The Huang family ushered in great development in this New Year, and now the population has exceeded 14,000, with more than 10,000 men and healthy women, and this number is still increasing. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Because Gu San and other masters are still digging skilled craftsmen, Huang Sheng will soon go to Shanhaiguan to select archers and heavy infantry, and their families will have hundreds of people.

Although he built a small 1,000 sea ships on Juehua Island, Huang Sheng didn't dare to swallow them all, and was ready to hand them over to the Gao family to take over Sancheng, leaving Mao Yuanyi and Sun Yuanhua Sancheng, and picking one-third of the good ships for himself.

Nearly 2,000 sailors and gunners of the former Ming army were obtained from Juehua Island, and the Huang family added 15 No. 2 Fu boats, 30 grass skimming boats, more than 100 horse boats, and as many as 160 Ming warships such as Cangshan ships, Haicang ships, centipede ships, net shuttle boats, wheel boats, etc.

Huang Sheng arranged for Zhao Shimin to take technicians to check the artillery of all the Ming warships, leaving only the well-maintained four-pounder copper-core iron cannon.

The rest were left on the warship that he didn't like and returned to Daming, and it is difficult to say whether it will be able to reach the hands of the Ming government in the end. This is not something that the little Qipinzanhua general can manage, and he can't manage.

Anyway, he got cheap, and Daming did not suffer a loss, the original history of these ships was destroyed in the war, and now nearly a thousand sea ships are not in the hands of the government but also in private hands, and they are still creating jobs for Daming.

Liu Guozheng, the only pro-soldier of the two battlefields, performed remarkably on the battlefield, and he won the trust of Huang Sheng, and gave him the rank of military attache from the seventh rank to the rank of a small flag officer of the pro-soldiers.

Liu Guozheng was extremely excited to see that he had only been with the head of the family for more than half a year and had an official body, which shows how eager people in this era are for official positions, even martial artists are no exception.

"My lord, thank you for your support, the little one can command nine brothers now, right?"

"You have to change your words in the future, don't call yourself small, nine subordinates are selected and recruited by you, the requirement is that the martial arts are not worse than you, hate Jiannu, and ride a horse is the best!"

He chose his own soldiers and brought them by himself, Liu Guozheng was very happy, and he said loudly: "Report to the lord, the lowly position will definitely complete the task, you can rest assured that the lowly position will recruit fierce people who can beat the lowly position to serve the adult." ”

"Pay attention to character, rather lack than excess! Give you a month, you can go to Shanhaiguan to have a look, or you can ask the Gao brothers to help you go to Cangzhou to recruit people! ”

"The lowly knows that as long as they meet the requirements and are willing to serve the adults, the lowly will bring their families to Huangjiawan Island. Relax, my lord, some of the men are not people who keep to themselves, and they must not be able to ask for something that can be an adult! ”

Liu Guozheng is too confident, the Huang family's guaranteed salary is two taels, and there are many benefits, as long as they are not stupid, those men who practice martial arts and run the rivers and lakes will compete for such an opportunity.

Huang Sheng observed Liu Guozheng's performance in Shizhai last time, and thought that he should have a guard team with outstanding personal skills, and now he is developing a double-barreled flintlock short gun, which can be used to equip the troops, and when the troops are distributed, one will be distributed to officers at or above the rank of Xiaoqi.

His own guards were armed with light steel round shields, one-handed battle axes, and double-barreled flint hair pinned to their waists.

The flintlock bullet is not a mini bullet, but an oval lead bullet, because the mini bullet is fired using the principle that the soft lead is heated by the cork at the tail to expand and hold the breath, so the loading is not too tight.

The advantage is that it is relatively easy to reload, but this is not the case with the front-loading short gun, so don't accidentally spill the loaded Mini bullets and gunpowder on your waist.

Huang Sheng still adopted the design before the advent of the Mini bullet, and smashed the solid lead bullet into the barrel with a general strip, rather than being difficult to reload than taking out an empty gun in the event of an emergency.

The Guards can theoretically shoot two lead bullets at close range, where in this era can there be such a powerful army to enter their own Chinese army, and they also did it with the Guards, and they still have combat effectiveness after two rounds of short-gun attacks?

The weapons used by the Huang family must be of trustworthy quality, and even the slightest firearm that cannot be used boldly by the soldiers is not allowed to equip the army.

Daming firearms are so advanced, many inventions are ahead of this era, that is, due to the greed for ink, the shortage of firearms materials, and the hasty work of craftsmen, resulting in soldiers not daring to use them, because whether they hit the enemy is unknown, but it is nine times out of ten that they will hurt themselves.

The firearms produced by the Huang family would rather be scarce than indiscriminate at the beginning, and over time they will be relied on by the soldiers, and everyone is keen on using firearms, which will naturally promote the continuous innovation of hot weapons.

Only five Fu boats and seven grass skimming boats were left on Huangjiawan Island to be upgraded into war ships, and the rest were converted to civilian use, with large ships used for transportation, and smaller ones used for fishing and as work boats for processing marine fish.

After the completion of the transformation and upgrading, the Huang family warships had seven No. 2 Fu ships and fifteen grass skimming ships, equipped with more than 200 six-pound and four-pounder guns, which was enough to be invincible in the Liaohai Sea.

Forty horse boats equipped with guns are enough to transport the landing troops, and in coastal combat, more than 2,000 horses can be delivered at one time, and the Huang family does not have so many soldiers.

In the Age of Discovery, the warships that fought in small fights were of little use, so they did not remodel too many Qianjuehua Island sailor warships to arm themselves.

Huang Sheng's goal was large, and the main warship to be built was designed to be second only to the British "Sea King", which was launched in 1637.

The future flagship of the Huang family is named 'Liaodong', the keel of this ship is 36 meters long, the total length is 47 meters, the width is 14 meters, the depth is 18 meters, the draft is more than 6 meters, the displacement is 1,800 tons, and it is designed with four decks.

The ship is erected with five steel main and auxiliary masts, and although such a mast made of tinned steel pipes is expensive, it is more than three times stronger than a wooden mast and weighs only half of it.

The purpose of the reasonable combination of hard sails and soft sails on the mainmast and auxiliary mast is to maximize the wind surface and increase the power of the flagship.

The ship type is the traditional form of the West, but the interior is the multi-sealed cabin mechanism of the Chinese ship, and the four propellers are made of white copper, which can increase the power of 88 people at a time.

Huang Sheng had seen a model of the "Sea King" in later generations, the main British battleship was armed with more than 100 guns, and it was said that it could fire more than a ton of shells at a time.

The four different warships designed by the Huang family are the product of a combination of Chinese and Western, without the "king of the sea" ox break, ready to install three bow guns, the design requirements are 20 pounds, the two tail guns are 12 pounds, and the 30 guns on the left and right sides are arranged in order by caliber size, and the largest caliber is on the lowest deck.

The largest caliber gun is in the bottom compartment of the battleship, which moves the center of gravity of the battleship downward, increases stability, and although the multi-sealed cabin costs more to build, it increases safety and eliminates the hidden danger of sinking on the rock.

At the end of the first month, when the Jiannu attacked, in addition to the pretext that the ship had been repaired in advance, the 200 craftsmen were directly sent to Huangjiashan Island, and more than 100 craftsmen successfully escaped.

The proportion of soldiers and civilians rescued on Juehua Island is the highest among these craftsmen, they know the danger, and they sleep with one eye open!

Most of the wives and children of the craftsmen are safe and sound, and after such hardships, they are of course grateful to the Huang family, and these people have longed to come to the Huang family to be a family.

Now, due to a blessing in disguise, Lord Huang has taken in every craftsman and given them enough monthly money to support their families, and everyone's enthusiasm for work has been mobilized.

They have already followed the two of them when they were working for Daming on Juehua Island, and everyone helped to make suggestions and strive to be advanced workers.

The Liaodong was equipped with a total of 65 artillery pieces, which could theoretically fire 600 pounds of shells at a time.

The Ming Dynasty already had such a weapon, the principle is not worth mentioning, and the fireworks such as the Sky Monkey and the Second Kick are the same principle, and they are also flying a distance and then exploding.

There are too many craftsmen who can make such firearms in the Ming Dynasty, and Huang Sheng will go to Wang Gongchang's pit to be abducted and deceived in the next step, and get all the craftsmen he likes there.

Even if it is kidnapping, anyway, by the beginning of May, more than a mile around Wang Gongchang's factory will become powder, and more than 20,000 people will die.

The craftsmen who cast artillery, produced gunpowder, made earth-shaking thunder, flowering bombs, Lumi guns, tiger squat cannons, and produced all kinds of firearms such as swarm bees, underwater dragon king cannons, fire dragon water, fierce fire oil cabinets, etc., were brought to Huangjiawan Island.

Combined with the technology of the Huang family, using the steel of the Huang family, there is no need for so many varieties, only six to twenty pounds of artillery are produced, and a few stereotyped products such as flowering bombs and flying thunderbolts are made, and the weapons of the Huang family's private soldiers in the future are simple and effective, easy to master and maintain.