Chen Beiming?

Yang Yue stared at the other party with his eyes and asked, "Are you an official who was selected by the imperial examination when I held the imperial examination in Dandong?"

"The emperor is wise, Weichen is the official selected by the emperor in Dandong, and the emperor once personally set up a banquet to entertain Weichen and his colleagues!"

Chen Beiming held the painting scroll between his elbows, bowed slightly and saluted Yang Yue, and reported humbly and respectfully.

Back then, when Yang Yue was still the king of Yan, he ordered Li Xuanqi to carry out the imperial examination and recruited many virtuous people in Northeast China and Hebei Province.

He is from Hebei Province, the first to follow Yang Yue, and he is an official appointed by Yang Yue, in the eyes of many colleagues, they are protégés of the Son of Heaven.

At this moment, Yang Yue Yang Yue came to inspect the armory, Chen Beiming was sincerely afraid, and he felt honored and flattered.

Lin Kaiyue clenched his fists and coughed lightly, and said to the emotional Chen Beiming: "Lord Chen, today the emperor came to Shencheng Weifu for a private visit, and he has not yet gone to the mansion to rest, so he specially came to the armory workshop, if you want to know about the affairs of various workshops, you are more familiar with the affairs of various workshops in Shencheng, and slowly report to the emperor!"

Next to him, Lin Kaiyue hoped that through Chen Beiming's narration, Yang Yue could understand the affairs of the workshops in Shencheng as soon as possible, and through the money and grain harvested by the workshops, he would prove to the emperor the importance of the Northeast in the imperial court.

The emperor entered the city, but he had not yet rested, he first came to the armory, and when he heard the sound, Chen Beiming guessed the emperor's holy will, and knew more clearly that the emperor attached importance to the armory workshop and cared.

The stakes were so high that Chen Beiming didn't dare to be the slightest bit ambiguous, bowed down to Yang Yue, and led Yang Yue and his party to the inside of the armory.

While walking, he introduced the things in the armory workshop to Yang Yue......

The structure of the armory workshop is very large, the outside is surrounded by high walls, and the inside is built of two-zhang high logs, which are stacked with adobe bricks on all sides, and there are huge ventilation holes under the eaves, and the roof is covered with dense cloth tiles.

It looks square and there is nothing intriguing.

Yang Yue and his entourage walked into the house, the heat wave on their faces made their cheeks hot, the smell of billowing smoke and dust and the smell of iron burning red, in the huge house, there was no end in sight.

The inner furnace is thriving, busy craftsmen are shuttling back and forth, and many blacksmiths are wielding hammers and smashing on the burning red iron, creating sharp soldiers!

Inside the house, it seems to be in the crater of a volcano, and there are sparks everywhere.

Witnessing the vision, Yang Yue sincerely admired Fan Hengwen's vision.

Back then, when building Shencheng, he almost vetoed the other party's proposal because he consumed too much money and food.

Today, Shencheng has become an important town in the northeast, and the troops stationed here ensure the stability of the north.

The workshop in the city gave him even more shocked, surprised, and unexpected feelings!

At least, the ordnance workshop under the Ministry of Industry in Chang'an is not so large, and it is a workshop dedicated to building ordnance.

After his eyes swept over the huge area in front of him, Yang Yue was sure that he couldn't see the situation inside the workshop, and asked: "Lu Beiming, how many craftsmen are in the armory workshop, how many ordnance are made every day, and where is the place where the earth-shaking thunder is made?"

Ordnance is the weapon of the country, and powerful ordnance is the strong reliance of Datang.

Datang needs elite soldiers who can fight well and have strong wills, and they also need indestructible and unbreakable weapons.

Therefore, Yang Yue did not dare to delay at all.

What's more, judging from the current situation, the armory workshop not only manufactures killing weapons such as earth-shattering thunder, but also manufactures other ordnance.

At the beginning, when he led the generals to fight against the Turks in Guannei Province and Hedong Province, Lin Kaiyue once sent elite soldiers to transport a lot of ordnance from Dandong to the front line, including newly made armor, long knives, spears, as well as newly developed repeater crossbows, rigid military vehicles, bed crossbows, crash cars and other huge ordnance.

These indestructible ordnance greatly changed the situation of the Tang Dynasty and the Turks, reduced the casualties of the Tang army, and made the Tang army more and more brave when attacking cities and seizing land on the front line.

As the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, he couldn't ignore the ordnance of the soldiers.

Hearing this, Chen Beiming took two or three steps forward, raised his hand to the distance, and said with a serious expression: "Your Majesty, there is a hole in the armory, at present, the place where we are located is the Eastern District, which has accommodated 10,000 craftsmen, and can make 50,000 arrows and feathers, 20,000 longbows, and 3,000 pairs of armor every day!"

The number of craftsmen in the southern region is also quite large, also about 8,000, who are responsible for making all kinds of siege ordnance, and the catapults alone are about 100 per day.

However, the amount of arrows, longbows, and armor consumed in siege warfare far exceeded that of various siege ordnance, so usually the southern region also made arrow feathers, longbows, armor, etc.

The number of craftsmen in the western region is small, about 4,000 people, who are specially responsible for making earth-shaking thunder.

There are only about two hundred people in the northern region, however, they are the core of the armory, responsible for researching new ordnance, firearms, and the harvest is not small."

"Oh!"

"Research new ordnance, firearms, Lu Beiming, you tell me carefully!"

Repeating crossbows, bed crossbows, siege vehicles, and catapults, no matter how powerful, are cold weapons after all, and the power of marching combat is limited.

Hot weapons are completely different from cold weapons, not to mention the great lethality, if they can be fought on a large scale of the battlefield, it will completely change the current way of fighting.

This will deeply affect the pattern of Datang and the Quartet forces, and even greatly accelerate the speed of Datang's domination of the world.

Yang Yue heard the sound and had to be interested.

"Your Majesty, the earth-shaking thunder is powerful, but the craftsmen have found through repeated trials that when fighting, affected by the physical strength of the soldiers, the range of the earth-shaking thunder projectile is limited, and it is difficult to cause large-scale harm to the enemy, let alone kill the enemy from a distance.

At present, Wechen has gathered many craftsmen who are good at making kites to study whether they can make the earth-shaking thunder fly and expand the killing range!

Or, make a huge and convenient killing weapon like a repeater, catapult, or bed crossbow for the Skyquake Thunder, so as to completely increase the power of the Skyquake Thunder and cause great harm to the enemy."

After Chen Beiming finished speaking, he took Yang Yue to a high ground, and by the way, he ordered the pro-army to go and gather the craftsmen who made the earth-shattering thunder.

At this time, the long axis clamped under the elbow was sent to the two forbidden soldiers next to him, and the forbidden army grabbed both ends of the long axis and slowly unfolded it!

There are a lot of well-drawn and sketched figures in the scroll, and the structure of the strict design, and there are fine small characters written next to each figure, proposing the improvement method and the effect.

Chen Beiming stepped forward and reported to Yang Yue: "Your Majesty, this is the graphic designed by the craftsmen after countless days and nights, repeated attempts, the previous Wechen just got, too late to review, the emperor will look at it for the time being, after the Weichen review in the coming day, and the craftsman thoroughly determines the production method, it will be encrypted and sent back to the Ministry of Industry, and ask the colleagues in the Ministry of Industry to do the final review, and the emperor will choose in person!"

Happy New Year.

(End of chapter)