Win the Ding 1617

Under the leadership of Mr. Su, the general manager of Ha Tinh Iron Works, Feng Mofeng, the general manager of Ha Tinh Manufacturing, and Yang Tianshi, the general manager of Ha Tinh Metallurgy, Shou Han came to the two newly built blast furnaces.

"My lord, the two newly completed blast furnaces are the same as the previous blast furnaces. They can produce [-] tons of iron or steel every three days, and they rotate day and night without stopping."

Su Lao Si, who is in charge of the management of manufacturing and smelting iron and steel, introduced the newly increased blast furnace output to Shou Han like a treasure.

"Now we receive a lot of orders from the mainland, sign the paperwork and collect the money from others. When doing business, we pay attention to a reputation. Since we have received money from others, we naturally have to give the goods to them."

Now Shouhan has six small blast furnaces in his hands, emitting dust and pollution into the air day and night, but the behavior of absolutely going to jail in the 21st century is a symbol of prosperity in this era.

As the weather got warmer, a large number of contract documents came from the north one after another. Long Shengsheng's business houses distributed in various places won for Ha Tinh Iron and Steel and Ha Tinh Manufacturing, weighing millions of catties and hundreds of thousands of pieces. iron orders.From spatulas and kitchen knives to plow sticks and hoes, all the tools for home life are readily available, and there is even news from distant Heilongjiang that you need armor, iron bows, and weapons!

And the daimyos and generals of the Tokugawa shogunate who are far away in Japan are also unwilling to be compared with others in the confession activities, so they send people to ask to order all kinds of weapons and armor, and use them to pay for the goods. And the variety is also varied.

From brimstone to copper, from labor to woman.Everything is beyond your imagination.There is nothing they can't do.

Taking advantage of the large number of official slaves at hand, if we don't smelt steel and occupy the market at this time, when will we wait? [

According to Shou Han's will, a large number of official slaves were organized into a labor team of 50 people, and the Japanese laborers selected from various places were employed.These Japanese foremen, under the stimulation and temptation of "accumulating work points for completing the workload and naturalizing in advance" and "rewarding work points for exceeding the amount of work, and faster naturalization", carry a whip made of raw cowhide every day, from Venus to return. Start on the horizon.Then he urged his workers to get up and work.Until the stars and the moon twinkle in the night, competing with the lights of the fire.

Under the whip of the Japanese foreman, these captured native official slaves were engaged in the heaviest physical labor.Mining in mines.The heavy ore was transported basket by basket from the deep and dark well to the ground.

"The daily mining quantity of each team shall be based on the quantity transported to the ground. At least ten tons!"

This is the nominal daily workload required to be completed.Only after completing this number, the foremen will be rewarded with work points other than wages, and they can apply for naturalization when the work points have accumulated to a certain number.

And in order to accomplish this dream goal.These dwarves from the three islands of Dongying increased the workload of the native officials and slaves under them one after another.

You add one ton, I add two tons!The most ferocious one was increased to five tons.

However, compared to the other characters, the Japanese worker's heart is as compassionate as Avalokitesvara.

"Our mines and smelters have selected some of these criminal slaves from the natives. They are all people who are willing to change their minds and serve the general, acting as the foreman's deputy, translator and other roles. The conditions given to them That is, you can have a salary every month, not much, five qian, and in addition, referring to the work-point accumulation naturalization system proposed by the lord, a corresponding work-point reward is proposed to upgrade to a normal official slave."

In order to become normal official slaves who can gain freedom through labor as soon as possible, these people waved a big stick to their compatriots in the past.Compared with the leather whip of the Japanese foreman, these big sticks are the nightmare of the native officials and slaves.

Although there is a creed of the Shou Han that "of course you don't want the cattle to die when raising cattle", and provided these officials and slaves with food that can satisfy their hunger, the huge physical exertion is also fatal.At least dozens of corpses are carried away from the shed every day. As for those who died underground in the mine and were crushed to death by heavy ore baskets due to lack of energy, it is common to find them everywhere.

For such a death, instead of worrying about such a death, the Japanese foreman and the native lieutenants were secretly delighted.Because once there is a deficit in the establishment of 50 people in each team, there will be newcomers to fill in. These newcomers are much stronger than those who died!

What is even more heinous is that, driven by the common traits of human beings regardless of race or creed, driven by greed, the Japanese foreman from Dongying, the deputy of the native officials and slaves from the Nanzhong islands and mountains, and the chef of the Nanzhong Army The officials and stewards united in one place, and came up with the idea of ​​feeding the native officials and slaves.

The daily allowance of oil and salt for the native officials and slaves was quietly reduced, from three cents of oil and one cent of salt per person per day to one cent of oil and three cents of salt.The quantity of meat has been reduced and the variety has been changed. The original pork stew once every three days has become fish once every five days.Even the rice prescribed by the staple food was quietly changed.

The sweet potato, taro and corn cobs are mixed together, and a genius scholar named it "Gonghe Noodles"!Whichever is mixed together, the meaning of calling for a republic every week.

Under such circumstances, the graves outside the mines and workshops continued to expand the area of ​​the cemetery. [

Exchange people for mines!

This heavy slogan was quietly circulated among the Japanese leaders.

The death and disability rate of nearly a hundred people every day guarantees the needs of the blast furnace in the smelting plant. Truckloads of iron ore and coal are sent to the smelting plant and coking plant to become raw materials for the steel industry.

However, of course, Shou Han doesn't have to worry about these things, he only cares about inspecting his own steel industry and military manufacturing.

When King Beishangqin returned, officers and soldiers at all levels expressed such feelings.

"If the firecrackers can also participate in fighting, the spearmen can also use firecrackers to kill the enemy. It is no problem to talk about the Jiannu of two Jiala, or the Jiannu of two banners!"

On the one hand, he had to meet the orders from various towns in the interior, and on the other hand, he also had to consider adding some new toys to his troops. That's why Shou Han made this trip to Ha Tinh.

In the former Taipingdong Arsenal, there was a lively scene of people coming and going.

A large number of craftsmen were seriously busy with their own process in their positions, and they didn't care to look at Li Shouhan and his party passing by.

The task of this huge work shed is to polish the finished breastplate and put on leather strips and other accessories.Oil and store.

It is not easy to make armor. In the Song Dynasty, there were more than 800 armor leaves, and there were many processes of perforation and fine grinding. It took nearly a month to make a pair of armor.It also takes a month to manufacture a pair of western plate armor.After forging and pressing the ductile iron with hydraulic power, the efficiency of the breastplate has increased several times, but the manufacturing cost has dropped a lot.And the sewing and inlay of the breastplate lining.It also provides a lot of job opportunities for Su Sanniang's admirers.This shed is more than 200 meters long.There are more than a thousand women working on their respective posts to process and make pairs of breastplates.

Passing through this shed, I came to a dam built along the river, which is another place, the shed responsible for making swords.

Heavy forging hammers are driven by the enormous power of the water flowing over the dikes.The splashes brought up by the river and the red-hot steel were in contact with each other.A large amount of water vapor permeated the shed made of bamboo and wood.

Conceptual transformation and status enhancement in reality over the years.The social status and economic income of the craftsmen here are far beyond those of the poor craftsmen in the interior.After a person realizes and recognizes his own value, the energy he radiates cannot be measured.

Although it is not as strict as the Manchu Qing Dynasty to implement the so-called strict law of shooting armor and not entering the vertical beheading of workers, but.If there is a quality problem and is investigated, then according to the system formed by the South China Army over the years, the punishment is also very simple and direct, "expulsion! Expulsion!" until they are imprisoned.

Since the publicity team heard the news of the continuous natural disasters and man-made disasters in the Mainland, almost everyone cherishes the life in front of them, and the quality problems and production costs have dropped.

And one of the craftsmen here learned of the discussion in the army from a propaganda member and a firecracker who participated in the Battle of Hexiwu.Then he tried to create a spearhead that could be inserted into the gun barrel.

According to the traditional practice of encouraging innovation, the news was reported to Shou Han step by step when it was found to be feasible after testing.

Shou Han came here just for this thing.

If all the spearmen are changed into gunners, then the firepower and the quality of a ball salvo will inevitably be raised to a higher level.In turn, it will bring a series of requirements: the increase of firecrackers will inevitably provide more gunpowder and pills, the number of baggage soldiers will increase, and the original tactics and formations will also need to be modified.

Whether it is necessary to change the formation of the army and the number of formations at all levels, Shou Han is also hesitant.

However, after seeing the sample of this bayonet, Shou Han was a little discouraged. This is completely a change of a short spear. In fact, it is a spear with a short handle, but the length of the three-edged spear has been adjusted. , only about sixty centimeters.When using it, insert the short handle of the short spear into the muzzle of the gun and insert it tightly, and the firecracker turns into a short spear more than two meters long.It can be used by firecrackers to fight.

Not to mention the difficulty of inserting it, it is even more troublesome to pull it out.It took a lot of effort to knock the bayonet left and right to remove the bayonet from the barrel, but after such a toss, large and small scars were left on the barrel, which affected the shooting effect in the future.

Although he didn't have the extravagant hope to produce the bayonet bayonet that Shou Han is familiar with, but facing such a cheat, Shou Han's enthusiasm turned into a word, language!

"Brother, your short spear is installed in the barrel, and the barrel is blocked by it. If I want to fire the cannon again before hand-to-hand combat, what should I do?!"

Right now, the elite troops of the Nanzhong Army's Guards Battalion, Phoenix Battalion, Qilin Battalion, and Xuanwu Battalion can already fire the musketball soldiers within [-] to [-] steps away from the enemy.If, as Shou Han said, he fires the firecracker again at the distance from which the hand-to-hand combat is about to take place, basically there are only a few enemies left!

However, such a plug-in short spear cannot complete the last shot before the hand-to-hand combat, and it will also cause great damage to the gun barrel.

Seeing Shou Han's expression on the side, Feng Mofeng, Su Laosi Yang Tianshi and others were a little hesitant, knowing that the short spear developed by this craftsman might not be able to catch Shou Han's eyes, and they were trying to think of a way to get rid of him so that Shou Han wouldn't get caught. will lose their temper.

Unexpectedly, Shou Han spoke at this time.

"Brother. Come here."

He nodded and called the craftsman who made the plugged spear over.

"I have to say that your idea is good. You have combined the short spear with the firecracker. In this way, the brother who uses the firecracker and the brother who uses the spear are actually one. But, have you ever thought about it? , your short spear is very similar to the Sizi Gun Yi Jian Jian used in the outskirts of the inland town, but their gun sword is not as good as your short spear, not to mention a bit shorter, and the gun sword is just stuffed On the barrel, it is also impossible to shoot."

Although he praised the craftsman gently.But Yasai slapped all the craftsmen and general managers loudly.Everyone has always been proud of their superb skills and continuous whimsy.I don't want this little idea proposed by the lord and the lieutenant soldiers to be implemented.How can this make people live? !

"Everyone, don't blame yourself too much."

Shou Han glanced over the faces of Feng Mofeng, Su Lao Si, Yang Tianshi, Huang Yishan and other lieutenant generals who followed him.

"The method of inserting the short spear into the gun barrel has actually fulfilled the requirement of the lieutenant officers and soldiers to equip the fire gun soldiers with short spears. However, this general made a new request today, and this brother can't do it for a while. .”

He patted the shoulder of the craftsman whose eyes were full of tears.

"Brother, one hundred and a half ninety. You have already walked ninety miles. There are ten miles left, let's finish it together."

The purpose of Shouhan is to create a sleeve-type bayonet.

This bayonet can be described as an epoch-making product in the bayonet world.

The application of the socket bayonet can continue from the 17th century to the battlefield behind enemy lines during the Anti-Japanese War, in order to equip all kinds of miscellaneous rifles with bayonets.The military workers in the enemy's rear base area racked their brains and finally invited the ancestor of the modern bayonet bayonet, and only then did they equip all kinds of rifles with bayonets.

Different from the strict requirements of the bayonet bayonet, the sleeve bayonet can be described as a practitioner of fuzzy theory.Whether it is a three-edged bayonet or a four-edged bayonet, there is a hollow grip on the end of the bayonet. When in use, the grip is set on the muzzle and rotated at a certain angle so that the bayonet outside the barrel fits into the groove on the grip. In the groove, fasten the two together.In this structure, the bayonet blade is offset to one side of the barrel axis, and the two are separated by a certain distance, so that shooting and stabbing do not interfere with each other.

In this way, the status of the bayonet as an auxiliary combat tool is basically determined.

Under the call of Shou Han, Feng Mofeng and others each found a place on the workbench and surrounded them. Under the leadership of Shou Han, everyone brainstormed the idea proposed by the protagonist, which can not only carry out assassination hand-to-hand combat, but also can be used before hand-to-hand combat. Yifawan's sharp weapon of firecrackers is produced by the army!

In a trance, Feng Mofeng seemed to have returned to the time when the General's Mansion first started its business. At that time, for a certain matter, the General gathered together with the craftsmen to study carefully, and finally found the best way and technique.

"I hope it will be the same this time. If I can equip the army with this spear, I, the head of Hejing Heavy Industry, can feel more at ease!"

Feng Mofeng kept praying to the sky.

At Shou Han's suggestion, someone took a spearhead and put it together with the bayonet made by the craftsman for comparison.

"Everyone, look, what is the purpose of keeping the casing here?"

"My lord, you made a joke on purpose. If the spearhead doesn't have a sleeve, how can it be installed on the spear shaft?! Could it be that it is tied to a wooden stick with a rope?!"

"Huh?" Feng Mofeng, the craftsman who made the gun sword, and several other people made a voice of doubt at the same time.

"Could it be that we have all entered a dead end? Forgot that the gun barrel can also be treated as a spear shaft?! If it is like installing a spear head, adding a sleeve to the three-edged spear head, isn't it? Can you install the spear that the lord mentioned on the gun barrel very smoothly?!"

Several people understood this meaning from the excited red faces of others.

This layer of household paper was pierced, and everyone's thinking suddenly became clear.

Several people found paper and charcoal pencils, and began to draw sketches on the paper.

Shou Han saw that everyone already had an idea, so he didn't say much, and just went to the side to watch the magnificent scene of the smelters and manufacturing enterprises in the pre-industrial era.

Soon, amidst the noise of the crowd, Feng Mofeng came to Shou Han holding a sketched and somewhat chaotic blueprint in his hand.

"My lord, please take a look. This is the sketch of the design of the spear we discussed."

The sixty-centimeter-long triangular spear has an eight-centimeter-long cylindrical sleeve at the end of the spear. There is an arc-shaped transition of about one centimeter between the sleeve and the spear, which acts as a connection and diameter change.

"Create it and test it!"

Soon, several spear stabs that were still hot to the touch were placed in front of everyone.

Pick up a gun bayonet and look at it carefully. It feels like it is passing through the hand. The gun bayonet made of wrought iron is still quite heavy. Barrel bayonets are not far behind.The design of the spear itself is still the same as the spearhead of the Sangmen Spear.Adopt triangular design.The overall appearance of the spear thorn is like a round iron rod, gradually narrowing, and finally closing at a point.Form an edge.There are blood grooves on the two-thirds of the entire spear.Once stabbed by such a spear.He would bleed profusely and die.

"How to install and fix it?"

No matter how well the design of the thing is, it cannot be fixed on the gun barrel, and it is also a useful thing.

Someone took a gun barrel.I don't know what method the craftsmen used. A protruding iron lump on the top acts as a bamboo shoot for the casing.

"Today, my lord is in a hurry. We plan to design two clamps on the casing and the gun barrel. This will make the double-layer fixation even stronger."

With a "click", the casing in Feng Mofeng's hand was firmly combined with the gun barrel.He casually handed it to Huang Yishan who was at the side, indicating that he might as well try it out and see how it works.

Several pigs and sheep screamed and were tied to the wooden pillars. Their bodies were covered with two layers of armor, one layer of armor inlaid with iron cotton and one layer of iron armor.In addition to selling to friendly forces, the rest, in addition to being used for exhibitions, is used to test the power of various weapons.

"kill!"

Huang Yishan led a few of his own soldiers to rush towards the pigs and sheep awkwardly holding their gun barrels. They had no choice but to hold spears in their hands before, but now the gun barrels in their hands are much shorter than the spears. Naturally, it is not so handy.

"Puff puff puff! Puff!"

Several blood arrows sprayed out, splashing all over their bodies and faces.

"There is no problem with spear stabbing! It's just that it's not as easy to use as a spear. You have to feel for strength and center of gravity. Also, you need to estimate the direction when stabbing, because of this," Huang Yishan told everyone about his feelings. While pointing to the arc-shaped transition part on the sleeve, "There is a half-inch difference, so we must take this gap into account, so that we can stab wherever we want!"

After a heated discussion, everyone agreed to conduct a trial production of the spears, and first make a thousand handles out of wrought iron for the Guards Battalion to use for exploration and training.And the craftsman who first developed and created the inserted short spear was awarded the patent of the socket bayonet and promoted to the shed steward.

When Shouhan and his party got on their horses and were about to leave Hejing Heavy Industry after finishing all these, an unexpected thing happened.

The experimental pigs and sheep that were stabbed to death by Huang Yishan and others were given to the official slaves after work as today's food. After eating, several official slaves even fought for a big bone.

How is this not something that a person who can eat meat once every three days can do? !

Shou Han decided to find out.

When a soldier dragged an official slave over from the crowd and made the official slave kneel in front of the guardian horse to answer, the complexions of the stewards and clerks created by He Jing began to change.

"My lord, this guy said that they haven't eaten meat like this for a long time. Even if there is meat, it's like rotten fish and rotten shrimp. This is the first time they have eaten such a large piece of meat in a few months."

"I remember that I set the food standards for these native officials and slaves? Each person has three yuan of oil and one yuan of salt per day, and eats meat once every three days. Rice is enough on weekdays. I once ordered Yousi to feed them at the end of each month. The food expenses for the next month will be allocated to you on a monthly basis?!"

With a frosty face, Shou Han asked the general managers in a somewhat gloomy tone.

A few days later, more than a dozen Japanese foremen and more than [-] native assistants were beheaded by the law enforcement team in front of the ranks of native officials and slaves. They were charged with "not following the Lord's will!"

It's not about embezzling the food expenses of officials and slaves, but the food is implemented according to the standard.

"Father, why did you kill them? Don't you also hate those dirty and lazy native slaves?".

Shou Han's eldest son, Hua Yu, was a little puzzled.

"Hua Yu, remember, their damn thing is that they don't do things according to my wishes, not embezzlement of food and wages, resulting in the death of a large number of natives."

"Then, what if they are corrupt?"

"Death!"

Little Huayu couldn't understand what Dad meant. (to be continued...)