On the way to the barracks, Wu Hao was not idle, he walked while reporting to Li Hongfei on the recent economic construction of Baoshan Town, including restaurants, gambling houses, and green buildings. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After all, even if Wu Hao doesn't say this kind of thing, Li Hongfei will know about it sooner or later, and it is better to "confess" as soon as possible.

"These guys have a good eye, and they saw the business opportunity so quickly." Li Hongfei couldn't help but sigh.

He didn't blame Wu Hao, after all, gambling houses and Qinglou were legal in the Ming Dynasty, and there were naturally business opportunities when there was demand, and those businessmen smelled business opportunities, which was their ability.

Besides, there were only a few entertainment items in ancient times, and the conditions of the workers in these factories were good, so Li Hongfei couldn't prohibit them from consuming.

"However, in Suzhou Heavy Industry, many technologies are highly confidential, you go back and let Guo Sheng pay attention to the point, the businessmen who open stores in Baoshan must find out their details." Li Hongfei said.

"You mean ........?"

"Do you remember the account book that Dongchang Fanzi gave you? We have Dongchang, and the Qing court may not have no spies, so it's better to be careful in everything. ”

On the second day after Li Hongfei took office as the prefect, in order to rectify those merchants, he used the dark village of Dongchang, and now so many shops have popped up at once, who can guarantee that they are all clean?

In particular, the gambling house and the green building are completely places to hide dirt and dirt.

Although Suzhou Heavy Industry has its own set of confidentiality measures, it is also good to add a layer of insurance.

"My lord, the lower officials have an idea, which can not only eliminate spies, but also increase the income of the imperial court." Wu Hao said suddenly.

"Oh? Let's hear it. ”

"In order to facilitate the expansion in the future, the site near Suzhou Heavy Industry was basically bought by Zhou Daren, and now those newly moved merchants have purchased the land about five miles away from our factory recently." Wu Hao said.

"And then?" Li Hongfei seemed to understand something.

But he admired the perseverance of the ancients even more, in order to prostitute himself, he insisted on walking five or six miles, if this is a modern person, I am afraid that when I get to the Qinglou, my legs will be weak........

"What does Xia Guan mean........ Since we are the Ministry of Commerce, we can also operate these projects, and if we build restaurants, gambling houses, and green buildings in the industrial area, we will run them ourselves. In this way, it is not only convenient for those craftsmen, but also does not have to worry about leaking secrets, and can increase a lot of income for the imperial court, what do you think? Wu Hao said what he thought.

Speaking of which, he is also one of the "victims", the location of the yamen, next to the military camp, is farther away from restaurants, gambling houses, and brothels than the industrial zone, and occasionally goes to drink a flower wine, Wu Hao also has to find Guo Sheng to borrow a horse, for which he has been ridiculed several times.

"That's a good idea, you can do it yourself. However, restaurants can be called government-run enterprises, but gambling houses and green houses are best run by businessmen we can trust. Li Hongfei reminded.

The main purpose of these industries is to prevent leakage of secrets, but it is not possible to do everything by the government, which is easy to arouse the disgust of outside businessmen.

Find some businessmen who know the roots and can be trusted, in order to avoid being truthful.

A few months ago, Li Hongfei would definitely go out in person to build a large-scale entertainment city or something like that, and manage restaurants, gambling houses, and brothels on a large scale and systematically in accordance with the management methods of later generations.

But now he is devoted to the war in Yangzhou, and the imperial court currently has sufficient treasury and money, so he is too lazy to engage in those messy business projects.

After all, Li Hongfei is also an important member of the imperial court, and it is not a good thing to be too obsessed with money.

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Since Qi Hongying's 30,000 Qi family troops completed their training and were transferred to Chongming Island in Jiangbei, the huge military camp has been much empty.

Without such a nondescript soldier wearing armor and holding a bird's gun, today's military camp finally has a trace of the prototype of a modern military camp.

At the entrance of the camp, in addition to the more than one-meter-high horse-barring fence, there are also two piles of sandbags on the left and right, and the sandbags are set up with the new "heavy machine gun" Furlong machine gun of the Ming Dynasty.

It is only now that Li Hongfei can be regarded as witnessing the true face of the Furlong machine gun, which looks like a flintlock pistol with a barrel caliber of 40 mm magnified four or five times, and the so-called Zi Gong is something similar to the large-caliber machine gun shells of later generations.

Whenever a shot is fired, the soldier knocks down a latch behind the Furlong gun, removes the fired gun, and then replaces it with a new one, which is fastened with a latch, and then fires again.

This kind of rear-loading Furlong machine gun, the fastest minute can shoot about six rounds (three times the rate of fire of the flintlock pistol), in the case of enough sub-guns, can continuously suppress the opponent's infantry, although this way of shooting is still relatively backward, at most comparable to the single rifle of later generations, but the Furlong machine gun, each ammunition is filled with nearly 100 small steel balls, its power can directly sweep a large area in front, it is not an exaggeration to call it a "heavy machine gun".

Li Hongfei even integrated the experience of later generations, and asked Song Yingxing to add a tripod to the Franco machine, because of the fixed role of the tripod, so that the soldier does not need to fix the gun body with his hands when disassembling the gun, thus greatly speeding up the loading speed.

Nowadays, the new Furlong machine gun can fire eight rounds a minute, and the maximum can even reach ten rounds per minute, which can be regarded as the most advanced weapon at that time in terms of rate of fire and lethality.

"Hey! When will we be able to get a full-metal bullet? If you had metal bullets, you wouldn't have to use this rear-loading gun, which can only fire eight or nine rounds a minute, as a heavy machine gun! Li Hongfei sighed secretly.

Although thundermercury was developed by Song Yingxing, its instability could not be solved in a short period of time, which also led to its inability to be applied to the military on a large scale.

The only use of mercury today is to make a fuse that allows the grenade to be officially installed in the troops.

The principle of the grenade is very simple, one of the most critical technology is the fuse, after all, its attack distance is limited, if you rely on an open flame to detonate it is obviously more chicken, not to mention the slow speed, such a close distance, it is also easy to be detected by the enemy, and when the soldiers are fighting, you can't still light a fire next to you!

If it were during the day, if it was attacked at night, wouldn't everything be exposed?

So the appearance of this new type of grenade quickly attracted the attention of all the soldiers, the rate of fire of the flintlock pistol is there, no matter how fast it is, it is not fast, but the grenade is different, only you have the strength, throw forty or fifty pieces a minute, there is no problem at all, this is simply the ultimate artifact of close defense!

The manufacturing process of hand grenades is simple, and they can be mass-produced once they are developed, even Qi Hongying is full of praise for grenades, and even placed an order for 100,000 in one go, according to her meaning, each soldier is equipped with at least ten such weapons of killing, and 100,000 grenades are far from enough.

If it weren't for Li Hongfei's restriction on the purchase of grenades by the Qi family army in order to ensure the weapon superiority of the Suzhou New Army, Qi Hongying would have had to change all the musketeers into bombardiers.

What are you kidding, even if grenades can be produced in large quantities, but in a short period of time, the reserves of grenades are not high, and their own troops have not yet been fully assembled, how can they let Qi Jiajun show off first?

The most important thing is that this kind of simple, powerful and powerful weapon, Li Hongfei did not dare to spread it easily, in case the Qing army got the production method and dealt with Nanming in turn, wouldn't it be a cocoon and self-restraint?

If it weren't for his friendship with Qi Hongying, Li Hongfei wouldn't even give the 100,000 pieces.