Chapter 292: Firearms Again
Hao Ren couldn't help but scratch his head and have a headache when he looked at the data in the ledger!
Mu Youcai operated himself under a magnifying glass, and he couldn't see clearly with the naked eye at all, and the ancient counts used capitalized traditional characters, not like Arabic numerals, and even the least few digits couldn't be seen clearly, so he could only see vaguely, and the data was a blurry long string of words. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
It seems that I have taken the time to return it to the clerk below and popularize Arabic numerals!
Mu Youcai saw Hao Ren scratching his head, smiled flatteringly, and hurriedly put the copper-framed magnifying glass that Hao Ren had rewarded him last time over the text.
Hao Ren looked through the magnifying glass, and his first reaction was: "Hey, I'll go, so much!" However, he didn't reflect the excessive excitement, but pretended to be flat, as if everything was as it should be, but the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise slightly, and his eyes couldn't help but bulge outward.
Visual: With the financial situation of the Qingfeng army, even if the people under the rule are tax-exempt for one year, it is enough for the Qingfeng army to support the all-out war for two years.
Hao Ren praised lightly: "Lord Changshi, there is a way to make money!" ”
Mu Youcai said quite proudly: "It's all the generalissimo's leadership, and Badou doesn't dare to take credit!" ”
Ninety percent of the Qingfeng Army's financial income came from trade, including bronze mirrors, weapons (armor, Miao knives, three-pound artillery), purified salt, lighting kerosene, kerosene lamps, and the Shen family's overseas trade shipment profits, of which purified salt was the most lucrative.
Secondly, there is also the income of the military reclamation and civilian reclamation in the Qingfeng military rice-growing area, which is planted with high-yield hybrid rice, and the grain output has doubled.
"What reward does Lord Changshi want?" Hao Ren saw that Mu Youcai had accumulated such a huge amount of wealth for his long-distance expedition, and he didn't know how to reward it for a while.
Mu Youcai was not polite, and said with a sly smile: "Does the generalissimo still remember the "Qingming Riverside Map" in the house? ”
"Hehe" Hao Ren couldn't help laughing, and said in his heart: "Good boy, be a housekeeper for me, worry about my things!" "But Mu Youcai doesn't want nothing, which is a good thing for Hao Ren.
The sea is inclusive, and there is tolerance. The wall is thousands of feet, and there is no desire to be rigid.
Since Mu Youcai still has something to ask for, then expose his weaknesses, and he will want to control it in the future.
"Reward two beauties of Changshi, three calligraphy and paintings of celebrities, including the "Qingming Riverside Map" on my house, and give another 1,000 taels of silver and 50 brocades, which will be spent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs!" Hao Renlang said.
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Mu Youcai was the first to report on the complete road construction and financial revenue and expenditure, and the second was to report on the work of Jiao Yu of the workshop.
It is nothing more than making a number of artillery, casting a number of weapons, building a number of armor, refining salt, and purifying kerosene, all of which are handed over to the government treasury.
It is worth mentioning that the four-wheeled carriage developed by the workshop has been mass-produced, which is most suitable for running on the plate oil road, fast and stable.
One is a luxury carriage specially built for the rich and noble, four-wheeled two-seater, Mercedes-Benz like flying, the price is naturally expensive, equivalent to the Mercedes-Benz brand and BMW brand at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and naturally it has become one of the important sources of financial revenue for the Qingfeng Army, which is sold to the whole country, and it is all scraped from the hands of the rich, and it is not considered to scrape the ground.
The other is a four-wheeled high-box carriage built for easy transportation, called a troop carrier. Driven by four horses, each car can carry 20 soldiers and equipment, and can also transport grain baggage, which is equivalent to the liberation brand at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, which has been mass-produced, and began to be sold by both military and civilian people, and has become a product that land merchants compete to buy.
With this carriage and three roads to get rich, then, the land north of the Qingfeng Army, with Luzhou as the center and the three roads to get rich as the basis, greatly improved the combat mobility of the troops and horses stationed in Mengcheng, Anqing, and Yangzhou.
If there is a war in Anqing, relying on a strong transport team, you can quickly transport the heavy troops in Mengcheng and Yangzhou to the Anqing battlefield, and when the war is over, you can also quickly return to the defense through a strong transport team, and the other two places are also slightly the same.
The biggest problem of the war is the problem of logistics and supply.
If there is a war in Mengcheng, Anqing, and Yangzhou, the firearms built in Luzhou will continue to arrive at the three front lines, greatly improving the logistics and supply capacity of the Qingfeng Army in Jiangbei.
"The troop carrier is not sold to the public for the time being, and the workshop will build two thousand troop carriers as soon as possible, hand them over to Luzhou Taishou Roben, and order Robben to be responsible for recruiting good people in Luzhou, with two thousand cavalry of Tu Dan Hu as the locomotive, the formation of the Qingfeng military car army, and appoint Tu Dan Hu as the car army of ten thousand households, responsible for Mengcheng, Luzhou, Anqing, Yangzhou four places, soldiers and horses heavy dispatch!" Hao Ren ordered.
"No!"
Robben and Tu Dan Hu came out of the class one after another, hugging their fists to receive their lives.
Now that there is such an advanced heavy-duty and heavy personnel carrier, it is not impossible to build a vehicle army of the Qi family army in the future, but Hao Ren has not yet reached the edge of the grassland, and Liu Futong can still support it for at least three or five years in the north, and there is still enough time to refrain from the tactics of the ancient cavalry.
"The task of making muskets assigned by the generalissimo to the lower officials has been completed, and three hundred have been built, and the lower officials have another firearm, 'Fire Dragon Out of the Water and Offered'!" Jiao Yu continued to report.
The musket was made, this was within Hao Ren's expectations, and the 'fire dragon out of the water' was a thing, and it was worth seeing.
It is a kind of firearm used in naval warfare, this firearm relies on the principle of fire/medicine thrust to push the 'bamboo tube' out on the water, and the 'bamboo tube' can fly out more than 100 meters on the water surface, and then explode.
Isn't this a ship-to-ship missile?
However, the firing range is a little shorter, and the gunpowder is black powder, which greatly reduces the power.
Jiao Yu is a dedicated official, keen on the development of weapons and firearms, and can always give Hao Ren extra surprises.
Hao Ren asked him to make artillery, and he made a 'swarm of bees,' which was the prototype of rocket artillery; let him make steel in a blast furnace, and he burned out the glass, which made the Qingfeng army make a lot of money; asked him to make a gun, and he made a Qingfeng repeater, which greatly improved the cavalry's mobile combat capability; and he made a gun, carried it, and also built a missile for ships.
A skilled craftsman and a blessed craftsman like Jiao Yu must be rewarded, and Hao Ren gave him the same reward as Mu Youcai.
"Thank you Generalissimo!" Jiao Yu pondered for a moment before he mustered up the courage to say: "Two beauties, Jiao Yu doesn't want it!" ”
"Master Jiao doesn't have to be formal, there is a woman from a good family who is not captured by this handsome, anyway, it is Zhu Chongba's wife who curries favor with this handsome, it doesn't hurt if you just accept it!" Hao Ren said with a spring breeze on his face.
"My family's ...... I'm ...... Horse-drawn cart...... Ay! Jiao Yu's face was red, and his words stammered, and finally only condensed into a sigh.
Although Jiao Yu is a celebrity under Hao Ren's account, his status and income are eye-catching, but he also has his own unspeakable hidden, a fierce woman who has desires/ravines that is difficult to fill, when she is not satisfied, she often encounters violence, and her body is blue and purple, after a long time, he doesn't want to go home, he puts all his thoughts on work, and eats and lives in the workshop, if so, when the is lonely, she will make a fuss about the workshop and pull Jiao Yu's ears and carry it home.
Hao Ren listened to Jiao Yu's words, and then suddenly remembered this, both annoyed by the woman, and pity the craftsmen under his hands.
"Although the master takes, Ben Shuai deliberately chose two gentle and quite some beauties with fists and feet, measure your fierce wife, it is difficult to be her opponent, Ben Shuai wants to be angry for you!" Hao Ren said.
(To be continued.) )