For a month, Yang Chao practiced horseback riding with high intensity every day, and the skin of his legs was thinned, red, worn, scabbed, heartcarpels, thinner, red, worn, and scabbed......

In this way, I can finally sit on the horse safely, not floating under the feet of feeling, I can gallop the horse, and I don't feel panicked, although I still can't draw a bow and shoot arrows on the horse, but wielding a knife is no longer a problem.

As a ruler of 100,000 men, that's enough.

Development in the barracks has also been smooth.

Under the training of experienced training officers, the recruits have made rapid progress.

At this time, Shinjiangkou was not only a barracks, but also a production base.

Yang Chao brought back more than 500,000 refugees from the north, and in addition to recruiting 50,000 soldiers, he finally recruited 10,000 craftsmen, including 2,000 blacksmiths.

Of these craftsmen and the families of 50,000 soldiers, 150,000 were brought back to Nanjing by Yang Chao for resettlement, and the rest of the big cities such as Huai'an and Yangzhou were resettled by more than 100,000 yuan.

The refugees brought back to Nanjing are a problem, they cannot be accommodated in Xinjiangkou, and it is also a big problem to put them in other places, and refugees have been a problem since ancient times, a worldwide problem.

Because the influx of a large number of people into any city during a period of time will inevitably lower local wages and raise local prices, which is a heavy pressure on the economy, and modern society cannot handle the refugee problem, let alone explain the DPRK.

Moreover, there were originally nearly 100,000 refugees in Xinjiangkou, plus these 150,000 or more than 200,000 refugees, how to feed them?

Fortunately, Yang Chao later added 30,000 soldiers to the refugees, so that the vast majority of refugees had relatives to serve as soldiers, and the military salary was enough to feed a family of three.

Therefore, what Yang Chao is facing is actually the housing problem of these people. Obviously, it is impossible for the barracks to live for them, and the barracks are still short of housing, and the northern camp is all zoned for craftsmen to live and workshop. The other three-sided battalions can accommodate 100,000 soldiers at the limit, and you must know that in the past, there were only 40,000 or 50,000 people at most. It's already being overloaded.

Therefore, these refugees had to build shacks on the wasteland on their own, but fortunately there was a large area of wasteland outside the camp, and the result was a slum of more than 200,000 people on the bank of the river at the mouth of the new river, which was originally intended to be cultivated.

Yang Chao had no spare energy to improve their conditions, so he could only let the families of their individual soldiers slowly help them, and they also worked part-time on the dock and slowly built houses for themselves. Let's settle down, this piece has built a polder, close to the river, and you won't suffer a loss after settling here, it's all river-view houses.

As long as the refugees do not come out of the humanitarian crisis, Yang Chao needs to care more about his own industry.

Enough craftsmen were recruited, and enough spacious barracks were allocated to them, just to let them produce.

One of the most important concerns is the production of birds, artillery, and ironclads.

Iron armor looks the most complex, but the craftsmanship is actually the least demanding. It's just a matter of stringing together fine pieces of iron, which can be done by a skilled blacksmith.

The most difficult part of the bird gun is in the construction of the barrel.

Due to material limitations, the bird guns are made of wrought iron sheets. In the middle, the steel core of the cylinder is used to make cold bones, and the wrought iron used to make the pipe is first burned until it is red-hot, and then the craftsman takes out the blank that has been burned to a certain temperature, and uses a hammer to knock the hot wrought iron outside the steel core and roll it into an iron pipe. And in the process of cladding iron, the steel core is constantly extracted and cooled with water to prevent the steel core and wrought iron from being welded together. The thickness of the rolled iron pipe should also be about one centimeter. In this way, the gun tube is strong and can withstand more than a dozen consecutive launches.

This kind of craftsmanship is actually not difficult, and there is no problem for skilled blacksmiths to be careful.

The second step is to link, and the length of the bird gun is more than three feet. However, it is difficult to directly create such a long double-layer iron pipe from wrought iron sheets, and it is often linked together with short iron pipes. The interface is misaligned and then sprinkled with copper as flux. Soldered up.

Because the long guns of more than three feet are welded in sections, so the guns that are not well welded are easy to be fried and bored, and the craftsmen regard whether the seamless guns are welded as the key to the success or failure of the guns.

The work of this kind of linking is obviously more complicated, and it takes a long time for skilled craftsmen to master it.

The most difficult is the third step of drilling the barrel.

Due to the use of steel brazing as cold bone to build the barrel, the process of this era can neither make a completely round steel brazing, nor can it ensure the deformation in the process of building, so the initial barrel aperture is actually unqualified in size and straightness, and it is necessary to drill with a drill bit of a unified caliber.

The Ming Dynasty introduced a special drilling machine to drill the barrel, which is basically a huge wooden frame, the lower wooden frame fixes the barrel, the upper wooden frame fixes the drill, and one person on both sides pulls the drill, and the upper one controls the wooden frame to descend at a uniform speed along the groove, which requires three people to operate at the same time, which is obviously a very primitive machine tool.

Yang Chao was a supporter of cultivating the habit of craftsmen using machines, so he spared no expense to build a large number of these drilling machines.

And spend more money to make improvements, replacing the wooden frame with a more stable cast iron frame, which makes the drill less vibrating.

However, the drilling speed is still not guaranteed.

The Ming Dynasty did not have a high-strength alloy drill bit material, the drill bit is made of a kind of artificially made fallen steel, in fact, it is a kind of high-carbon cold-quenched steel, so the hardness is not enough, the drilling time will be deformed for a long time, destroy the barrel, and greatly affect the speed of drilling the barrel, the experience of the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty is that one inch can be drilled a day, and a barrel should be drilled for a month, which is the most time-consuming.

But Yang Chao found the problem here when he was in Haizhou, modern drilling machines can not drill a hole a month, and modern drill bits will also encounter heating problems, modern people solve the problem of coolant, coolant generally with water and oil.

In order to prevent rust, Yang Chao chose to use oil.

After that, the speed is greatly improved, and if you are not afraid of losing the drill bit, you can drill a barrel a day, and if you protect the drill bit, three days is enough to drill a gun, so the process that affects the speed the most has been solved.

Therefore, the speed of making bird guns has also been greatly improved, and it only takes four days to make a bird gun in Yang Chao's barracks.

But the total output is not high, and the production of a hundred bird guns per day is very terrifying compared to other craftsmen, but it is really uninteresting to compare Yang Chao's input.

After Yang Chao built it, let Chen Jin take someone to inspect it, and test shot thirty rounds. After one inspection, all qualified can be put into use, and the result of strict procedures is. Not counting the investment, just the other costs. The cost of each bird is thirty taels of silver, and it is better to ask the craftsmen of the War Bureau to build it, and they only need twenty taels.

But this is the difference between mass production and handicraft workshops, there is a break-even point, Yang Chao believes that as production continues to increase, and the progress of artisan technology, the decline of substandard products, the cost will be greatly reduced. When the time comes, it is not impossible to build a shot for ten taels of silver.

With 20 gunners in Haizhou City as the core, a group of blacksmiths were recruited in Nanjing, and more than a dozen old gunsmiths in Nanjing were recruited to guide them, and the quality of the cannon was no problem, but the speed of the cannon was simply outrageous.

The most important thing is to make a cannon mold, it takes half a year to dry, Yang Chao began to cast cannons after October last year, and the first batch of cannons was cast by King Qinwang in the north this year. Not only the production cycle is long, but the key is that the pass rate is too low, and it is spread among craftsmen. It is the foreign craftsmen of Macao who cast cannons, and if you can get one out of ten, you can be called a national hand.

Yang Chao's first batch of clay molds is a thousand tiger squat cannons, it is said that the casting skills are the lowest, and even wrought iron can be used to forge and weld, but still ninety percent of them are unqualified, under the strict inspection of Lao Jin, in the end there are only one hundred equipment artillery teams, and nine hundred can only be melted again.

A month down. Only then can more than a dozen tiger squat cannons and one or two general cannons be cast. As for the cardinal cannon, it has no skill for the time being, and it has not begun to be cast.

Yang Chao promised a lot of money. The reward is a way to speed up and improve the quality, and if the speed is doubled, 10,000 taels of silver will be awarded to the craftsman, but so far no one has been able to receive this reward.

In the barracks, it was brought to August, which was the best day in Nanjing, when the women wore thin summer clothes, and the time when the soldiers paraded at their highest, it was also the most prosperous day in the merry industry.

Kang Xiaobao sent someone to find Yang Chao, saying that Jinchai Lou was in trouble.

With Yang Chao's status today, it is really incomprehensible that there are still people who dare to find trouble.

But there are people in the world who are not afraid of death, or who think they are not afraid of death.

The group of scholars in the Erli Society.

Kang Xiaobao stood on the stage, behind him was a group of pretty women in new clothes, and the most coveted one was naturally Chen Yuanyuan.

After the continuous hype of Jinchai Tower, Chen Yuanyuan has the introduction of a woman valued by the emperor, and has long developed from the first beauty in Nanjing to the first beauty in Jiangnan, and then climbed to the status of the first beauty in the world.

The slender figure, graceful charm, and a look as light as water make men really want to commit a crime when they see it.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the latest style of Jinchai Lou's bijia, the silk made in Suzhou, the handmade embroidery of Hangzhou, and everyone's hand-painted, if you are interested, you can bring back a concubine of your own, and you can make sure you can smile!"

Kang Xiaobao said with a smile.

Running Jinchai Tower has given him wealth, fame and status, and Uncle Liu Jingting, who he has always admired in the past, now sees him, and he has to shout Uncle Kang.

He's not a man without ambition, and who wouldn't want to go further.

After the Jinchai Lou became a benchmark in Nanjing, it fell into a bottleneck, Yang Chao's suggestion to him was to develop products, the first batch was a fan, which was very successful, and the second batch was clothes, he carefully planned to hold today's fashion conference, inviting celebrities from all walks of life.

Even a few vassal kings and scholars who were exiled in Nanjing came to cheer, Kang Xiaobao felt that it was a good opportunity, and he would definitely be able to start it all at once, who knew that the fourth son of Erli Society came uninvited, which made Kang Xiaobao worry, and went to inform Yang Chao early, hoping that Yang Chao could come to take charge.

But he can't wait, he can't afford to offend any of these masters he is doing, so he can only do it honestly, hoping that Yang Chao can arrive sooner, and he also hopes that Erli Society will not make trouble.

I don't want anything, but I want something.

As soon as Kang Xiaobao's words fell, he saw Hou Fangyu sneering and stood up and asked, "Duke Gui, can you buy it if you have money?" ”

Kang Xiaobao didn't know what he meant, and said with a smile on his face: "Hou Gongzi said that he laughed, Jin Hailou opened the door to do business, naturally those who came did not refuse, and if there was money, they could naturally buy it." However, the material is scarce, the quantity is limited, and it will not be able to buy it if it is sold out. ”

Kang Xiaobao felt that what he said was not leaky, even if it was sold out, he should not offend people, give them a preventive shot in advance, and save them when the time comes, and he will not be able to buy them and find trouble, saying that he looks down on them.

But he saw Hou Fangyu sneering: "Okay, I want that one on that biaozi!" ”

As he spoke, he pointed to Chen Yuanyuan and said.

Hou Fangyu's language collided, and Kang Xiaobao was not surprised, he was rejected by Li Xiangjun and poured all his anger on Jin Hailou, the reason is that everyone said that Li Xiangjun rejected him because he fell in love with Yang Chao.

This kind of trivial matter, Kang Xiaobao didn't want to tell Yang Chao, he looked for Yang Chao for everything, it seemed that he was too incompetent, and he couldn't even solve a little trouble, what kind of green building did he open?

So Kang Xiaobao still smiled and said, "Okay, I'll wrap it up for Hou Gongzi later?" ”

But Hou Fangyu didn't follow: "Wait? Not! My son's time is very tight, I want it now, let her take it off for me now! ”

Hou Fangyu said viciously.

Kang Xiaobao was directly dumbfounded, here, on the stage, let Chen Yuanyuan take off his clothes?

This is Chi Guoguo's slap in the face, bullying and humiliating people.

Kang Xiaobao was suddenly embarrassed: "Hou Gongzi, if there is anything offended by Jinchai Tower, you old Haihan, adults don't remember villains!" He will definitely make a special trip to apologize. ”

Hou Fangyu smiled: "Offended? Where is this? How could this son have a problem with a group of Qinglou characters. You said that when you open the door to do business, my son just wants to buy a dress and make a woman happy. In front of all the princes and scholars, are you teasing people? ”

Kang Xiaobao was about to cry, and he didn't even dare to say.

Chen Yuanyuan stood on the stage, still calm and calm.

glanced at Hou Fangyu casually, and said indifferently: "Isn't it just a piece of clothing, Hou Gongzi wants it, and the slave family will take it off for you!" ”

After speaking, he began to slowly unbutton it, and soon revealed the white embroidered orchid belly pocket he was wearing inside.

Kang Xiaobao hurriedly said: "Miss Chen, stop it!" ”

After Dong Xiaowan left, Chen Yuanyuan was the only pillar of Jinchai Tower, she didn't know what the outside world would say, Jinchai Tower couldn't afford it.

But Chen Yuanyuan looked at Hou Fangyu so calmly, calmly unbuttoned all the buttons, slowly opened them, and took them off calmly.

At this moment, the gate suddenly opened, and among several guards wearing iron armor, Yang Chao walked in, dressed in a green shirt and Confucian clothes.

Everyone saw Yang Chao, only to see that Yang Chao didn't say anything, strode to the stage, and took off his clothes as he walked.

After walking to the stage, he directly draped his clothes on Chen Yuanyuan, who was wearing a belly pocket on top and obscene pants below, and then gently hugged Chen Yuanyuan and sent him to turn around and walk to the backstage.

Chen Yuanyuan didn't say a word, and before leaving, he handed over the clothes to Kang Xiaobao and instructed him to wrap them.

As soon as Yang Chao sent her to the back hall, she immediately began to cry.

Yang Chao gently hugged her: "They forced you to take off your single clothes today, and tomorrow I will put on the most gorgeous clothes for you!" (To be continued)