Guo Jing was quite ashamed and said: "My uncle's talent and learning are not half of what I have learned. Otherwise, I wouldn't have ended up in Jizhou to make a living. I would be ashamed of my ancestors. Why should my lord do this?"
Wen Yuan cupped his hands and said: "I deeply admire Mr. Youdao for teaching regardless of his background and rewarding the younger generations. I only wish I could have been born twenty years earlier and study under Mr. Youdao. Since Brother Guo is a disciple of Mr. Youdao, he must have real talent.
With practical learning, there is no chance that he will become a successful person in the future."
Guo Jing said with an excited expression: "My lord, you are very grateful. This life is enough for a villain to follow your lord. I will practice hard in the future so as not to lose my lord's prestige."
Wen Yuan smiled with satisfaction and said: "You really shouldn't lag behind others when it comes to training, but I have one more important thing to entrust to you today."
"My lord, despite your orders, I will go through fire and water, even if I die!" Guo worshiped and bowed down in the tunnel.
Wen Yuan raised his hand to help Guo Jing up and said seriously: "Your performance on the school field today has been very good. I have already remembered it in my heart. The military camp is rough, and most of the army sergeants are aggressive and rude.
If things go on like this, there will definitely be enmity between us. I see that you are very talented in teaching the soldiers, and I want to make you a soldier in the army. You are responsible for inspecting military discipline, resolving conflicts and disputes between soldiers, and teaching them to understand justice.
,what do you think?"
"My lord has such great trust, I will definitely do my best!"
Wen Yuan gave warm words of encouragement and finally sent Guo Jing out in person before letting out a long sigh of relief.
Wen Yuan had considered setting up a propaganda officer in the army as early as the founding of the army. It was just because there were too many trivial matters during the military training. He never found time to operate it. In addition, the army was literate and hyphenated.
There are few righteous people, and he has many affairs to take care of. Zhang Jia is in charge of training soldiers and is busier than himself, so this matter has been delayed.
However, Wenyuan could still occasionally hear rumors of private fights in the army, and even worse, soldiers in the same place formed a group and secretly antagonized each other. During the last battle of Yangjiapu, two women were raped.
The soldiers who were beheaded by Wen Yuan seemed to have been criticized by soldiers from other places. If this trend is allowed to continue, Wen Yuan's dream of a strong army will not be realized, but the combat effectiveness of the army will be damaged by internal friction. Therefore, the county soldiers
As soon as the training strike came out, Wen Yuan put the matter of solving the soldier's ethics on the agenda.
Fortunately, Wen Yuan discovered Guo Jing at this time. He had studied for several years, was familiar with politics, and had been in the market for a long time. He knew how to deal with these rude men. The most important thing was that Wen Yuan could feel that Guo Jing was interested in
With his absolute loyalty and using such a person as a supporter, Wen Yuan could finally let go of the thing that he had been worrying about.
From then on, there was another gentleman named Guo in the military camp. After the officers learned the Chinese characters every day, they had to listen to him talk about loyalty and human ethics, such as how cruel Dong Zhuo was and how the Lord Wen Yuan cared about the soldiers.
Originally, the officers did not like to hear such truths, but the gentleman named Guo was very arrogant and became very familiar with the officers within a few days. Gradually, they also began to like his storyteller-like teaching style.
After dealing with the army's affairs, Wen Yuan came to the newly built blacksmith workshop in the camp the next day. It was so hot inside that more than a dozen blast furnaces were arranged neatly. The pebbles next to the blast furnaces were placed as high as a hill. Several craftsmen were pointing.
Dozens of apprentice craftsmen were agitating dozens of leather picks, checking the temperature of the furnace and the condition of the pig iron in the furnace from time to time.
During the Han Dynasty, steel-frying technology had already appeared in smelting. It was the main method for turning pig iron into steel or wrought iron in ancient China. It was invented around the late Western Han Dynasty. The method was to heat the pig iron into a liquid or semi-liquid state and stir it continuously to make the pig iron.
The carbon content and impurities in the stone are continuously oxidized to obtain steel or wrought iron. The Taiping Jing, written in the Eastern Han Dynasty, also said: "If there is an emergency, the engineer will strike the stone to find the iron in it, and then smelt it into water."
, and then the good workers forged it ten thousand times, and it became Moye." "Moye" is the name of the ancient sword. The steel frying process is easy to operate, the raw materials are easy to obtain, and it can be produced continuously on a large scale with high efficiency. The quality of the steel or wrought iron obtained
High, it is of great significance to ancient Chinese steel production and social development.
As for blasting technology, ancient Chinese smelting craftsmen have been using gongs since the Spring and Autumn Period. The gongs are usually sewn from cowhide. Each blast furnace must be equipped with several gongs to blow air to increase the furnace temperature. Before that, gongs had been relied on human or animal power.
It was not until the Eastern Han Dynasty that the technology of water drainage and drums appeared. However, although Xiaquyang is close to the Hutuo River in the north, it is still a severe winter. The river water is frozen and the water flow is small. If you want to use hydraulic power, you have to wait until the snow melts next year.
Ice disappears.
For the time being, Wenyuan can only use manpower to drum and push, but fortunately, the scale of Wenyuan's iron shop workshop is still small.
The fire was blazing, and Wen Yuan's face was filled with red light. He saw that the pig iron blocks that had been processed into uniform particles in the furnace continued to melt and soften under the action of high temperature, and slowly turned into a red and slightly whitish porridge shape. Several craftsmen
Use tools to stir-fry for a while. When the molten iron in the furnace is heated enough, pour the molten iron into the pre-made pottery mold to get a furnace of wrought iron. Then the wrought iron is folded and quenched repeatedly under the charcoal fire for forging, and it is forged repeatedly.
After that, you can get a furnace of good iron or even steel.
Wen Yuan had seen the ancient smelting technology in books before, but this was the first time he saw it today. Therefore, from beginning to end, Wen Yuan watched it carefully and did not disturb the busy craftsmen.
It wasn't until the furnace of molten iron was finished that the foreman noticed Wen Yuan's arrival and hurriedly came over to pay him a visit.
The foreman's surname is Zhao. He is an old man in his late fifties. Although his hair is disheveled, he has a very strong figure. In the cold winter, he only wears a pair of trousers and a leather apron hanging on his naked upper body. His knotted muscles are shining in the firelight.
The light of sweat.
Old man Zhao's family has been a blacksmith for generations, and his ancestral craftsmanship has made him famous among the blacksmiths in Ju Road. When Wenyuan searched for blacksmiths in Xiaquyang, he was the first one he found. This old man was also unambiguous. In Wenyuan
After promising a generous reward, without saying a word, he followed Wen Yuan with his sons and apprentices.
Wen Yuan comforted him with kind words and then asked about the progress of the workshop.
Since the start of the fire operation on the eighth day of December, the workshop has produced more than 70 furnaces of iron materials. After folding, quenching, and forging, more than 4,000 kilograms of pig iron and 6,000 kilograms of coal were consumed, and a total of more than 800 kilograms of steel was obtained.
More than two thousand kilograms of iron.
Steel is naturally used to forge weapons, wrought iron is used to make armor leaves, and pig iron can also be used to make daggers for soldiers.
According to Old Man Zhao, there are currently 113 craftsmen in Wenyuan's army, including 17 skilled craftsmen and 96 apprentice craftsmen, including 63 iron craftsmen and 50 blacksmiths.
You can spend 500 kilograms of pig iron, 100 kilograms of steel, and 300 kilograms of wrought iron every day. Using these materials to make weapons, as long as you have enough manpower, you can get more than ten ring-headed knives, or fifty spearheads, or
Thousands of arrows. In comparison, making armor is much more complicated. After all, the forging of armor pieces takes a lot of time and effort. Therefore, although hundreds of armor pieces are forged every day, in just a few days, the number of pieces sewn is
There are only ten sets of finished iron armor! Based on this calculation, the workshop can produce no more than fifty pieces of iron armor in a month! Wenyuan understands that the fundamental reason for this situation is that there are too few craftsmen.
In fact, fifty pieces of armor could be produced in a month, which was already quite a remarkable number at that time, because at that time, even leather armor made from just a few animal skins had a very small proportion in the army, and iron armor was even more advanced in the army.
Only generals are entitled to luxuries, and many soldiers even go into battle wearing only their uniforms.
But Wen Yuan has always valued the lives of his soldiers, and the elite soldiers he has trained so painstakingly cannot afford to be wasted. In his opinion, it is best to equip as many soldiers as possible with iron armor, otherwise he would not let each of them carry more than twenty armors during drills.
A heavy bag of earth.
In comparison, weapons can be slowed down. After all, Tianwen Yuan has sent out troops to suppress bandits several times, and has received strong support from Julu County. He has many weapons on hand, but the iron armor is in short supply, which always worries Wen Yuan.
In the heart.
Therefore, before leaving the blacksmith workshop, Wen Yuan specifically told Old Man Zhao that the iron-making of soldiers could be postponed, but the forging of iron armor must be stepped up, and the production of iron armor must be increased to more than a hundred sets no matter what.