The general civil affairs of the Governor's Mansion were handed over to Zhou Congee, and the military affairs of the Jinhua Righteous Army were handed over to the Admirals Joint Conference, which was actually handed over to Wei Wuji, the vice chairman of the Admiralty Joint Conference, and other civil affairs were handed over to the Prefects' Joint Conference, because Zhou Congee's promotion to the Counselor of the Governor's Mansion was actually in the hands of You Haibo, Mi Chun, Gu Yuesheng, Tang Dianfeng, Lin Yangsheng, and Chen Hanhui were all under his control.

I didn't do anything but grasp the general direction like a helmsman.

Wait, it seems that there is one more thing, the artillery factory.

Sebastian is in charge.

Zhang Qiang rushed to the artillery factory in Jinhua Mansion with the Chasseur Guards.

The artillery factory is located in the mountains, surrounded by the troops of the two militia thousand household brigades, and the newly established arsenal garrison is guarded when entering the mountain.

The garrison was set up on the scale of a battalion in the Jinhua Righteous Army, with a battalion of two hundred households and about 500 people.

The garrison here is not like the garrison troops in other places, it is not a pure cold weapon unit, or a broadsword and spear, or a sword and shield soldier, or an archer, or a crossbow soldier, or a pure fire gun troops, but a hundred households of fire and shield soldiers.

An artillery factory had four garrisons in the mountains, three on the periphery, one directly inside the factory, and a scout of the small flag unit, about twenty-five cavalry, to transmit information.

There are a total of four such factories in the two prefectures from Jinhua to Taizhou, and they still take precision parts, core technical components, and in the artillery factories, such as gun mounts, hemp rope, general gunpowder raw materials, and other small parts, such as poke rods, are handed over to the general businessmen of the two prefectures or even the state capital, or the factories run by the Jinhua Righteous Army use ordinary people or prisoners of war to complete.

The R&D department, the drawing department, the approval department, and the inspection department are all completed in the artillery factory.

At present, the musket factory and the peripheral factories of the artillery factory have solved the problem of employment of about 100,000 people in the two provinces, as well as the problem of making money.

These 100,000 people became loyal supporters of the Jinhua Rebels.

The public opinion base of the Jinhua Righteous Army reached 300,000.

This is not high in the territory of the Jinhua Righteous Army, which has a maximum population of more than 2 million and a current population of 1.6 million, but it is not low.

When the horse team entered the artillery factory, Zhang Qiang was very happy to see the busy scene.

Everywhere they passed, the busy workers in the vicinity always knelt down and kowtowed to their governor.

Zhang Qiang also waved to them again and again.

Enter the core department of the artillery factory, the R&D department, in a southern quadrangle.

The faithful and dedicated Sebastian was still in thought, facing a bronze cannon, an iron cannon, and that cold and ugly torso, he was as gentle and complicated as a lover.

Zhang Qiang walked over gently and stayed beside him.

Still, Sebastian was awakened by the sound of his soldier-like footsteps.

Sebastian hurriedly bowed, "Your Excellency." ”

"What are you thinking?" Zhang Qiang asked.

Sebastian said, "Your Excellency, even though we have cast so many cannons, I always feel that they are too heavy and not of very good quality. ”

Zhang Qiang nodded slightly, "Yes, I know this, but we don't have more advanced technicians, and you are only a halfway monk, I am still very grateful to be able to recast so many captured artillery pieces for me, take your time, I will not force you, three years, only three years, I will give you freedom." ”

Sebastian said: "My lord, I don't mean that, what you give me now, even if I stay with the Dutch for another ten years, I won't earn so much, and I won't enjoy such respect and treatment, I'm just not very satisfied with the time and quality of casting cannons now, in order to break through this bottleneck, I think day and night, there is no good way." ”

"Didn't I give you and Francois the division of labor and cooperation, assembly line production and other methods, so that you can improve the efficiency of production?" Zhang Qiang asked.

Sebastian shook his head, "My lord, although this is the case, but it is a way to increase the quantity after being finalized on a quality level, but you can also see that your artillery here is still the lowest level of artillery in Europe used by the Portuguese, and the firing range is short, although there are cannons such as the Hongyi cannon, but it is too heavy and heavy, even on the warships of Western Europe, your artillery makes the warships unable to accommodate a large number." ”

"Is there a better, lighter artillery in Europe than these artillery?"

Sebastian said: "Yes, and there are many, there are two-pounder, three-pounder, four-pounder, six-pounder, eight-pounder, twelve-pounder, eighteen-pounder, and even twenty-two, twenty-four, thirty-two pounder, we can only build two-pounder, four-pounder, six-pounder, eight-pounder, ten-pounder cannons and other level cannons, your Hongyi cannon is actually a twelve-pounder cannon, but because he is too heavy, it is only equivalent to the level of a ten-pounder cannon, or even only equivalent to the level of an eight-pounder cannon." ”

"Then why don't you build better artillery?" Zhang Qiang asked.

Sebastian said: "One is that I have not built other better artillery, and the other is because we do not have so many technical talents, or even technical level, even the current artillery is much lower than the construction quality and level of the same artillery in Europe in terms of construction technology and level." ”

"Is there a way to improve, or improve?" Zhang Qiang asked.

Sebastian shook his head, "I've tried my best so far, experimenting with countless methods I've heard of, but they've failed, and I'm sorry that I've wasted so much money and materials that the Doge has given me." ”

Zhang Qiang said with a smile: "It's okay, a new technology, if you want to come out, without wasting a lot of resources and experiencing a lot of failures, it is impossible to succeed, I don't blame you, it's just that our ancient civilization is getting farther and farther away from the word civilization." ”

Sebastian was silent for a while, and stood there with Zhang Qiang without saying a word, both of them feeling confused about the future, and confused about the future of artillery.

Zhang Qiang regretted that he didn't study engineering before crossing and didn't have such a good brain to study, and he felt that it was difficult to deal with the forces of the Netherlands and Portugal on the Daming Sea in the future, and he had no clue and was confused.

The Dutch and the Portuguese were very realistic, and they, like all the people of the Ming Dynasty, saw that the Ming Dynasty had reached the end of the road, and some long-term careerists defected to the Qing army, recognizing the invading foreigners as the right to rule the land of China in disguise.

Since the Qing army Tatars were the legitimate rulers, or were about to become legitimate rulers, then the Southern Ming Dynasty became rebels who tried to restore.

Of course, they will cooperate with an orthodox dynasty, and will not deal with the rebels, and even want to use the rebels to squeeze a little profit out of the legitimate ruler, after all, they are merchants.

Sebastian, on the other hand, was confused about how to improve the quality of artillery, and at his level, he really couldn't improve it.