Wei Xiyin breathed a sigh of relief. "That's good. It's okay anyway. Come in with us, cousin."

Wei Ling naturally agreed. He came a little earlier, but the camp was right next to the city gate and he didn't have time to go in and take a look.

Blacksmith shop... No, this place should be called an arsenal. It covers a very large area and is located in a remote area. It was the place chosen by Wei Xiyin and Chu Yu together.

There are few houses around, so there is no need to demolish them and rebuild them. The progress is much faster than in other places.

The day after Wei Xiyin went to transport the ore, Wei Ting brought his own bricklayer and servants to the county town. He personally supervised the bricklayer to survey the site and draw blueprints. Since then, he has been living in the county government office and has not returned to the fort.

I heard that my third uncle had brought people back, but that day was the critical period for the new furnace to be tested, and the clan did not notify him to go back.

Wei Ting was not in a hurry and stayed in the city with full concentration to modify the newly designed furnace.

He looked through all the books on the fortress and divided the furnaces into different types, including forges, metallurgical furnaces, blast furnaces, etc. that were specifically used to forge weapons. There were also large-caliber furnaces specifically used to produce chain mail, arrows, etc., which could accommodate large molds.

In this way, the functions of each furnace can be differentiated, and weapons manufacturing will be more efficient in the future.

The spacing between the furnaces was adjusted. A large room where words echoed only had one furnace to prevent the furnace from having to be turned off due to the summer heat.

At present, the entire arsenal has not been completed. Only three furnace rooms have been built, and the rest are under construction. According to the functions planned in advance, a smelting furnace for refining iron ore and two forges for refining gun heads were built first.

The county town can accommodate tens of thousands of people, but currently there are only a thousand people working here. The progress can be imagined. It will take at least until the four walls of the county town are repaired before more labor can be freed up.

When Wei Xiyin and others came over, Wei Ting was taking the blacksmith to test the effectiveness of the furnace.

A small problem was discovered yesterday, so he turned off the fire to make modifications and restarted it today.

See them come in.

Wei Ting was very surprised and quickly stood up and saluted, "Nephew greets Third Uncle. I was busy and didn't go back to the fort to greet him. I hope Uncle will forgive me."

Wei Mingyuan looked him up and down before slowly saying, "We're family, why bother with formalities? Business is more important." The younger generation in his family had changed so much that he didn't even dare to recognize them.

The originally gentle and graceful man has now become a blacksmith.

Although Wei Mingyuan has not been back in these years, he has been exchanging letters with several direct branches, and he also knows the younger generations of these branches.

When they came in.

Just now, Wei Ting was squatting at the mouth of the furnace without any manners, lying on the ground, observing the movements in the furnace from bottom to top.

It seemed like he was a completely different person from the one he knew.

Wei Ting had no idea what his third uncle was thinking. He apologized repeatedly and greeted his cousin Ling.

Then he turned to look at Wei Xiyin, "Fifth cousin, you came just in time. I'm testing the new furnace today."

Wei Xiyin immediately became interested when she heard this, "Oh? Let me take a look."

The brother and sister went to the stove together.

Wei Xiyin saw that the appearance of the furnace was somewhat different from that of the fortress and said in surprise, "My cousin has modified the furnace again."

Not a question, but an affirmation.

The furnace in front of him was two or three times larger than the big furnace in the backyard of the blacksmith shop, and it actually had three furnace mouths, each with completely different shapes.

Wei Ting nodded. "I redesigned the furnace mouth to accommodate different molds."

"But we discovered a minor problem yesterday. The addition of a furnace mouth caused the temperature inside to change. But it has been resolved now, and we are restarting the furnace to test the effect."

They came in at the right time. The blazing fire in the furnace had been burning for a while, and they just had to wait for it to reach the right temperature to put the mold in.

Wei Xiyin picked up the mold beside her and examined it carefully with great interest. You know, with different molds, the blacksmith would not have to make them one by one by himself in the future.

The speed increase is more than just a little.

Wei Ting explained, "The mold for the gun head is made on both sides. When the time comes, close it and pour the liquid steel directly into it. After it cools and takes shape, you just need to polish the gun head."

The mold can only be qualitative, but the gun tip must be extremely sharp and needs to be polished and ground manually. This will be handed over to apprentices when the time comes.

"The new furnace can produce twenty spearheads at a time. We're still short of about eight hundred. If we're quick, we can finish it in a few days. However, the current stockpile of ore raw materials isn't enough..."

The first batch of ore shipped back is all in the dock. Two trucks were brought here for experiments. We have to wait until there is enough supply of raw materials before the manufacturing speed can keep up.

Wei Xiyin waved her hand and said, "Brother Ting has already solved the biggest problem. We can send another group of people to mine the raw materials."

We were originally worried that it would take too much time and that the weapons and equipment would not be able to keep up.

Who knew that the biggest problem had already been solved by cousin Ting.

She couldn't help but feel strange. Cookie had asked her for people yesterday. There were already more than 10,000 people, so why was there still a shortage of people everywhere?

Wei Xiyin quickly put the matter aside and did not dwell on it too much. She would wait until she returned to the fortress and asked about the personnel allocation in Mingjing Hall.

She thought for a moment and asked, "By the way, how many gaps are left in the rest of the protective gear?"

"The chain mail has a large gap, about fifteen thousand or so."

Wei Ting sighed, "The main problem is that we don't have the raw materials. We haven't even started building the furnace for making chain mail yet. We have to wait until the house is repaired in two days before we can start building the furnace. The masons need to design ventilation for the house first, otherwise it will end up like the blacksmith shop in the fortress."

Wei Xiyin also sighed, "There's really nothing I can do about it, but I found an ice-making recipe outside. I'll copy one for my cousin later so it won't be too hot here."

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