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There are hundreds of acres, and there are 5 craftsmen who make weapons in it.

And each one is a very skilled craftsman.

Mastered the technology far surpassing the Sui Dynasty.

Here is Xia Jun's confidence to fight abroad.

In addition to food and grass, this is the most important place.

The ordnance manufactured here every year is completely enough to arm 20 Xia troops.

You know, Xia Jun has an iron armor, a crossbow with fifty crossbow arrows, or a bow with thirty bows and arrows, a ring sword, a long weapon, a halberd, or a spear. Or long guns and other long weapons.

This is only the weaponry of light armored infantry.

In the military workshop, there are two workshops, one is used to make weapons and armor of heavy infantry, and the other is used to make weapons and armor of heavy cavalry.

These two workshops can produce enough weapons and armor for [-] heavy infantry and [-] heavy cavalry every year.

It can be said that this military workshop was the largest in the Sui Dynasty, and even in this continent, with the most advanced technology and the largest output.

However, these craftsmen are highly skilled and paid very high salaries. Just paying the salaries of the craftsmen in this military workshop requires a full 100 million taels of silver every year.

This expense is even higher than Xia Jun's salary and the salaries of all officials in Yongzhou.

Fortunately, Mu Yuan has hundreds of thousands of craftsmen, and also has his own caravan.

So there's a ton of extra revenue in addition to taxes.

From the business income for more than half a year alone, Yongzhou has already earned more than 300 million taels.

It is enough to support the military workshop, the officials of Yongzhou, and Xia Jun's military expenditure.

Otherwise, it is really impossible for Mu Yuan to open such a huge military workshop.

It can be said that in this world, this military workshop is definitely the largest workshop dedicated to making ordnance.

When he brought Yan Jingan and Badelle into the military workshop.

Looking around, the sound of various blast furnaces making ironware is very noisy, but this sound gives people a sense of peace of mind.

Looking at pieces of armor, long knives, and bows and crossbows were made.

Mu Yuan once again felt a strong visual impact.

Although this world has extremely powerful martial arts, even masters who can reach the level of destroying the country.

However, the intuitive feeling that this weapon brings to people is extremely direct and stimulating.

After seeing Mu Yuan enter the military workshop, the officials of the military workshop immediately brought several assistants to Mu Yuan's side.

"Gong Xia, why did you come here? It's too dangerous here."

Because the military workshop is the place where weapons are produced, and they are all related to steel.

It is easy to be accidentally injured by flying iron pieces.

Mu Yuan looked at the official, it was still a craftsman summoned by Mu Yuan.

But he was a craftsman in management.

So Mu Yuan asked him to be in charge of the operation of the military workshop.

It was also the first time for Badelle and Yan Jingan to enter here.

But the size of the military workshop shocked both of them.

Especially Yan Jingan, you must know that Daming's weapon production is better than that of Sui.

It can even be said that among the four most powerful dynasties, Ming's weapons are the best, followed by Yuan 833, followed by Great Sui, and Daqin's weapons are the worst among the four dynasties.

However, the weapon production of the four dynasties is better than that of other dynasties.

The difference is only compared with the other three dynasties.

But Yan Jingan saw here that the weapons and armor produced by the military workshop were much stronger than Daming's.

Hard to imagine.

Moreover, the scale and output are huge, which is unheard of.

Yan Jingan could still remain calm, but Badel was completely stunned.

He even said in surprise, "The weapons made by this military workshop are so fast, and the output is so large. So many weapons and armor are enough to support the military supplies of all our Turkic troops on the grassland."

You know, the Turkic army has millions of people who control strings, and the regular army has 60 to [-].

Although the East and West Turks were divided, the East Turks to which Bader belonged also had a military strength of more than 30.

Moreover, the Turks simply cannot build such as much ordnance as possible.

Mu Yuan looked at the official in charge of the military workshop, and said with a smile, "Let me inspect it, and you can introduce the situation of the military workshop to us."

The official nodded, and after letting his deputy leave, he took Mu Yuan to inspect the military workshop.

The first thing the four of them saw was the steel smelting workshop.

All the steel used to make weapons comes from this workshop.

Chapter 343 The Confidence of the 15 Army

Looking at a dozen tall blast furnaces.

Looking at the molten iron flowing out, Mu Yuan asked with some doubts, "How much steel can this workshop produce every day?".

The officials were obviously very familiar with the production situation of each workshop, and they didn't even take out the record books they carried in their arms.

He arched his hands and said, "Back to Duke Xia, we can basically produce [-] jin of steel every day."

Mu Yuan didn't feel anything wrong.

After all, [-] jin sounds like a lot, but if it is used to make heavy armor, it can only make a thousand pairs.

About [-] ring-head knives can be made.

If it is to build light armor, about two thousand pairs can be built.

In fact, Xia Jun's light armor also weighs about twenty catties.

And it's armored, with high defense.

However, it is clear that the iron smelting workshop does not only provide rough steel ingots to a workshop.

Instead, it provides materials for light armor workshops, heavy armor workshops, sword workshops, and spear workshops.

In fact, most of the iron smelting workshop provided were unprocessed steel and a small amount of iron.

The iron materials for civilian use are not produced in the military workshop, but are produced separately in another iron smelting workshop.

That ironworks was exclusively for civilian use.

For example, making various agricultural tools and kitchen utensils are all iron materials provided by the iron workshop.

There are very few places where steel is used by the people.

However, Mu Yuan felt that producing [-] jin of iron per day was not too much, but Yan Jingan and Badier were stunned, shocked by the output.

After all, this output is already more than many dynasties.

The iron smelting workshop in the military workshop works about [-] days a year.

In other words, this military factory can produce about 500 million jin of steel every year.

You know, the annual pig iron output of the very wealthy Song Dynasty was only about 800 million catties.

The pig iron output at the peak of the Sui Dynasty was only about 1000 million catties, which was already the peak of the Sui Dynasty.

Now the production of pig iron in the Sui Dynasty is at most maintained at more than 100 million catties.

It was directly reduced to one-tenth of the original.

It is only equivalent to about one month's output of the military workshop and iron workshop.

Among the four dynasties, the pig iron output of Daqin was almost 800 million catties per year, and the production of pig iron in Da Sui was not normal now, so it was only more than 100 million catties.

The output of Dayuan is about 1000 jin, and that of Daming, which has the largest output, is about 500 jins.

It can be said that the output of Mu Yuan's military workshop is already greater than that of Da Qin, Da Sui, and Da Yuan.

Moreover, most of the output of this military workshop is steel, which can be directly used as a weapon material.

Compared with these dynasties, the Turkic iron smelting output is even more unbearable to look directly at. It is not bad to have 10,000+ catties per year.

This is why most of the Turkic cavalry have no armor, even if they are armored, they are mostly leather armor.

Although the defense of leather armor is actually not much worse than that of light iron armor.

But it's still not as good as it is.

And leather armor is indeed less flexible than iron armor.

Leather armor is hard, while iron armor is much more flexible than leather armor because it is made of small armor pieces.

Iron armor is in the Turkic army, at least the centurion is eligible to have it.

Moreover, many Turkic weapons came from the Sui Dynasty and the Western Regions.

A [-]% armor rate and [-]% iron armor have never been imagined for the Turkic army.

Not to mention the Turkic army, even the Sui army at its peak had only about [-]% armor.

And it's not all armor.

It is conceivable how terrifying the production capacity of this military workshop is.

However, this military workshop did consume a lot of resources and funds of Mu Yuan.

Just to maintain the operation of this military factory every year, it needs about 200 million taels.

Even if Yongzhou is fully developed and the annual tax revenue returns to normal, at least one-third of Yongzhou's tax revenue will be squeezed out.

This military workshop is completely a gold-swallowing beast.

But for Muyuan, this expenditure is still within the acceptable range.

After all, enough weapons and armor to equip all the troops of the Xia Army are built every year.