"Become the master of Luchuan?" Although the "marriage" in the back may have made Ah Tian's heart sway, she still blushed and chose the previous sentence to ask: "Brother Yu, you are still a hundred households, how can you become the master of Luchuan?" ”

"What's so hard about that? You don't think that the distance between Hyakyoto and the Lord of Luchuan is very far. Jiang Yu asked rhetorically.

"Or else?" Ah Tian blinked: "This Luchuan Sijia has fought with our Ming Dynasty for so many years, isn't it just to become the lord of Luchuan?" ”

"What he wants to do is not an ordinary lord of Luchuan, but the lord of Luchuan on an equal footing with my Daming," Jiang Yu shook his head: "I just want to become the lord of Luchuan under Daming, that is, a consolation envoy." ”

"But the official position of the consolation envoy is much higher than that of a hundred households, and he is also a local official, so you can't do it." Ah Tian's face puffed up slightly.

"You don't mean to say something that is impossible to do, since it is impossible to sit on the lord of Luchuan, it is impossible to be open... Marry me. In the end, she was still blushing to the base of her ears because of her shyness.

"Hey, you don't understand that." Jiang Yu shook his head: "If it is an ordinary place, it is natural that the local officials will be the ambassadors, but this Luchuan is turbulent, and the war has been in turmoil for ten years, once our army wins, it will inevitably be the officials who will manage this side." ”

"The liuguan who manages Luchuan is at most a commander at the first level, or half a level to one level higher than the commander." Jiang Yugang analyzed: "If I can make great contributions to both Mengyang and Jiangtou City, and keep a complete and combat-effective army, it is entirely possible to obtain this position." ”

Ah Tian heard Jiang Yu say this, and his heart couldn't help but move. The lord of the original side was still a rather distant and lofty concept in her mind, and it seemed to be out of reach.

But after hearing Jiang Yugang's analysis, she found that it didn't seem to be so unattainable, after all, if it was only a command to this extent, the war had continued until now, and many commanders had less than a thousand soldiers in their hands.

With more than 1,000 soldiers in his hands, the commander is already the main force that has taken on heavy responsibilities, and the only force that can maintain an establishment of more than 3,000 is probably the absolute core force of Yunnan Wuwei.

From this point of view, the gap between Jiang Yugang, who had annihilated thousands of Luchuan troops twice, and them was not very large, and when the cottages near Manggu Mountain were annexed and integrated, he could still get more vital forces.

Thinking about it this way, Ah Tian felt that he could better understand why Jiang Yugang had to work hard to control the cottages, the manpower situation of the Ming army was close to running out, and it was too difficult to get manpower support from the Ming army, and it was more feasible to control these cottages that were against the Luchuan army.

She finally nodded slightly in approval, and muttered, "I... I understand. ”

"It's good to get it, and you know that you're the smartest." Jiang Yu smiled and stretched out his hand: "Come on, we have been pulled away by the team in front, we have to catch up quickly." ”

Ah Tian blushed, and carefully stretched out his hand to Jiang Yugang, Jiang Yugang did not hesitate, held it tightly, and then pulled Ah Tian and strode towards the team in front.

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Because there were some injured villagers and Ming troops in the team, and because the battle was won, everyone's mood was relatively relaxed, so when this group of militia and Ming army walked back to the Manggu Mountain camp, the sky was already dark.

Because it was a cloudy day, there was no afterglow at dusk, and a large area of dark clouds covered the sky with dark marble-like lines, just like the mood of the villagers of Nansangzhai who temporarily lived in the camp of Manggu Mountain after hearing that the village had been burned down.

Whining, sighing, and even crying rang out in the camp, and grew louder and louder, like a grand funeral. However, in Jiang Yugang's view, this is also a fact, a fire night, while burying the last Luchuan army in Manggu Mountain, it did stage the funeral of Nansangzhai.

It is a sad thing to have a cottage of decades, possibly even longer, destroyed, but not all, behind the destruction is hope. Jiang Yuran walked through the chaotic crowd, walked through courtyards and temporary or non-temporary tents, and finally arrived at a brightly lit cave.

Outside the cave, there are rows of semi-new or brand-new furnaces, Jiang Yugang provided Lu Chong with some modern blast furnace design schemes, and handed over to Xu's uncle and nephew who specializes in smelting to be responsible for the construction work, the specific construction process Jiang Yuyan is not clear, but from the latest production of firearms and knives, the smelting effect has been significantly improved.

This kind of thing, Jiang Yugang naturally will not share it with the Ming army in Meng Yangcheng and other places, not considering that after the technological monopoly is broken, he may lose the technological advantage from the future, even if it is left to other craftsmen to do, on the one hand, they will not honestly follow the instructions of the officers of the guard like Lu Chong, and on the other hand, they may not be serious about making it.

Generally speaking, the treatment of craftsmen in the Ming army has been showing a downward trend, worse and worse remuneration, more and more perfunctory or even bad treatment by managers, as well as all kinds of differential treatment and discrimination in all aspects, all of which have kept the enthusiasm of craftsmen for labor and production at a very low point and continued to decline.

This is the inevitable result of the conservative nature of the traditional agricultural society in ancient China, because it cannot effectively improve life, so there is still a serious insensitivity and neglect of industry, technology and science.

For example, improving agricultural tools can effectively improve the efficiency of farming, but due to the lack of chemical fertilizer technology and the corresponding construction of water conservancy facilities, the presence or absence of insect pests and changes in climatic conditions can completely cover up the positive impact of those new agricultural tools, and therefore, a series of improvements around agricultural tools appear to be useless, which has a profound impact on the momentum of development.

Another military example, in the later Jiajing period, when the bird gun was introduced into the Ming Dynasty, because the use process of the bird gun is very complicated, many soldiers in the northern border towns continued to use the so-called "three-god god gun" because of the inconvenience of use under the relatively low management efficiency of the traditional military system, which was actually three times the simple modification of the ordinary fire gun, and there was no comparison with the bird gun in terms of actual design effect.

However, because the majority of soldiers used this "three-eyed god gun", there was no demand for bird guns, which eventually led to the fact that there was no need for a large number of craftsmen to participate in the production of bird guns, and the status of craftsmen was further reduced.

Even at the most critical juncture of the Ming Dynasty, according to the statistics of some later historians, the really useful bird guns used in the battlefield of Liaodong accounted for only a small part of the firearms used, and the vast majority of them were some flashy firearms.

As the famous general Qi Jiguang said: "In addition to the above, there are fire bricks, swarms of bees, mines, thousands of miles of cannons, magic guns, etc., and one hundred and ten colors, all of which are not cut to defend the war, so they are not prepared, and now everything is forbidden." In order to save money, only the mother and child cannons are still usable, and they should not be discarded. "A large number of firearms only look imposing, but they are not very effective in actual combat.

In the Korean War tomorrow, a problem was also exposed: most of the firearms of the Ming army were concentrated in the firearms unit, and the gunners or gunners were in charge, which also reflected from one angle that the Ming army's firearms armament rate was not high, and even showed a downward trend over time.

Whether it is that there is no high demand for firearms in technology, or there is little demand for the output of firearms, various reasons have caused the Ming Dynasty not only the demand for craftsmen has been decreasing, but the importance of craftsmen has also been declining, which directly leads to the decline of the status of craftsmen and the harsh treatment, and the final result is the escape of a large number of craftsmen, a large number of reductions in practitioners, and a decrease in industrial capacity.

Based on Jiang Yugang's own observations of the Ming army near Mengyang City and the Manggu Mountain camp, it can also be seen that his craftsmen here, both in terms of treatment and the tasks they are responsible for, far exceed those of other places. On the Manggu Mountain, the craftsmen formed the Alchemy Academy, constantly recruiting newcomers to join, and producing new firecrackers, fixed-loading bullets and bird guns in full swing.

And the craftsmen in other places are more of them surviving in all kinds of inexplicable corners, because a large number of soldiers and war horses are killed, and they hardly need to produce more guns and knives, and there are no extra war horses even for horseshoe and harness.

Jiang Yu had the idea of taking them under his command, but he quickly gave up again. He took his subordinates to engage in smelting in Manggu Mountain, and it didn't matter if he wantonly collected people to build a village, if he moved someone else's subordinates, it would add a lot of incidents.

When the time comes, it will not be good if all these processes of your own are exposed. He Jiang Yuyan because he was born in engineering in college, and then he has been immersed in all kinds of antiques and crafts, so he reluctantly made these design drawings by memory, if it becomes a wedding dress for others, especially those who don't take craftsmen seriously, it is simply a tyrannical thing about technology, then he can't accept it, so he broke off this thought.

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When Jiang Yugang walked into the cave, Lu Chong was lying on a stone table that seemed to have just been polished and stuffed with lime to make bird guns, at this time it was a meal, and the craftsmen of the Alchemy Academy had already left the cave and the workbench near the cave, and went to an area in the center of the camp to distribute food, which was a primitive "canteen", leaving Lu Chong alone still working here.

"Lu Chong, I'm back." Jiang Yu said hello.

Lu Chong heard Jiang Yu's voice, his back shook on his stomach, put down the bird gun in his hand, and jumped up: "Baihu? You're back!"

"I haven't seen you for two months, how are you doing here?" Jiang Yugang patted the back of the young man in his arms, this guy may be younger than Ah Tian, at most just over eighteen years old, and the way he showed his feelings was much more intense, so he threw himself into Jiang Yuran's arms and hugged him.

It would be nice if Ah Tian could be so active, Jiang Yu thought regretfully. However, Ah Tian said that she is still a girl from a famous family and deeply influenced by ancient conservative thoughts, even if she dresses as a man, she should be a little reserved.

"Thanks to the hundred households, I am much easier now than I was two months ago," Lu Chong smiled: "Now the Alchemy Academy has me, Xu He, An Nian Shu and Da Ke four skilled workers, and eight craftsmen who are basically hands, who can finish some relatively independent small pieces, in addition, there are five entry-level workers who can do some small pieces and six apprentices who are still learning smelting, Uncle An Nian does not dare to let them work alone, and most of the time they still follow the chores." ”

"On such a large scale?" Jiang Yuyan was also a little surprised when he heard this: "Now you have more than 20 people under your command?" ”

Lu Chong nodded proudly: "Originally, among the people transferred from Mengyang City, there were more than a dozen people whose craftsmanship was passable, and they were accepted by me, and then a few people were unwilling to be craftsmen and left, and the rest were all people from Mengyang and his area, some of whom fled from the village who couldn't survive, and the homeless people you rescued after commanding the two general banners to suppress the bandits." ”

"Yes, Lu Chong, my side has not yet started to collect the people of the villages in the area of Manggu Mountain, and your side has already started." Jiang Yu exclaimed: "I really didn't misunderstand you. ”

"Thank you for the compliment." Lu Chong touched his head and smiled: "Now that there are more people, I have the confidence and strength to make bird guns." ”