From the leading position of China to the advantages and disadvantages of European civilization, and now it has been thrown off by European civilization, the important thing is that the other party has been freed from the confinement of the Middle Ages. It is not only the academic progress, its emphasis on technology, the promotion of technology in mercantilism, the protection of craftsmen by various handicraft guilds, in addition to the patent bill and the banking union, the former protects the income of handicraft geniuses, the latter protects the interests of the wealthy, and later generations say that the Ming Dynasty is also budding, which is unlikely in Min Yuanqi's view. Huaxia's trade income is mainly due to a few special products in the world, China has no mercantile tradition, there is no favorable protection for private property, there is no system of inheritance and patent recognition of technology, and the skilled craftsmen only pass on their relatives, not outsiders, and many technologies are gradually lost in the long river of war and history. Merchants can only keep their wealth by making the family get official positions and property after profits, officials and businessmen must collude, the wealth of merchants can not be transformed into actual political status, mercantilism cannot be successful, and the deformed prosperity will only give birth to more official gentry, leading to inflation, when the Ming Dynasty apocalypse, the dividends brought by overseas trade were converted into inflation, and the Spaniards contracted, the silver suddenly tightened, and the silver entering the territory of the Ming Dynasty decreased sharply, one in and one out, but made a large number of merchants and ordinary people live more and more difficult, It had a more serious negative impact on the finances of the Ming Dynasty.

Min Yuanqi has no way to affect the overall pattern of the entire Ming Dynasty, but at least in his one-third of an acre, craftsmen and techniques must be respected, and some people may be puzzled or opposed in a short period of time, and after a long time, people will naturally accept it.

Just like Shen Yong, he and Chen De and the Li brothers are the first families to move into the small courtyard, in addition to a few of them, it is the rows of courtyards on the north side of the barracks, those mansions that sit on the north and face south are quite exquisitely repaired, and the barracks area is very close to each other, surrounded by a small river, surrounded by forests, on the other side is the seaside, five main halls, east and west wings, backyards, stables, exquisite small gardens, the largest twenty or so houses in the whole house, and the small ones are also more than ten rooms, all of which can only be moved in at the level of the deputy hundred presidents, in contrast, The townhouses where Shen Yong and the others live are much worse than the officers in terms of spirit and comfort.

This is also what Min Yuanqi intentionally did, craftsmen and techniques should be respected, but all the explicit and implicit instructions to people are to show the preferential treatment of military attaches and flag soldiers, and there is no doubt that the soldiers are still the first.

Shen Yong sat under the porch, and this part of the outhouse was his blacksmith shop and the place where he took his apprentices, surrounded by uncut trees, and he was studying a bird gun in his hand by the shade of the trees.

This is the task given to him by Min Yuanqi personally, this gun is handed over by Shen Liang, after training every day, this bird gun with residual temperature and nitrate taste will be placed in Shen Yong's hands, and ask this senior blacksmith to study several important points that need to be improved by Min Yuanqi.

Shen Li walked over from a row of houses outside Lixu, and his steps were also in a hurry.

A group of children were playing between the houses, all the adults were now very busy, the half-grown children could help with chores, and the children under the age of ten were completely herding the sheep. Originally, the children of poor military families did not have much energy to play and play, they were half hungry all day long, and they had no energy to play, but now almost every household can make the children full, and occasionally they can eat a white rice, or eat a white flour soup cake or flat food, these dolls are full of food and drink, and they go to the salt pond and various construction sites to play in the military camp every day, and then Min Yuanqi was worried that something would happen, so he restricted the children from stopping in the barracks area, and did not go to the salt pond and the construction site.

The place where Shen Li came also had a large number of houses, with tiled houses, but basically they were still temporary shacks.

A large group of women sat under the tent, and rows of tables and chairs were placed on summer cloth robes, and these women laughed casually while their hands kept cutting, cutting the cloth and sewing it according to the existing military robe.

In addition to military robes, hats, boots, these women are also responsible, time goes by, now most of the flag army has changed to a unified standard military robe, the red short robe is neat and fitting, with a belt, military boots, there is a neat and capable military atmosphere, if hundreds of people are concentrated in one place, the state of a strong army is quite obvious.

Further west, there is a canal that is brought in, and the dyeing master invited from the neighboring county town prints and dyes the cloth here, the original cloth is gray and white, and it will become bright red and dazzling after printing and dyeing, and the cloth cut by the women is first printed and dyed by the dyeing workshop before being taken and cut.

These places are to receive money according to the work in their hands, and they have been like this since the advice of the people, so that the efficiency of all places has been improved a lot, and everyone is using both hands and feet, rushing to catch up with the work in their hands, but they are afraid that they will be a little slower than others to do, so that they will earn less than others.

This kind of psychology is actually very strange, but this is the most normal human nature.

Shen Li was one of the earliest tailors, and as the number of women increased, he gradually took on some management responsibilities, but he did not have to be busy all the time, and he was much more relaxed.

She rushed back to make breakfast for her husband, once Shen Yong was addicted to the work at hand, he forgot everything, when Shen Li went out in the morning, Shen Yongzheng urged his apprentices to hurry up to work, and he also studied it with a bird, Shen Li knew that her husband had no intention of eating for a while, so he went to the sewing factory to arrange the things at hand, and then hurried over to arrange her husband's breakfast.

Shen Yong is not particular about food, and now he is focusing on the manufacture of various application utensils.

In the shack opposite the eaves, nearly twenty apprentices were sharpening their pipes. These pipes are made of fine wrought iron, extremely solid, with a drill every day to grind the drill, a day can drill an inch, each pipe to be completely drilled through the use, it takes almost a month.

During this time, these apprentices did nothing but drill and sharpen the pipes every day.

Shen Yong wanted to think of some ways to speed up the drilling of the pipe, even if he saved two hours a day, these apprentices could save a lot of time to learn the technique of building weapons and armor from him.

The wings on both sides are built large and solid, and every night there will be a flag army to come and take turns, which is a temporary warehouse, a large number of wrought iron and pig iron are placed here, and semi-finished iron helmets and armor are also placed here, and they are not handed over to the arsenal for storage.

The most precious are those sugang steels, each catty is worth a few taels of silver, which is really expensive.

However, these sugang steels smelted by the steel-filling method originally consumed a large amount of wrought iron, and a large amount of material smelting, plus a certain technical process was required, and the price was reasonable.

These Sugang is used to make steel for the spear head and blade, and there are also swords and swords made purely by Sugang in these years, and those who dare to squander are well-known master craftsmen, and then with the precious scabbard scabbard, inlaid with gems and other things, a sword and sword are worth tens of taels to a hundred taels or even hundreds of taels, which is also the habitual skill of merchants selling items.

In the open space outside the wing, more than a dozen stoves were set up in turn, and a group of teenage and half-year-old children were desperately pressing the skin to blow the wind, and the strong wind blew the sparks of the furnace fire in all directions, and soon the temperature was enough.

A group of blacksmiths from the surrounding market towns and county towns stood by the hearth, holding pieces of wrought iron with long tongs, and after firing them red, they began to beat them on top of the iron felt.

The blacksmiths made the rough embryo model of the iron helmet, meticulous processing, the final finalization, perforation, and the hinge that could be connected to the work of the don, and for the time being, it could only be done by Shen Yong alone.

These blacksmiths are all born in the folk market town, playing scissors, kitchen knives, hoes, one by one are experts, and it is not impossible to play some folk swords, but they generally do not point steel, because folk knives and guns rarely use Suzhou steel to point the blade, such a luxury is only used in the army to build weapons for the elite of the family, and the knives and guns used by the general battalion soldiers will not be lit with Sugang.

Only a blacksmith like Shen Yong, who was born in a military guard and made armor, weapons and firearms for the battalion soldiers in Dengzhou Town, is qualified to preside over the military ironcraft workshop in front of him, and receive the same level of salary as the flag captain.

Of course, this is also something that Shen Yong has never encountered, he is now not only equal to his brother, but also has a lot of apprentices, Min Deputy Qianhu has already said in advance, these craftsmen and apprentices, any one of them can successfully create a weapon or an iron helmet, or can make armor independently, they all have different rewards for Shen Yong, bring one, and reward it once. And those who can build fire guns are rewarded with great richness.

In addition, if Shen Yong can improve the bird gun or the self-generated gun, the reward will be so rich that Shen Yong can't fall asleep when he thinks about it.

As far as the bird gun in his hand in front of him is concerned, Min Yuanqi's several Shen Yong are pondering day and night, but he is too busy every day, and now the blacksmiths are already forging the rough embryo of the iron helmet, and after a while Shen Yong has to stand in front of the furnace and start to hammer and forge, he has to play at least twenty iron helmets a day, and more than a dozen collars of armor have been half completed, the iron leaves of armor are played by blacksmiths, and the work of armor piercing can only be done by Shen Yong himself, fortunately, there are already a few skilled craftsmen who can help.

As for the work of drilling the pipe, it can only be handed over to those apprentices, who are older than the children of the wind, but not adults yet, and are characterized by ingenuity and comprehension. These are all good seedlings, and even several of them are seedlings of good soldiers, because they are studious and intelligent, they were put by Min Yuanqi as an apprentice to Shen Yong, just hoping that these good seedlings can master Shen Yong's skills as soon as possible, Min Yuanqi knows that it is easy to get a few good men who go into battle to fight, and it is actually much more difficult for an all-round military craftsman like Shen Yong to fight than to fight a man.

Shen family brothers, Shen Liang is more famous and eye-catching outside, but in Min Yuanqi's heart, it is obvious that Shen Yong is more important.

I am afraid that many people will not think of this kind of understanding when I say it, even if Shen Yong himself is afraid that he does not understand it too much.

In Min Yuanqi's cognition, it is possible to defeat a strong enemy under a special situation, and the accident on the battlefield is actually an extension of politics and economy. For example, at the end of the Qin Dynasty, the Qin army went from sweeping the Six Kingdoms to retreating, isn't it for nothing? The first emperor's great achievements and abuse of national strength have exhausted the Qin State, the resentment of the Six Kingdoms, coupled with the old nobles and scholars in the center to provoke and provoke the beam, and the Qin army seems to be Chen Sheng Wu Guang, in fact, it was quickly replaced by the remnants of the Six Kingdoms, these old nobles and scholars have rich financial resources and prestige, know the general trend of the world, are familiar with geography, can mobilize a large number of manpower, and have a very high prestige, this is the reason why Qin is the end of Qin, Qin not only can not keep the territory of the Six Kingdoms in a short period of time, but also can't hold his own Guanzhong old land.

From the end of the Han Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty, there are few successful examples of peasant uprisings, at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, it was Liu Xiu, a descendant of the Liu family who was recognized by the Shi clan, and the Yellow Turban at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty made the world chaotic, and it was the Sima clan who supported the Shi clan to win the world, and the Wagang Army at the end of the Tang Dynasty won the first voice, but it was the Guan Yu nobles behind Li Erhe who won the world, and the founder of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms was the rebellious Zhu Wen, but it was Zhao Da who was born in a generation of high-ranking generals.

Throughout the ages, Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, said that it was a pavilion that grew up in the world, but it was the nobles of the Six Kingdoms who defeated the Qin State, and Liu Bang himself was also a famous hero for a long time, and Xiao He Zhang Liang and others who supported him were either local officials and gentry, or the old nobles of the Six Kingdoms.

The combat effectiveness of the peasant army is indeed quite weak, Li Zicheng from the second year of Chongzhen to the present more than ten years of war, less than 100,000 elite soldiers, there are still Jurchens and they have been cooperating with each other, when the peasant army was hit by the Ming army and suffered heavy losses, the Jurchens entered the pass to consume the living strength of the Ming army, and when the Ming army wanted to gather the main force of the army and fight a decisive battle with the Jurchens, the peasant army took the opportunity to recover, disrupted the internal Ming Dynasty, and consumed the financial and military strength of the Ming Dynasty.

In this way, the inside and outside should be combined, and there is the current situation in the seventeenth year, which also shows a problem, the army with the advantages of finance, logistics, military supplies, and ordnance, even if it is the seventeenth year, if Tang Tong, Bai Guangen, Gao Jie, and Wu Sangui and other warlords can be loyal to the Ming Dynasty and work together with each other, the army may not be the opponent of these officers and soldiers.

This is the reason why Min Yuanqi attaches great importance to logistics, military supplies and ordnance!