The Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Military-Industrial Complex, well, the Ma'anshan Mining Plant, the Ma'anshan Ironmaking Workshop, and the Weapons and Armor Processing Plant, which are the most important raw materials for weapons processing, have realized that a series of processes from the mining of iron ore, which is the most important raw material for weapons processing, to the smelting of iron ore into steel, and then to the manufacture of weapons and armor, are all completed in this area surrounded by thousands of garrisons. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

To this end, Chen Wen built special tracks, official roads, post stations, military stations, military camps, and even forts and ports in this heavy industrial area, and even built forts and fences to protect this industrial area from external destruction.

Steel production is still increasing, not only because of the expansion of mines and ironworks, but also because of the continuous improvement of technology. Up to now, just a military industry workshop, there has been a certain degree of overcapacity. It's a pity that Chen Wen came here to interrupt Xu Yi's reverie about those "ring railways" and the like.

"The army is about to start a new round of expansion, this is also the largest expansion before the Northern Expedition, your military industry division has a heavy task, but this king doesn't want to hear anything if he will complete the task even if he doesn't sleep. Not to mention anything else, the resources that this king has invested in the Military Industry Department over the years, just looking at this industrial area, if he can't even complete the expansion of the army and the research and development and production of new equipment, it will be a big joke. ”

As soon as the words came out, Chen Wen and Xu Yi looked at each other and smiled. If the weapon armor is played out by the craftsman with one hand and one foot, it will be time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it is impossible to complete the task in time.

However, starting from the hydraulic workshop in Jinhua, relying on machinery to achieve rapid production has been extremely mature in the Military Industry Division. The production process of various weapons and armor has achieved basic standardization and assembly lines, although it still requires a lot of manual finishing to achieve the assembly of parts, but it is also the most efficient production method that can be achieved under the technical level of the current era. If even this cannot be done within the stipulated time, then I am afraid that even the large arms factories in Europe may not be able to do it.

Xu Yi is not very clear about the specific expansion plan, but the orders for the required equipment have already been sent to the Military Industry Department, and some of them have even begun manufacturing work now.

As a matter of fact, in the past two years, although the expansion of the field troops of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming armies has been relatively small, the number of local garrisons has been rising in a straight line due to the rapid expansion of the occupied areas. Jiangnan, Huainan, Fujian, Guangdong, Huguang, which had just been divided into Hubei and Hunan, and the eastern and northern parts of Guangxi, all needed large local garrisons to maintain local stability.

The military industry workshop was relocated from Jinhua to the Ma'anshan area of Taiping Mansion, although the machinery and factory buildings were not moved, and all of them were converted to civilian use in batches in Jinhua Mansion, but the production capacity was inevitably affected by the production of many machinery. However, even so, the expansion of the local garrisons has never been delayed because of this, and the weapons and equipment can always be completed one step ahead, and there will never be a phenomenon of personnel and other weapons and equipment.

"Your Majesty, please rest assured, the official has read the official document carefully, and has also consulted with the institutes under the Department of Military Industry, and all the institutes have said that they will be able to complete the production task as scheduled."

"Well, this king also believes that the Military Industry Department will be able to complete the task."

After seeing the potholes and holes in those mines, the chimneys emitting black smoke, and the water wheels rotating day and night on the riverside and riverside, Chen Wen didn't have much time to feel the beauty of the machinery, but followed Xu Yi to the test site of the Military Industry Division.

"King, these two flintlock flintlock guns are A, B, and C that have recently completed the research and development work of the Military Industry Department, and they are all developed in accordance with your requirements."

Three flintlock muskets, iron shafts, wooden butts, elaborate flintlock bolts, and sleeved swords in boxes. The first two longer ones look the same in shape, but if you look closely, there are subtle, but crucial, differences.

Chen Wen ignored the sword, picked up the A-type firearm in Xu Yi's mouth, carefully looked at the bolt, rubbed the barrel on the left hand, touched the gun, felt the size of the inner and outer diameters, and then nodded with satisfaction. When he picked up the second one, he first raised the gun to make an aiming motion, and then made a seemingly extremely dangerous action, aiming the gun at one of his eyes.

"How's the yield?"

"Back to the king, the A-type firearm has a few fewer steps, and the production speed is still relatively fast. Type B firecracker, there is a certain defective rate when processing, and there are many problems when it is used, but the output can still keep up, and the workshop has manufactured machinery specially used for processing, and there is no problem in meeting the needs of the army. ”

The Type A flintlock flintlock gun and the Type B flintlock flintlock gun will be the standard flintlock pistol in the army, and the demand for the former is higher, and the latter is less, but the overall number is not low. Chen Wen has seen this sample, and he is more concerned about the production issue, and this time with Xu Yi's guarantee, he can be regarded as relieved.

From the birth of the flintlock pistol to the popularization, it has gone through an extremely long time, and in the process of popularization for more than 100 years, the bolt of the flintlock pistol is a vital existence, and there are many problems. Flint, spring steel, and even granulated gunpowder can lead to a decrease in the excitation rate, and the instability and high cost of flintlock pistols will affect the replacement compared to the technically mature arquebus.

The cost is higher, Chen Wen doesn't care, he has never been stingy with the investment in this development trend, and in other aspects, in the past few years, with the accumulation of experience in materials science, relying on continuous experiments, now there is finally a possibility of mass production. It's just that in terms of the excitation rate, 100 percent is still a dream, but with the rate of fire of this front-loading smoothbore flintlock gun, these problems are also tolerable.

Putting down the B-type flintlock pistol, Chen Wen picked up the C-type flintlock pistol again. The first two flintlock pistols were both five feet long, while this one was only four feet. Not to mention the shorter barrel, the streamlining of the butt is also slightly different from the previous two.

"How effective is this firecracker?"

"The experimental effect is okay, but it has not been tested in actual combat, and it is difficult to say how it is."

Hearing this, Chen Wen nodded, and then put the fire gun back into the box. In fact, he can also see it in Nanjing, but when he comes here, he can see with his own eyes how iron ore has become such a sharp weapon step by step, and his feelings are different.

Chen Wen was pleased not only with the huge production capacity of the military industry and steel industry of the Military Industry Department here, but also with the research and development capabilities of the Military Industry Department -- before that, the weapons of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies were either recorded in the books by their predecessors like the Lumi Gun and the Turtledove Foot Gun, or they were slightly improved products like the Qingdian handcuff, and now he only needs to send the requirements, and the R & D team of the Military Industry Department can research and develop according to the actual needs of the army and achieve mass production, which is of extraordinary significance.

Chen Wen stayed here for two days, focusing on inspecting the steel production and weapons test sites, and then returned to Nanjing to make final preparations for a series of major moves in the second half of the year.

The Ma'anshan military-industrial iron and steel alliance can have such a scale because the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies were able to achieve it on the basis of the Jinhua Hydraulic Workshop. Nowadays, it has become the military production center of the Ming Army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang, and Jinhua has gradually changed to civilian use, and the machinery produced sells well in several provinces, and some of the lower end of iron farm tools and tools have also lowered the price of the people, so that more people can use these tools that can make the production efficiency higher.

In June, during the summer harvest, Ding Junjie reported his leave and returned to his home in Yongkang County from the Jinhua recruit training camp. He has been in the army for more than a year, and most of the robes who entered the boot camp with him to eat the whip have been assigned to the garrisons in various places, and some of the lucky ones are said to have been added to the war barracks, but he, a top student of the Boy Scout Academy, has always been trained in the boot camp.

If you talk about training results, he is also among the best, plus reading and literacy, not to mention being sent to the martial arts academy after becoming a soldier, at least he should be assigned to the local garrison. But for more than a year, he has always been training, from recruit training to combat soldier training, as if his work in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies is just training.

"Xiaojie, this day is going to practice at night, when you have nothing to do, ask for leave to go home and live for a few days, and your mother can talk to the four aunts in the neighboring village, find a daughter-in-law first."

The fourth aunt in the neighboring village, Ding Junjie has heard of it for a long time, is indeed a matchmaker who can speak well, and is more eloquent than the matchmaker Zhang family aunt who lived next door when his mother was in Fucheng. Don't say anything that can say that the dead are alive, just say that this is a matchmaker, and no one in these four miles and towns doesn't know her name.

"Mother, the child still has to go to the meeting, our family has a lot of income this year, but the meeting still has to be held."

"This kid."

Ding Junjie really didn't have much interest in this matter, his mind was now full of the notices he received before leaving, especially when he thought that he was about to rush to Nanjing's recruit camp to participate in the formation of a new army, he was only full of enthusiasm, how could he still have time to think about what children's personal affairs and inheritance of the family lineage.

"Dad, you were fortunate to participate in the formation of the Nantang Battalion back then, and now your son is also going to participate in the formation of a new army, please bless your son to make contributions and add glory to our old Ding family."

Walking on the road in great strides, Ding Junjie didn't think it would take long to arrive at the planting cooperative in the town. At the beginning of last year, Jinhua Mansion was used as a pilot for reform, and the planting cooperative in their town also took advantage of the situation to be formed. Last year's operation, when the sugarcane was harvested, not to mention a bumper harvest, the sugarcane was also purchased by the large-scale cane sugar workshop in Fucheng, which was said to be funded by His Royal Highness King Qi.

From top to bottom, from the recommended business management, to the military members of the planting cooperative, to the hired planting workers, everyone has made a fortune up and down. It is really more profitable to grow grain than it was back then, but because of this, with the success of the pilot project, the new policy has begun to spread to the surrounding areas, and the purchase price of sugarcane is bound to be challenged, and it is said that this year I am afraid that it will not be possible to maintain last year's purchase price.

"It's not said that I went to Fucheng and talked to Wang Dongjia. Wang Dongjia said, other houses see that our Jinhua Mansion is making money, so they also want to eat this meal, this year's sugarcane planting area has increased sharply, the purchase price, he has asked Qi Wangfu for instructions, this year Qi Wangfu can make a certain proportion of subsidies, but next year it will depend on us. ”

"How can this be, we planted it first, and it stands to reason that we should give priority to the military households in our Jinhua Mansion, they are too much."

"That's it, that's it."

"Okay, okay, don't complain, complain and go back to complain to the men and mother-in-law at home." echoed the voice, and the hundred households who were in charge of the overall situation waved their hands to signal everyone to be quiet, and listened to him continue.

At the beginning, everyone watched the households grow these cash crops of Laoshzi, and begged His Highness to lift the series of decrees that could only grow grain, vegetables and grow mulberry and silkworms. Our Jinhua Mansion is just one step earlier, can we still stop others and prevent others from making money, they are all military households, most of the families here are soldiers in the army, do we just need to make money, and don't allow the robe to make money, there is no reason for this. ”

After saying a lot, the voice of complaints was suppressed, Baihu took a sip of water, and then said: "Now that everyone has made money, His Royal Highness King Qi will also subsidize part of it, and the loss will definitely not be, but it will be less than last year." ”

As soon as I heard that I made less money, the buzz below sounded again, and Baihu shouted a few words of silence before suppressing it again: "We have experience in planting sugarcane, and the sugarcane planted this year has not yet matured, and now it will not be changed to plant anything else, but whether we want to consider this matter, now it is necessary to settle down, and we have time to do research to understand what to plant next year to earn more." ”

Today's meeting, its purpose is like this, 100 households said, everyone, you look at me, I look at you, after a long time, someone suggested that maybe it would rise back next year, and it was immediately opposed by more and more military households who felt that they were planting sugar cane.

Just like that, you said a word, I said a word, and I didn't make a fuss for a long time. Baihu pondered and proposed to do an investigation first, depending on the situation, but at this moment, he saw Ding Junjie as if he was a little eager to try.

"Virtuous nephew, have you studied in the Boy Scout Academy, or are you the first in the first class, tell me what you think, and tell the uncles and aunts here."

Everyone knows the situation of the Ding family, not to mention Ding Junjie's so-called "Zhuangyuanlang", his deceased father was the earliest batch of soldiers in the Nantang Battalion, a warrior who participated in the battle behind the Siming Mountain Palace, and he was also a subordinate of His Royal Highness King Qi. The Ding family now seems to have dozens of acres of pension land at home, but most of the robes who were eaten in a pot by his father are now military generals who lead the troops, and there is a commander who has a good relationship with their family and is now a commander at the division level.

However, Ding Junjie didn't think much about this, he still thought about having a meeting and going home to do some farm work, so that his mother could rest more, and also do more filial piety before going to Nanjing. Seeing that these military households couldn't come up with a reason to discuss, he planned to talk about his thoughts, and it happened that the hundred households were named, so he naturally took the lead.

"Then the little nephew is ugly, is it right, uncles and aunts will bear more."

With a fist salute, Ding Junjie thought about it one by one: "The little nephew pondered, as Uncle Yang said, what to plant next year can't be decided now, it still depends on next year's market." However, you still have to do it in advance, so be prepared. ”

Speaking of this, many of the people present nodded, seeing this, Ding Junjie then said: "If it is replanted, what to plant, the little nephew thinks it still depends on the market." It's not enough to plant less than others, it still depends on whether someone buys it. For example, the little nephew has a robe in the training camp, his family is in the countryside of Suzhou Prefecture, and he used to plant a crop called pepper, which was bought by large families as decorations, and at the end of last year, the Qi Wangfu paid a high price to receive a batch, and bought all the peppers they planted there, and they made a lot of money, but not many people are willing to buy this thing on weekdays. ”

"What does that thing look like, does His Royal Highness King Qi also like that pepper?"

Something about Chen Wen always arouses people's curiosity. In fact, Ding Junjie didn't know if Chen Wen bought the thing to be used as a flower, but he still remembered what the comrade said, a sentence that was a bit of a joke.

"That thing looks red, and it looks very festive. However, it is said that it is used to eat, but the taste is too spicy. ”