Steel Dynasty - Chapter 294

[Chapter 294 Military Uniform]

“Your Highness, what happy event has happened these past two days? Why are you so happy?”

Lying on the rocking chair and enjoying Lu Luo’s massage, Lu Luo’s words made Xiao Ming suddenly chuckle.

The tungsten was successfully extracted. Could he not be happy about this happy event? Now Zhang Liuzheng of the Equipment Department is working day and night to refine tungsten. After all, because the method is relatively backward, it will take some time to accumulate this tungsten, at least to be able to produce a batch of qualified knives.

Song Changping, on the other hand, worked with Zhang Liu. Instead of cooperating with Zhang Liu, he used the carbon reduction method to obtain tungsten and also obtained some manganese powder. Song Changping used this manganese to produce ferrocarbon alloy, that is, spring steel.

However, this theory is just theory, and the specific synthesis experiments have to be carried out by Song Changping. After all, strictly controlling the contents of the two elements is not an easy problem.

Now that the preliminary preparations for the flintlock gun were in the experimental stage, he was naturally in a happy mood.

“Of course people are in high spirits during happy events.” Xiao Ming squinted his eyes and looked at the blue sky. What he loved most was the fog-free days.

Luluo pursed her lips and smiled. It seemed that she would be happy when Xiao Ming was happy. “Your Highness, Luluo has a happy event.”

“Oh, tell me.”

“We have a capable person in our textile workshop. This Women are proficient in all kinds of textiles and sewing, and they are much better than me. If this continues, I won’t be able to work as a textile workshop supervisor,” Luluo said with a sigh.

Xiao Ming joked: “In that case, just drive her away?”

“How can you? Your Highness, wouldn’t it make you feel chilling? Lu Luo is not a jealous person.” Lu Luo said with a pout.

Of course Xiao Ming was talking nonsense. He just wanted to see this girl’s attitude. Like Zi Wan, both girls were very sensible.

He held Luluo’s little hand and rubbed it, and said seriously: “Don’t I feel sorry for you?”

“Your Highness…” Luluo blushed and shouted coquettishly.

This soft voice made Xiao Ming’s bones brittle. If the marriage was not imminent, he would have executed this girl on the spot.

After playing around for a while, Xiao Ming suddenly remembered what happened to Meng Youliang. He had not told Lu Luo about it yet, and he was not ready to tell her now.

As Yue Yun said, he couldn’t 100% believe this Meng Youliang. It was better to let him eat and drink well in prison for a while.

Therefore, he skipped this topic and asked: “Luluo, how are you preparing the military uniforms for the Qingzhou Army, and the shoes for the Qingzhou Army.”

“We have produced three thousand sets of military uniforms in the past three months. , but these shoes are a little slower, because it is more troublesome to sew the mille-feuille sole,” Luluo said seriously.

After Xiao Ming handed over the textile workshop to her, she has always been very serious and responsible, and she obeyed Xiao Ming’s instructions.

“Three thousand sets are not bad. Well, wrap them up for me today. I will send them to the Qingzhou Army.” Xiao Ming said.

Now the Qingzhou Army has no other redundant military uniforms except plate armor. These military uniforms were what he promised to prepare for the Qingzhou Army years ago.

Moreover, the research on flintlock guns has been on the right track. Qingzhou’s military uniforms naturally have to adapt to the changes of the times. Although plate armor is very flexible, it is still not as flexible as wearing civilian clothes.

This slight flexibility will affect the loading of flintlock gunpowder. According to his plan, once the flintlock muskets are installed, the plate armor of the Qingzhou Army will be eliminated and given to soldiers from other states.

After all, except for Qingzhou and Dengzhou, only generals in the armies of the other four states have plate armor. When he returned from Dengzhou last time, Ye Qingyun, the governor of Dengzhou, was responsible for escorting Meng Youliang.

In Qingzhou, I saw that the plate armor of ordinary soldiers of the Qingzhou Army was so good. My eyes turned red with envy, and I complained to him for a while.

After enjoying a leisurely morning, Xiao Ming followed Luluo to the textile workshop.

In the textile workshop, he saw the uniforms of the Qingzhou Army.

According to Xiao Ming’s design, the words “Qingzhou Army” were embroidered on the left arm of the Qingzhou Army uniform. At the same time, there was a symbol of two crossed swords and a golden wheat ear below.

Since the army needs to be regularized, it is natural to have a badge for the army. The implication of this badge is that the army comes from the people, and the army is responsible for protecting the people.

“Your Highness, this is the Thousand-Floor Bottom that we received.” Luluo Baobao gave him something similar to an old Beijing cloth shoe.

When Xiao Ming picked it up and took a look, a very familiar feeling came over him. He also wore these kind of mille-layer cloth shoes when he was a child.

The sole of this kind of shoe is not rubber or plastic, but coarse cloth sewn layer by layer, until the cloth is sewn to a height of two centimeters, which becomes a sole.

But even with such soles, many people in Qingzhou cannot wear them.

The soldiers of the Qingzhou Army were all ordinary people from the lower class. In this era, only the rich could wear thousand-layer soles, while the poor could only wear straw sandals.

“Yes, the craftsmanship is very exquisite. How many pairs are there in total?” Xiao Ming asked. It can be seen that since the salary increase, the female workers in the textile workshop have become more refined and hardworking.

“Twelve hundred pairs.” Luluo said.

Meanwhile, the textile mills were already loading uniforms and shoes onto the carriages.

After checking that the clothes and shoes were correct, Xiao Ming took the military uniform to Qingzhou Camp.

Among the six states, the Qingzhou Army is the most sophisticated army and the best equipped army. In the Battle of Cangzhou, the Qingzhou Army also proved its combat effectiveness.

Of course, such a main force must be taken care of.

Of course, it’s not that Xiao Ming looks down on the armies of other states, but that now that he has limited financial resources, he can only focus on the Qingzhou Army first.

“Your Highness, what are these?”

Xiao Ming brought dozens of carriages to the Qingzhou camp. Lu Fei immediately joined them like a thief. He knew that Xiao Ming must have brought something good.

Looking at Lu Fei’s shoes, which had been worn down to only a few layers of cloth, Xiao Ming took out a brand new pair of shoes from the carriage and threw them over, “These are for you.”

Lu Fei caught them and saw that they were a brand new pair of shoes. Suddenly he beamed with joy, and he shouted: “Come on, everyone, His Highness has given us military uniforms!”

The soldiers training in the school field were all soldiers under Lu Fei’s command. There were three thousand people in total, and they all immediately gathered around. , with excitement in his eyes.

Military uniforms are issued! This is something the soldiers have been looking forward to for a long time.

Xiao Ming was about to hand over the uniforms to Niu Ben, but Lu Fei suddenly shouted: “What are you waiting for? Get it quickly, get it quickly, wait for the other captains to come over, and some of the uniforms will be given to them. We are near the water tower first.” Deyue.”

“Captain Lu, you are so unreasonable. Don’t try to take advantage of anything. We also have a share of this uniform.” At some point, other captains came over with soldiers and learned that it was a military uniform. After that, he immediately said dissatisfied.

(End of chapter)