The development of the workshop has hit a bottleneck.

These two problems are also to be expected.

First, there is a shortage of craftsmen in the workshop. The craftsmen of this year have created ordnance, except for the imperial court, and no one thinks of buying it.

The scale of the market has shrunk or even non-existent, and the scale of the craftsmen is naturally not much larger, and the only craftsmen are concentrated under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, at least at the provincial level.

Second, with the lack of attention from the imperial court, the craftsmen gradually lost the channel and the idea of rising, and there was no possibility of rising, and the skills of the craftsmen were naturally constantly regressing, and good craftsmen gradually became difficult to find.

After listening to Huang Zuyu's report, Yuan Chao has been thinking about how to overcome these two difficulties.

"Lao Huang, I think the problem of the number of craftsmen is still relatively easy to solve." Yuan Chao slowly began to express his opinion.

"If you think about it, I'll go and walk around with those adults, and then with our generous treatment, send craftsmen to show up, and then pull out a group of ready-made craftsmen, it shouldn't be a problem."

"The hard question is where to find better craftsmen." Yuan Chao also couldn't come up with a good solution to this problem for a while.

"Lao Huang, do you know any excellent craftsmen? Can you recommend it to me. Yuan Chao pinned his thoughts on Huang Zuyu again, hoping that he could have some solution.

"Owner, don't hide it, we are an excellent craftsman in Henan, almost I know everything, the number is really not much, a few few, that is, my level is up and down, and it doesn't play a big role."

"Really good craftsmen, all in the capital. I heard that our northern and southern capitals have a group of good craftsmen. ”

"Also, I heard people say before that in the southernmost part of Macau, there is a group of red-haired ghosts, that group of barbarians, who are not good at anything else, but they can make guns, and our Franc machine has other cannons, I heard that there is their research in it."

"If the owner of the farm has a way to poach people in these places, maybe there will be a good harvest." Huang Zuyu put forward his views to the Yuan Dynasty.

Yuan Chaojiu stood in the hot workshop, and also began to sweat, Yuan Chao gently wiped the sweat on his face, and carefully thought about what Huang Zuyu had just said.

"That's right, if you want to dig up good craftsmen, you should go to a place where good craftsmen gather."

"The capital can ask Zhou Huaji to help, this Zhou Gonggong has great powers, everyone knows something, as long as he is willing to spend money, he will definitely have a harvest." Yuan Chao thought about it and began to speak, as if he was discussing with Huang Zuyu, and it seemed like he was talking to himself.

As for the red hairs in Macau, Yuan Chao naturally knew that they were Portuguese, and Europe in this era had gradually begun to lead China by half a position in terms of firearms.

Yuan Chao meditated in his heart, the Portuguese in this era came to China thousands of miles away, they did not come to invite guests to dinner, they came to realize some of their ideas, these adventurist people, for various purposes, are not afraid of challenges to come to China, naturally will not refuse the challenge of coming to the Central Plains, what they lack is just a reason to come to the Central Plains.

Yuan Chao thought to himself that if he could help them realize their pursuit of money, fame and fortune, they should also happily come to Chenzhuang.

"Red-haired Xiyi, then I will send another group of people to Macau, I don't believe it, and I won't be able to invite this group of red-haired people." Yuan Chao's tone was full of confidence and affirmation.

Listening to Yuan Chao's words, Huang Zuyu was also excited. "Great, if we dig up a group of ordinary craftsmen in Henan, and then dig up a group of excellent craftsmen in the capital and Macao, then our workshop will definitely increase its efficiency, and you have always hoped that we will make cannons and more sophisticated birds, which will become very possible."

Yuan Chao also nodded frequently.

"That's it, Lao Huang, you now assign me three craftsmen with good skills, and I'll find some clever people to form three digging action teams, which will be sent to the capital, Kaifeng Mansion and Macao respectively, so that your people can control the good skills, and if you think it's good, try to dig them up for you, how about it?" Yuan Chao was not an inkblot man either, and immediately planned to implement this plan.

Huang Zuyu slapped his thigh, and immediately named the names of the three craftsmen, and asked the people around him to find the three people.

Then Yuan Chao didn't have much to visit, and after a simple visit, he left the workshop with three craftsmen.

The establishment of three excavator teams was all implemented without waiting for a day.

This time, Yuan Chao decided to send a comprehensive excavator team.

Among the three squads, each squad has an excellent businessman provided by the Chenzhuang Chamber of Commerce, and these businessmen who can speak well serve as the main force to negotiate and excavate matters.

In addition, each squad has two skilled army pacesetters, who act as security personnel to dispel some blind thieves.

In the end, each team has a craftsman that Yuan Chao just brought from the workshop, and the craftsman is mainly to control the technology, don't end up with the team spending a lot of money, and the low level of the craftsman who worked hard is scary, which makes people laugh off their big teeth.

After Yuan Chao personally deployed and arranged for them, he also let their three squads bring enough entanglements, and the troops were divided into three routes and marched towards different destinations.

Among the three squads, the one with the heaviest task, the farthest distance, and the most difficult is the one that went to Macao.

The four-member team to Macao had already planned their route, and they would first take a boat south and then rush from Nanjing to Macao.

On Chen Zhuang's own ship, they are still comfortable, after all, it is their own Zhuangzi's ship, and they have no life at all, and they are still the flagship of these ships, and Chen Panhai is also on this ship.

The four members of the Macau squad are now sitting in the best crew rest area on board.

Chen Panhai was also very bold, and brought some delicious meals without any shelves, and wanted to chat with these people.

Chen Panhai, who was a self-cooked, put the meal on the table, and sat there with the four members of the Macao team to chat.

Among the four members of the Macao team, except for the businessman who runs business by boat all the year round, the other three still feel a little dizzy and have a not very good appetite even on this inland river transport boat, but this does not delay them from chatting and enhancing friendship.

"Captain Chen, you are a busy person in our Chen Zhuang, and you are also a big celebrity in our Chen Zhuang, and you deign to eat with our brothers today, which really makes your brothers grateful." The businessman's name is Liu Di, and when he speaks, he is called a sweet.

Chen Panhai also laughed heartily when he heard this, "You and I are both quite good-tempered, if it weren't for our owner's order that alcohol is forbidden on the ship, I would have to touch a few more glasses of wine with you today." ”

The other people also smiled and replaced the wine with tea, picked up the water cup and drank with Chen Panhai.