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Chapter 677 The Arsenal's Shock to Sun Chuanting
Dangdang!
"Two leaders, this is the sixth furnace in our steelmaking plant, a special steel furnace."

The factory manager took Xiao Liu to accompany Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting to visit the core business of the No. [-] Iron and Steel Plant, the special steel furnace. This special steel furnace was directly supplied to the artillery bureau of the arsenal, and was specially used to make new artillery.

The so-called special steel is to add some special types of alloys to the original elements of the refined steel, so that the willfulness, firmness, heat resistance, and extensibility of the steel can be better deepened. Of course, it can also be increased. Some special characteristics are related to the type of alloy added.

The No. [-] Iron and Steel Plant, as the oldest steel plant in Lantian No. [-] Iron and Steel Plant, shoulders the important military mission of producing special steel.

dang dang...

Sun Chuanting looked at the huge iron forging machine in front of him, his eyes revealed that apart from being shocked, the iron forging machine was too big, and the huge forging hammer might weigh a thousand kilograms, so when the huge forging hammer in front of him was lifted up, he followed closely. With a bang, the hammer fell from a height of five or six meters, forging the red-hot steel below it into shape. This hammer can beat an ordinary blacksmith to hammer hundreds of hammers, and even this is not a problem of hundreds of hammers.

This kind of beating method is obviously more capable of beating out the impurities in the iron, so that the refined steel can better meet the requirements.

"One two, hey yo."

At this time, the workers used huge pulleys to stick the huge steel together, and then several workers used huge iron hooks to hook up the steel, and then continued to calcine. Forged under this huge forging hammer.

Dangdang!
Hammer after hammer, Sun Chuanting's brain was buzzing. He was not shocked by the forging hammer, but was shocked by this technology. This kind of technology did not exist in the Ming Dynasty. This kind of giant hammer can be forged for a day. The steel produced is probably enough for the group of blacksmiths in the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty to hammer for a year.

This time, Sun Chuanting really had the most intuitive understanding of Lantian's industry. At this time, he carefully asked about the structure of the forging machine in front of him. When the heavy forging machine was lifted up, Sun Chuanting was stunned. This is really a fantastic idea!

Lantian is really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, just from the iron and steel plant, you can see the leopard, it can be seen.

Sun Chuanting was so shocked that he didn't know what to say. Compared with the steel factory in Lantian, the powerful Ministry of Industry in Ming Dynasty was just a small workshop.

Seeing Sun Chuanting like this, Lu Xiangsheng raised the corners of his mouth slightly. When he saw this back then, he was also so shocked. When outsiders didn't understand Lantian's military industry, they thought that Lantian was just Wufu Minfeng with a little money, and the people's lives were more stable. Although they are lagging behind, as long as they work hard to catch up, they will surely catch up one day.

But when they really got to know Lantian's military industry again and understood the operating mechanism behind it, they would be horrified to find that the Lantian they discovered might just be a corner floating on the ice, but the Lantian in the water, that is An iceberg!
Terrible, this was Sun Chuanting's first reaction after visiting the Lantian Steel Factory, but after visiting the Steel Factory, Sun Chuanting asked Lu Xiangsheng to take him to see the Lantian Arsenal where guns were produced.

Lu Xiangsheng did not dare to directly agree to this request, but sent someone to ask Li Chaosheng for instructions, and soon the person sent back Li Chaosheng's message and a pass.

There is only one sentence in the message: "Mr. Sun wants to read it, so let him have a look."

This sentence is full of courage. After all, the military factory can be regarded as the core secret of Lantian. Without a certain mind, how can it be easily revealed to others.

Soon Lu Xiangsheng and the two were escorted by special soldiers sent by Li Chaosheng to a sealed carriage. The carriage was airtight. After traveling like this for about half an hour, they finally arrived at the destination. There is no reference here, only It is known that it is in a deep mountain, and there is a huge factory built half in the mountain and half outside.

The secrecy measures here are very high. There is a whole regiment of troops stationed around. This troop is directly under the direct command of Li Chaosheng. The number is kept secret, and the leader in charge is kept secret.

If the iron and steel factory is the background of Lantian industry, then this arsenal is Lantian's secret trump card.

"Here we are, both of you."

The soldiers who were responsible for picking up and sending the two of them sent them here, and immediately put the two of them down. The two of them didn't know how to get to the arsenal, they only knew that this place should not be very far from the county seat.

After getting out of the car, the two were sent to the arsenal after a simple search. There was already a special person in charge of reception in the arsenal. At this time, they saw the two smiling and said: "Mr. I will receive you throughout this trip."

Lu Xiangsheng saw that this person in front of him was very strange, and he could confirm that he had never seen this person in various meetings in Lantian. It seemed that this county lord had a strong hole card, and he didn't know Lantian as well as he imagined.

The Director of Communications walked slowly in the arsenal with the two of them. Standing in the wide arsenal, he pointed to several large buildings around him and said, "Look, this is the Lantian flintlock production base. The entire Lantian, all Almost all flintlock guns are produced here."

"This is the most famous weapon in Lantian, the grenade production base. There are a thousand workers here, and they can produce about seven or eight thousand grenades every day!"

"Seven or eight thousand!"

Sun Chuanting's eyes almost popped out, staring at the Director of Communications, who said, "Well, this is a non-war situation. If the production is saturated here in a state of war, the output can be doubled."

Hearing this, Sun Chuanting's eyes almost popped out. Did he know the value of grenades in war? At the beginning, he had a thousand grenades in his hand, and he was not in vain in the face of 10 intruders. At that time, he felt that he But if you are rich, you are not afraid of anyone.

But compared with this place now, he is rich there, but it is terrible poor. Seven or eight thousand grenades can be produced here a day, which is enough for him to fight a large-scale battle, and it is the kind of extremely rich large-scale grenade. battle.

Thinking back to the time when I was so happy because Lantian sold him two thousand grenades, my molars leaked out and I was so useless. Sun Chuanting only felt that he was the frog at the bottom of the well, and he had only seen a sky the size of the mouth of the well. In the military factory in the deep mountains, seven or eight thousand grenades can be produced a day.

This is a daily amount, think about it, this Lantian accumulates every day, how terrifying is the stock of this grenade!

Thinking of this, Sun Chuanting only felt his scalp go numb. If one day Lantian didn't hide himself, but climbed up and shouted, then the hundreds of thousands of militiamen in Lantian would each send ten grenades to the battlefield, and all they had to do was throw them forward. I am afraid that there is no army in the world who dares to say that it can stop them.

Rich, fucking rich.

But at this time, Lu Xiangsheng thought of a problem, looked at the director of communications and said, "How much does this grenade cost? How much does it cost you every day to manufacture this grenade?"

The Director of Communications thought for a while and said, "It's not very expensive. The cost of a grenade is about 80 cash."

"How many!"

This time, both Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting couldn't sit still, staring at the Director of Communications, who said: "About 80 Wen, sometimes the waste rate is lower, so [-] Wen is about the same, but sometimes If the waste rate is high, it will cost ninety cash, so it mainly depends on the waste rate, but in general, the figure of eighty cash is almost normal."

"Eighty Wen, a grenade."

Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting looked at each other, and they felt that they had been wronged written on their heads.

"Brother Lu, how much did you pay for it at that time?"

"It was more expensive at the beginning, and then it was about two taels of silver. How about you?"

"One tael and eight dollars, the old man was still licking his face and begging someone. I thought he gave me a friend's price, and I bought 5000 taels in one go. To be honest, looking at the grenade that sold me at that time I feel distressed, I really thought I made it, and I was happy for a long time, but now it seems that I have been taken advantage of purely!"

"Eighty cash! One thousand cash is one tael of silver, and one tael is [-] cash. In this way, if you buy one grenade yourself, someone else can make twenty."

At this moment, he felt that he was a pure injustice!
"Director."

At this moment, when the two of them felt that they were the most wronged in the world, they saw a group of workers driving a carriage out. The cart was full of hand grenades, and there could be thousands of them.

"Hey."

The director nodded to greet the workers, when Lu Xiangsheng said, "These grenades?"

"Oh, Li Chuang of Henan has placed an order for five thousand grenades for us."

"Li Chuang?"

After hearing this, Sun Chuanting frowned, looked at the communications director and said, "How can you sell them weapons?"

"Why not?"

The director asked back?
Sun Chuanting frowned and said, "You guys are enemies!"

The Director of Communications smiled: "Master Sun, Li Chuang has never been our enemy in Lantian."

"Then Daming?"

The Director of Communications smiled and said, "No."

"Not at all, then who is the enemy of your Daming?"

Sun Chuanting laughed and said, "There are no enemies. Our Lantian has never had any enemies. They are not worthy to be our enemies in Lantian."

After saying this, Sun Chuanting's face darkened, and the Director of Communications said: "Master Sun, I know what you think, but most of the enemies killed by these grenades are your Ming's officers and soldiers. What does the Ming's officers and soldiers look like without me?" Come on, let me tell you one thing. Just yesterday, He Renlong from Henan reported to the imperial court that he led his troops to fight Li Zicheng's vanguard army and beheaded more than a thousand people. The imperial court rewarded him and promoted him to be the governor of Henan. "

"More than a thousand people, He Renlong dared to take the initiative to attack, it's not bad."

As Sun Chuanting said, he unexpectedly changed the face of the Director of Communications and said: "But we checked with Li Zicheng, and they didn't engage in any battle with He Renlong, not even a small-scale friction."

Sun Chuanting frowned, then changed his color and said: "Kill the good and pretend to be meritorious!"

The Director of Communications smiled and said: "It seems that this is not the first time Mr. Sun has encountered such a thing. That's right, it's killing the good and taking the credit. According to our spies' report, the Wangjia Town in Zhoukou, Henan Province was slaughtered overnight yesterday, regardless of gender. Young and old, the scene was extremely miserable, Shili Wangjia Town was burned to a piece of red ground."

Both Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng's faces changed drastically. If an army starts to kill the good and take the meritorious service, then the army is completely abolished. Has the Ming's army started to degenerate to the point of killing the good and taking the meritorious service?
Lu Xiangsheng said with a dark face: "Has the Ming army fallen so far? Sun Chuanting, aren't you the governor of Henan? Are you restraining your subordinates like this?"

Sun Chuanting said with a dark face: "He Renlong deserves to die! This is the crime of this old man. Although he bears the name of Governor of Lantian, he does not have the power of Governor of Lantian. This old man is guilty!"

The two sighed, they both had feelings for Da Ming, and they didn't want Da Ming to degenerate to this point, but Da Ming did degenerate, degrading in a posture they least wanted to see.

Lu Xiangsheng is dead, Sun Chuanting is dead, and the remaining major soldiers either want to stand on their own, or they want to be a thief if they can't beat them, but both sides think about one thing, that is, to fight as much as possible on this decaying huge empire. Eat two bites of meat at the end.

Now the officers and soldiers of Ming Dynasty are like bandits, destroying places wherever they go, robbing money and food, robbing people, recruiting strong men, and not restricting military discipline at all. Those who dare to resist will be killed. After the killing is over, the head will be loosened to the court. This is military merit.

It can be said that these major military leaders who are not under the control of Ming Dynasty have already begun to act recklessly. The soldiers under them are no longer the soldiers of Ming Dynasty, and even become more ferocious than the bandits.

The bandits went to one place, killed local tyrants, distributed food, collected refugees, and expanded their strength.

The Ming army went to a place, killed the people, scraped the local tyrants, collected food, and enjoyed it to the fullest. All those who dared to resist were killed. After killing the heads, they would be military merits. .

So now Daming is in chaos, the world is in chaos, human life is not as good as a dog, rogues are beasts, and officials and soldiers are also beasts.

Now there are tens of thousands of people fleeing to Lantian every day, and Lantian accepts, appeases, and even sends troops to protect them.

Now that the whole world is in chaos, Li Chaosheng sold grenades to speed up the process. Seeing a cart of grenades being pushed out, Sun Chuanting looked at the communications director and said, "What's the price of these grenades?"

The Director of Communications thought for a while and said, "Friendship price, three or two for one piece."

Hearing the price, Sun Chuanting felt a little better. There was an even bigger mistake. The two quickly calmed down their emotions, and they would be successful. Although these things had a great impact on them, they did not As fragile as imagined, Sun Chuanting looked at the communications director and said, "I want to see your grenade production process."

(End of this chapter)