Looking at the firecrackers who closed the team and left, Shen Liang said with a worried face: "The size of the West Passion Gun and the Island Gun are about the same, the sub-medicine is almost loaded, and the power of the bullets is similar, according to the salvo method taught to us by the Portuguese, the closer each gun is to the better, move forward with the drum beat and the brigade, and when playing at most one step apart, or even shoulder to shoulder, it is best to shoot more than 30 steps away from the target during training, and it is almost impossible to hit the enemy by aiming dozens of steps away on the battlefield." The Westerners' way of playing is to move forward side by side with the whole team, listen to the order to fire a salvo, as long as they can use the gun against the shoulder, not to the sky and the earth, dozens of hundreds of thousands of people take turns to fire a salvo, and the people on the opposite side have to die. And they also have a saying, it is best to fight until the nearest day, like the guns in our Daming battalion, the enemy is chaotic every hundred steps, and they are fired indiscriminately, and the fire guns are not good to fight, of course, let the mermaids bully. The more courageous and the more aligned the queue, the more powerful it will be, and the more enemies will be killed. When they first used firearms, thousands of people fought against each other for a day, and only a dozen people were killed and wounded, which was a joke, and then the more and more battles were fought, especially in the places they colonized, saying that the territory was larger than our Daming, and the population was not less than our Daming...... I think they're still a bit of a boast. However, these people are well cast, and the fire guns are better than ours, and the queue is also good when training. We used hundreds of Yi people in many camps in Dengzhou, and then the Dongjiang soldiers were in chaos, killing a lot of people, running a lot, and some were coerced by Kong Youde to Jiannu's side. Judging from what I learned from these Yi people, our firearms are varied, large and small passionates, Japanese guns, muskets, bird guns, the number of charges, the size of lead, and the distance of the firearms are not equal, if such a firearms team is pulled into the battlefield, even if we have been training hard, it is much stronger than the battalion soldiers, but it is still far worse than the Yi people in the war. At the beginning of the fight with the Dongjiang soldiers, the Dongjiang soldiers killed by our Dengzhou battalion soldiers were not more killed than the more than the more than 100 Xifan soldiers, although they bragged, but they did have the ability to brag......"

"It's not necessarily bragging." Of course, Min Yuanqi knew that both the Spanish and the Portuguese had laid down a large number of colonies in South America, and it was the same in Africa, and the rising British were attacking India at this time, and those large and small princely states were not India's opponents at all. In later generations, India, Pakistan, Bhutan, Sikkim and many other countries all became British colonies in the course of several decades.

Then these colonists set their sights on Asia, with the Dutch occupying Indonesia, the Portuguese owning Malacca, and Macau, China. The Spanish occupied Luzon, the British began to enter Asia after straightening out India decades later, and Burma and other countries became British colonies, and it was not until after World War II that countries broke free from the control of the colonizers.

However, at this time, he said to Shen Liang that those Yi people not only did not brag, but even had ambitions for Daming, and Min Yuanqi did not intend to waste this effort.

In this era, the Ming Dynasty not only opened the country, but also understood the Yi people, and was not blindly arrogant, as long as the other party had good things, they would learn calmly and use them for their own use, and there was no hindrance at all. Unlike at the end of the Qing Dynasty, not only the people were ignorant, but the brains of the scholars and emperors became a mess, first blindly arrogant, and then extremely inferior after being beaten. At this time, the Ming Dynasty was quite confident from the scholars to the people, although they did not refuse good things from outside, but the scholars and people of the Ming Dynasty admitted that each other was also quite good, and even in terms of civilization, it was not inferior to the Ming Dynasty, even if it was the ordinary Dengzhou battalion soldiers in front of him, this was too difficult.

The thousand-year-old history of China is brilliant, but also a heavy burden, this big ship now has too many ills, the boss's imperial disease, the people are scattered under the centralized power, the inheritance of force and mutual assistance has been lost, selfish, conservative, and cowardly......

Min Yuanqi didn't talk much, the conversation changed, and then said: "I'm afraid that the construction of the fire gun is not urgent, I asked your brother Shen Yong, it takes a month to drill and grind the gun pipe, and now I have found more than a dozen people to be your brother's apprentice, and I am also drilling and grinding the gun pipe, and I am also trying to see if I can improve the self-generated fire gun, or improve the bird gun." Qi Shuai's bird gun, if the workmanship is qualified, it is also a sharp weapon, but there are still things that can be improved, such as whether gunpowder and bullets can be fixed, and they don't have to be loose on the body. ”

Shen nodded and said: "My lord is very worried, our Dengzhou soldiers often detonate the gunpowder on their bodies during training, and it is inevitable that they will die or be disabled. ”

Min Yuanqi glared at the Dengzhou soldier and said, "Since you know, why didn't you say it earlier?" ”

"I thought adults would have known about it a long time ago, and I admired their bravery."

Min Yuanqi was silent for a while, this kid in front of him may have serious psychological problems, after crawling out of the pile of dead people, not only is he not afraid of death, but he is also afraid that he will not take the lives of others in his eyes.

"You should discuss this matter with your brother after you get off duty at night, and discuss things such as the fire gate and gunpowder storage, and see if you can come up with a solution. Tell your brother that I will reward him with fifty taels of silver if he comes up with an improved plan, and I will never break my word. ”

Shen Liang smiled and said, "We have never doubted the adult's daughter. ”

Shen Liang hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Are the Haikou and bandits coming?" ”

"It's not decided yet," Min Yuanqi said, "But it's fast enough to calculate the time, in fact, they are slow enough." ”

……

Liang Shifa was surrounded by a whole team of subordinates, they did not wear bright red battle jackets, but wore ordinary jackets or short brown, barehead or wrapped in black cloth, a group of people set up a stove by the sea, everyone worked together, put more than 500 catties of large iron pots on the stove, set up a shed, introduced seawater to make brine, a few days later, began to light the fire and fry salt.

This kind of thing is almost too common in the Yunti Pass area, and it is simply not worth mentioning.

In the seaside here and again everywhere are this kind of salt frying sheds, many military households are busy like ant colonies, in terms of frying salt, in front of these more than ten people can get five or six thousand catties of salt a month busy work, an average of one or two per person, but to remove the cost of firewood, after all, it is the cost of everyone to collect firewood or buy firewood, and then deduct the silver handed over to the military attachés, and before that, they also have to give Shuiguan a salt, so that the income is really quite limited.

That is to say, to do these things in the slack time, the income is lower than that of the labor, and you have to get up early and bring the evening to be busy, after the firewood is lit, the smoke rises, every day is smoky and burning, and every military household that frying salt is red-eyed.

This kind of thing, Liang Shifa and this small team of flag soldiers actually stopped doing it a long time ago, this time they came in disguise and continued to do these previous jobs, and everyone was actually quite uncomfortable.

"My brother pushes salt in the salt pond, goes to work at night, goes home at noon, eats and sleeps, and gets up again the next night. I said that the work in the salt pond is a bit hard, and now that the mother comes to fry the salt again, I feel that it is still easy to work on the salt pond. ”

"That is, it's not hot at night, I push the board back and forth, and rest for a quarter of an hour every other hour, in fact, it's just walking back and forth, and it's not too tiring."

"Are we still afraid of people walking? The year before last, I heard that Anton's grain was cheaper than Guannan's grain by four cents of silver, and he walked more than 100 miles with his flat shoulder, so it didn't matter if he could buy a few more buckets of grain, and he was afraid of walking? ”

"The work in the salt pond is also done in rotation, every ten days, pushing ten days of salt at night, and then going to work during the day for ten days, packing salt, which is much lighter than pushing salt, and it is not tired all the time."

"Let's talk about it, it's still good for us, although it's hard to practice every day, but the silver and grain are the first portion."

The people in the team are boiling salt, these people are all picked out by Liang Shifa, originally from a hundred households, not to mention the roots, people are able to speak well, and they are alert and awake, so they are qualified to follow Liang Shifa to disguise the sentry on the beach.

Liang Shifa is wearing a mandarin duck jacket, the cotton lining inside has been taken, it has become a single robe, the weather at the end of March has been quite warm, the sea breeze is very strong under the sun, but it feels very comfortable to blow on people, the light yellow sea water flutters not far from the feet, this is a large tidal flat, it is a typical landform from Yuntiguan to Yancheng, a large area of muddy land, sandy beaches, wetlands formed under the action of tides, submerged at high tide, revealed at low tide, this landform only grows some shallow grass, can not be cultivated, and is not suitable for building ports, Because it is too far from the sea where ships can be parked, it is impossible to load and unload goods, which is also the reason for the lack of good ports on this thousand-mile coast.

In addition to the port in Haizhou, the Haicao of the Yuan Dynasty was to load sea ships at Yunti Pass, and the ships could dock at the mouth of the Huai River, where a trestle wharf was built, and there was no other choice.

Liang Shifa did not interfere with the small talk of his subordinates, this is a very normal thing when doing work, not far north behind them is Zhao Shilu's hundred households, the farthest from the third hundredth household, and the relationship is also the most estranged, because Zhao Shilu and Li Kecheng have a close relationship, when the third hundredth household needs a large number of manpower, Zhao Shilu ignored everyone's opposition, and forced the military households under his rule to stay in the hundred households, and they were not allowed to go out without authorization. This person is a hundred households, and he has the power to say nothing about the flag army and Yu Ding under his command, this kind of power looks nothing in ordinary times, but after the order is really given, the violator has to consider the consequences of resisting the order of the hundred households, Zhao Shilu wants to be really ruthless, and directly hangs Yu Ding of the flag army under his command, and there is Li Kecheng behind the support of a thousand households, is there still someone looking for the trouble of this hundred households?

In this way, the remnants of the banner army in the hundred households here can only watch the other hundred households go to the third hundredth household to work and earn food, and they can only continue to work hard in the coastal places to make salt.

Behind them is a winding official road, which is not a small road from a hundred households to a thousand households, but an out-and-out official road, from which it goes north to the west, and about one hundred and fifty miles is the city of Haizhou. At this time, there are only Yangzhou and Huai'an in the whole Jiangbei, Xuzhou and Haizhou are Zhili Prefecture, the territory jurisdiction is quite small, Yancheng and Suqian are still only counties, Haizhou this official road, only allow two cars in parallel, rammed earth tree planting regulations are not bad, this is also the year to prepare for the Japanese repair, there are express shops and a few post stations along the way, but now very few officials go from this official road, and there are no soldiers to change guards, just to facilitate the merchants and ordinary people who visit relatives and friends from here to Haizhou from Yuntiguan.