Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Fifth Sister-in-law Song said: "County Master Baicheng welcomes you!"

After finishing speaking, Mrs. Song hit the horse and returned to the original road.

Yu Guni waved his hands left and right: "Go out with Yeye!"

All the cavalry guards wailed and howled, followed Yu Guni and galloped towards the first fortress of Bogulu City.

The horseshoes stepped on the snow, and there were waves of snow.

More than a hundred cavalrymen slowly disappeared on the horizon.

Chapter 89 The Evil Slave Trade

Chapter 89 The Evil Slave Trade

Lingzhou is not a populous state. Lingzhou has six counties and 15 towns, with a population of more than [-] people. However, most people in Lingzhou have their own fields, and most of them are old and weak, women and children. No one wants to Go do this dirty and tiring job.

Li Daozhen took Chen Ying's saber and under the guise of Chen Ying's name, successfully took over these industries. The salt factory is easy to say, after all, there are more than [-] slaves and more than [-] craftsmen, which can guarantee the daily output of salt as much as a thousand stones.

In fact, this is far from the limit of the four salt mines in Lingzhou. If there is enough manpower, Lingzhou Salt Mine adopts the method of boiling salt with charcoal, and there is no problem in expanding the production capacity by three or five times.

The key is that Li Daozhen has no one under her. Of course, this person is not a talented person. Li Daozhen has the identity of Baicheng county lord and the Li family in Longyou. Production resumed at four saltworks.

Now whether it is coal or salt, as long as it is produced, it is money.Seeing that the scale of production could not be expanded due to manpower shortage, Li Daozhen couldn't mention how anxious she was.Now she has a big belly, she is a little pregnant, and her energy is not as good as before. If this problem cannot be solved in time, it will be even more troublesome in the future.

Li Daozhen was very motivated at this time, she didn't intend to ask Chen Ying what title she wanted, she just wanted to give birth to the child safely and raise him up.Regardless of the coal mine or the saltworks, these are the foundations laid by Chen Ying, and they were temporarily interrupted by Li Daozong. As long as there are enough people, it is not too difficult to resume production.

Li Daozhen was also thinking about using the resources left by Chen Ying in Lingzhou to build a gratifying foundation for her future child.

Li Daozhen actually took aim at the three blast furnaces built by Chen Ying. It is said that these blast furnaces can produce 1000 jin of refined steel per day when coke is used to make steel, and the three blast furnaces can produce no less than [-] million jin of refined steel every year.

In fact, the production capacity of this small steel mill is very limited, with an annual output of just over [-] tons.That's all, steel mills of this scale in later generations are only equivalent to workshop-style steel mills.However, in this era, this efficiency is astonishingly high, and Li Daozhen broke into a cold sweat at that time.Although Li Daozhen is a woman, she also knows the important role of steel in the Tang Dynasty. Chen Ying's steel mine is the lifeblood of the imperial court. Take this iron and steel factory, don't give it to a duke, and never change it.

As for the technical workers in the iron and steel factory, it's okay to say, because the relationship with Chen Ying is there, as long as he asks, Chen Ying will not refuse, but ordinary craftsmen, it is a headache.A lot of work in the steel factory, such as crushing ore, adding ore to the furnace, adding coke.

Each furnace can smelt [-] jin of molten steel, which requires about [-] jin of iron ore and nearly [-] jin of coke. These things need to be added manually, which requires a lot of manpower.Therefore, an excellent craftsman with a dozen apprentices and commanding hundreds of slaves is enough to complete this task.

Li Daozhen desperately hopes that the steel can be put into production, because only in this way can she use this steel to obtain the maximum benefit for her future child.

Sitting in the warm pavilion, Li Daozhen is sewing a small dress very carefully. Although Li Daozhen has never touched female celebrities before, for the sake of children born in the future, she can wear the clothes she sewed, so Li Daozhen picked up the needle and thread, and her pair of natural As far as I can remember, the hands that wielded knives and guns, picked up needles and threads, undoubtedly looked like Zhang Fei embroidered, and every inch of the little clothes was stained with mottled blood.

Seeing that Li Daozhen was stabbed again, Xiaotao said distressedly: "My lady, let me do it?"

"No!" Li Daozhen said stubbornly: "I still don't believe it, how can such a trivial matter make it difficult for me? Today I must learn how to sew clothes."

Xiaotao sighed helplessly.

Li Daozhen has changed a lot since she became pregnant.In the past, she didn't care about money, and she always spent money as she wanted, but now, Li Daozhen seemed to be getting into the eyes of money.

As long as it belongs to Chen Ying, she wants it.Even Guo Zhun's tinplate workshop, she insisted on taking three members.However, the prestige of Chen Ying's Lingzhou is too high. Although Li Daozhen is domineering, there is no one in Lingzhou who rejects Li Daozhen. It's not because of anything else, because Chen Ying has the grace of life for the people of Lingzhou and has the feeling of rebuilding , in this era of advocating rewarding virtue with virtue, Li Daozhen is enjoying Chen Ying's contacts and resources.

When all ten fingers were pierced once, Mrs. Song brought Yu Guni to the Nuan Pavilion. Xiao Tao finally breathed a sigh of relief, grabbed a pile of small clothes, and said to the needle girl next to her, "I'll give you half an hour. These little clothes are all sewn!"

Yu Guni bowed to Li Daozhen and said: "I greet the county lord, respected county lord, may I ask your servant to come, what's the matter?"

Li Daozhen said: "The county lord wants people, many people."

Yu Guni stared at Li Daozhen with wide eyes, his eyes were full of puzzlement: "I don't know what kind of person the county lord wants?"

"Prisoners, or slaves!" Li Daozhen said: "Turkic captured Sui people, Qiang people, or Lite people, no matter what kind of people are fine."

Yu Guni shook his head and said: "The weather is cold right now, so we can't use soldiers. If the county lord wants someone, he will have to wait until next spring at the earliest."

At this time, Yu She set up a strong army, with over ten thousand cavalry, and well-equipped. Most of these cavalry followed Chen Ying to fight the Turks and Liu Wuzhou. , he certainly dare not.But to deal with the small tribes scattered in the Hetao area, Yu Guni didn't have any psychological burden.

"This county lord will not let you work for nothing!" Li Daozhen paused and said: "This county lord no matter what method you take, if you give this county lord a strong man, I will give you [-] yuan, or something of the same value." property."

A green light appeared in Yu Guni's eyes: "What about the woman?"

"Women are halved, only five thousand dollars!" Li Daozhen's purpose of taking prisoners of war is to restore life in the steel factory, and women are not as useful as strong men.

Hearing this, Yu Guni was moved.

If Li Daozhen wanted free slaves, although Yu Guni would not refuse Li Daozhen, at least he would use some reasons, or randomly dozens or hundreds of slaves to prevaricate Li Daozhen, but Li Daozhen bought real money, that would be different.Ten thousand dollars is not a small amount, you can buy a hundred shi of grain, you can buy a few orchids...

At this time, Yu She set up his headquarters in the Hetao area, which was backed by the Tang Dynasty and existed like an invincible existence. If he went out casually, he could get millions or tens of millions of money. Yu Guni was immediately tempted by such a thing.

Li Daozhen and Yu Guni hit it off, and the two joined forces to start the slave trade. Li Daozhen paid for it, and Yu Guni went out to snatch it. On the first attack, Yu Guni successfully ambushed a tribe of Baimaqiang. The move was clean and tidy, and more than 500 young men and women from the Baima Qiang tribe were brought to Lingzhou. Li Daozhen was also unambiguous. At that time, he gave Yu Guni [-] million yuan. Naturally, Li Daozhen did not have this money, but Li Daozhen spent a lot of money. Five hundred stone salt was given to Yu Guni, and Yu Guni was overjoyed.

In the Central Plains, the price of salt is equivalent to about 300 yuan per catty, and more than 300 catties of salt is almost [-] yuan. However, this is only the price of salt in the Central Plains, but on the grassland, two buckets of salt can be exchanged for a cow. More than [-] catties of salt can be exchanged for fifteen cows, and the huge profits in the middle come even faster to rob the bank.

After repaying the sweetness for the first time, Yu Guni has been out of control ever since.

In November of the second year of Wude alone, Yu Guni sent his subordinates to take the initiative to attack five times, braved the severe cold, and obtained nearly [-] war slaves and nearly [-] women. Li Daozhen used these war slaves to start the restoration of the steel factory production work.

Pei Ju stayed in Lingzhou for more than half a month. Through open and unannounced visits, he finally found out the general strength of Li Daozhen.Li Daozhen not only took over the fourteen coal mines, four saltworks, and one steel factory developed by Chen Ying's Lingzhou.

In particular, the steel mill located in the Bronze Canyon has three blast furnaces, each of which can produce a furnace of more than [-] jin of steel within twelve hours.

1000 million catties of iron, although the amount is not small, will not make Pei Ju lose his composure. However, 1000 million catties of steel has already made Pei Ju feel unbelievable. After repeated confirmation, Pei Ju found that Li Daozhen produced twelve furnaces of molten steel in five days.

At this moment, there was a piece of rough steel billet in front of Pei Ju. The billet was glowing with azure blue light. He flicked it lightly with his fingers, and it made a steel cry like a dragon's chant.

Although Pei Ju didn't know how to make steel, he knew that it was an excellent piece of steel.

Pei Ju said with an extremely excited expression: "It's really good steel."

Then Pei Ju's face sank, and he quickly picked up the pen.Li Daozong and Li Shimin are very close, and now Li Daozong's younger sister has mastered the fourteen coal mines, four salt fields, and a steel factory with a daily output of [-] jin of steel that Chen Ying in Lingzhou had prepared. Tens of thousands of guan profits, Pei Ju thought silently: "As long as he gets Li Jiancheng's approval, he will take these things back at all costs!"

Chapter 90 Li Shimin's Winning

Chapter 90 Li Shimin's Winning

Assembly line operation does not simply mean working on an assembly line.Instead, the tens or hundreds of processes from the beginning to the end are divided into dozens of processes, each with professional manufacturing. In this way, no matter how advanced the technology is, it will no longer exist.As early as the Qin Dynasty, China already had the method of assembly line operation.

The Qin Dynasty introduced the crossbow machine manufacturing technology from South Korea (Warring States Korea, not the Bangzi Kingdom), and was improved by Qin craftsmen to form a Qin crossbow.When the state of Qin made the crossbow machine, it decomposed the whole crossbow machine into more than 30 processes, which were manufactured by specialized people. Carpenter selection (choose the appropriate wood for extension wood), woodworking (saw the extension wood for the length of the crossbow arm), chisel woodworker (cut the extension wood for the shape of Wangshan, hanging knife (trigger) and other shapes), copper casting, polishing , string making, painting, hanging knife making, mechanics, assembly and more than [-] detailed processes. Since the Qin Dynasty began to adopt standardized manufacturing, all parts can be used for common use. In this way, the Qin Dynasty's crossbow making is not only efficient , and the quality is very high, so there is Mengtian in the Hetao area, and the Huns were frightened in World War I.

Chen Ying had a flash of inspiration in his head in this era, and suddenly realized.The method of assembly line operation can not only be used in casting gold and silver ingots, but can also be used in various fields, such as the carriage workshop. In terms of production capacity, this workshop can only produce about [-] to [-] vehicles.

This effect is actually very low, and Chen Ying is not satisfied.

Chen Ying can "turtle" produce four-wheeled luxury carriages, but with the increase of the road, especially the four-wheeled cargo carriages with a wheel spacing of 15 feet wide, this kind of carriages or ox carts will be of high quality and low price. , winning by quantity.Datang launched the Battle of Luoyang, which will use 20 to 30 troops, plus civilian husbands, at least [-] horses will be needed. Three liters of grain consumption per person per day is not counted as transportation consumption, which requires thousands of grains per day. If you count For the consumption of war horses and poor horses, food alone will cost about [-] shi. If you store food for half a year, this is a small [-] shi.

Even if a carriage could carry thirty shi, it would require tens of thousands of carriages.Even if a carriage only earns a profit of ten guan, it can earn one hundred thousand guan.Thinking of this, Chen Ying immediately asked Ma Zhou for a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and began to draw a four-wheeled carriage into an exploded view, preparing to produce the carriage in an assembly line.

At the same time, in order to adapt to the matching axle distance of the carriage, Chen Ying began to formulate the axle width standard of the carriage.

Chen Ying took the distance between the two wheels as a standard, and began to dismantle the carriage through hundreds of steps, especially the wheels, whether they were clad in iron or cast copper, they were all consumable parts and needed to be expanded as soon as possible. Increase production scale and increase inventory for future contingencies.