At the beginning of the second page of the letter, my wife talks about the affairs of the army, and the generals who stayed in Chengdu are all famous. There are a lot of stories, very miscellaneous and gossipy.

My wife said that at the end of the year, Song Zhensi, Xu Hanqing, Liu Lianpeng, and Jian Shennida took the opportunity of New Year's greetings to submit a petition to her in person.

Song Zhensi suggested that all units of the Protector Army should be rotated to northern Sichuan to participate in the war, and the number of cavalry in the Protector Army should be expanded. The implication is that he still wants to bring the second regiment to the northern Sichuan front to fight. Listening to Xiaohong, Song Zhensi recently got drunk because of frustration in love. Song Zhensi originally had a good relationship, and he was a steward in the palace of Princess Shu. Later, this Shanggong thought that the Song brothers were too poor and would not have any future, so he kicked Song Zhensi, leaving him with deep psychological trauma.

But recently, this Shanggong saw that Song Zhensi's official was getting bigger and bigger, so he asked someone to carry a letter to Song Zhensi from Qingcheng Mountain and hand a handkerchief, hoping to renew the front edge. Song Zhensi was so angry that he threw a cup in the office and scolded Na Shanggong for being a shameless bitch. His wife suggested that a general like Song Zhensi should be surrounded by a reliable woman, so as to save him from fighting because of marital problems.

Xu Hanqing knew that the Zagu Battalion led by his nephew Xu Yinhuan had made meritorious contributions in Sanhui Town, so he used his military salary, reward money, and money earned from smuggling business to buy 300 babies from the mountains in the west and present them to the two sons. It is said that these babies belong to any tribe, but they are just as poor and miserable.

My wife guessed that in addition to marrying the Shu Prince's Mansion, Xu Hanqing also had an unspeakable idea: to strengthen his Xu family's army, and finally use the Shu Wangfu to break away from the Gao and Yang families and stand on their own.

But Gao and Yang are not fuel-efficient lamps. The grandmother of the Gao family came to the Shu Mansion to meet her during the Spring Festival, and gave her wife a small set of tiger head hats and tiger head shoes that she sewed by herself, hoping that she would have a noble son as soon as possible. In return, she taught Grandma Gao how to maintain Tai Chi. Grandma Gao chanted "a big watermelon, divided into two halves", and trembled with her wife to draw circles with her fists.

Yang Zhiming, the head of the Yang family, personally led a cavalry battalion of 400 men to Yazhou, and another cavalry battalion is said to be in place in early February. He and Gao Jitai also each sent a general to Chengdu to report to his wife, and by the way, he inquired about the formation of the Tianquan regiment and the treatment of the Yang family. One of the two generals is named Gao Junxi and the other is Jiang Qifeng.

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In the troubled times, the army is Zhu Pingjin's life. Zhu Pingjin was able to grasp most of the affairs of the army in a timely manner. There is only one thing that his wife mentioned in the letter, and he really doesn't know.

Lizhou (now Hanyuan County) pacified Sima Jing and led 1,000 Lizhou soldiers to Yingjing County in the first half of the first month. When the soldiers of Lizhou arrived at the city of Yingjing, Huang Ru of Zhixian County did not get the official document of the governor Yamen and the Zhizhou Yamen, nor did he receive the notice of Liu Shidou, the commander of the Jianchang army. Wang Guochen didn't know anything about the dispatch of the barbarian troops in Lizhou, so he had to rush to the Shu Wangfu and the three yamen of Fu, Press, and Dusi to ask for reinforcements.

Inspector Liu Zhibo had just learned that Liao Daheng had used the banner of the king to mobilize the Sichuan Xingdu Division, Wuwei and Eight Han, and the Turkish army of 20,000 to quell the rebellion in northern Sichuan, but he did not expect that there would be Lizhou soldiers immediately under the city of Yingjing, and he was completely confused, so he had to order the Sichuan Dusi Luo Dajue to investigate and verify.

Lord Luo explained to him that the Sichuan Metropolitan Division of the Yamen in Chengdu and the Sichuan Xingdu Division of the Yamen in Jianchang were actually units at the same level and did not govern each other. In Lizhou, there are thousands of households in Lizhou guarding the military and civilians, and Wanli was called the Lizhou Pacification Division 24 years ago, and there are thousands of households in Lizhou. The 2,000 households are all subordinate to the Sichuan Metropolitan Division, not to the Sichuan Xingdu Division of Jianchang. Liao Daheng's troop transfer order only involved the Xingdu Division, and did not involve the Sichuan Capital Division, and of course did not include the Lizhou soldiers. Therefore, he has the same suspicion as Liu Zhaotai, that is, Ma Jing's rebellion!

Since it was Tusi's rebellion, then the matter was big.

There are very few guards left in Chengdu, and there are not enough soldiers to guard the city gate and guard the yamen, and the only force that can be relied on is the guard team of the Shu Wangfu in Yajia Chengdu. So the two stayed overnight and begged to see their wives. Unexpectedly, before his wife got up, Liu Zhibo received the second submission from Huang Ru of Yingjingzhi County - it turned out to be a false alarm.

Li Huayu, who was nearly eighty years old, was hung into Yingjing City alone and explained to Huang Ru of Zhixian County: This time, the Lizhou soldiers were dispatched without an order, not only because of Liu Shidou's instigation, but also

There are personal reasons for Ma Jing.

The pacification of Lizhou made Ma Jing less than fifteen years old, which was the age of boiling blood. Liu Shidou went to Jianchang and had a long talk with Ma Jing when he passed through Lizhou. On the second day, Ma Jing issued an order to the seven Han clan Tusi surnamed Jiang, Huang, Li, Lai, Cai, Bao, and Zhang in Lizhou, ordering each family to send 100 people to accompany him to northern Sichuan, protect the country and the people, and make meritorious contributions. When Li Huayu learned of this and came forward to stop it, the wood was already in the boat. So he had to order a hundred people to accompany him, so as not to cause trouble to this related great-grandchild. In order to make amends, Li Huayu also offered a hundred stone of Lizhou's special product - tribute pepper (pepper) as a gift to the Shu Palace.

Zhu Pingjin translated this, and finally smiled: "Okay! Since ancient times, heroes have come out of youth, and their anger can not be vented! Since they arrived in Yingjing, let them reorganize in Yazhou, incorporate them into the Protector Army sequence, and re-equip them all. I want to see if these Lizhou soldiers can fight a tough battle! Liu Shidou did a good job this time! Tune the tiger away from the mountain, it depends on how much he can transfer out of the Xingdu Division! ”

In a lot of army gossip, my wife also brought one thing a few times.

She said that at the beginning of the year, the Firearms Bureau produced 20 guns every day, and she was extremely dissatisfied with this, and casually cursed a few words in the office. Unexpectedly, Wu Suqi, the secretary in charge of the office, lacked work experience, so she conveyed her original words to the Firearms Bureau, almost causing trouble.

Recently, she has stepped up the performance appraisal and rewards and punishments of the Firearms Bureau, and the production enthusiasm of managers, technicians and workers has increased; Ordinary parts were subcontracted to private workshops through the Machinery Bureau, which increased production capacity in disguise; Raw materials such as copper and iron, which had plagued production, were also temporarily alleviated by the cessation of copper coins and the copper and iron donation campaign.

As a result, the daily output of firecrackers has rapidly increased to 30 pieces, and it is expected to continue to increase. The tiger squat cannon urgently needed on the battlefield, because of the simple production process and the casting experience of the seven-pound cannon last time, this time more than 100 doors were cast at one time with a new steel mold. These Tiger Squat cannons are all made of copper, which is innovative in technology and improved in performance, and basically solves the danger of overheating and exploding the cast iron cannon. However, because copper is easy to soften and deform at high temperatures, it is still not suitable for over-high-strength use.

Now this batch of bronze tiger squat cannons is being bare-chested, and it will soon be sent to the front line. As for the improved head cannon, it is currently in the stage of testing and modification, and when the design is finalized, it can be cast in the mold.

Wang Kunshan sent a production briefing every 10 days, so Zhu Pingjin knew the situation of the Firearms Bureau very well.

The production of the Tiger Squat Cannon is controversial. The Tiger Cannon could provide much-needed firepower for the front-line troops, but the troops were dissatisfied with the fact that the range of the Tiger Cannon was too short and difficult to use for attack.

Zhu Pingjin also knew that because his wife threatened the cadres of the Firearms Bureau to "take off his pants and spank him" if he could not complete the task, Wang Kunshan, who felt deeply aggrieved, ran to Zheng Anmin's office and cried: "The ministers of the court staff do not take off their pants either!" "Soldiers can be killed, but not humiliated! ”。 Zheng Anmin reminded Wang Kunshan with the relationship between master and apprentice: "A master is like a parent, the deeper the love, the more serious the responsibility!" ”。

Wang Kunshan turned his head and thought about it, this is indeed the reason. It's not easy for the monarch to take off his pants and spank, so the master and apprentice don't pay attention to this, so they can finally stop crying. However, as the part-time chief officer of the Firearms Bureau, Zheng Anmin felt that it was difficult for him to escape responsibility, so the two of them went to kneel outside his wife's office without a hat, almost making his wife unable to get off the stage.

When his wife got into trouble, she hinted that someone Zhu wiped her buttocks. The careful thinking in the letter, Zhu Pingjin understood it as soon as he read it. However, my wife believes that the main factor restricting the production capacity of the Firearms Bureau is that the performance appraisal is not in place, and she is very wrong.

The main reason is that Zhu Pingjin has formulated a strict confidentiality system for them, otherwise they would have done the low-IQ matter of parts subcontracting. For example, the iron pieces used to decorate iron armor are subcontracted in large quantities because they do not need to be kept secret. As long as the raw material of crucible steel is sufficient, the supply of firearms is very sufficient.

Second, Zhu Pingjin not only demanded the output and quality of the Firearms Bureau, but also required them to carry out technological innovation under the existing conditions. As a result, innovation efforts decentralize a considerable part of production capacity. A group of scholars assigned to the Firearms Bureau after the Shu examination recently designed a manpower forging machine with the support and help of Li Li, the Feng brothers, and the carpenter Shen Gui.

Wang Kunshan described this in the production briefing: ...... The anvil was half-buried in the center of the ground, and a large wooden frame more than two people high weighed three hundred pounds in all directions

The hammer is restrained on four vertical wooden guide rails, and the hammer passes through the fixed pulley at the top of the frame, and relies on manpower to pull the rope to make the hammer move up and down for forging hammering.

Wang Kunshan said that this kind of large-scale man-powered hammer forging machine is much more efficient than two blacksmiths sweating and shaking a two-pound hammer (Note 1), and the rope can make full use of the coolie of the firearms bureau and reduce the hard work of craftsmen and other skilled workers.

Now, this manpower hammer forging machine is not only used for the production of ordinary nail pieces, but also for forging long steel sheets, commonly known as steel strips. These steel belts of basically the same length are the primary products for the production of gun-length pipes.

In order to continue to increase the speed of the manufacture of gun tubes, the Firearms Bureau is also preparing to build a gun tube hammering machine based on the model of this manpower forging machine. The general idea is to use a semicircular hammer to hammer the red-hot steel belt into a U-shape in the semicircular groove of the cutting board, remove the steel belt and clamp it into the steel bone, manually hammer it to the opening O-shape, sprinkle welding powder hammer welding, and finally pull out the steel bone with a spiral pull machine to form a complete barrel blank. Then through the straightening, inner and outer pipe repair, inner tube smooth chamber, tail end sealing, ignition hole drilling and other processes, a complete gun tube is obtained.

The Firearms Bureau has vigorously carried out scientific and technological innovation, and Zhu Pingjin has of course given him commendations, including spiritual praise and material rewards. At the same time, Zhu Pingjin also put forward more hopes and suggestions, so that they can boldly try. In addition, Wang Kunshan also reported that ten pipes had been made into the whole drill, and whether they were made into fire guns was waiting for the will of the prince. However, Zhu Pingjin simply ordered Wang Kunshan to seal it in oil and leave it for him to return to Chengdu for further processing.

"The Firearms Bureau should appropriately separate production from scientific research, and set up a research institute like the Machinery Bureau. In addition, a heavy machinery bureau will be set up to produce special steels and large-scale processing equipment. It's just that this heavy machinery bureau is dual-use, is it better to be listed as a public company or continue to be a confidential unit? ”

Thinking of this, Zhu Pingjin hesitated a little. In addition to this, there is another thing related to it that makes him sad. Luzhou He Youyi came to a note yesterday.

He Youyi reported that most of the preliminary work they had done for the Firearms Bureau to expand its production capacity had been completed, and the plant had been built. Why did Shizi suddenly stop? Luzhou is the cornerstone of the strategy of "first the south and then the north, and the south occupies the north" determined by the prince himself. Luzhou was tasked with sending troops to Zunyi, Xuzhou, Guizhou, and even Guangdong, and the prince had told him in the past that his mission was to "march to the sea." Could it be that the local riots in northern Sichuan have been making trouble recently, and the prince has forgotten what he said?

He Youyi was not the only one who recognized the enormous benefits of big industry. Tian Qian is fighting like Qiu Ruiguang, and Qiu Ruiguang is faster.

Qiu Ruiguang built a large gunpowder factory in Chonghua Town, north of Mianzhou, and used the natural nitrate soil in the mountains to the west and the nitrate pond in Wangzhuang to produce a large amount of gunpowder urgently needed by the Protector Army. He reported that the new gunpowder plant has more than twice the capacity of the government's Chengdu Gunpowder Bureau, and there is room for expansion.

Although Tian Qian's movements are slower, his industrial plans are larger. These plans were related to the salt industry in Zigong on the one hand, and the development of sugarcane cultivation on the other. He also submitted a road repair plan, requiring the renovation of the post road from Longquan Post to Chongqing via Jianzhou and Neijiang. This post road was built in the Hongwu period, extending from Chengdu to Chongqing, commonly known as "Dongda Road". As a national trunk road, Dongda Road has a specification set by Hongwu year, and the roadbed is as wide as three zhang. In order to demonstrate the rationality and necessity of his road construction plan, Tian Qian also quoted a famous sentence that Zhu Pingjin said for the first time: If you want to get rich, you must first build roads.

A little limited resources, reaching out from all sides to grab it. Stretched thin, what to do?

Zhu Pingjin's head grew up.

Strategic planning must be balanced with total resources. The more limited the resources, the more intensive and optimized it is, highlighting the overall and ensuring the urgency, and not rushing to the top.

It seems that there is a need for a new department in the Department of Administration - the Ministry of Planning and Development. This department, which is personally handled by Premier Zheng Anmin, is tasked with optimizing the use of resources.

Note 1: The hammer is held high above the head, and the hammer is mainly hammered by its own gravity. The name may be different from place to place, but the gameplay is similar.

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