Chapter 236: Factory 1
Xu Shiyang didn't have a deep understanding of the quality of horses, he just knew that Pars horses had superior performance and were very valuable and good horses.
Therefore, he will not have the situation that a few generals from the cavalry can't move when they see the BMW, Xu Shiyang just calmly ordered:
"Go and inspect the horses, and if they are qualified stallions, pay three thousand silks each, and if not, chop up the Pars and throw them into the sea."
"My lord, even if it's not a stallion, such a good war horse is a treasure!" Xu Ning leaned over and said with a smile: "Give these horses to the cavalry, the Tartars don't have such good horses!" ”
"Don't even think about it." Xu Shiyang unceremoniously refused: "I want to use these horses to build a military horse farm and breed my own war horses, how can I take them to the battlefield and waste them?" ”
"What's more, a horse with 3,000 silks, can you afford it?"
Xu Ning sneered and did not answer.
Three thousand silks, even a middle-level officer of the forbidden army like him, who has a fairly rich family, cannot afford it, this business is indeed a strategic move of a political entity, and if I want to benefit from it, I am afraid that I will have to wait for the second or even third generation of hybrid horses to grow up.
Several officers of the forbidden army are horse idiots, Sun Liluan Tingyu is not weak, it is not difficult to check the state of several horses, and someone soon reported:
"No problem at all, they're all young little stallions."
"Then give them the silk and carry it to the ship, and not a single horse will be missing."
Xu Shiyang commanded:
"If I have the chance, I would like to talk to them about more business. If you can scrape together enough money, you can also order horses from them, I don't care. ”
Xu Ning Lin Chong looked at each other and smiled bitterly, he couldn't afford it.
……
"It is worthy of being the land of silk."
On the merchant ship of Pars, a strong black-haired young man looked at the silk silks that were constantly being carried onto the ship, and said in an emotional tone:
"There can be so many silks in this kind of place."
"I can make a lot of money this time." The merchant said proudly: "Although it is very troublesome, expensive, and risky to transport the war horse to the country of silk, as long as it is done, you can make a lot of money." ”
"How much can I earn?"
"A bundle of silk can be sold for about 3 dinars when it is shipped back to China."
"Heh, that's more than 100,000 dinars?"
The dinar is a gold coin, one equivalent to twenty dirhams of silver, four taels of silver.
Even in Yekbadana, the capital of Pars, a man with 100,000 dinars can already become the richest at the top.
It's really a business that can get rich overnight!
"Well, the little one will rest here for a day, and he will have to return tomorrow." The merchant rubbed his hands together and said with a smirk, "What are your plans, my lord?" ”
The black-haired young man was the nephew of Captain Parswan, and the merchant could get so many good stallions to sell, only money was impossible, and the deal could only be completed with the support of the young man.
In exchange, the merchant promised to bring the young man to the land of silk in the East to increase his knowledge and exchange ideas with the warriors of the East.
Young people believe that this is the best way to hone their martial arts.
"I'll get off the boat right here."
The young man answers:
"I can feel it, there is going to be a war here, and I should be able to learn a lot here."
"But wouldn't it be dangerous? For the war of the Orientals ......"
"Danger is the best way to train yourself."
The young man smiled nonchalantly and said:
"There's very little I can learn at Pars, and I want to try out what it's like to be dangerous in an unfamiliar environment."
"As for the danger, I think it's okay to save my life even in the most dangerous situation."
"Go back when you finish the deal, and come back to pick me up in a year."
Young people appear to be very confident:
"When you come back to trade next year, I will definitely become stronger!"
"Yes, I wish you success, Lord Daron!"
……
Xu Shiyang did not know that the Pals merchant ship had also sent him a master who could charge into battle, and he now had a more important job - inspecting several important factories in Qingzhou.
First of all, of course, the basis of everything, the arsenal.
With the addition of a few hundred craftsmen, the Qingzhou Arsenal expanded almost three times in size, so much so that Xu Shiyang had to build a new second arsenal near the Qingzhou Mansion.
The person in charge of the Juzhou Arsenal is Lao Zhang's blacksmith, and the Qingzhou Arsenal is temporarily in charge of the newcomer Dai Zi, and Lao Zhang's second son is here to serve as his deputy, responsible for helping Dai Zi understand all kinds of new weapons in Qingzhou and put them into production as soon as possible.
Dai Zi is worthy of being a well-known master of the Great Zhou Ordnance Prison, in the Qingzhou Arsenal, Xu Shiyang found that although the barrel production here is less than that of the Juxian Arsenal, the production speed and quality of the flintlock gun machine are far exceeded.
The reason for this is that there is no hydraulic forging hammer that can assist in the production of barrels in Qingzhou for the time being, and the craftsmanship is not skilled enough, so it is understandable that the production speed is much slower than that of Juzhou.
However, the level of the craftsmen themselves is higher than that of Juzhou, and it is much higher, so it mainly depends on the technical proficiency of the bolt, which is much stronger than the Juzhou Arsenal.
"Although this bolt is delicate, the most important thing in it is only a reed, and it does not have to be made of steel."
Dai Zi explained:
"I have tried it, first use wrought iron to make a suitable shape, then temper it with lead, then quench it with oil, polish it and put it into the annealing furnace for annealing."
Xu Shiyang looked at him with a slight smile and didn't say a word.
After a while, Dai Zi explained awkwardly:
"Well, the leaf spring will first turn yellow, then purple, and finally pale blue, and as long as you see the leaf spring turn pale blue, the time will come."
"But, I really don't know how to do it."
Seeing that Dai Zi still didn't understand what he meant, Xu Shiyang had no choice but to admit:
"Mr. Dai explained to me that this is completely meaningless, how do you produce your own problems, I only look at the results."
"What about the strength of the new bolt?"
"I'm still testing at the moment, I don't know how many times I can play, but more than 1,000 is no problem." Dai Zi replied: "The fire rate is more than 8 percent. ”
"That's enough, let's increase productivity." Xu Shiyang affirmed: "Mr. Dai has done a good job, let's enjoy the treatment of a lieutenant first, if I can do better, I will not be stingy with my official position." ”
"Yes."
Dai Zi didn't react much to this, maybe he didn't quite understand what the official position of lieutenant was?
However, he can always be an official.
Dai Zi took a pistol from his son next to him and held it to Xu Shiyang with both hands:
"The old man himself has checked the arquebus and flintlock pistol designed by the general, and feels that the biggest difference between these two guns is actually the lighter, and the others seem to be no different."
"So the old man also came up with a way, is it feasible for the general to see if it is feasible?"
Xu Shiyang took it and found that this gun was much longer and heavier than the flintlock pistol.
It seems that flint is also used for fire, but the flintlock hammer is mounted at the rear and strikes the iron to stop the ignition forward.
And this pistol, with a pronounced circle on the bolt, the hammer mounted in front, and also without a blocking iron, directly hit the opening ignition above the circular bolt.
Xu Shiyang asked curiously:
"Reed pistol?"