Chapter 25: The Vanguard

"Let's !! the meal"

Feng Da's mood didn't know if he was moved or something else, he turned around and yelled at the crowd! He shook off his legs and ran back to his place, took a sip of the soup and drank it fiercely, as if this would drive away the filth in his heart!

Xiao Han didn't follow his script, but the effect he got was even better! He may only really see Xiao Han now, this is really a person who has no darkness in his heart!

Zhang Qiang and Xiaodong stood at the wide door, looking at the lively eating scene below with some embarrassment, there was no spoon, so they took a sip of the basin and took a sip, a pot of soup turned around in front of several people, and most of the soup went down, but no one ate the bones and meat!

Xiao Han walked in the crowd, and an old man with gray hair wiped his chopsticks clean on his clothes, and took the largest and most meaty piece from the basin in front of him

The bones were sent to Xiao Han, Xiao Han did not give in, reached out and took it, bit it hard, tore off a piece of meat, and handed the bone to the sturdy young man next to him who was drooling.

The sturdy young man hurriedly took the bone with both hands, and also took a bite like Xiao Han, and as a result, he tore off most of the meat, so anxious that the young man almost cried, and quickly handed the bone to the person next to him, and then used his hand to take more than half of the meat in his mouth, and held it to the uncle's mouth! Something was rolling in the uncle's eyes, and he took a bite of the meat that was handed to his mouth, and then pushed back the hand that was stunned with a large piece of meat left......

Xiao Han walked and ate at the same time, and he didn't know how long it took to get to the end, the craftsmen and auxiliaries were sincere, and they felt that Xiao Han's feelings were not mixed with those messy things, so they also reciprocated sincerity with sincerity.

Therefore, until many years later, Xiao Han and the stunned who were dying of old still clearly remembered this scene, the Tang people are kind, and the kind people should not have so much suffering, I would like to work hard for the take-off of this country with my greatest ability! Thankfully, I did......

In the past two days, Xiao Han's big courtyard has changed a lot!

In the corridor surrounding the outermost courtyard wall, there are all craftsmen and horse houses who come and go, and in the outer courtyard, there are many temporarily recruited women who are busy working in the courtyard, or sewing clothes, or choosing vegetables and cooking!

Ren Qing snuggled coldly at the door and looked at the hurried crowd, he had some doubts in his heart, he didn't know what magic Xiao Han had cast, it seemed that whenever he entered the compound, women were used as men, men were used as livestock, and he had also seen the stove used for striking iron, almost twenty-four hours a day, even if he wanted to stop, he would not stop!

Everyone seems to be holding back their strength, and there is no stealing and slippery! There is no grinding effort, not even a head-to-head exchange, as if this is not a makeshift combination, but a battle-hardened elite soldier!

But even so, in Xiao Han's opinion, the work efficiency is still terrible low, and at the end of the day, he can't even beat two hundred pairs! Xiao Han's eyes were red when he was urged by Chai Shao, but this was already the highest production capacity of dozens of blacksmiths!

"Manager Xiao Han! That's fifty new horses! โ€

"Get to the backyard! Tell them, don't send it today! โ€

"Huh? But? โ€

"No, but! When someone asks, just say what I said! โ€

"Yes!"

Looking at the newly sent large number of war horses, Xiao Han just wanted to pull his hair with a headache, in fact, it was no wonder that Chai Shao was in such a hurry, things always seemed simple, but it was difficult to do!

Xiao Han didn't expect that after a horse that had never played a horseshoe hit a horse, he wouldn't run at all because he was not used to it! It takes a while to get back to where they started, and there is simply not enough time left for them.

"Manager Xiao, the blacksmith has informed you that there is not enough charcoal!"

"If you don't have enough charcoal, go buy it for me!! Ay? Wait, charcoal? โ€

Xiao Han just yelled at the soldiers behind him, and suddenly the whole person was stunned!

In the past two days, he has always been busy formulating the process and guiding the installation, and the first-line production has only seen a few times in a hurry, and he always feels that it will not be wrong to do professional things for professional people, but at this time, he suddenly had some doubts in his heart, why do you still use charcoal for striking iron now?

The little soldier who came to report looked at the "little adult" suspiciously, and was thinking about whether to call a doctor, when suddenly there was a flower in front of him, and then he looked over, and there was still Xiao Han's shadow in front of him? Such a strange situation frightened the little soldier to sit on the ground and almost screamed!

And Xiao Han has already rushed to the blacksmith in the main courtyard at this time, this small courtyard is the most important place in the entire production line, it is said to be a small courtyard, but compared with the entire courtyard, but as far as Xiao Han is concerned, this small courtyard is more than enough to be used as a basketball court!

The defense of the small courtyard is extremely tight, because of the gradual increase in personnel, except for Xiao Han and a few other people who can enter and exit freely, the others are delusional even to take a look, since the automatic workers, the blacksmiths and apprentices inside are all eating and drinking in the small courtyard, no one wants to take a step!

In this courtyard, more than a dozen iron-making furnaces were opened, and twenty or thirty men with thick arms were trying to swing the sledgehammer, and the red-hot iron made a crisp metallic sound under the hammer strike!

The blacksmiths were all working hard, even when they saw Xiao Han coming, they just smiled innocently, and then continued to wave the sledgehammer in their hands.

They are all artisan households, in the past, the artisan household seemed to be inferior, especially when they were conscripted into the army, they should work, and it was an accident to get money, and after this young supervisor came to power, he actually overrode public opinion and set a salary for them!

Thinking about the two buckets of rice stored in the small courtyard, the old blacksmith couldn't help but cheer in his heart, in this chaotic time, there is nothing more precious than food, outside, in just a few days, a bucket of rice has been sold to a sky-high price, and after working here for two days, there are two buckets of rice in the account, and the person sent it home, enough for a family to eat enough! What a director! If you don't work hard, are you worthy of others?

Thinking of this, the old blacksmith smashed two more hammers, and sparks flew from the red iron block on the iron felt!

"Push hard! Burn up! โ€

"Okay!" The big apprentice under the iron-making furnace seemed to feel the joy of the master, and a pair of swarthy arms pulled the ๆฉ้พ  (tuรณ yuรจ) is one of the tools of ancient life, it is an instrument used to blow fire in ancient times, and the development of metal smelting has been improved by the Tangut people) The red charcoal is steaming with a pale orange fire, licking and devouring a row of pig iron at the mouth of the furnace.

Xiao Han approached the old blacksmith's iron-making furnace in a clanging sound, lowered his head and picked up a piece of charcoal that had been sprinkled on the side of the stove, looked at it seriously, and wondered even more, he never came here to point fingers, the main reason was that the Tang knife in history was simply too famous! With that kind of superb iron-smelting industry, it is his turn to talk a layman, but now that I look at it, this is too different from what I imagined, why is it not even useful for coal? It stands to reason that coal was used during the Warring States period, and there is no reason not to use coal here!

Iron-making, iron-making, the first thing to do is temperature, charcoal can't reach the temperature of coal at this point, so why not use coal?

Xiao Han, who was puzzled, grabbed the old blacksmith and said the doubts in his heart loudly in a clanging noise, but unexpectedly provoked the old blacksmith to roll his eyes.

If it weren't for Xiao Han who asked this, the old blacksmith would have even wanted to put this unashamed guy in the furnace to practice!

Yes, the coal is good, the coal temperature is high, but the iron trained by coal is very brittle, and if you use a little force, it will break, and if you use such iron trained equipment to go to the battlefield, it is suicide!

Quite impatiently explained to the little director, and the old blacksmith decided to send Xiao Han out: Thank you for your concern, the director, these rough jobs will be handed over to us rough people, wouldn't it be better for you to go to the pergola over there to have a cup of tea and fan a fan?

Xiao Han was pushed to the door by the old blacksmith with a smile, his sprout-like figure was the opponent of the old blacksmith, this is still the old blacksmith's mercy, or Xiao Han would have pulled his collar and threw it out!

"Big brother, uncle, uncle! Listen to me, I'm a layman, but I know science! I know you don't like laymen's blind commands, but you can at least let me finish! โ€

"Lord Steward, old man, I've been striking iron all my life, why haven't I seen it? Haven't tried it? Rest there, Lord Sir! โ€

"Uncle, listen to me, I really have a way to make you strike iron fast and well, not to mention anything else, the speed is increased several times like playing!"

"Hahaha...... You can really joke about it, go out and turn left, there is an empty room, the beds are all made in it, the manager might as well go in and rest..."

โ€œโ€ฆโ€ฆ Old Zhao Tou! I order you to shut up now! โ€

Seeing that people didn't listen to what he said, Xiao Han was helpless, and finally had to show the majesty of the manager! puffed up his breath and yelled at the old man like the iron tower, and the old man was stunned!

Stretched out his hand and pushed the old man, but he didn't push, Xiao Han was angry, and directly drilled under the old man's arm, and came to the small courtyard again, and then began to churn in the blacksmith's house Bush in the surprised eyes of a few people next to him, and after a few clicks, he turned out a crucible and knocked on the crucible, Xiao Han was finally happy!

"I don't know if I'm a pioneer of the Industrial Revolution......"