Chapter 179: Four Hundred Thousand

In reality, everyone's assets have been counted and turned into a bunch of numbers, and as for what the exact purpose of these numbers is, the federal government has not released them. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In the morning, Ouyang Shuo called Sun Xiaoyue to find out about her grandfather's summoning of scientists.

According to Xiaoyue, her grandfather, in the past half a month, has contacted more than 20 scientists one after another, and they are all staying in Dali Mansion for the time being, led by Xiaoyue, familiar with the game environment.

In addition, Ouyang Shuo asked Sun Xiaoyue to do one more thing, that is, to investigate the situation of the Cui family in Dali Mansion, especially after the disappearance of Cui Yingyu, the eldest lady of the Cui family, what was the reaction of the Cui family.

After the territory was promoted to the county seat, Ouyang Shuo gradually had the confidence to contact the Cui family. While Sun Xiaoyue was still in Dali Mansion, she wanted her to match.

In the afternoon, Song Jia called Ouyang Shuo again.

Ouyang Shuo's talisman and letter really worked and successfully moved the Song family. The marriage between Song Jia and Ruan Ping has been postponed indefinitely.

After Song Jia learned the news, she couldn't admire Ouyang Shuo, and in front of Ouyang Shuo, she showed her daughter's side more and more, and often called him.

In the evening, Ouyang Shuo went online on time.

After completing his routine cultivation, Ouyang Shuo did not stop at the Lord's Mansion, but walked towards the Eastern District. For most of the month, although the city wall has not yet been completed, the county plan has been updated in advance.

The eastern area is the exclusive area of the bow and crossbow workshop, the armor workshop, the weapon workshop and the alchemy workshop.

Ouyang Shuo walked into the bow and crossbow division workshop, and Wu Peng, the director of the bow and crossbow division and the head of the workshop, and the senior bow maker, greeted him and said respectfully: "My lord! ”

In ancient society, skilled talents, or craftsmen, had a very low social status. Therefore, these skilled talents are generally inferior and have great respect for Ouyang Shuo, the lord, including the previous senior carpenter Lu Guangzhi, senior winemaker Du Chun, potter Zhu Youzhi and others, all of which are the same. Perhaps, only the director of the Jiafang Division, the master blacksmith Wang Zirconium is an outlier.

Ouyang Shuo nodded and asked, "Director Wu, how much better has the crossbow machine been built?" ”

The structure of the crossbow can be divided into three parts: the arm, the bow, and the machine. The "arm" is generally wooden; The "bow" is across the front of the arm; The "machine" is installed in the place behind the arm deviation.

The crossbow machine that Ouyang Shuo refers to is the most important part of the crossbow, the "machine".

The crossbow machine is generally made of copper, but it can also be made of iron, and it is installed in the crossbow "Guo", and the front is the "tooth" used to hang the string, and there is a "lookout mountain" behind the "tooth". The "Lookout Mountain" is engraved with a scale, which is equivalent to a ruler on modern firearms, which is convenient for adjusting the angle of crossbow firing according to the target distance and improving the hit rate of shooting.

Underneath the tongguo there is a "hanging knife", that is, a trigger, which is used to fire arrows.

When the crossbow is launched, the string is first opened, it is held on the "tooth" of the crossbow machine, the arrow is loaded in the arrow groove on the "arm", and after aiming through the "Wangshan", the "hanging knife" is pulled to shrink the "tooth", the string is unhooked, and the kinetic energy formed by the rapid rebound of the open bowstring is used to shoot the arrow at high speed.

Twenty days ago, not long after the promotion in Shanhai County, Ouyang Shuo suddenly visited the bow and crossbow workshop, and asked them to make a batch of crossbow machines with all their might, and the number should not be less than 100,000 pieces.

Although Wu Peng, the head of the bow and crossbow department, was very puzzled by such a strange request from the lord, he did not raise objections out of inferiority and obedience, but honestly complied with it.

Unlike bows, the materials are not difficult to find, and the requirements are very simple, using iron ore to forge directly. The output of bows and crossbows is limited by materials such as bowstrings, horns and cowhides, and the output has not been able to rise.

Because the crossbow division also has to take care of the manufacture of other finished bows and crossbows, it can only forge an additional 500 crossbows per day on average, and so far, just 10,000 pieces have been forged.

After listening to Wu Peng's report, Ouyang Shuo was not satisfied, and said, "Director Wu, we still have to speed up the progress. The manufacture of finished bows and crossbows can be appropriately compressed, and the demand for bows and crossbows during this time is not great anyway. ”

"Understood!" Wu Peng nodded in response.

Ouyang Shuo came out of the bow and crossbow division, and walked into the Jiafang Division workshop next to him.

It has been three and a half months since the establishment of the Jiafang Division. In early May, nearly two months after the establishment of the Jiafang Division, the Jiafang Division delivered 50 sets of Mingguang armor to the cavalry battalion and 100 sets of infantry armor to the infantry battalion for the first time.

These two batches of armor played an important role in the battle of Zhuolu and shocked the Quartet.

Similarly, this batch of armor also suffered varying degrees of damage. The damaged armor was brought back to the main map and handed over to the Kobo Division for repair, and it has been re-delivered to the cavalry battalion and infantry battalion.

After two months of pains, the group of craftsmen of the Kobo Division finally began to gradually take shape. Today, Kobo Division has 1 master blacksmith, 4 senior blacksmiths, 20 intermediate blacksmiths, and 150 junior blacksmiths. On the other hand, there are 1 master tailor consultant, 1 senior tailor, 5 intermediate tailors, and 10 junior tailors.

With such a large group of craftsmen, a month's salary is 340 gold coins, which is more than the military expenditure of a battalion, not including the cost of Mu Qingsi, a consultant.

After the labor pain, the results are significant. Starting in May, the Jiafang Division can forge 150 sets of Mingguang armor and 200 sets of step armor every month.

Because the two batches of armor delivered in early May were forged before May. Therefore, at the end of May, the Jiafang Division delivered another 150 sets of Mingguang armor to the pioneer battalion and 200 sets of infantry armor to the first battalion of the mixed brigade.

At this rate, the pioneer battalion will be ready for installation by the end of July. The first battalion of the mixed brigade can be completed by the end of June; As for the second battalion of the mixed brigade, it will not be ready until mid-September.

In a short period of time, the output of Jiafang Division will not increase much. An apprentice with a slight blacksmith qualification in the territory has been searched, and now he can only slowly find it from the newly farmed outcasts. Second, the supply of iron ore has also encountered bottlenecks.

The only mining farm in Shanhai County, which needs to supply weapon workshops to forge Tang knives and horse lances, to supply bow and crossbow divisions to forge crossbow machines and arrows, and to supply armor to Jiafang Division, has reached the limit of supply, even if it is useless to increase the number of miners, because the place is so big that it cannot be expanded.

The only way to do this is to find new iron mines in your territory.

Walking out of the Jiafang Division, Ouyang Shuo returned to the Lord's Mansion and continued to deal with government affairs.

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In the following week, Fengqingyang's Swordsman Town and Dichen's Handan Town were successively promoted to first-class counties. Especially Handan Town, after the defeat, it is not easy to re-emerge in the shortest possible time.

As a result, there are seven county-level territories in China. In the competition for the top ten, there are only three places left, and it is not known who will die.

Whether it is the majestic Overlord Town, the Shura Town that kills the army, or the floating Fallen Leaf Town, the stubborn Stone Town, or even the Dragon Hunting Town that seeks the dragon point, there are opportunities.

These five territories belong to the third sequence, compared with Shanhai County in the first sequence, Danyang County, Luofeng County, Red Blood County, Lingxi County, Jianxia County and Handan County in the second sequence are one step behind. In a short period of time, you may not have the confidence to apply for promotion. Especially like Stubborn Stone Town and Xunlong Town, even the basic conditions are not met.

The decline of the Killing Army was within Ouyang Shuo's expectations. In his previous life, the Killing Army was the weakest of the six tyrants in Handan. Because the forces represented by the Killing Army have congenital defects. These groups who wander in the gray area, once their assets in reality are frozen, the elites they have befriended no longer pay attention to them. Then, they are like a night pot, and when they are no longer needed, they are abandoned aside.

These people are naturally fierce in fighting, but they still lack a bit of heat to manage the territory.

During this week, the town of Swim became the biggest highlight of the territory, with a total of one medium-sized tribe and four small tribes settling in Pond Town. In other words, the three tribes who hesitated before all decided to go down the mountain. Combined with the small tribe at the beginning, the number of people in Shui Shui Town increased by 14,000 at once.

In the southern region, the mountain barbarian tribes that cooperated with Shanhai County, including the Xuanniao tribe, only two medium-sized tribes and four small tribes remained in the mountains.

Except for the Xuanniao tribe and the three small tribes that relied on the Wolf Mountain mine, the remaining medium-sized tribes and small tribes were all diehards, and it was difficult to convince them to go down the mountain in a short period of time.

The arrival of Shanman made the population of Lushui Town exceed 20,000 people, and it was directly promoted to two levels and promoted to a second-level county. Zhao Dexian was also logically appointed as the county magistrate of Shuishui.

The ambitious Zhao Dexian threw out a plan of 400,000 acres of farmland.

In Zhao Dexian's plan, 380,000 mu of farmland will be reclaimed by August, increasing the scale of farmland in Yushui County to 400,000 mu.

According to the average of 10 acres of land per person, 400,000 acres need to be cultivated by 40,000 farmers. And there are less than 20,000 farmers in Lushui County now, and more than half of them are still novices in agriculture like Shanman. If you remove the elderly and children, there will be less real labor.

If you do the math, the target of 400,000 mu seems to be a bit presumptuous and exaggerated.

In fact, Zhao Dexian has his own calculations. Lushui County uses a silver-level village building token, and the attraction rate of displaced people is increased by 40%, which means that in the county stage, 280 displaced people can be swiped every day and 8,400 displaced people can be swiped every month.

There is still more than a month to go until the second rice crop is planted in early August. In other words, as long as the difficulty of one and a half months is overcome, by mid-September, the population of Shui Shui Town can exceed the 40,000 mark.

In Zhao Dexian's view, it is very cost-effective to work hard in front of you in exchange for half a year's grain harvest. Since Zhao Dexian calculated it so clearly, Ouyang Shuo certainly had no reason to disagree. (To be continued.) )