Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

However, Chen Ying did not conduct any substantive training for the left and right guards. Instead, he asked them to take off their armor and dig the ground and pick soil on the construction site to act as coolies like ordinary peasants.

Wei Ling, who led the left guard and the right deputy, was a little strange. The generals of the left guard and the right guard were used by Chen Yingcheng as a coolie. Wei Ling was very dissatisfied. He was born in Jingzhao Webster. The son-in-law of Yuanya, the prime minister of Henan County.In Wei Lingze's view, Chen Ying was simply insulting the soldiers led by the left guard.

But Wei Ting once told Wei Lingze that he had a bad relationship with Chen Ying in the past, so he must not run into Chen Ying's hands.So despite some dissatisfaction, Wei Ling didn't dare to be the leader.

On this day, Zuo Wei led more than [-] officers and men like mud monkeys until it got dark, and then they called it a day.Wei Ling quietly looked at Yuchi Gong, whose face was as black as charcoal: "Deputy Yuchi, defending the East Palace, we are naturally duty-bound, but... now, we are waiting for this..."

Yu Chigong looked at Wei Lingze, and said calmly: "Deputy Wei, do you know why the whole army would rather sweat like rain than stop to rest?"

Wei Ling really didn't know what happened. Anyway, when he heard that Li Jiancheng had transferred the left and right guards of the Eastern Palace to Chen Ying for training, but Chen Ying was using the entire army as labor, he asked for leave.He came an out of sight.

Wei Ling asked in surprise, "Could it be that these gangsters have changed their sex?"

Yu Chigong shook his head and said: "It's not that they have changed their nature, but that Chen Binke showed all the soldiers a sword and a suit of armor, and told the whole army that non-warriors can't wear heavy armor and hold a sword to win the king?"

Wei Ling said in surprise, "What kind of sword is the king?"

Chapter 62 Mo Dao Army

Chapter 62 Mo Dao Army

In ancient times, all generals hoped to have a loyal, reliable and well-equipped army.Yuchi Gong is no exception.Chen Ying hadn't planned how to train the soldiers led by the left and right guards of the Eastern Palace, but with the arrival of Wei Meng, Chen Ying suddenly had an idea.

As early as when he was in Shuozhou, Chen Yingfeng Wei Meng, who gave him the Mo knife, was the order of Tiefang in Lingzhou.Originally, Wei Meng also happily went to Lingzhou to take up his post with his son and apprentice.

Just one and a half months ago, Chen Ying was named Minister of the Ministry of Industry. At the same time, he was relieved of the position of the head of Lingzhou, and Li Daozong was appointed as the head of Lingzhou.As the saying goes, once the emperor and the courtiers, as Li Daozong took office, Chen Ying's Lingzhou general was stopped.

Li Daozong stopped the supply of more than [-] craftsmen, including Wei Meng, the order of Tiefang, Yan Shihu, the order of Jiafang, and Lin Chuanfu, the general supervisor.Without the money and food subsidies from Lingzhou, Chen Ying's private department, General Supervisor of Lingzhou, was also abolished. Yan Shihu, Wei Meng, Lin Chuanfu and others came to Chang'an from Lingzhou to join Chen Ying.

Chen Yingzheng was worried about the lack of manpower for the construction of Liwubao in Chen's Qinglin, so he accepted all the more than 2000 craftsmen and their families.It can also be said that Chen Ying contracted Lingzhou General as the prison to a private person.

With the addition of these craftsmen, the progress of Chen's Wubao suddenly accelerated.Wei Meng led his disciples to build an iron furnace by the Jieyu River in the east of Chenyingwu Castle, and began to experiment with making iron.At this time, the Tiefang Department under Wei Meng had more than 350 blacksmiths. Steel is to forge a piece of pig iron repeatedly, and through the beating method, the impurities in the iron are squeezed out to form low carbon steel.

Chen Ying was overjoyed when he found out that someone knew how to crucible steel.As long as you know how to use crucible steel, you can make alloy steel. After Chen Ying and Wei Meng entered the temporary warehouse, they found a lot of good things in the warehouse, golden pyrite, black iron ore, gray-white phosphorus Mine ore...

Wei Meng grabbed a handful of jet-black iron ore and rushed it to Chen Yingxian: "Ming Gong, this ore is good, and it can definitely produce good iron."

Chen Ying said angrily: "What I want is steel, steel, steel, I'll say the important thing three times, why do I want iron?"

Wei Meng was blushed by Chen Ying, and smiled embarrassingly.

Suddenly Chen Ying saw brown particles in a large pile of ore. Chen Ying held it in his hand and observed it carefully, and suddenly shouted excitedly: "Damn it, it's actually fierce sand, or is it a high-quality fierce sand? Where did it come from?"

In fact, these manganese ores belong to carbonate compounds, which are associated ores of Lingzhou Salt Mine. When refining salt, the residue left behind is not much, about two to three hundred catties. It is because when they came to Chang'an, they did not intend to It was packed in the wrong car and shipped by mistake.

Chen Ying rushed to Wei Meng and said: "Come here, weigh one hundred catties of black iron ore, and weigh fifteen catties of manganese ore according to the ratio of 15.00%..."

Wei Meng was confused and didn't know what Chen Ying's intention was.

What surprised Chen Ying even more was that Wei Meng had basically prepared the blacksmith workshop in just three days. In fact, this was the credit of Ge Tong. At the same time, a large amount of coke was extracted by using the method explained by Chen Ying.

However, things didn't go as planned.The blacksmith who claims to be the best at making crucible steel is called Huang Facai. The largest crucible in his hand has a capacity of only fifteen catties.

Chen Ying picked up a shovel, and while sending the coke into the furnace, he explained to the craftsmen: "The iron ore in our country is very fucked up, and none of the iron ore is good iron ore, but the sulfur content is surprisingly high. , the quality of the smelted iron is ridiculously poor, in order to smelt good steel, we can only reduce the sulfur content..."

Wei Meng said half-understood: "General Chen, you know so much, although I didn't understand it...it seems so powerful."

"Is it amazing? This is common sense, okay?" Chen Ying suddenly remembered that this is not the later generations. In the later generations, only junior high school students understand common sense. In the early Tang Dynasty, not to mention ordinary people, I am afraid that there may not be many professional technicians. will understand.

Ge Tong, Wei Meng, and Yan Shihu blew up the atmosphere and burned the fire in the hearth. Looking at the fire, Chen Ying felt very satisfied, but steelmaking is a laborious task.Ge Tong and Wei Meng are both getting older, and their physical strength is not as good as before. In just half an hour, the two of them took turns.

Iron ore and manganese ore gradually began to melt as the temperature in the furnace became higher and higher.After waiting for the crucible to turn into molten iron, Chen Ying said, "Find an iron rod, and pour a kilogram and a half of manganese ore into it."

Ge Tong hurriedly poured manganese sand into the crucible, while Chen Ying stirred in the crucible with an iron rod.In fact, Chen Ying only knew a little bit of theory, and he had never really made steel, so he felt that it was almost done, so he said, "Quickly prepare the mold!"

Huang Facai and others hurriedly found a mold specially used to condense molten steel, because Huang Facai used to make hammers, and he only had eight-pound, ten-pound, twelve-pound, and sixteen-pound eight-edged hammer molds in his hand. Therefore, Chen Ying had no choice but to ask them to pour the molten steel into a mold made of a twelve-pound hammer.

While the steel billet was cooling, Wei Meng asked Chen Ying, "Add carbon powder to the molten iron. I know that. Mo Dao is forged from molten iron with carbon powder added."

Chen Yingdao: "Adding carbon powder, you can only refine high-carbon steel. High-carbon steel is hard enough, but it is too brittle, and the mo knife will break easily. Add tin to molten iron, and you will get tinplate, which is also white iron. . . . ”

The steel hammer cooled slowly, turning black and shiny, so black and shiny that it was dazzling.Wei Meng is a blacksmith who is proficient in steelmaking. It is easy to distinguish the quality of steel from bad. He sincerely praised: "Good steel, really good steel. I learned steelmaking from Yeye since I was a child, but I have never seen it before." Such fine steel!"

Chen Ying smiled slightly and said, "With such a crucible, one pot can produce molten steel for a Mo Dao. You only need to polish it and dip it in fire, and you can get a fine Mo Dao."

Chen Ying pointed to Yan Shihu and said, "Actually, your armor can do the same!"

All the craftsmen nodded again and again.

Under the guidance of Chen Ying, all the craftsmen started the crazy steelmaking.Moreover, it is a good thing to send people to Lingzhou Salt Mine to convey the news that this manganese ore must be preserved.

In fact, the steel Chen Yinglian used was not high-carbon steel. Although the high-carbon steel had hardness, it was too brittle. Therefore, Datang's Mo Dao suffered an astonishing loss during the battle.Often when a war is fought, Modao loses nearly one-third of its losses.But the Mo knife made of high manganese steel is completely different.

After rushing to work overtime, when Yu Chigong, Gao Yunquan, He Yuejing and other four deputy leaders led ten Zhechong captains to report to Chen Ying, Chen Ying took out the freshly made high manganese steel Mingguang armor, high manganese steel mo knife.

Yu Chigong didn't use a sword at first, but seeing Mo Dao's domineering appearance, he immediately fell in love with this magic weapon.

Chen Ying asked a soldier to hang the Mingguang armor made of manganese steel on a wooden stake with a thick bowl mouth, and then asked the generals to chop with knives, stab with spears, or shoot with arrows. , this Mingguang armor made of high manganese steel did not leave a trace.

As for Mo Dao, it is the king of swords.Not to mention the Mo knife made of high manganese steel?

When a pine tree with a diameter of more than three feet was chopped into two pieces by Yu Chigong, all the generals looked at the Mo knife and the Mingguang armor, just like an old virgin who has not seen a woman for 20 years. Above, can no longer move away.

Chen Yingchong said to the generals: "This armor weighs 36 catties. From thirty steps away, it can defend against three-stone strong bows, and can ignore armor-piercing arrows from bows and crossbows under one stone. Anyone who is not a warrior in the army must not wear this armor!"

The generals are like chickens eating rice.

Chen Yingdao: "The Mo Dao weighs 33 catties, if you cut it down, both people and horses will be destroyed."

All the generals stared like bull's eyes.

Chen Yingdao: "Three thousand sets of armor, three thousand mo knives, and three zhechong mansions. In the next period of time, we will select warriors by digging soil and paving roads. The first three thousand warriors will change their outfits immediately!"

Well, Chen Ying used this method to motivate more than 1 generals in the left and right guards like howling wolves.

Chapter 63 The Charming Beauty

Chapter 63 The Charming Beauty

A large four-wheeled carriage moved slowly along the official road. Li Xiuning was actually not willing to ride in the carriage. She preferred to ride the horse and enjoy the feeling of the strong wind whistling past her ears.

However, this carriage was sent by Chen Ying.Li Xiuning didn't want to disappoint Chen Ying's kindness. Of course, the most important thing was that Li Xiuning was also very satisfied with this carriage.This four-wheeled carriage has a length of three feet and six feet and a width of one foot and six feet. Even in later generations, vehicles of this size belong to the CMB class.In this day and age, it's even bigger.The three-foot-long carriage was divided into two sections in the middle, one side was used for resting, a soft couch was arranged, and there was a layer of drawers attached to the wall of the carriage, which could be used to store carry-on items. A table is arranged, which can be used for office or reception.

The key point is that this huge carriage needs five horses to pull it. Although it doesn't look luxurious on the outside, the interior decoration is very warm. There is also a small charcoal stove in the back bedroom, which can be used to make tea or steam For some food, there is a skylight on the roof of the carriage. If you want to bask in the sun, you can lie on a soft couch and bask in the sun.The four corner columns and the screen walls are hollowed out, and there are candlesticks inside. Even at night, if necessary, the carriage can be lit with candles.

With the dual shock absorption system of bridge type shock absorption and spring shock absorption, you can sit on the carriage without suffering from bumps at all.This is the best equipment for a long journey.Of course, this was Chen Ying's wish. There is only one such carriage in this world.

To Chen Ying's surprise, the sales of the four-wheeled carriage equipped with shock-absorbing equipment were very good.In this era, the vehicles used by people to travel are usually military chariots. Although military chariots can be used for transportation, they cannot protect against wind and rain.Of course, there is also a cart. A cart is a light carriage with a roof, but it is ventilated on all sides. Although it can keep out the rain when it rains, it still withstands the cold wind when it blows.