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    Chapter 383 Establishing an Arsenal

    Li Zhen frowned when she heard Di Renjie say there were some difficulties. Spring plowing is now a top priority and cannot be delayed.

    So Li Zhen asked: "What's going on?"

    "There are still wheat seeds, but corn seeds and sweet potato seeds are in short supply. It is impossible to find enough corn and sweet potato seeds in a short period of time."

    "Corn and sweet potatoes are high-yielding crops that can effectively solve Yingzhou's food problem. If buckwheat is grown, the yield will be much different from corn and sweet potatoes. Therefore, corn and sweet potatoes must be the main crops planted."

    But the shortage of corn seeds and sweet potatoes is a problem.

    "System, can I exchange corn and sweet potato seeds?" Li Zhen used her mind to communicate with the system.

    "The system is being updatedThe system is being updated"

    "Sweat! The relationship is always off the chain"

    Li Zhen despises the system. Now it seems that the system cannot be counted on and she can only find a way on her own.

    "Do the powerful people in Yingzhou have sweet potatoes and corn seeds?" Li Zhen asked.

    "Yingzhou was originally sparsely populated, so there were not many powerful people. In addition, sweet potatoes and corn were not popularized in Yingzhou, so those powerful people would not have corn and sweet potato seeds."

    "But His Highness reminded me that although there are none in Yingzhou, sweet potatoes and corn have been introduced to Hebei Province. There should be corn and sweet potato seeds in Pingzhou, but now Pingzhou is under the rule of King Zhao Li Fu, and Li Fu  They are very hostile to us, and I¡¯m afraid they won¡¯t be able to get seeds through normal channels.¡±

    "If you can't get it through normal channels, then get it secretly. Huaiying, I'll leave this matter to you. No matter how much money is spent, sweet potatoes and corn seeds must be obtained and distributed to the people in the shortest possible time."

    Di Renjie nodded and said, "Okay, then I will go to Pingzhou myself and get the seeds back within half a month."

    After explaining to Di Renjie, Li Zhen led the guards at full speed and arrived at Liaodong Prefecture at noon the next day.

    Looking from a distance, there are many chimneys in the Liaodong Prefecture Industrial Zone, and thick smoke is rising continuously. Li Zhen knows that it is the smoke exhaled by the steel-making furnace, but the steel-making furnaces of this era are not as tall and tall as those of later generations.  It is less than 10 meters, with a bottom diameter of 3 meters, a thicker middle part, and a furnace wall thickness of 0.40-0.80 meters.

    The outer skin of the blast furnace is built with gravel walls, and the inner wall is built with sandy refractory soil.

    Although it is not too tall, the scene of hundreds of advantageous blast furnaces starting work at the same time is very spectacular, which gives Li Zhen the illusion that she has returned to a modern factory.

    As soon as they entered the industrial zone, Shangguan Yi, who was in charge of the construction of the industrial zone, received the report and immediately came to see Li Zhen.

    Li Zhen asked Shangguan Yi how she was doing now.

    Shangguan Yi said with a smile on his face: "This was originally the iron smelting center of Goguryeo. Most of the blast furnaces are ready-made and can be used with a little repair, so the construction went smoothly.

    There are enough people now, and the supply of iron ore and coal is enough. We can produce 100,000 jins of pig iron every day. This has not yet been fully activated. When these blast furnaces are completed and fully activated, there will be no problem in producing 150,000 jins of iron a day.  "

    After listening to Shangguan Yi¡¯s words, Li Zhen was very satisfied. One hundred thousand kilograms of pig iron a day would be more than 36 million kilograms a year, which is nearly 20,000 tons.

    This output is already quite a lot under the current circumstances.

    You must know that even in the economically developed Song Dynasty, the annual steel output was only 150,000 tons. It is indeed very rare to reach this scale in a short period of time.

    Of course, in Li Zhen¡¯s vision, this is only the initial stage. Once the industrial zone has accumulated a certain amount of experience, the production scale will be expanded, at least to an annual output of more than 200,000 tons of steel.

    By then, Liaodong Prefecture will become a steel city and the heavy industry base of Datang.

    Under the current situation, Li Zhen decided to mainly use the produced iron to make agricultural tools to meet the current needs of production and life.

    As for the creation of weapons, there is no rush. Li Zhen has deployed the best blacksmiths and has been building an arsenal for the past few months, preparing to build firearms such as muskets, grenades, swarms, and Fran cannons.

    At the same time, in order to cooperate with the manufacture of these firearms, a gunpowder factory had to be built. Fortunately, several craftsmen who were responsible for manufacturing gunpowder had been in Youzhou and followed Cheng Chuli to Yingzhou and later to Liaodong Prefecture.

    These craftsmen have mastered the formula and manufacturing method of yellow gunpowder, so Li Zhen decided to build a gunpowder factory with these craftsmen as the core. In the past few months, the gunpowder factory has?The factory buildings and equipment are in place and workers have been recruited.

    For the sake of confidentiality and safety, Li Zhen placed the location of the gunpowder factory and arsenal in a valley and sent a thousand soldiers to defend it to protect the arsenal and gunpowder factory and prevent the secrets of weapons manufacturing from leaking out.

    By this time, the infrastructure of these two factories has been completed and production is about to begin.

    Li Zhen inspected the arsenal and gunpowder factory and couldn't help but sigh. The current arsenal technology is still too backward. All weapons need to be made by hand. This seriously affects the accuracy of the weapons and the speed of weapon production. If there is  A few machine tools for producing weapons would be fine.

    Unfortunately, machine tools can only be a luxury in this era. However, Li Zhen also thought of a question. Even if there are machine tools but no motors, how can these machine tools be used?

    It seems that an electric motor, or at least a steam engine, must be invented in order to achieve a rapid development in the level of weapons manufacturing.

    Compared with electric motors, the principle of steam engines is much simpler, and the technology is also simpler. Unfortunately, I only know a little bit about steam engines. I can't develop a steam engine in a short time. I can only see if I can get it from the system in the future.  To steam engine or electric motor technology.

    While Li Zhen was inspecting Liaodong Prefecture, Di Renjie had already led several large ships across the sea to Pingzhou.

    Di Renjie was very cautious and did not let the fleet enter Pingzhou Port. Instead, he stayed outside and made an appointment to come to the bottom of the port to meet him at night.

    Di Renjie took a dozen people and took the gold and silver with them to the shore in a small boat.

    Di Renjie¡¯s goal this time is very clear, which is to find Xiao Caiwen, a powerful man in Pingzhou, to obtain sweet potato and corn seeds.

    Xiao Caiwen is the largest powerful man in Pingzhou, as well as the largest businessman and landowner. His family owns thousands of hectares of fertile land and hundreds of shops. Because the agriculture in Hebei Province is relatively developed, Xiao Caiwen's biggest business is in the grain business, selling grain from Hebei to  Guanzhong area, and then transport the products from various places back to Hebei Road. This time, there will be huge profits.

    At this time, Xiao Caiwen had hoarded a lot of corn and sweet potatoes in Pingzhou (remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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