The musket is a good thing, with Lu Ren's existing conditions, if it is made by hand like those blacksmith workshops in the Warring States period of the island country, and it is only to make arquebuses or flint guns, there is actually no problem with ten or eight pieces coming out every three or five times, so why does Lu Ren have so much trouble?

The reason is that Lu Ren knows too well how powerful our Chinese people's copycat ability is. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThose ordinary arquebuses or flint guns, you got them today, believe it or not, they will be copied by other families in a few days?

The number of its own generals and troops is itself a big shortcoming, and the only thing that can be relied on for a period of time to close the gap in military affairs is to engage in these advanced weapons. But if these weapons are prematurely copied by other families, won't their advantage in weapons and equipment be gone? And this is also the main reason why Lu Renhui repeatedly ordered Gan Ning, Huang Zhong and others to keep the military secret of firearms.

Don't talk about the events of the late Qing Dynasty here. In fact, as early as the Song Dynasty, there was already a systematic configuration of firearms on the Chinese mainland; The ships and artillery of the Yuan Dynasty almost caused the island country to fall, if it wasn't for the large-scale typhoon at that time, the island country might have been finished long ago; In the Ming Dynasty, the use of firearms in the army has almost replaced the traditional bow and crossbow, and a certain ancestor of the Qing court was seriously injured by the artillery of the Ming Dynasty......

The demise of the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties was a historical inevitability, and more was lost in their political system, and had nothing to do with firearms; The Qing Dynasty was worried that the civilian armed forces would pose a threat to their strong cavalry and archery field, so not to mention firearms, even the ordinary folk martial arts training and public gatherings were not allowed, so the later development of firearms in the Chinese mainland was restricted, and it was only later that they were beaten by the already very advanced firearms of the West...... Forget it.

But there is also one thing to note here, that is, after more than ten or twenty years, the strong copycat ability of the Chinese people has been reflected. Although there was no drama in self-development at that time, there was no problem with copycat imitation, and the most classic example of copycat may have to be the German Mauser pistol red9, and the Chinese copycat is generally known as the "box cannon" and "twenty shots", basically as long as it is an anti-Japanese celebrity, this thing is a person. But so many box guns, are they all imported from Germany? Knockoffs must be quite a lot, okay?

Okay, don't talk nonsense, anyway, Lu Ren never doubts the copycat ability of his Chinese people, and after learning the basic structure of arquebuses and flint guns, he is also sure that if these two initial muskets with relatively simple overall structures are taken out too early, the slightest mistake will be given to the cottage by other families.

You must know that this is the chaotic pattern of the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty, not a monopoly in the early Qing Dynasty. In such a situation, what candidate would not seriously consider the issue of weapons and equipment? If something good really comes out, they will rack their brains to get it and copycat, okay? And the influence that this thing will bring, as long as a candidate with some brains can be aware of it, not to mention people like Lao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan, they are all heroes in the world!

And at this point, Lu Ren has always insisted on a sentence: "Don't underestimate the ability and wisdom of our predecessors in the ancient Chinese, let alone be complacent because you have something advanced, thinking that others will not be able to get copycats." If something like that happens without paying attention to these things, aren't we shooting ourselves in the foot? ”

Therefore, Lu Ren's thinking is that he must achieve a technical advantage that the other party cannot copy, or can only be a primitive copycat, before these things are officially revealed. Shirley's improvement of the flint gun is actually to break away from the original manual manufacturing in the production process, and change to a semi-mechanized, assembly line production route.

To put it more vaguely, it is parts such as barrels and bolts, and Lu Ren's goal is to use machinery to stamping and produce, so that each part can meet the accuracy requirements of assembly line assembly. And in this way, Lu Ren can also purposefully separate the production units of each part, and then achieve the goal of being as conservative as possible in the production process, so that his opponent cannot copycat because he cannot get the complete parts process.

To give a simple example, Lu Ren could have placed the production plant of gun bolts or other key parts on Luzon Island (Manila), and Manila was not an area that any of the princes knew or could reach at that time, so even if they got a small number of guns from Lu Ren, because of the lack of manufacturing technology for a key part, the things made would naturally be incomparable with those in Lu Ren's hands, and Lu Ren would be able to retain a relative technical advantage here.

At the end of the day, it's still the same sentence, don't underestimate the ancients, and don't easily expose your hole cards to the ......

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Time passed day by day, and soon it was September of the thirteenth year of Jian'an.

I don't know what kind of thoughts Lao Cao has in Jingzhou, maybe it's because there are many people in Jingzhou who don't have a lot of colds for Lao Cao, right? Anyway, after Lao Cao led the army to Jingzhou, he did not launch any large-scale attacks on Liu Bei in the east of Jingzhou in the past two months, but only sent some troops to fight a little, and more often they were still dealing with some things to appease the people and collect morale.

Zhang Fang, who stayed in Jingzhou, naturally passed the news to Lu Ren, and Lu Ren said that it was not very strange when he heard about it. Lu Ren has been wandering around Jingzhou for a while, and often deals with many scholars in Jingzhou, so Lu Ren knows that the ideology and concepts in Jingzhou may be because of Liu Biao, many people are quite uninterested in Lao Cao, who made Lao Cao's background poor, and some of the things he did before made many scholars in Jingzhou very disgusted?

In the original history, after Lao Cao's defeat in Chibi, Liu Bei came out and shouted, and said that he had the right to lead Jingzhou with Liu Biao's will, why did many people defect to Liu Bei? Wouldn't a discerning person know that Liu Bei's so-called death from Liu Biao was mostly a lie? To put it bluntly, isn't it because there are many, many people here in Jingzhou who don't want to follow Lao Cao? And the banner that Liu Bei played is more in line with those people's hearts?

Therefore, Lu Ren knew that Lao Cao also had to spend more time to appease at this time, lest those people would light a few fires in the backyard when Lao Cao was fighting a big battle.

However, it is precisely because of this that the number of displaced people in Jingzhou who are fleeing south is also increasing. According to Shi Tao's statistics in Guangzhou, by September of the 13th year of Jian'an, the number of displaced people in Guangzhou had been close to 50,000, and there were still many displaced people on the road from Changsha to Guiyang who were moving south. In this regard, Lao Cao had to adopt relatively tough measures, which barely limited the population loss in Jingzhou, but although the big head was reluctantly blocked, the small head was still murmuring. Those homeless people who are in groups of three or five and specially pick up mountain trails to leave quietly, it is difficult for Lao Cao to block them here.

Of the 50,000 displaced people, 20,000 were diverted to Zhuya and Quanzhou, and the remaining nearly 30,000 came to Yizhou one after another under the response of Lu Ren's boat group. And the old Yizhou town is obviously a little squeezed, Lu Ren also took this opportunity to wave his hand, and arranged these displaced people who came to Yizhou one after another to Yizhou New Town, and Yizhou New City gradually has the initial scale that a city should have. It was at this time that Lu Ren officially named the old Yizhou town Keelung through official documents and broadcasts, and Yizhou New Town was named Mangjia.

Due to other needs, Lu Ren also moved the administrative office of Yizhou to Mangjia, and Keelung let Zhen Yao take charge of ordinary affairs as a county commander...... Zhen Yao's ability is actually okay, in numerical terms, Zhizheng is about seventy, and there is no problem when he is a county magistrate. Besides, Zhen Yao at this time is Lu Ren's brother-in-law after all, and after Zhen Mi made a fuss and officially married Lu Ren's side, Lu Ren also had to give the Zhen clan a little sweetness.

Taking a step back, anyway, there is only a distance of about 30 kilometers between Keelung and Mangjia, and after the four steam locomotives are officially put into use, the connection between the two places is very convenient.

On the other hand, look at the displaced people who moved from Jingzhou to Yizhou. There are nearly 30,000 displaced people, and it is not much to say that it is too little. At first, when they arrived in Yizhou, they were inevitably a little nervous, because they didn't know how they would live in this strange place. But soon, they were attracted by many new things here in Yizhou, such as Lu Lan's singing voice that came out of the regular broadcast, which could make their mood much calmer.

As for life, it is a bit difficult to grab arable land, but whether it is Keelung or Mangjia, there are factories and workshops to recruit people to do things, as long as you are not the kind of person who is incorrigibly lazy, find a job to make money to eat, and then live a small life in peace and stability, there is no problem at all, not to mention that Lu Ren has a corresponding assistance policy for the homeless people who have registered in the household, so that the homeless people's hearts that were still a little unstable quickly settled down...... That's what Lu Ren did at the beginning, and now it's not too simple to play these methods.

It was only said that Lu Ren was sitting in the office of the Mangjia Mansion at this moment...... Lu Ren still prefers this name. And beside Lu Ren, Zhen Mi was reporting to Lu Ren about the recent situation in Yizhou. Looking at the situation, it was a good thing, Lu Ren stretched out with great satisfaction, and then stretched out his arms to Zhen Mi with a smile:

"Little lady, please hug!" (To be continued.) )