Qingshuigou, twenty miles west of Lingzhou City, was originally a tributary of the Yellow River, irrigating 200,000 to 300,000 glutinous fields around Lingzhou. At this time, on the banks of this small river that was only more than 400 steps wide, Lingzhou Iron and Steel Plant began to break ground under the leadership of Chen Ying.

Although it was already March of the second year of Wude, Lingzhou was still cold and cold. However, the energetic and powerful people of Lingzhou and prisoners of war had already begun to sweat on their foreheads.

Chen Ying is not a steelmaking major. He is nominally hosting, but only puts forward some reference opinions. The specific matter is still hosted by Lin Chuanfu. The Lingzhou Iron and Steel Plant modified by Chen Ying has a daily production capacity of 20,000 kilograms, which is five tons. Of course, this scale is similar to the level of a post-family workshop. However, in this era, it has become quite large.

Lin Chuanfu is worthy of being a legendary craftsman. He designed a hydraulic ground bellows system. This huge ground bellows are similar to an accordion. There are wooden boards on the top and bottom and folded ground leather around them. Using the water flow drop in the clear water ditch, the ground bellows are driven. Chen Ying originally wanted to abandon this original bellows and transform to create a hydraulic fan blower. However, this idea has just been proposed.

Lin Chuanfu looked at Chen Ying with an incredible gaze.

Chen Ying was a little embarrassed by Lin Chuanfu's eyes. Chen Ying blushed and asked, "Why are there any problems?"

"The problem is big!" Lin Chuanfu would become endless when talking about professional matters: "Although the hydraulic power is strong, the speed is too slow, how can wind be formed? Also, if the speed is increased and the ratchet is used, it is not impossible to do it. However, in this way, new problems will arise. If the shaft is easily broken, how can we solve the air supply problem?"

In fact, after Lin Chuanfu's explanation, Chen Ying discovered the gap between laymen and insiders. Gears, bearings, shafts, or lubricants, which were not a problem in later generations, are unsolvable problems in this era. Using ground bellows fans is the most economical and affordable way.

Only then did Chen Ying feel relieved to hand over the task of modifying the steel plant to Lin Chuanfu. For this iron and steel plant, Chen Ying specially set aside nearly 2,000 acres of land for factory land on the banks of Qingshuigou River. The entire factory was divided into four major areas, namely the Linhe blast furnace area, the coal storage area, the iron ore storage area and the living area of ​​the craftsman's family.

The four major areas were started at the same time. Nearly 20,000 young and strong people started construction at the same time, and the entire Lingzhou Iron and Steel Factory became a huge construction site. The Han slaves who had just been rescued from the Turks were too weak and needed to rest and were not useful for the time being. As time went by, more and more Han slaves were released by the Turks. Only Lingzhou received more than 50,000 people, and more than 50,000 mouths had to eat a mountain of grain every day.

Lingzhou President Shi Yang was the first to support him. He found Chen Ying and complained: "General Manager Chen, we don't have much food anymore. If there are more people, we can't even support him for a month!"

Chen Ying said disapprovingly: "Originally, we didn't seize more than 30,000 horses and killed or injured horses, and killed all those injured and abandoned horses and ate meat!"

"Oh, General Chen, you really don't know how expensive you are in the business!" Yang Ze sighed, his face even more depressed: "You don't know how many people in Lingzhou are eating now?"

"How many?"

"All 100,000 people!" Yang Ze said: "Based on two kilograms of grain per person, you have to eat 200,000 kilograms a day. Besides, whether you build a steel plant, mine coal mines, or iron ore, these are heavy physical work. If you don't eat enough, you don't have the energy to work at all."

Suddenly, Chen Ying found that Yang Ze’s eyebrows were not worried, but instead looked relaxed: “Shi Yang seems to have a clever plan?”

Yang Ze lowered his head and coughed to hide his embarrassment. He was too proud and actually saw that Chen Ying saw it.

Yang Ze said: "General Manager, the Turks were shocked by the power of our Tang Dynasty. They released them back to the people they had robbed before. Why not report the victory to Chang'an for such a great joy?"

Only then did Chen Ying realize that he subconsciously regarded himself as his master. If he had difficulties, he tried every means to solve them, and he had never considered Chang'an at all.

In any case, these people have been rescued, and the Turks were also when Huang Huang of the Qing Dynasty was not in charge. They actually had no surplus food to support these slaves, so they happily released these captured Han people. Although Shiliffer was afraid of being beaten by Chen Ying, most of the Turkic nobles were not afraid of Chen Ying.

If Princess Yicheng had not told these Turks that spring would soon begin. After a winter of trouble, the cattle, sheep and horses were fattened. The Tang people did not need to fight, they just needed to drag them to exhaust themselves. As long as winter comes, a white-haired wind blows down, they will suffer heavy losses.

It is said that the season of the year lies in spring. This sentence is not only applicable to the Han people, but also to the Turks. No matter what kind of animals they are, they like to mate and reproduce when food is abundant and the climate is mild. Therefore, when the grass grows in spring, whether it is war horses, cattle and sheep, they all start to estrus. If the estrus of animals will be delayed because of war, it will cause heavy losses to the Turks, which is almost the same as the experience of the Han people without harvest.

However, the Turks did not have the habit of storing food. If it were not for the years of disaster victims, even if there were no grains in the area, they would not cause a large number of disasters. However, the Turks had a weaker ability to resist natural disasters than the Han people. The Turks who had just survived a long and cold winter had their horses lost weight at this time, and their cattle and sheep were fat. If a war broke out again, they would have to drink the northwest wind. Unless they could guarantee that this battle would definitely be won completely.

No matter what the Turks released these looted Han people, it was a very proud and proud thing for the Tang Dynasty. Since the end of the Daye, the Central Plains have been in turmoil and uneasy, and the Turks have regarded the Central Plains as their own vegetable garden and can be picked at any time.

As long as Chen Ying reported this news to Chang'an, Li Yuan would never be stingy with food. Chen Ying naturally would not be stingy with the fat man, and nodded directly and said, "It's good that way, just ask Changshi Yang to write this memorial. This manager can collaborate with you!"

On this side, Yang had just finished writing the memorial and before he could send it out, someone came and said, "Report to the general manager, urgently." Chen Ying had just opened it, and his face changed drastically.

"What's wrong?"

Yang Ze asked nervously: "What's wrong?"

"Damn it!" Chen Ying said angrily: "The newly appointed Guanjunying envoy of the imperial court was attacked at the foot of Liupan Mountain in Gaoping, Yuanzhou, and most of the entourages were killed or injured. The new Guanjunying envoy Li Daozong was caught in an arrow and his life and death were uncertain!"

Yang Ze's face changed drastically.
Chapter completed!