The next morning, Yuwen Wen took Tuli Khan to visit the military weapon supervisor in Jinyang City. He wanted Tuli Khan to see with his own eyes how a well-crafted armor was made on the "assembly line".

Bright iron flows out of the iron smelting furnace, forming in the cooling tank, turning into long red iron bars.

Such long iron bars are forged by hydraulically driven forging beds into flat iron bars of the same size, and are then cut by a switch knife into rectangular iron blocks of the same size.

Each iron block is constantly hit by a large hammer (cold forging), and the thickness becomes thinner but the toughness increases. Then, six holes are drilled at the same time for the armor leaves, and then polished smoothly. In this way, there are qualified cold forged armor leaves.

The craftsman strung each armor leaf on a long thick cloth strip with a leather rope to form long armor leaf strips.

Then, the armor strips of different sizes were laid on the "mother's garment", so a collar of armor was completed.

The mother-clothed jacket is actually a narrow-sleeved jacket, made of cloth and leather. The cloth is thick canvas and is very wear-resistant. The leather is tanned cowhide or sheepskin. The specific material used to make the mother-clothed jacket depends on the situation.

It takes hundreds of armor leaves to make such a collar. If it is made according to the "traditional craft", it will take more than ten days.

Now, "dividing up labor and cooperation" is implemented in military weapon supervision. The production of armor leaves, leather ropes, armor leaves strips, and mother clothes are all divided into different processes, which are undertaken by different craftsmen, and the last process is "assembly". In this way, the production speed has been much faster.

The most time-consuming production of yarn leaves is because of the introduction of hydraulic drive machinery, which saves a lot of time.

The armor is made like this and the squid is made, and the efficiency of weapons is also greatly improved.

Taking the common ring head knife as an example, the "mass-production" ring head knife is a hydraulic forging of a knife strip of uniform size, and then a hydraulic grinder is used to open the blade, and a hydraulic drilling rig is used to drill holes in the knife stem to install the knife handle, saving time and effort.

The Jinyang Military Equipment Supervisor, which introduced hydraulic machinery, can produce 300 "mass-production" armors and 1,000 "mass-production" ring head knifes every month under daily conditions.

If it is in a "combat readiness state", the production capacity will soar. At least one thousand armors are produced every month, five thousand ring-headed swords, and arrows, spears, shields, armor-breaking hammers, etc.

This is an amazing number. Tuli Khan had no expression after hearing this. He knew that the Emperor of Zhou was showing his force in disguise, but he didn't know how to react.

Whether the expression was fear or disapproval, it was not suitable. Tuli Khan didn't want to be in a bad mood, so he asked: "Your Majesty, these hydraulically driven machinery need a lot of water to drive it, right? But the military weapon surveillance is very far from the river. I wonder how the craftsmen transported so much water here?"

"This question is good, and there are reasons for it." Yuwen Wen smiled. He wanted to let Tuli Khan see what the power of technology is. "Let's go, I will take Khan to find out."

Beside the Fen River outside Jinyang City, a roaring steam pump kept pumping water from the river and pumping the water into the canal. The canal was heading towards Jinyang City, and there were also large areas of farmland along the way.

Looking at the canal, Tuli Khan finally understood where the endless water of the military weapon surveillance came from. Looking at the machine that made a terrifying roar in front of him, he was a little at a loss.

With his knowledge, he could not understand how this thing pumped water, and he could not imagine how this machine operated.

Yu Wenwen understood this, so he did not intend to introduce the principles of the steam pump in detail. First, to prevent "technical diffusion", and second, he couldn't explain clearly. He took a pump to pump water and shot water, and explained to the guests what "piston movement" was.

In later generations, the word "piston motion" had a dual meaning, but now it is really just a literal meaning. Yuwen Wen's brief explanation allowed Tuli Khan and his entourage to figure out how the steam pump is pumping water.

Thinking back to the magical "heating", Tuli Khan sighed a little: The scenery in the Central Plains is indeed different from the grassland.

Looking at the large area of ​​fertile fields in front of you and the clear water flowing in the canal, Tuli Khan could probably understand why Zhou State was able to gather so many troops this time, and fight against Dulan Khan and Datou Khan.

He has experienced Zhou Guo’s strength in his own right.

The young Zhou emperor in front of him looked strong and might have a lifespan of decades.

With such an emperor in power, the Zhou State's strength will probably continue to increase in the next decades.

Tuli Khan was distracted and saw a group of people busy by the river. Yuwen Wen took him over and said that there was something new to show.

When Tuli Khan came to the shore, he saw the group of people fiddling with a strange-looking ship.

The boat is not big, and the cabin can only accommodate two people. There are wheel-like objects on both sides of the boat, which look like paddling wheel-shaped paddles.

There was an iron furnace on the boat, with coal burning in the furnace, and a chimney on the top of the furnace, and black smoke was constantly coming out at this moment.

After a while, the crew on the boat pulled the motor, but saw the oars on both sides of the boat turning, rowing the water constantly, allowing the boat to move forward.

This scene made Tuli Khan and his followers stunned again.

Tuli Khan probably knew that rowing had to use paddles, and paddles depended on manpower. Now, this strange boat didn't need people to row and could move by himself.

Yu Wen Wen, who was standing beside him, pointed to the steamship that was actually just a "technical verification ship" and introduced it in time: "This ship is called a steamship. It burns coal and can move it by itself, without sails or people paddling."

Although the steamship is far from practicality, Yuwen Wen said and began to fool the unknown local beggar "Brother Ashina": "In a few years, such a ship will sail on the Fen River and transport a large amount of food from the edge of the Yellow River to Jinyang. At that time, the food and grass required by the army will not need to rely on manpower and animal power to transport land."

Hearing this, Tuli Khan could no longer hide his shock and his expression changed.

Yuwen Wen's seemingly plain explanation is actually a disguised display of force. Compared with the previous display at the military weapon surveillance, the strength displayed by this ship now made Tuli Khan really scared.

If a tiger has sharp claws but insufficient physical strength, there is nothing to be afraid of.

If this tiger is full of energy, it will be bad news for other animals.

Similarly, even if an army can fight, if the food and grass are not enough, there is nothing to be afraid of; but if this army can get sufficient food and grass supply, things will be bad.

Yuwen Wen showed him the strong ordnance production capacity of Zhou State today, which was nothing. After all, the supply of food and grass cannot be raised, so no matter how powerful the army is, it is useless; Yuwen Wen showed him the ability of a steam pump to irrigate the farmland, which was nothing.

Tuli Khan heard that Bingzhou is mountainous and has few farmland. Even if the grain output increases, it will not be much more. If it cannot support a large number of troops, it still has to rely on other places to transport it. In this way, the consumption on the way is quite large.

Now, Yuwen Wen showed him a magical ship that could transport countless grains to Jinyang by "eating coal", which means that in the next few years, the number of Zhou troops in the Shuo area will surge.

The new land was located at the junction of the two countries. The Zhou army, which solved the problem of food transportation, could attack at any time and sweep across the grassland.
Chapter completed!