Under the guidance of Su Laosi of the General Office of Hejing Iron, Feng Mofeng of the General Office of Hejing Manufacturing, Yang Tianshi of the General Office of Hejing Metallurgy and others, Shouhan came to the two newly built blast furnaces.

"My lord, the two newly completed blast furnaces, like the previous blast furnaces, can produce 700 tons of iron or steel every three days, and they rotate day and night without stopping."

Su Laosi, who was in charge of the manufacturing and smelting of steel, introduced the newly increased blast furnace output to Shouhan like a few treasures.

"Now we have received a lot of orders from the mainland, signed documents and received money from others, doing business, paying attention to a reputation, since we have received money from others, we naturally have to give goods to others."

Now Shouhan has six small blast furnaces in his hands, emitting dust and pollution into the air day and night, but the act of going to prison in the 21st century is a symbol of prosperity in this era.

As the weather warmed up, a large number of contract documents came from the north, and the merchants that were distributed in various places won orders for Hejing Iron and Ha Jing Manufacturing, weighing millions of catties and as many as hundreds of thousands of pieces. From spatulas and kitchen knives to ploughsticks and hoes, all the tools for home life are readily available, and there is also news from distant Heilongjiang, to armor, iron bows, and weapons!

The daimyo and shoguns of the Tokugawa shogunate, who were far away in Toei, were not willing to be compared to others in the pilgrimage activities, and sent people to ask for orders for all kinds of weapons and armor, and there were various ways and types of goods to pay for the goods.

From brimstone to copper, from laborers to women. There is only one qiē that you can't think of. There's nothing they can't do.

Taking advantage of the large number of officials and slaves at hand, at this time, it is not necessary to smelt steel to occupy the market, and when?

In accordance with Shouhan's will, a large number of official slaves were organized into labor teams of 50 people, and the Japanese laborers selected from various places served as laborers. Under the stimulus and temptation of "accumulating work points for completing the workload and becoming naturalized in advance" and "rewarding the amount of work for overcompletion, and becoming naturalized faster", these widow heads carry leather whips made of raw cowhide every day, starting from the day when the star is still in the sky. He urged his laborers to get up and work. Until the stars and moon twinkle in the night, competing with the lights of the fire.

Under the leather whip of the Japanese artificial heads, these captured indigenous officials and slaves engaged in the heaviest physical labor. Mining under the mines. Baskets of heavy ore were transported from the deep and dark underground to the surface.

"The amount of mining per team per day is based on the amount transported to the surface. At least ten tons! ”

This is the rated daily amount of work that is required to be completed. Only when this number is completed, the foremen will have a reward for their work in addition to their salary, and they can request naturalization when they accumulate a certain number of points.

And in order to accomplish this coveted goal. These dwarves from the three islands of Dongying have increased the workload of their indigenous officials and slaves.

You add one ton, I add two tons! The most ferocious was added to five tons.

However, compared to another character, the heart of the Japanese head is as merciful as Guanyin.

"In our mines and smelters, we have selected some people from among these native officials and slaves who have committed crimes, and they are all people who are willing to change their minds and serve the generals, acting as the foreman's deputies, interpreters, and so on. The condition for them is that they can have a salary every month, not much, five dollars of silver, in addition, referring to the work accumulation and naturalization system proposed by the lord, and also proposed a method of rewarding work points to upgrade to normal official slaves. ”

In order to become normal official slaves who can work freely through guò work as soon as possible, these people have wielded big sticks against their compatriots in the past. Compared with the leather whips of the Japanese artificial heads, these big sticks are the nightmare of the indigenous officials and slaves.

Although there is a creed of "raising cattle of course does not want cattle to die", these officials and slaves are provided with food that can satisfy their hunger, but the huge consumption of the body is also fatal. At least dozens of corpses are carried from the sheds every day, and there are many people who die in the mines, crushed to death by heavy ore baskets because they are unable to support their bodies.

For such a death, instead of worrying, the Japanese head and the local deputies were secretly happy in their hearts. Because once there is a deficit in the establishment of fifty people in each team, there will be new people to fill it, and these new people are much stronger than those who have died!

What is even more outrageous is that under the common characteristics of human beings regardless of race and creed, driven by greed, the Japanese artificial leaders from Dongying, the deputies of the native officials and slaves from the islands and mountains and forests of Nanzhong, and the men and stewards of the Nanzhong Army united in one place to start the idea of food for the native officials and slaves.

The daily oil and salt prescribed by the indigenous officials and slaves were quietly reduced, from three dollars of oil and one dollar of salt per person per day to one dollar of oil and three points of salt. The amount of meat was reduced, the variety was changed, and the stewed pork was changed once every three days to fish once every five days. Even the rice that was prescribed as the staple food was quietly changed.

Sweet potatoes, taro, corn cob cores were mixed together, and a genius who didn't know which genius was given a nice name, "Republic noodles"! Take it mixed together, and do the meaning of the republic.

Under such circumstances, the area of the cemetery is constantly expanding one after another outside the mine and factory.

People for mines!

This heavy slogan was quietly circulated among the Japanese artificials.

The death and disability rate of nearly 100 people every day ensures the needs of the blast furnace in the smelter, and truckloads of iron ore and coal are sent to the smelter and coking plant, and become raw materials for the steel industry.

However, of course, Shouhan did not have to worry about these things, he only inspected his steel industry and military manufacturing.

When King Qin returned from the north, officers and soldiers at all levels expressed such feelings.

"If the firecrackers can also participate in the fighting, the spearmen can also use the firecrackers to kill the enemy, and it is said that the Jiannu of the two armors is the Jiannu of the two banners, and it is not a problem!"

On the one hand, he had to meet the orders of various towns in the interior, and on the other hand, he also had to consider adding some new toys for his troops, so Shouhan had this trip to Hejing.

In the former Taipingdong Arsenal, people came and went very lively.

A large number of craftsmen were seriously busy with their own processes in their own positions, and they didn't care to look at Li Shouhan and his party who walked by.

The task of this huge shed was to polish the finished cuirass and put on leather strips and other accessories. Oiled sealing.

It is not simple to make armor, the step armor of the Song Dynasty, the armor leaves reached more than 1,800 pieces, and there are multiple processes of perforation, fine grinding, and making a pair of armor, which takes nearly a month. It also takes a month to make a pair of Western plate armor. After using hydraulic power to forge and form ductile iron, the efficiency of the cuirass increased by several times, but the manufacturing cost decreased a lot. And the sewing and inlay of the inner lining of the cuirass. It also provides a lot of job opportunities for Su Sanniang's admirers. This shed is more than 200 meters long. There are more than 1,000 women in their respective posts, and they are processing a pair of cuirasses.

Passing through the shed, we came to a dam built along the river, where there was another shed, where the sword was made.

The heavy hammer is driven by the tremendous power of the water flowing on the embankment. The splash of the river and the red-hot steel came into contact with each other. A large amount of water vapor permeates the bamboo and wood shed.

Over the years, the concept has been transformed and the status in reality has been improved. The social status and economic income of the craftsmen here are far from being comparable to those poor artisans in the mainland. After people realize and realize their own value, the energy they radiate is immeasurable.

Although it was not as strict as the Manchu Qing Dynasty enforced the so-called strict law of shooting armor and cutting off workers, but. If there is a quality problem and it is investigated, then according to the system formed by the South China Army over the years, the punishment is also very simple and direct, "Expulsion!" Banish! "Until he was imprisoned.

Since the propaganda team learned the news of the continuous natural and man-made disasters in the mainland, almost all of them have cherished the life in front of them, and the quality problems and production costs have dropped one after another.

And one of the craftsmen here learned about the discussion in the army from a propaganda team member and a firecracker who participated in the Battle of Hexi. I tried to create a spearhead that could be inserted into the pipe.

According to the practice of encouraging innovation in the past, the news was reported to Shouhan after testing when it was considered feasible.

Shouhan came here for this thing.

If all the spearmen are redressed into musketeers, then the firepower and the quality of a projectile salvo will inevitably be improved by a step. This will bring a series of requirements: the increase of firearms will inevitably provide more gunpowder and projectiles, the number of baggage troops will increase, and the original tactics and formations will also be modified.

Whether it is necessary to change the establishment of the army and the number of establishments at all levels, the defenders are also undecided.

However, after looking at the sample of this bayonet, Shouhan was a little discouraged, this is completely a change of a short spear, in fact, it is itself a spearhead with a short handle, but the length of the three-edged spearhead has been adjusted somewhat, only about sixty centimeters. When used, the short handle of the spear itself is stuffed into the muzzle of the spear and inserted tightly, and the firearm is transformed into a short spear more than two meters long. It can be used by firefighters to fight.

And it's hard to insert it, not to mention, and it's even more troublesome when you pull it out. It was necessary to strike left and right to take the bayonet out of the barrel, but after such a toss, large and small scars were left on the barrel, which affected the effect of future shooting.

Although he didn't have the luxury of coming up with a deck-type bayonet that Shouhan was familiar with, but in the face of such a cheat, Shouhan was also full of enthusiasm and turned into a word, speechless!

"This brother, you short spear, in the barrel, the pipe is clogged by it, if I want to fire the gun again before hand-to-hand combat, what should I do?!"

At present, the elite troops in the Guards Battalion, Phoenix Battalion, Qilin Battalion, and Xuanwu Battalion in the Nanzhong Army can already make the firecrackers fire between 20 and 30 paces away from the enemy. If, as Shouhan said, you fire again at the distance from the upcoming hand-to-hand combat, there will basically be only a few enemies left!

However, such a plugged short spear could not complete the last shot before this hand-to-hand combat, and it also caused great damage to the barrel.

Feng Mofeng, Su Laosi, Yang Tianshi and others on the side saw that Shouhan's face was a little uncertain, knowing that the short spear developed by this craftsman might not be able to enter Shouhan's eyes, and they were about to think of a way to send him away, lest Shouhan lose his temper for a while.

But he didn't want to, Shouhan spoke at this time.

"Brother. You come here. ”

He nodded and called over to the craftsman who had made the inserted spear.

"I have to say you're a good idea, and you've got a short spear and a fire gun in one place. In this way, the brother who wields the firearm and the brother who wields the spear actually become one. However, have you ever thought that your short spear is very similar to the one used in the inland towns called the Four Sons and One Gun, but their sword is not as short as your short spear, not to mention shorter, and the sword is only stuffed on the barrel, and it is also not possible to shoot. ”

Although it is a gentle compliment to the craftsman. But Yasai slapped all the craftsmen and the general office a resounding slap. People have always prided themselves on their skill and ingenuity. I don't want this little idea put forward by the lord and the generals of the army, but it can't be implemented. How can everyone get by?!

"Don't blame yourself too much."

Shouhan's gaze swept over the faces of the generals of the army such as Feng Mofeng, Su Laosi, Yang Tianshi, and Huang Yishan, who followed him.

"The practice of inserting the short spear into the barrel has in fact fulfilled the requirement that the lieutenant and sergeant of the army also equip the musketers with short spears. However, it was General Ben who made a new request today, and this brother could not do it for a while. ”

He patted the craftsman on the shoulder, whose eyes were full of tears.

"Brother. A hundred and a half ninety. You've walked ninety miles. There are ten miles left, and we'll just finish it together. ”

The purpose of Shouhan was to create a sleeved bayonet.

This bayonet can be described as an epoch-making product in the world of bayonets.

The use of the socket bayonet can be used in the 17th century until the battlefield behind enemy lines during the Anti-Japanese War, in order to equip all kinds of miscellaneous rifles with bayonets. The military workers in the base areas behind the enemy line racked their brains and finally invited the ancestor of this modern deck-type bayonet to come out, so that all kinds of rifles were uniformly equipped with bayonets.

In contrast to the strict requirements of the bayonet, the socket bayonet can be described as a fuzzy theory of the body. In both three- and four-sided bayonets, there is a hollow grip on the end of the bayonet, which is placed on the muzzle of the gun and rotated at an angle so that the clamp outside the barrel snaps into the groove on the grip to hold the two together. In this construction, the blade of the bayonet is on one side of the axis of the barrel, and the two are spaced at a certain distance, so that the shot and the assassination do not interfere with each other.

In this way, the status of the bayonet as an auxiliary combat tool was basically determined.

Under the greeting of Shouhan, Feng Mofeng and the others each found a place on the workbench and gathered around, ready to brainstorm the weapon proposed by the lord that can not only assassinate hand-to-hand combat, but also shoot a projectile before hand-to-hand combat!

In a trance, Feng Mofeng seemed to have returned to the time when the General's Mansion was first established, at that time, for a certain matter, the general also gathered around the craftsmen and masters to study carefully, and finally found the best way and skills.

"I hope it's the same this time, if I can equip the army with this spear, I, the general office of Hejing Heavy Industry, can also feel at ease!"

Feng Mofeng couldn't stop praying to the sky.

At the suggestion of Shouhan, a spearhead was taken and placed with the inserted bayonet made by the craftsman for everyone to refer to and compare here.

"Rank, you see, what is the purpose of the sleeve here at the head of the spear?"

"Lord, you deliberately joked, if this spearhead does not have a casing, how can it be installed on the spear shaft?! Could it be that it is tied to a wooden stick with a rope?! ”

"Huh?" Feng Mofeng and the craftsman who made the sword and several others all raised a voice of doubt.

"Are we all at a dead end? Forget that this gun can also be regarded as a spear shaft?! If it is also like installing a spearhead, adding a casing to this three-edged spearhead, isn't it possible to install the spear spur that the lord said is very smooth on the barrel? ! ”

Several people could read the meaning from the excited and somewhat red faces of others.

This layer of window paper was pierced, and everyone's thoughts suddenly became clear.

A few people brought paper and charcoal and began to sketch out the drawings on the paper.

Shouhan saw that everyone already had an idea, so he didn't say much, just went to the side to watch the magnificent scene of smelters and manufacturing enterprises in this pre-industrial era.

Soon, in the midst of everyone's noise, Feng Mofeng came to Shouhan with a somewhat chaotic drawing in his hand.

"Lord, please see. This is a sketch of the stab design that we discussed. ”

The sixty-centimeter-long three-edged spear spike has a cylindrical sleeve about eight centimeters long at the end, and there is an arc-shaped transition of about one centimeter between the sleeve and the spear, which acts as a connection and reducing.

"Build it and test it out!"

Soon, several spears with hot residual warmth were placed in front of everyone.

Picking up a spear and looking at it carefully, the feeling of passing through the hand, this spear made of wrought iron is still quite heavy, from the sleeve to the front arc round part, it is not far from the sleeve bayonet designed by Shouhan's heart. The design of the spear itself is still the same as that of the funeral gun. Adopt a three-edged design. The overall appearance of the spear is like a round iron rod, gradually narrowing, and finally closing at one point. Form a sharp edge. There are blood grooves in the entire two-thirds of the spear stab. Once stabbed by such a spear. He will lose a lot of blood and die.

"How to install and fix?"

No matter how well something is designed, it can no longer be fixed on the pipe, and it is a useless thing.

Someone took a gun. I don't know what method the craftsmen used, but a protruding iron lump on it acted as a bamboo shoot for the casing.

"Today's lord is a little anxious, we plan to design two clips on the casing and the pipe, so that it is a double-layer fixation, more and more firm."

With a "click", the casing in Feng Mofeng's hand had been firmly combined with the gun. He casually handed it to Huang Yishan who was on the side, and motioned to him to try it out and see how it worked.

Several pigs and sheep screamed and were tied to wooden posts, and their bodies were covered with two layers of armor, one layer of iron cotton armor and one layer of iron armor, all of which were trophies taken from the Liaodong anti-thieves. In addition to selling them to friendly forces, the rest is used for exhibitions, and is used to test the power of various weapons.

"Kill!"

Huang Yishan led a few pro-soldiers to rush towards the pigs and sheep very awkwardly with their guns, no way, they used to hold spears in their hands, but now the guns in their hands are much shorter than spears, so they are naturally not so handy to use.

"Puff puff! Burst! ”

Several streams of blood arrows spewed out, splashing all over their bodies and faces.

"There is no problem with the gunslinger! It's just that it's not as easy to use as a spear, and the strength and center of gravity have to be explored. Also, the direction when the stab goes out should also be estimated, because of this," Huang Yishan told everyone about his feelings, while pointing to the arc-shaped transition part on the casing, "There is a difference of half an inch, so you must take into account this gap in order to prick wherever you want!" ”

After a heated discussion, everyone unanimously agreed to carry out trial production of spears, first using wrought iron to make 1,000 handles, for the Guards Battalion to use for exploration and training. The first craftsman to develop the insertion spear was granted a patent for a socket bayonet and promoted to the rank of steward of the shed.

When this qiē was completed, Shouhan and his party got on the horse and prepared to leave Hejing Heavy Industry, an unexpected thing happened.

The pigs and sheep that were stabbed to death by Huang Yishan and others were given to the officials and slaves who got off work as today's additional dishes, and the officials and slaves ate white rice around a few large pots full of meat and soup, and several officials and slaves even fought over a big bone.

Doesn't this look like something that someone can eat meat once every three days can do?!

Shouhan decided to find out.

When a personal soldier dragged an official slave from the crowd and made the official slave kneel in front of the Han Guarding Horse to reply, the faces of several stewards and officials made by Ha Jing began to change.

"Lord, this guy said that they haven't eaten meat like this for a long time, and even if there is meat, it's some stinky fish and rotten shrimp or something, and this is the first time in months that they have eaten such a large piece of meat."

"I remember that I set the food standard for these native officials and slaves that day, right? Each person has three dollars of oil and one money of salt every day, eats meat once every three days, and has enough rice to eat on weekdays, and once ordered Youji to allocate their next month's food expenses to you at the end of each month, right?! ”

Shouhan's face was frosty, and his tone was a little gloomy and asked a few general offices.

A few days later, more than a dozen Japanese artemen and more than 20 native deputies were beheaded by the law enforcement team in front of the queue of native officials and slaves, accused of "not doing what the Lord wants!" ”

Instead of embezzling the food expenses of officials and slaves, however, the food was implemented in accordance with the standards.

"Daddy, why do you want to kill them? Don't you also hate those dirty and lazy native slaves? ”

Shouhan's eldest son, Hua Yu, was a little puzzled.

"Huayu, you remember, their damn place is not to do what I want, instead of embezzling food and wages, leading to the death of a large number of natives."

"So, what if they're corrupt?"

"Death is the same!"

Xiao Huayu didn't understand what Daddy meant. (To be continued......)