Chapter 145 Underground Armory Workshop
Li Jing suddenly turned his head, staring at the manager with his eyes fiercely, and the gods shouted excitedly: "What did you say? You say it again?"
The manager didn't know what was wrong just now, his face suddenly turned dead. Two wars, sweat on his forehead kept coming out, and his voice trembled, "Small, say here."
"What you just said is true? This underground workshop can make horizontal knives, spears, longbows, horn bows, or even crossbows? And also make armor and shields?" Li Jing grabbed the manager's shoulder and shouted excitedly. Li Jing couldn't help but feel unexcited. Shamen Town is now seriously lacking weapons. Although he has started to form workshops, so far, there is only one workshop with more than a dozen blacksmiths. In addition to creating some rough spearheads, he can't even create a good horizontal knive. Not to mention bows, crossbows, armor and shields.
The manager quietly wiped his sweat, breathed a sigh of relief, and said proudly: "This workshop has been built for five years. At the beginning, it was only possible to build horizontal knives and spears. However, in recent years, the workshop has recruited many excellent craftsmen from all over the world. So far, the entire workshop has thirty-eight excellent craftsmen, 167 craftsmen of all kinds, and 183 senior apprentices and 300 introductory apprentices."
Pointing to the busy craftsmen, the manager said proudly: "Now, every eight-in-week workshop, every six-in-week workshop, every nine-in-week workshop, eight-in-week bows, and three-in-week two-in-week arrows made 150 arrows."
Li Jing calculated that the speed was already very good. On average, he could make three bows per month, three knives per month, and more than seven hundred arrows per month. It seemed that there were not many, but this was made by the cooperation of craftsmen, craftsmen and senior apprentices, and entry-level apprentices. A horizontal knife workshop has eight craftsmen's craftsman's craftsmanship team, including one formal craftsmen, two senior apprentices, five introductory apprentices, eight in cooperation, six introductory apprentices, and thirty qualified horizontal knives per month. The old craftsmen are only responsible for guidance and acceptance, and do not directly participate in the construction. According to the manager, there are ten craftsmen's craftsmen's craftsmen, producing 30 craftsmen's craftsmen in a row, producing 30 craftsmen's craftsmen in a month.
The production of a longbow is quite troublesome. The complete production cycle of a bow is three years, but most of it is the early compounding process, and the final bow-making process is seven-entering, nine-entering, eight-entering bows. The underground workshop has twenty bow-making teams, including ten teams of longbows and horned bows. Each team can make twenty-seven bows in a month, and twenty teams can produce 27 longbows and horned bows each month.
Li Jing's ability to make 300 horizontal knives and 270 long bows and horn bows in a month. After calculations, he was completely shocked. This production capacity is too powerful, and this is a mature weapon production base.
"What about the others? How much can armor, shield and crossbow produce in a month?" Li Jing now felt that he suddenly fell into a treasure. This workshop made him more moved than the fleet of eighteen ships outside.
The manager said very familiarly: "The spear workshop can create one thousand spearheads every month. In the armor workshop, it can only be used to create iron armor and leather pin armor for ordinary soldiers. The iron armor mainly has two styles, the zipper and the scale armor. The zipper is composed of square iron armor pieces. The zipper pieces are thicker and larger than the fish scales. Most of them are slightly protruded outward, and there are small round holes on the zipper pieces. They are made of leather pieces with painted surfaces. The body zipper pieces are large rectangular, and the sleeve zipper pieces are smaller. They are back-pressed from bottom to top. There are two types of yin and yang lines in the zipper pieces."
"What is the yin line and the positive line?"
The manager replied, "The Yang line has been used below the chest and sleeves of Zhajia in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. It is suitable for parts such as arms and waist that need to be moved. It is characterized by a long longitudinal rope segment between the A piece. The Yin line appears more thinly as the chest and back of Zhajia is made. It is characterized by only a few very short rope segments exposed on the surface of Zhajia. The upper and lower parts of Zhajia are completely fixed on the left and right sides of the A piece, and it is suitable for parts such as chest and back that do not need to be moved. The A piece of Zhajia in our workshop is superimposed on the A piece, and the Yin line and the Yang line are woven together."
According to the official, the armor workshop now uses armor as the main production style. Although the other iron armor scale armor is also produced, it is only produced in small quantities. Now the entire armor workshop only produces three types of armor, namely two iron armor, armor and scale armor, and leather armor. The armor shop has the most investment, which can produce 60 sets of armor per month, 40 sets of scale armor per month, and 100 sets of armor per month.
In another month, it can produce 300 iron horns, 100 round Mengniu leather wooden shields, 100 square iron shields, 100 square iron shields, 100 infantry regiment brands, 100 lacquered wooden strata, etc.
"Where is the crossbow?"
"One hundred individual crossbows a month, and ten heavy crossbows a month. In addition, it can create three thousand shè armor arrows every month, five thousand erectile sergeants, eight thousand long piles of arrows, three thousand crossbow nails, and one thousand heavy crossbow iron arrows every month."
Li Jing smiled, and he was a little unstoppable. The underground workshop of the Wang family worked in two shifts at night, with more than 700 craftsmen at all levels and types. The underground workshop made 300 horizontal knives, 270 infantry long bows, 270 cavalry horn bows, 100 individual crossbows, and 100 heavy crossbows of Fuyuan. One thousand spearheads, a total of 20,000 arrows of various types. In addition, 60 sets of armor, forty sets of scales, and 100 sets of leather armor. Three hundred iron helmets, and 400 shields of various types.
He calculated that if a Jingliang horizontal knife was calculated based on the three-spin coins, a long bow, a five-spin horn bow, a five-spin spin, a single-spin crossbow, a twenty-spin spin, a spearhead, a ten-spin spin, a ten-spin spin, a ten-spin spin, a eight-spin spin, a five-spin leather armor, a five-spin helmet, and a two-spin shield, the output this month was more than six thousand. This number was only calculated by his cost.
Wang Jin set up such a secret workshop of such a large scale on Shamen Island and made so many weapons, what would he do?
"For sale, all the weapons created were basically sold secretly to Silla, Bohai, even Khitan and Xi's Shangli, and some to the nobles of the Goguryeo destruction in Liaodong. This business lasted for several years. The weapons produced were transported to the opposite side of the sea every three months, and then exchanged for rice, horses, cattle, sheep and other items."
"Why did Wang Jin arrange his workshop on Shamen Island instead of his Dengzhou Water Village, or other places?" Li Jing asked.
"Because this matter is very secret, you must not let Wuzhi know. Otherwise, even with the status of the Wang family, if he openly smuggled and traded weapons with Silla and other countries, it would be impossible to explain. Although the water village is under the control of the Wang family, it is easy to be discovered by those who enter and enter. The Shaman Island is different. It is a semi-public smuggling port, and countless forces are entangled in it. Even Da Xie Fort dares to interfere. The Wang family secretly set up a workshop on the island, but did not enter. The fleet returned to the island to unload the goods, and could secretly transport the weapons away. For several years, it has never been discovered."
"Is this workshop owned by Wang's family or just Wang Jin? And how much are these weapons sold?"
The manager replied: "This workshop was done by Wang Jinyi, but the Wang family also paid money. The profits of the workshop were half of the Wang family and Wang Jinyi. However, the Wang family did not interfere in the specific affairs, and Wang Jin was all managed by Wang Jin. As for the profits of this transaction, it was very high."
“How many are there?”
The manager reached out and made a gesture, which was an open slap. "The profit of five times the cost is shipped four times a year, and every small one will follow you to the sea. Each time the payment is 100,000 yuan, no more or less."
"How many? Hundreds of thousands?" Zhang Hong, who was standing beside him, almost glared out. "When was the last delivery? How much inventory is there in the workshop now?" He had completely regarded the workshop as the property of Shamen Town.
The manager was a little panicked by Zhang Hong, and lowered his head and whispered: "I just entered the transaction with Silla in the last few days ago. I exchanged 20,000 shi of rice and a batch of cloth, all in the warehouse above. You have seen it just now. After the workshop, a batch of goods were produced, but they were all taken away by Wang Fu. Now the workshop is empty and there is no inventory at all."
Zhang Hong stood there with some heartache and sighed: "How come so many guys sold them? I'll die if I sell them later." Although I just harvested the 20,000 stones of rice I exchanged, now there is no shortage of food for the Da Xie Fort fort yet, the most lacking is weapons.
Li Jing was not disappointed. For him, he had just harvested more than 20,000 stones of rice, tens of thousands of cloth and thousands of silk, which was already a surprise. Now he knew that those were exchanged for the output of the underground workshop in three months, and there was no regret. In Zhang Hong's eyes, perhaps those ready-made weapons and equipment were very precious, but in Li Jing's eyes, he found that the biggest harvest of this underground workshop was not ready-made weapons, but this complete set of equipment workshops, and craftsmen with all kinds of weapons that had been purchased for more than 700 times.
As long as there is an entry, some weapons will be produced continuously in the future.
"What's your name?" Li Jing asked the manager.
"The young Zhang Cheng, whose courtesy name is Mengda, was the clan of Qingzhou." The manager replied quickly.
Li Jing reached out and patted Zhang Cheng on the shoulder. Zhang Cheng was only in his early forties, with three long beards, and had a few stele-like appearance. "You are doing well. I will plan to continue to keep this workshop, but I have to move the tools and craftsmen to the fortress immediately. I plan to continue to serve as the chief supervisor in the future. Are you willing?"
Zhang Cheng looked at Li Jing in a daze, and fell into Li Jing's hands. He was satisfied if he could survive. Unexpectedly, Li Jing even let him be the chief manager. He was stunned for a moment and even forgot to reply.
Li Jing thought he had some concerns and chuckled: "Don't worry, after following me, I will not treat you badly. What kind of treatment did you give to the Wang family before? I will double it. In addition, I will find your family to help you pick you up. You can take care of the workshop for me and everything will not treat you badly."
Chapter completed!