Hanjia Iron Yard is Guanjia Iron Yard, which was originally opened by a prisoner surnamed Zhang, so it is also called Zhangjia Iron Yard, and the name of Zhangjia Yard also comes from this.

The Ming Dynasty government allowed private mining and smelting within a certain range, and the Hanjia Iron Yard was only one of countless private iron yards, and because this Han Iron Yard had been in operation for decades, the scale was no less than that of the government-run Iron Yard, or it would not have produced so many firearms.

It is precisely because of the existence of the iron yard that the market town of Zhangjiachang is also a famous iron products processing base in eastern Sichuan, with hundreds of large and small workshops and hundreds of workers engaged in iron smelting.

Yang Ming attaches great importance to this iron field, otherwise he would not have stationed a target force in Zhangjiachang for a long time.

There is also a reason why Hanjia Iron Yard is located in Suoshaba on the eastern outskirts of Zhangjiachang Town. Suoshaba is backed by the coal mining area of Dongxiang County, and is close to the largest river in Dongxiang County, the Zhonghe River, and the transportation is convenient, the terrain is gentle, it is an excellent place to open an iron yard, and Yang Mingyi came here, but also attracted by the geographical situation here: "Liu is the director, how many craftsmen and laborers are there here?" ”

"Childe, there are currently one hundred and twenty craftsmen and three hundred and forty-two people in the Han Iron Field, all of whom are temporarily detained in the shack, waiting for Gongzi to deal with it", Liu Hede, a blacksmith who has been appointed by Yang Ming as the head of the Han Iron Field, slowly read the numbers that he had just counted, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart that this official was really tired, and it was troublesome to just read a word.

"Why are they still in custody, let them go immediately, and gather them all here, I have something to tell them," Yang Ming said, and soon, hundreds of ragged craftsmen and men gathered on the dam where Yang Ming was standing.

"It turns out that the scientific and technological talents of my Ming Dynasty are like this, they are even worse than beggars", Yang Ming saw that most of the craftsmen in front of him had numb expressions, lowered their heads, like death row prisoners waiting to be disposed of, and then said loudly: "Everyone rest assured, my name is Yang Ming, not to do anything to you, on the contrary, I want to treat you well, Yun Die, and ask them to carry the silver dollar up." ”

These craftsmen thought that Yang Ming was going to kill them, but they didn't expect Yang Ming to come out with the silver before killing them, and they all raised their heads one by one and glanced at the silver dollars of the white flowers. Some greedy people still secretly wondered if the silver was going to be given to them.

However, this time they guessed correctly. Yang Ming quickly announced: "Congratulations on now officially becoming an employee of my Han Family Ordnance Institute, I will give you a month's salary advance now, you will come here to register if you receive the love, as long as you work hard, you will receive more money in the future!" ”

"Send money? The thieves would even send us money? The craftsman and the man looked at each other incredulously.

Many of these craftsmen and folk husbands did not have to be paid for their work, and except for some skilled craftsmen, most of them came to work in the Guanjia Iron Yard just to eat three meals. However, Yang Ming gave them silver dollars today, and said that as long as they registered as employees of the Han Family Ordnance Institute, they would be paid handsomely every month in the future.

Yang Ming also knows these things well, so he wants to use silver money to envelop these craftsmen, after all, he will have to rely on them to develop the equipment of the Han army in the future.

"Hey, how come this silver is round, hey, there are people on it, is this money?"

"Why not, haven't you heard people, this is a new silver coin made by thieves, specifically to prevent others from stealing and casting, last time I and Lao Li who can carve were invited by Director Liu here to cast this, my daughter also came to me a few days ago to take this silver dollar to the town to buy a piglet."

"What are you still muttering here, don't you go to register quickly, if it's late, it's full, but you won't have such a good opportunity", one of them said and hurriedly ran to register, and the others followed.

"Name?"

"Jia Kui".

"Where are the people, what for?"

"I used to be a craftsman from the Gunpowder Bureau of Liaoshan Customs, and now I make firecrackers here, hehe."

"Very good, Childe said that anyone who can make arquebuses or develop gunpowder can be directly hired as the chief engineer, and your future silver will be twice as good as others, do a good job!" Wang Peng, who was in charge of supervising the scene on the side, patted the person on the shoulder and said.

"Really?" Although Jia Kui didn't know what the chief engineer was, when he heard Wang Peng say that he could receive two copies of the silver, he was immediately happy. Seeing this, the craftsman behind him also hurriedly shouted: "Master Jun, the grass people are called Meng Yunpu, and the grass people can not only make all kinds of firecrackers but also cannons. ”

Yang Ming knew very well that these craftsmen and people had a simple employment relationship with the Guan family, as long as they were given a certain salary, these people would immediately obey their own lives, but they were better than those show-talents, and the value they played was much greater than those show-talents.

After the registration was completed, these craftsmen and people who received silver dollars did not complain even if they were immediately sent by Yang Ming to make weapons, and even because Yang Ming had told them that whoever did more would get more prizes, these craftsmen were more active than before. And some craftsmen who were directly hired by Yang Ming as chief engineers because of their exquisite skills were also immediately summoned by Yang Ming to carry out firearms improvement work.

"Who is Meng Yunpu?" Yang Ming took the booklet from Xu Shuixian's hand and skimmed through it.

"It's small, hehe, I don't know what the official family commands", Meng Yunpu and the others had already been educated by Director Liu in advance, and when they saw Yang Gongzi, they wanted to call the official family.

"The general soldier you are talking about is Mao Wenlong, do you know Kong Youde?"

"The official family is right, they are all our old bosses, and then the chief soldier died, so I followed General Kong to Shandong, but I didn't want to cast a tartar and fled here with the Lord Baihu, hehe", Meng Yunpu said with a smile, Yang Ming asked again: "You said you would make a firebolt?" ”

"Well, the ancestors of the grass people can work in the military department of the capital, and the ancestral craftsmanship will be mixed and eaten, hehe."

"And you're going to make this guy?" As Yang Ming spoke, he ordered Yundie to take out the firearm drawings he had drawn before he came, and the first one he showed Meng Yunpu was a Type 56 semi-automatic rifle.

Meng Yunpu looked at it for a long time before he said stupidly: "The little one is an expert today, and I have never seen such a firecracker, hehe." ”

"I know you won't, what about this kind of firecracker", Yang Ming took out the drawings of the fast and slow machine again, Meng Yunpu just glanced at it a few times, Yang Ming put it away: "Forget it, I won't play with you", as he spoke, Yang Ming took out the drawings with flintlock pistols: "Look at this, will the firecracker on it be?" ”

Meng Yunpu is now self-conscious, he has boasted a lot of Haikou in order to receive a few more salaries, but he didn't expect that this Yang Gongzi knew more fire guns than himself, and they were all things he had never seen, seeing Yang Ming take it out again, he had to blush, touch the back of his head and look at it carefully, and suddenly his eyes lit up and said: "This is similar to the new bird gun that the grass people have seen in Lord Bi's mansion, and the bird gun is still made by my grandfather himself, and the bird gun is not afraid of rain and snow, but it is troublesome to do." ”

"Bi Maokang's is similar to this principle, they are all flintlock pistols", Yang Ming also knows a lot about ordnance knowledge, and also knows that someone in the Ming Dynasty has invented flintlock pistols, and the inventor is Bi Maokang, an official in the Chongzhen period, seeing that Meng Yunpu is full of confidence, he asked: "Can you make it?" ”

"Yes, it just takes a lot of effort," Meng Yunpu nodded.

"Well, from now on, you are the director of the firearms research institute of my Hanjia camp, responsible for leading this group of chief engineers who can make firearms to make this kind of gun for me, no matter how much effort it takes, as long as you make it, I will give you a bonus of 1,000 silver dollars each, but it must be made according to my requirements, that is, standardization, how to standardize, what is standardization, I will teach you", Yang Ming said this, Meng Yunpu was also busy, although he couldn't understand some of Yang Gongzi's words, But he knew that he could get a lot of benefits as long as he made the flintlock pistol that Yang Gongzi said.

"Who is Jia Kui?"

"Hey! The small one is Jia Kui, if there is no small one, what kind of fire cannon is just a burning stick, hehe. ”

Jia Kui saw that Meng Yunpu was very obedient in front of Yang Ming, and he was also busy showing his ancestral know-how, saying that the gunpowder he developed could destroy the stone and break the bridge, and wake up the Jade Emperor in the sky.

"You will ask a few people to bring a few packets of gunpowder with me to the county office, and I will personally teach you how to improve gunpowder and how to make ammunition, which is definitely better than your ancestral method." Yang Ming didn't expect that the small Han family iron field had hidden so many talents, and he was very happy in his heart, but at this moment, Bai Qian hurriedly ran over and whispered beside Yang Ming: "Childe, the imperial court has sent troops." ”