"The furnace is on!" Zhang Tiezheng shouted at the top of his lungs and opened the blast furnace gate.
Although Master Jian said that no matter how loud you shout, it will have no effect on the quality of the hot metal in the blast furnace.
However, Zhang Tiezheng still retained the old tradition of craftsmen, believing that he could burn high-quality molten iron just by shouting at the top of his lungs.
The red molten iron flows down from the blast furnace. The craftsmen push the gears together and the crawlers rotate to transport the molten iron out of the blast furnace.
Jian Xia came over, looked at the red molten iron, inspected it and said, "If it's not up to standard, send it over to make farm tools."
Zhang Tiezheng and his son were both stunned. They were also experienced blacksmiths, and they could tell at a glance how good the quality of the molten iron was.
This kind of molten iron is more than enough to forge military weapons, but it is still unqualified in Jian Xia's eyes.
What exactly does Master Jian want to build? His requirements are so high!
At this time, next to the Dashuixia Iron Factory, a large blacksmith shop was in the process of being forged by the imperial court.
These were the blacksmiths that King Jianning liberated from the Anyang and Wu families. Li Yan also redeemed a group of blacksmiths from other big families and concentrated them in the iron factory near Dashui Gorge.
The Tang Dynasty was not as discriminatory towards craftsmen as later generations, but craftsmen's households had to bear heavier corvee than ordinary people.
In the Ding book, the children of the craftsmen will also make another book, and the craftsmen's households can also receive the same land grants as ordinary farmers. However, the craftsmen's households often have to go to the nearby government blacksmith shop to perform corvee work, and are even required to go to the two capitals.
Labor at the nearby arms factory.
It would be better if you live near the two capitals, like the craftsmen in Longyou Road. If you go to the two capitals to serve, it will take half a year, and one year will pass after half a year of corvee service.
Therefore, most craftsmen's families do not have the manpower to farm, so they either rent it to people from the same town for farming, or sell it to local wealthy families.
Over time, the land allocated to craftsmen's households has become less and less. Generations of craftsmen such as Zhang Tiezheng have lost their land and become professional blacksmiths in the state capital.
There are also many craftsmen who directly work for the wealthy families and become the craftsmen of these families for generations, specializing in making ironware for them.
Even a big family like An Yangwu attaches great importance to skilled craftsmen.
When a daughter is given a dowry in a family, a few craftsmen are included in the dowry, which is also a very heavy dowry.
But now that King Jianning's reputation is rising in Guazhou City, these big families are also afraid of being liquidated by King Jianning.
When Li Yan recruited craftsmen, they all took the initiative to tear up the slave registration of the craftsmen in their hands and handed them all over to Li Yan.
So this blacksmith shop was built near Dashuixia Iron Works.
The molten iron was introduced into the steel troughs. Before the steel troughs could cool down, the craftsmen pushed the carts to the blacksmith shop and began to make farm tools with a clanging sound.
Now that the player's exploration work has been completed, the construction of the iron plant has been completed, and the Datang player construction team has earned enough contribution points and is ready to return home.
However, some players stayed. The system provided several jobs for players in Dashui Gorge, and several life-stream players chose to stay.
Lei Meng and Qin Chuan were already eager to return home. After working as cows and horses in this inhospitable place for half a month, they had long been eager to return to the prosperous Guazhou City.
Among this group of players, there is a player named Jiang Lun.
Jiang Lun majored in economics, and got into the game "Feng Yun of the Tang Dynasty" by accident. Since he had no special skills, he joined the construction team to work as a cow horse.
This time everyone earned a lot of contribution points. They were unable to participate in the last major event of the Guazhou Rebellion. Most of the three-test cows and horses were very dissatisfied. They all clamored to return to Guazhou City and exchange attribute points as soon as possible to join the army.
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However, Jiang Lun has no interest in fighting and killing. He can also be regarded as a farming player.
However, he did not compete for several positions created by the system in Dashuixia. Instead, he reviewed a large amount of information and prepared a self-recommendation plan.
"Going back to Guazhou!" Lei Meng led the players from the construction team back to Guazhou City.
At the same time, in Shuofang County, as the Qinwang armies from all walks of life gathered together, Emperor Li Heng's trump card finally became thicker.
At the suggestion of Li Fuguo, the eunuch who "knows soldiers", Li Heng decided to leave Shuofang and go to Fufeng to establish his position.
The place where the emperor stayed for a long time when traveling was called "Xingzai". "Xingzai" was equivalent to the accompanying capital of the imperial court and the location of the temporary imperial court.
Leaving Shuofang, which is remote and closer to the border, and going to Fufeng, which is closer to the battlefield but has more developed transportation, was also the unanimous suggestion of Li Heng's court.
And Li Heng couldn't wait to leave Shuofang, Guo Ziyi's home base, so Li Heng didn't wait until Zhengdan and hurriedly issued an order to move Xingzai to Fufeng Mansion.
In the secret progress of the great eunuch Li Fuguo, Li Fuguo said directly:
"Sage, Fufeng Mansion is located in the west of Guanzhong, not far from Xijing, so it is convenient for Your Majesty to personally command the battle to attack the two capitals."
"We are about to leave in Fufeng. If your Majesty sends down a golden plate to summon Guo Ziyi and other generals to go south, we will no longer have any reason to shirk."
"Fufeng Mansion is a hub for water and land transportation, and the military supplies raised by the imperial court do not need to be transported to remote Shuofang."
To be fair, although Li Fuguo was denounced as a traitor by the upright ministers of the court, he did know how to fight.
He suggested that there would be no strategic problem in locating the emperor's army in Fufeng. If we insist on the southward strategy, moving the emperor's army to Fufeng, which is closer to the front line, would avoid the long-distance transportation of military supplies and encourage the frontline sergeants.
morale.
The finance and taxation of the Tang Dynasty mainly came from Jianghuai and Shuzhong, and Fufeng Mansion in the Guanzhong area was obviously closer to the wealth center of the Tang Dynasty than Shuofang.
However, what Li Heng valued more was that Fufeng was close to Xijing, so he could concentrate his efforts to recapture Xijing faster and welcome back the emperor.
Therefore, Li Heng sent his trusted eunuch Yu Chaoen to establish an army in Fufeng Mansion, preparing to return to Guanzhong and personally supervise the war in Xijing.
Just when Li Heng was about to leave Shuofang, a middle-aged official wearing a green official robe asked the emperor in front of him.
Today, Li Hengxing's officialdom has expanded several times, and those civil servants who fled the two capitals and the envoys of King Qin from various places have all come to Lingwu.
Li Heng no longer looked as embarrassed as he had just run away to Lingwu. Originally, he didn't want to see this green-robed official.
But when he heard that the green-robed official had just met Emperor Li Longji in Shuzhong, Li Heng hurriedly asked Huangmen to summon the official to the palace.
The official in green official robes was probably in his forties. He followed Xiaohuangmen and stepped into the emperor's palace with a calm expression and a confident look on his face.
"Xuan Chao Yu Shi Li Xing, the Fifth Qi Mian Sage!"