Qingshuigou, twenty miles west of Lingzhou City, was originally a tributary of the Yellow River, irrigating two or three hundred thousand dumps of land around Lingzhou. At this time, on the bank of this small river, which is no more than 400 steps wide, under the auspices of Chen Ying, the Lingzhou Iron and Steel Plant began to break ground.

Although it has entered the March of the second year of Wude, Lingzhou is still cold and windy. However, the energetic people of Lingzhou and the prisoners of war have begun to sweat beads on their foreheads.

Chen Ying is not a steelmaking professional, and his nominal presiding over is only to put forward some reference opinions. The specific matter is still presided over by Lin Chuanfu. Chen Ying presided over the revision of the Lingzhou Iron and Steel Plant, with a designed production capacity of 20,000 catties a day. That's five tons, and of course this scale is similar to the post-family workshop level. However, in this era, it is already quite large.

Lin Chuanfu is a legendary craftsman, and he designed a system of hydraulic bellows, which resembles an accordion. The top and bottom are planks. I wrap it around with folded leather. Use the water flow difference of Qingshui ditch to drive the ground bellows. Chen Ying originally wanted to directly abandon this primitive bellows and make a hydraulic fan blower instead. However, the idea has just been proposed.

Lin Chuanfu looked at Chen Ying with incredible eyes.

Chen Ying was a little embarrassed by Lin Chuanfu's gaze, Chen Ying blushed and asked, "What's the problem?" ”

"Problem, big problem!" Lin Chuanfu will become gushing when he talks about professional things: "Although the water power is strong, the rotation speed is too slow, how can the wind be formed?" And if you increase the speed and use the ratchet, it is not impossible to do it, but in this way, there will be new problems, not to mention that the shaft is easy to break, how to solve the problem of air supply? ”

In fact, after Lin Chuanfu's explanation, Chen Ying discovered the gap between laymen and insiders. Gears, bearings, shafts, and lubricants that were not a problem at all in later generations were unsolvable problems in this era. The use of ground bellows fans is the most economical and affordable way.

Chen Ying was very relieved to hand over the task of revising the steel plant to Lin Chuanfu. For this iron and steel plant, Chen Ying specially set aside nearly 2,000 acres of land on the bank of the Qingshuigou River as factory land. The whole factory is divided into four areas. It is a blast furnace area, a coal storage area, an iron ore storage area and a living area for the families of craftsmen.

Four major areas started at the same time. Nearly 20,000 young people started work at the same time, and the entire Lingzhou Iron and Steel Plant became a huge construction site. The Han slaves who had just been freed from the Turks were too weak to recuperate, and they were not useful for the time being. As time passed, more and more Han slaves were released by the Turks, and Lingzhou alone received more than 50,000 people, and more than 50,000 mouths had to eat a mountain of grain every day.

Governor Shi Yang took the lead and couldn't support it, he found Chen Ying and complained: "Manager Chen, we don't have much food, if there are more people, we won't be able to support it for even a month!" ”

Chen Ying said disapprerovingly: "Originally, we didn't seize more than 30,000 dead or injured horses, and kill all those injured horses and waste horses to eat meat!" ”

"Hey, Manager Chen, you really don't know how expensive firewood and rice are!" Yang Ze sighed, his face even more bitter: "You don't know, how many people in Lingzhou are eating now?" ”

"How much?"

"That's 100,000!" Yang Zedao: "Based on two catties of grain per person, you will eat 200,000 catties a day." In addition, whether it is repairing iron and steel plants or mining coal and iron mines, this is heavy physical work, and if you don't have enough to eat, you don't have the strength to work at all. ”

Suddenly, Chen Ying found that Yang Zemeiyu was not worried, but looked relaxed: "Yang Changshi seems to have a clever plan?" ”

Yang lowered his head and coughed to hide his embarrassment. I was so carried away that Chen Ying could see it.

Yang Zedao: "Chief, the Turks were shocked by my Tang Tianwei, and let back the people who had plundered before, such a happy thing, why not report to Chang'an?" ”

Chen Ying realized that he subconsciously regarded himself as the master. If there is a difficulty, he will try his best to solve it, and he has not considered Chang'an at all.

In any case, these people have been rescued, and the Turks are also in a state of flux, and they actually have no surplus food to feed these slaves, so they will happily release these captive Han people. Although he was scared by Chen Ying, most of the Turkic nobles were not afraid of Chen Ying.

If it weren't for Princess Yicheng telling these Turks that spring was about to begin, after a winter of tossing, the cattle, sheep and horses had lost weight seriously, and the Tang people didn't need to fight, they only needed to drag, and they could be dragged to exhaustion. As long as it is winter, a white-haired wind blows down, and they will suffer heavy losses.

There is a saying that the season of the year lies in spring, and this sentence is not only applicable to the Han people, but also to the Turkic people. No matter what kind of animal it is, it likes to mate and breed when there is plenty of food and a mild climate. So when the grass grows in spring, war horses, cattle and sheep all begin to come into heat. If it is because of the war, the estrus of the animals will be delayed, then the Turks will suffer heavy losses, almost similar to the Han people's experience of no harvest.

However, the Turks did not have the habit of storing food, and if it were not for the continuous disaster victims, even if there were places where there was no harvest, there would not have been a large number of disasters. But the Turkic people's ability to resist natural disasters was weaker than that of the Han Chinese. The Turks, who had just survived a long, cold winter, at this time their horses were emaciated, and their cattle and sheep were severely fat, and if another war broke out, they would have to drink the northwest wind. Unless they can guarantee that this battle will be won.

No matter what the Turks released from these plundered Han people, but for the Tang Dynasty, this is a very proud and proud thing, since the end of the Great Cause, the Central Plains was turbulent, and the Turks regarded the Central Plains as their own vegetable garden, ready to pick at any time.

As long as Chen Ying reported the news to Chang'an, Li Yuan would definitely not be stingy with food. Chen Ying naturally didn't slap his swollen face and become fat, so he nodded directly and said: "That's fine, just bother Yang Changshi to write this recital, this manager can co-sign with you!" ”

Here, Yang Ze has just written the fold, and he hasn't had time to send it out yet. Someone came to say, "Enlighten the manager, report urgently." Chen Ying had just opened it, and his face had changed greatly.

"What's wrong?"

Yang asked nervously, "What's wrong?" ”

"thief!" Chen Ying said indignantly: "The newly appointed Guan Jun Rong envoy of the imperial court was attacked at the foot of Liupan Mountain in Gaoping, Yuanzhou, and most of the followers were killed and wounded, and the new Guan Jun Rong envoy Li Daozong was killed and killed by an arrow!" ”

Yang's face changed drastically.

Here, Liu Zhongzhi had just fled back to Chang'an, and the new military envoy had not had time to take office, and was attacked again. At this time, Chen Ying was afraid that he would not be able to wash it even if he jumped into the Yellow River.