Mr. Lu walked in Bianjing City, a production workshop for defeating the enemy bows belonging to the military weapon supervision.

Everything in front of him shocked him!

In the long wooden shed, dozens of workers were sitting in front of a long wooden table that was almost the same length as the shed.

Everyone is busy doing their own things.

Someone held a file and smashed the wooden objects into shapes of a certain size.

When he completed a certain amount of work, he would push what he had made to the next person through the long wooden tracks set on the long table.

The next craftsman will immediately start his own work after taking over.

Finally, after dozens of people's handling, the parts made were pushed by the guide rails to the workers sitting at the end.

The worker held the caliper and carefully inspected each final product.

After confirming that there are no defects, these products will be sent into a red wooden frame.

The products he considered unqualified were discarded in the cyan wooden frame next to them.

And the productivity of doing this is beyond imagination!

Lu Gongya just stood and watched for a while, and the workers in the workshop had already produced dozens of qualified products.

As he watched all this, Mr. Lu let out a sigh of relief.

He knows how to produce military weapons!

In the third year of Yuanfeng, he was appointed as the deputy envoy of the Privy Councillor of the late emperor. During the five routes of attack on Xia, he was responsible for the supply of armor and weapons, and once directly paid for the military weapons prison.

Therefore, Mr. Lu was one of the few ministers among the scholars and officials of the Song Dynasty who really knew how to produce and manufacture military weapons!

Therefore, Lu Gongzhu knew the past production methods of the Song Dynasty military weapons supervision.

It is up to the meticulous craftsmanship and the master craftsmen who have been plundered from all over the world!

And a skilled craftsman is rare!

Every good bow, every strong crossbow, and every piece of armor.

They are all the products of the hard work and meticulous work of craftsmen.

For example, it takes seventy to make a pair of the most ordinary step armor.

In other words, seventy skilled craftsmen need to form a Step A production group, and then they can work together to complete the manufacturing.

Even so, the productivity is very slow.

A group of seventy-person craftsmen, generally speaking, produces at most one hundred to one hundred and fifty pairs of mail each year.

This is what Wang Anshi achieved after the reform.

Before Wang Anshi's reform, the armor and weapons of the Song Dynasty were notoriously bad and expensive.

Haoshuichuan, Sanchuankou and Dingchuanzhai lost three games, except for the armor of the senior military officials.

The armor of ordinary soldiers is not qualified.

The bow strings of the bow are tide, the arrows are blunt, and the arrows shot are soft. Not to mention breaking the defense, even the cloth armor worn by the Western thief who hit the son may not be able to penetrate!

Iron armor is generally very crisp, and there have been iron armor that was shot through by a random arrow by the Western thief.

As a result, extremely exaggerated things happened in the Song Dynasty during the Renmiao era.

The Western thief's wart armor actually became the treasure armor that the civil and military ministers of the Song Dynasty competed to grab!

Han Qi got a pair back then, and was very happy and solemnly collected it. Only when there were distinguished guests, they would be displayed to the guests.

It is the first time since the Han and Tang Dynasties.

The Central Plains Dynasty was completely destroyed by barbarians in terms of military weapons and weapons!

At that time, even the imported Japanese sword was regarded as a treasure sword in the Song Dynasty!

It is precisely because of these lessons.

After the Xining reform, Wang Anshi wanted to establish a military weapon supervisor and mobilize the skilled craftsmen from all over the world to concentrate on Bianjing for production and manufacturing.

At the same time, various technologies in the world are also concentrated to be used in military weapons production to ensure the quality of weapons!

Since Xining, the quality of the military weapons of the Song Dynasty began to improve.

Finally, in terms of quality, the quality of the Western thieves could be compared with the military weapons of the Western thieves, and in the Yuanfeng era, the quality of the Western thieves was surpassed the quality of the weapons in terms of bows, crossbows, swords and halberds!

This is the material basis for the Song army to rise and gradually gain battlefield advantages in the Xi and Feng era.

It is precisely because of this that the scene in front of him shocked Lu Gong.

He turned around and looked at Shen Kuo who was behind him and accompanied him to inspect.

"Shen Lifting, is this the 'production line'?" he asked.

Shen Kuo nodded and replied: "Report to Zuo Kui, it's the production line!"

He said proudly: "In the eighth year of Yuanfeng, the officials were resurrected by the grace of the officials and were ordered to promote the military weapons bureau!"

"Short after taking office, the official ordered me to sort out the parts and objects required by the general's weapons and equipment in the supervision of the general's weapons, and then split them into different processes based on their characteristics, materials, and craftsmanship."

"What the craftsmen here are responsible for is part of the material that defeats the bow body in the enemy's bow..."

"And the enemy bow was divided into seventeen different parts..."

"In the end, all parts will be assembled in the assembly workshop and then passed the limit test before they can be paid to the Privy Council for storage..."

"Since using this method, the production volume and quality of all kinds of armored instruments in military weapons supervision have been greatly improved!"

"Especially, in the first year of Yuanyou, with a new blast furnace, after smelting refined iron and steelmaking... the benefits of the armor of the Song Dynasty were already the best in the world!" Speaking of this, Shen Kuo proudly raised his head: "Last year, the military weapon supervision production reached more than 3,400 pairs, more than five times the past!"

"Next year or the year after, it may reach the scale of tens of thousands of pairs of iron armor per year!"

"Ten thousand pairs of iron armor?" Mr. Lu took a deep breath: "How is this possible?"

"Even if the craftsmen can do it, where can I get so many good irons?"

Lu Gongzhu is very clear.

Don’t look at the large iron production of prefectures and counties in the Song Dynasty.

But in fact, the quality of most iron produced by iron supervision is worrying!

In the eighth year of Yuanfeng, Wu Juhou's yamen on Jingdong Road was almost captured by craftsmen from the Liguojian of Xuzhou.

A dignified fortune-teller could only climb the wall and escape in a hurry.

One of the reasons is that Wu Juhou once asked the blacksmith of Li Guojian to cast iron coins and then transported them to Shaanxi, Xihe and other places for military expenses.

However, Xuzhou iron crispy and cast iron coins were transported to Shaanxi and Xihe.

No one wants it!

In the end, he could only give the soldiers a discount for most of the time before he could barely accept it.

The iron coins cast by workers in Liguojian were mostly depreciated in Xihe, Shaanxi before people could accept it by pinching their noses.

Of course, the reward Wu Juhou promised to Li Guojian could not be fulfilled.

As a result, the people of the Liguojian were infuriated.

It happened that Wu Juhou was investigated by the court at that time. Some legend said that Wu Juhou was about to be taken back to the court and was sentenced to prison for his crime.

When the workers of Li Guojian heard this legend, they immediately gathered and besieged Wu Juhou's official office.

I was worried that he would be captured by the court, so the big guy would have nowhere to ask for his reward!

Afterwards, the court sent Kumamoto to Jingdong Metro Road to recover from the aftermath.

With Han Jiang's support, Kumamoto paid the reward he had agreed to instead of Wu Juhou, and then he calmed down the Li Guojian.

But is it only the iron fragile of Li Guojian?

As Lu Gongzhu knew, most of the iron produced by the iron regulators in the Song Dynasty generally had the problem of fragility.

The iron of Li Guojian is just outstanding in terms of crispness.

In the Song Dynasty, the real good iron was in the hands of those skilled craftsmen who mastered the technology of steelmaking in the southeastern places such as Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Yangzhou.

Only armor made of steel made of 100 steel can be strong enough.

But one is extremely expensive in one hundred steelmaking, and the other is the output is scarce.

This is also the reason why iron armor was scarce in the Western Army of the Song Dynasty.

Even less than 30% of the elite soldiers can wear iron armor, and the rest are leather armor.

Now, Shen Kuo told him that last year, the military weapon supervisor produced more than 3,000 pairs of iron armor.

Next year or the year after, this number may be pushed to the level of tens of thousands of pairs!

How is this possible?

Shen Kuo smiled and said, "It is normal for Zuo Kui to not believe it."

"But Zuo Kui may not know that the Xiaguan had been in the eighth year of Yuanfeng. He used the way to investigate things and the command of the official sage philosopher as the main point, which has solved the problem of our dynasty!"
To be continued...