Li Kuanji was taken aback by Zhu Daolin's low roar of gritting teeth, and immediately realized Zhu Daolin's excitement at this moment.

Seeing Zhu Daolin holding the bullet in his fist and raising it high, Li Kuanji couldn't help laughing.

After a long period of excitement, Zhu Daolin, whose face was flushed, withdrew his raised arm and asked with great eagerness: "How is the test firing situation?" ”

Li Kuanji replied with great pride: "In the past two and a half months, a total of 7,500 rounds of this new all-copper bullet have been fired in 14 test launches, and there are no problems with the shape of the bullet, the accuracy and the shell throwing, except for the more dud bombs......

"Therefore, the last time the general came back, his subordinates did not dare to report, and grabbed the four masters and apprentices of the technical director Lao Zhangtou, the deputy technical director Lao Nie Tou and his two sons kept looking for the reason, after repeated test firing, repeatedly adjusting the thickness of the primer and the bottom shell, two kinds of two were screened out from the four summary plans, and two batches of bullets were created to continue the test firing, and the pass rate rose greatly, from the beginning of 5 percent to nearly 8 percent."

"However, the old Nie Tou father and son are not satisfied with this, and are still constantly improving, their father and son's plan is slightly different from the two sets of plans of the Tianshu Pavilion Gunpowder Factory, the amount of bottom gunpowder has increased by 15% compared with the original amount, and everyone is not sure, and finally the subordinates have made a bold decision, adopted the improvement plan of the old Nie Tou father and son, and produced 3,000 rounds of bullets at a time for test firing again, and the pass rate quickly increased from 73% to 98%."

"The 10 exquisite rifles sent by the general were also damaged by the subordinates and the two sons of Lao Nie Tou, and after careful inspection, the problems were all in the design of the needle and spring, but there was no problem with the shell hook and the chamber of the gun, and the subordinates dared to come over and report to the general."

"Good! All right! ”

Zhu Daolin was excited when he heard this: "We must reward Lao Nietou's father and son and Lao Zhangtou's master and apprentice, and each will be rewarded with 10,000 taels of silver." And you, all of them have to be rewarded heavily! ”

"You go and invite Lao Nie Tou and Lao Zhang Tou to the conference room of the research institute now, I will reward them in front of all the supervisors and master craftsmen, promote them to the master craftsmen of the research institute, and then award each of them a two-story western-style building with front and rear gardens!"

"And you Li Kuanji, I have decided to reward you with 20,000 taels of silver. You were promoted to the deputy director of the Longtan Gun Factory, and concurrently served as the commander of the Nanjing Firearms Bureau! ”

Li Kuanji was pleasantly surprised, and immediately said worriedly: "General, I'm afraid that Old Nie Tou and Old Zhang Tou won't be able to come for a while." ”

"What's wrong? Is it still working on bullets? Zhu Daolin asked happily.

Li Kuanji's expression darkened, and he lowered his head and said: "Lao Zhangtou is too old, almost 60 years old, and the results of the last test shot came out, and he fell ill after laughing a few times after seeing it." As soon as Lao Zhangtou fell, Lao Nie Tou had another attack of tuberculosis. When the R&D workshop and his subordinates were discussing the new director of the ammunition factory, he suddenly vomited several mouthfuls of blood, and his subordinates were so frightened that they hurriedly sent him to the Ziyangguan Medical Center, where several Taoist directors diagnosed him and said that tuberculosis was very tricky. ”

"After hearing from his subordinates that Lao Nie Tou was a very important craftsman of the general, the Taoist of the medical hall immediately invited the Taoist Xuanyue, who was highly respected and had superb medical skills. Daoist Xuanyue asked Lao Nie Tou's two crying sons, and immediately transferred Lao Nie Tou to the inner pharmacy of Ziyang Dao Academy for treatment, and his subordinates only found out at this time. As early as two months ago, Lao Nie Tou had an illness and vomited blood once. He threw up again last month, but he kept holding on......"

Old Nie Tou strictly ordered his two sons not to speak out, and asked the two sons to think about who gave their family a rich life and dignity today? Warning his son that even if he died of exhaustion, he could not live up to the general's trust, and his subordinates had just gone to visit him in the pharmacy and told him that the general was afraid that he would see him when he returned, and he immediately told his subordinates not to tell the general about his situation. Can't trouble the general, alas! ”

Zhu Daolin was stunned for a long time, turned his head to look around, and called out loudly to the guards standing in the distance: "You go to the research institute to inform Manager Zhao that the meeting will be postponed to half past ten!" ”

The young guard listened to the order. Immediately run to the south, where most of the ironwork workshop has been relocated.

Zhu Daolin looked at the yellow-orange-orange lead-headed copper shell bullet in his palm, and carefully put it into the leather box on his waist: "Let's go, Kuanji!" Let's go to see Lao Zhangtou together, and then call someone to call Lao Zhangtou, I want to talk to them, and I want to thank them on behalf of the 50,000 soldiers of the whole army and bow to them! ”

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The news of Zhu Daolin's sudden return spread quickly.

The first to receive this news in Jinling City was not Wu Jingxian, the eunuch who controlled the Jiangnan Dongchang, nor Chang Yanling, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, but Zheng Sanjun, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Officials, and Feng Yuanbiao, the secretary of the Ministry of War, who had been eyeing Hushan Manor.

With the completion of the Jinchuan Hekou Wharf, more and more merchants have left the Xinhekou Wharf and Longjiang Wharf upstream to berth at the Jinchuan Wharf with complete facilities, wide port and water depth, safety and speed, and thoughtful service.

After the completion of the commercial and residential area covering an area of more than 1,000 acres and the three major transit warehouses on the north bank of the Jinchuan River, the neat layout, excellent construction quality and prospects full of business opportunities have attracted the landlords and wealthy businessmen who have moved their families from the north to the south.

A total of 840 sets of arcade-style commercial houses on both sides of the two east-west streets, from the Lantern Festival began to be sold publicly, and they were sold out in less than half a month, and the upper and lower two-storey houses of about 250 square meters were sold according to the different locations, and the prices were 250 taels of silver to 320 taels of silver, and now they have been fried to a set of 500 taels of silver.

Located in the north and east of the big wharf of three closed warehouses, upright and magnificent, covering an area of 30 acres, 22 acres and 18 acres respectively, located between the big wharf and two east-west commercial streets, the east of the two warehouses have been Huguang business gang and Bashu business gang high price to win.

The two merchant gangs quickly transformed the arcade-style façade in front of the warehouse into a teahouse, a wine store and a luxury official room to welcome the delivery, and now it has become a prosperous place for merchants from all over the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River to gather.

The courtyard warehouse covering an area of 30 acres in the north is the self-owned industry of "Tiangong Trading Co., Ltd.", the beautiful and luxurious three-storey arcade-style office building sits in the north and faces south, and occupies a unique area, and the back is the warehouse area divided into four independent yards, which just isolates the Jinchuan Wharf from the Hushan Manor in the north.

The twelve-meter-wide straight avenue at the back door of the warehouse connects to Shangyuan Port to the north. At the intersection of this avenue, a street sign with white letters on a blue background was erected, on which were written four block letters - Sailing Street!

To the west of Sailing Street, to the narrow area on the bank of the Yangtze River, there are three interconnected courtyards from south to north, namely the Jinling Printing Factory, which has a high wall on both sides and a arcade-style building on the other side, the Shangyuan Weighing Instrument Factory, which manufactures rod scales, platform scales and various rulers, and the shipbuilding workshop, which has been renamed Hushan Shipyard.

On the east side of the avenue, there is the newly relocated Hushan iron workshop, carpentry factory, carriage workshop and foundry workshop, which covers an area of more than 800 acres and will soon be demolished or rebuilt, and a solemn and elegant and beautiful university campus will be built within two years. (To be continued.) )