On the wharf in South Australia, the laborers boarded the ship with bags of grain on their backs, and then got off the ship, went to the warehouse to receive the wooden chips that calculated the wages, pinned them on their waists, kicked them in their arms, and then carried the grain on the ship again, and went on and on.

After a long time, the ship left the dock and gradually disappeared into the sea and sky. During this period, Nanao Island is still the same Nanao Island, and what is missing is nothing more than those few sea ships, just like every time you go to sea for sea trade.

The ship set sail, and Zheng Chenggong also issued a new order - from now on, the general and all towns began to implement the system of ten-month rest that had already begun in the ordnance workshop. Of course, it is only limited to the mid-year holiday, and the other benefits of the armory workshop have not been copied, as for why, it is unknown.

However, with the implementation of the ten-month holiday system, these people on Nanao Island who eat official meals are all cheering, and there are many rumors in private that Chen Kai suggested it to Zheng Chenggong, which also made Chen Kai invisibly gain a lot of praise and gratitude. In this regard, Chen Kai was noncommittal, but continued to strengthen the production capacity of the ordnance workshop in accordance with his established direction.

The Bird Gun Craftsmen arrived, and they all brought the same tools that made the Bird Guns. As far as the current process is concerned, the firearms in the middle and late Ming Dynasty were influenced by the West, and the firearms did not seem to completely copy the previous model of "the big guns should be cast in copper, and the small guns should be beaten with iron", but the tube forging, which is not much different from Europe and Japan in terms of technology.

Chen Kai has seen the technical level of these craftsmen, and in general they are uneven, but at least they can be created independently, and the finished products can be used normally.

After these few days, the finished products have been available, basically they are still Qi Jiguang's anti-Japanese time, and the bird gun style popularized by the Ming court in the army since then, and the power has not exceeded Chen Kai's expectations, a few grams of lead bullet, the relative charge, and the lethality of effective armor penetration within dozens of steps.

Compared with the rifle bow, the advantage in range and lethality is not large, but not to mention the future development trend, in terms of the training time of craftsmen in manufacturing and the molding speed used in the finished product, the advantage of the firearm is already extremely huge.

Chen Kai remembered that in the past, he could always see the comparison between the fire gun and the bow and arrow on the Internet, but later someone simply made up a slip of the tongue.

Among them, "the assembly line of the musket industry, a longbow for three summers and winters", "small projectiles, round and round, high tower melted lead and eggs; Small arrows, long and sharp, a pot of long arrows for a few days", is talking about the advantages and disadvantages of production speed. For example, "the musket riot is like a urine collapse, a group of line soldiers in March, and one of the sixpence soldiers is not distressed, and then go to the army after death; After more than several years of bow and crossbow training, it is difficult for recruits to slaughter people. Malnutrition and illness make it difficult for substitutes to be recruited", and the training cycle is clear. And in terms of power, it is also indispensable "musketeers, sitting like clocks, moving their fingers through the golden bell; Playing with a bow and crossbow, it all depends on strength, and the arms are weak and the arrows fall to the ground" and "black powder, from the east, the lead pellet flies out of the armor and is unstoppable; Draw a full bow, arrows like mangs, and meet the shield armor called the old lady".

To put it plainly, an excellent archer takes a long time to cultivate, and the Ming court of the Jiajing Dynasty imitated the bird gun for the first time, and made tens of thousands of them to equip the troops that year, which can be seen. In the same way, the training time of an infantry archer may be as long as a year, or even years, and it takes several years of work, and a carefully trained infantry archer is likely to be killed by a firecracker who has only been trained for three months on the battlefield.

There is no need to say more about which is better or worse.

However, due to the level of technology, it took an extremely long time for muskets to completely replace bows and arrows. As far as the actual situation is concerned, in today's European land, firearms are the real mainstream, and the Chinese battlefield is still going through this process, and in Zheng Chenggong's army alone, only Qinding Town now has the establishment of bird guns, in the final analysis, the number of weapons is too small. This burden naturally fell on Chen Kai's body.

After a detailed observation, Chen Kai has a detailed understanding of the manufacturing process of the bird. It is undeniable that the professionalism in this is indeed very strong, not to mention anything else, just the names of those parts, Chen Kai looked at Qi Jiguang's "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness" and "Actual Record of Military Training" for a long time, and he could barely write it down, and there was less of that obstacle when communicating with the craftsmen.

In general, a bird gun is divided into a gun body, an enemy dragon, a cane, a gun frame, and a human face frame, which correspond to what later generations or the West called the barrel, trigger, throughbar, handguard, and butt, respectively.

This is the main structure, there are front and rear crosshairs, guns, fire doors and fire door covers on the gun body, and there are also dragon heads on the enemy dragon, dragon tails, fire ropes, dragon tail nail pins, iron bar foldback, upper folding bars, lower folding bars and wrenches, which are small parts such as gun frame nail pins that are also used to fix the gun body and gun frame. Building a bird gun isn't as simple as curling a gun barrel out.

After careful observation, Chen Kai thought about it carefully, and finally even simply found the craftsmen and carpenters to hold a meeting to study, and finally determined that the craftsmen of the bird guns would build the body and the enemy dragon, and the carpenters would build the division of labor and processes of other main parts according to the size of the body and the enemy dragon afterwards.

The division of labor is a major nirvana that Chen Kai has relied on to improve production efficiency, as if the reason why assembly line workers are highly efficient, in terms of skills alone, is to do a thing mechanically, muscle memory and proficiency are higher. Of course, further, Chen Kai has not thought about standardized assembly line operations in the real sense, but with the industrial foundation of such a handicraft industry now, even standardization cannot be guaranteed, let alone anything else.

It still takes a lot of time to run in and coordinate. Chen Kai was not in a hurry about this, because the materials used for the bird gun were stricter than ordinary cold weapons, and fine iron was required to withstand the pressure of the chamber. Raw materials are scarce, and Chen Kai is also powerless, who let Zheng Chenggong temporarily choose such an island that does not produce iron ore as a base.

Zheng Chenggong returned to the division this time, and took Dongshan Island, an island in southern Fujian not far from Nanao Island, which was almost three regardless of the three, and sent troops to guard the Qianhu in Tongshan there, thinking that he would rule.

It is the second largest island in Fujian, nearly twice the size of Nan'ao Island, and has a large number of salt farms that can be developed and are in use, which is a big supplement for Zheng Chenggong.

However, to Chen Kai's disappointment, Dongshan Island was based on agriculture, forestry and fishery, glass industry and tourism as the pillars of the regional economy in later generations, and now it only has agriculture and fishery.

"Well, no, the silver earned from selling salt will also have a share of the armory."