Horse on the World

Chapter 634 Secret
Craftsman camp, no, it should be called Dingzhou No. [-] Arsenal now. It has grown to a rather large scale, covering an area of ​​tens of miles, and its scale is even larger than that of Fuyuan County. The level of officials responsible for the management of the Arsenal It is also much higher than the magistrate of Fuyuan County. For example, the former supervisor, Ren Ruqing, was directly promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Industry. Fuyuan County is more responsible for the logistics supply here, and the craftsmen camp tens of thousands of craftsmen. Lazard is not a trivial matter, and the daily cost is huge.The people in Fuyuan County have benefited a lot just by providing the life of the craftsmen here.Now there are a lot of people living here. Around the No. [-] Military Factory, there are many shops selling all kinds of goods. The craftsmen in the Military Factory are paid well and are willing to spend money. This area is actually more expensive than Fuyuan The county town is even more prosperous.

When the forest grows, there are all kinds of birds. It is an indisputable fact that there are a large number of spies from various major forces here. You know me and everyone knows that the branch of the former Statistics and Investigation Department here is also extremely busy. There will always be people taken away by the Statistics and Investigation Department for interrogation. Everyone is surprised that the Statistics and Investigation Department, who is dressed in a black uniform, suddenly rushes into a certain store, puts shackles on a certain boss, or a buddy, or a merchant, and drags them away directly. No wonder.

But under normal circumstances, the black-clothed investigative Steqin is not walking on the street, more often there are countless plainclothes mixed in the crowd, or acquaintances who often chat and spank with you, or a certain honest person on the street that everyone knows , whose true identity is the secret agent of the investigation department. In short, here, the investigation department has set up a dense network to protect Dingzhou, a vital department.

But today, the common people suddenly felt that something was wrong. Early in the morning, the investigator Si Teqin, dressed in black, rushed out of the somewhat gloomy yamen where they usually lived, and stared at the street with big eyes. Seeing everyone, everyone was sweating in their hearts, and they didn't know who was going to be unlucky.

But soon, the news came that the commander of Dingzhou was coming to inspect the place, and now everyone has entered the craftsman camp. Now, they don't know that the craftsman camp is now called the first arsenal. Of course, within two days, this name will spread throughout Dingzhou and the world.

There are strict divisions in the First Armory. Most of the peripheral products are civilian products, such as carriages that earned a lot of money for Dingzhou. There are also a series of things such as windmills, waterwheels, and cotton gins. As you go, the security will become stricter. As for the places that specialize in the production of military products, idlers and the like cannot approach at all.

In the core area, the wall is more than ten meters high. On the forested sentry towers, strong crossbows are shining faintly. Before the wall, there is an open area hundreds of meters away. In this area, even the weeds have been shoveled. clean and dry.

In this core area, there are mainly two factory areas, one is the factory building for refining refined steel in charge of Xu Xiaodao, and the other is the Baifa Crossbow, Yipin Bow, and Repeating Hand Crossbow, which have just been developed and have not yet been developed. Dingzhou's unique sharp weapons such as the continuous-fire crossbow installed.

Over the past few years, Xu Xiaodao has been constantly exploring new techniques, and the quality of hand-smelted steel is getting better and better. Every day, the ore produced from Yiling Iron Mine is smelted into pig iron on the spot, and then transferred here to be processed into Dingzhou All kinds of weapons needed.Xu Xiaodao completely belongs to that type of technical madman, unlike Ren Ruqing, who has successfully transformed and is now an official of the Ministry of Industry. He is still the same as in the past, unkempt, with an official uniform on his body, crumpled, with many holes burnt on it, even if he is by Li Qing's side at this time, he still looks confident. He looked like he was thinking, and he still muttered words from time to time.

Li Qing especially likes this kind of person. He taught Xu Xiaodao all the little steelmaking knowledge he knew back then, and Xu Xiaodao has brought forth new ones over the years. Compared with Li Qing, who is half a barrel of water, his skills are already much better than Li Qing's. , With Xu Xiaodao, there is Dingzhou's treasured sword that cuts iron like mud, breaking iron armor is like piercing armor-piercing arrows piercing tofu, with strong steel springs, etc., and these steelmaking processes are a part of the military factory. A top-secret person, like Xu Xiaodao himself, has special security guards assigned to him by the Statistics Department back then, and now the Overwatch Council. His family has already been taken to live in the inner city of Dingzhou.

As General Xuanwei, Zhu Hui is in charge of the peripheral security of the arsenal. He has been here once, but although Dong Mingyang is the parent officer of Fuyuan, this place is not under his jurisdiction. Today, he was fortunate to follow Li Qing to set foot in Dingzhou for the first time. In the core confidential area, I was very excited, my face was flushed, and I didn't know which foot to take first.

In the warehouses lined with trees, rows of weapons that have just been made are neatly placed, shining with a faint cold light. Workers are coating them with grease, and then sealing them tightly. It won't take long for these weapons to It will be distributed to troops in various parts of Dingzhou.

The division of labor in the arsenal is extremely strict, adopting an assembly line operation, each performing its duties, each person only needs to refine one skill, and the manufacture of weapons was divided into several processes by Ren Ruqing in the past, and there are connections between the workshops. In the passage, after one process is completed, it is quickly sent to the next process, walking from the factory building at one end to the other end, and a finished weapon can be put into storage.

Although it was just a quick tour, just inspecting some key factories, it took a full half a day. After lunch in the factory, Dong Mingyang, Zhu Hui and others were told that they could return to their posts. After following the commander, looking at Zhao Sanshan who came to inform them, both of them understood that there must be some extremely important secrets in this arsenal, which they are not qualified to know at this level.

But the two of them are already very happy today. Li Qing's territory is so vast now, whether it's the county magistrate or General Xuanwei, there are countless of them, and most of them probably Li Qing doesn't even recognize.The two of them walked around with Li Qing for a long time today, and they must have left an image in the commander-in-chief's heart. At least the commander-in-chief knows that there are still two people under his command. For those who are not friends, the two of them are much more flattering.

Li Qing asked the two of them to leave because there was indeed an extremely secret matter. Today, he came to the No. [-] Armory Factory because of this secret.

gunpowder!

Li Qing has invested a lot of money in the research and development of gunpowder since two years ago when he found out that the world already had the most basic gunpowder. Li Qing knew that in the era of cold weapons, once gunpowder appeared, the development of hot weapons would be extremely difficult. It will become an irreversible trend. Maybe this process will take a long time, and maybe there will be too many setbacks in the middle, but as a person who knows the final result, Li Qing will never give up, even if his troops rule the world now.

Now that I know this thing, Da Chu is so big, maybe in some corner, someone will find this thing and work hard to develop him. If I am addicted to the myth that the Dingzhou army is invincible, then once the opponent If you take the lead in launching hot weapons, you will become a complete loser.

In the room, Ren Ruqing stood opposite Li Qing, which surprised Luo Daoming, "Shangshu Ren, when did you get here? You disappeared from Dingzhou City inexplicably, no wonder Yan Nanfei wanted to attack you What about not doing business and doing nothing?"

Ren Ruqing laughed: "Master Yan doesn't know the details, I don't blame him, I have been taking the overall responsibility for this matter, although I have left, but this project has too much to do with it, I dare not hand it over to others at will !"

Luo Daoming looked at him inexplicably, and then at Li Qing.Li Qing said with a smile: "Okay, Daoming, you can now know about this matter. So far, apart from the participants, there are only a handful of people who know about this project. Me, Qingfeng, Lao Ren, Lu Yiming, General Gu Hao, who is in charge of the security of this project from the Statistics and Investigation Department, now adds you!"

Luo Daoming's eyes looked at an inconspicuous man dressed as General Mingwei who was standing on the side. Luo Daoming knew that this person was Gu Hao, and suddenly realized in his heart. No wonder this time to cleanse the core personnel of the investigation department. He was on the list, but he didn't move. Instead, he was promoted from General Mingwei to General Xuanwei. This was the original reason.

Seeing Luo Daoming looking at him, Gu Hao smiled slightly, clasped his hands together and saluted.

"Gu Hao has been in charge of the security of this project for several years. He has done his duty with due diligence. In the past two years, he has not returned home once. He lives here. And this project has not been known to the outside world until now. General Gu Hao has contributed a lot!" Li Qingdao, "Daoming, do you understand why now?"

Luo Daoming nodded, then shook his head, "Master, what kind of secret is this, so mysterious."

Li Qing said with a smile: "If it succeeds, we will hunt the world without any effort."

"What?" Luo Daoming was taken aback. In his opinion, such a great achievement as dominating the world can only be done one step at a time, like walking on thin ice. How come it is effortless when you get to the commander-in-chief. "Is this possible?"

Li Qing turned to Ren Ruqing, "Old Ren, tell me, you have made a major breakthrough this time, which is an extremely important step on the way forward."

Ren Ruqing nodded, "Yes, my lord. We have finally found the optimal ratio of several basic raw materials for gunpowder. In the past two years, we have been exploring, purifying, and experimenting. During this process, dozens of experimenters were killed or injured. Up to now, we have finally found the best matching ratio, my lord, his power you mentioned that day has basically been achieved now."

"Very good!" Li Qing stood up excitedly, "How many finished products have you made?"

Ren Ruqing shook his head regretfully, "My lord, there are not many finished products. We don't lack charcoal, and sulfur can also be obtained, but we don't have raw materials such as saltpeter in Dingzhou! So so far, it is still impossible for us to make large Produce at scale!"

"Saltpeter!" Li Qing said: "This is indeed a problem. I know there is a way to collect a certain amount of saltpeter, but the output is not high!"

"My lord, do you know how to get the selling stone?"

Li Qing said with a smile: "The main thing is to look for saltpeter mines. I know that a certain amount of nitrate can be produced by composting, but the purity of this kind of nitrate is not high, so the purification is not small!"

Ren Ruqing excitedly said: "Compost method? I understand, my lord, to tell you the truth, I used to squat in the latrine to collect nitrate. Purification is not a problem, we have already solved it!"

"It's not a problem that it can't be produced in large quantities. We don't need him for the time being. Now let's go and see how powerful your baby is!"

Li Qing stood up.

Ren Ruqing walked to the corner of the wall and pulled a mechanism hard, the wall slowly opened with a crackling sound, revealing a deep passage.

"My lord, please!"

(End of this chapter)