Chapter 125

Barbarians may invade in autumn.

In addition to Pang Yukun, military generals such as Lu Fei soon got the news.

"Your Highness, as long as the equipment and weapons can keep up, it's not a problem to guard Cangzhou City. But up to now, the equipment in Qingzhou camp has not been available. Let's see if we can urge Chen Wenlong." Lu Fei takes a squint at Chen Wenlong, who doesn't squint, and his teeth itch with hatred.

Chen Wenlong is calm, while Lu Fei is impatient. It's not the right way for them to be together. He said, "Lu Xiaowei, it's not easy to produce this plate armour. It's good to produce 1000 sets of plate armour in a month."

"But your highness says that you can produce 100 sets in one day. Are you cheating me?" Lu Fei's chest is wrapped with bandage, stares at the eye to question.

It's Xiao Ming's turn to blush. When water hammer was used in iron and steel workshop, he once believed that he could produce 100 sets of plate armour a day.

Later, the actual situation hit him hard in the face, which was not a mistake in his estimation of production capacity.

It's because there is no supply of iron ore at all. Now he understands that it's easy to make iron and steel, but it's not easy to mine.

After the shallow ore is excavated, the pit gets deeper and deeper, and then every rainy day, the pit is irrigated into a pond by rainwater.

Then it was fine, and the water in the mine must be drained before mining could continue.

At the same time, the deepening of the mine has increased the difficulty of transporting ore from the mine. Now, the supply of iron ore from Qian Dafu's three iron mines continues to decrease.

At the same time with iron ore is coal mine, the same problem is on stage.

In the past, Qingzhou did not produce large quantities of iron and steel. Even in the rainy spring, there was no shortage of coal cake and iron ore.

But now, the iron and steel workshop is not only responsible for the production of weapons and armor, the bearing of niuli overturning car, but also responsible for the production of civilian farming tools and so on.

Chen Wenlong glanced at Xiao Ming and said to Lu Fei, "Your Highness is worried now. You can see that I didn't cheat you."

"Your Highness, what's the matter? If so, there will be at most eight or nine thousand soldiers in half a year's time. These soldiers who have only been trained for half a year are not the natural enemies of the barbarians. If they don't have the benefit of armour, they will lose a lot."

Xiao Ming covered his forehead and reclined on the chair. "Don't you think I want to equip the new army with plate armor? As a matter of fact, I have a lot of helplessness. "

Plate armour still can't keep up with the production. Now it's time to build artillery. Xiao Ming is really the first two.

At this time, he understood why it was so hard for a country to keep a standing army of 100000 people in ancient times. The food and drink of the army were all money, and the armor and other weapons and equipment needed to be maintained.

Cavalry is a big spender. A cavalry should not only be equipped with four horses, but also have a special auxiliary soldier to serve the cavalry.

This auxiliary soldier's function is equivalent to the Western Knight's retinue, specially serves the cavalry equipment and the horse.

And this horse is not a fuel-efficient lamp. It's fastidious to eat grass, which must be of high quality. It costs a lot of money.

The workshop area is a big money maker as well as a big money spender. The slaves in the workshop spend a lot of money on food and clothing, not to mention the rich mines.

In a word, he made a lot of money during this period, but he also spent a lot of money. Most of the money was put into production, only a lot of money was put into agriculture, such as farming cattle and tools.

Luffy was dumb.

Chen Wenlong comforted: "don't worry, Lu Xiaowei. If there are enough materials, it's naturally the most important thing in the army."

"That's right. You can train at ease. I'll think of a way to deal with the armor." Xiao Ming said.

Lu Fei had to give up.

Let Lufei go back first, Xiao Ming said to Chen Wenlong: "now the mineral supply of Qingzhou is insufficient, it seems that we can only purchase from outside."

"Yes, but in this way, your highness, watch out for slander in the court." Chen Wenlong reminded.

Xiao Ming frowned. Although he was a vassal, he didn't mean that he could do whatever he wanted, but he still had to be restrained by the imperial court.

The iron ore was strictly controlled in the state of Dayu. Generally speaking, other vassal kings seldom bought iron ore from outside, but only from inside.

Because once it comes to the purchase of large quantities of iron ore, it can only show a problem. The vassal is producing weapons and armor in large quantities.

This matter is more sensitive. Now there is no war in the state of Dayu. A vassal king himself has not enough minerals to use, so he has to buy them from outside. What's his intention?

"I have a good idea. I can't say it's going to the imperial court. During this time, you should balance production and try to meet the needs of the Qingzhou army." Xiao Ming sighed.

Now that he is fledgling, he can't act willfully. Otherwise, his life will be in danger, and his hard work for more than half a year will be in vain.

"Yes, your highness." Chen Wenlong nodded.

Qian Dafu was also in the main hall. He didn't speak until Chen Wenlong left. Then he said, "Your Highness, how can the water in this mine be solved?""I'll ask the equipment department to prepare some more sets of niuli dumpers for you. Since the mine can't be produced for the time being, you'll put your energy on prospecting, especially wolframite, followed by tin and lead." Xiao Ming said.

The reason why Xiao Ming was looking for the latter two minerals was to prevent the production failure of cast iron gun, and finally used bronze gun. After all, cast iron gun has a high blasting probability.

He really can't afford to play with pure copper guns. It's real money. Now the whole state of Dayu is still using copper money.

Qian Dafu nodded.

Xiao Ming wrote about the barbarians and sent them to Chang'an.

And he went to the equipment department to find Chen Qi and discuss the gun casting.

Chang'an.

At this time, the green willows and peach blossoms were in full bloom in the palace. Empress Zhao was walking in the back garden with her concubines.

In the past six months, the concubines in the palace obviously feel that the two are getting closer and closer.

Some clever concubines have seen the clue and dare not neglect her.

A few days ago, when the king of Zhao came to Beijing to meet him, Xiao Wenxuan went out of the city to show his importance to the king of Zhao. If it had not been for the help of the king of Zhao, Xiao Wenxuan would not have been able to sit on the throne anyway. It is not surprising that the daughter of the king of Zhao became the queen of Zhao.

Today, when the crown prince's position is turbulent, it is self-evident that the king of Zhao went to Beijing. It is only from the crown prince's strength in the court these days that we can see that the crown prince is proud.

The princess seems to be paid more and more attention by the emperor in recent days, but the palace is a well-informed place.

Xiao Ming, the king of Qi, has long been known in the palace for what he did to the local aristocrats in Qingzhou.

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