At the end of July, the Times and the Military Newspaper published many advanced personal deeds, ranging from ordinary sergeants and civilians to high-ranking officials and generals, and also published an interview with Gao Shiyin, the general of Baotao in Mo Nandong Town. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Interview: "I heard that after the general arrived in Kaiping, he worked eight hours a day, are you tired?" ”

Gao Shiyin: "I'm not tired, when I think of the hot construction scene, I am full of energy!" ”

Interview: "Kaiping is windy and sandy, I heard that in order to raise chickens, you often go in and out of the major chicken pastures in Shadian, and your skin is beaten by the wind and sand, are you bitter?" ”

Gao Shiyin: "It's not bitter, when I think of the thousands of people in Daming who can't eat or wear clothes, my heart is like a knife!" All the officers and men of Dongzhen responded to the call of the general, eliminated all difficulties, and also carried out production and construction. ”

In the end, General Gao Shiyin also said affectionately: "This is the year of burning passion!" ”

In fact, what Gao Shiyin said was: "Zhang Gui, this dog. Day, he said that he would give Lao Tzu 1,000 cows and 2,000 horses, but only 500 cows and 1,000 horses came, and the veterinarian came 200 and 15, and the rest was eaten by him? Lao Tzu Day. Fucking ancestors! ”

Because his language was vulgar and did not conform to the image of the Jingbian Army, after the interview was published, his words were brutally tampered with.

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Gao Shiyin's cattle and horse veterinarian is actually the meaning of Wang Dou, Gao Shiyin has the heart to do a big career, and he works hard in Dongzhen, in order to deal with the grassland poisonous snakes, he also personally raised a group of big white geese.

However, Kaipingwei is not suitable for grazing in Tuntian, otherwise the desertification will be more serious, the Ming Dynasty gave up Kaiping for no reason, the logistical pressure is too great, and the occupation of the place is more of military significance.

And the original Shacheng and Xinghesuo under his jurisdiction were operated quite early, and the affairs of Tuntian were on track, and there was no longer a need for so many cattle and horses. It is feasible to raise chickens on pastures. Chickens eat insects, ants and grass seeds, which will not destroy the ecology, and the discharge of chicken manure can also make the grass grow more lush, but it does not need to be as many as 200 veterinarians.

In addition to being the first line of defense of Xuanfu Town, the current East Town is the place where Kaiping City must pass through to the north and south. It also became a trading hub, where caravans traveling north to trade or hunt for furs mostly stopped. The caravans that went to the Northeast Ridge to cut wood also traded here, and compared with the ruined city last year, it was much more prosperous.

In order to open up the defense line of Dongzhen as much as possible, as early as the beginning of this year, Gao Shiyin restored Yingchang Town, which was established by Li Wenzhong during his northern expedition, on the edge of Haizi, 200 miles north of Kaiping City, and set up a stockade by Haizi.

Soon after, another village was set up on the side of Changshui Haizi, a hundred miles to the left of the answering sea, which echoed Yingchang Town.

In May. Gao Shiyin set up a post near Lingji Spring in Jieshenggang, 200 miles north of Yingchang Town, which was also the location of Guangwu Town, which was built by Li Wenzhong.

In this way, the situation of Kaiping City as the rear, Yingchang Town as the middle waist, and Guangwu Town as the head has been formed.

In July, Gao Shiyin set up two more outposts at the ruins of Killing Hu City on the banks of the Yinma River and the ruins of Jinglu Town in the southeast of Bear Lake, and maintained its operation by relying on the expenses obtained by the caravans. The power penetrated deep into the eastern part of the Outer Domain.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, several northern expeditions took the road of Dongzhen, but now Wang Dou does not plan to use swords. So he's focusing a lot on Westtown right now.

The Hetao of Xizhen was originally an important place for the Han family in the past dynasties, and there are huge coal mines and huge iron ore minerals near the Jiuyuan City of Zhenzhi in Xizhen, and the rest of the minerals such as gold and copper will not be less.

Let's not talk about Tuntian here, Wang Dou opened a gun factory here for the first time, named "Lucheng gun factory", which is also the third gun factory owned by Wang Dou after Yongning gun factory and Xuanfu Zhencheng gun factory.

Wang Dou continued to adopt the old tricks. Permission for private mining, permission for mining in friendly towns, the Metropolitan Government is responsible for purchasing ore, and even permitting them to rough processing, and then buying back for processing.

For Wang Dou. Mining costs a lot, profits are low, and the gains from self-mining outweigh the losses, and if you subcontract it, you can charge license fees, not to mention, you can also harvest more interest groups. Moreover, the more people who open mines and run factories, the more people need to be hired, so that more people can have a bite to eat.

Not only that, Anbei Bank is also willing to take out loans to encourage more people to come to Xizhen to set up factories and mines, and the Information Department also continues to publicize and put on a noble skin for these people: "Industry serves the country." ”

In this atmosphere, Xuanfu Town, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Gansu and all kinds of rich mining owners gathered in Xizhen, and even as far away as the south of the Yangtze River, people rushed to come. In this case, the general army of Datong, Dingxing Bowang Pu was the most active, and he invested 500,000 silver yuan in one go and opened a number of factories near Jiuyuan City.

The Duhufu follows the rules of Xuanfu Town, and only those who are Han and those with various titles, and all kinds of sought-after money-making industries can be given priority to participate.

In order to obtain the qualification to open a mine and run a factory, rich mine owners from all over the world have donated money and materials, and the "good people" of Anbei have gathered, and it seems to have become the first good place in the Ming Dynasty. Due to the existence of factories and mines, Mo Nanxi Town became prosperous in an instant.

Minerals originally require a lot of manpower, and if a large mine needs 5,000 people, if they have families, one mine can support 20,000 or 30,000 people.

Mining requires transportation, which in turn feeds many transportation caravans and restaurants, and then smelting requires a large number of people. Iron smelting certainly requires coal, and it needs a large number of coal miners and coal smelters, who have to eat, drink, and live, and feed countless trading caravans.

When the local area is prosperous, there must be a spiritual demand, and the tertiary industry and entertainment industry are booming again.

Due to the large number of manpower needed for minerals, not only all the grassland horse thieves caught were put into the factories and mines, but even the herdsmen of Hetao Mongolia after returning to Shun have become miners, and their families are mostly engaged in the tertiary industry.

Jiuyuan City is the same day by day, and it has quickly become a famous city in the grassland, even if Wen Fangliang has followed Wang Dou for many years, he has an incredible feeling when he sees this situation.

Now, in addition to Tuntian, most of his energy in Xizhen is focused on the factory.

According to the original division of Xuanfu Town, iron materials are divided into three grades, A, B, C, first-class iron is used in the military industry, B-class iron is used in folk products, and C-class iron is ordinary pig iron.

B-class iron finished farm tools, equipment to build mostly for the original Xuanfu town merchants, they create iron products continue to sell to all parts of the Ming Dynasty, every day to buy and transport the ox carts are endless, Xuanfu brand, Anbei brand iron is famous.

With sufficient fine iron, many things can be done, now on the edge of the Yellow River, in the gun factory, dense hydraulic drilling machines, hydraulic forging beds are lined up, every day a steady stream of bird armor, as well as artillery.

At the end of July, Wang Dou saw a report sent by the Ministry of Military Affairs that up to now, the logistics stock had reached 150,000 barrels and 40,000 handguns, mainly due to the skillful use of hydraulic drilling machines and the increase in the number of experienced craftsmen.

Now the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty know that Xuanfu Town and Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate are the most kind places in the world to treat craftsmen, and there is a steady stream of craftsmen who go to the Metropolitan Protectorate every day.

With sufficient manpower and material resources, the production capacity of the capital is amazing, and last year the military factory in Xuanfu Town was able to produce 6,000 bird guns per month, and now it is even more.

As early as last year, except for one factory that continued to produce Lee's muskets (arquebuses), the rest of the factories had all produced Lai's self-made muskets.

After the ROK took over the Ministry of Military Affairs, it invested a lot of energy in studying the spring steel sheet of the flintlock pistol, which made the gun stronger when smashing, and the dumb fire rate of the flintlock pistol was reduced a lot, which was not much worse than that of the arquebus.

At the same time, he improved the sleeve of the sword, mounting the sword on the left side of the barrel, so that the front sight was exposed, increasing the accuracy of the firebolt's aiming.

After taking office, the Han Dynasty submitted a plan, that is, to ask for permission to implement flintlock muskets in the first-class battalions of the Jingbian Army, but Wang Dou felt that the time had come for the soldiers to fully replace the flintlock muskets after seeing the live ammunition firing of many batches of flintlock pistols in random inspections.

After several meetings and discussions, all the generals felt that they could indeed change their costumes, and Wang Dou decided to start changing their costumes in September and finish them all by the end of the year.

This thunder flintlock pistol will also be equipped with a sword, the body of the gun also has a strap, the use of metal buckles, can be easily elongated and shortened, after the back on the body, the march can greatly reduce the burden of the soldiers, with the flintlock pistol, but also marks the Jingbian Army into the modern era in an all-round way.

There are still 20,000 Zhong's riding guns in the inventory, which was originally made by Zhong Susu to prepare to hunt with Wang Dou, but he did not expect to unintentionally insert willows and willows, once launched, it was immediately welcomed by the cavalry in the army, and it was also very popular with the dart masters in the dart bureaus.

In view of this, the Togofu introduced the horse guns used by the dart masters.

The effective firing range of this gun is 50 paces, which is about 10 steps weaker than the cavalry used by the Jingbian Army, and at the same time, the wood of the gun body cannot be compared, and the bottom plate of the butt does not use brass and refined iron, and the copper hoop is also changed to an iron hoop, which is generally weaker, but there are also fire gun straps.

Even so, it is very popular.

For the dart masters, if they encounter horse thieves who can use horned bows, their bows and arrows have a range of only about 20 paces, and their own horses have the upper hand.

Even if the thief uses the foot bow, his range is still slightly better, and the power cannot be compared.

And on a horse, I can run when I hit, so I am much more free and flexible.

The Metropolitan Protectorate does not sell handcuffs to the private sector, but the approved dart boards are not among them, so after having a horse gun, those who use firearms are equipped with a horse gun, two handguns, and a saber.

They also developed the tactic of dividing the horses into several layers, using the guns in the front row at forty or fifty paces, then placing the guns across the saddle, flying in both directions at about twenty paces, using the handcuffs at the same time, and so on in the rear, and so on, and so on against the horse thieves and bandits.

Their tactics even affected the Jingbian Army's chasers, who were originally armed with only one cavalry, but later also equipped with several handguns, so that when the enemy approached, they no longer needed hussars to cover them, and they had the power to fight back alone, and the same tactics were also used.

With the continuous production of the riding gun, Zhong Susu's unintentional work has also brought her a lot of wealth, and she has no worries about living for the rest of her life.

The report also has the inventory of artillery, since the establishment of the Lucheng Cannon Factory, and the Zhencheng Cannon Foundry, Yongning City Cannon Foundry Factory started casting at the same time, so far, a total of 250 Hongyi cannons have been produced, and 50 Hongyi heavy cannons have been produced.

Wang Dou has three artillery factories, in terms of artillery direction, the Zhencheng artillery foundry is mainly to cast Hongyi heavy artillery and mortar cannons.

Yongning City Cannon Foundry is to cast Hongyi small and medium-sized cannons, Franc machines, Baizi guns, etc.

The Lucheng Gun Factory casts both light and heavy guns, and also produces rockets. (To be continued.) )