Even more powerful than a tiger

On this day, Li Ping once again checked all the teams one by one, one by one, one by one, and one by one. Looking at the still messy queues, he felt extremely depressed.

I haven't seen Song Bao come for several days, and I wonder how the support camp is progressing?

That’s hundreds of people! I wonder if Song Baolai can handle a large stall?

Still have to go and see.

Since the day the support camp was established, Song Baolai had moved to live in the support camp. He lit lamps and boiled oil there every day, fearing that he would not be able to control the situation. It was very hard and a lot of things happened.

Li Ping's heart was always in doubt.

After explaining to several sentry commanders, Li Ping walked to the support camp area alone.

Soon, he unconsciously followed the sounds and instincts and arrived at the blacksmith area first.

At this time, about twenty old and young men were busy shirtless in the simple shed. The fire in the oven was burning brightly, and the sweating naked bodies were intertwined with the clanking sound of iron. There was a saying

Unparalleled rugged beauty.

This is also the only place in the security camp where there are a large number of mature men.

Seeing Li Ping come in, everyone stopped what they were doing and stood up. Some called out General, some bowed their hands, and some bowed down and hesitated whether to kneel down.

Qi Tiejiang, the old neighbor of Liu San, a silly man, quickly came to Li Ping from the side and said hello.

Blacksmith Qi, whose name was Qi Cheng, was appointed as the foreman of the entire blacksmith area. He had more than 20 people under his command, including old acquaintances from the city who were also blacksmiths, as well as young and old men who were assigned to help by Li Ping.

Originally, the craft of blacksmithing was very important to inheritance, but in troubled times, some rules were no longer considered. Being able to eat and save one's life was the most important thing.

Li Ping nodded to the blacksmith and said casually: "I just took a look and let everyone continue to be busy."

After Blacksmith Qi responded, he quickly ordered everyone to continue working while he hurriedly put on a short coat and carefully followed Li Ping behind him.

Seeing Li Ping staring at the oven, Blacksmith Qi reacted and introduced: "This stove was remade by Song Yingguan with us a few days ago. The fire is much stronger than before, and it saves charcoal."

"Oh? I said it looks different. He still understands this?" Li Ping was a little surprised.

Li Ping attached great importance to the Blacksmith District because his troops were in urgent need of weapons.

When this place was first built, Li Ping came to see it and made many requests. Naturally, he had some memories of such an important large appliance as the oven. At that time, the oven here was built by Blacksmith Qi.

"Song Yingguan is very powerful! Master, look at this." Blacksmith Qi said as he took the heads of two spears from the side and handed them to Li Ping.

"See if it's the same?"

Li Ping, who was a little confused, took the two spearheads, which were basically the same shape but obviously different in color, and fiddled with them two times, then squatted on the ground and stabbed them into the soil a few times.

The tip of one spearhead was slightly deformed under the fierce force, while the other slightly bluish spearhead was so hard that he was a little surprised, with no change at all.

You can clearly feel the hardness of this bluish spearhead when exerting force, which is very different from the soft and brittle inferior iron tools that Li Ping saw after coming to this era.

Blacksmith Qi also squatted down, took the bluish spearhead and said: "This is a newly made spear. The one in my hand was made a few days ago. The materials are the same. Let me see if it is better than the previous one."

It’s much stronger and harder.”

Seeing Li Ping nod, Blacksmith Qi said: "This is all the credit of Song Yingguan, Song Yingguan is really a god!"

"Oh?" Li Ping was a little surprised.

"We quenched and tempered according to Song Yingguan's method. Everything is completely different. They are all top-grade! This is a skill that cannot be passed down! The attention to the furnace ash and the attention to the cooling water

, this forging technique, etc., my old man thought he was well-informed in Xiangyang Mansion, but he had never seen so many skills. It was really an eye-opener! It was amazing..." Blacksmith Qi began to chatter non-stop.

Li Ping was completely shocked.

This is not a certain technical improvement, but a whole set of process innovations, which requires very professional knowledge.

And wasn’t Song Baolai engaged in papermaking?

Although Li Ping does not understand the technical details, he is also very aware of the huge changes that this set of process changes will bring to the performance of metal products. It is almost revolutionary.

It will not only greatly improve the performance of weapons and equipment, but also effectively improve social productivity, which will bring him huge technical advantages.

With shock and scrutiny, Li Ping continued to look around.

But except for the stove, which had changed a lot, he didn't see much difference or change in other things. After all, production matters were too far away from his life and he was not familiar with them.

However, he didn't see a few of the prepared weapons, and there were only a little over ten newly made spearheads in total. Instead, there were many devices and agricultural tools that he couldn't see the use of, which made him a little confused.

They didn't have much iron, and even after scrounging a lot of scrap iron, they were still very nervous. It wasn't even enough to make a spearhead for half of the people in his army.

Weapon priority is an important principle set by Li Ping.

Obviously, this requirement was not implemented here. Li Ping showed obvious displeasure and couldn't help but question.

Blacksmith Qi was obviously frightened. He immediately knelt on the ground, and then everyone in the shed stopped moving.

While stumbling, Blacksmith Qi hurriedly explained that these were all requested by Song Yingguan.

The reason why Song Yingguan made such arrangements was because those items were urgently needed by him and were said to be of great use. As for the agricultural tools, Song Yingguan believed that without good farm tools, many farm work would be difficult to do, which would delay production too much.

It will affect the important matter of eating.

In fact, when Blacksmith Qi knelt down, Li Ping felt a little regretful. He knew that he was being a bit crazy.

This place is now under the control of Song Baolai. If they dare to make such a major adjustment, they must have received Song Baolai's instructions, and Song Baolai must have had his own sufficient reasons.

Song Baolai is not an incompetent person, and his authority can also make such adjustments.

Besides, this matter is not principled. Li Ping should understand the situation first.

It is indeed inappropriate for Li Ping to question without understanding. It can easily cause a rift between the two people and undermine Song Baolai's authority. It must be remedied immediately.

"Since it is the request of Song Yingguan, then we should do it according to Song Yingguan's request. Song Yingguan's opinion is my opinion. I didn't know about this before, but it scared you. Get up quickly." Li Ping's face

It quickly turned dull, and the meaning of apology was very obvious.

But Blacksmith Qi was obviously still uneasy. As soon as he got up, he hurriedly stated that he would immediately adjust the order of creation to ensure that he would not miss anything important.

Embarrassed, Li Ping had no choice but to continuously praise Qi Blacksmith for his current work to appease him, and reiterated several times that he should continue to listen to Song Yingguan.

It wasn't until Blacksmith Qi's expression calmed down that Li Ping asked in a casual tone what measures they had taken to keep these new techniques secret.

However, seeing Blacksmith Qi's confused look, Li Ping was no longer calm. He felt that it was really necessary to talk to Song Baolai immediately.

Because the space is limited after all, the various production and living areas are actually clustered together, closely packed together. After coming out of the blacksmith area, Li Ping quickly found Song Baolai at the papermaking area.

At this time, Song Baolai was squatting alone next to a stone mortar, his brows furrowed, and his hands were still pulling the wood pulp in the mortar.

Seeing this, Li Ping went over and patted him. Song Baolai turned around and saw that it was Li Ping. He took a long breath, shook his head and complained: "Brother, it's too difficult. There are too many things missing. There are some things we call

The name doesn’t match the name here, and I don’t know what it is.”

"It's okay. Take your time. You've only been here for a few days and you already want to be fat." Li Ping comforted him.

"Can I not be in a hurry? You want to use it, and I want to use it too. Those women in the city used to chase me every day and ask if they could think of ways to make some first. They all know that I can make paper, so there is no need to do it this time.

Naturally, he was anxious after running away every day. Shi Ming even sent someone to ask in the past two days and promised that no matter what he was missing, he would find a way to get it." Song Baolai had a sad look on his face.

It's really hard to imagine a life without toilet paper.

Li Ping is also intolerable about the lack of toilet paper. He has tried many different alternative methods, but they are either extremely unsatisfactory or not a long-term solution. Now even Shi Ming is so concerned about it, and it seems that others and him

The feeling is the same.

This reminded Li Ping of the World War II memories of an American soldier he had seen.

All the officers and soldiers in the American soldier's company actually agreed that they and the Germans were the only civilized people on the entire battlefield, and the reason was that they saw that the Germans, like them, listed toilet paper as the most indispensable thing.

Li Ping was still a little confused at the time, and even didn't quite understand.

Now I really understand that without personal experience, I have no right to speak! Not having toilet paper makes him feel like a complete barbarian.

For this reason, in the production plan Li Ping formulated for the support camp, the highest priority task was actually the production of toilet paper.

Although the current production conditions, production materials and production processes are very primitive and backward, and most of the inventions for making toilet paper will not appear until hundreds of years later, Song Baolai was a small paper maker before and could barely make

There's still a lot of hope for usable toilet paper.

"Okay, don't worry about it for now, let's change our minds and let's go for a walk."

Li Ping pulled Song Baolai up from the ground, and the two of them spun around in the support camp.

As he walked, Li Ping asked: "Are other things going well in the camp these days? Is there anything you need from me?"

"Everything else is fine, everything went smoothly. Brother, to be honest, this is the first time I have to take care of so many people. I'm so proud. Haha." When Song Baolai said this, he suddenly became happy.

Managing so many people seems to no longer cause Song Baolai a headache, which is a bit surprising.

Looking at Li Ping's puzzled look, Song Baolai smiled sheepishly and said: "Don't worry, brother, I won't mess with you. Their thoughts are far worse than those guys over there. Most people

Overall it’s very simple, and the good and bad are clear at a glance.”

Li Ping was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and soon understood.

The most difficult thing to manage is the human heart.

There is no big explosion of information. Most of the people in this era are not familiar with the world, and there are not so many things to learn and imitate. Huahuachang is often relatively simple, and they are under the threat of force. It is indeed much easier than in their world.

Li Ping felt relieved immediately.

After making fun of Song Baolai, Li Ping saw that there was no one around, and went straight to the point: "I just went to the blacksmith area, and I saw that you passed on a lot of new technologies to them, okay! Boy! You know a lot!
To be continued...