After commerce began to take off and the army expanded.

The next thing Tang Xidong has to do is to expand all the industries at hand.

Human resources are the focus of industrial expansion.

The increase in new manpower will inevitably require the expenditure of a lot of money, and the new manpower will work more and get more, and there will be money and benefits, so the original collective plan of the cottage needs to be changed, otherwise it will appear to favor one over the other and cool people's hearts.

So Tang Xidong returned to the cottage again, held a meeting, adjusted the welfare as a whole, let go of the original food control sleeve on the cottage public, and then implemented the differentiated policy inside and outside the cottage.

Cottage workers can get between one and two taels of silver per month, and in addition, they can receive 100 catties of grain every month.

As for the newly recruited personnel, they will receive between one or two and a half pounds of silver per month, and they can receive 50 catties of grain per month.

In the face of the poor people in Binh Duong City, the newly recruited personnel are mainly divided into farmland reclamation, water conservancy construction, breeding expansion, and industrial raw material mining.

Tang Xidong firmly controlled his industrialization process and was not ready to transfer outsiders to industrial production for the time being.

For farmland reclamation, Tang Xidong set his sights on the flat and vast wasteland on both sides of the Fen River, and the premise was not to touch the interests of the existing farmland gainers, so as to maintain the division of the original cultivated land and reclaim the wasteland as farmland.

On both sides of the Fen River, flat and vast, close to the water source, and ownerless land, it is just right for reclamation into new farmland.

If the entire land can really be cultivated and planted with food, then the entire Binh Duong province will no longer worry about the food problem.

It is still a process of reclamation, ploughing, building greenhouses, planting and so on.

The construction of water conservancy, after the reclaimed farmland is revealed, is followed by the construction of aqueducts, dams, embankments, water storage and irrigation.

The expansion of breeding is to purchase a large number of domestic livestock, regardless of size, centralized breeding management, as far as possible to achieve the purpose of providing meat for all people in Shanzhai and Pingyang City, in addition, but also to dig fish ponds, with the natural water source of the Fen River, it is a waste not to develop fisheries.

In any case, it is necessary to make the best use of it and do its best to ensure food supply.

After the expansion of the industrial scale, the supply of raw materials was also tight, and Tangxidong needed a lot of manpower to extract industrial raw materials.

Fortunately, everything is on track, and the cottage management is increasing skilled manpower, and Tang Xidong does not have to do everything.

After the industrial expansion meeting, everything seemed to be busy again as before, only this time the huge machine no longer stopped at Luoliang Mountain, and the entire Binh Duong City and the surrounding towns were launched.

Tang Xidong has money and food, but there is a shortage of people.

The surplus labor around Pingyang City is always in a state of close to fullness, just after the Shangyuan Festival, spring is still far away, the weather is cold, and ordinary people have no work, which can just fill the gap in the expansion of Tangxi's eastern industry.

After all the things were arranged, Tang Xidong plunged into the craftsman's workshop and had nothing to do.

At present, the number of troops under his control has reached more than 12,000, but there is still no progress in the manufacture of weapons.

Faced with a war crisis that could arise at any time, Tang Xidong had to personally supervise and be responsible for the manufacture of weapons.

There are more than 100 craftsmen in the craftsman workshop, half of whom are in normal working condition, and half of whom are almost idle. The busy people were assigned to the artillery workshop, and Tang Xidong had no research on artillery, so he could only let these people rely on their previous experience to build the artillery currently in service in the Ming Dynasty.

Fortunately, the quality of the steel is guaranteed, and the stability and range of the guns are greatly improved.

Let these people do what they have experience, and everything will be easy, but once they are allowed to use their brains to develop new weapons, the craftsmen whose thinking has long been rigid will instantly freeze their heads.

Therefore, the idle part of the people was arranged by Tang Xidong to develop a new type of flintlock pistol.

A lot of springs were made, and a lot of flint was found, but the flintlock pistol still made no progress.

Tang Xidong knows that since ancient times, thousands of years, under the orthodox status of Confucianism, the imprisoned Chinese people's views on mechanical inventions are strange and ingenious, playthings, nearly two thousand years, people have lost their motivation and vitality for the research and development of science and technology.

This is one of the key points that Tang Xidong has repeatedly reminded himself to change when he came to this world.

It was also one of the contents that he decided to improve after the idea of re-planning his life and improving appeared.

But now, faced with a serious delay in research and development, he had to take these skilled but stiff-minded craftsmen to overcome the difficulties.

The springs and flints of the flintlock pistol have been made, and although the performance of the springs has not yet reached the performance of later generations, given that the steel industry is still in its infancy, at least it can be used, and it is sufficient.

In order to improve the efficiency of ignition, Tang Xidong had to still use the principle of the runner, and made a lighter device similar to the principle of the flint lighter in the part close to the loading ammunition, using the mechanical principle of pulling the trigger, pulling the spring line, and the spring pulling the runner to rub the flint to ignite, and then returning to the position again, greatly improving the efficiency of the flint ignition, so that the flint and the runner gear rubbed out of the spark, and then burned through the open air hole and oxygen and the fuse cord stretched out inside.

The runner and flint are embedded in the body of the gun to prevent it from becoming wet after rain.

The position of the ignition device and the loading ammunition is exactly one and the same, which is to take into account that the flame is burning upward, and only a small round hole is opened between the two, which provides oxygen for the gunpowder combustion explosion and provides the position of the fuse probe, and can effectively prevent the impact of the explosion from blindly impacting from the round hole, resulting in the phenomenon of exploding.

In the early days of history, flintlock pistols still relied on muzzle loading ammunition, which greatly delayed the firing time, which Tang Xidong could not tolerate the most.

His solution was to open a transverse notch in the body of the gun, and then remove a delicate push-pull track at the upper and lower ends of the notch to create a small section of barrel that could be pushed back and forth.

This part is the most labor-intensive, the push-pull device is too delicate, and Tang Xidong has to work hard to ensure that the workers can build it and ensure both quantity and quality.

To this end, Tang Xidong divided the entire flintlock pistol into three parts, the first part is the butt including the flint fire, the second part is the part of the ammunition, and the third part is the barrel.

Between the three sections, they are connected with buckles and threads respectively.

Considering that there are not a few flintlock pistols needed by the army, Tang Xidong formulated a standardized assembly line production process in the craftsman's workshop.

The parts of the gun body are made in groups, and the dimensions of all parts are measured with a special engineering ruler.

The most difficult thing to do is to load the cartridge in two steps, the first step is to create the barrel, and the second step is to cut it and make the slot and the push-pull barrel.

At this time, there is no lathe, and it can only be made by hand little by little, but fortunately, Tang Xidong specially sent someone to create a hard file, so that the efficiency has been improved.

As for the barrel, Tang Xidong also made the rifling, the production of rifling is relatively simple, because the lathe that can drill the barrel, Tang Xidong still understands, since he understands it, it must be manufactured, when the lathe is manufactured, the most time-consuming and laborious barrel manufacturing in the past has become the simplest, and it is a rifled barrel.