under the jurisdiction of the Yellow Turban Army, the status of these craftsmen was many times higher than that in the Han court before. It was countless times better than before. For the first time, they understood what it was like to be human.

Even the great virtuous teachers set up a school in the workshop, so that their children can enter the school to learn.

Therefore, in the Taihang workshop, many people spared no effort to forge weapons and armor.

Some people even donated their ancestral secret recipes, and after they donated the secret recipes with trepidation, the things they were worried about did not happen, and the Yellow Turban Army did not forcibly take them for their own.

The owner of the workshop personally registered them, Tiqi from the Eagle Wolf Guard supervised them, and Fang Zhu, the resident of the workshop, also rushed to the scene.

The workshop has been restructured several times, and the system has gradually become more perfect.

Now the workshops in various places implement a three-party governance system. The official government represented by the workshop owner is responsible for managing the production of the workshop and life-related matters, while the Eagle Wolf Guard is responsible for monitoring and ensuring the safety and confidentiality of the workshop.

There are also a number of talismans in the workshops in each place, responsible for ideological work, and the person who manages the talismans of the workshop is called Fang Zhu. Fang Zhu also has the right to supervise and control the garrison troops. It also has influence on the workshop college. jurisdiction.

The owner of the workshop, the leader of the Eagle Wolf Guard, and Fang Zhu have the same status and the same rank, but they are in charge of different affairs.

However, because Fu Zhu is the spokesperson of Taipingdao, and Yinglangwei is loyal to Xu An, and Xu An is a great teacher of Taipingdao, so in fact, the owner of the workshop and the leader of the workshop Yinglangwei are in some In terms of decision-making, it is mainly based on the wishes of the workshop.

According to the size of the workshop, the size of the eagle and wolf guards is determined. The scale of the Taihang workshop is the largest among the military equipment workshops in the Taihang Mountain area.

Therefore, a thousand-household office was directly set up here, and Zhao Ji was the Eagle Wolf Guard Thousand-Household Officer of the Taihang Workshop. When the people of the four states first entered Bingzhou, he was personally appointed by Xu An and sent to the Taihang Workshop. Responsible for workshop affairs.

The owner of the Taihang workshop is Yan Zhong's nephew Yan Lun, but Yan Lun is not a playboy.

Yan Lun is said to be one of the most outstanding young people in the younger generation of the Yan family. Not only has he read the entire book, but he is also proficient in arithmetic and artisans. With his own ability, the huge Taihang Workshop has never made any mistakes under his management.

When Xu An went to Taihang Workshop to reform the system, he established the craftsman classification system, bonus system, piece-based real-name system, and patent system. Under Yan Lun's management, these systems were implemented very smoothly without any major problems Mistakes, occasional mistakes, were quickly and easily resolved by Yan Lun.

As for Fang Zhu of Taihang Workshop, Tian Zhong was naturally in charge.

When Xu An dispatched Tian Zhong and Zhao Ji to the Taihang Workshop together, he had actually planned everything, but the restructuring did not happen overnight.

He arranged for Tian Zhong to enter the Taihang workshop management laboratory and be responsible for matters related to the forging experiment, in order to allow the Fu Zhu of Taipingdao to gradually integrate into the workshop.

Although it is the main task to set up a workshop academy and train children to become qualified craftsmen, it is also an important point to help Fu Zhu get involved in the workshop.

Today's Fu Zhu, the master of the workshop, and the eagle wolf guard stand side by side in the workshop, which has not aroused the opposition of the workers, and the workshops in various places have also built workshops and Taoist temples.

In the workshop, Xu An formulated a system of five days of work and two days of rest in peacetime.

But this is only a system that exists on paper. Now the world is falling apart, the Yellow Turban Army has been in a semi-war state, and it needs to work normally on lunar days. The current Yellow Turban Army actually implements six days of work and one day of rest.

And if the situation is more urgent, the rest of the sun day will also be cancelled, and these situations have been written into the rules and regulations.

Xu An also thought about the rest system for this job, and experimented a lot, and it wasn't a decision made on the back of his head.

In order to facilitate the calculation of time, Xu An issued another order later, adding "week" in addition to "ten" in the middle of the month.

Since the Shang Dynasty and even earlier, China has used the Ganzhi to record the date, and there are three days in the [-] days of each month, from Jia to Gui.

In order to facilitate timing, in ancient China, January was divided into three equal units, one unit of ten days, called a ten-day period.

From the first day to the tenth day, or from the Jia day to the Gui day, it is a ten-day period, and after a ten-day period is a new ten-day period, a month is thirty-day period.

Originally, Xu An also wanted to use ten days as the most basic equivalent unit, but one day off in ten days and nine days of continuous work are indeed too long.

Xu An once had a job. Although that job was not particularly tiring, it also made him realize the hardships of earning money. Because of this experience, he also understood the efficiency of working for a long time. It has a great impact on people's body and mind.

If you don't stop day by day, those who don't stop are just actions with no merit. The heart and body will be tired day by day, and everything will be wasted, and the whole life will be wasted.

During the day's toil and hard work, this day is full of joys and sorrows, and during the six days of complaints and depression, this day is all about dissipating.Swimming eyes and bosom, happy and relaxed, don't be idle in this day, don't be idle in this day, don't be happy in this day.

Combining work and rest is the truth in the world. High-intensity, long-term work often leads to low efficiency and useless work. This is common to both study and work.

Working overtime and studying hard, or rushing to work, can indeed improve some knowledge and production in a short period of time, but in the long run, it is not as good as combining work and rest, and then regaining strength after proper rest.

That's why Xu An added a week as a supplement, slowly pushing it as a system to workshops everywhere.

A week is set as seven days, with January [-]st of the first year of Chuping as the first day of the first week.

The names of the days of the week are named after the stars.

Chenxing day, Taibai day, Yinghuo day, Sui Xing day, Zhen Xing day, Lunar day, Sun day.

Correspondingly, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Moon, and Sun.

After the establishment of the Judiciary, Wei Lu quickly ordered people to transcribe the workshop's system on paper, printed it into a book, placed it in the workshop, and dispatched special propaganda. The situation is naturally acceptable.

The life they used to live is completely different from the life they are living now. With the promotion of the Yellow Turban Army Fuzhu, they naturally know that the weapons and armor they forged are all for guarding the checkpoint outside and resisting the enemy. Leading the Han army and protecting the Yellow Turban Army who have a happy life.

They all knew the consequences of the defeat of the Yellow Turban Army. They used to make weapons and armor for the Han court. Not to mention the meager salary, vacations and leisure time were mostly a luxury.

When the government does not need them, they are still driven by the powerful local families, and they rarely rest during the year.

Now that they have food to eat, clothes to wear, and more money than before, they have no reason to go back to the past.

Under this atmosphere, the workshops all over the world are running at a high speed.

Since Liu Pi entered the Taihang Mountain with Xu An's order, the workshops in the Taihang Mountain area have completely canceled their holidays, and they are all working overtime to make equipment.

However, even if the workshops in various places are running at full capacity, the Yellow Turban Army is still somewhat insufficient.

Forging weapons is simpler than making armor, so the weapons of the Yellow Turban Army's main army are fairly good, and the army stationed troops also have a batch of long spears for training.

But the stock of armor, the Yellow Turban Army is actually not much, the wear and tear of many battles, so that the Yellow Turban Army obtained a large amount of armor from the warehouse of the Han Army, as well as the forged armor.

Now Xu An's army is equipped with complete armor, including cavalry, and there are only about [-] collars. Of course, this refers to complete armor, which can protect the chest, waist, shoulders, arms, thighs, and calves.

Making armor is not an easy task. To make a complete set of armor requires more than one craftsman to work for a long time.

The Yellow Turban Army fought frequently. Even if most of the armor could be repaired, repairing it was not a simple matter. This also kept the number of complete armors of the Yellow Turban Army low.

However, the trilogy equipped with this kind of complete armor is mostly used by heavy infantry and heavy cavalry, and these complete armors are also called heavy armor.

The [-] leading armors are basically concentrated in the two camps of the trapped camp and the yellow angels, and a few are in the military pawn camp.

Among them, the equipment of the Yellow Angels can be said to be the best in the whole army.

The current equipment of the trapped camp is complete iron armor on the outside and light leather armor on the inside.

On this basis, the Yellow Angel also put on a piece of chain mail as a lining.

In the Battle of Zhangshui in Jizhou, Gong Du was injured by an arrow, which also reminded Xu An of light chain mail, so he ordered craftsmen to make it.

The craftsmen of Taihang Workshop quickly made the chain mail according to Xu An's narration and drawings, and then began to put it into production.

The production process of chain mail is not complicated. It only takes more than ten days of work to make one piece. The production speed is not too slow. Chain mail is quite good against sharp weapons such as feathered arrows. ability.

Moreover, the chain mail is light. Originally, soldiers wore at most two layers of armor, one layer of iron armor and one layer of leather armor. But now that they have chain mail, they can wear another layer of chain mail outside the inner clothing.

After the people from the four prefectures entered, the workshops in various places expanded again, and the mines in various places also increased their output further. The Yellow Turban Army was not too short of iron, so the Yellow Turban Army also produced more than [-] iron in this year. A piece of chain mail, most of which were supplied to the Yellow Angels.

Of course, the generals and schools of the Yellow Turban Army above the rank of military marquis, including the military marquis, also received a piece of chain mail.

The chain armor that Gong Du, Lu Bu and other senior officers got was even better, and the protection was even better.

On the battlefield, the enemy may mobilize sharpshooters to shoot at the opponent's generals, but they will never target ordinary soldiers like that.

In the war in the era of cold weapons, the role of generals is extremely important. Generals attract many eyes and are more dangerous. Therefore, the protection of generals is naturally better.

In addition to these complete iron armors, there is also a considerable part of iron breastplates. Although the protection is not as good as those complete iron armors, they are still iron armors and can provide effective protection for soldiers.

These iron breastplates are mostly equipped by cavalry and soldiers.

This kind of iron breastplate can provide a limited area of ​​defense, but it is the standard equipment of the Han army. This kind of iron breastplate looks a bit like a vest, and the shoulder armor has also been cancelled.

Nowadays, the equipment of the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army, a small number of tower shield soldiers are equipped with heavy armor, lined with leather armor, but most of them are actually wearing this kind of iron breastplate, which is the standard iron breastplate of the Han army, except for the arms and shoulders. Wearing leather armor.

Occupying many mountain ranges, the Wuhuan and Xiongnu tribes have also surrendered, and the Yellow Turban Army has maintained a mutual market relationship with Liangzhou, so there is not much shortage of leather armor in the Yellow Turban Army.

Among the tribes of the Xiongnu and Wuhuan, there are many armor craftsmen who make leather armor.

The standard armor equipped by ordinary soldiers of the Han army basically does not have arm armor or shoulder armor, so there are actually certain defects in protection.

Even the elite Han army, such as the sharp soldiers of the Han army, their armor only covers the chest and abdomen, as well as the legs, shoulders, calves and hands are slightly lacking in defense.

Historically, the armor used to protect the shoulders and arms did not have a good solution until the Ming Dynasty, and that was the arm armor.

The ring arm armor is composed of long strips of curved armor, which are stacked one on top of the other, layer upon layer, completely covering the arm without affecting the movement, and the cost is not high, and the required construction period is also very short , the only limitation is that there are not many qualified nail pieces, so the stock is small.

But this kind of arm armor has been made by craftsmen in Xu An very early, and now basically the camp, the yellow angels, and a small half of the soldiers' battalion are equipped with this ring arm armor.

In the Taihang workshop, the sound of hammering and knocking was endless, and there was a dull sound of force everywhere. Carriage after cart full of iron ore was transported under the escort of the yellow angels and the eagle wolf Wei Ti. After entering the Taihang workshop, streams of smoke rose into the sky.

The high-spirited atmosphere that filled Taihang Workshop in the past has completely disappeared, replaced by a rather dull atmosphere.

Outside the Taihang Workshop, Tian Zhong, Yan Lun, and Zhao Ji stood side by side, and the eyes of the three were surprisingly unanimous, all looking at the empty official road in front of them.

The Taihang workshop was built near the iron mines, and those iron ores were transported directly from the iron mines via internal roads.

The official road at the main entrance is the only way for Taihang Workshop to the outside world. No one has passed this road for more than a month, and the main entrance of Taihang Workshop has not been opened for more than a month.

But today the gate of the Taihang Workshop is open, and people wearing solid armor, goose feather knives, and yellow angels with cloth strips full of scriptures are standing along the road, with tiger-striped battle flags fluttering in the wind.

Tian Zhong, Yan Lun, and Zhao Ji, the three most powerful people in the Taihang Workshop, also stood at the gate of the Taihang Workshop together, and they seemed to be waiting for something.

Yan Lun took out a towel and wiped the sweat from his forehead. The closer he got to the expected time, the more nervous he became.

He opened his mouth to talk to Zhao Ji beside him, but just as he tilted his head, the sound of horse hoofs sounded like thunder in his ears.

Yan Lun's heart skipped a beat, and he turned his head suddenly. The pupils in his eyes shrank suddenly, and he saw a cavalry army with bright armor and yellow flags flashing across the official road.

The flags are like the sea, the spears and halberds are like the forest, the knives and guns are like rain, and the horseshoes are like thunder, like a heavenly army.

(End of this chapter)