Chapter 42: The Alliance

As for the arquebuses delivered to them, although they are not much more skilled than land craftsmen or Western craftsmen, they are expensive in the production of the sea wolf, using unified norms and standards, and the shape of the arquebus produced is uniform, and it is not like when the military household made the musket for the official army, the materials were exploited by the officials, and they could only use inferior iron to cut corners to make bird guns, which were all made of solid fine iron, although it was simpler than the flintlock pistol used by the sea wolf itself. The amount of material used has also been reduced, but the safety is still guaranteed.

In addition, the batch of ammunition delivered to Yan Siqi by the sea wolf, Yan Siqi has also checked, the gunpowder is quite good granular gunpowder, and the projectile is also carefully cast, and the tolerance with the gun chamber is relatively small, far stronger than the stones he used, broken iron pieces are much stronger, and even the scattered bullets are cast out of iron, and the power can be guaranteed to be stronger than those things they use.

And Yan Siqi also went to Perak Island to watch the situation of his subordinates learning artillery, Yu Xiaotian opened a standard short training class for Yan Siqi's subordinates, only responsible for teaching them how to use these cannons and muskets, and did not care about in-depth military training, after a short period of training, these people have basically mastered the skills of aiming and can already operate these artillery.

After Yan Siqi arrived at Perak Island, he personally watched the drill of his subordinates trying to release artillery, and the more than 100 Yan Siqi's subordinates, one by one, rolled up their sleeves and took turns to fire a few cannons in front of Yan Siqi.

After some training by the sea wolf's subordinates, these Yan Siqi's subordinates have basically mastered some of the essentials of operating the cannon, and after a test firing, they actually hit the target, most of the shells hit the target (of course, the target is quite large), which made Yan Siqi even more happy, so he thanked Xiaotian again in person.

After having these new guys, Yan Siqi suddenly increased his confidence, and felt that he didn't have to be afraid of Zheng Yiguan anymore, and the batch of artillery guns in his hands was enough for him to confidently and boldly send people to the sea to fight Zheng Yiguan to the death, this matter not only improved his armament, but more importantly, it restored the confidence of his subordinates, in modern terms, it was equivalent to giving his subordinates a shot in the arm, which greatly boosted their morale.

So after Yan Siqi thanked him for his kindness, he took these subordinates and the batch of cannons delivered to them by Yu Xiaotian, happily returned to Bengang, and went back to start sharpening his knives Huo Huo prepared to launch a retaliation against Zheng Yiguan.

Before Yan Siqi left, Yu Xiaotian gave Yan Siqi another big gift, that is, he selected twenty gunners from the Sea Wolf tribe as artillery instructors, and returned to Bengang with Yan Siqi to assist Yan Siqi in training more gunners and guiding them to learn to operate guns.

Although the number of artillery purchased by Yan Siqi this time was not too much, Yu Xiaotian learned about the ability of Yan Siqi's subordinates through these subordinates sent by Yan Siqi this time.

Although these Yan Siqi's subordinates are also old fur dogs, they are no strangers to artillery, many people have let go of artillery before, but they have not formed a set of effective regulations to regulate their use of artillery, in actual use, there is a lot of arbitrariness, how much gunpowder to load, all depends on estimation and personal experience, plus the quality of the artillery they use is not good, the accident rate is high, and the accuracy of shelling is even more ridiculous.

Now that Yan Siqi has sworn brother with him, he has essentially become his ally, and the next step will be to contain Zheng Yiguan's energy and strength on his behalf, so within a limited range, he is still willing to make Yan Siqi stronger.

This is also the reason why he selected twenty gunners to go to Yan Siqi to help him train the rest of the minions and increase their combat power.

Of course, Yu Xiaotian is still selfish in doing this, although he has set up a fine work at Yan Siqi's place to monitor Yan Siqi's actions, but now that the two sides are allies, he can mix some sand with Yan Siqi's men loudly, and it will be more convenient to understand the situation on Yan Siqi's side.

However, Yu Xiaotian also explained to Yan Siqi in advance that after these twenty artillery instructors arrived at him, they were only responsible for training gunners for him and teaching them how to operate artillery, but they did not participate in their specific actions, and if they were accidentally involved in their military operations and caused casualties, Yan Siqi would be responsible for providing them with pensions.

Yan Siqi immediately agreed to this, he knew that the sea wolf tribe was very powerful, and he was embarrassed to ask the sea wolf's people to help him and train some of his subordinates, but this time Yu Xiaotian took the initiative to propose this matter, which was exactly what he couldn't ask for, so he immediately agreed.

After sending Yan Siqi away, Yu Xiaotian looked at the undulating ocean and took a deep breath, the sixth year of the Apocalypse has arrived, and I don't know how many challenges he has to face this year, will the Spaniards seize the Taipei area as in history? If history hadn't changed dramatically, it would have been a long time since the Spaniards invaded the chicken coop.

And where will Zheng Yiguan go in the future? These are all unknowns, but one thing is clear to him, it must still be a very intense year, with countless challenges waiting for him.

Now that he has two biological flesh and blood, the burden on his shoulders is heavier, and he dare not fail, only to continue to work hard and continue to walk, thinking of this, Yu Xiaotian once again took a deep breath of fresh air, cheered up, turned around and strode back to Dazhai.

After more than half a year of relocation, in addition to the workshops on the original site of Nanri Island, most of the new workshops in Tamsui and Chicken Coop were also put into production at the end of the fifth year of the Apocalypse.

The production capacity of the entire Seawolf workshop has been doubled to triple, which has greatly increased the industrial capacity of Seawolf.

And in addition to the original gunsmithing, gun making, soap workshop, and glass workshop, the Seawolf Workshop has added many new workshops after the expansion of this half a year.

In the past year, the sea wolf has carried out many large-scale shore raids, which has also provided manpower support for the sea wolf, and forcibly brought many people from the land.

Before these people were moved to Taiyuan Island, they were sorted and screened in various concentration camps, and those with some skills were selected separately and sent to work in various workshops to become the first generation of industrial workers of the sea wolf, so that they could be separated from the land and agricultural production and become professional workers to contribute to the industrial development of the sea wolf.

In the past, most of these skilled people were farming, and at the same time used their leisure time to make some things to sell and subsidize some households, but they were only small family-style workshop production, which could not form an effective production scale.

But this time, after being coerced by the sea wolves, they were all selected and incorporated into factories to specialize in industrial production, freeing them from agricultural production and forming the basis for mass production.

Even if Yu Xiaotian was not able to copy the modern machinery of later generations, he could only let these craftsmen use the old-style manual production, but the various workshops of Seawolf have now begun to implement assembly line operations, and each craftsman is no longer as before, he produces a product from beginning to end, but specializes in making only one part and then assembling, or is only responsible for a production process.

In this way, the initial intensive production has been formed, saving a lot of manpower and material resources at the same time, but also improving the efficiency of production, in essence, it is a kind of crowd tactics, before there is no modern production machinery, in this way to expand the scale of production.

Of course, Yu Xiaotian can't rely on glass and soap, the two artifacts to meet his needs, he has invested a lot of energy in industry in the past six months, in addition to splitting the original various workshops, he has also added many new types of workshops.

In order to make full use of the existing human resources, especially some women who are idle at home and have nothing to do, are also human resources that cannot be ignored, so he asked the council to split the original sewing society on Nanri Island, and opened a garment factory in both Tamsui and chicken coops, absorbing the families of local craftsmen who are idle and doing nothing to work in the garment factory to make clothes for the sea wolf people, in addition to meeting the needs of the sea wolf people, you can also provide some products to the local people, so that some bachelors don't have to worry about dressing anymore.

In addition, a series of other workshops closely related to the life of the migrant area have also been opened, such as several large brick kilns, ceramic fields, pickle factories, tanneries, etc., the products produced can not only supply the sea wolf for their own use, but also provide some goods to the local people, and even can be used as commodities to resell on land or sell to Europeans to make a profit, which greatly meets the needs of the people's livelihood and also improves the quality of life of the sea wolf military.

In Yu Xiaotian's view, the reason why the military discipline of the Ming army collapsed was that in addition to the disadvantages brought about by the hereditary system of officers, the low treatment of soldiers was also the main reason.

In fact, according to the amount of military expenditure of the Ming Dynasty every year, it is not low, under normal circumstances, the salary for the soldiers can not be considered low, but the key is that from the allocation of military expenses to the hands of the soldiers, the officials all reach out to get a piece of the pie, fill their pockets, after layers of exploitation, and when it comes to the hands of the soldiers, there is almost nothing left, almost no one can really get the food and salary they deserve, and they have to find a way to survive, or they have to go farming most of the year. More than half of the proceeds from farming were taken by the officers, or they were taken by ingenuity and extorted from the common people, so that military discipline was corrupted to an extent beyond measure, and there was naturally no need to think about combat effectiveness.

So the sea wolf must fundamentally solve these problems, in the past, when the sea wolf tribe was small, Yu Xiaotian could still manage it, but as the sea wolf tribe became more and more numerous, the scale became larger and larger, and there was still a bad situation where the leader detained his subordinates.

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