Chapter Thirty-Eight: All Things Are Troubled

Zhao Lie took the Fuhai to Dashanzi Island, saw four more Fu boats, and two strange ships, boarded the dock, Li Hu and several captains, the leaders of each ship knelt to greet Zhao Lie, and then everyone entered the conference hall one after another, Zhang Gusheng presented the accounts of the harvest of the trip, Zhao Lie took a look, harvested 150,000 taels of silver, 60,000 catties of copper, more than 80,000 catties of sulfur, more than 1,000 stones of grain, more than 700 knives, more than 7,000 pieces of cotton silk, more than 1,000 pieces of silk, more than 1,000 folding fans, more than 2,000 Japanese magnets, and more than 2,000 gold and silver judgments. There are more than 10 pairs, 6 pairs of iron armor, more than 30 leather armor, more than 40 iron cannons, more than 20 North Korean firearms, 6 large barrels, and more than 60 iron guns. There are four ships and two ships from the North Korean Sea.

"Loss of personnel." Zhao Lie took a cursory look at it and put it down, he first asked the personnel, for the newly built sailors, every seafarer is precious.

"My lord, we still follow the strategy of the last time, the Korean ship won without a fight, and the first and second ships of the Japanese slave ship did not resist, but the last third ship desperately resisted, and was captured by our three ships, our army lost six people, wounded eight people, and two of them were disabled. Li Hu gave a gift to the courtesy.

"Are the dead registered in detail?" Zhao Lie asked.

"My lord, the names, family members, children, and relatives of the fallen soldiers are all registered." The sound of the drum approached to report.

"Distribute this reward silver, pay silver, pension silver and family members, and bury them in Shidao Martyrs' Shrine, and I will personally worship them." Zhao Lie commanded.

"Thank you for your mercy." A group of people thanked in unison, they were all battle-hardened, they were buried at sea in the past, and they were given some pensions, as for the martyrs' shrine, it was not nothing, but they were all high-grade generals, and they had never heard of the bow and small soldiers entering the martyrs' shrine. From today onwards, ordinary soldiers can also enter the Martyrs' Shrine and enjoy incense sacrifices, which is worth it.

"When the disabled enter thousands of households, they will each get 50 acres of land, and the fields will be taken care of by the public middle school, and the income will be owned by the individual." Zhao Lie added to the fire.

"Thank you, sir, for your mercy." And all the people fell to their knees.

"Get up," Zhao Lie said to the generals with tears in his eyes: "You have fought bravely for the country and the people, and you are extremely ashamed of what you have done. "Yes, he is deeply grateful to these warriors who sacrificed their lives for the country, and their deaths brought the hope of the refugees, the hope of the people of the Ming Dynasty, and the hope of his Zhao Lie.

Everyone also had tears in their eyes, and they didn't dare to say together.

"Okay, everyone has to look away, the deceased is gone, and it is okay to remember it." Zhao Lie comforted everyone. "Zhang drum sound, today will be issued rewards, salaries." Interests are still the most critical, timely distribution is related to the morale of the army, Zhao Lie must not be like the Ming Dynasty to reward the brain-dead for a few months, or even a year, there is really a situation that later generations say, the reward is there, but the person is gone.

The crowd agreed.

That night was another happy night, returning home safely, the reward was issued, and the officers and men of the Navy Division were drunk and rested.

The next day, Zhao Lie summoned everyone and told the fleet to repair for a period of time, first go to Shidao to repair the ships, and then the fleet will go south with him on business.

The Shidao shipyard was very busy, the fishing boats were put aside first, and all the personnel overhauled the thirteen ships of the fleet, and there were no major problems, small problems were everywhere, such as broken sails, broken masts, leakage in the bottom compartment, replacement of decks, and waterproofing of the bottom of the ship. This process also opened the eyes of the apprentices who had never seen the inside of a sea ship, and it was also a learning process, which benefited them a lot, and finally had some experience and grasped the way, instead of the original layman.

Zhao Lie got a good news at this time, the craftsman came to report, the forging hammer of animal power finally figured out the prototype, Zhao Lie was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately came to the craftsman's office, which is located at the foot of the mountain in the northwest of the bay, and occupied more than 100 acres of vacant land for future expansion. There is a large mountain stream flowing here, which is suitable for the use of water conservancy machinery, however, the water flow in the summer half a year is acceptable, after the winter, the water volume is reduced, and the animal power is indispensable, the conditions of Shidao Bay are like this, Zhao Lie is already very satisfied.

Just arrived at the camp gate, a group of craftsmen knelt to greet Zhao Lie, and then arrived at the big shanty, only to see a large and a small two platforms standing there, Zhao Lie took a closer look, and he told the foot on the meter mortar is about the same, just change the way of spacing, divided into two kinds, a kind of all coarse fine iron components, the front bar is longer, the hammer head is thick, the rate is slower, it is a heavy hammer, hammering the pig iron ingot just baked, the other is a circle of thickness and smaller, the front bar is shorter, the rate is faster, it is the follow-up finishing of the light hammer, both have their own uses.

"My lord, we have made ten prototypes each, and the thickness, length, and spacing of the front bars are different, and most of the Fujian iron in the library is used," said this, Guo Fu secretly looked at Zhao Lie.

"Guo Tou, this is a public thing, don't skimp on things, it's okay." Zhao Lie immediately soothed Guo Fu's fragile little heart.

Guo Fu immediately smiled: "My lord, I have tried it many times, selected each kind of forging hammer, and improved it in detail to make these two kinds of hammer tables." ”

"Start trial production." Zhao Lie spoke.

"Yes." Guo Fu immediately ordered the worker to pull two cattle to put on them and start moving.

On the other side, a blacksmith used large iron tongs to clamp out a more than ten pounds of burning red iron ingots and put it on the hammer platform, only to listen to the sound of the hammering of the heavy objects, only to see the iron ingot gradually thinning, the blacksmith moved the iron ingot to make it evenly stressed, thin to a certain extent, it was moved to the next hammer platform, the hammering speed was fast and light, and then a blacksmith went up, two people kept moving the iron plate with iron tongs, and finally a relatively uniform iron plate was finally formed after ten minutes.

Zhao Lie was the first to applaud, and everyone applauded, Guo Fu was even more excited and his face was flushed, and I don't know when Zhao Lie's habit of applauding whenever he was happy was popular on Shidao, which was really happy and good.

"Guo Tou, this platform is made, you and others have made outstanding achievements, and you will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver, and in addition, in the future, you will be rewarded with 30 taels of silver, and the reward of the hydraulic hammer platform will be effective." Zhao Lie continued to commend him, and this anger could not be relieved.

"Thank you, Lord for your favor." All the craftsmen thanked each other and were excited. The previous trip was the firearms team that won the reward, and this time it was finally my turn to raise my eyebrows. Some people have already thought of the situation when the mother-in-law at home saw the silver two, and her eyes lit up.

Zhao Lie drew a simple plate armor again, and let Guo Fu try to make a sample, that is, the upper body is divided into two pieces before and after, which are made with a forging hammer, and then combined with leather. This plate armor has an iron skirt at the waist and iron leggings on the legs, except for the iron skirt, there are no armor pieces in the others, which greatly saves time.

Yuan Yi watched from the sidelines, but he realized the envy, jealousy and hatred of Guo Fu and others last time, fifty taels more than his own family, but he didn't want to have a new book on gunpowder formulas, he just figured it out, it was much easier than hammering.

"Yuan Tou, what kind of equipment do you use to build the firecracker, this official wants to take a look." Zhao Lie did not build a fire gun before, mainly because he had no confidence in the material of pig iron, the output of manpower hammering fine iron was pitiful, the cost was too high, and Lu Mitong could deal with it.

Yuan Yi's heart was immediately overjoyed, and the adults finally gave me a chance to wait.

"The adults follow the villain's side." Yuan Yi led Zhao Lie to another workshop far away from here, only to see two drill floors in a corner, Yuan Yi operated, Zhao Lie asked Ming that the drill bit is made of refined iron, and there is a runner and a handle to rotate, but Zhao Lie only felt that it was awkward, and he couldn't say it.

"How long does it take to get a gun pipe?"

"My lord, it will take twenty-five days at the earliest." Yuan Yi replied.

Nima, Zhao Lie complained about this turtle speed.

"Reward, try to make an accelerated method, and reward ten taels of silver for each day of speed." Zhao Lie sacrificed the big killer of the huge prize.

Yuan Yi and other craftsmen were immediately surrounded by huge surprises, and responded incoherently.

Zhao Lie was busy, got up and turned around, just got on the horse when he went out, ran out a few steps, suddenly remembered something, hit the horse and returned, the craftsmen had just finished sending it off, and before they had time to return, they saw the adults galloping back.

"Yuan Tou, take a pen." Zhao Lie finally remembered why it was so awkward, because the drill bit used by Yuan Yi did not have a spiral, just a bare drill bit. Zhao Lie doesn't know too much about the mechanical knowledge of later generations, however, the common spiral head in daily life still knows, roughly drawn with a pen, Zhao Lie doesn't know, he inadvertently solved another problem, because the length of the gun pipe is nearly one meter when drilling the gun craftsman has to be careful, not to let the drill bit deviate, although the gun pipe, the drill bit has been fixed, but the wear of the drill bit still causes the thickness of the gun pipe to be different, and the auger drill bit can greatly enhance the stability.

Yuan Yi looked at the pattern with a bitter face, and complained in his heart, Master, if it is really easy to use, the reward I am waiting for will fly, can you not be so capable, leave me to wait for a sip of soup. Yuan Yi looked up and saw Zhao Lie looking at him with a smile, and his heart suddenly burst.

"Yuan Tou, although this object is drawn, however, the side lines and the angle of the drill bit in front still need to be studied many times, and the reward for this improvement time remains unchanged." Zhao Lie still has to be more typical, how to care about this little money.

Yuan Yi's face turned red, and he hurriedly knelt down to thank him.

In the end, he instructed Yuan Yi and Chen Fu to train the Liao people who had more than 2,000 points as soon as possible.

Zhao Lie returned to the big tent, only to see Zhao Da talking and laughing with two middle-aged people, seeing Zhao Lie coming back, Zhao Da hurriedly stepped forward to report, Wendeng County Fan Xiang asked, Yan Junyi asked to see.

I saw that Fan Xiangwen was a chubby man in his forties, and Yan Junyi was black and thin in his thirties.

Fan Xiangwen had just arrived in Shidao, and he was already shocked, and the guys from Chishan Town told him that the new Qianhu adults had attracted tens of thousands of people to build in Shidao Bay. Fan Xiangwen immediately felt that there was a business opportunity, but the refugees did not have money, and the business opportunities were limited. The next time I received a notice, more than 10,000 refugees were paid, and thousands of military households were paid, this time, Fan Xiangwen couldn't sit still, and pulled his friend Yan Junyi to Shidao to take a look, Fan Xiangwen was shocked when he saw it, the whole Shidao Bay was busy, towns, ports, shipyards, kilns, plus tens of thousands of people, this is a new town, Dengzhou City is only a few people, now, there are no merchants to settle in, a great opportunity.

"My lord, we are businessmen from Wendeng County, the villain's name is Fan Xiangwen, it is Fan Ji Rice Shop, the proprietor of Fan Ji Winery, this is my friend Yan Junyi, is the proprietor of Yan Kee groceries, and I heard that Lord Wen went to Ren to meet here." Fan asked and lowered his eyebrows and handed over Chengyi.

"No merit is not rewarded, Fan Dongzhu, Yan Dongzhu must have something to come to the door, say, what's the matter." Zhao Lie was tired all day, hoping to cut through the mess quickly.

"My lord, I heard that there are no merchants stationed in Shidao, and it is not convenient for my livelihood, so I came here rashly and hope that my lord will be successful." Fan Xiangwen replied with a smile.

"Of course you can, but this official is a military general, and he is fast-talking, the shops here are only rented and not sold, and the business tax is fifteen and one." Zhao Lie also responded with a smile.

"My lord, don't be accommodating." Fan asked tentatively.

"No, whoever comes here doesn't care the same." Zhao Lie responded with a positive color.

Fan Xiangwen and Yan Junyi glanced at each other, and said in unison, the two of them didn't think there was anything wrong with renting a shop, and if it was inappropriate in the future, they could withdraw at any time.

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