Start: Datang Wanli a lonely city

Chapter 457 Hydraulic Forging Hammer
"Xiao Niang, have you seen my sworn elder brother and second elder brother in the past few days? On the way back today, I was thinking that I could take a day off so that I could have a good reunion with them in the evening~"

Hou San, who was shirtless, half-lyed on the head of his bed, asked a question so lazily.

However, although his face looked a little tired, his complexion improved a lot.

This guy returned home at Si time in the morning, that is, around nine o'clock in the morning, and then had a good time with his wife.

After tossing until I am satisfied, it is now two quarters in the afternoon, which is 11:[-] in the morning.

Of course, the above points are not important. The young couple have been separated for so long within a few days after they got married. It is quite understandable to be a little enthusiastic.

While facing his own man's questioning, his wife was busy sewing a piece of clothing.

To be more precise, at the request of the street office, some old clothes and trousers that were handed out were first changed into the style of the battle robes of the Imperial Guards of the Song Dynasty.

Then, on the shoulders, knees, elbows and other places that are prone to wear and tear, use some extra rags to reinforce them and put some ugly patches.

After the completion, hand it over to the street office again, and exchange some rice noodles in units of pieces and handwork.

In the end, these modified old clothes will be reissued to a group of new troops to be used as training uniforms for daily training.

It was only after Hou San joined the army that he realized that Da Song was a new army that lacked everything, but he didn't even have a battle uniform, at least not for the time being.

Because in the original city of Kaifeng, the Song court stockpiled a large amount of cloth and shirts.

Either the carts were sent into the Jinren's camp at the beginning, as part of the compensation for the Jinren's retreat; or they were burned by the Jinren before they retreated, seeing that they could not take them away.

As a result, some time ago, Hou San and other new troops could only train in their own clothes.

Even the current training is just a simple queue, military posture, etc., and the training subjects such as groping and rolling, which consume a lot of clothes, have not officially started.
But Hou San waited for the clothes on the new army's clothes, almost to the point of revealing their backs.

So in desperation, Kaifeng Mansion could only use food for the people, bought some surplus old clothes and came back, planning to change it a bit, and deal with the current situation first.

As for the official jersey, we have to wait for a while.

When exactly will it be available?It is said that it will wait until the newly established Commercial Department of the Ministry of Households, the former oiran who is in charge of it, and the current minister of the Ministry of Households, the noble concubine and the daughter-in-law.

When to figure out a way, get a large enough amount of fabric.

However, under the crooked attack, such a situation can be regarded as the daughter-in-law of the three Hou families in the city. This kind of woman who can't carry it on her shoulders or hands solves the problem of the source of survival.

As long as you work hard all day, you can barely eat enough to fill your stomach...

After hearing her man's question, the little lady immediately answered:
"In the past four or five days, the second brother came to our house to give a bag of millet, but I saw it once; the second brother asked me to tell you that he is afraid that he will have to live in the workshop recently. It will take some time to come back.

But the elder brother, I have never seen him these days; I saw his sister-in-law Jinlian yesterday, and said that she was doing something for a nobleman, and she didn't have to worry about eating at home. "

After hearing this, even though he knew that today was a rare holiday, he might not be able to get together with the two sworn elder brothers.

But after knowing that both of them have good errands now, they let go of all their worries.

After closing my eyes, I was ready for a good night's sleep, and waited until noon to eat a noodle soup made by my daughter-in-law, and then have a good time.

Hou San tossed so hard, not because he had suffered some internal injuries after holding back in the recruit camp for half a month.

It was only after he came back that he also learned from his daughter-in-law that the primary school run by the imperial court had already started teaching.

As long as the children are of the right age, they can go to school, but then they will be divided into different men and women, and they will be taught in two different schools.

More importantly, the primary school run by the imperial court not only does not require Shu Xiu, but also provides lunch at noon every day.

Just for this free lunch, almost all the people in the city sent their children to school.

On the one hand, after so many royal families, officials, and wealthy merchants in the city were taken away by the Jin people; many people's homes even adults have no work to do, and children staying at home are just a waste of food.

On the other hand, the city of Kaifeng is under the feet of the emperor.

Which one of the people in Kaifeng City doesn't know the truth that "everything is inferior, only reading is high". In the past, the family couldn't afford Shuxiu, and they couldn't read books.

Now that they are all in charge of a meal, they are naturally willing to send their children to school.

So Hou San also thought in his heart, let his wife conceive a child early, so as to continue the weak blood of their old Hou family.

It would be best if they are successful in their studies, and in the future they will be able to make a name for themselves outside the Donghua Gate, giving them glory to the old Hou family...

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It was night, when the night had just darkened and Hou San had fallen asleep early.

What he doesn't know is that his second brother Xie Ergou's day's work today, or the night shift, is just the beginning at such a time.

The reason for this is because of the words of Grandpa Lang Qing, Minister of the Ministry of Industry.

The new army is starved for food and lacks equipment. In order to complete the full armament as soon as possible, the people in the workshop can stop, but the machines cannot.

The so-called machines are actually some hydraulic forging hammers that are commonplace in the modern plane, and even look like antiques.

But for Xie Ergou, it was really a knife to pull his ass and open his eyes.

Since he was 13 years old, he has been learning blacksmithing from his master. For the first time, he knew that there is such an ingenious method that allows people to avoid the most tiring and proud swinging of a sledgehammer.

I saw that Grandpa Lang Qing gave way to the Xu River and artificially built several dams.

Using such a method, first created a water drop of about six feet between each other.

In this way, when the water flows on the blades of the large waterwheel built along the river, driving the waterwheel to rotate, at the same time, through some bronze gears and levers, it drives a big hammer to hit the iron felt automatically. stand up.

It can be said that as long as the water in the river is not dry, the hammer will continue to beat forever, saving an unknown amount of manpower.

Moreover, the hydraulic forging hammer can be said not to be tired; the strength of each hammer hitting, I don't know how long it is stronger than Xie Ergou, a strong man.

The effect of forging iron materials is naturally better than that of manpower.

The only problem is that the number of dams that can be artificially built on a river is limited, and naturally such hydraulic forging hammers are also limited.

Therefore, in order to use this good treasure to the extreme, the blacksmiths like Xie Ergou divided them into two shifts, day and night, and the two of them relayed the tools.

Just like that, Xie Ergou, who still had gum in the corner of his eye, replaced Old Man Sun who was on shift.

Seeing that a good iron ingot on the stove beside it has been heated by a coke oven with an automatic blower device, it has become bright red, and the temperature is definitely enough.

Holding a large tongs with both hands, he picked up the ten-jin red iron ingot and placed it on the iron felt of the hydraulic forging hammer.

Immediately, amidst a very rhythmic sound of hammering iron, the originally elongated iron ingot began to deform.

At the same time, some bright red powder kept falling off during the beating process.

As a veteran who has been forging iron for nearly 20 years, Xie Ergou naturally knew that it was an impurity in the iron, which was knocked out vigorously during repeated forging.

The cleaner these impurities are removed, the better the quality of the iron.

If it can be repeatedly forged hundreds of times, the final products will be the legendary hundred steelmaking.

It's just that in the past, if you wanted to get a piece of smelting steel, you just wanted to forge it by hand. I don't know how much time and effort it will take.

In front of him, in less than a quarter of an hour, the hydraulic forging hammer was struck out so miraculously.

And the overall appearance gradually formed a curved steel plate weighing about ten kilograms.

At such a time, there were not many impurities knocked out with each hammer; Xie Ergou quickly removed the steel plate and put it on the side.

Like a stream of water, another apprentice soon took over the follow-up work.

The apprentice took a small steel drill, and after hitting it with a hammer, he left a finger-sized hole on the four corners of the steel plate.

Holding another stencil, after hitting the lower right corner of the armor with a hammer, the imprint of a wolf's head was left on it.

After all this was done, it was put into a bucket of quenching oil beside it.

In the following time, these iron plates will be transported to the next workshop, as long as they are fitted with some straps for fastening, some cushioned leather pads, and a plate armor that can only protect the chest and abdomen. Appeared.

This thing, plus a helmet and an iron mask.

The above three-piece suit is all the armor that Lang Qing and the others have prepared for the future musketeers of the new army.

As for the imprint of the wolf's head on the armor, it was just some trivial things that Lang Qing had tossed out of his personal bad taste.

Although such a workshop with only three hydraulic forging hammers is not big, it can produce more than 100 breastplates in one day and one night.

In terms of work efficiency, I don't know how much better it is than relying on manual beating.

So much so that Xie Ergou and other blacksmiths are completely clean every day.

But when Hu Biao saw such statistics, he had only one comment: "No, it's too slow..."

(End of this chapter)