Three Kingdoms: Stealing the Tiger Talisman and forcing Yuan Shao to become a monk

Chapter 332 Iron Ore Shortage, Yu Fan Arrives

After talking all night, when dawn came again, Xu Shu, who had been thinking about it on the bed, tossing and turning, finally fell into a dream.

The long talk with Yuan Tan last night seemed to have opened a big hole in his world view, allowing him to see a different world.

Xu Yuanzhi, who had been oppressed by aristocratic families, saw for the first time in his life the hope of breaking through the barriers of aristocratic families from his lord.

Just like what Yuan Tan said last night.

The road is long and difficult, what they need to do now is to accumulate strength, and before it is time to decide the outcome, there is no need to rush to provoke the world's aristocratic families.

This is why Yuan Tan specially planned the time for studying Confucian classics in Shu Ge to be six years.

Three years of literacy and literature, six years of classics, when those scholars who will be in the academy come out, it will take nine years.

At that time, the power I have accumulated will be enough to compete with the family.

Coupled with the help of those students who will be working in the academy, even if the world's aristocratic families want to rebel, go on strike, and engage in party imprisonment, just like the end of the Han Dynasty.

Most of the outstanding scholars stay at home and do not serve as officials. He is as available as Yuan Tan, and even does a better job than those children from aristocratic families.

At that time, it is not Yuan Tan who needs to compromise, but those aristocratic families.

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In Qihou's mansion, Jiang Qi and Wang Shi paid tribute to Yuan Tan, and then began their monthly routine of returns.

Wang Shi is one of the three master craftsmen of Jiangzuo Academy. Not to mention his superb skills, even Liu Laowei'er admires him greatly.

What's even more commendable is that this Wang Shi was born as a scholar, but his family was poor, and the family behind him died in the troubled times because of the war.

In desperation, he had no choice but to become a craftsman, but by mistake, he entered an official career again with Yuan Tan.

Although it was different from the official career he imagined, Qianshiguan's salary and treatment were real.

Although his daily life is somewhat unfree, Wang Shi is very contented and is extremely grateful to Yuan Tan.

In addition, Wang Shi was able to read and write, and also knew some basic management skills, so after the issuance of the craftsman recruitment order, he was appointed by Yuan Tan as the chief craftsman of the academy.

Specifically responsible for taking over the craftsmen from various places who were attracted by the order to recruit craftsmen.

The main reason I came to Qihou Mansion today was to report to Yuan Tan the number of craftsmen recruited by the General Academy these days.

Yuan Tan sat in the hall and listened to the reports of the two below, nodding from time to time.

Xuzhou armor has produced [-] sets so far, and after storage, production has been temporarily stopped.

After all, in Yuan Tan's plan, things like Xuzhou Armor were only used for export products.

The Xuzhou Army had to change their uniforms to Su Tiejia.

However, the iron materials and man-hours consumed in making the Su Iron Armor were almost double that of the Xuzhou Armor.

After a month, the two water hammer turning workshops started working at full capacity, and they only made a thousand sets of iron armor.

"Fortunately, the order to recruit craftsmen issued by the Lord has been very effective. At present, my general craftsmanship academy has accepted more than [-] craftsmen. It is estimated that by the end of June, the number of craftsmen in my general craftsmanship academy will be doubled."

Yuan Tan nodded slightly.

Although the efficiency of water hammer transfer is high, the number of construction is limited by geography.

For the river around the courtyard, building at most four water hammer transfer cars will reach the limit.

In other words, Su Tiejia's maximum output is only between [-] and [-] sets.

According to the current progress, by the end of the year, it should be possible to complete the goal of all the main soldiers of the Xuzhou Army equipped with iron armor.

It will not be a mistake.

Yuan Tan nodded slightly, expressing his approval of Wang Shi's work.

But Wang Shi's face showed a bit of embarrassment.

"Why, can't we produce [-] sets of armor before the end of the year?"

Yuan Tan spoke slowly, speaking in a gentle and gentle manner.

Wang Shi hurriedly bowed and replied:
"Your Majesty, there is enough time to produce [-] sets of Su Tiejia before the twelfth lunar month, but I'm afraid... I'm afraid..."

While Wang Shi was talking, he looked at Jiang Qi for help.

Jiang Qi was a little helpless, on the way here, Wang Shi also told him that it would be the biggest problem for the hospital right now.

It's just that Wang Shi didn't have much contact with Yuan Tan, and when he suddenly met Yuan Tan, he was too afraid to speak out about many things.

This is also a common problem of craftsmen in this era. As lowly slaves, they are often driven by those aristocratic families.

Not much higher than a slave.

The work arranged by the aristocratic family members does not take into account the construction period or manpower at all, as long as you cannot complete it on time within the time ordered.

That is the misfortune that comes from your careless actions and careless thinking.

If you are polite, I will give you a whip as a punishment. If you encounter a few arrogant people and kill them on the spot, there is no reason for it.

Although Wang Shi was born a scholar, he had been working at the bottom for many years, and the original arrogance of a scholar had long since disappeared.

Even though he is now trusted by Yuan Tan and is in charge of the General Academy, those unbearable memories still left him with many sequelae.

Jiang Qi also knew this, so he could only sigh and report to Wang Shi:

"Your Majesty, Master Wang wants to say that everything else in General Zuoyuan is fine now, except for one thing, the iron material is almost gone."

"It's gone so soon?"

Yuan Tan was taken aback.

He remembered that when Jiang Zuoyuan was first built, there were still nearly 200 million catties of iron ore in Xuzhou.

Jiang Qi smiled wryly.

Nearly 200 million catties of iron ore, [-]% of the loss will be deducted for crushing iron ore.

For the remaining 20 million jin of iron materials, 60 sets of Xuzhou armor were first produced, and the materials used for these [-] sets of Xuzhou armor exceeded [-] jin.

Then another thousand sets of Su Tiejia were manufactured, which cost more than [-] catties of iron materials just for one set.

After finishing, a set of armor weighs 45 catties, which is nearly half the weight of Xuzhou armor, and the performance is improved at the same time.

The cost is also greatly increased.

At present, there are only [-] kilograms of iron materials left in the entire Jiangsu Institute.

After all, while the generals were making armor, they also had to repair the old weapons and equipment.

Half of these ordnance and equipment are from the Taishan Army's inventory, and the other half are equipment that the Xuzhou Army has replaced before.

Not to mention the cumbersome repair work, the quantity is still very large. After tens of thousands of armors are repaired, only 20 catties of iron materials are thrown out.

"Dajiang Wang came this time because he wanted to ask Junhou to transfer some more iron materials, otherwise, in a few days, the work of the Jiangzuo Academy will be suspended."

Yuan Tan couldn't help laughing when he heard this.

He really didn't expect that the iron mines in Xuzhou would be hollowed out so quickly.

But it makes sense when you think about it. After all, the mining industry is still relatively extensive these days and there is no support from modern industry.

The mining of many iron ores is actually limited to the surface part. Rich ores in deeper layers are limited by technical conditions and cannot be mined even if they want to.

Fortunately, he was already prepared for this, and immediately smiled and wanted to ask everyone to go to Yunzhong Mountain to mine.

It's just that before the words were finished, Yuan Lang walked in quickly outside Qihou's mansion, leaned over to Yuan Tan's ear and said:

"Your Majesty, Mr. Ziyu asked to see you and said that Mr. Yu Fan has arrived."

"Oh? Mr. Yu Fan is finally here, please!"

Yuan Tan got up happily and asked Jiang Qi and Wang Shi to go back first. There is no need to worry about the iron mine, he will take care of it, so he went out to see who the legendary Yu Fan, who is both civil and military, and who is familiar with yin and yang geography, was. kind of character.

(End of this chapter)