At the end of April, the Quartermaster Bureau reported that the firearms workshop had produced a total of 400 Xin'an guns in March and April, as well as some other guns. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In this way, the new Angong made in the first month and the second month of the new month is connected, and the breech Xinan Gong of the current Xinanzhuang is about 700 strokes.

After the expansion of the army in March, Yang He had six soldiers and 600 internal soldiers, all of whom could be equipped with this standard breech arquebus.

According to the details of the military team discussed in Suining, the captains of the general firearms teams used the Winged Tiger Gun for escort, and there were sixty of them, and now they all had the same sharp Three-Eyed Winged Tiger Gun. But compared to the cavalry, the Sentinels, they used the arquebus version.

There were thirty guards in each of the war headquarters, and these people also used arquebuses. In the Yang River plan, they will be equipped with the Winged Tiger Gun and the Flint Bracelet in the future. These men also served as the bodyguards and heralds of the commanders, and when there was a shortage of manpower, they could also go out to investigate.

However, because Sugang is precious, this idea is only on paper for the time being. The ignition rate of ordinary steel springs is too low, and the fire of the plate machine is not sound at the moment of life and death, so it is better not to use it, so as not to damage the precious lives of the soldiers in vain.

In the test of firearms in Xin'anzhuang, especially flintlock guns, the firing rate is calculated as a percentage.

For every 100 guns, at most there can be a lot of dumb fire, steel sheets, fire sickles, flints, goose feather primer tubes, and paper shell bullets, all of which are carefully selected.

The winged tiger and hand handcuffs used in the cavalry are especially the best equipment.

For the time being, the Xin'an Zhuang flintlock pistol cannot be popularized, because there are too many places to use Sugang, but it is still no problem to equip the existing soldiers of the cavalry sentry team.

The armory workshop also made 60 pairs of iron armor, so that the total number of excellent iron armor in Xin'anzhuang reached 80 pairs, except for some general-level officers, the rest of the equipment escort team.

The current convoy is also understaffed, with a number of 100 men, and only about 50 in place.

Loyalty to the escort team is only basic, but also brave, it is best to be a veteran among the veterans, but Xin'anzhuang expands the army, and the veterans want to serve as officers in each corps, so they can only be slowly elected.

This phenomenon is also very serious in all units of the Chinese army, especially the cavalry team and the sentinel team, with a total of nearly 300 troops, and I don't know when it will be replenished.

Yang He was not satisfied with the speed of the iron armor, but this matter was not urgent, and the hydraulic equipment on Bao Tianfu's side was estimated to be completed in May, and it would take a period of running-in testing, and it may not be put into production until June.

Fortunately, for the time being, the opponent of Xin'anzhuang is not very strong, and the soldiers have shield vehicles or earthen walls to cover during the war, and the cold soldiers have the protection of heavy shields and leather shields, and the demand for armor is not very strong.

In the two battles with the Liukou, 300 pairs of pure cotton armor and iron-inlaid cotton armor were also captured, and the armor rate was guaranteed to a certain extent.

Recently, Yang He has been very busy, and he has devoted himself to teaching martial arts, and training officers is only one of them, although there are drill stations and officers at all levels responsible for soldier training, but he cannot ignore them.

These soldiers were recruited from various work teams and refugees with families, and they disciplined, stood in line, assassinated, shot live, and everything from scratch.

Fortunately, there are many veterans under the leadership of the current officers at all levels, at least the first commander of each A is a veteran, who has fought many battles, especially against the rogues, the old and the new, and the recruits are familiar with it quickly.

Special firecrackers, there are a large number of fixed cartridge ammunition for live-fire training, and the progress is very fast. Every day, they fired 30 rounds of empty cartridges and 20 rounds of live ammunition, and the results were very obvious. Especially in terms of listening to orders, it has been possible to launch in strict accordance with the orders of the Chinese army or the orders of the officers above.

This is an astonishing training density, and in this world, only Yang He is willing to let his subordinates train like this.

After all, with the elite of the red shrimp soldiers, in the eighteenth century, they only fired 50 rounds of empty ammunition and 20 rounds of live ammunition in their annual training, and Yang He's daily amount was worth them for a year.

This is also the reason why Xin'anzhuang firearms are excellent, in the Ming Dynasty's other military ranks, not to mention the inferior birds, the life span of thirty rounds is reached, and the normal life span of birds is only about two hundred rounds.

However, although the cost of Yanghe's firecrackers is high, it costs 8 to 10 taels of silver for one shot, and the shooting life is 4,500 rounds, so that such high-frequency training can be carried out.

He also has abundant reserves of gunpowder, he uses the method of boiling nitrate to make gunpowder, although the collection of nitrate has seasonal factors, but in winter and spring, the gunpowder workshop boils nitrate, and you can get 700 catties of high-purity nitrate in a month, which is enough for him to toss anything.

However, the intensive training was only for more than a month, although he repelled Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi and other drama thieves, but Yang He was always worried about whether Zhang Xianzhong, Ge Zuo and other drama thieves would commit crimes.

He made some preparations on the Guanshanji side, but in case the thieves came, even if his army was newly formed, he could still be pulled out to fight. After this hurdle, in the future, his training of the soldiers will be almost five rounds a day.

Due to the large number of soldiers, it was no longer suitable for the soldiers to train in the theater square, so they opened a door from Zhuangdong to Beishan. There is a large wilderness between Beishan, Zhaishan, Guoshan, and Loushan, but there is no human population, and it is the most suitable place to be used as a training ground for soldiers.

Since March, every morning there has been a loud roar of gunfire and sometimes artillery fire.

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At the beginning of the year, Xin'anzhuang carried out planning, and there were tasks in the household affairs hall, the military affairs hall, and the public works hall, especially the household affairs hall, which was related to the self-blood supply ability.

He Yanghe is not a rogue, and he can't live by robbing all the time, although robbing money and grain is the fastest. From the end of last year to March this year, he robbed the Jiaoshan bandits, the Tongshan bandits, Li Guo and other rogue bandits, robbing a total of 280,000 taels of silver and 15,200 stones of grain and beans.

But black eating black is always not a solution, because the surrounding bandits will always rob it all, and they are so scared that they run away, and finally there is nowhere to rob it.

Therefore, the ability of self-hematopoiesis is very important, especially since he is now under great pressure to spend.

At present, he has about 20,000 people under his rule, of which 10,000 are directly supported by him.

According to his supply system for the villagers, men, women, and children are average, and each person consumes 45 catties of rice and flour per month, or 540 catties a year, which is equivalent to about 2 stones and 8 buckets. 10,000 people, 28,000 stone a year.

Then there is the salary of the Zhuang soldiers, without bonuses, on average five dollars per person per month. One person is six taels a year, and ten thousand people are sixty thousand taels a year. The fact is more than that, because there are officers in charge, and all kinds of bonuses have to be calculated.

Salt is also a big consumer, according to the salt supplied by Xin'anzhuang, each person has a daily ration of about six grams of salt, at this time one catty is 600 grams, and one person eats almost four catties a year. 10,000 people, 40,000 catties of salt a year.

At this time, the price of salt, salt bricks per catty of silver two cents and three cents, exchanged for small flat money, a catty of salt bricks in more than forty yuan.

Fine salt is more expensive, but just eating salt bricks, 10,000 people, the annual expenditure of silver is nearly 1,000 taels.

According to the plan of the military affairs hall, this year it is planned to produce 2,000 new guns and 500 pairs of iron armor, and the cost here is estimated to be about 30,000 taels.

For the time being, the public works hall is also a big money-eater, and the cost of repairing more than 20 miles of bluestone slabs from Jiaoshanzhuang to Xin'anzhuang to Xin'anji Wharf, all kinds of fine sand and gravel bluestone materials, is six or seven thousand taels of silver. Because the Yanghe River is basically imported, the slate material cannot be fried with gunpowder, and it has to be cut and polished after mining, and the mining efficiency is amazingly low, and there is no way to do it without importing.

This is just the beginning, in the future, Yanghe will have to repair the roads in various villages, the road to the north, and the road to Pizhou, which requires a large amount of all kinds of sand and gravel. Even if a quarry is set up locally, 80% to 90% of the stone needs to be imported.

The same is true for the Huwu Tang, which requires a lot of investment in land reclamation, water conservancy, fertilizer collection, chicken and pig raising, and cattle and sheep raising.

There are also daily necessities for the villagers, soy sauce, vinegar, oil and meat, coal, wood, clothing, and quilts, and with the increase of population, the expenditure on this aspect is getting bigger and bigger.

Now people who enter the village will have two sets of costumes, one in spring and summer, one in autumn and winter, summer is coming, and the summer clothes of the soldiers and villagers are also in full swing.

Sewing clothes and uniforms for Xin'anzhuang has become one of the stable incomes for the surrounding women.

There are also a variety of supporting facilities, spontaneously generated services, such as a glimpse of the needs of Xin'an Village, specially for the villagers to grow vegetables, specifically for the villagers to raise pigs, specifically for the villagers to raise fish, specifically to pick firewood straw to sell.

Now the surrounding villagers are not only farming, but also engaged in the tertiary industry around the needs of Xin'anzhuang.

And because the village has food and shelter, even if the villagers start to be thrifty, they slowly find that there is more and more spare money in their hands that can be consumed, and they are not afraid to spend it all, because there is always food and a place to live.

They now earn at least 60,000 taels a year, and if they leak some of them, it will be enough to drive a very huge consumer market.

This is also the reason why Xin'anji is becoming more and more prosperous, more and more people are rushing here to open shops and set up shops, Suining, Pizhou, Xuzhou are all over the place, just like the "Wanyuanchang" restaurant opened by Xuzhou people, that is a typical representative of the inside.

What's even more terrifying is Xin'anzhuang's demand for raw materials, coal, iron, oil and salt, copper and lead, grain and rice, cloth, cotton, everything, and thousands of taels of silver are purchased at every turn.

Now Xin'anzhuang, towering on the edge of the Yellow River, is like a monster, constantly breathing, eating raw materials and spewing out silver.

More and more businessmen are optimistic about the emerging market of Xin'anzhuang, and the form is very good, but the pressure inside is only known to Yang He.

"It's always been a robbery, and I finally have some serious income."

Yang He has always been worried about Xin'anzhuang's self-blood supply ability, and after seeing the sorghum land in front of the village this day, his heart was slightly relieved.

There are sorghum planted by the original "Li Zhuang" Zhuang people here, more than 9,000 acres, although the sorghum yield is not large at this time, only six or seven buckets per mu, but it is not far from the harvest. Jieshi also had an income of six or seven thousand stones, which greatly filled the pressure on his inventory expenditure.

At this time, he was in Xin'an Ji, Chen Qiuao and other guards were accompanying him, and there was Inspector Deng talking along, and his younger brother and sister Ying'er Qian'er was led by Yang He, and walked in the set at will.

Yang He is busy with affairs, and he hasn't been with his younger siblings like this for a long time, which makes the two very happy, especially his sister Ying'er, after entering the set, she chatters non-stop, and sometimes when she sees something nice and fun, she claps her hands and screams from time to time.

With a smile on his face, Yang He dismounted and walked after entering the market from the north gate, feeling the scene in the set up close. In his opinion, Xin'anji is indeed much more prosperous, and there are many more shops and stalls than in the past. After the gravel road is specially paved, the ground is easy to walk.

In addition, the cleaners clean all the time, and it is very clean.

This is also the characteristic of Yang He's rule, which is safe and tidy.

However, the potential of the market has yet to be tapped, Xin'an Ji is as big as Suining County, but in addition to two long streets, there are still few shops left, that is, two long streets, and there are still large tracts of land along the streets.

But Deng Patrol was already very proud, he told Yang He that now there are merchants from the south and north of Xin'anji, and over time, Xin'anji will not lose to a big market like Taizhuangji.

Yang He took his younger brothers and sisters shopping, and the pedestrians and businessmen along the way were curious and in awe, Suining Lian Zong Yang He, now he is a legendary figure in Suining and the surrounding states and counties, but there are very few people who can see Yang He.

Yang He came this time, but he brought his younger brothers and sisters to eat roast whole sheep, and Minister Yang had already told him a few times, which made Yang He quite excited.

Today, I will come to eat and relax by the way.

Soon everyone arrived in front of the "Wanyuanchang" restaurant on the cross street, and the shopkeeper in charge of the restaurant's affairs had already led the guys to line up to greet them, and then respectfully welcomed them to the second floor.

Chen Qiuao also looked upstairs and downstairs in the early morning, and after going upstairs, he also pressed the knife and looked around vigilantly, Yang Xianggong is the backbone of the soldiers and civilians in Xin'an Village, and nothing can happen.

Yang He and Inspector Deng sat down in a private seat by the window, let their younger brothers and sisters also sit beside them, looked at the surrounding layout and furnishings, and couldn't help nodding, this restaurant owner is an interesting person.

Looking at the decoration of his store, it is aimed at medium and high-end customers, and there are more and more such people in Xin'anji.

Soon the shopkeeper personally brought the guys to bring three roasted whole sheep, as well as Huadiao, bamboo leaf green wine, Chen Qiuao and others sat next to them, ate two roasted whole sheep, and drank Huadiao wine.

Yang He and Deng inspected each other, and their younger brothers and sisters ate a roasted whole sheep, but they drank bamboo leaf green wine.

Zhuye Qingjiu is a famous Fenjiu, and there are more than a dozen kinds of precious medicinal materials in it, which is healthy and healthy, and the taste is also very mild, so you can let your younger brothers and sisters drink some.

Yang He took a sip and nodded slightly, the aroma is mellow, the wine color is golden and slightly green, hundreds of years have passed, the mellow and sweet taste is still the same, and the feeling of drinking it in later generations is almost the same.

"Come, come, drink......"

Yang He and Deng Patrol toasted each other, and feasted, the mutton entrance was soft and tender, sandwiched with the taste of various spices, there was no smell of mutton, which showed the meticulousness of the master when selecting ingredients.

Yang He nodded, eating, and from time to time cut off slices of mutton with a knife and put them on the plates of his younger brothers and sisters.

Especially my sister Ying'er, holding the mutton with both hands, her mouth is full of oil, and sometimes she drinks a small sip of wine, which is very pleasant.

Yang He couldn't help but smile and shook his head, took out a towel, and wiped the grease off her mouth.

was eating happily, and suddenly heard the sound of "clang" not far from the restaurant, and it seemed that many people were around.

It is very convenient for Yang He to look at the street scene, and when he looks, he sees a vacant lot not far from the restaurant, where there seem to be people performing arts, and then the surrounding pedestrians surround three circles inside and three circles outside.

Yang He saw the two performers clearly, and couldn't help but take a breath, and secretly praised: "What two men." ”