Chapter 55 The Gunsmith's Apprenticeship
Hua Chang and Jiang Chong are good friends, and when he heard Jiang Chong say that his uncle didn't give news, Hua Chong was also a little unhappy, and leaned against the wall helplessly and sighed. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
However, Hua Zhanggang sighed and heard Jiang Chong say a word.
"But I don't want to run away!"
Hua Zhang was stunned, suspecting that he had misheard: "What? ā
Jiang Chong said again: "I don't want to run away!" ā
"You don't want to marry a daughter-in-law?"
Jiang Chong looked at his hair and said, "Huazhang, don't you think things in the village have changed?" ā
Hua Zhang heard Jiang Chong's words, tilted his head and thought about it, and said: "This month, a new management team came, buried all the garbage, and repaired the public toilet. Is that what you're talking about? ā
Jiang Chong said: "Didn't you notice that this month, Captain A and the new management team didn't dare to let us help them do farm work? ā
Hua Zhang chirped: "That's because it's the time of farming, don't worry, when you harvest wheat in a few months, those two broken households will have to toss you!" ā
Jiang Chong shook his head and said: "I don't think so, this time last year was also a farming slack, but the two A Chiefs and the old management team still want us to help them hoe grass in the field, and ask us to go to his warehouse to grind noodles for him, all kinds of miscellaneous things, and use us as livestock, for fear of idleness." ā
Hua Zhang blinked his eyes and said, "What you said is still a little eyebrows, it's okay this month, is it because of the new management team!" ā
"It's just that the new team is here! Hua Zhang, let me tell you, this new management team has a beginning, called the Li family in the east of the city. I heard that he hired one or two thousand people in his workshop at the TJ Acropolis, and each helper was paid two taels a month, and he didn't owe a month. After a pause, Jiang Chong said: "It also provides three meals a day, and there are meat dishes for all three meals!" ā
Hearing his friend's description, Hua Zhang licked his lips and said, "Is there such a good thing?" Aren't those helpers better than we are treated as soldiers? ā
Jiang Chong looked at Hua Zhang, his face became a little excited, and said, "Moreover, did you see the 'rifle' of the master of the management team yesterday?" ā
"I've never seen anything so powerful, hey, what did I think about when I was watching the fun? What do you do with a target that far away? It's good to be able to hit a target in 100 steps, but the result? As a result, the rifle could pierce an inch-thick plank from a hundred and seventy paces away! I was stupid at the time, this is simply an immortal spell! With such a weapon, what else is a rogue? More than a hundred paces away, he was about to be crushed by this rifle. Even if Jiannu comes, he can't eat such a rifle! ā
"You say that the people who are soldiers don't rely on weapons the most? If you have a rifle like this, who are you afraid of in a war? ā
Hua Zhang thought for a while, nodded and said: "That rifle is really sharp, the bird gun can only hit fifty paces, this rifle can be accurate one hundred and forty steps away, it is indeed sharp!" I've never heard of anything like this before! ā
Jiang Chong said: "You say, how many military exploits will a military attache with such a powerful weapon have to make in the future, and how big an official will he be promoted?" ā
Hua Zhang was stunned and said, "What does it have to do with how many officials the management team can be promoted?" ā
"You are stupid, as soon as the management team enters the village, they will do a lot of cleaning, dispose of garbage and dig drainage ditches, and strictly discipline the officers to stop serving and occupy our sergeants, this is all hard work to offend people, this is what people with great retribution will do!" After a pause, Jiang Chong said again: "The management team has great ambitions and such powerful weapons, it is impossible to build only one or two, obviously it is necessary to recruit troops." We are in Fanjiazhuang, which is geographically advantageous. If you can enter the team of the management team, won't you follow the management team in the future? ā
Hua Zhang was stunned for a long time and asked, "Are you not going to run away because of this?" ā
Jiang Chong smiled proudly and scolded: "You stupid, a good day is coming, and you can escape the ball!" Put your moves on and wait for the good days that the management team will bring! ā
After the success of the trial production of the Mini rifle, Li Zhi began to recruit more people and manufacture it on a large scale.
The TJ guard is actually three guards, including the TJ guard, the TJ left guard, and the TJ right guard. The three guards are all in the TJ Acropolis, and there are many craftsmen in the city. Li Zhi snared from all over the world and found more than 60 craftsmen who could make bird guns, all of whom were hired for three or two months' money, and let them move to Fanjiazhuang.
These are all veterans of making arquebuses, there are Li Zhi's design drawings, and under the guidance of Wang Boss and the five, these people quickly learned how to make Mini rifles.
In order to motivate the craftsmen, Li Zhi stipulated that he would give a silver reward for each qualified Minny rifle made. These craftsmen can make a rifle in about a month, and they can get about four taels of silver every month plus the monthly money. When did the craftsmen take so much silver? One by one, they are in full swing.
Of course, in order to prevent the creation of inferior products, Li Zhi asked the craftsmen to engrave their names on the butts of their rifles. Once the rifle is found to be unqualified or even bored, the first time it will deduct two months' monthly money and six taels of silver, and the second time it will be dealt with by military law!
However, these craftsmen alone are not enough, Li Zhi's Fanjiazhuang hangs alone outside the city of TJ, and the military pressure to defend against the Tartars in the future is very great, and Li Zhi needs to quickly assemble an army of several thousand people. In the first step, Li Zhi prepared to recruit 2,000 soldiers, all of whom were equipped with mini rifles, to guard Fanjiazhuang.
To form a force of 2,000 people, it is necessary to have at least 2,000 rifles, and these 60-odd craftsmen are not enough, these craftsmen can only produce 60 or 70 rifles a month, and it takes two or three years to gather 2,000 rifles. Li Zhi then found more than 100 skilled blacksmiths from TJ Wei and hired them for two or two months to apprentice craftsmen who could make rifles.
More than 100 craftsmen and blacksmiths moved into Fanjiazhuang and occupied all the dilapidated houses of the fleeing military households. Li Zhi gave each of them 10 taels for moving, and these people could afford to hire masons and carpenters to repair the dilapidated houses. TJWEI's masons and carpenters then found a job again, and hundreds of craftsmen carried all kinds of bricks and timber in and out of Fanjiazhuang, making the small Fanjiazhuang very lively.
Li Zhi hoped that these apprentices and blacksmiths would be able to make guns independently after half a year of study, so he stipulated that each craftsman who could make rifles should bring two blacksmith apprentices, and the gunsmiths would teach the apprentices rifle-making techniques while building rifles for half a year. Half a year later, the apprentice blacksmith independently opened a furnace to make rifles, and after the apprentice made a qualified rifle, the monthly money also increased to three taels of silver. After the apprentice is discharged, for each qualified Mini rifle made by the apprentice, the master will be rewarded with three pieces of silver, and the remaining seven dollars will be rewarded to the apprentice.
If the apprentice is unable to leave the school after half a year, the apprentice will change to another master to continue learning, but the original master and the apprentice will have to reduce their monthly money by five dollars every month until they leave the school.
Under such a system of rewards and punishments, the gunsmiths all gave their money to teach the techniques to the blacksmiths who were apprentices, and I believe that soon Li Zhi will have more than 100 craftsmen who can make Mini rifles.