For the Luoka tribe, tomorrow's average half a ton of wild sugarcane collection has reached the limit of the tribe's manpower, in order to earn more silver, the Luoka tribe has now begun an ambitious expansion plan, these days, according to Hou Xianglin and ** advice, Luoka Dad has sent envoys into the jungle, encouraging those tribes who have not yet come out of the jungle to come out of the jungle to Xin'an City to "work and earn money", and also encourage the local people to collect wild sugarcane to Xin'an City to sell silver or exchange for daily necessities, such as iron, sugar and salt, etc.

Papa Loka even plans to form a tribal alliance to run this business, but obviously this will require a process, so the current sugar factory will not require too many employees.

So after some selection, Gui Xianning left ten people to continue production operations in the sugar factory, and he took the other ten people to start an important project - the construction of the ammunition factory.

With the support of the soldiers of the garrison led by **, the ammunition factory was built near the embankment on the west bank of the Xin'an River in only half a month, and for safety reasons, the factory was located at the midpoint of the Jiangkou wharf and the wooden wall in the south of the city, a kilometer away from both sides.

The layout of this ammunition factory is almost a replica of the home ammunition factory, but because of the relatively abundant labor and building materials, both the factory and various security facilities have been improved.

At the same time as the construction of the ammunition factory, Gui Xianning strengthened the operation training of the Japanese people, and every other day, he had to spare half a day to carry out various safety education and practical training in process production.

The saltpeter sulphur used to produce black ** was purchased both by the Nicole from Sulu and by the city of Dili, which was very common in this era.

In the future, Deguce's fleet will also bring these materials to Xin'ancheng, after all, the purchase price of the Australians is very fair, and he also found that doing business with the Australians is very refreshing and direct, everything is based on quality, and the inspection of the silver will never be grinding, and the most important thing is that these materials transported into Xin'an City are actually tax-free, without all kinds of exploitation and red tape when doing business in other ports!

This allows Dergus to think about how to bring as many goods as possible, and not worry about other moths at all, in short, Dergus has become more and more fond of doing business with Australians.

In fact, at present, Gui Xianning is most worried about the most important thing is the issue of production safety, fortunately, the Japanese people know the power of the **, they even have some trembling when they first come into contact with these black **, Gui Xianning is very satisfied with the work attitude of the Japanese people who are walking on thin ice, as Mr. Zhao said, to do this kind of work, the most afraid of ignorant and fearless people.

Half a month later, the ten Japanese people who participated in the ** workshop finally mastered the production skills of strengthening the black **.

When the first batch of smooth cylindrical medicine pillars were produced, Sun Laohou Xianglin, Xiao Pingguo** and others all heard the news, they picked up a small medicine column, and after a careful observation and comparison with the medicine columns produced at home, they couldn't help but sigh with some surprise and said, it is exactly the same as at home! And overall, it seems that the quality and appearance have improved! Little Guizi, you are really good!

That's a must! The process and raw materials are the same, and the relevant equipment provided to us at home is improved, which is not the same as the equipment made for the first time.

At this time, Gui Xianning responded proudly.

Immediately afterwards, Gui Xianning further explained to these people that the combined ammunition we produce here is already the second generation, and so far, this kind of combined ammunition has been improved in two major ways: one is the purified "ammonia nitride" additive, and the other is that the paper shell fixed ammunition has been changed to a cloth shell fixed ammunition.

These two major improvements have increased the effective and accurate firing range of our Type 57 rifle by about 10%, and also increased the explosive power of the Type 57 hand**.

Let's talk about the ammonia additive first, at this time, Gui Xianning pointed to a row of clay pots in the corner of the factory and said, do you see a row of big clay pots over there?

It was filled with the off-white powder, an ammonia nitrate additive brought from home, which was produced by a combination of the coal dry distillation process and the alkali chemical process, which was a mixture of potassium nitrate and sodium salt similar to ammonia, which Anna told us, and with a detailed process.

However, I must make it clear to you that although we are very clear about its theoretical composition and technological process, but because our testing instruments and process level cannot keep up for the time being, there are many impurities in this composite ammonia salt produced at present, and the specific proportion and composition can only be known.

However, our chemical team has worked very hard to purify it, and after experiments, this nitrate after purification has indeed increased the power of black ** a lot, which is stronger than the ammunition we gave you at the beginning.

Note that this is the ultimate secret of our strengthened black **, if there is no such composite ammonia nitrate, no matter how much those black ** toss, they can only be used for fireworks and ordinary musket bronze guns, without this additive, the power of black ** will be greatly reduced, and it is not even enough to make the hand ** explode, and it is estimated that it is difficult to make the lead bullet shoot smoothly in the rifled barrel with greatly increased friction, even if it is fired, its range and power will be greatly attenuated.

However, this ammonia salt is easy to volatilize and oxidize and deteriorate, so in order to extend the shelf life as much as possible and reduce costs, we finally adopted the scheme of cloth shell fixed ammunition.

This kind of cloth shell is more advanced than paper shell ammunition, especially in terms of airtightness, which has made great progress, so this is one of the reasons why the ammunition has also increased its firing power.

However, because we do not have the conditions to use metal shells now, we estimate that the shelf life is probably less than eighteen months, beyond this time, the strengthened black ** will degenerate into ordinary black **, of course, this shelf life is at least half a year longer than the first generation of paper shell fixed ammunition, which can be regarded as a technological progress.

Then, Gui Xianning put forward two more requirements to everyone: First, he asked Brother Hou to send more workers to the ammunition factory, and asked all of them to be female workers, because women are more meticulous in doing this kind of work, and being cautious in doing things is a quality that the employees of the ammunition factory must have.

As for wages, Gui Xianning said that Sister Xia had already sent a telegram to guide the budget, according to this budget, the wages of the workers in the ammunition factory were at least 30% higher than those in the sugar factory, and you must know that the wages of the workers in the sugar factory were already very attractive to the locals, so the ammunition factory should be more attractive to the labor force here, so it must go through a relatively strict selection and assessment.

In addition to the relatively dangerous work in the ammunition factory, another important reason for the high wages is that the business of the ammunition factory is much more profitable than that of the sugar factory, or it is more profitable.

Several people at the scene knew about this, because the plenary meeting had already discussed the matter of the Kingdom of Sulu some time ago, and decided to sell the modified handcuffs to the King of Sulu---- which is the "Federation Type 1 single-shot handcuff", and everyone has basically reached a consensus on this point, believing that this kind of handcuffs is just a short-term transitional firearm for us, and it is okay to sell it to others.

The point is that now everyone feels that the arms business is an important part of our foreign trade, and as long as the arms that are exported do not pose a threat to our advanced nature and do not constitute a direct threat to our army, then we will sell them!

What's more, there are huge profits in this!

The basic opinion of everyone on this is: if you have money, you don't make bastards, if you don't make money, you don't earn for nothing, and if you make money, you make it for nothing!