At this time, sitting behind the desk, Yang Xuan also fell into a deep thought, and wanted to take the opportunity to tell everyone that the most ferocious enemy now is the Barbarian Qing and the Houjin, not Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, and now to preserve the vitality of the Han people, it is best to establish an anti-Qing united front. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

But obedient and listening, looking at the various performances of the three people, they will probably oppose their own anti-Qing united front.

Yang Xuan secretly felt quite strange, in his previous life, he said that Zhang Xianzhong slaughtered Sichuan, but since Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan for nearly a year since last year, the military discipline of the Daxi Army is quite strict, except for the right arm cut off in Chongqing because he was worried that the prisoners who were released would rejoin the Ming Dynasty, in addition to exterminating tens of thousands of Shu kings and clansmen in Guan County, except for severely attacking those Ming bureaucrats who dared to resist, there was no excessive move?

In addition, the Great Western Army is also quite cute, for example, to the captured scholars, those big bosses actually pretended to be Swen and scolded the Ming Dynasty, hoping that these scholars can change their ways and be loyal to the Great West regime.

However, many scholars are just brainless, and some even lead their troops to resist, and in the face of such hostile forces, the Onishi regime resorted to violent means, which is understandable in any case.

Through this observation of nearly a year, at least at the beginning of the establishment of the Onishi regime, the Onishi regime was not considered brutal.

Although the Onishi regime is now moving the wealthy scholars from all over the country to Chengdu, it is probably just to control these opposition forces nearby.

Although it has been rumored in various places since March that the Onishi regime has brutally treated the people who revolt again, it is probably because the Onishi regime is preparing to use revolutionary violence to counter the counterattack of the Ming forces.

Could it be that the culprit responsible for the tragedy of the extinction of millions of people in Sichuan Province is not the Daxi regime or Zhang Xianzhong? So who is the culprit? Is it Long Wenguang and Zhao Jiawei who opened Dujiangyan, is it Manqing, is it Yao Huang, is it Zhang Xianzhong, or is it the Ming army?

What can I do to avoid the recurrence of the tragedy of the extermination of the Sichuan people?

Also, looking at Qian Bangxin's reaction, he probably guessed that he advocated the anti-Qing united front, how could he quietly take him away, or let him fall into specific affairs and not extricate himself?

Three days later, that is, on the tenth day of the sixth month of the first year of Hongguang, Yang Xuan was in the armory station, working with the blacksmiths to build bird guns and cast tiger squat cannons.

The biggest emotion after crossing is that the quality of the ordnance is uneven, some of the bird guns are very exquisitely made, but many are quite simple, after four or five guns in a row, the whole gun is hot, giving people the feeling that it may explode at any time, and the soldiers dare not use it at all.

After months of observation and understanding, Yang Xuan finally found the reason, in addition to the implementation of the guard system in the Ming Dynasty, the weapons and equipment of the guards were mainly supplied by the neighboring counties and prefectures.

In order to ensure the supply, the commander reached an agreement with the local prefect and the prefect of the county, how much ordnance the prefecture supplied, and how much ordnance the county supplied, and each prefecture and county apportioned it to the craftsmen and workshops below, not only the craftsmanship and level of each workshop were very different.

The masters of the blacksmith workshops usually make iron tools to make money, and now the government apportions what weapons to build, each blacksmith workshop not only can not make money but may post money, everyone's psychology is not happy, and the quality of the ordnance can be imagined.

You may ask, just like a modern factory, even if the manufacturing quality is very poor, there is always an inspection at the factory, as long as it is well inspected, the quality of the firearm can also be guaranteed.

However, the status of the army in the middle and late Ming Dynasty was very low, and many commanders and envoys of the guards were suppressed by local scholars.

In addition, what is even worse is that the standard of firearms in the Ming Dynasty is still at the level of Zhu Yuanzhang's guns, and the government stipulates that as long as three guns are released in a row without exploding, they can be seized, and they have not changed at all in two hundred and seventy years, so the quality of the firearms manufactured in this way can be imagined.

Summing up the lessons of his previous life, when he became Yilongzhi County, Yang Xuan established an ordnance institute in the army, and appointed craftsman Gou Fugui as the general manager of the ordnance institute to build weapons, instead of apportioning them to various places as in the past.

In the past, when the ordnance was in Xiangru County, the ordnance institute occupied two hills, Yang Xuan divided the ordnance into several processes, each furnace developed a master and two helpers, and the previous process designated a master to be responsible for the whole process of monitoring, division of labor, in order to ensure product quality.

After entering Shunqing Mansion, the scale of the armory was several times larger, and the large and small workshops were on a central island in the Jialing River, with hundreds of blacksmith furnaces and more than 300 masters and helpers.

Up to now, it is divided into armor branches, knife and gun branches, bird guns and other branches, with more than 100 people in each branch, respectively, to create weapons at hand.

Realize the division of labor, build the same thing every day, so that although the quality is guaranteed, the speed of construction is accelerated, it used to take more than 40 working days to build a bird, now it only takes 20 working days, and the quality of firearms has also improved by leaps and bounds.

Taking over a brand-new bird gun from Gou Fugui's hand, Yang Xuan picked up a simple aim, and then pulled the faucet back and forth several times, feeling quite powerful, and said after putting it down: "Mr. Gou, in the past, various workshops were shoddy, and after putting a few guns, I was scared."

Now that the armory has forged its own guns, this firearm is of course not the same, and the first two days of the test gun soldiers reported that each gun was capable of firing ten rounds in a row.

But Master Gou, you also know that even if the firearm you helped me build last year was fired for half an hour in a row, there would be no problem in firing more than 20 rounds of lead bullets.

Tell me, how can you ensure that ordinary soldiers' firearms are also so durable? ”

When Gou Fugui heard the secret scream, he arched his hand and sighed: "My lord, of course your firearms are different, your firearms are made of stainless steel, and the guns of the soldiers are mostly made of ordinary steel, so of course they are different." ”

Yang Xuan smiled and said, "Master Gou, as the saying goes, a hundred refined steel, so it seems that this pig iron and wrought iron can also make fine steel." You know that I have a strategy of elite soldiers, and all the soldiers under me are quite noble.

If you want to make good profits, you must first sharpen your weapons, this hand is a weapon for everyone to defeat the enemy, of course I don't want to become a grave in the hands of the soldiers (explosive chamber), you say, how to make the guns in the hands of the soldiers reach the level of the guns I use? ”

Gou Fugui wiped the beads of sweat on his face, knelt down and said: "Your Excellency is right, you can refine refined steel, as long as you beat it many times, although it cannot guarantee that all firearms can reach the guns in the hands of adults, but the vast majority can still guarantee it."

My lord, this pig iron needs to be fried in mature iron, and this wrought iron to stainless steel needs dozens of beatings. In the past, the reason why the guns in the hands of the soldiers were in danger of exploding after being used five or six times in a row was really caused by the fact that the craftsmen were forced to make them shoddy.

The government distributed the task of building firearms to various weapon workshops, although each bird gun was nominally 4 taels of silver, but after layers of exploitation, it only reached 2 or 3 taels of silver in the hands of craftsmen.

Adults know that this barrel is 5 or 6 catties, which was shoddy in the past, and it took about five or six days, and more than 20 catties of wrought iron could be made.

Now the guns made by ordnance, which one is missing thirty pounds of wrought iron? Why is this so, just like the place of adults, now the government money is directly allocated to the ordnance office, and there is no kickback in between, so it goes to the hands of the craftsmen and masters.

In addition, it is what adults call the division of labor, and each master makes the same parts every day, much faster than in the past, so that the craftsmen can make money.

But if all of them are made into such firearms in the hands of adults, each gun needs at least 60 catties of wrought iron, and it takes 40 working days, and even then it is difficult to guarantee that each gun can shoot 20 guns in a row. ”

Feeling that the surrounding atmosphere was particularly depressing, especially when the surrounding craftsmen put down their work one by one and were listening to the two of them, Yang Xuan laughed and helped Gou Fugui up and said: "Mr. Gou, I know this, you get what you pay for." I also worked as a blacksmith for a few days, and of course I know that everyone has a hard day, and every day they go back to sore back.

Everyone knows that I implement the strategy of elite soldiers, and all the soldiers under me are particularly valuable, and from today onwards, I will build according to what you said, and give the accounting standard every month, and how much money should be paid.

Rest assured, masters, as long as you can ensure that you can put twenty guns in a row without exploding, or the old rules for accounting, the helper will not be less than one or two or five dollars of silver a month, the master of the furnace will not be less than two taels of silver, the master will not be less than four taels of silver, and you will not be less than ten taels of silver every month.

When the time comes, you will get more by doing more, I heard that your output has increased a lot in the past few months, and some furnace masters can get 3 taels of silver a month. ”

When Gou Fugui heard this, he rubbed his hands again and again in horror and said: "My lord, isn't this thanks to your division of labor, the masters basically build the same parts every day, everyone is already familiar with it, and some masters are thinking about how to make it more convenient and fast, plus everyone gets up early and is greedy for darkness, so it will be so."

My lord, why don't I tell you about it then, isn't it too much for a craftsman to get such a high price in a month? ”

Yang Xuan glared at Gou Fugui, shook his head and said, "What do you say everyone, what do you say everyone?" Does it mean that everyone works too hard and gets up early every day to stay up late, or what?

My requirements are very simple, technological innovation can be made, but not cutting corners, all ordnance needs to be of the highest quality. Just like this bird's gun, you must ensure that it is fired twenty times in a row, and this helmet, this iron plate that protects the chest, to ensure that it will not be pierced by the bird's gun within thirty steps, and this cotton armor must ensure that it can not be pierced by the bird's gun within a hundred steps, and within forty steps it will not be pierced by the two-stone strong bow.

As long as all the weapons are guaranteed to meet the quality standards put forward by the military and can pass the inspection of the soldiers, I don't bother to care how much money everyone makes? ”

When Gou Fugui heard this, he even claimed that now the helpers of the ordnance station can get 2 taels of silver a month, the master of the furnace can get 3 taels of silver, and the master master can get 6 or 7 taels of silver, and there are even more general offices like him.