Chapter 396

The manager of the weapons workshop in Luoyang is a member of the clan of Wu Yi, a master blacksmith in Luoshen town. His name is Zhi Wuzheng. He is a senior blacksmith. Because he learned the whole process of making rhubarb crossbows and crossbows, he was brought to Luoyang by Jia Jing, and then arranged by Lou GUI to take charge of the workshop. Seeing that Huangfu Chaobo and his party entered the weapons workshop, Wu Zheng immediately put down his work and rushed to the door to meet them.

"Wu Zheng has met your majesty! I've met Lord Lou! I've seen general Dian On the way in, he met the people who had just entered the door. Wu Zheng hurried forward to salute.

"Well, don't be so polite. Since Mr. Lou has arranged for you to take charge of the workshop, then it's up to you to take my officer around your site." Huangfu Chaobo waved his hand to let him stand up, and then said;

in Huangfu Chaobo's mouth, Wu Zheng thought that the Taishou was not satisfied with him, and he was so scared that he was sweating. Fortunately, Lou GUI saw the abnormality and said: "don't worry, Taishou has just come back from other places, and he has not been in Luoyang for several months. This trip just wants to make a detailed analysis of the weapons workshop Understand Wu Zheng this just lightly relaxed tone, hurriedly lead Huang Fu Chao Bo several people a small workshop to participate in understanding.

The whole weapon workshop is divided into two areas: the front area is used to manufacture ordinary weapons and equipment, while the back area is used to manufacture higher-level or relatively important weapons and equipment. The front area was divided into several small workshops. Wu Zheng led the way into a workshop for making knives. There were about 200 blacksmiths in this workshop, mainly intermediate blacksmiths, supplemented by junior blacksmiths and blacksmiths' apprentices.

After the system is updated, all weapons and equipment must be purchased or manufactured by themselves. In particular, the level 30 ring head sword, which has a large amount of equipment, is not only used by shield soldiers. Basically, all arms above level 4 to level 7 are equipped with this kind of sword. For example, the level 30 light cavalry of level 4 has its standard equipment They are level 30 ordinary horses, level 30 leather armor, level 30 ring head sword and level 30 one handed shield. Another example is the 45 level light armor bow cavalry, whose standard equipment is 40 level ordinary war horse, 40 level iron light armor, 30 level refined iron battle bow and 30 level ring head sword. It's the eighth level guard who really uses the refined iron sword above level 40. The level 30 ring head Dao can actually be used by soldiers from level 30 to level 40. If the quantity of force refined iron (that is, iron ore with quality of seven to nine grades after updating) is insufficient, it can even be used to level 50. Because the material requirements of ring head Dao are not high, only iron ore with quality of more than four grades is needed.

Looking at these hot blacksmiths, Huangfu Chaobo said: "how about the output?"

"Lord Hui, the production here is usually made of rough iron ore by apprentices, and then it is given to junior blacksmiths for preliminary forming, and finally it is given to intermediate blacksmiths for final processing and cutting. If you work hard in one day, you can make about 500 ring head knives, but now there is not enough iron ore in Luoyang City, and only about 300 knives can be made every day About 50. From the beginning of taking over the weapons workshop two months ago to today, about 20000 ring head knives have been made. " Wu Zheng didn't even think about it and replied;

seeing that Wu Zheng had given the answer so quickly, Huangfu Chaobo was very satisfied and said: "yes, as a steward, the most basic thing is to do this. By the way, what is the shortage of iron ore you just mentioned? "

"I'll answer this question to you. It's like this. Originally, there should be a lot of iron ore around Luoyang, but because our control area can't reach the surrounding counties at all, now all the iron ore can only be purchased from strangers. In addition, after the change of the military system in the court, all the weapons and equipment of the army need a lot of ore, so the price of iron ore is rising continuously. According to the news from Zhao Zilong's Zihui, the prices of raw materials are rising not only in Luoyang, but also in the whole territory of Dahan. " Lou GUI is in a side road;

"eh? This is a problem. If it wasn't for your reminding, I haven't noticed it. How about the reserves of iron ore in Luoyang now? What about the reserves of various weapons and equipment? " Huangfu Chaobo was surprised and asked quickly;

"in terms of materials, we have been doing it all the time. There are about 100000 Jin of high-grade ores in the warehouse now, and they are basically not used. There are a little more middle grade ores and low-grade ores, about 200000 Jin, but they consume tens of thousands of Jin every day, and now the amount purchased is basically equal to the consumption. As for the reserves of weapons and equipment, there are about 50000 pieces of huanshou Dao, 10000 pieces of armor of level 30, 20000 long guns of level 30, 5000 bows of level 30, 100000 arrows, and other weapons and equipment below level 30. More than 30000 pieces are now stored in the warehouse. These are all captured in previous battles and stored after being repaired by workshops I'll use it later when we recruit. There is also the issue of war horses. Although there are nearly 4500 soldiers and soldiers in Xiliang, some horses have been damaged in previous battles. Now there are only 7000 level 40 war horses in use, nearly 2000 less than one man and two horses. "

"The number of weapons and equipment reserves above level 30 is not enough, so Luoshen town and Chen Jing should be informed to speed up the acquisition of various ores. Let's stock the weapons and equipment below level 30. The number of low rank soldiers will not increase in the near future. As for the war horse When it comes to war horses, Huangfu Chaobo also has a headache: "there are war horses in Longhua. There are nearly ten thousand war horses and good horses of level 30 to 40. There are more than two thousand good horses here, but we are too far away from Longhua. There are four or five forces in the middle. It's not easy for a large number of war horses to get back! Well, let's talk about these things later. Let's see the situation of the weapons workshop first, and then Mr. Wang and I will tour the inner city and several towns outside the city together these days. Then we will discuss all the problems together! ""GUI, take orders!" Lou GUI thinks it is feasible, and then he goes back to Huangfu Chaobo and stops talking.

"Well, Mr. Wu, let's go on!" Huangfu Chaobo turned to Wu Zheng and said,

Wu Zheng relaxed when he saw that Huangfu Chaobo called himself that way and knew that Huangfu Chaobo had recognized himself. Seeing this, I immediately took everyone to the next workshop.