A month has passed.

Zhang Qiang still stayed in Xianju County, looking at the arsenal, which had changed from a repair workshop to a real arsenal.

The arsenal is divided into a butt factory, which is mainly responsible for purchasing and inspecting the quality of the butts sent by the people, and slightly processing and classifying them, and then sending them to the warehouse of the gun assembly plant.

The bolt parts processing plant is responsible for the acquisition, processing, and inspection of some external parts collected by the private sector, and at the same time manufactures some confidential parts, which are finally sent to the warehouse of the firearms assembly plant.

The gunpowder factory buys some private and external gunpowder, and finishes it, processes it into powdered gunpowder, and then sends it to the granular gunpowder workshop below for finishing, and then sends it to the inspection workshop for inspection, and finally, it is sent to the fixed charge workshop for fixed assembly.

The paper shell factory is responsible for purchasing the paper shells sent by the private sector for inspection, and sending them to the assembly workshop warehouse of the gunpowder factory.

The iron factory is responsible for purchasing iron, and conducting material research, making suitable materials, and then selling them to those cooperative blacksmiths in the private sector, so that they can make parts, and the good iron materials are sent to the barrel factory, and the barrel is made by the barrel workshop of the barrel factory, and after the barrel is built, it is sent to the drill pipe workshop for drilling pipes, and a good barrel must be inspected and sent to the warehouse of the gun assembly plant.

The arquebus manufacturing plant is responsible for purchasing materials, manufacturing arquebuses, inspecting the workshop for sampling, and the qualified ones are packed and sent to the assembly plant in grades.

Finally, the assembly plant assembles an arquebus.

Francis participated in the whole process, half a month under the coordination of Zhou Congee, the arquebus factory in Xianju was completed, and began to produce, this month, in the process of formation and improvement, five hundred qualified arquebuses were produced, the standard reached the best standard of Portuguese arquebuses, and also produced three catties more than the weight of the Portuguese arquebus, the barrel was lengthened by three inches, and the power was increased to 55 to 60 meters to penetrate the power of three layers of iron armor, and the rate of fire was increased by one-third because of the fixed ammunition, the fastest and best musketeers, capable of firing one shot in thirty-five to forty breaths, and two in a minute and a half.

There are also the best thirty arquebuses, which can fire one shot within forty breaths, two shots in more than a minute and a half, wear three layers of iron armor at a distance of seventy meters, and still penetrate a layer of iron armor and a layer of cotton armor at a range of ninety meters, and still have power within one hundred and twenty meters, can kill at least a layer of cotton armor soldiers, and can kill unarmored soldiers at a distance of one hundred and thirty meters, and the probability of successfully hitting the enemy has increased by one percent.

That is to say, in the face of the general Ming army, without armor piercing, you can shoot at a distance of 130 meters, and you don't have to wait until the enemy enters the range of 100 meters, and you don't have to wait until the enemy enters the range of 30 meters to kill the enemy wearing multiple layers of iron armor.

Half a month later, Francis and Zhou Congee established a factory in Taizhou at the same time, and in the middle of the second month, the factory in Jinhua Mansion was also completed, three factories, at the worst, can provide 1,000 qualified arquebuses a month, and the three factories are fully operational, and can provide 1,500 qualified arquebuses, 600 medium arquebuses, and 230 high-grade arquebuses a month.

In just one and a half months, the arquebus factory, which was still under construction and trial production, provided Zhang Qiang with 1,000 qualified arquebuses, 700 medium arquebuses, and 100 good arquebuses.

As the craftsmanship improves, Zhang Qiang's troops will all be equipped with high-quality arquebuses.

Half of his 3,000 professional musketeers were equipped with qualified arquebuses, 500 were equipped with medium arquebuses, and the remaining 1,000 were armed with arquebuses that had been selected from the best of the Portuguese arquebuses that had existed before, barely reaching the standard of qualified Portuguese arquebuses.

As for the arquebuses that had been repaired before, 3,000 guns, plus the arquebuses that had been retired, and the captured arquebuses, a total of 9,000 guns, Zhang Qiang equipped his subordinates with 1,000 arquebuses for each of the leading subordinates, and established a force of 1,000 arquebuses.

These people are mainly Xuanyuan Longfei, stationed in Wenzhou Mansion, Xiao Fei, stationed in Quanzhou Mansion, Tang Dianfeng, stationed in Jianning Mansion; Wei Wuji is the admiral of Jinhua Mansion, Feng Wuyu Jinhua Mansion general, but he is currently stationed in Ganzhou Mansion, guarding against the Qing soldiers such as the Shaowu Imperial Court and Li Chengdong in Guangzhou, Mi Lin, and the general soldiers of Jinhua Mansion, each of these three people has 1,000 firearms, plus Zhang Qiang's 3,000 firecrackers, Jinhuafu, the forefront of facing the Qing soldiers, is also Zhang Qiang's current administrative center, and he has 5,000 firecrackers at once.

He Jin was there, although He Jin didn't need it, Zhang Qiang still handed over a thousand firecrackers to Hu Kui, and asked him to lead a thousand firecrackers, a thousand cavalry and He Jin to protect the state capital.

Taizhou County, the capital of Duge Taizhou, is close to the sea, where there are 1,000 firearms and 1,000 cavalry.

In the end, a thousand firecrackers were placed in Xianju, led by Zhou Congee.

In the end, Zhang Qiang suddenly found that there were 12,000 firecrackers in his team.

There is another person who has been forgotten, the general Zhao Siyang, who is stationed in Tiantai County and Sanmen County, which are at the forefront of Xianju and Taizhou Mansion, to guard against Ningbo Mansion, Shaoxing Mansion, and Hangzhou Mansion, which can be described as a great responsibility.

There are artillery in both counties, as well as the general banner strength of the former musketeers, plus some cold weapons troops sent in the past, he guarded the two counties alone, and he had 8,000 soldiers, and Zhang Qiang finally transferred him a battalion, a musketeer unit of 500 people, and gave him a musketeer unit equipped with the former Portuguese musketeers from the most elite professional musketeers who were retrained and reorganized.

With such an arrangement, Zhang Qiang's territory was impermeable to defend, and the soldiers were so strong that even the Qing soldiers did not dare to fight at once.

The Qing soldiers did not dare to fight, that was because they were on land, the two sides were mainly engaged in land battles, and at present in the southeast, the strength was definitely stronger than the Qing army, coupled with the huge physique of the Yongli Imperial Court, and the harassment of the rebel troops organized by the Ming squires who were in trouble everywhere because of the "shaving order", the Southern Ming Dynasty and the Lu Wang family sought a strong attack on land territory, and the Qing army could not get rid of it for a while, and could not concentrate its forces to deal with Zhang Qiang's Jinhua army.

At sea, Zheng Cai did not have this scruples, just like the Qing court in later generations, which was distracted by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and when he heard the foreigners, he was scared and trembled, in fact, if he really wanted to suppress one of the Western countries, Western countries did not have so many resources and troops to consume with the Qing court, but the Qing court was afraid.

Seeing that the Qing court was so cowardly, the Japanese saw an opportunity, their country was small and weak, but they concentrated their energy and concentrated on dealing with the Qing court, and it was still possible to stab the Qing court in the waist, so they took the risk and completely ignored the history of the Ming Dynasty beating them to the ground in Korea.

At this time, although the sailors of Zheng Cai, the land strength of the Jinhua Righteous Army, could not beat the army of the 1,000 Jinhua Righteous Army even if they gathered 350,000 people, but if they took advantage of the advantage on the water and made the Jinhua Righteous Army at a loss through continuous sneak attacks, they could still do it.

This is also Zhang Qiang's intentional negligence, when he received Zheng Cai's in-depth investigation in the mainland, he did not take timely measures to control Zheng Cai, he did not expect Zheng Cai to do this.