"grown ups,"

"Since he entered our Yanmen Arsenal, I have been paying close attention to him."

"Prisoner No. 88 was very calm and didn't say much. The subordinate was unable to accurately determine his true identity for a while."

Next to Ye Qing, Wu Yong said with some shame.

Ye Qing just looked at Prisoner No. 88 inside and said, "It's rare that this strong man who looks like a warrior has such a state of mind."

"Don't worry, he won't be able to walk more than a few workshops before he will tell me personally whether he is a spy from the Northern Yuan Dynasty or an imperial envoy from the imperial court!"

In Wu Yong's eyes, there was a hint of amusement in Ye Qing's deep eyes.

He knows that Mr. Ye likes to deal with talented people.

Whether he is a spy from the Northern Yuan Dynasty or an imperial envoy from the imperial court, he must first be a talented person to be qualified to be played with by him.

Just like a natural rider, taming a tigress with a strong sense of resistance is far more rewarding than taming a docile packhorse.

In fact, Wu Yong still didn't understand their Lord Ye's true heart.

good,

A capable Beiyuan spy can make him a little bit interested in using it for his own use!

But if they were imperial envoys, Ye Qing would be more than just a little interested, he would be a great benefactor to help him get home!

We must let everyone embark on the road of responding to Tianfu in a healthy way!

Again, as long as you make sure they are imperial envoys, you will definitely give them a group of good horses with good endurance and fast running speed!

And the look in his eyes was not just a look of amusement, but also a hint of hope!

As the chief designer of Yanmen Arsenal, Ye Qing is the person who knows Yanmen Arsenal best. He is absolutely sure that Prisoner No. 88 will tell his true identity in person within a few workshops!

Of course, Ye Qing still hopes that they are Beiyuan spies!

As long as they were not imperial envoys, Ye Qing would just lie down and wait.

But if they were imperial envoys, there was nothing they could do except ask these imperial envoys to go back and file a complaint.

Just when Ye Qing made up his mind, Prisoner No. 88 and his group in the workshop received a new chore task.

Lao Liu continued to say in a scolding tone: "Are you dumbfounded again?"

"How come you Beijing officials are so knowledgeable..."

Old Liu hesitated to speak. If he hadn't seen that this official in the capital was a good official who was sent to the frontier to suffer hardships by the emperor, but he still cared about his family, country and the world, he would have just said the word "short".

Not only should you say the word "short", but you should also give a look of disdain, and at the same time give a gesture of pinching your little finger with your thumb to emphasize the word "short"!

"Hurry up and send these iron ores to each iron-making furnace for stacking!"

"The stacking location cannot be too far away to avoid inconvenience for the masters to get the iron ore!"

"The stacking position should not be too close, lest the iron ore becomes hot due to long-term baking and burns the hands of the masters!"

"..."

After some instructions, Zhu Yuanzhang, Mao Xiang and others immediately took action.

The only difference is that they are different from the women's labor camp. Unlike Queen Ma, they became the focus of everyone at the beginning and were even treated like teachers.

You must know that many of the craftsmen here are veterans who fought in the Yuan Dynasty. Even if they are not veterans, they are uncles and fathers of the current Yanmen garrison.

Even if they don't come from military families, they are all good sons and daughters with passionate hearts.

The reason why they gathered here to endure hardships was to prevent as many children from Yanmen County from dying when the war started.

The Yanmen Arsenal, which can directly turn iron ore into weapons and armor, took a year and a half to build.

That is to say, one year after Mr. Ye took office, they started to officially start construction when they had money. Including the time for trial production, the time for the arsenal's actual large-scale production was less than four months!

They must produce all the things that should be produced before Beiyuan attacks the city!

Time is tight and the tasks are heavy. How can you have time to deal with these reform-through-labor prisoners?

Not only did I have no time to respond, but I also had some objections in my heart!

This is one of the most core secrets of Yanmen County. How can labor reform prisoners come here?

Of course, they soon figured it out!

Mr. Ye approved them to do odd jobs, so naturally Mr. Ye had his reasons.

Even if they couldn't understand Lord Ye's decision, there was no need to doubt it.

Because of this, they would initially look at these reform-through-labor prisoners with contempt and disgust in their eyes.

But it soon turned into relief and disregard!

It was precisely because of their relief and disregard that they gave Zhu Yuanzhang the opportunity to 'inspect'!

Zhu Yuanzhang pushed a small cart, moved two baskets of iron ore to the place, and began to stack them.

At the same time, his peripheral vision stayed on this unprecedented craft layout.

Looking at everything in front of him, the scene of an iron-making workshop under the Ordnance Bureau of the Ministry of Industry appeared in his mind.

The scene in front of me and the scene in my mind directly formed an extremely strong contrast!

The technology used in the iron-making workshops under the Ordnance Bureau of the Ministry of Industry of the Imperial Court was still the iron-smelting technology of the Yuan Dynasty, but even the iron-smelting technology of the Yuan Dynasty was the best in the world today!

Iron smelting technology developed rapidly in the Yuan Dynasty, especially the development of metallurgical machinery, which made leaps and bounds.

[Vertical Wheel Drainage Blower] and [Horizontal Wheel Drainage Blower], two machines that appeared in the Yuan Dynasty, use water power to drive the air. They are more labor-saving than the manual push-pull blower, and the air is blown continuously.

More powerful than human blowing.

Therefore, the iron smelting furnace can be made larger and the temperature in the furnace can be raised higher!

Of course, this kind of technological improvement and the invention and creation of related machinery all came from private Han workshops and had nothing to do with the Yuan court!

The reason why such technological improvement occurred was simply because the Yuan Dynasty was too oppressive and the people were too poor. They wanted to have a durable kitchen knife and a wood-splitting ax that could be passed down for three generations.

And he, Zhu Yuanzhang, used this advanced folk technology to create weapons and armor that were superior to those of the Yuan Dynasty.

But even this kind of advanced technology lags behind by an unknown amount compared to the scene in front of me!

This was the first time that Zhu Yuanzhang saw this kind of layout method that connected the iron-making furnace and the iron-frying furnace together.

He just watched helplessly as the molten pig iron from the iron-making furnace continued to flow into the iron-making furnace.

Immediately afterwards, the iron smelting master took a willow stick and stirred it vigorously.

"Master, why are you stirring it with a wooden stick?"

Zhu Yuanzhang took advantage of the craftsman's concentration and quickly asked in a asking tone.

The master craftsman immediately said: "You don't understand this!"

"In the past, if we wanted to make iron into steel, we could only forge pig iron and heat and carburize wrought iron (steel filling method)!"

"This method requires several times of heating and refining, and it is also very wasteful of manpower, money and material resources!"

"And this method Master Ye taught us can make the carbon in the pig iron melt directly..."

"What do those two characters mean?"

"Yes, it oxidizes directly. Although we don't know what 'oxidation' means, it does mature iron directly."

"Master Ye named this method 'continuous steel frying method'!"

"This method does not require cooling and reheating at all, and can directly produce steel. Not only does it reduce material consumption, it also greatly increases production!"

"Coupled with Mr. Ye's 'assembly line process operation method' layout, after the iron ore comes in from this end, steel is needed to go out from the other end!"

"..."

After a while, the master craftsman saw that it was time to replace the willow stick in his hand. He looked up and saw Prisoner No. 88, whose eyes were full of "curiosity for knowledge."

It was at this moment that the master craftsman realized that he had made a huge 'misstep'!

Because new craftsmen have asked him this for a long time, in order not to waste time, he just looked at the matter at hand and started teaching directly.

Today he actually mistook a reform-through-labor prisoner who appeared from nowhere as a new craftsman!

If he knew he was a reform-through-labor prisoner, he wouldn't have told the story!

And at this moment,

Zhu Yuanzhang, who had already been fascinated by the lecture, saw that the master craftsman was hesitant to speak, so he immediately asked for advice: "Master, continue, continue talking!"

"Do you want to get your two ears as a reward?"

"Get out of here!"
Chapter completed!