"How much has it made now?" After Min Yuanqi promised Shen Yong a reward, he continued to ask about the output.

Shen Yong calmed down, hugged his fists and said: "Lord Hui, thirty guns have been made now, and one hundred and ten more can be out of the workshop in fifteen days." ”

"It's really about the same number of people." Min Yuanqi smiled bitterly and said, "Is it true that the speed of drilling the gun tube can't be improved?" ”

"There's really no way." Shen Yong looked ashamed and said: "As far as armor making, according to the method said by the adult, it is divided into iron sheet making, riveting, hemp rope, and finally armor piercing. The division of labor is clear, and the flow of water to make armor, let's say that we can make 2,000 collar armor a year, mainly thanks to these methods taught by adults. It is also divided into several works, such as pipe making, trigger making, riveting work, etc., which is also an assembly line operation, and finally integrally formed. In other processes, there are more and more skilled craftsmen, and the manufacturing parts are becoming more and more familiar, and even the gun pipe is easy to do, as long as there is no shortage of fine iron, the gun pipe can make a lot of expenses in a day. But in the job of drilling pipes, as many people can drill as many pipes, and drill one a month. Now that the adults have allocated more than 100 apprentices to come in, except for the dozens of people who are still apprentices, by next month the firearms workshop can guarantee that 150 combined guns will be produced every month, and there is nothing more that can be done. ”

Min Yuanqi frowned, but he also knew that Shen Yong really did his best.

Assembly line production, using calipers and other tools to ensure standardized production, in this era has been regarded as the forefront of technical production, and Min Yuanqi has no more ways to speak.

Even if there is the use of hydraulic machinery, for example, Min Yuanqi knows a lot of hydraulic machinery, hydraulic boring machines, hydraulic hammering methods, and hydraulic textile machines.

But these machines are just an impression in Min Yuanqi's brain, and he also understands the specific principle, but it is impossible to ask him to draw the details of the drawings.

Min Yuanqi's specialty is environmental protection and farmland transformation, which falls within the scope of agroecology. Agriculture is a science, because it involves biological disciplines, but Min Yuanqi's mechanical knowledge and hands-on ability are relatively weak, as far as I understand now, it is also a miscellaneous science that I saw casually when I was wandering around the Internet in later generations, I just thought it was interesting at the time, who knew that it would be used now?

Of course, it is still too early to say that it is used, and now Min Yuanqi's influence on the workshop still belongs to the category of management, and does not involve industrial manufacturing and technological improvement such as mechanical metallurgy.

Min Yuanqi frowned and pondered, armor and firearms, these two are the magic weapons he intends to defeat the enemy.

These two problems must be solved, if they can't be solved, they don't plan to confront the Qing army in the south at all, the strength is not strong enough to make it up is to give the other party a shabu battle merit shabu head, why be so stupid?

But Shen Yong and the others also tried their best, it is definitely unrealistic to recruit hundreds or thousands of people to drill the pipe, so many manpower and material resources are placed in the workshop, and they can't get along with an iron pipe every day, such a big consumption and investment, it's really stupid, even if Min Yuanqi really makes this determination to engage in a battle of the sea of people, what about armor? Armor making is much more complicated than drilling pipes, with many processes and high technical content, and it is unrealistic to engage in crowd tactics, and it involves the reserve and use of a large number of tools.

Even if he knew that these two things were extremely important, Min Yuanqi would not be able to start this battle of the sea of people.

The barracks need money, the farmland and water conservancy need money, salt ponds, several large construction sites, and the rest of the workshops, and reserve funds must be left.

Buy war horses, sulfur, ready-to-wear......

Min Yuanqi shook his head, decisively put aside the hot-headed and unrealistic thoughts, and turned to Shen Yongdao: "Take me to the place where the gun pipe is drilled." ”

"Yes, sir."

Shen Liang, Li Junsun and the others stayed in the shooting range to continue to try the new gun, even after walking far away, Min Yuanqi could hear Shen Liang's praise for the fire gun in his hand.

Combination machine gun and Lu Mi gun, as well as self-generated fire gun, generally speaking, are not China's technological inventions, after all, the foundation is from abroad, and some ideas are also circulated from abroad, Zhao Shizhen just implemented the idea, and then added some of his own understanding.

Of course, the person who made these muskets was still a master among masters, or a genius, and Min Yuanqi was happy and complained a little about himself when he walked.

In later generations, why can't we concentrate on learning more about the manufacturing of rifle guns, as well as the knowledge of related equipment manufacturing? There are piles of similar videos on a video website, Min Yuanqi is not interested and has seen it many times!

But, then again, who could have anticipated their own crossing?

Shen Yong led the way, Min Yuanqi and Zhu Wanchun followed behind him, and the firearms workshop was at the north end of the small school workshop, and it was not far from the barracks area when they arrived.

Two large barracks stretch for miles, from the seashore to the vicinity of the 400th household, and in addition to the large expanses of living and official quarters, there are two large school yards and two small school yards, now full of trained soldiers.

The flag army in training does not wear a formal military robe of fire red, but a gray robe and arrow suit, with a short hem and cuffs, and the body is more flexible during training.

More than 3,500 banner troops of the two thousand headquarters have been deployed, and now every officer is very busy, especially Yang Zhijin and Gao Cuncheng of the Military Training Department, who are in charge of training.

Min Yuanqi felt that there might not be any big battles to fight before the Qing army went south, at most it was to suppress the bandits and bandits in Yancheng and Xuzhou, and if they could build suitable sea ships, they could also make the soldiers go to sea to exterminate those unlarge-scale northern pirates.

Since the rise of the Zheng family, only a small number of pirates in the north remained, after the sea of Zhejiang, the sea power is all owned by the Zheng family, the original maritime merchants are pirates, and if they can't meet the ship, they will go straight to the trading place...... There is no place to reason for such things on the sea without the king's law, and if you fight it, you can save your life, but if you can't beat it, you will be robbed of the ship and the goods, and most of your own lives will not be guaranteed.

This was the case at sea back then, until the strength of the Zheng family expanded, Zheng Zhilong established order on the sea after destroying Liu Xiang and other large pirates, as long as he paid money to the Zheng family, the Zheng family's sailors could ensure the safety of their maritime trade.

Even if Min Yuanqi wants to build a sea ship to exterminate pirates at sea, it is estimated that he can only mix in the north, and fight with the Zheng family in advance in the south, now Zheng Zhilong has not yet surrendered, and the Zheng family's sailors have not been divided, at this time, even the Dutch have to avoid the edge of the Zheng family, Min Yuanqi is to bring the subordinates of the two thousand headquarters, and in the face of the Zheng family with a thousand warships and 100,000 sailors, this amount of troops is still far from enough......

If you want to talk about elite soldiers, the soldiers trained according to the current system process are definitely stronger than ordinary battalion soldiers, and the estimated strength is not below that of ordinary Ming soldiers.

But against the Eight Banners of Manchuria or against the pirate soldiers of the Zheng family at sea, Min Yuanqi estimated that it was enough.

The lack of actual combat tempering, the lack of iron armor, and the lack of better weapons are also the shortcomings of the current army.

Zhu Wanchun looked at the military camp not far in front of him, but his mood was completely different from Min Yuanqi.

More than 3,000 majestic and mighty men were doing uniform things in the barracks, or hundreds of them were running in circles in the gaps. Or climb over obstacles and crawl on the ground.

Or they are setting up queues, transporting back and forth, constantly changing arrays left and right, sometimes pulling apart, sometimes gathering.

Or do nothing, just stand silently, many soldiers are already standing staggering, obviously not holding on.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, but there are medical soldiers standing in the shade waiting, someone fainted and immediately stepped forward to carry it down on a stretcher, to see if it was a loss of strength and fainted or something, it is not yet the height of summer, but after a long time in the sun, it is a high-intensity physical exhaustion, and the possibility of heat stroke is not impossible.

Fortunately, the medicine is quite complete, and the experience of these medical soldiers is also becoming richer and richer, taking off the military robe, wiping, using medicine, and all the movements are quite proficient.

In front of Zhu Wanchun's eyes, at least three fell in the barracks in a short period of time.

Min Yuanqi also glanced at it and said: "It's common to fall down more than a dozen times in the morning, and after the noon and lunch break, there are actual combat drills, practicing swords, marksmanship, battle formations, and high-intensity training, and more people fall." There are also more injuries, and since the beginning of the training, the recruits are generally physically exhausted, and a few have been sent home for mental breakdowns. Most of the injuries of veterans are Jinchuang's external injuries, which also gives medical soldiers the opportunity to exercise. Well, there are a few seriously injured people who were directly sent to the hospital for treatment, but if they were missing fingers or broken arms, or had serious internal injuries, they could only go to the police officers after the injuries were healed, which is also a pity. ”

Zhu Wanchun really knew such a thing for the first time, his brows were furrowed at the moment, and after a moment of silence, he couldn't help but say: "Yuan Qi, I know what you are, although you are decisive in killing, you don't want to be a woman's benevolence." But in fact, he is kind and benevolent, and from your things about Yanchi, the workshop and the flag army, I have long seen that Yuan Qi is your person. To put it mildly, although it is profitable for my Zhu family to cooperate with Yuan Qi, but the person who chooses to cooperate still hopes to be a benevolent, kind and faithful person who can cooperate for a long time. ”

"It's not just the disabled." Min Yuanqi said with a solemn expression: "If the actual combat drill is not well controlled, there are serious injuries and deaths, but once a soldier dies, the training officer will be reprimanded and punished, and the military attache with troops from top to bottom will be punished, so the chief officers will try to avoid it...... But it is still inevitable.