Rebirth of Lu Bu, the tyrant of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 81, Blacksmith's Shop, Talent Recruitment Hall (Fifth Watch, please collect)
Both Lu Bu and Guo Jia were overjoyed, and Lu Bu said, "It is really a blessing for our army that Chen Gong provided such valuable advice when he first came here. Then I will leave this matter to you and make a detailed plan." , give it to me to have a look, if there is no problem, I will push it to the barracks."

When Chen Gong came here, he was praised and accepted by Lu Bu for the first time he made a suggestion, so he was naturally very happy.

Immediately readily agreed.

On the second day, Chen Gong drafted a plan and handed it to Lu Bu. His system of farming was divided into two types: civilian villages and military villages.Every 50 people in Mintun is 1 tun, and there are Sima in the tun, and above it are the Duwei of Diannong, the Xiaowei of Diannong, and the general of Diannong Zhonglang, not attached to the counties.Harvest and state share: those who use official cattle, official 6, private 4;
Those who use private cattle are split between the government and the people.Farmers in the village are not allowed to leave the farmland casually.The military garrison uses soldiers to garrison fields, 60 people form a battalion, and they garrison fields while defending.

After seeing it, Lu Bu felt very satisfied, so he entrusted Chen Gong with full responsibility for this matter and asked Guo Jia to fully cooperate in promoting it.

First of all, Chen Gong took the barren and unowned farmland back to the state, organized a large number of recruited refugees into groups according to the formation of the army, and the state provided land, seeds, cattle and farm tools, and they cultivated them. The country and the farmers in the farmland are divided in proportion.

This has greatly mobilized the enthusiasm of farmers for production. The farmers can not only fill their stomachs, but also have some surplus food when the harvest is good. The people are naturally very happy.

The news spread quickly, and when people in other counties heard about it, they fled to Wuyuan County to join production.

Lu Bu felt that this was not enough at all. If the soldiers and common people wanted to eat meat, they must promote economic development.

Guo Jia led Lu Bu on the street.

Guo Jiadao, "Recruiting soldiers requires equipment and weapons. The imperial court only distributes the equipment within the establishment. Most of them still need to be prepared by ourselves. Right now, equipment is also a big problem. The weapons and equipment in the hands of soldiers are too old. If there is a war, it will definitely suffer a great loss in weapons and equipment."

"Let's go to the blacksmith shop nearby," Lu Bu said.

The two went straight to the largest blacksmith shop in Wuyuan County under the leadership of Guo Jia.

If you want to make a good weapon, then the first problem to solve is iron!
What is the most important thing in ironmaking?Ingredients and temperature, of course!

Where do the ingredients come from?Melt all the weapons?That's not enough!
And the temperature?what to do?
Fortunately, at the end of the Han Dynasty, people had already started to use coal. There were several large coal mines and iron mines in Wuyuan County, but they were not put into mass production.

In ancient times, the status of blacksmiths was very low, and their income was barely sufficient to maintain food and clothing.

This has a lot to do with their own strength. Ordinary blacksmiths can only make some agricultural tools and ironware.Those with a little bit of strength have long been requisitioned by the court and sent to the Military Weapons Supervision.

Relying on Lu Bu's prestige, he bought this blacksmith shop with only a small amount of money.

Immediately, Lu Bu ordered people to melt all the weapons and equipment that could not be used in the arsenal, and then used the "steel filling method" invented during the Southern and Northern Dynasties to refine high-quality steel.

Of course, the leading blacksmith foreman maintained a skeptical attitude towards Lu Bu's approach.Good steel can only be produced through repeated tempering, this is the saying left by the ancestors.Like Lu Bu, it is too simple to mix pig iron and wrought iron together to make steel, right?
Under the guidance of Lu Bu, the lead blacksmith built a simple blast furnace with corundum, silica sand, ashlar and other high-temperature-resistant materials at that time, and then used the reciprocating bellows to make the one-time input wind stronger, which greatly improved the blast furnace. work efficiency.

Now, everything is ready, only the steel needs to be tapped!Lu Bu smiled confidently, waiting for the final result.

"My God! It's really molten steel! Top-quality molten steel!" The blacksmith headed by the small blast furnace excitedly said after the first batch of molten iron came out.

I really didn't expect that such a simple method can achieve the effect of tapping a large amount of steel!If it continues in this way, then this blacksmith shop will undoubtedly be the number one blacksmith shop in the Han Dynasty!
The other guys in the blacksmith's shop cast admiring glances at Lu Bu.

Lu Bu ordered Dianwei to send soldiers to guard the blacksmith's shop and not allow strangers to enter, so as to prevent others from stealing the teacher.

Then he ordered Zhou Cang to lead the soldiers to recruit villagers to go up the mountain to dig mines. Now there is a blacksmith shop. As long as they can produce coal and iron ore, they can forge their own equipment, which can save a lot of expenses.

The matter of weapons and food has been settled, and now the economy should be vigorously developed. Only with money and food in hand can more soldiers be recruited.

In the hall, dozens of bamboo slips were placed on the table, and Guo Jia was handling government affairs.

Lu Bu is watching the book of war, planning the next development direction.

Xi Zhicai strode into the big tent and said, "General, these are all the factories and workshops in Wuyuan County, a total of [-], the largest of which are Jiangnan Textile Factory, Jiangzhou Leather Factory, Tianquan Wine Factory, etc. There are three to five hundred workers in the factory, and the others are small workshops, which are not successful."

Lu Bu nodded and didn't care, "Within one year, I want Wuyuan County's industry to develop rapidly. How to do it specifically, you can introduce the best technology, the best talents, recruit the most workers, and vigorously develop the industry. Manufactured items are sold, of course, not blindly manufactured, for example, what is most lacking in the market, we will manufacture what.”

"General, don't worry, as long as you have money and food, these things are nothing to worry about, but at present, Wuyuan County is sparsely populated. In addition to developing the economy, we also need to promote population fertility. Rise", Guo Jia said.

"I have thought about population and childbirth before. I don't know what Guo Jia and Zhicai think, so we can express our opinions."

"We can issue a rewarding birth plan, the more children are born, the more land distribution they get, and at the same time, each family will receive a bonus from the state and county for each child born.

At present, the peasants do not have enough food and clothing, so they dare not have too many children. If they are encouraged and supported by the state and county, they will definitely be more willing to have children.

In this way, within three to five years, the population of Wuyuan County will surely double."

"Okay, this plan is very good, and the detailed rules and regulations will be formulated by Feng Xiao."

"promise"

"General, right now we are employing people, and there are really very few people available.

We don’t just need generals like Zhang Liao and Li Guang who charge into the battle, we need anyone with ability, I suggest that the general should set up a recruiting hall, so that anyone with ability can be recruited and used in the army.” Guo Jia said calmly.

Lu Bu was startled, yes, he was only focused on training troops and developing the economy, how could he forget about this, it should have been done a long time ago.

Although the economy was relatively backward at the end of the Han Dynasty, there were all kinds of strange people and righteous people, and it was imperative to recruit talents.

(End of this chapter)