"The casting of the bronze general cannon cannot be stopped."

Xu Shiyang finally ordered:

"I'll figure out the materials, but the existing materials should be able to forge a few cannons, right?"

"Yes, it is true that a few more doors can be cast." Tang Long admitted.

Xu Shiyang snatched 5,000 catties of copper from the Japanese people, refined it, and got some silver, which was considered to be a profit, and the rest of the copper was given to the military industry department to cast cannons or produce various necessary machinery and equipment parts.

Nowadays, the success rate of casting cannons is still not high, but even if you miss, the copper of the cannons will not be reduced too much, and it is a big deal to melt and recast.

Therefore, 5,000 catties of copper, if all of them are used up, can probably cast more than 20 4 catties of general cannons.

"Commander, I think it's a pity that all this copper is used to cast cannons."

Tang Long hesitated for a while, then gritted his teeth and made up his mind to say what was in his heart:

"There is so much copper, we should mint money!"

Minting private money has always been a lucrative business, and in the past, the biggest problem in this business was the lack of copper and the strict prohibition of the imperial court.

But at present, the Xu family does not have these two obstacles - Xu Shiyang grabbed a batch of high-quality copper materials, and at the same time, the imperial court can't control Jiangbei now.

If you mint money, you can earn more than double the profit.

However, it is impossible for Xu Shiyang to accept this proposal.

After all, for the current Xu family, only with a cannon can the industry be kept.

As weak as the imperial court, no matter how rich you are, you are just a fat sheep in the eyes of robbers.

"Remember, the truth is within cannon range."

Xu Shiyang smiled at Tang Long:

"There are cannons, money is not an issue. Without cannons, no amount of money is useless! ”

"I allow you to experiment with casting some non-standard weapons according to your own ideas, but you can't delay the production of magic cannons and general cannons, and you can only use your spare time to do it."

"If you can make something that works, I will reward you. If you fail, I won't punish you as long as it doesn't affect the scheduled production plan. ”

"However, it must be remembered that the premise of all this is not to affect the established military production!"

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Because of the hydraulic forging hammer, in addition to guns, the production of cold weapons, which is still very important in this era, has no need to worry at all.

Weapons such as the Talisman Waist Knife for Sharp Soldiers (which can also be supplied to the militia on a large scale) and the Chopping Knife/Two-Handed Heavy Sword for Blade Soldiers were produced more than the sleeve bayonets used for Divine Soldiers, so that in the end, many Divine Soldiers did not have bayonets, and could only use waist knives to make do with self-defense.

Xu Shiyang's tiger cut was cut everywhere in Dutingyi, and now it has become an ornament, so he also received a cheap waist knife from the military industry department as a last talisman weapon.

In addition, Xu Shiyang also wanted to imitate some Japanese knives and sell them to Jiangnan.

I don't know why, I have a soft spot for Japanese knives, and good Japanese knives can even be sold for dozens of times, and the most common ones can also be sold for as many as 5 times.

Xu Shiyang plans to use cheap imitation knives to impact the Jiangnan market, even if it is only sold for money, it is a big profit, why not do it?

With "advanced power", the biggest gain is actually in terms of armor, the direct production of plate armor by water conservancy forging hammers is amazing, and the price is very low.

Of course, Xu Shiyang doesn't have so much iron to equip all front-line soldiers with an iron armor, he plans to only equip Xuanfeng and Rui Shi, who are mainly engaged in white-knuckle combat, with only one front breastplate, and a very simple armor piece with no protection behind the back and limbs.

In order to save costs, all armor pieces produced at this time are not carburized on the surface, and rely purely on a 2 mm thickness hard top.

In terms of armor, the most troublesome thing is actually the helmet, and the style chosen by Xu Shiyang is the bright helmet style with wide eaves, which has good defense against the light arrows thrown by the Tartars from a long distance, but the output is a tragedy.

It is estimated that in 3 to 5 months, Xu Shiyang can only equip Xuan Feng and half of the Rui Shi with this new helmet, and the remaining half of the Rui Shi and all the Shen Ji soldiers can only ...... barehead for the time being.

These problems can only be solved after waiting for the successful interception and pro-ship fleet to obtain the 3,000 craftsmen.

Other issues can be tackled now.

For example, the cheap Tianzhu cloth purchased was turned into all kinds of practical materials - military uniforms, tents, and so on.

These jobs can be handed over to women to do, and Xu Shiyang, who has crossed over from the great industrial era, naturally chose to open a textile factory (in fact, a tailor factory) dominated by female workers.

Xu Shiyang promised to give good treatment to female workers who took the initiative to work in the factory - sufficient food to support at least two children in addition to female workers, subsidies for various women's daily necessities, and paid maternity leave.

This last one, in this era, is definitely a welfare that shocks the world. After all, Xu Shiyang has been providing a poultry egg every day to the female mothers in the core Wubao, plus various subsidies and paid maternity leave, the newly established female workers of Qixin Textile Factory even have the ability to live independently and support themselves!

In order to ensure the personal safety of the women, the first director of Qixin Textile Factory is Mama Rong, who makes the girls respect and resent, and the women's team led by Zhao Lin is responsible for the security of the factory.

The two of them work together to ensure that not a single male fly can fly into the women's dormitory!

With such a good treatment and safe production environment, the first batch of recruitment work of Qixin Textile Factory was successfully completed quickly, and 2000 female textile workers lived in the factory area and dormitory built by Xu Shiyang specially for them.

Xu Shiyang plans to wait for the interception and pro-team and the economic conditions to further improve, he will improve the treatment of female workers at one time, build supporting childcare facilities, medical facilities, etc. for textile factories, so that female workers can become the banner and benchmark of all women in the entire territory.

Of course, he can't just take care of women, after all, Xu Shiyang wants the equality of men and women who can hold up half the sky, not pastoral feminism.

He raised the status of women in order to pave the way for future industrialization and the inclusion of all people in industrial production, not to give women special treatment.

If Xu Shiyang set a benchmark for women in the territory as female workers in textile factories, then the banner for men is the soldiers of the New Army!

Before, the treatment of soldiers in the new army was obviously higher than that of ordinary militiamen, but Xu Shiyang felt that this was not enough, at least not enough to make others envious, so envious that they could rush to the Tartars without fear of death for a place in the new army!

Therefore, Xu Shiyang intends to improve the treatment of the new army at one time.

First of all, nature is the land that all Han people dream of.

In the past, Xu Shiyang had only issued a small number of land vouchers, and had given up to 10 acres of cultivated land to some meritorious personnel.

Now, Xu Shiyang intends to break that limitation.

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