In the early spring of February, the harbors in Dengzhou and other places were surprisingly busy, and every day we could see fleets leaving the port and fleets entering the harbors. (Provide a > for the latest chapter reading.)

At the same time, the Zheng family's current performance made the marshal very dissatisfied, and felt that he couldn't rely on it, so he still had to support his own sea power, so Shandong's merchant fleet also began to go eastward to Japan to explore the route and make all preparations.

These days, there have been two waves of fleets to the Changshan Islands between the Liaodong Peninsula and the Shandong Peninsula to explore the hydrology and inspect the islands; The two waves of fleets disguised themselves as fishing boats went north to Lushun Jinzhou and other places, and took some capable officers of the Jiaozhou battalion to explore military planes, survey the terrain, and the direction of the Bohai Sea.

In addition, other personnel also went to the direction of North Korea, using the identity of the Ming merchants, opened a trading house in the port of North Korea, and also prepared a clipper ship at the mouth of the Han River, and established a messenger route from North Korea to Dengzhou, because now the Manchu Qing Dynasty is not small dependent on North Korea's grain, once the army is moved, it will be requisitioned from North Korea for grain collection, so it is also a good place to spy on military information.

Last time, the DPRK fully supported the 3,000 Tartar soldiers, and the DPRK was very close to Shandong by sea, which is also a direction that needs to be guarded against and pay attention to.

The army and intelligence agencies were busy spying, and in the private port of Lingsan, there was still an endless stream of merchant ships coming and going from the south to the north, there were merchants from the south of the Yangtze River, and more merchants from the Zheng family, and their business did not show any change in the slightest, and it was still so prosperous, although the North Korea controlled by the Ming and Jurchen was actually an enemy country. This side of the sea is already similar to a war zone.

A fleet of Zhengjiadi ships. They were about to set sail from the Lingshan private port, this time, they were going to Japan with more than 20,000 stone white sugar, more than 5,000 bundles of raw silk, in exchange for special products such as Japanese knives and sulfur. The demand for weapons is huge, and the slightly risky weapons business is quite lucrative, and sulfur is becoming more and more sought-after because the consumption of firearms has skyrocketed.

The whereabouts of these swords were generally bought by some of the fortresses in Henan, where the local tyrants were in great need of weapons, and it is rumored that some of them went into the hands of the thieves, and the sulfur was all bought by the Jiaozhou battalion. The profits of these businesses are a lot, and the income of tens of thousands of taels is still small.

Zhou Jihai was lying in a clean upper room next to the flagship captain's room at the moment, which was very cramped, much smaller than his study at home in Ye County, but he still didn't mind. Because. This is his chance to change his fate, the Zhou family in Yexian County has always been an important salt merchant and landlord in Shandong, but over the years, because of the rise of the Jiaozhou camp, the situation in his hands has become more and more cramped, although the money is not much less, but it is gradually visible. The big sources of profit are in the hands of the Jiaozhou battalion.

The Zhou family is still a relatively young family. It's not dead yet, so everyone knows it. It was time to find a new source of profit, so the Zhou family was very active in participating in the work of Tuntian Farm. But because of hesitation, the share of land occupied in it is too small, and now there is more and more danger of being thrown away by those families who are close to the Jiaozhou camp......

Zhou Jihai is the third son in the third room of the Zhou family, a very embarrassing position, although his father is not low in the family business, but he is not the patriarch after all, as the third son, he can inherit even less, originally wanted to let him go to the test for fame, but also to earn some face for the clan, there is always a background and placement, but unfortunately although Zhou Jihai is still good at writing, writing letters and doing accounts, but it is always not compatible to memorize the four books and five classics, and he can only follow the elders in the clan to do business and make money.

Now the family economy is a little cramped. Therefore, the clan let these young children go out to develop their wealth. It just so happens that the boss in the long house. It's a dead book nerd. No access to world affairs. Ping Suli often expressed some remarks about Li Meng, a madman who did not know how to respect and humble the military general, and was about to be punished by heaven. It makes the family worried.

The Zhou family plans to abolish the inheritance of the head of the family. Scrapped one. Naturally, you have to choose a new earth to come up. So Zhou Jihai's generation is holding back their strength to make some contributions to add some weight to themselves. Zhou Jihai couldn't study before. Compared to those brothers in each room who are a little bit talented and famous. It's always a little hard to look up. Now the Jiaozhou camp has always been a meritocracy. Don't value the imperial examination and the false name. This trend has gradually spread among the Shandong clans. To some extent, this is equivalent to flattening the gap between everyone. So that he can compete with those brothers in the clan who are better at reading. This time, I am particularly eager to make a meritorious performance. The location of the patriarch is too tempting.

This Zhou Jihai held his head. Lie in bed. Thinking about my trip to Japan.

The children of Laizhou have dealt with maritime merchants a lot in recent years. What foreign allusions. are all aware of a lot. The horizon is also broader than many people in the Inner 6 places. Zhou Jihai remembered that there was a sailor who ran the boat and told it with spit flying. Then Japan is the land of gold. There was gold everywhere. Daming used silver. In the land of the Japanese land, gold is as expensive as silver.

But there's such a thing as gold. If only it was so easy to earn. The sailor who told him about it had already made a fortune. So I can't have any extravagant hopes for that gold this time. You must find a reliable way to make money. Make good money. Famous in Shandong. to establish one's place in one fell swoop. To know. He was one of the first batch of businessmen in Shandong to go to Japan...... This is a ferry ticket that cost 1,000 taels of silver.

Zhou Jihai was indeed the first batch of merchants from Shandong to Japan. He could even be said to be the first. Because of the rich and noble sons and wealthy merchants who were on the same boat with him. Or Lingshan Commercial Bank follows the ship to understand the route. Or Shandong Yanbang spies. When Li Meng was commanding the people below. Special mention is made of the Wakos. The Zheng family had close ties with the Wa Kingdom. No one knows if there will be any moves to lure the wolf into the house.

In normal history, Shandong was not harassed by Japanese pirates and pirates during this period, but even if Li Meng knew this history, he would still send someone to investigate, because the current history has deviated greatly from the course, and many things need to be decided on the spot.

The wind was strong, even when anchored in the harbor. It's also shaking badly. Zhou Jihai was tossing and turning on the boat, but suddenly heard someone knocking on the door, accompanied by a Fujian accent of Shandong: "Zhou Gongzi, it's time to set sail." ”

Zhou Jihai rolled over and lay on his side, muttering to himself: "Yes, it's time to set sail......"

Twenty days later, in the port of Nagasaki, the Zhengjiadi fleet finally docked, this place. The Zheng family's fleet is frequent, almost like their own backyard, and almost all of the old sailors have a home in Nagasaki, you know, the eldest son of the Zheng family grew up in Nagasaki.

These old sailors are all from Fujian Township, and they may all be relatives of the Zheng family, and although Master Zheng is a general soldier, he has always been very nostalgic. The treatment of these villagers is good, this Japanese territory, women are cheap, although the old sailors are not young, they are illiterate, they are old and black. But at that time, the silver of the white flowers was taken out, and naturally those thirteen or fourteen-year-old Japanese girls would come up, everyone was a man at sea, and there was not even a female mosquito at sea.

These days. Zhou Jihai and the captain are also familiar with each other. The captain dragged him to give him a drink of flowers and wine and play with women, but Zhou Jihai pushed it off after a lot of resignation. With the status of his family, in Shandong. In Daming, are you still worried about not being able to find a woman? Now I'm coming across the sea for the sake of profit, not for the dwarf Japanese women.

Walking on the streets of Nagasaki, for this exotic scenery, Zhou Jihai is also an eye-opener, Japanese houses are very peculiar, generally there is no foundation, but a stake is used to pad a space under the house, and the floor is laid on it, and the walls of the house do not use bricks and stones, but use wooden frames to paste paper, Zhou Jihai thought maliciously, when the Japanese couple is in Dunlun at night, will it be heard by the people next to him? This saves you the hard work of listening to the corner.

On the commercial streets of Nagasaki, there are many large and small shops around, listening to the interpreter next to him, these seem to be not as big as the domestic pawnshops, in fact, they are the shops of the most powerful big merchants in Japan, hundreds of thousands of big bosses are inside, personally receiving even the smallest guests, Zhou Jihai couldn't help but be surprised, but I heard the interpreter say that Japanese merchants can't own the fields, and the fields are divided by the generals to the samurai, and they can't be resold. Therefore, the merchants' money was in business, and they had to do it themselves.

Hearing this allusion, Zhou Jihai remembered those things in Shandong, Tuntian Grange almost occupied most of the land in Shandong, behind these lands is Jiaozhou Ying, is Qi Guogong, this kind of manor with high production efficiency is equivalent to Guantian, and private sales are not allowed.

These big salt merchants in Shandong and other rich businessmen, before Li Meng, earned land and silver, and eight points were invested in buying land and land, everyone felt that business was too unreliable, and this field was a real thing.

After having Li Meng, the land in his hands has become a Tuntian Grange, and the money earned from doing business can only be invested in business, but the business has become more and more prosperous, thinking about the behavior of buying land in the past, it is really stupid.

These things are really a bit of a coincidence......

walked along the commercial street, but now those shops that can get big profits, most of them have business dealings with the Zheng family or Jiangnan wealthy merchants, but there is no room for interference, Zhou Jihai can't help but be a little frustrated, but he is not anxious, so he and the interpreter plan to go to the shopping street, come to a foreign country, don't eat something exotic, where can it.

He took a silver ingot and two taels of silver, and asked for an interpreter to exchange it for copper coins, and when he went to the shopping street to eat snacks, the silver would definitely not be found. The interpreter took the silver, casually entered a shop, and after a while, he came back with a big bag of money, Zhou Jihai saw that he was carrying it very well, and secretly laughed that the Japanese physical strength is really not good, but it is only 1,400 Wen, but how can it be tired like this when it is ten catties.

But as soon as he took the money bag, his hand sank violently, this bag of money, I'm afraid there are thirty catties!

At this moment, he also forgot what the purpose of exchanging money was, he opened the money bag violently, and grabbed a handful of copper coins, the yellow and clear copper coins. It was as if his eyes were glazed.

Zhou Jihai let out a long breath. He slowly sucked it back, kept himself calm, and did not shout in the streets of this Japanese land, because he knew that he had a fortune, a great fortune that he had never imagined......

For Shandong, the busiest place is not the governor's yamen, the shogunate, or the barracks market. Rather, in the Weapons Manufacturing Bureau in Laiwu, the Jiaozhou battalion crisscrossed the world, relying on a complete and normally functioning training system, and then it was well-armed and advanced.

This advanced is not ahead of the times, but the Jiaozhou Battalion Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau made the gun, that is, it can be fired according to the theoretical range, and there are few failures such as explosion and dumb fire, which is compared with the products of the Ministry of Ground Engineering of the Ming Dynasty. That's the difference between heaven and earth. And it is made in accordance with the European style of large-caliber heavy smoothbore guns, the power is huge, one shot can knock down a strong horse, cotton armor and the like are similar to paper paste, lethality and stability are naturally not the kind of garbage goods of the Ming Dynasty can be compared, as for those firearms outside the customs manufacturing. Although the quality is more stable than that of Daming, but after all, the technology is rough, and only by desperately adding iron in exchange for safety, the bird guns of Jianzhou and the like, the lethality is not worth mentioning in front of the fire guns of the Jiaozhou battalion.

There are also the armor of the cavalry of the Jiaozhou battalion, the spears and swords of ordinary foot soldiers, and even these ordinary weapons are strictly controlled by the Weapons Manufacturing Bureau. Expertly crafted. The armor pieces of the armor are not heated by fire, but by a hard anvil and a cold hammer. Hard-punched out of small pieces of iron, softer than those of other forces burned with fire. The armor that was smashed out with a few hammers casually, and a discerning person could know how big a gap it was at a glance.

With trustworthy weapons, trustworthy armor, good food and sufficient physical fitness brought by long-term physical training, skilled combat skills obtained from repeated mechanical drills day after day, year after year, as well as a solid formation and trust in the comrades around them, the Jiaozhou battalion certainly has the capital to defeat.

In the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau, those young and strong workers who have no technology and simply contribute to their efforts are all selected from all over the place with clean net worth, loyal to Shandong, strong physical strength, and clear minds, and the standard is even higher than that of conscription, and the wages they get are equivalent to 50% of the salary of the old battalion soldiers.

Entering the manufacturing bureau, there are all kinds of night classes every night, and there is an atmosphere in it, that is, learning, everyone is desperate, like a sponge, absorbing nutrients. As long as they learn a little bit of technology, the apprentices who can help in the manufacturing process can already get 20% more than the salary of the old battalion soldiers.

And those masters, who can be called craftsmen, add up to almost five times the full salary of the old battalion soldiers.

In the Weapons Manufacturing Bureau, the number of apprentices at this level is the largest, and the number of craftsmen is the least, after all, this kind of large craftsman workshop, well-made weapons, has higher technical requirements, and many blacksmiths who can open shops in the local area can only be apprentices after being recruited.

As for this craftsman, he can command a manufacturing group, a capable person for the production of a process, and the apprentices and those rough laborers are under their command.

That's right, in the Weapons Manufacturing Bureau of the Jiaozhou Battalion, young and strong rough craftsmen, apprentices, and craftsmen are not common names, but job titles between the general manager, the general general, and the squad in the army. This difference in levels and the difference in treatment at each level is to motivate these people to continuously improve their production skills and continue to go further.

The most basic production unit of the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau is the manufacturing group, the leader of which is the craftsman, and below is the apprentice assistant, and then the rough labor.

The collegiality of craftsmen can decide whether rough workers become apprentices, and Guo Dong, Sun Hedou, and Ding Xu, and recently added a Si Kaoren, who decide whether the apprentice will be promoted to craftsman.

In fact, these craftsmen, apprentices, and young and strong rough laborers were paid more than they were supposed to, because they were working in almost three shifts, and they were too tired, and the way Guo Dong and Sun Hedou adopted was to increase their pay.

Originally, the production of the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau was done in no white and black until the production plan was completed, but then it became clear that in this kind of fatigue production, the defective product rate was greatly improved, and the repair and rework caused a lot of unnecessary trouble.

The above mentioned is just economic income, and the treatment of the members of the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau is equivalent to that of the soldiers of the Jiaozhou Battalion, and they must be treated with all kinds of preferential treatment by the local government.

But with such a good treatment and such a high status, the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau in Laiwu has always faced a shortage of manpower. In the eyes of young people in Shandong and elsewhere. No matter how high the income is, it is not as promising as a soldier, and it is glorious to be able to wear Shandong's coarse cloth military uniform and hold a spear in his hand, and this is a hero. And in reality, because the artisan household is similar to the situation of serfs, many people's concepts can't be changed for a while, and they all think that this is a lowly job. Unwilling to do it.

The requirements of the weapons manufacturing bureau are too high, and those who are fat and thin, those apprentices with skills come in, it is good to say, those young and strong, are recruited and planned to be cultivated as their own future, so the standards are particularly strict, and they would rather be lacking than indiscriminate, and often fight with military generals from all over the country for the sake of recruiting people.

Sun Hedou and the others have been having a headache about this lack of labor, and they thought that Li Meng had brought back thousands of firearms craftsmen in Beizhili. This can be solved.

But after these people added in, they were relieved and didn't breathe a few breaths, and the Jiaozhou battalion placed a bigger order, and the production capacity that had just been amplified was stretched thin.

In the past, except for the manufacture of firearms, which were more complicated, the construction of swords and spears was relatively simple. But in the production list this time, the number of Western floor armor is very large, although the proportion of half-body armor is more, but this armor is too manpower-intensive, each armor, almost need one or two teams to be responsible for building, after completing one piece to complete the other, and this kind of processing is not the kind of country blacksmith can do, they are also beating iron plows and the like. This kind of steel stuff. There is no such skill at all, and even the sword has to be trained repeatedly to do it. Now the master who can be an iron armor in the Armory Bureau. There are only forty or fifty people, and a person with a handyman may not be able to produce a set of qualified armor for ten years. In a year, there are only a thousand sets, where is enough, and most of those new craftsmen can master one or two processes, can forge, but will not carburize, carburizing well, and will not drill, human resources are tight, so that Sun and Dou Brain are painful.

Such a large amount of production, the Jiaozhou Battalion Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau has a headache is only a lack of manpower, and the raw materials do not have to worry at all, Laiwu Metro Mine, Yanzhou Coal Mine are constantly transported, as for the remuneration of workers, all kinds of miscellaneous expenses and the like do not have to worry, Ning Qiangui has already listed a special fee for the manufacture of this piece in the income of private salt and sea trade, and give priority to taking care of these years, the army generals of the Jiaozhou Battalion have been fighting outside, opening up thousands of miles, and obtaining countless meritorious deeds, and the civil system has stabilized the place with Tuntian Grange, To ensure the supply of manpower and logistics, the private salt, gold mining, and trade of the shopkeepers in business also make Shandong full of money, not to mention the gold bureau in charge of Kong Sande.

The leaders in charge of manufacturing are anxious, the big marshals have become the Duke of Qi, so step by step, the future is unlimited, everyone is also familiar with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Mengde was also sealed as the Duke of Wei, only step by step, now if we don't make some achievements, then we will not be able to keep up with the pace of progress.

But the lack of manpower is a real shortcoming, not that it can be supplemented, Sun Hedou since the first month, although it is a great joy, but the head is also whiter.

The solution of the matter is unexpected, just like a philosopher in later generations said, even a leaf has its use.

On that day, Priest Federer recruited foreigners from Macao and Nanyang, except for Zhang Lipu, who traveled back and forth between Jining Prefecture and Jiaozhou, and did a prosperous job in Lingshan Commercial Bank. Except for Garris who became Li Meng's military adviser, most of the rest claimed to have some skills, and they were all put in this weapon manufacturing bureau.

Sun Hedou knew a little Spanish, and together with the interpreter, he talked to those foreigners one by one, and now these people had been apprentices in the workshop when they were in Europe, and there were no craftsmen in charge of their own affairs. But then again, in this case in Europe, skilled craftsmen with craftsmanship can make a lot of money in Europe or go to the colonies, so why bother to cross the ocean and come thousands of miles to the strange Oriental Da 6 to survive.

Foreign monks may not be able to chant scriptures, and Sun Hedou, who has great hopes, has no choice but to scatter these people into the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau, so that they can integrate into the system and learn to adapt to it.

At first, these foreigners were used as apprentices, and they always spent time in the workshops compared to the peasant laborers. And understand the tricks.

Start these high noses and deep eyes. The golden-eyed foreigners have caused a stir in the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau, and everyone is here to see a freshness, but after a long time, it is like that now, there are also diligent and lazy, and they are not more than the Han people.

Gradually, these foreigners gradually integrated into the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau, and their Chinese dialect became more and more proficient, and their skills in doing work were getting better and better.

What made the leaders of the manufacturing bureau a little happy. Of the eleven foreigners who came to the manufacturing bureau, nine of them were promoted to craftsmen, and the remaining two people were considered to be looking around every day, but they were not familiar with the work, but now the Weapons Manufacturing Bureau has a big business, and it is okay to have such two idlers, and it is just a matter of eating and adding a pair of chopsticks.

However, among the foreign craftsmen, these two idlers are the fastest to learn Chinese. It's very smart to look at, but it's a pity that it's not of much use to the Armory Bureau.

One of them often said that his name has a "fan" sound, that is, his ancestors were also nobles with titles in Europe, and he was also a noble child, and the other was a stuffy gourd, busy with his own work every day. It's just walking around, writing, drawing, and whatever.

After the first month, Jinan City placed a large number of orders for Western plate armor, Sun Hedou, Guo Dong and others had a headache, on the one hand, they organized production, and on the other hand, they gave the plan and quantity to everyone, so that everyone in the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau worked together to see if they could come up with any solutions.

However, although the structure of this Western plate armor is simpler than that of scale armor and chain mail, the cuirass and several parts need to be continuously forged by skilled craftsmen to make it. Often a production group. Only craftsmen and the most skilled apprentices can do the job, which is extremely efficient.

Sun Hedou racked his brains every day in the yamen of the weapons manufacturing bureau. But I can't think of any way, on the third day of the fourth month. Lingshan Commercial Bank and the coal mines of Yanzhou Mansion have a large number of materials, and after the following officials check it, they still need Sun Hedou to sign for confirmation.

After the inspection, Sun Hedou stamped and signed several delivery notes, and at this time, someone outside reported that Master Duncan asked to see him.

Sun Hedou, who heard this name, reacted for a long time, this Duncan master is the foreigner who claims to be a noble ancestor, and since he is proficient in Chinese, he has given himself a Chinese name and called "Duncan", which has no rules at all.

The sound of this name is quite similar to the foreign name of this foreigner, but this behavior makes people feel more frivolous about this person, and the less favorable it is.

"What's so good about this kind of person, block out!"

Sun Hedou said to his subordinates angrily, if it were according to the rules of weekdays, the subordinates should go out directly to drive people away, but this time he said with some hesitation:

"Master, then Master Deng said that he has a way to solve the current difficulties of adults......

Sun Hedou immediately raised his head, staring at the subordinate with wide eyes, the subordinate jumped, Sun Hedou groaned slightly, he may not believe it in his heart, but at this time, he was extremely embarrassed, and he didn't want to let go of any hope that he could complete the production plan, seeing that his subordinate was still hesitating, he couldn't help but shout angrily:

"What are you doing there, call in!"

"Lord Sun, there is a method on the villain's side, now the armor production of the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau is too slow, each group of craftsmen and first-class apprentices to build plate armor and back armor, but the people in other processes have quickly completed the work, can only wait for the most difficult and time-consuming process to be completed, in order to manufacture the next set of plate armor, the villain pondered, can the various groups be disassembled, pounded breastplates, made shoulder straps, and manufactured rivets are all separated, each process is centrally manufactured, and finally unified assembly will definitely improve efficiency." These things are not difficult, but for Sun Hedou, who was born as a scholar, the method of division of labor and cooperation to improve efficiency is equivalent to opening up a new way of thinking for him.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a mouthful, Sun Hedou slapped the table excitedly, and then looked at the Duncan Deng Yang man on the opposite side a little carefully, speaking of which, there is a person called Deng Yang in the Jiaozhou camp system, that is the deputy commander of the water camp, Deng Grass, the name in front of him, with a huge body, a knotted beard on his face, and a rather rough appearance, but he is wearing this long shirt in a fake way. Pretend to be a gentleman.

This is in the Arsenal Bureau. Smoke and fire everywhere, wearing a long shirt and pretending to be a high-class person, the image can be so good there, sometimes the image of such a martial artist is really laughable

Looking at the appearance, it is indeed not a convincing place, but it is indeed a good way to propose something, Sun Hedou is still digesting Duncan's remarks, but Duncan can see that his suggestion is greatly favored by the other party. The interest was a little higher, and he continued:

"My lord, now the measuring tools used in various parts of the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau are said to be unified specifications, but in fact they are very different, if it is according to the method that the villain just said, the process is separated, and the assembly will be unified at that time, it will lead to trouble because of the confusion of specifications, and the measuring tools of the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau will be approved once."

When he said this, Sun Hedou was also surprised. He didn't have this problem at all, the proposal to unify the standard measuring tools, at that time it was still Li Meng's idea, although the quality control of the Jiaozhou battalion has a special person to check the finished and semi-finished products, but the details of the measuring tools are the habits of these craftsmen in the manufacturing bureau. I'm afraid it's hard to notice.

I am afraid that since the second half of last year, the gradual increase in repair and rework, related to the problem of this measuring tool, the two opinions put forward by this foreigner, are of great help to the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau, that huge number of orders, it is not impossible to complete.

Duncan looked very rough, and in Sun Hedou's eyes, he suddenly became much more pleasing to the eye, and he groaned for a long time, and his face finally showed a smile after being clouded for many days. He said approvingly:

"Master Deng, these are all insightful opinions. It is of great benefit to our Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau, and Shandong employs people. What you see is real talent and real learning, and Master Deng can't run away from this heavy reward! ”

I heard that there was a big reward. The foreigner Duncan smiled so much that his eyes couldn't be found, Sun Hedou had already developed high efficiency in the manufacturing bureau, and immediately summoned the head of the manufacturing bureau to enter the building, and specifically discussed the division of labor and cooperation, and the method of unifying the measuring tools, Sun Hedou was not stupid.

He didn't believe these truths, and he didn't believe it, but it was also incredibly smart to be able to raise such a question against the Jiaozhou Battalion Weapons Manufacturing Bureau.

There are many reasons why the industrial revolution did not appear in the East but in the West, and the strict requirements for data in manufacturing and production in Euro 6 are one of the important reasons.

As early as the thirteenth century, the European city guilds have begun to formulate the original industry standards, in a variety of technical books, began to use accurate numerical records, and to the end of the Ming Dynasty, "Tiangong Kaiwu" on the manufacturing related values, are still vague, this lack of attention to numbers, can be reflected in many places, resulting in a lot of advanced production technology can not be passed on, can not be promoted.

In Europe at the same time, there were already handicraft workshops that could produce armor and firearms on a large scale, and in order to improve work efficiency, the method of separating the processes and finally assembling them was also applied on a large scale.

In the last days of the Ming Dynasty, the East and the West began to gradually widen the gap in manufacturing, navigation and military, of course, this is also a significant increase in the demand for armor and weapons in Europe, and the weapons workshop must change the production mode to meet this need, and the improvement and progress of the birth.

This kind of improvement and progress made the manufacturing industry in the West continue to move forward, until it finally became a large industry that changed the world, and the gap between the West and China was completely widened at that time.

According to some theories, the workshop of the Weapons Manufacturing Bureau of the Jiaozhou Battalion has also reached this critical point, maybe Duncan doesn't want to come up with this method today, and others will come up with it to improve it in the future.

But after all, the sooner the better, and the sooner this method is proposed, the sooner the production efficiency of the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau will be improved.

However, Duncan, a foreigner, as a son of a broken aristocracy, was indeed more flexible than the common people, and he may have worked in the workshops in the past, or perhaps he had entered these workshops to observe, and he came up with ways to improve and progress, and this was his great credit.

This improved method is very good, and the leaders of the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau are all craftsmen with real talents, so they naturally understand the significance of these methods that Duncan came up with. They also found that the several opinions put forward by the marshal Li Meng to the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau that day seemed to be aimed at this kind of large-scale production.

After a little discussion, the corresponding improvements were made, the workshop space of each manufacturing team was adjusted, and the skills of the craftsmen of each group were counted, and it was immediately busy.

Duncan's benefits were also immediate, and he was immediately promoted to a craftsman, and his treatment was greatly improved. Ding Xu also gave three hundred taels of silver to this Duncan as a reward.

Sharpen the knife and do not mistake the woodcutter. The next day, the measuring tools were collected, and after comparison, the results were dumbfounded, the same is a foot, and the measuring tools used by the two manufacturing groups of the East Gate and the West Gate of the Manufacturing Bureau are actually one finger worse, such a mistake and omission, it is really a shame for the craftsmen of the Weapons Manufacturing Bureau who boast of being made by Seiko.

On the fifth day after working overtime, it was relatively accurate, and the uniform measuring tool was manufactured in a hurry. The Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau, which has changed its production methods, was particularly surprised by the production on the first day, and the armor produced was a qualified product, which was almost twice as high as five days ago.

And there are still all kinds of mistakes, and all kinds of unaccustomed circumstances to change the mode of production, there is this kind of output, Sun Hedou, Guo Dong, Ding Xu and Si Kaoren are surprised now, if they are skilled in the future. The output will be greatly improved, and more importantly, this idea has made the production capacity of the entire Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau increase extremely amazingly.

If it was just an improvement of this method, then Li Meng, the Duke of Qi who had a lot of affairs, would not stay in the Arsenal Manufacturing Bureau to check the land.

The person who alarmed Qi Guogong was the second foreigner who did not become a craftsman, this foreigner was not very old, seventeen years old. Unlike Duncan, he was always a reticent man who walked around every day, and his name was De Walter, who was said to be a Dutchman.

De Walter, like Duncan, was thought by the leaders of the Armory Bureau to have no experience in craftsmanship before, but this De Walter was much more likable than Duncan.

One is an honest and weak young man, and the other is gentle and humble, and likes to ask questions. The craftsmen of the various manufacturing groups loved this studious young man. It's also a matter of answering all questions.

It's not just a person who has said in front of Guo Dong and Sun Hedou that he wants to take this De Walter in as an apprentice. It will definitely be a good hand in the future, but because everyone is busy with production. De Walter is a quiet man again, and no one is in a hurry to do this.

It's just that the director in charge of the logistics of the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau is a little dissatisfied, and he has responded to Sun Hedou several times, saying that this person is obviously an apprentice, but he always receives a quota of white paper and charcoal on the logistics side, and he doesn't know what to do when he writes and paints.

Writing and drawing, asking more questions, it is better than wandering around, Sun Hedou also has a good impression of this apprenticeship, the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau lacks craftsmen, and there is a lack of cultural people who can form a theory of manufacturing experience, but how can ordinary scholars be willing to come to this workshop, and the various doorways of this workshop are also ignorant.

Sun Hedou originally wanted to learn some literate and intelligent young people in Shandong to draw a picture summary, but what Dewalter did was exactly in line with his mind, of course, he would not be disgusted, but he would support him, and he also had a quiet heart, so he put this Dewalter into the door wall.

But on the sixth day after Duncan finished looking for Sun Hedou, Dewalter found Sun Hedou and gave him a few crooked drawings, after reading the drawings, Sun Hedou was speechless, he thought, should he worship this young foreigner as a teacher?

"If there is no Duncan and De Walter, the division of labor and assembly of the Oriental weapons workshop and hydraulic machinery will soon appear, from the information we currently have, Shandong Laiwu at that time, whether from the scale of manufacturing, or the demand for production, have reached the so-called critical point, urgently need to carry out technological innovation and improvement of production methods, in the political, economic and scientific and technological situation at that time, according to the usual law, hydraulic machinery and production systems will soon appear.

The beginning of the Oriental industry, the magical creation, the reason why these unrealistic titles can be added to these two low-level apprentices is nothing more than because they introduced new ideas and some tips to the factory management of the East......

After careful and detailed investigation, various historical sources and reminiscences of the people involved, we can come to the conclusion that the evaluation of Duncan and De Walter, two compatriots, cannot be deified, but at most they are the catalyst, or the last piece of wood that makes the water boil.

All glory should belong to the great Chinese people. "The History of Science and Technology in the Eastern Empire in the Seventh Century", compiled and published by the Faculty of History, National University of the Netherlands.

One of Dewalter's several crooked drawings is a so-called pipe organ, which is a number of guns with barrels put together in a uniform charge.

This is nothing, although this weapon can produce a terrifying fire density in a short period of time, but to achieve this purpose, the number of firearms must be sufficient, but the weight will also be very amazing, and the practicality is not great.

However, the remaining few drawings are the use of hydraulic resources near Laiwu City to manufacture hydraulic machinery, and the drawings are not complicated, and Sun Hedou, who has extensive knowledge, can see that the drawings are similar to the structure of water mills and water mills, but they may do much more than the rice mills.

Through the improvement of the shaft and blades of the waterwheel, and the method of building a small reservoir to increase the hydraulic power, it can be made into a hydraulic blower, hydraulic rolling, hydraulic grinding, hydraulic forging hammer and other machinery.

The picture is very rough, and the internal structure is also very vague, after all, Dewalt was at most an apprentice when he was in Europe, but for Sun Hedou, Guo Dong and the craftsmen of the Shandong Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau, these tips and ideas are enough, the simple machinery driven by the waterwheel has a mature design in the Jin Dynasty, and what Dewalter brought is nothing more than to make the use of water more efficient and more versatile.

Now that the idea has been proposed, these craftsmen in Shandong can make a complete and reliable device.

As long as these equipment can be made, combined with the improved system of division of labor and cooperation, the production capacity and production efficiency of the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau will immediately increase by leaps and bounds.

Such a revolutionary improvement would not have been too late even if there were no two foreigners who met by fate, which was inevitable and historical.

Li Meng's appearance in this era has brought earth-shaking changes, not only the leap of military technology, but also the advancement of everything.

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The price of copper in Japan and the part of hydraulic machinery are all based on historical facts, and of course, the technology of European factories did not spread to Asia during this era