So even if there are various problems, Lin Ziran also asked Qingshan Machinery Factory to produce new nine-kilogram field guns and eighteen-kilogram howitzers.

After the meeting that day, Ding Quankun returned to Qingshan Town and personally found Boss Wang to explain various production tasks.

In short, before all kinds of equipment are in place and can be mass-produced, we should organize manpower to produce all kinds of artillery, especially the new nine-pound field guns and eighteen-pound howitzers.

There are also heavier guns of larger calibers, and if possible, several can be made.

Boss Wang naturally has no opinion, he is just a salaryman, and he can do whatever he wants.

Besides, he just moves his mouth, and he doesn't have to soak himself in the laboratory or squat in the workshop to be busy.

Even if the task is tight, he can at most go to the laboratory or workshop to supervise the battle.

Immediately, Boss Wang began to transfer manpower to start building artillery in a purely manual way, because the manpower is limited, and manual production is also very slow, so according to the limit, first engage in a new nine-pound field gun and an eighteen-pound howitzer, and then slow down the rest.

When the Qingshan Machinery Factory was running at full speed, especially when the artillery had to be built by hand at any cost, people who were interested in carefully observing the situation in Lianguan County, especially Sanyang Town, could detect many abnormalities.

One of the biggest changes is that there are more boats coming to and from the pier in Sanyo Town!

Many of the goods transported by the ships to Sanyang Town were some basic industrial raw materials, such as sulfur, saltpeter, iron ore, coal ore, and large quantities of steel.

As for the same large number of machinery and equipment, people are not surprised, because Tsingshan Petroleum Company has been purchasing a large number of various machinery and equipment all year round.

Some machinery companies in Nanhai Prefecture and even other states have directly set up offices in Sanyang Town in order to run their business, and they have permanent personnel here.

At the same time, Lin Ziran is also searching for guns almost all over the world!

In particular, the Fuyuan musket produced by the Fuyuan Military Machinery Factory is as much as possible.

Because the Fuyuan musket is already among the many steel smoothbore muskets on the border of Nanhai Prefecture, only one that can maintain a certain service life after engraving rifling.

Other muskets, such as the Luo'an musket from the Luo'an Arsenal imitating the Fuyuan musket, will not work, and if you can't get a few shots engraved with rifling, the rifling will be polished.

It can be expected that for a long time, it will be impossible for the Aoyama Machinery Factory to produce such high-quality steel barrels on its own, even if it can be produced next year, but the output will not be more than there in a short time.

Therefore, it is necessary to purchase and stock up in advance.

The same is true for artillery, but it is easier to purchase than Fuyuan muskets, and artillery is more difficult.

All feudal towns treat this artillery as a treasure, even if they have a surplus on hand, but if there is no absolute reason, people would rather let these artillery rust in the warehouse than sell it to Lin Ziran.

It is rumored that in the past year, the Fuyuan Arsenal produced more than 200,000 Fuyuan muskets to supply the armies of the prefecture and even the surrounding states.

After Shao Bing took over many arsenals in Luohai City, especially the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory and the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, although he controlled the export of ordnance, the Fuyuan musket was basically not sold.

Because this thing was originally all over the street, if you meet a bandit casually, the muskets in people's hands are basically Fuyuan muskets, and the slightly stronger feudal towns, which one does not have tens of thousands of Fuyuan muskets on hand.

Besides, many of the arsenals under the hands of the feudal towns, even if there is no way to make new artillery, but the muskets can still be made, but the quality is not as good as the Fuyuan muskets.

But it doesn't matter, they don't have to engrave rifling on the barrel, and the poor quality does not affect the use at all.

How to say it, even if Shao Bing doesn't sell Fuyuan muskets to the outside world, there will be no shortage of Fuyuan muskets in all the feudal towns, even if Lin Ziran is really urgent, he can let Qingshan Machinery Factory produce poor-quality smoothbore guns to use

Therefore, Shao Bing did not ban the sale of Fuyuan muskets, as long as the starting price was offered, and at the same time, it was not hostile to him, and it could basically be purchased.

After all, Fuyuan Ordnance Factory is such a big factory, and if Luo Haijun alone relies on it, there are actually not so many orders to maintain such a large factory.

The same is true of the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, but Shao Bing has recently found a way not to sell it in Nanhai Prefecture, but to sell it to feudal towns in other states, even if he suffers a loss in price and has less profit, he is not willing to continue to supply artillery to various feudal towns in Nanhai Prefecture.

In addition to Lin Ziran's large-scale purchase of guns and various materials, the Sixth Division itself was not idle.

In Sanyang Town and even Qingshan Town, the troops of the Sixth Division can be frequently seen conducting various exercises and training, and the officers and men in the barracks on the outskirts of the city are conducting high-intensity training every day.

Because of these high-intensity trainings, the canteen even specially prepared meals for the soldiers.

In addition to training, various units also took turns to encircle and suppress all the bandit forces in the 12 towns of Lianguan, the four towns in the south of Nan'an, and the six towns on the east bank of Lingchang.

At the same time, the Sixth Division Headquarters has also launched a new round of recruitment propaganda at various recruitment points in its jurisdiction, striving to let more young and strong people join the army.

The three new battalions set up in Sanyang Town, Lianguan County, and Fengyan Town have welcomed a large number of recruits, some of whom will be incorporated into the Fourth Infantry Regiment, and some of them will be supplemented to various units.

After the completion of this expansion, the total strength of the entire Sixth Division will reach 19,000 men, and these 19,000 men belong to the regular army, not including patrols from all over the country.

As for the militia groups, after the last batch of local militia groups were transferred into the first mixed group and the second mixed group, there were no militia groups under Lin Ziran's rule from now on.

Most of the militia groups that had existed before were reorganized, and the elite were directly integrated into the regular army, and the rest were supplemented to various localities as patrol police.

Therefore, it can be said that these nineteen thousand people are all the armed forces under Lin Ziran's command.

In addition to the regular army, there were many local militias under their control.

Because in Lin Ziran's view, if the local government spends money to support the militia group, it is better to directly pay more taxes and directly let the regular army wipe out all the bandits and the like.

If Lin Ziran just purchased other materials, it would be okay to say, those feudal towns would pay more attention to one or two at most, but they would not have too many suspicions.

But Lin Ziran purchased guns on a large scale, although the guns were not bought much, but the Fuyuan musket was purchased in large quantities.

At the beginning of October alone, Lin Ziran purchased 8,000 brand-new Fuyuan muskets from Shao Bing at an ultra-high price of 32 yuan per yuan.

This price made Lin Ziran feel painful, but several surrounding feudal towns were also very worried.

Thinking about the spies reporting that Lin Ziran had recently started recruiting soldiers on a large scale, they just had to suspect that Lin Ziran had any plans.

Especially Li Kun, who is a neighbor with Lin Ziran, and at the same time his strength is not good, and he is surrounded by many feudal towns, he sent someone over as soon as he heard the news, and he didn't say that he directly asked Lin Ziran what you want to do, but proposed to purchase a batch of ammunition from Lin Ziran.

Obviously, this is a temptation!

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