Ping An Biography

It is obviously much easier to carry out a social activity with a box of money regardless of cost than to operate a business considering profit and loss. Wudang latest chapter.Although it is in the deep mountains, it is not isolated from the outside world. Money can be exchanged for food and supplies with the outside world through many channels, and it is still very useful.The large amount of money provided by Yao Ji is really a source of work for Zhang Ning.

On the one hand, he set up a set of temporary institutions, and considered using the contract method to find someone to plan and repair the houses and roads in the east of the village; on the other hand, he began to design the sketches of the guns.

Among firearms and supporting equipment, artillery is obviously the easiest to manufacture.

The large size of the cannon consumes a lot of resources, but it also reduces the requirements for accuracy.Zhang Ning quickly drew the general structure diagram of the Franji sub-basket gun. The main parts include the breech, the breech groove, the detachable ammunition chamber (sub-gun), the ear, etc. The structure is not complicated. read.However, several problems were encountered in the process of refining the size.First of all, how to express the size on the drawing, people in the Ming Dynasty obviously couldn't understand the three views; can the idea of ​​the drawing be realized from the casting process?Obviously, Zhang Ning did not know enough about the level of casting technology in the Ming Dynasty; what is the best ratio between the caliber of the artillery and the length of the barrel?

Zhang Ning had no choice but to put aside these problems for the time being, and directly used the anatomical three-view method to annotate three artillery structure diagrams of different scales.This matter cannot be built in such a sequence that guns are built first, because the workshop must be planned in advance before starting construction, otherwise it will be even more troublesome to temporarily rebuild the workshop in the future.

Then came the structural design of the matchlock gun.The same problem, the principle and general appearance Zhang Ning is easy to figure out, but when he considers the craftsmanship and details, he is at a loss.

However, many problems can be solved through discussion and communication with the craftsmen, and he believes that there is always a way.

After half a month, the complicated preparations have already been figured out.Zhang Ning hired nearly a hundred people from villages near and far, including blacksmiths and carpenters, and most of them were young apprentices.Many young people are literate but not craftsmen. Although they cannot be used immediately, they can be cultivated gradually. This will be a kind of talent reserve.

Several rooms on one side of the temple are hung with wooden signs, and the door reads "Fengxiashan Arms Manufacturing Bureau", which is divided into roster department (personnel department), cashier department, manufacturing department and other institutions. .The mine has also become a busy construction site, and construction of newly planned workshop buildings and roads has begun.

Monk Yao, the supreme authority here, acquiesced in Zhang Ning's activities.Every time the Arms Bureau withdraws money and goods from him, it also keeps an account.

At this time, Zhang Ning found that he was not only a manager, but also an engineer, and sometimes a missionary, although he was not very professional.This is a characteristic of officials in the Ming Dynasty. For example, an official from the Ministry of Household Affairs may go to the Ministry of Industry to do technical work in a few years, and may be transferred to lead troops to fight!

The renovated houses include workshops for smelting and casting, warehouses, and some earthen kilns.The coal excavated from the coal mine will be transported to the mine from the newly built road, and coke will be produced through local coking as fuel... Not only that, Zhang Ning also pre-designed the site for making primary cement with slag, limestone, and clay as raw materials.

These villagers who migrated from the Central Plains are different from the local aborigines. They are highly civilized and well-organized.

When construction stops in rainy weather, Zhang Ning will gather craftsmen and apprentices to teach three-dimensional drawing in the main room of the Weapons Bureau, or study casting techniques with blacksmiths.He originally thought that people in the Ming Dynasty had never seen the three-dimensional view and it would be difficult to communicate. Unexpectedly, when the drawing was drawn with graphite and explained, people accepted it very quickly. Young people with spatial imagination talents could see even more complicated assembly drawings in a short time. clear.

Taking into account the familiarity of craftsmen with size, Zhang Ning does not want to make additional innovations for the time being.They can estimate the length of an inch without measuring it. If they change it to an unfamiliar centimeter, it may have the opposite effect and affect work efficiency.

... Waiting for the construction of the mine to be completed, Fan Laosi suggested offering sacrifices to the gods for auspiciousness, and Zhang Ning agreed.So Monk Yao presided over it, and led the craftsmen to place sacrifices such as cattle, sheep and pigs on the mine, and burn incense to pray to the main god "Emperor of Heaven" to ward off evil.There were a lot of villagers who came to watch, and the scene was very lively, and this incident was inexplicably cast with a ghostly atmosphere.

But I don't know whether it was due to lack of piety or other reasons. The Weapons Bureau had just been in operation for a few days when the coal mine suddenly collapsed.

When Zhang Ning got the news, he rushed to the coal mine on the mountain from the Weapons Bureau with Yao Erlang and others.When I arrived at the place, I saw many people surrounded the mine, and a few women beside them were anxiously calling their family names.In the chaotic scene, Zhang Ning judged that the list of the dead and injured had not yet been determined.

The facilities for digging coal are very simple, and there is nothing inside. If you dig it manually like this, it may collapse.According to his knowledge, this kind of mine must at least have wooden beams to support it, but he himself is not sure how to build it; maybe there are no local talents who are proficient in mining, otherwise the matter would not have come to this.

After a while, two fishy corpses were lifted out of the dark cave. The corpses were covered with black charcoal ash, and the bloody red wounds were extremely eye-catching.For a while, someone burst into tears.A man with black hair and face shouted: "The middle collapsed, and two people were crushed. I don't know how many people are still inside. Hurry up and dig it out, maybe you can survive!"

The man shouting was holding a lantern. Zhang Ning looked at the swaying flames inside and said to himself: Will there be a gas explosion?

At this time, a middle-aged man with rough and dark skin came over. It was Tao Da, the elder of the village.When Zhang Ning first arrived at Fengxia Mountain, Monk Yao said that Tao Da had the prestige to help, but he didn't pull away when something happened in Fengcun.Today, Tao Dalai must have come to deal with the accident at the behest of Monk Yao.Human life is at stake, and death is a major event.

Seeing Zhang Ning, Tao Da cupped his fists and saluted, Zhang Ning said, "I didn't expect such a tragedy to happen."

"Last year, Master Yao ordered the forging of weapons, and people died during the mining. Don't worry, Mr. Zhang. I can properly resolve this matter." Tao Da said solemnly, "It's just... because the mining is for the manufacture of firearms, and the dead and injured are compensated. money and food..."

Zhang Ning immediately said: "The deceased and the disabled will each receive 100 taels of compensation silver, which will be allocated from the account of the Weapons Bureau. If it cannot be resolved, we will discuss it later."

Tao Da didn't say much, and nodded after listening.

Looking around, Zhang Ning couldn't help but ask again: "Is there a reason to appease everyone? The purpose of making firearms is to attack bandits and avenge the deaths of the villagers in Fengcun."

"Okay." Tao Dao said, "I'll go and appease the villagers."

The appeasement reason that Zhang Ning came up with on the spur of the moment is of course not true. It is impossible for the leader of the evil spirit to send a large box of money to make firearms in order to solve a bandit problem in a branch.However, Zhang Ning said in front of Monk Yao that if the manufactured firearms can be used, he can first equip the soldiers of Fengxia Mountain to attack the bandit village.So words of consolation cannot be regarded as lies.

At this time, he also became more aware of a problem: people are not willing to die for a cause that has nothing to do with them.

The Bureau of Weapons was established so quickly and without resistance because the recruiters could benefit from it, and once they realized that participating in such a thing would cost their lives and other high costs, it would sooner or later go wrong.