Chapter 395: Inspecting the Luoyang Weapons Workshop

The manager of the weapons workshop in Luoyang City is a member of the clan of Wu Yi, a master blacksmith in Luoshen Town. His name is Wu Zheng. Lou Gui arranged to be the steward of the workshop. Seeing Huangfu Chaobo and his party enter the weapon workshop, Wu Zheng, who was notified, immediately put down his work and rushed to the door to greet him.

"Wu Zheng has met the prefect! I have seen Lord Lou! I have seen General Dian!" When he walked halfway, he met a group of people who had just entered the door, and Wu Zheng hurried forward to salute.

"Okay, there's no need to be too polite, since Mr. Lou has arranged for you to be in charge of the workshop, then you will take me around your site next!" Huangfu Chaobo waved him to stand up, and said ;

What Huangfu Chaobo said lightly, but Wu Zheng thought it was the prefect who was dissatisfied with him, and was so frightened that he was sweating profusely. Fortunately, Lou Gui saw the abnormality and said: "Don't be nervous, the prefect just After coming back from another place, I haven’t been in Luoyang for several months, and this trip is just to get a detailed understanding of the weapon workshop!” Wu Zheng was relieved, and quickly led Huangfu Chaobo and others to the small workshops one by one. Participate in understanding.

The entire weapon workshop is divided into front and rear areas. The front large area is used to manufacture common weapons and equipment, while the rear, slightly smaller area is used to manufacture higher-level or relatively more important weapons and equipment. of. The front area was further divided into several small workshops. Wu Zheng first led into a workshop for making knives. There were almost two hundred blacksmiths in this workshop, mainly intermediate level, supplemented by junior blacksmiths and blacksmith apprentices.

What is manufactured here is the 30th ring head knife. After the system is updated, all weapons and equipment must be purchased or manufactured by yourself, especially the 30th ring head knife with a particularly large amount of equipment, not just swords and shields To use it, basically all units above Tier 4 to Tier 7 are equipped with this kind of knife. For example, for a Tier 30 light cavalry, his standard equipment is a Tier 30 ordinary war horse, a Tier 30 leather armor, Level 30 ring sword, level 30 one-handed shield. Another example is a level 45 light armor archer. His standard equipment is a level 40 ordinary horse, a level 40 iron light armor, a level 30 refined iron bow, and a level 30 ring sword. The real use of refined iron knives above level 40 is the eighth-level guard who has reached level 50 or above. The level 30 ring sword can actually be used by soldiers from level 30 to level 40. If there is not enough refined iron {that is, iron ore with an updated quality of level 7 to level 9}, it can even be used up to level 50. Because the material requirements for the ring head knife are not high, only iron ore with a quality of at least four grades is sufficient.

Looking at these bustling blacksmiths, Huangfu Chao Bo said: "How is the output?"

"Returning to the prefect, the production here is generally that apprentices make iron ore into rough billets, then hand them over to junior blacksmiths for preliminary molding, and finally hand them over to intermediate blacksmiths for final processing and sharpening. About 500 ring-shou knives can be made, but there is not enough iron ore in Luoyang City, and the number of knives that can be made every day is only about 350. Since the villain started taking over the weapon workshop two months ago until today , about 20,000 Huan Shou knives were made." Wu Zheng replied without thinking;

Seeing that Wu Zheng gave the answer so quickly, Huangfu Chaobo was very satisfied, and said, "Yes, as a manager, the most important thing is to do this. By the way, the iron ore you just said is insufficient. What's the situation?"

"Let this question be answered by the old man. It's like this. Originally, there should be a lot of iron mines around Luoyang, but because our control area can't reach the surrounding counties at all, so all the iron mines now They can only be purchased from other people. In addition, after the imperial court changed the military system, all the weapons and equipment of soldiers and horses need a lot of ore, so the current price of iron ore is continuously rising. According to Zhao Zilong’s son will return According to the news, not only Luoyang, but the price of raw materials in the entire Dahan territory is rising.

" Lou Gui said on the side;

"Huh? This is a problem. If you didn't remind me, I haven't noticed it yet. How about the iron ore reserves in Luoyang now? And what about the reserves of various weapons and equipment?" Huangfu Chaobo thought in his heart Surprised, asked hastily;

"We have been working on materials. There are about 100,000 catties of high-grade ore in the warehouse, which are basically not used; there are a little more than 200,000 catties of medium-grade and low-grade ore, but they consume several hundred thousand catties every day. Ten thousand catties, and the amount purchased is basically equal to the consumption. As for the reserves of weapons and equipment, there are currently about 50,000 ring swords, 10,000 pieces of armor at level 30, and 20,000 spears with fine iron heads at level 30. There are 5,000 level 30 fine iron war bows, 100,000 arrows, and more than 30,000 pieces of various weapons and equipment below level 30 are now stored in the warehouse. These are all captured in previous battles. The workshop was repaired and then stored for later use when recruiting troops. There is also the issue of war horses. Although there are nearly 4,500 soldiers in the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, some horses have been damaged in previous battles. There are only 7,000 level 40 war horses in total, which is nearly 2,000 horses away from one man with two horses."

"The stock of weapons and equipment above level 30 is not enough. Let Luoshen Town and Chen Jing be informed to speed up the purchase of various ores. Weapons and equipment below level 30 should be stocked first. There will be no increase in low-level soldiers in the near future. As for the horses. ..." When mentioning war horses, Huangfu Chaobo also felt a headache; "Longhua does have war horses. There are nearly 10,000 war horses and good horses at levels 30 to 40. There are more than 2,000 good horses here. , but we are too far away from Longhua, and there are four or five forces in the middle. It is not easy to get a large number of war horses back! Well, let’s talk about these things later, let’s read the weapons first The situation of the workshop, and in the past few days, Mr. and I will inspect the inner city and several towns outside the city, and then we will discuss all the issues together!"

"Guy takes the order!" Lou Gui thought it was feasible, and then retreated behind Huangfu Chaobo and stopped talking.

"Okay, Manager Wu, let's continue!" Huangfu Chaobo turned his head and said to Wu Zheng;

Seeing Huangfu Chaobo calling him that, Wu Zheng felt relieved when he knew that Huangfu Chaobo had already recognized him. Upon seeing this, he immediately led everyone to the next workshop.