Fan Yubin calculated the time, and there were less than 20 days left until the ninth day of the eighth month. "Looks like it's going to take a little more brains." Fan Yubin muttered as he locked himself in the study, telling the servants not to disturb him unless there was anything particularly important. I went to study hard behind closed doors.

Old Man Fan and Fan Sanba also nodded secretly when they saw it: This kid still knows the priorities.

Fan Yubin locked himself in the study, closed the door and immersed himself in hard reading, ignoring what was going on outside the window, and only reading the sages and sages. The outside world has set off waves because of his series of actions, which can be said to be a surging tide.

Cao Dawei, a craftsman in Xuanfu Town. He and his three sons were all well-known blacksmiths in the Northwest, with one hand for iron-making and the skill of making muskets and artillery. In particular, because of his outstanding skills, he was specially transferred to the Beijing Master Craftsman Battalion to participate in the use of Western technology to imitate the rear-loading Buddha Wolf cannon. Yes, yes, it was the rear-mounted Furlong cannon.

In fact, there is a misunderstanding in our thinking, thinking that in any case, the firearms of the Qing Dynasty should be much more advanced than the Ming Dynasty, after all, the times are developing, but this is not the case. For example, firearms, Daming's firearms have reached the world's most advanced level at that time, both in terms of type and power. Not to mention the muskets, the medium-sized light cannons have the Franc machine, the bowl mouth cannon, the small god cannon, the tiger squat cannon, the small general copper cannon, and the heavy ones are the Hongyi cannon, the Fran machine, the big bronze Franc machine, the general iron cannon, the general copper cannon, etc. There are also mines, mines, incendiary bombs (10,000 enemies), and multiple launch rockets. These are far from being comparable to the Qing Dynasty.

Take the Franco machine artillery as an example, the Ming Dynasty had a rear-mounted Franco machine artillery, but in the Qing Dynasty, because the production process of the Franco machine rear-loading artillery was extremely strict, it was changed to the production of front-loading Franco machine artillery.

Hundreds of years of Qing rule, if summed up in one sentence, that is, the Qing Dynasty is a collection of the disadvantages of the rule of the past dynasties, and it is the culmination of the rule of the past dynasties. The Qing Dynasty's implementation of shaving hair and making it easy to wear, self-shutting down, and reviving literary prisons were all moves to stifle Chinese civilization and the cradle of China's scientific and technological development. The pace of Chinese historical development stopped or even regressed during the Qing Dynasty.

"I'd rather be a friend than a slave." "Measure China's national strength and form a friendship with the country" These unpopular wonders all came from the Qing Dynasty. The face of admiring the foreign and the servile face can be seen at a glance. This is also one of the reasons why countless people in later generations hated and scolded the Manchus extremely much.

Cao Dawei was unwilling and reluctant to bring his family to Zhangjiakou. There is no way, his family is a craftsman, and he can't help himself. And their family's household registration has been transferred to Zhangjiakou, and they can't go if they don't go. Besides, there are military orders, and military orders are like a mountain.

When Cao Dawei's family came to Zhangjiakou with a sad face, they were asked to report to the Fan family's compound. Cao Dawei couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised. If the Fan family in Zhangjiakou wants to use him, it will be a fall into the nest of blessings.

Cao Dawei happily came to the Fan Mansion compound. A young man named Fan Fu in Fan Mansion received him warmly. Fan Fu took out a piece of agreement and asked people to read it to Cao Dawei. And said that if Cao Dawei does not agree with the terms in it, he can also return to Xuanfu Town, and the household registration of the craftsman can also be transferred back at any time.

When they heard the treatment that the Fan family gave to their family, the family's eyes narrowed into a slit with joy, such a good treatment could not be found in the Ming Dynasty with lanterns. There are no confidentiality regulations, and there are no unique skills in the current workshop, and there are rules for it. It was one of them that made Cao Dawei's family hesitate. That is, once the contract is signed, he must work for ten years, and he and his family are not allowed to leave for ten years, and they must also obey the management. Isn't that jail time?

However, the subsequent clause made his family excited: after the end of the ten years, the family could choose whether to leave the craftsman or not, no matter how they chose. In addition to the usual wages, you can also get compensation for 100 acres of Utatian, a house, and 200 taels of silver.

Cao Dawei's family discussed for a long time: the treatment is so good, isn't it ten years, don't you do it anywhere. In particular, after the expiration of the period, you can not only get rid of the craftsman's registration, but also have a subsidy of 100 acres of fertile land, a house and 200 taels of silver. It's worth it! Cao Dawei's family finally gritted their teeth and pressed their handprints on the contract.

After the contract was signed, Cao Dawei's family was taken to a large courtyard in the barracks. The big courtyard has three steps and one post, five steps and one sentry, and is heavily guarded. Cao Dawei was worried, how can a workshop be similar to a gun bureau. When he entered the courtyard, there were already some people in the courtyard, some of whom he still knew, and they were all good at striking iron, making guns and cannons.

Fortunately, the yard is big enough and there are a lot of housing. After Cao Dawei arranged the family, he turned around again and looked at the workshop inside. Subsequently, Cao Dawei was taken to a room, which was guarded inside and outside.

In the house, Fan Fu was waiting for him. Seeing Cao Dawei come in, Fan Fu took out a gun and a stack of drawings that he had prepared a long time ago and handed them to him, and then he didn't speak, just looked at him quietly.

Cao Dawei is more familiar with the gun than his own body, although this is a flintlock rifled gun that is not available on the market, but it is also very ordinary for him, he has even helped others imitate it, he knows the advantages and disadvantages of this gun deeply.

Looking at it, the disapproving look on his face disappeared and became solemn. He first pulled the hammer, tried the pull of the spring, took a lead bullet from the table, looked at it and compared it with the inner diameter of the gun, picked up the barrel again, squinted at the light for a while, quickly put the lead bullet into the chamber, and then pulled out the whole strip, stabbed it vigorously, and then turned the gun upside down, swinging back and forth, and sure enough, the lead bullet did not fall.

Cao Dawei gently put the gun on the table and quickly flipped through the papers, although he was illiterate, he was extremely skilled in reading drawings. The more he watched, the more frightened he became, and the more he watched, the more excited he became. He only now understands why he is not allowed to leave for ten years, why this place is heavily guarded, and even if something here flows out a little, it is an earth-shattering thing.

Originally, he still had some talent and pride, but now he knows that the level of others is really 108,000 miles higher than himself, and what people need is not their own technology, but their own skilled craftsmanship. He just saw those drawings, as long as they are made, then they can drill, or sharpen, or mill, or plane, or grind steel parts, and the processing technology that was extremely difficult, impossible to complete, and even some previously unthinkable will become simple in front of these equipment, and these equipment, with these detailed drawings, it is not too difficult to make.