Xu Shiyang is certainly ambitious, and he has never hidden his ambitions.

Therefore, all his subordinates have to serve his ambitions, whether they are induced or forced, they must keep up, and if they are not convinced, they must not play.

According to the previous schedule, after entering the winter, if there is no war, the people of the northern dock fort will enter a state of cat winter, do nothing, do nothing, and lie honestly in the grass hut in order to reduce the heat consumption as much as possible.

But Xu Shiyang did not allow the people of the 15th Tunbao to do this, he was like a capitalist in later generations, and he hated the idle people who had nothing to do.

After the new army and the new rank were announced, Xu Shiyang allowed the whole castle to rest for three days, during which he accepted Zhao Shan as a concubine as planned, and these three days became his first "marriage leave".

As soon as three days passed, Xu Shiyang was like a donkey that had been whipped, shouting loudly and demanding that the people of the whole fort move and start working according to his requirements.

Naturally, the craftsmen had their own duties, and Carpenter Li, no, he should be called Corporal Li now, responsible for coordinating and assigning the tasks of the various groups of craftsmen, and at the same time supervising the carpentry work.

Tang Long opened another workshop, specializing in the manufacture of arquebuses, he did not have the qualifications to hide private, so Xu Shiyang arranged ten apprentices in the arquebus workshop in one go, in addition to making arquebuses, they can also make some agricultural tools and cold weapons in their spare time.

Taking into account the poor physical fitness brought about by the age and nutrition of his musketeers, the arquebus designed by Xu Shiyang was an "ultra-light" weapon with a caliber of 15 mm (up and down 1 mm), a barrel length of 990 mm (about 1 to 66 to caliber), and a total musket length of 1320 mm (1 to 88).

This data is basically the year-on-year reduction of the Charville 1777 flintlock pistol, the main battle equipment of the French army in the Napoleonic era, in the history of the earth (caliber 17 mm, barrel length 1137 mm, full gun length 1510 mm), and the gun weight is less than 4 kg (1777 type 4.4 kg).

The small caliber brought another tactical advantage - unlike the large-caliber arquebus, which required a mount, Xu Shiyang's small gun could be fitted with a sleeve bayonet (that is, a triangle), and the bayonet of the arquebus and the plug spearhead of the musket were a necessary addition to the cold weapon for unreliable spearmen.

In addition, when components such as leaf springs mature in the future, these arquebuses can be quickly transformed into flintlock guns, which has certain benefits for saving munitions production capacity.

But this weapon also has a lot of troubles: the first is that the caliber is too small, and the barrel is not easy to manufacture; The second is that the standardization requirements are a step up from the musket.

These two troubles gave Tang Long a headache, and the consumption of man-hours was multiplied by the fire gun, and he once complained to Xu Shiyang that if this work was handed over to Blacksmith Zhang, he might not be able to produce a qualified barrel in three months, but in his case, Xu Shiyang actually asked to produce 2 qualified muskets every month, which was too difficult.

This made sense, so Xu Shiyang hung a "carrot" in front of his eyes, and he told Tang Long that if he could provide 10 qualified arquebuses within half a year, he would be able to atone for his sins.

If Tang Long can bring all 10 apprentices out of the army within half a year, then he will receive the rank of corporal and have the qualifications to join the army to fight.

The future is always the most important thing for capable and ambitious guys, and many times there is no one, so Tang Long happily agreed, turned around and returned to the workshop to work.

Compared with Tang Long, Lao Zhang, the only blacksmith in the fifteenth tun, has not had a good time recently.

He didn't have any ambitions, and he didn't even like to participate in Xu Shiyang's internal high-level meetings in Wubao before, but after more and more blacksmiths belonged to Wuxiantun and he really didn't have to attend the meeting, Blacksmith Zhang became panicked instead.

After laying down Fulai Mountain, Xu Shiyang got 3 blacksmiths, plus Tang Long and another family from his family before, and Zhang's status in the castle fell to a very low level.

When the ranks of each person were announced, among the existing craftsmen, only Carpenter Li had obtained the rank of sergeant, and in terms of treatment, he could eat in the canteen during overtime work in winter, and he could get the treatment of eating coarse grain every day, a wild vegetable soup, and meat every ten days.

And Blacksmith Zhang is just an ordinary recruit, and other dock cats work overtime in winter, and they can only get a subsistence of miscellaneous food.

This difference in treatment made Blacksmith Zhang's eyes red, and the rise of Carpenter Li's status made his two sons become active - the two cubs have reached the age when it is time to say goodbye, and in the past, as the only blacksmith in Wubao, they were not worried about finding a good daughter-in-law, but now they .......

It's not that the blacksmith's son won't be able to marry a wife, it's just that if this continues, Zhang's son may have to marry a homeless woman casually.

In the end, in the faint complaints of his wife and sons, Blacksmith Zhang took the initiative to find Xu Shiyang and became the second blacksmith willing to take an apprentice after Tanglong in Wutun.

Xu Shiyang naturally welcomed this, he just needed a normal blacksmith as a benchmark to stimulate others to work hard.

It's just that before he really makes achievements, Xu Shiyang can't improve his military rank - there are only 15 levels in total, and he can't be indiscriminately distributed.

Blacksmith Zhang was still a recruit, responsible for creating the sleeve bayonet and the plug tip of the musket for the arquebus.

It's just that Xu Shiyang secretly promised him that as soon as he had merit, he or his eldest son would be promoted to corporal. In addition, if he did a good job, Xu Shiyang introduced his two sons to good mothers-in-law who could give birth to from the well-off old fort family.

Xu Shiyang naturally didn't just stare at the craftsmen, and the other people in the fifteenth tun also entered a tense state of work under Xu Shiyang's urging.

Women are responsible for making clothes out of the cloth they have seized, patches on the torn clothes they have seized, and bags for the ones that are not in shape.

In addition, she is also responsible for helping out in the collective canteen, and Mama Rong is responsible for preparing meals strictly for the personnel involved in winter work according to the standards specified by Xu Shiyang - everything is according to rank, the lowest-level recruits only have two porridges a day, and the veterans can get a dry meal and a few pickled radish, and the corporal has two dry meals a day, and there is a chance to eat meat every ten days.

Higher-ranking officers naturally have better food, such as Xu Shiyang, and even have a meat dish every day.

Xu Shiyang received the food, and he ate directly with everyone in the canteen, and the soldiers and civilians of the fifteenth tun were all drooling from the exquisite food in Xu Shiyang's bowl, and under his arrangement, Xu Da Xu Er also took this opportunity to quietly preach a theory:

As long as you work hard, Xu Shiyang's today is everyone's tomorrow.

As a result, everyone is full of enthusiasm (not to mention that they can eat in the collective canteen when they go to work in winter to save their own food).

Ordinary militiamen were assigned to hunt, and in the winter there were many hungry wild animals in the wilderness in search of food, and they would be the main targets of the militia.

For Xu Shiyang, hunting is also a kind of training for the militia, not to mention that the skin and meat of the prey can also play a little complementary role in the economy of the dock fort.