In October of the first year of Chongzhen, Wang Rui's cotton cloth factory expanded to more than 20,000 people, and the three most important factories of military industry, glass and mirrors also expanded to tens of thousands of people, and Fushanqian has now become the largest industrial city in the entire Ming Dynasty, with a total population of more than 200,000 people. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

All kinds of packaging factories, woodworking workshops, and garment workshops began to spring up. The whole Fushan Bay is a thriving and vigorous scene.

The Pan family's fleet has now become a rolling departure, and a steady stream of cotton cloth and various industrial products are sold to all parts of the south of the Yangtze River.

Fortunately, Wang Rui and Pan Xuezhong were worried about the backlash of the bureaucrats and gentry who controlled the cotton and spinning workshops in Jiangnan, so they only controlled the price of Fushan cotton cloth at a slightly lower price than the price of cotton cloth produced in Jiangnan. Wang Rui and Pan Xuezhong didn't dare to start a price war recklessly, these Jiangnan gentry are not easy to mess with!

But even so, business is so good that Wang Rui's spinning mill and cotton factory are very busy. Because of a considerable number of products, they were sold by maritime merchants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the Wa Kingdom, Fujian and Liangguang. There are also many products that have crossed the ocean, sold to red-haired devils, and shipped to the West.

Now Fushan Bay has become a big hen that lays golden eggs every day, and the silver taels earned back for Wang Rui every month have reached a terrifying amount of more than one million taels.

In order to defend his huge wealth and this foundation from being spied on by others, after having the official body of the Laizhou guerrillas, Wang Rui once again carried out a large-scale crazy expansion of the army, directly expanding his total army to more than 20,000 people.

Because Wang Rui has always had a deep worry, he often wakes up in his dreams, and every dream is the same dream: a huge wheel rumbles towards him, the nails of the wheel are covered with the flesh and blood of the Han people, and many undead Han people cry miserably on the wheel! Wang Rui in the dream was helpless against this......

Based on this extremely suppressed fear, Wang Rui immersed himself in the steel mill and his own solo research workshop every day. One day in March of the first year of Chongzhen, he finally built the first full-fledged rear-loading musket. Zhu Lei, who particularly likes muskets, was called by Wang Rui to test shoot a new gun.

Wang Rui's musket is actually roughly equivalent to a Delesy rifle. It is a firing pin that strikes the primer of the bullet and fires a fixed type of bullet, which is called a firing pin gun.

However, Wang Rui's new gun has not yet reached the level of the Delessy rifle. The Dereisy rifle uses spiral rifling, and Wang Rui's gun can only be regarded as a smoothbore gun!

"Try it! Hit as fast as you can and see how many shots you can get in a minute? Wang Rui commanded.

Since knowing that he began to develop muskets, Zhu Lei has come to touch and see from time to time, and he will shoot when he has the opportunity. Wang Rui knew that in this era of alternating hot and cold weapons, the speed of the fight was also a very important indicator, so he told Zhu Lei very seriously.

The guards around Wang Rui were also excited one by one, and their eyes shone brightly. They follow Wang Rui every day, and they know more about the musket now, and everyone likes the new gadgets made by Wang Da very much.

It seems that this bloody man, no matter what era he is, has a natural love for firearms and weapons, and he has never changed.

This Zhu Lei is actually a high-level officer and veteran in Wang Rui's army, saying that he is a veteran, not that he is old, but because he has entered Wang Rui's team from Liaodong.

He has the same handsome face as Edison Chen, and his figure is tall and tall. Several times, Wang Rui couldn't help but wonder, did Mr. Chen also cross over? I don't know if he brought a camera and a computer.

After everyone arrived at the open space in front of the official room, Wang Rui once again carefully explained to Zhu Lei how to load the ammunition and how to pull the trigger.

Wang Rui had been an officer a while ago, and this Delesy rifle was made by himself. Therefore, when he told Zhu Lei about the shooting essentials of this gun, it was not effortless at all.

Zhu Lei listened carefully, concentrating on memorizing, and his focused expression was like Mr. Guanxi fiddling with the camera.

While explaining, Wang Rui noticed the solemn expression on his face, and couldn't help but be happy in his heart: It seems that whoever is serious about this can become Edison Chen!

After speaking, Wang Rui himself tried to shoot another shot, and then handed over the new gun to Zhu Lei, and gave him ten rounds of fixed-fit paper bullets.

Wang Rui wanted to test how many shots an ordinary soldier could shoot in a minute, so he ordered: "Zhu Lei, hit the stone platform in front of you, don't care if you hit it accurately or not, hit it as fast as you can!" ”

"Okay!" Zhu Lei raised the gun and began to shoot with a bang, although it was the first time he shot so many bullets, but the operation was very fast, and a set of actions was like a smooth flow.

It seems that this guy is really talented in using muskets! Wang Rui said secretly in his heart.

When Zhu Lei finished firing the ten fixed-loading paper bullets, Wang Rui estimated in his heart that it would take about one minute and ten seconds to fight. In other words, the rate of fire of this musket can reach more than ten rounds per minute.

Using a dense queue and supplemented by strict training, Wang Rui believes that the so-called Manchurian iron cavalry is nothing more than a pig and sheep to be killed in front of the Delesy rifle that is reloaded after being loaded!

After the gun was finalized, Wang Rui named it "Type 28 Rifle", and decomposed the process and technological process, and began to put it into mass production regardless of the cost. At the same time, he also began to restore small mortars from memory, with the assistance of Ma Ju.

By October of the first year of Chongzhen, Wang Rui's army not only had 2,000 "Type 28 rifles" but also 20 60mm mortars.

In the training ground of the Fushan Qiansho, Wang Rui's troops began to take turns to participate in musket training, so that after the equipment was ready, the officers and soldiers would not have no contact, and they still needed to start training from scratch.

When it comes to mortars, many people may not understand. The mortar is a kind of curved smoothbore artillery with a short gun body, a large firing angle, a high ballistic arc, a seat plate to bear recoil, a muzzle loading, and a tail projectile. Since its inception, mortars have been an effective suppression weapon to support and accompany infantry operations, and are an extremely important conventional weapon for infantry.

The name of the mortar comes from two aspects: one is that it is easy to operate, the trajectory is curved, it can be fired close to the target, and there is almost no shooting dead angle; Second, after the shell is loaded from the muzzle, it is forced to fire by relying on the decline of its own mass, so that the shell is fired.

In fact, when it comes to the development history of mortars, it can be traced back to 1342 AD. At that time, the Spanish army was besieging the city of Alihquiras, which was occupied by the Arabs, and the Arabs erected short horn cylinders on the battlements, and the mouth of the cylinder was raised high towards the outside of the city. A packet of black powder was placed through the mouth of the barrel, and then an iron ball was put in, which ignited the twist and shot at the Spanish soldiers outside the city. This primitive artillery, known as "Modfa", can be said to be the prototype of the modern mortar.

After having these powerful weapons, Wang Rui began to wonder, is it to go to Jiannu to fight? On this day, Wang Rui was in a daze in the official room, and Chen Song came in to report: "My lord, Mr. Fang has come back from the school!" ”

Speaking of Fang Yuan, it is also quite interesting, after he entered the Fushan Army, he has not been able to play much role, which makes Fang Wenyuan, who has always compared himself to Guan Zhong and Zhang Liang, very frustrated.

However, after seeing the thriving atmosphere of the entire Fushan Front and Jimo Camp, he still has pride and ambition. Out of boredom, he volunteered to go to schools and youth camps to teach children and teenagers to read and write.

Of course, Wang Rui's simplified characters and Wang Rui's self-compiled textbooks must be taught.

However, Fang Yuan, who also believes in pragmatism, does not have any psychological obstacles. He soon made a comparison table of simplified and traditional Chinese characters and learned to write and use these simplified characters in Wang Rui's book.

Moreover, he also recognizes the content of the textbooks compiled by Wang Rui, so he is very happy to be a "substitute teacher" every day. Especially after Wang Rui heard that he had made a comparison table of simplified and traditional Chinese characters, he praised him even more.

After learning that there were two extremely powerful weapons in the troops, Fang Yuan estimated that Lord Wang would definitely be preparing to go to sea to fight again. After all, the Fushan Army's maritime "colonization team" has not been out to sea for three months.

After Fang Yuan came in, Wang Rui made him tea with his own hands, and said with a smile: "How is Wen Yuan doing recently?" ”

"Good, good! My lord came to me, but I have something important to discuss? Fang Yuan didn't believe that Lord Wang, who was so busy every day that he didn't have a moment to spare, came back just to say hello for tea, and immediately replied with a smile.

"Haha! It's still Wen Yuan's happy character! Then I'll be straightforward, this official wants to kill Jianyu and practice his hands, and it's best not to alarm either side after the fight. I have been thinking about it for a long time, but I haven't found a suitable place to start for the time being. So, dare to ask Mr. to teach me? Wang Rui said slightly.

"Your Excellency is gracious! Students have already planned for adults! Adults, please take a look! Fang Yuan also returned the salute politely, and then took out a map from his sleeve.

After Wang Rui unfolded it, it turned out to be a map of the Yellow Sea and North Korea!