When he first occupied Qingzhou, Chen Xi started a wave of iron smelting. Although Chen Xi didn't know much about iron smelting, he knew about high temperatures and hydraulic die casting.
Besides, the Luzhong Iron Mine is one of the few iron ore mines in China with more than one billion tons. Although Chen Xi doesn't know the location, he can just draw a rough location and let people find it.
At the beginning, Chen Xi also built a wave of high-quality iron weapons to show off his cuteness to Liu Bei, but was cut off by Liu Bei's standard weapons and suffered a severe blow.
However, this did not shake Chen Xi's enthusiasm. After all, the small steel plant had already been built, and it would be a waste of resources to just throw it away, so Chen Xi vigorously studied the temperature curing technology.
In the end, the essence of warm curing was basically determined. After that, Chen Xi’s small steel factory started working again, producing “mass” of various “high-quality” steel products. Of course, this is a joke. Whether high quality or not is actually determined by the quality of warm curing.
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What Liu Bei told Chen Xi at the beginning was that pig iron, cast iron, ferrous iron, refined iron, as long as they are all iron, the temperature limit is the same.
Unless the inner qi is extremely powerful like the inner qi leaving the body, the warmth and nourishment will break through a certain limit, or it is like Guan Yu's willpower that can forcefully cross the limit of warmth and nourishment.
Otherwise, there would be no difference in the final results of warming these things, but later Chen Xi confirmed again and again that there was actually a difference.
If it is pure iron, there will definitely be no difference, but pig iron, cast iron, ferrous iron, refined iron, etc. actually contain other elements inside, and the proportions are also different.
This greatly affected the temperature-curing limit, and Chen Xi tried to add various strange things to it, and finally created high-quality steel with an obviously higher temperature-curing limit.
Well, in fact, there are some problems with the steel at this time. There are a lot of messy things added to it. If there is no temperature curing, I'm afraid it can't even be regarded as an ordinary alloy material. But after the temperature curing, the strength of the material has exploded.
Graphene ten streets.
After so many years of repeated maintenance and modification of material ratios, the front-line soldiers under Liu Bei's rule have basically completed the last wave of dressing up, which means that during this military parade, everyone can
There is an armor with plate armor on the chest and zha armor on the other parts.
If this were done before, basically only generals were eligible to obtain things. After so many years of continuous production, they were finally equipped for the main battle army. Although some of them have not yet completed the warming up, they are already usable. After all,
There is still a lot of time for warming up.
Such a suit of armor, which weighs about twenty kilograms, would have been worth about 150,000 to 200,000 yuan in the past. Now, it seems that Chen Xi is about to lose the price of weapons and equipment.
After all, just so many weapons and equipment, armors and shields, and an army of 400,000 armed men would be converted into about 100 billion yuan. If you include the price of the war horses, it is a lot.
Fortunately, the war horses are raised by oneself, the mines are on one's own territory, and the steel mills are opened by oneself. The labor cost is negligible. Otherwise, it would be impossible for any prince to arm such an army. To put it bluntly, raising an army is just two words.
Spend money and only then can we talk about other things once the money is in place.
But this is all in the past. Now, after arming the front-line army, although the Luzhong Steel Plant run by Chen Xi is still in production, it is more for inventory preparation. Therefore, Lu Jun's report made Lu Su think about it.
After thinking about it, I agreed.
After all, the steel mills have been producing and there is enough steel in stock. Lu Jun wants some of the steel to make keels and girders. Although it seems a bit wasteful, compared to leaving it as inventory in the treasury, taking out part of it and using it will be better in Lu Jun.
Su seems to be right, maybe Lu Jun can give them a surprise.
Well, Lu Su is completely overthinking. What Lu Jun is doing now can only surprise them, but it will definitely not make them happy.
After all, a model is a model. Structural mechanics, transmission, torque and other issues cannot be easily solved by one model. Although materials science, which is now kneeling on the ground, can solve a lot of problems, Lu Jun is now completely on the road to death.
Run further and further!
But think about the current situation under Liu Bei's rule. Counting people like Zixu, Cookie, etc., they are actually running further and further on the road of seeking death, and even gradually running out of realm, and there are not a few who have run out of grade. I can only say
It's thanks to Chen Xi's abundant capital.
"Zichuan, how much steel do we have in reserve now?" After Lu Su gave the instructions, he put it in the waiting list. After a while, he turned it out and turned to look at Chen Xi, who was cheating and cheating on the side, and asked.
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"Huh?" Chen Xi was furious for a moment. He had just been distracted, "Uh, what did you say to me? Can you say it again? My ears are not very good recently."
Lu Su was stunned, Chen Xi, can you be more shameless?
After taking a deep breath and silently reciting several times not to be as familiar as Chen Xi, Lu Su calmed down and said, "Zichuan, how much steel do we have in reserve now?"
"It seems that I just mobilized a batch of steel not long ago. Let me think about it, there are more than 6,000 tons left." Chen Xi said after a while, thinking about it.
"There are actually so many?" Lu Su was shocked, "How come there is so much steel, and why do we produce so much steel?"
"Is it a lot? In fact, it's just like that. A 400,000-strong army would only need so much armor and chest plate armor, casually equipped with a knife as a weapon, not counting professional large shields, and some professional broken shields.
The broad-backed swords of the formation are not even included in the backup weapons." Chen Xi looked at the sky for a while and said.
"Uh, you changed the uniforms of the 400,000-strong army?" Lu Su looked at Chen Xi in disbelief and said, "What about the leather armor that you retreated from before?"
"Oh, they have been given back to militiamen from various places. A village of 3,000 people needs militiamen of thirty to fifty people. According to this ratio, the leather and cloth armors that have been withdrawn are not enough." Chen Xi explained rather willfully.
, Lu Su said that such words made it impossible for people to answer the question.
"Okay, I won't count the leather armor that will be given to the militiamen. What will the thousands of tons of steel be used for? Even if it is to make spare weapons and equipment, it won't use so much." Lu Su looked at Chen Xi speechlessly.
"You can't just control us. When the time comes, Yongliang Yizhou, Jingxiang, Yangzhou and Jiaozhou will also be ours. These soldiers will also need to change their uniforms. These steel materials are used to solve this problem." Chen Xi said with a natural expression.
To attack the Central Plains, it is impossible for them to be the only ones to exert their efforts. After all, these are all our own people.
In Lu Su's mind, hundreds of thousands of Han troops, all equipped with armor and carrying large shields, appeared. Although it was very touching to think of it, it was also too scary. After all, soldiers wearing armor from ancient times to the present have a special
The title is called a soldier, and those who can be called a soldier will definitely not be a rustic. In the end, Chen Xi wants to create hundreds of thousands of soldiers?
"It won't have any impact if I call part of it, right?" Lu Su thought for a while and said.
"It doesn't have any impact. There might have been some impact in the past few years, but now it's no problem at all. Although this kind of steel is relatively special, as long as the steel plant doesn't stop production, it can produce several tons every day." Chen Xi said casually, "
When I run out of them, I'll make another batch."
"How many tons can be produced in a day?" Lu Su's eyes widened.
"Yes, it's about five or six thousand kilograms." Chen Xi touched his chin. He now agreed with the weights and measures, which were extremely close to the international standards of later generations.
"That is to say, according to the standard of a soldier wearing strong armor and strong swords, you can arm half a village in one day?" Lu Su said in disbelief.
"Yes, didn't you say this a long time ago?" Chen Xi said matter-of-factly, "I have always been responsible for the logistics. If it doesn't work, we will attack with force. As long as it is within my attack range, a hundred
If Wan Jiashi is thrown over, I don't believe there is no way to solve it."
Li You, Jia Xu, Guo Jia, Fazheng, and Lu Su all held their foreheads, and then silently covered their eyes, showing an inexplicable sadness. They really couldn't look at Chen Xi directly. This method is really simple and crude, in line with
Chen Xi's consistent style.
"Uh, what's wrong with you guys? I said it back then. What I like most is pushback. Bullying is the essence of the art of war. I just transformed this into reality. But I estimate that it will take a few more years to produce this thing. It won't take more than a year.
To reach the output of two thousand tons, including the consumption of reserve weapons, backup support weapons and other aspects, it will probably take another five years of production." Chen Xi touched his chin and said with some thought.
Li You, Jia Xu and others were silent. Chen Xi really planned to arm one million soldiers with this plan. And looking at the current plan, the possibility of completing this plan is extremely high. If nothing happens, this era will become a historic event.
The most powerful military era since then.
"Fourteen thousand tons is basically enough to arm a million soldiers." Li You said after a while, "Do you mean to keep a reserve of 6,000 tons?"
"Yeah, that's pretty much it. God knows what the fight will be like then. Make plans early. Now the problem of armor weapons has been solved, but the problem of Shu Brocade cannot be solved." Chen Xi said with a slight tangle.
"Shu Jin, what are you doing?" Lu Su asked curiously.
"The tight, high-quality Shu brocade can be used as a good defense against arrows." Li You has experienced many battles and knows this stuff very well.
"Do you mean to give you a Sichuan brocade lining?" Guo Jia silently counted the money and armed himself according to this rhythm. I remembered correctly that the current private slave only costs about 40,000 yuan, and the equipment is worth 200,000 yuan.
Up?
"Yes, yes. In this way, the armor is flexible and provides better defense for the limbs without affecting the attack. The plate armor on the chest has good resistance to various fatal attacks, and the tight Shu brocade on the inside is
After the plate armor is pierced, it can very well prevent piercing attacks, and it can also be used to remove arrows when hit by arrows." Chen Xi said that he found someone to design this for its defensive performance, as well as its weight and flexibility.
