Chapter 22: The First Craftsman (Part II)

Early the next morning, these new immigrants got up early, and everyone was waiting for the food to be delivered again. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info As a result, he didn't wait for the meal, but was driven into 2 wooden houses by men and women separately, and there were several large wooden barrels in the room. In order to facilitate isolation and inspection, the crossing group built two wooden houses outside the earthen wall as a bathhouse. All the people were asked to strip naked and take a bath. You have to take a shower before eating, and every newcomer thinks that the rules of Yulin Bay are really strange. After everyone took a shower, they found that their original clothes had been taken away, and everyone sent 2 sets of Yulin Bay clothes and a pair of cloth shoes, which were made by the garment team in the past few days.

Regarding the style of clothes, there was a big discussion within the traverser, military uniforms, formal wear, casual, retro, Hanfu, all kinds of designs. It was also suggested that the German uniform of World War 2 should be copied altogether, on the grounds that it was the most beautiful military uniform to date. The purpose of the Commission is to be concise and practical, applicable to both labour and warfare. In the end, it was decided to use the Type 65 military uniform as the model, slightly improved, and named the Type 29 tooling. It was not named a military uniform because there was no army yet.

These new immigrants of the Ming Dynasty came out of the bathhouse one by one in these nondescript new clothes, which was quite funny. Because even women are dressed in the same way. Their original clothes were boiled in boiling water in a large cauldron.

After bathing, changing, and examining their bodies, the men were taken into the earthen walls. After more than a month of construction, Yulin Bay inside the earthen wall is now quite large-scale. In fact, the so-called scale is that there are more houses, and the office area and accommodation area are simply divided. Because of the construction of a temporary wharf that made it easier to get on and off the Pearl, the committee decided that the crossers must return to the Pearl every night for accommodation in addition to the necessary personnel on duty. First, the conditions of the Pearl are better than those in Yulin Bay, and secondly, it is also safe. As for the people of the Ming Dynasty, they still sleep in the Chase bunk on land.

The newcomers were taken to a wooden hut with long tables and benches. The women of the garment group brought in a large bucket and began to divide the meal. Breakfast is simpler, boiled thick rice porridge, plus a little salted fish, pickles, the most important thing in Yulin Bay is salt, so pickled some fish and vegetables that travelers get in their spare time.

Ye Sunquan was drinking porridge with his family, although he didn't have a dry meal, but he could drink hot white rice porridge in the morning, Ye Sunquan was still very satisfied, what the Buddha said yesterday was really right, this time it was the right one.

Sun Dalei and Xu Lang and others entered this canteen.

"Same 。。。。。。" Sun Dalei waved his hand, suddenly swallowed the second half of the sentence back, thought about it and continued, "Fellow villagers, on behalf of Yulin Bay, I welcome the arrival of fellow villagers. In the future, we will all be a family, and we will work hard for the development of Yulin Bay. ”

The people who ate put down the rice bowls in their hands and looked at Sun Dalei in a daze. No one understood what this old man had just said.

Without waiting for the expected applause, Sun Dalei was quite embarrassed, coughed dryly twice, and then said to a Ming Dynasty woman next to him: "Sister-in-law Wu, when they finish eating, they will be assigned a room and arrange work." ”

There were four families in the migration, and the committee decided on an ad hoc basis to divide a large bunk into several small rooms to accommodate them, while the rest of the people all slept in another bunk, since there were no women among the rest.

Ye Sun Quan was squatting in front of his hut and talking to Ding Laosan. After a busy day, he and his family finally settled down this home, although the house is a little small and still has an all-wood structure, Ye Sunquan still seems to see hope. Not to mention anything else, just because the whole family was full of three meals a day, Ye Sunquan felt that his ancestral tomb was not smoking.

"Third brother." Ye Sunquan took out a small piece of broken silver from his pocket, this Yulinwan dress is really interesting, and sewed the pocket on the outside of the clothes, "This time thanks to the third brother." This, the third brother buys a pot bar. ”

Ding Laosan pushed away Ye Sunquan's outstretched hand, he has now followed Li Shuang these few times, although he didn't see the silver, because the silver was exchanged for grain and transported back to Yulin Bay, but the income on the account book was nearly 10 taels, which in the past, he couldn't earn so much in a year, and Ding Laosan now can't look down on Ye Sunquan's bit of silver.

"Quan, you don't know what your third brother and I were like when we were old, and I didn't have the next meal. But now, since following Li Ye and partnering with this Yulin Bay, the third brother is also a bit of a person. The people of Yulin Bay, although they are full of eccentricity, but I Ding Laosan admires it, not to mention anything else, they pushed away the Huang Da shopkeeper and gave the refined salt of the entire Qiongzhou Mansion to Li Ye, just by virtue of this, I Ding Laosan has nothing else to say, righteousness. Ding Laosan gave a thumbs up.

"That's, that's." Ye Sunquan hurriedly catered to him.

"All." Ding Laosan continued, "Don't blame your third brother for talking too much, you came here, work more and talk less. There are days when you are in the early days. ”

"Understood, understood." Ye Sunquan retracted his outstretched hand again, "I just don't know what these old men will let us do, I don't think they have any farming or anything." ”

"This." Ding Laosan touched his head, "I don't know about this, anyway, you can do whatever you want, there's no harm." ”

The two of them were talking, but they saw Zhang Guodong, Jiang Beiming, Nie Zhongbin, and Shen Daxing coming over, and the two of them hurriedly got up.

"Sit, sit, don't be nervous." Zhang Guodong said to Ye Sunquan, "We just want to ask you something." ”

Ye Sunquan hurriedly brought a few wooden stakes, invited these old men to sit down, and stood aside helplessly.

"Don't be nervous, you sit down."

"The little ones don't dare." Ye Sunquan was even more nervous.

Zhang Guodong was no longer humble, and looked Ye Sunquan up and down: "Your name is Ye Sunquan." ”

"Yes, the little one's name is Ye Sunquan." Ye Sun replied respectfully.

"I heard that you used to be a military craftsman in Fujian?"

Ye Sunquan fell to his knees with a thud. What do these old men mean, do they want to catch themselves back? "The eldest master Mingjian, the small one really can't survive, Fujian is now fighting every day, and the small one has no choice, so the third brother who came to defect, the small one is not deliberately trying to run. Third brother, third brother, you have a word. ”

Jiang Beiming stepped forward and dragged Ye Sunquan up, and couldn't hold back a wicked smile: "I don't know what Master Xu said, we don't have a bow bow in Yulin Bay, are you going to break Master Xu's rules?" Xu Lang's words have now spread all over Yulin Bay.

"Don't be so nervous, we don't care if you run out or not." Zhang Guodong said, "We just want to ask, can you build a fire system?" ”

Fire system? Do these old men want to build a fire system? When Ye Sunquan was in Fujian, he did build a fire system, not to mention the fire system, even armor and bows and crossbows were also prohibited in the Ming Dynasty, and they could only be built by the government, and the people were forbidden to have them. Ye Sunquan didn't know how to answer for a while.

The research team has been working on arquebuses and flintlock pistols for some time, but there is basically no progress. According to the design of the scientific research group, Shen Daxing built two muskets with scarce iron, but the result was not only difficult and troublesome to load, but also surprisingly high rate of dumb fire, wasting a lot of gunpowder removed from the shells. The committee decided to suspend the development of muskets, and wait until they could get Ming muskets, preferably Western muskets, and improve them after studying the real thing. This time, I heard Li Shuang say that this cousin of Ding Laosan had worked as a military craftsman in Fujian before, and it seemed that he had built a fire system, and the committee decided to come over and ask, if he could build it, then the traversers would save a lot of trouble.

"Yes, it will, no, it won't. Back to the words of the old man. Ding Laosan was very dissatisfied with his cousin's performance.

"A fire will give you 1 tael of silver, and we will provide the raw materials." Nie Zhongbin said slowly and leisurely, there will be brave men under the heavy reward, and this commission is finalized by the committee.

"1 tael?" Ye Sunquan didn't believe his ears a little, according to the speed of building a fire system in the Ming Dynasty, a skilled craftsman, with an assistant, can build one in more than a month, if you pay attention, the quality can be guaranteed, and the speed will be faster. Even if Ye Sunquan is not too skilled, it is still certain to build one in 2 months, and that month is 5 yuan of silver. Seeing that it was almost time for Ye Da to talk about his daughter-in-law, Ye Sunquan's mind moved a little.

"Back to the big master, the small one has indeed built a fire system before, but the craftsmanship has been rusty over the years, and I don't know if I can satisfy the old man." Ye Sunquan finally made up his mind, it was 1 tael of silver.

"Don't rush, take your time." Zhang Guodong smiled and pointed to Shen Daxing next to him, "Fire unification matter, this Master Shen will cooperate with you, what do you need to tell Master Shen." ”

Li Shuang was happily depressed. Happily, Yulin Bay has provided a total of nearly 20,000 catties of refined salt, and two salt pools have been expanded in summer, and the purification process of refined salt has also been improved, which has greatly increased the output. Frustrated by the lack of such capacity, the committee has decided not to use the 777 speedboat to transport salt because the fuel cannot be replenished.

Xu Lang gave Li Shuang an idea, this time he took his subordinates or took the land route, and after arriving in Yazhou, he would visit Mr. Zhao Qian again, open up the waterway, and hire a boat from Yazhou, of course, it is best to buy a ship, and the next shipment will probably cost tens of thousands of catties. The situation in Yulin Bay can not be external, or try not to be external, after all, there is still He Lao Liu in Yazhou.

Li Shuang followed Xu Lang's advice, led his subordinates, and set off to Yazhou with a cart.