Iron Dynasty

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The possibility of a barbarian invasion in the autumn.

Apart from Pang Yukun, military generals like Lu Fei soon received the news.

“Your Highness, as long as the equipment and weapons can keep up, defending Cangzhou City won’t be a problem. But so far, even the equipment for the Qingzhou camp hasn’t been settled. Can you hurry Chen Wenlong along?” Lu Fei shot a sideways glance at Chen Wenlong, who stood with his eyes fixed straight ahead, his teeth clenched in frustration.

Chen Wenlong had a calm temperament, while Lu Fei was hot-headed. Naturally, the two didn’t get along. Chen Wenlong replied, “Commander Lu, producing plate armor isn’t easy. Producing a thousand sets in a month is already quite an achievement.”

“But Your Highness said we could produce a hundred sets a day. Are you trying to deceive me?” Lu Fei, his chest wrapped in bandages, glared and questioned.

Now it was Xiao Ming’s turn to blush. When the hydraulic hammer was first implemented in the steel workshop, he had confidently claimed they could produce a hundred sets of plate armor a day.

Later, reality had slapped him in the face. It wasn’t that he had misjudged the production capacity.

The problem was the insufficient supply of iron ore. Now he understood that while smelting iron and steel was relatively easy, mining was a different story.

After the shallow layers of ore were exhausted, the mines had to be dug deeper. Then, whenever it rained, the mines would flood, turning into ponds.

Once the rain stopped, the first task was to drain the water from the mines before mining could resume.

At the same time, the deepening of the mines increased the difficulty of transporting the ore. The three iron mines under Qian Dafu’s management were producing less and less ore.