I want to be emperor

Chapter 80 The Great Rebel Song Blacksmith
Just as Guo Quanshu thought, the Baoxiangying was indeed going to fight, and it was going to be a big one.

At the internal affairs meeting, Luo Zhixue asked all departments of the internal affairs to do their own work well and fully support the army's operations.

Moreover, Luo Zhixue didn't hide too much from them, and directly stated that the purpose of sending troops this time was to obtain enough food and other supplies, and required all departments of the internal affairs to make relevant preparations, such as sending people to the food requisition office Along with the army, they are ready to accept all kinds of food, gold and silver and other goods seized by the army at any time, and register them one by one.

The Commerce and Trade Department should make a surprise purchase of enough strategic materials in a short period of time, especially valuable strategic materials such as gunpowder and saltpeter, so as to prevent the outbreak of war from going smoothly and insufficient external seizures, but the business is cut off, resulting in a shortage of ammunition.

Every part of the internal affairs has its own tasks, and the tasks are not light.

After the meeting, Chen Xingkai and Guo Quanshu chatted for a while, and finally Chen Xingkai asked Guo Quanshu to prepare and accompany Chen Xingkai with the army at that time, so as to count the spoils and collect food and grass more timely and better.

Guo Quanshu was very excited about this at first, and even thought that he would finally have a chance to leave Songshan Village, and once he got to the outside world, he should have a chance to escape.

But this thought only lasted for a few seconds before disappearing.

He, Guo Quanshu, has the opportunity to leave Songshan Village to the outside world, or even take him away directly, but what about his family?
His Guo family members are still in his hometown, and the village in his hometown is already under the control of the Baoxiangying. Some time ago, the Baoxiangying even set up a village head in his hometown.

If he, Guo Quanshu, dared to run away, those people in Baoxiangying would dare to kill his whole family.

That's all, let's be honest and prepare to join the army. Judging by the appearance of these rebels in Baoxiangying, it doesn't look like a temporary attack from the top of the blood. They must have made a comprehensive consideration before deciding to attack. The action should be relatively smooth. The danger of following the army should not be great.

No matter how bad it is, it will be fine to flee back to Funiu Mountain with the army.

When Guo Quanshu suppressed the strange thoughts in his heart, he began to prepare for joining the army.

Song Tiejiang, director of the industrial department at the other end, also had a lot of feelings.

Like Guo Quanshu, Song Tiejiang is not really a traitor.

Blacksmith Song used to live well with his family in Lushan County, and he dare not say that he is rich, but with the ability of his father and son of the Song family to make farm tools, weapons, and guns, at least they don't have to worry about eating and drinking.

But he was kidnapped by the rebels from Baoxiangying and brought to Funiu Mountain, and there was still a whole family, not a few of them.

In the past few months, Song Tiejiang worked hard at the beginning to save himself and his family.

In the middle and late stages, it is to make the family have a better life in the mountains, so the work is also very hard.

He even tried his best to help these rebels build various weapons and set up an arsenal.

But even so, the former Blacksmith Song didn't have a strong sense of identity with these rebels.

But, I don't know if it's the world's tricks or those rebels really value him, and they promoted him to be a blacksmith one after another.

From the small manager at the beginning to the manager of the weapon workshop, and now the director of the industrial department.

Song Tiejiang felt that he was getting deeper and deeper in this den of rebels.

Recently, he often wakes up from his dreams, and these nightmares basically have similar plots.

After the officers and soldiers killed Funiu Mountain and defeated the Baoxiang camp, he and his family fell into the hands of the officers and soldiers. No matter how he explained, the officers and soldiers did not believe that he was an innocent blacksmith. He was charged with anti-thief charges by officers and soldiers and killed them all.

"Heh, now that it's like this, let alone officers and soldiers, even I don't believe it..." Blacksmith Song couldn't help sighing deeply as he sat in his office.

Whether he likes it or not, he has now become the director of the industry department.

This is not an ordinary little boss, but one of the chiefs in the Baoxiang camp. He can be regarded as a backbone big boss, a proper big traitor.

It is impossible for such a person to survive in the hands of officers and soldiers.

Don't talk about yourself, even your family will be affected by yourself.

Song Blacksmith, who was deeply worried about the future, took a deep breath, and immediately began to call a number of staff from the industrial department, as well as the main managers of the arsenal, machinery factory, and logistics factory. He would start to arrange overtime production tasks for each factory.

Now that I can't get rid of the title of anti-thief, and now I can only go one way to the dark, the only hope is that the rural protection camp can last longer, so that I and my family can survive.

No matter how bad it was, he had to win the attention and trust of General Luo Zhixue, so that when the army was defeated, he would be qualified to let the general flee with one of his sons, so that his family would not be cut off from incense.

Their Song family was in Lushan County, and at any rate, it was a family of blacksmiths that had been passed down for seven or eight generations, so it couldn't be broken in their own hands.

After Blacksmith Song summoned his staff, he ordered the tasks one by one, and he himself went into battle and went to the gun factory to squat, in order to increase the production capacity of the gun factory and deliver a batch of guns as soon as possible.

After more than a month of construction, trial production and continuous improvement, the musket factory is now at the beginning of the first day of the eighth year of Chongzhen. Although its production capacity has not yet reached its peak state, it can still produce [-] matchlock guns per month.

In the future, if we work overtime and adopt the production method of changing people without stopping, the production capacity can be further increased by about 150 pieces.

However, if you want to continue to increase production capacity in the future, then relying on the current manpower and equipment will not work.

More production equipment is needed, and more trained workers are needed.

There is no need to worry about the production equipment, because all the production equipment of the gun factory is built by the machinery factory itself. As long as the production capacity of the machinery factory increases, there will naturally be more equipment for the production of guns.

But machinery factories also need more skilled workers to increase production capacity.

So in the final analysis, what is missing is people.

In this regard, Blacksmith Song had asked Luo Zhixue for additional manpower at the meeting. Luo Zhixue agreed and allowed the Industrial Department to recruit another 80 permanent workers and [-] temporary workers.

Blacksmith Song is quite satisfied with this, whether it is permanent workers or temporary workers, there are 100 people in total, which is enough for the Industrial Department to do a lot of things.

As for more manpower, he did not dare to expect extravagantly.

Because I can't afford it!
Although most of the workers in the factories affiliated to the Industrial Department only take care of meals without any additional subsidized wages, only a few technicians can receive subsidies ranging from tens to hundreds of dollars in addition to taking care of meals.

But, it's not a small expense just to manage the food, and now the food is expensive, and the price of food outside the mountains is one price a day.

Everyone knows that these are troubled times and there is a shortage of food, not to mention ordinary people, even those big grain stores often hold back and do not sell, further pushing up the price of food.

Whether food is expensive or not has little impact on Baoxiangying, because Baoxiangying never buys food with gold and silver, and will not sell it. The food of Baoxiangying is self-sufficient. If you do, go for a wave, for example, now...

Right now, the Baoxiang Camp doesn’t have much food, and besides supplying the army, it also needs to supply the staff of various internal affairs departments, as well as the workers of the three major factories under the Industrial Department. The food consumption is very large, Luo Zhixue It is impossible to give too much food share to the Industrial Department.

So Blacksmith Song was also very satisfied to be able to get a quota of [-] people.

On the same day, the Industrial Department began to recruit external workers, but all the recruits were temporary workers. As for the quota of long-term workers, they would be recruited from among the existing temporary workers in the factory.

As expected, there was news from the Industrial Department that they were going to recruit workers, and people were very enthusiastic, especially when the workers in the three major factories heard that their factories were going to recruit workers, they immediately went home and called for help.

As long as they can enter the factory, they can eat, even if they are temporary workers. According to their previous experience, these temporary workers recruited in the factory are said to be temporary workers, but they will often be hired for a long time when they arrive.

After all, the scale of the factory continues to expand, and these temporary workers are often considered skilled workers after working for a month or two. After the factory expands and increases the number of permanent workers, they often become regular workers directly from the temporary workers.

No, this time, twenty people became regulars.

The most important thing is that whether you are a permanent worker or a temporary worker, you can have food, and being able to eat is already the lifelong pursuit of most people today.

However, some people chose to attack the city in order to make a living, while others chose to join the army.

According to Ernst Young's plan, before the official operation, the recruiting operation must start first.

Considering that the qualified soldiers in the villages in the depths of Funiu Mountain and even some villages in the surrounding hilly areas have been exhausted, the scope of recruitment this time is mainly in the villages in the eastern outlying areas, including Gotham Village.

Gotham Village is different from many villages with a single surname. This village has two surnames, namely Gao and Tan. It is rumored that the ancestors of the Gao family and the ancestors of the Tan family were sworn brothers hundreds of years ago. The offspring also have the tradition of intermarrying each other.

After more than 200 years, the population of Gao and Tan here has gradually increased, and finally formed the current Gotham Village.

It's just that unlike many normal villages, there are many idiots in Gotham Village.

Gao Zheng is a fool in the eyes of outsiders!

This idiot likes to sit on the stone pier in front of his house, doesn't say a word, doesn't pay attention to others, just stares blankly at the entrance of the village.

Until one day, a group of people came to the entrance of the village. A group of soldiers from the rural protection battalion who claimed to protect the villagers of Funiu Mountain, so that the common people had food and clothing, came to the village.

The brilliance appeared in the eyes of this fool!
(End of this chapter)