Albert looked a little embarrassed, "The newly relocated workers have not yet settled down, there is a lack of manpower in the mine, and there are too few experienced ironworkers. ”

Where does this Nande man still look like a doctor, his body is full of sweat, and his big hands are full of calluses because of rough work, although he still stumbles in Chinese, but he has learned all kinds of etiquette in the Ming Dynasty, and he also claims to be a lower official. In his opinion, this is a sign of his status improvement, although he is doing rough work such as prospecting and mining iron, he has found the value of his own existence.

He Albert is determined to become the first craftsman of the Ming Dynasty!

Of course, Li Xin did not know Albert's thoughts, and heard him say that the daily output of arquebuses could only be ten a day, and only three hundred a month. And this is still the theoretical number of non-stop work, there are only a few experienced craftsmen, once you find someone to replace or fatigue the work, the quality will inevitably drop significantly.

In other words, large-scale production cannot be done at present, and Li Xin can't help but be a little excited.

Albert was keenly aware of Li Xin's disappointment and explained: "Your Excellency don't need to be disappointed, in the humble opinion of the lower officials, there must be no few blacksmiths among the tens of thousands of disaster victims, so why not recruit blacksmiths among the disaster victims?" Once the blacksmith's problem is solved, let alone ten branches a day, even if it is a hundred branches a day, there is nothing impossible. ”

This reminded Li Xin, he was also busy for a while, so he didn't think about this joint, Albert was right, there were nearly 20,000 people in Chaoyang Fort, and later there were as many as 40,000 or 50,000 people in Hunyuan Prefecture, the east bank of the Yuhe River and Datong Zuowei, among which there were hundreds of people who could work as blacksmiths. With so many blacksmiths working together, the production capacity is still considerable, so that he can form a Daming musket army in the shortest possible time.

Thinking of this, Li Xin put the musket in his hand again, and rubbed it with love, and finally felt a little itchy on his hands.

"Let's go, go out and shoot a few shots."

When he was in Gaoyang, Li Xin practiced the operation of the musket very skillfully, and now he is naturally able to catch it with his hands, from loading gunpowder to firing it in one go. Ten shots in a row were fired in the courtyard, and it was not enough until Mao Weizhang, who was patrolling the city, was startled.

Mao Weizhang can now be said to be discredited, betraying his benefactor and pressing it on his head, Yang and Wei officials don't say whether they have a good impression of Li Xin, but they all despise him very much, and even stay away. Of course, there are also his charges that are undecided, in case the crime of rebellion is confirmed, at this time he is befriended, isn't it okay to find trouble, and ask for hardship?

Mao Wei, Zhang Zaiyang and Wei have always had a very good official reputation, and everyone has avoided them until now, but it is only a few days of work. Everyone avoided him like stinking shit, Mao Wei felt uncomfortable in his heart, but he was willing to accept it, who let his weakness for a while do such a betrayal of the master......

It is precisely with this understanding that he can only do all his work diligently, even ten times more seriously than before, maybe he can regain everyone's recognition, or he may never get recognition......

When Li Xin tried to set off the musket, he happened to be patrolling near the Weisi Yamen with the patrol soldiers of the picket team, and after hearing a series of explosions, he nervously led people to investigate the situation. It was an extraordinary time, and he knew that the commander-in-chief was carrying out the resettlement plan for the victims under great resistance, in case something worse......

"It's okay if you're okay, it's okay if you're okay......"

The people in the Weisi Yamen were all pulled up by Li Xin, and they were very unfriendly to Mao Weizhang, he came in cheekily, and saw Li Xin and the red-haired ghost testing the musket, and his heart finally settled down.

Li Xin was very enthusiastic, greeted him with a smile, and said apologetically that he should not have set a musket in the yamen of the official office, which suddenly caused a panic. The subordinate officials of the Yamen even looked at Mao Wei with a cold eyebrow, as if he had come to find Li Xin's stubble. Mao Wei's face was flushed, and he couldn't say a word for a long time.

Albert had apparently heard of Mao Weizhang's rebellion, and it was common for nobles in his hometown to go over and over again, and as long as they didn't go too far, the lords wouldn't retaliate against the vassals who had rebelled and rejoined their subordinates. Therefore, Mao Weizhang's repeated refuge this time is a common thing in his eyes, but what is unusual is that this person seems to have a great burden of thought, and he can't help but say kindly:

"Lord Mao patrols the city hard, this officer and the chief soldier are here to test the power of the musket, this is a military secret, don't reveal it to the public!"

One sentence resolved Mao Weizhang's embarrassment, and Mao Weizhang immediately changed his opinion of this red-haired ghost, this red-haired ghost was quite kind, and he didn't avoid him like those Chinese colleagues. So he laughed dryly; "It turned out that Mao was overly nervous and disturbed all the adults, and Mao had to patrol the city, retire, retire, and ......"

Mao Weizhang's episode did not affect the nature of Li Xin's continued trial of the gun, and he reluctantly handed over the arquebus to Albert after firing ten shots in a row.

"Good gun, good gun, it picks up smoothly, and the workmanship is good!"

Hearing the compliment, Albert smiled slightly smug at the corner of his mouth, "Xia Guan dares to guarantee that there is no second place in the Ming Empire that can make such a fine musket except for the three guards of the adults." ”

Li Xin smiled, Westerners and hypocritical Orientals are different, they never know how to be hypocritically modest, they think they are strong and say it generously, this is obviously the case with Albert, it seems that he is not good at medicine, and he still has some attainments in craftsmanship.

Suddenly, Li Xinxin moved, since Albert has a talent in this area, he should have seen the flintlock pistol in the West......

"Mr. Ai, did you ever hear a flintlock pistol when you were in the Holy Roman Empire?"

Albert touched his chin, "There are flintlock pistols, but they are expensive to build, difficult to maintain, and easy to damage, and they have not become popular until now." ”

Li Xin knew that the West was still developing in the direction of the flintlock pistol after all, and after the Ming Dynasty in the East was completely wiped out by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the musket was about to temporarily bid farewell to the historical stage of China.

"Can you make a few prototypes and improve them?"

"Of course you can, the lower official will make it when he goes back, and he can send a branch to the adults tomorrow to play with."

Li Xin nodded, but felt that Albert's speech tasted a little wrong, what is playing, are you one of those gentlemen, do you make guns just for fun? But looking at Albert's serious face, I thought that this product was not good at learning Chinese, and the words were just inappropriate.

"Then go quickly, tomorrow this time, I will see your flintlock pistol!"

……

It was night, in a house in Datong Mansion, the house was lit with dim oil lamps, and the table was yellow, orange, and a few heavy ingots of gold. The man on the bed got up and called the mother-in-law outside to bring him food and drink.

"Dead ghost, howl mourning, it's coming."

A young woman slammed a large bowl of mushy porridge on the table.

"Eat, there's nothing else left at home." As she spoke, her eyes lit up and she looked at the gold on the table, and swallowed her saliva with a grunt, "If it is as usual, a few ingots of gold are enough for us to spend a few years, and we can't eat enough delicacies from the mountains and seas every day...... and then her pretty face turned gloomy again, "The plague of things, these ingots can't even buy a piece of meat in the city." ”

The man sat up.

"After I leave, you have to raise our son well, all this gold is hidden, it is the hope of you and your son for the rest of your life......"

The woman suddenly wiped away her tears, counting the man.

"Tell me, the slave family will not suffer a day after following you? It turned out that Zheng Sijiu had never said a word when he was in Yanghe. ”

"You, you, are you going to find him?"

The man suddenly leaned over and grabbed the woman's collar with his right hand.

"You're going, I'm going to strangle you right now!"

The woman's face turned green with fright, but she was not convinced.

"You pinch, you pinch, strangle the slave family, see who raises your son."

The woman's words were like an embroidery needle piercing a blowing pig's urine bubble, and the man suddenly withered.

"You, you go to him......"

"Where's your income? Where did the slave man's golden lang go? ”

The woman snorted coldly, and burst into tears again.

"I didn't think that I would have ...... today"

The man was desperate and roared lowly, since the outbreak of the plague, the city has been in chaos, and the ten thousand gold hidden in his house was finally exposed by this ruined girl, and was robbed in the middle of the night by the guys who didn't know the officials and bandits, fortunately, the lives of a family of three were spared.

I was going to turn over after the disaster passed, but I never thought that I fell ill again yesterday, and seeing that the plague was infected, just now the mysterious man gave him the gold on the table, but asked him to do an unbelievable thing.

Jin Dayou came to the east gate of Datong Mansion as promised, if someone opened the city gate, he quietly except Cheng, took a look at the rising water level of the royal river, there were already people on the river beach who had already prepared a boat, he pushed the boat into the river with some difficulty, and moved forward with difficulty.

Finally, after a lot of effort, Jin Dayou arrived on the east bank of the Yuhe River exhausted.

There was a construction site in the night, and the fence on the periphery had not yet been completed, so Jin Dayou spotted the gap, avoided the workers who patrolled the night, and slipped in unconsciously.

……

At noon on this day, Gao Shiming was suddenly completely frightened by the bad news that came one after another, and in just one morning's effort, dozens of people were tired on the construction site.

Just now, he got another report, there are more than a dozen people, fortunately, he is still a little anxious, so that the news is completely blocked, and everyone who knows the news has also specially explained, if anyone leaks the secret, he will die without a place to be buried.

But Gao Shiming can deal with people, but he can't deal with the plague.

"Go and invite General Li to come, ...... quickly"