After bidding farewell to Ye Pingxuan, Wang Xiaoming hurried up and returned to Fallen Leaf Village in just two days.

Village Chief Li and others have returned to the village, and are building a wharf and warehouse in the village according to Wang Xiaoming's previous instructions.

In the future, the village will be a transit point for goods.

When Wang Xiaoming came back, the wharf and warehouse had been repaired, but looking at the appearance of the deciduous village, it seemed that he was in trouble, and he only ran rampant with officials in the village.

Wang Xiaoming didn't alarm others, he first went to Li Xianger's house, and Li Xianger was very happy to see Wang Xiaoming coming.

Wang Xiaoming was also very pleased, and also gave Li Xianger gifts, all of which were clothes and snacks bought on the road, although the gifts were not expensive, but they were a piece of heart, and Li Xianger was even happier when she received the gifts.

Wang Xiaoming asked Li Xiang'er to put away the gifts, and then went to call the village chief.

Not long after, Village Chief Li came, and Wang Xiaoming immediately asked about the village officials.

Village Chief Li hurriedly said At this time, sure enough, it was still the same as the previous speculation, these officials still refused to give up after receiving the money, obviously seeing that there was something greasy in the village and wanted to knock a bamboo pole.

Originally, it was nothing to just give some money, but I was afraid that these guys would be greedy, and if they took it once, they wanted to ask for a second time, which was a bottomless pit.

Wang Xiaoming thought for a while and asked, "Who can call the shots in this matter, and who should I go to?"

Village Chief Li said: "If you want to say that you can call the shots, it is naturally the county magistrate in the county, but most of the magistrates in the county are not in charge, and we are still under the management of the county master here, and if you want to do things, you still have to go to the master bookkeeper." ”

"The name of the chief bookkeeper in our county is Zhou Ran, according to the rules of officialdom, the iron battalion, the flowing official, and the county is changed every three years. However, the officials in the county will not change, so Zhou Ran has been doing errands here for twenty years. The county magistrate has the greatest strength, but if he wants to talk about the real power, it is the master who holds the real power. ”

"Master Zhou's means are also handy, that is, people are too greedy to deal with. ”

Village Chief Li also introduced some of the situation of Master Zhou's book, so that Wang Xiaoming could know the details.

In the officialdom of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the chief official has the highest status, but in fact he has no rights, and the actual power is in the hands of those officials below, and the officials also know how to behave. Naturally, the monthly filial piety will not be less, and the chief official has money to take, and he does not have to take care of things, so he is naturally happy to be idle.

The same is true of the situation in Qingshan County, the magistrate doesn't care about things, and the people below manage the matter.

Village Chief Li thought about it and also gave a suggestion, if Wang Xiaoming wants to develop here in the future, it is better to grasp the rights in the county.

It is necessary to grasp the power in your hands. It's hard to say, but it's easy to say.

Because although the right of the master book is large, this right is given by the county magistrate, and the county magistrate has the right to recall and appoint the master book.

Merely. Generally speaking, as long as the master book can be a person and do everything well, the position of the master book is still stable. The magistrate will not remove the chief secretary for no reason, in that case, it will not be conducive to the management and stability of the place.

There is also a way to deal with the master book. And there are many ways, but it depends on what you can do.

Generally speaking, if you can find the evidence of the main book and send the evidence to the county, you can also bring down the master book.

Wang Xiaoming didn't want to be so troublesome, compared to the current feminine means, it was the easiest to kill people.

Wang Xiaoming thought for a while and asked, "If Master Zhou is killed, we can't make our own people the master bookkeeper?"

Village Chief Li was stunned for a moment, then thought about it seriously, thought for a moment, and then said: "There are two main ways, one is to have the right person, and the other is to spend money. ”

"If you want to be the master bookkeeper, you still have to know what the county lord said, as long as the silver is used more, I am not afraid that I can't be it, in addition to the silver is the problem of candidates, when it comes to candidates, there is also an acquaintance in the county office. ”

"This person's name is Zhang Bo, is an old official, this year's forty three, fifteen years old in the yamen to do things, for the yamen in the doorway knows very well, he also has the ability, is also a good person, but the family is poor, and can not get a high position for himself, so he is just a small official. ”

"Speaking of which, Zhang Bo also has some relationship with our Li family, which can be regarded as a distant relative, and his maternal grandmother should also be called his cousin. ”

Wang Xiaoming thought for a while and said: "It's okay, these officials in the village will send people away first, and then the county will also send people to inquire about the situation, and that Zhang Bo will also send someone to inquire, contact and contact, and wait for the news to be confirmed, and then make a calculation." ”

Village Chief Li nodded and said, "It's okay, this is to send someone to the county to inquire about the news." ”

After Village Chief Li said goodbye, Li Xianger's family had already prepared a meal for Wang Xiaoming, although Wang Xiaoming was not hungry, but he also ate two bowls of rice here, after all, it was difficult to be gracious.

Speaking of which, since Wang Xiaoming arrived here, the life of the whole village has been greatly improved, especially Li Xianger's family, Li Xianger is the first person Wang Xiaoming met here, so he took special care of him, not only gave him money, but also sent a lot of food, so Li Xianger's family can eat white rice.

If you change to the previous time, white rice is a good thing that can only be eaten during the Chinese New Year.

After a full meal, Wang Xiaoming said goodbye to Li Xianger's family and returned to the island.

The island is called Twin Horn Island because of the two towering peaks on the island, which resemble the twin horns on the head of a sea monster, hence the name Twin Horn Island.

When Wang Xiaoming was away, the construction of Shuangjiao Island did not fall in the slightest.

Before leaving, Wang Xiaoming had already left a strategy for transforming Shuangjiao Island, and he only needed to modify it according to these strategies.

The geographical advantages of Shuangjiao Island are very obvious, easy to defend and difficult to attack, if you want to transform it well, it is definitely a natural risk.

According to the special topography of Shuangjiao Island, Wang Xiaoming customized the method of transforming Shuangjiao Island.

The first is to build a watchtower on the commanding heights of the two-horned island, although there were watchtowers before, but they are not perfect enough to take into account the situation around the island.

After the transformation, you can see the surrounding situation of the island from the observation tower, and no matter which direction the opposing ship approaches the island, it will be the first to be spotted.

In addition to the watchtower, a fort was built on the island of Two Horns, and this time the fort was different. In addition to the external battery, there is also the internal attack battery, so that. Even if the opponent attacks the island, the battery on the island can attack the invaders.

After all, the forts on the island are only the last means of defense, and the best defense method is the external forts.

It is not difficult to build a fort, the real difficulty is still in the cannons.

The original cannons have all been pulled down, Wang Xiaoming will not use these cannons anymore, he will build stronger cannons himself.

Before these cannons were built, the current batteries could only serve as a guard.

At present, the fort is only under construction, and has not yet been completed.

Wang Xiaoming's return. It still made everyone on Doublehorn Island very happy.

The first thing he did after coming back was to find Wu Jiang, and after giving some instructions, he asked Wu Jiang to go ashore with his people.

In the future, Wujiang's main work was to run a trading business on the shore to facilitate the development of Shuangjiao Island.

After sending Wu Jiang away, Wang Xiaoming called Zhao Dazhui, the head of the island's craftsmen, over.

Zhao Dazhui is in his forties, he is from a family of craftsmen, and his ancestors have been making ironworks for generations, and the status of craftsmen in Da Zhou is very low. Zhao Da Hammer is skilled but he can't support his family, seeing his family suffering, Zhao Da Hammer escaped from the official workshop with his family, but he was unlucky. After tossing and turning, he was still captured by pirates, and finally ended up on the island of Two Horns, where he built weapons for the pirates who came before him.

After Wang Xiaoming inspected the craftsmen on Shuangjiao Island, he promoted Zhao Dazhui. Become the Craftsman Chief, who specializes in managing the affairs of the Craftsmen.

Facing Wang Xiaoming, the pirate leader, although he knows that Wang Xiaoming is approachable. However, Zhao Dazhui still has a feeling that he doesn't dare to come out.

Wang Xiaoming didn't comfort anything, the coming day will be long, and the other party will always get used to it slowly in the future.

Wang Xiaoming asked about the construction of the forging plant on Shuangjiao Island.

Zhao Dazhui said it one by one, and he didn't dare to hide anything in the slightest.

In the entire Shuangjiao Island, what Wang Xiaoming values most is actually this forge, and the advantages and disadvantages of this forges will be directly related to the construction of soldiers' weapons and warships, so it will naturally become the top priority.

Soldiers can train slowly, but there is nowhere to get weapons slowly.

Good weapons can only be built by yourself.

Before Wang Xiaoming left, he had already provided them with some technology, and Zhao Dazhui led people to get these things up first.

According to Zhao Dazhui, most of the buildings have been completed, but there are some places that have not been figured out, so it is difficult to get them done.

Wang Xiaoming doesn't blame him, after all, the technical information he provided is very advanced, and it is understandable that the other party can't get it right.

Wang Xiaoming comforted him softly, and then asked Zhao Dazhui to lead the way, wanting to go to the forge to have a good look.

Zhao Dazhui hurriedly led the way in front and took Wang Xiaoming to the forging factory.

The forge is the top priority, so the place where it is built is also in the most secret and safe location, and there are soldiers with muskets patrolling and guarding the forge around the forge factory, and ordinary people are not allowed to approach the forge factory.

The rest of the people may not understand the importance of confidentiality, but Wang Xiaoming understands, so Wang Xiaoming did a very good job of confidentiality at the beginning.

Because of the limitations of manpower and terrain, the scale of the forge was not large, and there were not many workers in it, only twelve craftsmen, and the remaining sixty apprentices, one craftsman with five apprentices.

The forging plant has been built in accordance with Wang Xiaoming's requirements, and the blast furnace and other equipment have all been built.

However, there are still some minor problems, because they don't understand the technology, so they don't dare to make changes rashly.

Wang Xiaoming looked around, and was quite satisfied, although the scale here is not large, but it is also a sparrow, although it is small, it is enough, as long as these are perfected, it is enough to build guns.

The Twin Horns are still too small and too small for the limitations of development, so they can only be used as a temporary foothold, and when the power develops, it will have to occupy a larger territory.

Wang Xiaoming wants to make warships and super submarines, and he can't do this without a large shipyard.

And to build a large shipyard without strength and silver, it is absolutely impossible to do it.

Under Wang Xiaoming's guidance, those inappropriate places were quickly modified.

Wang Xiaoming thought for a while, and said to Zhao Dazhui, who was following him: "From today on, we will build weapons, and the first thing to build weapons is to have good materials, so we will start with forging materials, and now I will give you a recipe, and you will get me raw materials according to the recipe." ”

"It's the chief. Zhao Dazhui hurriedly agreed, and Wang Xiaoming took out a pen and paper to write, and made an introduction while writing.

Zhao Da Hammer is illiterate, but among Zhao Da Hammer's apprentices, he was arranged to be a literate young man, and with the help of this young man, it was fine.

The raw materials were quickly found, and then the materials began to be made according to Wang Xiaoming's requirements.

In order to create suitable materials, Wang Xiaoming also worked hard, regardless of the high temperature in the forging factory, so he led a group of craftsmen to create materials in the forging factory.

Although Wang Xiaoming has a formula, the metal and environment in this world are still a little different, and he must be tested one by one to determine the characteristics of the metal in order to create the materials he needs.

Now the test is quite simple, because the material used to make the gun is not too demanding, and only the right steel needs to be made.

In the future, when building a super submarine, the requirements for materials are very high, because it is a super submarine that can safely dive to a depth of 13,000 meters, and ordinary materials naturally cannot resist such a strong water pressure.

Although it is already a relatively simple material refining, it is still a relatively troublesome thing on this special planet, and it has been more than half a month to refine the suitable steel.

The formula of the steel has been recorded, and it is only necessary to refine it according to this recipe in the future.

Wang Xiaoming called this metal No. 1 steel, which can be used to make guns and cannons.

Especially to build cannons.

After the construction of Steel No. 1 was completed, the first weapon to be built was a rapid-fire cannon.

Technical problems, don't worry about it at all, Wang Xiaoming has a light brain in his head, and shooting a rapid-fire cannon that can be manufactured at this stage is not a problem at all.

As for the reason for choosing rapid-fire guns, it is also very simple, because in this era, there seems to be no ironclad ships, and there are no tanks and other heavy armor, so the fastest rapid-fire guns are naturally the most suitable. (To be continued......)