Chapter 12 The Arms Business

According to the agreed time, Shen Yue got customized pulley sets and other parts from the blacksmith shop, although the material and workmanship were much worse than those in later generations, but they were enough. When Gao Sheng www.biquge.info and the others saw the drawings of the pulley bow and crossbow that Shen Yue took out and the newly made parts, they were surprised and asked about Shen Yue's life experience, and Shen Yue only said that it was taught by a knowledgeable gentleman in his hometown.

Came to the county government again, accompanied by Gao Sheng, he was more familiar with this place, and it involved military affairs, and was received by Ouyang Chen, the county commander. Ouyang Chen saw that although Shen Yue was young, his demeanor was mature, he spoke calmly, and he did not despise it, and he was anxious about the city defense in the past few days, if he could improve his weapons, it would be a great help, so he called people to the army and called a few hundred generals to come over with bows and crossbows.

Shen Yue installed the pulley assembly on the powerful bow and crossbow, easily wound it, and tested it, and everyone was surprised. At the moment, they were surrounded by several hundred households, and they couldn't put it down after grabbing the bow and crossbow.

Ouyang Chen was impressed by Shen Yue, so he asked the Beacon Firm to process more of these components and hand them over to the government, but Shen Yue didn't just want to make some silver taels, he was weak in the Ming Dynasty, and he always had some reliance on his life, so he fooled everyone and said that it was inconvenient to directly and completely produce bows and crossbows, so they could only add some parts on the original basis, and if they could be made all, more improvements could be made, so what was produced was a more powerful pulley bow and crossbow. All of you were overjoyed when you heard this, shouting that they should be produced as soon as possible, so that they could be assembled in the army, after all, there are not many soldiers under them, all of them are old and weak, this kind of weapon is extremely convenient to operate, they are all people who want to go into battle to kill, and of course the more people who save their lives, the better.

Ouyang Chen made a mistake in his heart, the Ming Dynasty was strict on weapons control, and it was not easy to make decisions in his own district and county orders, if he only produced pulley components, it would not be taboo, but if he wanted to produce all of them, he was afraid that he would not be able to control the disaster, but at present, the situation was tight, and the soldiers were not good at refusing, so they only produced and assembled bows and crossbows first, and as for the complete optimized version, they should first write to the imperial court, and then make a decision when they get permission.

Although he knew that the imperial court had issued an order not to wait for ten days and a half months, after all, it had also achieved initial results, so Shen Yue happily resigned and prepared to set up a weapons workshop.

When he came to the blacksmith shop again, he saw that there were already seven or eight people in the house, and the old blacksmith came forward to introduce them one by one, and these people not only had a few capable men from before, but also several children and nephews of his family.

Shen Yue saw that the old blacksmith's sons and nephews were all seventeen or eighteen young people, all of them were honest and sincere, and they were rude and cultured, so he stayed with peace of mind. Giving the old blacksmith some silver taels was considered to have bought the shop, and now he has little money and no spare energy to build a new factory, so he will produce here first. At present, the blacksmith mainly makes pulley components, and there are also metal buckles for attaching shoulder straps to some backpacks, and these people are still busy.

After some discussions, Shen Yue also told everyone about the experience of the process operation of industrial production in later generations, and established a reward and punishment system. Several people saw that Shen Yue was young and old, and he was quite experienced in workmanship, and they didn't dare to fool around, so they all nodded yes. Leaving Gao Sheng to work here, Shen Yue went home.

As soon as she arrived at the gate of the front yard, Pinglan greeted her anxiously, and said with some grievances: "Brother Shen, there are many people in the business, saying that they want to buy our weapons, and the backpacks I made have also been robbed by them." ”

Shen Yue was a little funny, it seemed that the business of the business was good, and the money would be sent to the door so quickly. When I entered the house, I saw not only the hundreds of households in the county government, but also a few gentry dressed in Confucian costumes, and several people also organized some village warriors and donated official positions for group training. After some bargaining, not only did he receive many orders for the restructuring of bows and crossbows, but even thousands of backpacks, and the arms business was really profitable. Listening to the introduction of several squires who entered the city, there is already some chaos outside the city at present, and all the heroes and powerful people have come one after another, although a large number of them have been transferred away by the Yuan soldiers, but it is said that there are nearly one million taels of property left, and people from all walks of life are fighting for me, and some people have already killed red eyes for the treasure.

Sending these people away, Shen Yue and the others looked at the thousands of taels of silver piled up in the house, and they were a little happy, they were fighting and killing outside, and it was important for us to quietly make money and live our own small lives. Now that he has some net worth, Shen Yue took Pinglan to Fang City and bought some cloth as raw materials for backpacks, and also purchased some cowhides to give to Pinglan, these can be made into high-end backpacks, Pinglan came to the spirit, claiming to expand the scale, and went to the talent market, no, it was the underground human population trading office at the entrance of Fang Market that selected some women who could do it manually, seeing that some children were pitiful, Pinglan begged Shen Yue to bring them back.

The woman was really born to chop her hands, and she spent nearly half of the thousand taels of silver before she was hot, but seeing that Pinglan was in good spirits and doing it for herself, she was also relieved in her heart, and handed over the remaining silver taels to Gao Sheng to go to the blacksmith shop.

In the past few days, the previously peaceful county town has gradually become lively. There are more high-rollers in taverns and shops, who must have made a lot of money from the treasures, but they also drove the hot sales of the backpacks produced by Pinglan. Some shops in the market have come to the Beacon Shop to buy goods. The hired women were very diligent in their hands and feet, and now they were taken in by the merchants, not only to be fed and clothed, but also to earn a lot of wages for their work, and they were all enthusiastic, and the children they bought were not idle, helping to pack up and do some simple work. Pinglan's mother and daughter saw that they could make some contributions to the family and were even more positive, and the ladies' flower bags that they made at the beginning were also promoted by them, with different patterns, causing many merchants to rush to buy, and a bunch of flames were sewn on the backpacks to make the trademark of the Beacon Chamber of Commerce, which caused a boom in the city for a while, and those high-roller backpacks were common, which made Shen Yue look at the strange combination of those wearing ancient costumes but carrying modern packages.

Only five days later, the county government came to notice, saying that the approval of the imperial court had been issued, not only allowing the beacon company to produce bows and crossbows under the supervision of the county government, but also granting Shen Yue the title of a superintendent and giving a thousand taels of funds.

At present, some craftsmen were recruited from the "talent market" to expand production, and now the Beacon Merchant has nearly 100 men, women and children, and it is already a large force in the city. Shen Yue selected more than a dozen young men with some courage and strength, led by Guan Xing as the escort of the firm, practicing some fist and foot kung fu and archery in private, and helping to escort the goods on the surface. Shen Yue didn't dare to be too ostentatious at this time, he only wanted to protect himself, and he didn't dare to have any thoughts of competing for power, in the face of Zhu Yuanzhang, the real ancestor who even later generations would praise, all he wanted was to let Daming have fewer regrets, and he would not come in vain.

In private, the brothers of Ping Dayong and Ping Dashan went back to the mountains at night to check the crops they planted, both of them were farmers, and they were very happy to see the thriving agricultural products, and they were carefully weeding and digging ditches, if they didn't think of being warned by Shen Yue about the danger in the mountains, they would have settled down in the cave.

After receiving the return of the two, Shen Yue's heart was a little calm, looking out the window, now all the heroes broke their heads for those money, but they didn't know that the real treasure in the mountain was those two small fields, I hope they will mature as soon as possible and add some peace to this chaotic world.

And at this moment, some people are also sighing, laughing at those bandits who don't know the real treasure. As the sun sets, the sky becomes hazy.