Ye Chunqiu has a big heart.

It is precisely because of his great heart that this new army is temporarily limited to the size of a hundred people.

This is a process from nothing to something. The reason why he chose to follow the emperor's wishes to train soldiers was not because Ye Chunqiu was very happy about his achievements, nor was he dreaming of making achievements.

The fundamental reason is that he needs a platform, and only Zhenguo Mansion can provide this platform.

This is a question of one birth and two births endlessly.

The new army needs combat power, and it must first fight and sustain itself. What support is needed? Of course, it is the most sufficient supply. Because everything requires money, the new army must have a system that is sufficient to guarantee supplies, which is the so-called money-making tool. After the new army is trained, how can it exert greater combat power? This is the problem of equipment. To strive for excellence and give the new army the best system support, then next, we must start with the metallurgy industry and forging.

In other words, the strength of the new army in the country is based on the system. How did the many military and horses sweeping the world in history finally become obsolete in the long river of history? This is because when the world is in chaos or when there is demand, they will naturally be created by the rulers. However, once the world is peaceful, these people will naturally become burdens. So the rulers waved their pens, entered the warehouse, and put their horses into the south mountain. These famous iron troops will be wiped out forever without leaving any trace.

Ye Chunqiu didn't want to create only the Qi family army and the Yue family army. What he wanted to create was a military group with deep roots. Zhenguo New Army was just an appearance. Behind the Zhenguo New Army was a crystal workshop. The emergence of crystal caused a large number of people to start supplying sand and gravel to it. You see, the stones that were not worth a penny could actually make money. Naturally, some people were willing to dig mountains and quarrying. These people, to some extent, were vassals of the crystal workshop; but the crystal workshop was new.

The vassal of the army, the new army needs equipment, so it needs special iron smelting and steelmaking workshops, and more ores are needed. Ye Chunqiu wants to make alloys, so new things have begun to be included in this system, from upstream metallurgical forging to downstream transportation and mining, everyone who is included in this system may be the big figure behind some tables, or the most ordinary craftsman, porter, and coolie who mines ore.

The new army is stronger, but the system needs to grow one point behind it. More workshops mean that it is profitable. Naturally, some merchants will be included. In the Ming Dynasty, merchants were always just puppets on the table, and behind them, there were layers of meticulous and complex networks of relationships.

What is the wish of these people? Naturally, I hope that the new army will be stronger and that the new army will create more demand. At that time, any ruling person wants to lay off the new army, which means that many people in this system will suffer heavy damage, which will affect the livelihoods of thousands of people and the huge losses of countless people behind the scenes.

Of course... it's just a conception now. In Ye Chunqiu's Zhenguo Mansion structure, smelting is just one of the links. Now the Zhenguo New Army has won the Warriors' Camp, and its prestige is rising, so it is time to strike while the iron is hot.

Sun Qi has now followed this nephew's leader. He said, "The stove has been built and the stove has been upgraded to try the fire. I took a 'heavy stone' to melt it as Chunqiu ordered, but it still did not melt. Instead, I added black stones and melted it."

The so-called heavy stone is called by the ancients. In fact, it is the tungsten gold of later generations. The melting point of tungsten gold is extremely high, reaching 2,700 degrees to melt. Ye Chunqiu found some such ores to test the temperature of the furnace.

Two thousand seven hundred degrees, this is equivalent to astronomical figures for this era.

Ye Chunqiu just wanted to give it a try.

On the contrary, Sun Qi said that the black stone had melted, which made Ye Chunqiu interested. The most content of black stone was perkin, and the melting point of perkin was around 700 degrees. This means that the newly built high-temperature furnace is far higher, and even much higher than the high-temperature furnace in the crystal workshop.

Except for a very small number of high-melting point metals such as tungsten gold, most of the melting points are below 1,700 degrees. This means that Ye Chunqiu's metallurgy will have great development. To a certain extent, his alloy steel forging can still be expected.

But Ye Chunqiu hopes that one day he can make tungsten steel. The steel forged by this precious metal is particularly hard, but it is obviously not realistic at the moment. It is not something that can be accomplished overnight to challenge 2,700 yuan.

Ye Chunqiu said: "All these days, I have spared no expense to recruit more iron craftsmen and ask them to try to open the furnace. First, try it out. Well... I need to think about some things and then go to find my uncle."

After saying goodbye to Sun Qi, Ye Chunqiu locked himself in the tent and began to concentrate on thinking about equipment.

On the contrary, he didn't have to worry about the practice. Now the new army is so prosperous. Everyone realizes that they have learned the real skills. With Wang Shouren's supervision, there is no need for Ye Chunqiu to keep an eye on it all the time.

He spread the paper and started with alloy steel. There are many types of alloy steel, with different characteristics. Adding different metals to steel has different effects. Secondly, it is the design of weapons, muskets... Ye Chunqiu did not try it for the time being, not because he did not dare to try anything, but because there was too much preparation work required. The new army now does not need to be equipped. When the scale is expanded in the future, then make plans. What Ye Chunqiu wants to do now is to build cold weapons to accumulate hot weapons in the future.

There are actually many solutions for the design of armor, and they are all ready-made information in the light brain, including chain armor, plate armor, scale armor, chain armor, etc. The defense of plate armor is obviously the strongest. Mature plate armor appeared in Europe a hundred years later, and now Europe has also appeared in the prototype of plate armor. However, due to the backward manufacturing process, most plate armors are rough and have few practical uses. In other words, mature plate armor can almost ignore most swords and bows and arrows before the large-scale and mature use of muskets. This super strong defense is far from comparable to scale armor, chain armor, and chain armor.
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