Early the next morning, Chen Wen sent someone to continue to hand over the rewritten Southern Song Dynasty version of "Titanic" to the person in charge of contacting Li Yu, and he went to the Ordnance Division Workshop located in the city of Jinhuafu.

The main officials and craftsmen of the Ordnance Department of the Jinhua Ming Army came from the Construction Department of Dalanshan, and the personnel management and classification of the types of work were already very perfect by the standards of this era, and most of the other personnel were from Jinhua Mansion, and the bird craftsmen brought by Yu Guowang were also here to help temporarily.

During this time, Chen Wen had a lot of things in his hands, coupled with a serious lack of funds. The requirements for the Ordnance Division are only to supplement the missing weapons and armor, and to repair the damaged weapons and armor.

As for artillery, a limited number of artillery craftsmen can use the lost wax method and the mud mold method to make artillery, but the caliber is not large, and both methods require time to dry the mold, especially the lost wax method is suitable for a short time at the temperature in Zhejiang, so the manufacturing speed is also very slow.

In addition to these, Chen Wen only gave them one task, and that was to make Lu Mi Gong according to the records in a "Artifact Spectrum" that he copied from Ma Jinbao's study.

The so-called Rumi gun originated from the arquebus of the Ottoman Turkish Empire. According to the Legend of the Western Regions, the Ottoman Empire, known as the "Rumu State" in Asia Minor, paid tribute to the Ming court many times, and the prototype of the Lu Mi Gong entered China as a tribute at that time, and was soon copied and improved into the Lu Mi Gong by Zhao Shizhen, the author of the "Artifact Spectrum".

According to the records, Lu Mi Gong "weighed about seven or eight catties, or six catties, and was about six or seven feet long, with the dragon head rail and machine in the bed." If you pinch it, it falls, and the fire is rekindled. There is a steel knife at the foot of the bed, which can be used as a horse sabre if the enemy is approaching. When put, grab the hand in front of you, tuck the end of the bed in the back, and only pinch the machine. If you don't move your hands, the fire door will be a little farther away, and the smoke will start at the beginning, so as not to be shocked. That's why it's better than a bird. Four dollars for medicine, three dollars for buckshot".

In terms of effective range and caliber, the Lumi gun is superior to the bird gun equipped by Chen Wenjun, and its technical content is not much higher than that of the bird gun, and the level of the existing craftsmen is also acceptable, so it is most suitable to replace the bird gun at the moment.

At the same time, Chen Wen also issued the first research and development task to the craftsmen of the Ordnance Division. That was to build the Lumi Gun at the same time as the Roumi Bolt that he had seen on the forum, and try to mount it on the Rumi Bolt. For this he also gave a reward of up to fifty taels of silver. As for the steel knife used in the record for cameo sabers, it was simply removed on the grounds that it was not practical.

Even if these craftsmen are all illiterate, they rely on the craftsmanship that has been passed down from generation to generation, but the officials of the Dalanshan Construction Division read the words in the book for them, plus the original illustrations, the first Lu Mi Gong was quickly manufactured. It's just that there is still a long way to go before the mass production of equipment troops.

However, the wheel-type flintlock flintlock bolt that Chen Wen was much more expected to make was far from being as easy to manufacture as he imagined, and the craftsmen spent countless man-hours and materials according to Chen Wen's drawings based on his memory, but they did not build a bolt that met the standard of normal use. Moreover, according to those officials and craftsmen, even if this kind of flintlock gun bolt is built, the man-hours and materials required to build it are much higher than that of arquebus bolts, and it cannot be popularized at all.

What these professionals say is not unreasonable, in history it took a long time after the advent of the flintlock pistol to gradually replace the arquebus, the flintlock pistol is superior to the arquebus, almost everyone can understand, but the existence of problems in its manufacturing process has led to a slowdown in the rate of upgrading.

It was not until 1717 that France, which was the first to be equipped with flintlock pistols, decided to make flintlock pistols a standard rifle for military use. Mass production of equipment for regular infantry regiments, whereas before that, only the more elite units and arms, such as grenadiers, could be equipped with flintlock pistols, while ordinary armies that made up the vast majority of their strength could only continue to use arquebuses.

Chen Wen is not ignorant of these things. It is also clear that what they said is true, but the increase in the firing speed, as well as the fact that the flintlock pistol no longer uses open flames, and the musketeers can stand more densely, these have effectively improved the killing ability of the musketeers, so that the muskets have gradually become the main combat weapons of the infantry in the true sense, which is the trend of future development.

Without hesitation, he denied the application to cancel the manufacture of flintlock pistol bolts, and Chen Wen directly doubled the reward, even if the things made could only equip a very small number of elite troops, and even dragged the arquebus manufacturing back at the same time, he chose to endure it. At least the accumulation of technology must begin now, and winning in the present can win in the future.

In contrast, the manufacture of cold weapons is more reassuring to Chen Wen. According to the current establishment, in addition to the original Mandarin Duck array weapons, there is now an extra five-foot spear head, this gun head in the manufacture, Chen Wen because he heard Yu Guowang mentioned that during the siege of Linhai County and the Qing army, there was a phenomenon that the Qing army tried to cut off the barrel of the gun, so he specially requested that a metal sleeve to protect the barrel of the gun be added at the junction of the head and the barrel of the gun.

However, for those blacksmiths, this is just an extra hand, not a technical content, so the manufacturing speed has not been affected.

Although the Ordnance Division is now subordinate to Jinhua Town, the actual control is still in the hands of the civil officials of the Dalanshan Construction Division, and he can make requests for many things, but it is inconvenient to interfere too much, which makes Chen Wen feel constrained in many things, unlike when Wang Jiang is still alive, as long as he doesn't need to worry about it.

Now the threat of the Qing army is still at present, and the excessive transfer of personnel has led to a reduction in production, as well as the interference of the civilian officials of the supervising army, but he cannot afford it, and he can only slowly digest these officials, so that he can do it like his fingers.

After spending a whole morning in the workshop of the Ordnance Division, Chen Wen returned to the camp without even eating lunch, but Cao Conglong's plan to go to Dongyang County to visit Yu Guowang in the two days decided before his arrival could only be put on hold for the time being.

After returning to the camp, Chen Wen continued to observe the training of the battle camp after lunch, and the old version of the Mandarin Duck Formation had already had certain rules for training, so the speed of forming combat effectiveness was very fast. However, his newly designed spear array is far less flexible than the Mandarin Duck Array, and it looks quite rigid, and the reason is that the weapon is too long and too single, and many changes in the Mandarin Duck Array cannot be used. So much so that he is now very glad that he did not abandon the old mandarin duck formation when he decided to train the new battle formation. Instead, let half and half of these two infantry battle formations exist in the army.

As the other half of the new and old mandarin duck array killer team in the infantry team, the bird gunners in the firearms team performed mediocre in the battle of Xiaoshun Town due to the problem of firepower coverage, and Chen Wen had to change the establishment to one captain per team, ten team members, and one firefighter when reorganizing, and the ten team members changed from simple bird gunners or archers to half of each for mixed formation. to increase the long-range fire damage of the infantry team after engaging by firing from the back.

In addition to the increase in the strength of the artillery corps with the increase in seizures, the use of Qi Jiguang's cavalry battalion by the cavalry corps has also led to the need for many officers and soldiers to retrain their weapons, and the speed of forming combat effectiveness is bound to once again drag down the whole army.

In any case, since the end of last year, the gradual reorganization and training have been carried out, and it is estimated that in another month, the three fully equipped combat battalions should be able to be used on the battlefield.

Just as Chen Wen continued to supervise the training, a horse-drawn carriage quickly drove into the alley behind the government compound under the handlebar control. When the carriage stopped, a woman dressed in plain clothes and wearing a hat stepped down after the maid had put the carriage stool.

The carriage was pulled aside with handlebar skill. The maid went to the back door of the palace and knocked on it. After a while, the servant woman guarding the door opened the back door, and when she learned the identity of the visitor, she directly invited the woman in.

The woman walked towards the courtyard where Sun Yu's wife and young son lived, and she was only halfway there, but when she saw the hostess of the Jinhua prefect's yamen, she greeted her with a personal maid.

"Sister ......"

"Since Sister Qing got married, it has been rare for our sisters to see each other again, and it is a good thing to be able to meet again today, don't do it."

The Yi family, who had met her, had already held the hands of the little sister of the Zhou family with both hands, and her eyes were full of tears of reunion after a long absence. And although the little sister of the Zhou family said the truth, she was also like the Yi family in her heart. The two of them were handkerchiefs who talked about everything when they were girls. Wandering in troubled times, life and death are boundless, and I haven't seen each other for many years, so I naturally miss it very much in my heart.

Stepping into the hall hand in hand, after taking a seat, the two began to talk about the experiences of the years of separation. The little sister of the Zhou family is okay and has never married. Naturally, it was at home, and even the chaos after Jinhua Slaughter and Chen Wen entered Jinhua Mansion was avoided one by one, and they called themselves lucky.

In contrast, Yi's has had a much harder time in the past few years. After getting married, her in-laws and husband treated her very well. Moreover, her husband is also a well-known talent in Jinhua City, and the imperial examinations over the years have also been quite smooth. If nothing else. The title of the gold list also has some opportunities.

However, it didn't take long for this good day to catch up with the Qing army to the south, that year "Wucheng captured the southwest corner, and the heads fell like rain in three days", Yi's family was lucky to survive in the countryside, but her in-laws suffered misfortune, and even the child in her womb could not be saved. And since then, her husband's temperament has changed greatly, although he is still the same as always for her, but he has never smiled again, and the pain in his heart is as sensitive as she can naturally empathize.

The maid with the marriage was thrown into Yin Can's army with Sun Yu, and after several chaos, even the maid who accompanied the marriage disappeared in a Qing army encirclement and suppression, thinking that she was either no longer alive or was looted by the Qing army.

After Yin Can's defeat, Sun Yu, Wu Dengke and others went to Dalan Mountain to defect to Wang Yi, and later settled down at the foot of Dalan Mountain. I thought that the days would go on like this, who knew that within a few months, with Chen Wen bringing the plan of the Qing army to encircle and suppress Siming Mountain, Wang Yi, Feng Jingdi and others gathered the Ming army from all walks of life in Siming Mountain but were defeated on the shore of Siming Lake, and the Qing army followed, and Yi, who had just conceived a child, came to the edge of life and death with her husband again.

Snuggled in her husband's arms, while struggling to pass on the warmth to the man who spent her life with her, but the threat of the Qing army in the winter night was still bone-chilling. Until that moment, the messenger of Nantang Ying's good news arrived, and the warm sun tore through the confinement of the cold winter, and she and her husband finally got rid of their destined fate.

In the days that followed, her husband did his best to assist Chen Wenchen Dashuai, who was secretly identified by her husband as the "Descending Star Monarch", all the way from Dalan Mountain to Tiantai Mountain, and all the way back to their hometown Jinhua Mansion from Tiantai Mountain, and played the banner of "defending the land without losing" and entrenched here.

From the beginning of the fourth year of Yongli to the beginning of the fourth year of Yongli, when they were forced to leave Dalan Mountain, to the recovery of Jinhuafu City last year, these two short years have experienced too much, and with the appearance of Chen Wen, the gods seem to have begun to take care of their suffering family again. Last summer. She and Sun Yu's child was born, and it was still a boy. After the recovery of Jinhua City, Sun Yu's personality gradually became cheerful and sunny again, but his attitude towards official affairs like Yan Luo Bao Lao and Ben Chao Hairui has not changed.

Speaking of hardship and warmth, Yi's tears once again crossed his smooth face. I was going to use the old days to find out about the temperament of this Chen Dashuai, thinking that the little sister of the Zhou family, who was planning at home, was still moved by the relationship between her sister of the Yi family and the prefect Sun.

Say goodbye. The two quickly turned the conversation to Yi's son. After the nurse brought the child, the little guy didn't cry or make trouble when he saw the little sister of the Zhou family, but he just stretched out his hand.

The green fingers were hooked together with the baby's immature little hands, and the little sister of the Zhou family was instantly infected by Yi's motherhood, and the love in her heart seemed to rise out of every pore of her body like water vapor, enveloping the whole person.

"It is said that the boy is like a mother, this child and Sister Qing are really carved out of the same mold, and they are likable and tight. No, sister, I want to be the godmother of this child. No one can stop you. Saying that, the little sister of the Zhou family made a gesture of embracing, as if she was not allowed to be the godmother, the child would be taken away.

Seeing that the little sister of the Zhou family was motherly, Yi Shi smiled, and then said narrowly: "You, the girl who has not yet left the cabinet, are so anxious to be a mother, okay, the godmother will be the mother." With the friendship between you and my sisters, my grandson won't say anything. It's just ......"

Seeing Yi's expression. The little sister of the Zhou family was shocked when she landed. "Just what?"

"It's just that this kid already has a godfather, if you are a godmother, hehe."

"Sister Qing!" The Yi family has been married for many years, and the mentality has long been different from that of the boudoir, and the little sister of the Zhou family is still a girl's family after all, and Yi's words directly made the little sister of the Zhou family blush. "Sister Qing is used to playing tricks on others. If you say this again, I won't dare to come again. ”

The two boudoirs played with the child for a while, until the little one was a little sleepy, and then the nurse carried him back to the room to sleep.

After the others left, the little sister of the Zhou family said solemnly: "I don't hide it." In addition to visiting her sister, the little sister still wanted to ask her sister about that Chen Dashuai. You know, my brother is doing things under the curtain of Chen Dashuai right now, and some things ......"

The little sister of the Zhou family must have something else to do here, otherwise she would not be so anxious, and when she just talked about her experience over the years, every time she mentioned Chen Wen, the attention in the eyes of the little sister of the Zhou family would be fleeting, and how could the sensitive Yi family not know that the little sister of the Zhou family must be related to Chen Wen here. It's just that before the little sister of the Zhou family said this, Yi Shi once thought that it was her close friend who admired Chen Wen, but now that she is talking about it, it may not be as she thinks.

"When Chen Dashuai first arrived in Dalanshan, he lived at home for a period of time. He is erudite and talented, can speak well, has many opinions that are far beyond others, and can not be afraid of hardships, so Wang Jingluo was extremely relied on when he was alive. ”

Saying that, Yi Shi seemed to think of something, and then said to the little sister of the Zhou family: "Actually, this is nothing, although such characters are rare, they are not nothing. It's just that most of them are arrogant and arrogant, but this Chen Dashuai is approachable, whether it is a high-ranking official or a peddler or a pawn, he can be treated equally, and even women and children ......"

"I don't say anything about it, but I just say that on the day when Wang Jingluo appointed Chen Dashuai as a guerrilla general, the compatriots of Dalan with his grandson, including Wu Shuai and Yin Shuai, swore to follow Chen Dashuai in my courtyard. Before leaving, Chen Dashuai also gave a special amount of money and instructed my uncle to go to the village restaurant to buy some food and come back, just because there were too many people in the middle of the day, and it was inconvenient for me to come out to cook. ”

Equality is extremely rare in a class society, and the same class cannot achieve true equality, let alone different classes, and in Yi's mouth, Chen Wen actually regarded women and children as equal individuals, which really stunned the little sister of the Zhou family.

Next, Yi told the little sister of the Zhou family a lot of things about Chen Wen, from telling the story of Ming Taizu to comfort everyone when he first arrived at Sun's house, to later telling the ancient times in the village to gather people's hearts; From asking her to help embroider the camp flag, giving cloth so that the Sun family, who lacked extra income because of Sun Yu's integrity, could buy a few clothes, to taking everyone south after the defeat at Siming Lake, and resolutely leading the troops to the palace when the Qing army chased after them, seeking life for the people.

In the past year or so, Chen Wen has been able to tell too many things, so that the two talked until it was dark, and the little sister of the Zhou family went home under the reminder of the maid.

Sitting in the carriage all the way back home, the little sister of the Zhou family was full of Chen Wen's figure and deeds. After visiting her parents, she didn't even bother to eat and returned to the boudoir. silently took out the book that had caused Zhou Jingting's displeasure before from the drawer of the dresser. The book is still the same book, with the cover wrapped in fine paper to ensure that it is not worn out.

The little sister of the Zhou family opened the title page of the book, and the two ink characters written on it shone in front of her eyes. And those two words, one is Li and the other is Zhen. (To be continued.) )