"Obedience."

Ke Chenmei bowed, and then with just one movement, the guards present rushed up and whipped the man and woman with their weapons.

From the moment he saw Ke Chenmei's name on the roster, Chen Kai had already determined that Zheng Chenggong was not ignorant of the affairs of the ordnance workshop, but now the output made by relying on leather whips was acceptable for the time being.

Of course, in Chen Kai's view, perhaps in Zheng Chenggong's eyes, the speed of self-production may not be as good as snatching it from the Qing army, after all, the Dongjiang Army that lived on the coast of Liaodong back then was a good example, and the attention to this was naturally more limited.

However, now with Chen Kai, the plan to nearly double the existing output has undoubtedly given Zheng Chenggong some hope - it is better to walk on two legs than to just hope that he will be able to win or not, or whether he can win or not, is still unknown. Therefore, Ke Chenshu came to Buda, not only to stand up for Chen Kai, but also to let Ke Chenmei stand on Chen Kai's side!

With justifiable reasons and the support of the Guards, the winner is already clear. Of course, a "factory tyrant" is just a small thing, and the real key is whether the output can be effectively increased as Chen Kai said.

If you can't do it, if you can't do it, Chen Kai needs to face the disappointment and cold reception of Zheng Chenggong, I'm afraid that even You Er's backstage will jump out and fall into the well - Zhongzhen Bo Hongxu, Chen Kai remembers that there are many praises such as loyalty in the evaluation of it by later generations, but a character who can rise in the pirate's den is not a good one.

In the final analysis, if you want to succeed, especially if you are alone like Chen Kai now, it is best to rely on your own efforts. Iron also needs its own hardness, this is an eternal truth!

You Er and his wife were rudely blasted out by the guards, and Chen Kai immediately sent Mouse Beard to list in detail the amount of food and food money that the two had been greedy for in recent months, and summarized it.

He is in charge of the accounts, and You Er is greedy for a lot of food and vegetable silver, if he doesn't give him benefits to gag it, then no one believes it. At this moment, Chen Kai gave him this job, and he was the most eager for it.

"As soon as the steward of the house is gone, the room of this armory workshop will also need to be managed in the future. The three of you, can the mother-in-law at home cook? ”

drove away You Er and his wife, but Chen Kai pointed to the other three supervisors. Hearing this, the three of them still didn't understand what it meant.

"Look at what the army said, how can there be a mother-in-law who can't cook."

Supervisor Wang Fugui and the other two overseers were all flattering, but when Chen Kai heard this, a rhetorical question of "women can't cook and are fresh" immediately popped up in his mind. However, he didn't put it into words, but said directly to the three of them: "This is the first lunch today, and in the afternoon, call your mother-in-law to prepare a watch dinner for the guards." I am not interested in knowing the specific division of labor, but there is a sentence that the people in the armory workshop must be fed by the officer! ”

Chen Kai made a bold statement, and when everyone cheered and thanked, it was followed by a round of salutes, exhortations, and scenes such as "this is what should be done".

Compared to those who hope to have enough to eat, the three overseers are also satisfied - in the end, You Er has done things too well by pulling Hong Xu's tiger skin, except for the rat whiskers who can still earn a pitiful hush money every month, the others have no profit at all. Now, even if the benefits are greatly reduced because of Chen Kai's words, and then the three of them will share it, the benefits will not be much, but the errand of the house is also paid, which is a big difference.

After allocating these things, the meal returned to its original state, although the meal was still the same as just now, and even a little colder, but everyone's hearts warmed a lot, at least there was hope for a full meal.

The front foot solved the factory tyrant, and the back foot Chen Kai let the little guy who delivered the meal go back, and then returned to the official room to eat, and also called Ke Chenmei, who had just completed the expulsion task, over.

"Join the army."

From Chen joining the army to joining the army, the direct subordinates of the upper and lower levels are more clear, Chen Kai smiled slightly, and said to Ke Chenmei: "Come, try the craftsmanship of the chef of the head town government." ”

"I don't dare."

"It's just you and me here, and there is no need to be formal. Isn't it that Brother Ling often brings some back from the head town's mansion, and Brother Ke is tired of it? ”

Chen Kai smiled and handed Ke Chenmei a pair of chopsticks, and the latter had to sit down a little uneasily. In contrast, Chen Kai seemed much more comfortable, commenting on the food while eating, and later even Ke Chenmei was embarrassed, so she had to eat with Chen Kai.

It's a reward, and it's also a pull. With Ke Chenshu's identity, Ke Chenmei will be of great use sooner or later, and here it is just to accumulate experience and qualifications. Now that Zheng Chenggong has sent this good fate to his eyes, if Chen Kai doesn't continue, then it is called a lack of heart.

"Virtuous and virtuous show talents, which makes people look forward to it and have a close heart. Brother Ling is very talented, and in the opinion of this official, Brother Ke guarding a workshop here is also a great talent. ”

"I have a good reputation for joining the army, and I have a lot of humble brothers, so I don't dare to think about it."

"Don't worry, this official is very accurate."

Chen Kai said with a smile, Ke Chenmei also immediately thought of You Er, just met once, and then came over and attacked him directly, the accuracy is like this, and the eyesight is indeed not bad.

It's just that Ke Chenmei doesn't know that no matter what era, there are many people like You Er. Their methods are different, but in Chen Kai's opinion, there is no cat in the world that does not steal, let alone an arrogant and self-righteous person like him, and the mistake is even easier to find.

Lunch time passed quickly, and the pounding of metal resounded in the workshop. Chen Kai and Ke Chenmei had dinner and left the official room.

The guards were divided into two shifts, one for the day and one for the night. During the day, Ke Chenmei led the team, and at night, the deputy captain was responsible for leading the team to keep vigil. When the two of them left the office, Ke Chenmei inspected the sentry post at the gate, and Chen Kai called a handyman to come over, helped him hold the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, followed him out of the yard, and walked into the "factory" of the workshop.

When he came to the "factory", the supervisors, craftsmen, and guards accompanied the miscellaneous servants in another round of salutes, which made Chen Kai very unaccustomed. Especially thinking about the impact of these red tapes on work efficiency, he secretly made up his mind to change the rules when the time is right.

When he resumed his work, Chen Kai took the handyman to the front of a blacksmith's shop, took a pen and paper, dipped the ink in the inkstone held by the handyman, and began to write and draw.

"You continue to be busy with your business, and you don't need to care about this official."

The blacksmith of this blacksmith shop is called Tang Quanyou, but he has a pockmarked face, which is very much in line with Chen Kai's image of Tang Long, a good man and a leopard in Liangshan. In the shop, in addition to Tang Quanyou, there is also one of his eldest sons-in-law and a younger son, and the apprentice who was "touched and killed" by Chen Kai when receiving the meal was the latter.

At this moment, Chen Kai stood in front of the shop and stared at them working, and these three people looked extremely uncomfortable even if they got Chen Kai's order. However, Chen Kai has been watching in front for a long time, and the three of them have gradually adapted to it.

The blacksmith is a hard worker, and in the shop, the youngest son pulls the bellows, and the flames in the stove rise with a whistling sound. Chen Kai had heard it said before that it was the ancient blacksmith who could determine the temperature based on the color of the flame, and this money leopard obviously had a hand in this. According to the temperature of the furnace, the leopard rhythmically controlled the rhythm of his son's bellows, and the iron slowly turned red in the flames, and when the iron was as bright as a lamp, he took out the iron with pliers in his left hand and put it on the anvil, and knocked it on a point with a small hammer in his right hand.

The golden leopard hammer struck, and then his son-in-law held the sledgehammer with both hands and struck on the same point, crisp and muffled sound one after another, the sweat of the naked blacksmiths crackled and splashed, and the original strip of iron slowly changed shape in the continuous knocking.

"Heating, forging ......"

Chen Kai silently recorded the general process while thinking about some of the areas that could be improved. The ink of the brush gradually dried up in the high temperature environment, Chen Kai turned his head sideways, and was about to dip some ink again, but unexpectedly, the handyman who was originally holding the inkstone became the supervisor named Wang Fugui, and at this moment he nodded to him.

"Supervisor Wang, you are an overseer, not a handyman."

"Tell me to join the army, the villain just wants to listen to the teachings of joining the army from time to time."

Wang Fugui's face was flattering, but Chen Kai was dumbfounded. Seeing this, he smiled and said to the overseer: "Teachings, this official has a sentence, I wonder if Supervisor Wang is interested in listening to it?" ”

"The villain thanks for the grace of joining the army."

"Then Supervisor Wang listens well, and the official believes that the division of labor and cooperation, everyone can do their own things well, and the official duties can be completed better."

Chen Kai said, he didn't dip in ink, just stood there and looked at him. Wang Fugui savored the taste of Chen Kai's words, but he quickly reacted, quickly apologized to Chen Kai, and found a handyman nearby to be responsible for holding the inkstone and following Chen Kai's side to serve.

"You're a smart guy, and you're good at it."

Wang Fugui left in a hurry, and Chen Kai shook his head with a smile. Since he is in charge of the arsenal, it is necessary to cultivate cronies, but such a person, You Er is attached to You Er when he is in power, and when he crushes the head snake, he does not hesitate to come over to flatter, but Chen Kai can't be too interested, at least he won't let these people become core cronies.

After the episode, Chen Kai dipped it in ink, and when he turned his head again, the general outline of a gun head began to appear. In ancient China, the size of the gun head tended to be smaller and smaller, and in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the popular use of the spear head in the army was the willow leaf gun with the shape of a willow leaf.

The length of such a gun head is about three to four inches, and the blade of the gun is only about one inch and a half minutes. In contrast, what Chen Kai sees in TV series and movies is mostly deliberately done for visual effects. Such a length, the weight is generally not more than one tael, thick ridges and thin blades, as described in the famous military work "Array Discipline" in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, "the spear blade must be short and light, with no more than two as the rate".

The forging is far from over, and the strips of iron are still slowly deforming. Chen Kai observed for a long time before he opened his mouth and asked Tang Quanyou, "The spear head doesn't need to be sharpened, right?" ”

Hearing Chen Kai's question, Tang Quanyou hurriedly stopped and replied: "If you go back to join the army, you only need to open the blade of the spear, but when you make a sword, you have to open it." ”

"Oh."

A long spear is generally divided into three parts: the head, the barrel and the hammer. The head and barrel of the gun, to put it bluntly, are the sleeves used to fix the barrel at the end of the gun, which are also made by blacksmiths. Chen Kai looked at the construction of the gun head, and probably understood the process, and the part of the gun still needed some time, so he turned his head and went to the carpenter's shed to observe the manufacture of the gun head.

The carpenter's hut was even more rudimentary than the blacksmith's shop, but it was just two simple places made of bamboo and wood, and thatched on top. Chen Kai walked over, and those carpenters also put down their work like blacksmiths and saluted, and then reluctantly recovered after Chen Kai's repeated explanations.

"Why is it all bamboo, and there are no ash rods?"

This time, Chen Kaibi had a problem earlier than just now, and he clearly remembered that when he used to read books on the Internet, he insisted that the ash rod was the best choice for making the gun shaft. This kind of inertial thinking made Chen Kai subconsciously believe that the bamboo gun shaft is not as tall as the ash pole, and he immediately asked the question.

"If you go back to join the army, the guns in the army are all made of bamboo, and only people who practice martial arts will use the barrels made of ash."

The carpenter's answer was not necessarily, and it was not without an army that used ash poles as gun barrels in the Ming Dynasty, such as the white pole soldiers of Shizhu Tusi.

However, the white pole soldiers were a special case in the army, and even in the "Manchurian Record" about the weapons of the white pole soldiers, the record only used the words "holding the five bamboo handles, spears, sharp swords, and big swords", and there was a lot of controversy about whether the stone pillar toast really carried the ash pole to fight against the Manchurian Eight Banners.

If we talk about the properties of the material, the "Arm Record" even calls the ash rod a stick, because it is hard but not hard, soft but not broken, flexible, and has a strong natural tensile force, which is obviously suitable for folk martial artists to better display their martial arts attainments. In fact, even the theory that the ash rod is an excellent gun material was put forward by later generations of martial artists, and it was not recognized by the army in the Ming and Qing dynasties and before the Ming Dynasty.

It is mostly used in the military as bamboo and other harder woods. For example, "Formation Discipline", "Selected Spear Law", "Wu Bei Zhi" and other works have been mentioned, the gun barrel in the south is generally made of bamboo, and it is best to choose Miao bamboo, but also after special processing, to the north in order to prevent it from drying and cracking, but it is better to use wood such as thick wood, and even composite materials such as bamboo wood.

After listening to the carpenter's clumsy explanation of the texture of the material, Chen Kai's beads of sweat fell immediately. This kind of fallacy, early detection is the best, he is responsible for the management of the arsenal workshop, if in the future really use ash rod as a gun barrel, be ridiculed or secondary, because the battlefield practicality of the weapon is lower than the Qing army and kill a large number of soldiers, that is really a bad thing.

Bamboo is self-contained, and there is no need to decompose the logs to get the right thickness. The carpenters had a good idea of the thickness when they fell, and at this moment they cut out a length of about seven or eight feet, and after polishing it as necessary, they could pierce and fix the head and the red tassel.

After an afternoon in the factory, when it was time to get off work, the craftsmen had completed their weekday quotas. Chen Kai asked the overseer to inspect it, and after confirming the quality, he sealed it and put it in storage, and then regathered all the craftsmen in the small courtyard.

"Seventeen craftsmen, more than twenty guards, the workers are not as many as the security guards, and they are also drunk."

The craftsmen in the workshop include masters and apprentices, and can also be divided into blacksmiths and carpenters, which is already very primitive, at least Chen Kai does not see such "high-tech talents" as bird hammer craftsmen and gunsmiths. However, it is not a joy to start from scratch and grow little by little.

At this moment, the sun had begun to set in the west, and the sky was gradually darkening, Chen Kai did not intend to delay too much, so he loudly announced something to these craftsmen that they could not believe.

"This official came to office at the beginning of this day, but the efforts of all the kings are all in sight. In order to show praise and encouragement, we will take a day off tomorrow and go to work as usual early the day after tomorrow morning and disband. ”

Note: The length of the spear in the army is different, but according to historical records and unearthed cultural relics, the spear used to fight in battle from the Ge of the Qin Dynasty to the army in later generations is generally between 2.10 and 2.60 meters, which is converted to a length of seven or eight feet. No matter how long it is, there are two feet, five feet and even two feet, and there are quite a few of them, but because these weapons are too long, they will affect the technical and tactical movements of the soldiers, so most of them are used to resist horses or guard, rather than fighting. At the end of the day, the length will naturally vary depending on the use.