Chapter 261: Fierce Soldiers
The head of the family is back, and the happiest are of course Zhao Rui and Basket Cai'er and other women of the Huang family, the 'Blood and Fire Liaodong' drama has been performed for fifty times, and the venue is full, and too many people of the Huang family have watched the performance with tears. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Many people resonated with the characters in the play, the Huang family had too many Han people from Liaodong, and the experience of blood and fire was still fresh in their memories, and the repertoire of the performance tore open their bloody wounds.
Everyone knows that we must cherish the hard-won happy life, and we must be prepared for danger in times of peace, and there are jackals in Liaodong, not far from the Huang family.
Only if the Huang family is strong enough, will their lives be steady, and the tragedy of Yun Niang will not be staged on his wife.
As the audience of the drama continued to increase, the Xiangyong who participated in the military training became much more serious than before, and they realized that if Jiannu called, they would shoulder the mission of protecting their wives and children, and of course they would have to practice their skills to kill the enemy.
The Huang family's performance team has been trained, and they are still striving for excellence, combining the opinions of many audiences to continue to revise the script, adding some martial arts scenes where the Ming army defeated Jiannu that the audience likes, especially rendering the scene where Jiannu Niu Lu was really scared to suicide.
Now Quan Yong, Lu Zhongming, and Qin Zhuang are already well-known heroes among the people of the Huang family, and the three of them worked together to prepare for the fight scene where Jiannu Niu Lu was really captured, and it was copied on the stage, and every audience applauded when they saw it.
Zhao Rui matched more than 20 couples and found a good home for some of the girls rescued by the Huang family, they will not be discriminated against and cannot be bullied, because of the concern of Zhao Rui, a meticulous housekeeper.
It is not an honest and reliable man who cannot marry the women of the Huang family, because these women are literate and have jobs, and many are teachers who teach children literacy in schools, and they all have the ability to be self-reliant and do not need to be supported by men.
The shipyard managed by Zhao Shimin has completed the equipment and transformation of the 'Liaodong', and has now begun to build a warship with a displacement of only half that of the flagship and only four steps longer than the second Fu.
The ship is designed with one 20-pounder rifled bow gun, one 12-pounder rifled stern gun, three nine-pounder rifled guns and seven nine-pounder smoothbore guns on the left and right sides, for a total of 22 guns.
In addition, it is equipped with 20 fixed guns like large Ming army guns, which fire half a pound of projectiles and have an effective range of 300 paces, and the cost of one such warship is 50,000 taels of silver.
Although it is relatively expensive, Huang Sheng still decided to grit his teeth and produce it in large quantities, so that Zhao Shimin should not feel sorry for the silver, as long as our Huang family has a warship of good quality, don't be stingy with the silver that has no practical meaning to stay at home.
There are six warships under construction, the deck design is covered with a quarter of an inch of thin steel plate, and the underwater part of the warship is covered with nickel white copper plate of the same thickness, and it is estimated that it will be delivered to the army in June next year.
Twenty army field guns in the arsenal have been shipped, seven of which are 12-pounder smoothbore guns, similar to Napoleon's twelve-pounder gun, and the weight is much lighter due to the use of barrel hoop technology. The weight of a single gun is 800 catties, and the total weight is 1,400 catties, as is the weight of three twelve-pound rifled guns.
Seven six-pounder smoothbore guns and three six-pounder rifled guns weigh 500 catties, with a total weight of 800 catties, and a war horse can pull a gun carriage, which is designed with a two-horse carriage. The twelve-pounder gun took a four-horse cart.
The artillery produced by the Huang family can fire solid shells, flowering shells, grape shells, and conjoined shells, and can also directly be loaded with about one or two lead bullets like the Daming Tiger squat cannon, and shoot directly at the target, but the shooting distance is only less than one-third of the projectile, and it can only hit more than 400 steps.
The six-pounder rifled all-steel cannon can hit 1,500 paces away when firing solid and flowering shells, and it should be invincible in the Ming Dynasty, and the effective range of the same caliber gun in the Ming Dynasty is only five or six hundred paces.
The gunners had already started training, and instead of practicing artillery on Huangjiawan Island, which was too disturbing to the people, they were shooting targets at the Scorpion Island Firearms Experimental Field.
Dongjiang Town has begun to trade with the Huang family, they don't want silver at all but grain and grass, the Huang family gives them a price with reference to the current price of the Jingshi plus two percent to sell them rice and wheat, such a price is two or three percent cheaper than the selling price of other merchants, Mao Chenglu sent by Dongjiang Town to trade is grateful.
Due to the large amount of wood and Korean ginseng, Dongzhu, deer antler, bear paw, fur and so on brought in from Dongjiang Town, they were sold at a higher price than in previous years.
They bought an extra 30,000 stone of grain from the Huang family, the 1,000 strong laborers that Mao Wenlong promised to give to the Huang family were also in place, and Dongjiang Town gave them all families with a large population, and they dragged more than 8,000 people with their families.
It can be seen that the food in Dongjiang Town must be in short supply, and they export a strong laborer with seven or eight mouths. The Huang family doesn't care about all these orders, the children will grow up, women can also work, and the old people just give them food and clothing to support their old age.
Due to the large number of craftsmen from Huangjiashan Island who were transferred to Scorpion Island, all the houses in the Tunliang City on Juehua Island have been restored, and many houses have been vacated there.
Gu San was ordered by Zhao Rui to take Dongjiang Town immigrants to settle on Juehua Island and Huangjiashan Island, and the people who just came here will not enjoy the small building with a courtyard to live in one by one, but three or four families will live together in the homes left by the former Huang family craftsmen as collective dormitories.
The Huang family's 99-room residence on Huangjiashan Island left only the inner courtyard for the teachers to live in, and the others were also used as collective dormitories for Dongjiang Town to over-immigrate.
These Liao people in Dongjiang Town are all crammed into a nest in Phi Dao, Minmi Island, Guanglu Island and other places, and now they have at least two rooms to live in a tiled house with a large kang for heating, which is already an unexpected surprise.
When they were selected to leave Dongjiang Town, their hearts were up and down, they knew that life in Dongjiang Town was difficult, and they always wanted to be able to cross the sea to Shandong.
Who knew that when they saw Huangjiashan Island and Juehua Island, they found that they were wrong, and the living conditions on the island could be so good.
They came to the next day to participate in an hour's military training, these Liao people from Dongjiang Town were completely convinced, those military training is not soldiers, but their own workers, they look no worse than the regular soldiers of Dongjiang Town!
Their weapons and clothes are more neat than the soldiers in Dongjiang Town, and later these workers who participated in military training together will be supported one by one, they enthusiastically take the initiative to work with the newcomers, and their wives and daughters also warmly greet the newcomers and take them to do handicrafts.
It is a task for the old man of the Huang family to bring a newcomer, and the family that completes it well will be given extra points, and it will be reflected in the political records, there are too many benefits, and the political investigation of the selection of soldiers and civil officials is to look at a person's usual performance from these bits and pieces.
The immigrants from Dongjiang quickly fell in love with their current life and were highly motivated, many of whom were hunters, fishermen or farmers, and the Huang family used their expertise to arrange work.
Farmers don't have land for them to cultivate for the time being, and it doesn't matter that the grinder requires too much manpower. The hunter was one of the best soldiers, and in his spare time he began to train archery with the Ming army's standard rifle bow. Fishermen are the most popular, and they directly follow the Huang family's fishing boats out to sea to catch fish and produce canned food.
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