Yang Meng's sigh attracted a smile from Wei Huozi, the third master of his own family didn't blink when he killed people, but he was a little soft-hearted to his own heart, why should he take care of these poor mountain people?

"Why do you sigh third master, we are not sad, what do you have to heartache? There are many people in our mountains, as long as your Yang family needs it, we are willing to work hard for the Yang family, not to mention the eagle in our hands, just the name of Yang Buddha is worth our lives. ”

Wei Huozi was telling the truth, he had also received Yang Shiqin's favor, if it weren't for Yang Shiqin's food, their family would have died in the mountains and forests.

"What! When a stab came to the chest, one of the sixteen brothers died, and the rest were all wounded between the chest and abdomen. Take a good rest, give you three days off, take care of the housework, and come back thinking about how to block the knife. ”

Three days is good, most of the brothers do not have a daughter-in-law, with this harvest, just take the opportunity to go home and marry a daughter-in-law, he Wei Huozi is also a bachelor, this time when he goes home, he must marry a family.

Regardless of the enthusiastic Wei Huozi, Yang Meng found a leather smith and a coppersmith who made shoes.

"Make a leather armor that can protect the chest and abdomen, not too heavy, but at least it must be able to block the stabbing of the iron knife, go back to trial production! If you do a good job, you will be rewarded with fifty silver dollars. ”

Yang Meng found three iron knives of the Yang family, which can block the iron knives of the Yang family, and most of the other knives can be blocked.

After dealing with these, Yang Meng went to his father Yang Shiqin again and told him about the casualties of this trip and the production of leather armor.

"The third child, these mountain people are good, it's good to treat them well, I'm thinking, can we put together more knife hands, anyway, I still have the name of the head of the Kunming League, and it will be wasted if I don't use it."

Yang Shiqin also has his own ideas, the officials of the Qing Dynasty are too greedy for money, and the money of the Yang family is likely to be targeted, as long as the knife in his hand is sharp, they dare not attack the Yang family's idea at will.

"Yes! Buy all the fields near Wuzhuang, and let the mountain people of all ethnic groups cultivate nearby, without collecting their land rent, but to accept the training of the Yang family to protect Wuzhuang. In case the imperial court wants to deal with us, we must also consider the surrounding mountain people, plus your reputation in Yunnan, borrow their courage! ”

No matter what dynasty you are an official in, what you are most afraid of is civil unrest, with the existence of these mountain people, the Yang family can blackmail the court officials, once they are forced to be in a hurry, the Yang family is dead, and no one will end well, maintain this balance, and the Yang family will be safe and sound.

"Hmmm! That's a good idea, I heard that you got three foreign guns, can you use them? ”

Yang Shiqin has seen this thing before, but he has never used it, they all say that this thing is extremely sharp, and his curiosity makes Yang Shiqin want to play with foreign guns.

"No, we can try."

The two of them brought three foreign guns, the workmanship is good, the barrel is made of steel, this Yang Meng can see that he really can't play with gunpowder firearms, how much gunpowder to load, how to load, he is also confused.

Daddy Yang Shiqin is not much better than himself, holding a foreign gun, and he doesn't know how to play Lu Dao.

"Let Bao Jun take a look! He'd played bird guns before, so it shouldn't be a problem to play this. ”

The father and son couldn't play, and they found Ding Baojun again, and Ding's housekeeper also groped for a shot, which was not small, and the lead projectile made a bowl-sized bullet mark on the blue brick wall.

"It's really sharp, if this hits the body, I can't stand how deep the kung fu is! In the first battle of Guangdong, the Qing soldiers were defeated unjustly, this thing is so sharp, it is the comparison of bows and arrows. ”

Yang Shiqin couldn't help but sigh when he saw the power of the foreign gun, this foreign gun was really as sharp as the legend.

Yang Meng felt that it was nothing, he was used to seeing modern firearms, and this musket was like that, but in this era, the lethality of this thing was definitely enough.

Following Ding Baojun learned the use of foreign guns, Yang Meng began to test the power of this gun, the range is about seventy or eighty meters, rifling, the rate of fire is not high, and the charge is extremely troublesome.

In addition, the medical level of this era is not high, and the lethality of this thing is absolutely huge, because gunshot wounds are different from knife wounds and arrow wounds, and the wounds of this thing are difficult to treat, and if one is not good, it will be infected, and the infection is often fatal.

Although the musket in his hand is complicated to operate, compared with the sword, he is not a little bit stronger, one or two is not a threat, but what about a thousand?

Holding the musket in his hand, Yang Meng was also silently calculating, this thing made the Qing Dynasty suffer, if the Qing Dynasty was not good, it would be slowly equipped, and if he could walk this road, it would not coincide with the imperial court, and the outbreak of contradictions was only a matter of time.

Once the swordsman of the Yang family encounters muskets and artillery, he will only be slaughtered. It seems that he is also going to introduce these foreign guns and cannons.

Since the caravan can get three muskets, it should be able to do it himself, as long as the drugs he makes are marketable, the first thing to be imported is foreign guns and cannons.

If you can introduce the technology and produce it yourself, it would be the best, but these can only be thought about now, and whether they can be made depends on whether the drugs they make are marketable.

Since there is no foreign gun, you can only work on the protective gear, Yang Meng tried, although the effective range of this musket is only seventy or eighty meters, but the lead bullet is about two hundred meters, there is a lot of lethality, if you want to prevent such a bullet, the leather craftsman, the coppersmith, the armor, may not have this ability.

Kevlar doesn't have to think about it, the steel plate body armor can be tried, and now there is no special steel mill in Daqing, so you can only wait for later. It doesn't matter if the material is not there, you can make copper armor first, now as long as it can block the sword, in the future there will be steel plates, and after changing it, it will be a ready-made body armor.

With this idea, we have to hurry up the trial production, just let the leather smith and the coppersmith go to the trial production of armor, just let them solve this matter together, if it is done well, the casualties of their own men will be reduced a lot.

Thirty percent of the casualties in one operation, not to mention the cost of pensions, the cost of training these manpower alone is not a small amount. If the poison factory starts working normally, such work will be indispensable in the future, and so many casualties at one time will also be a burden for the Yang family.

Finding a leatherman and a coppersmith, Yang Meng said his thoughts, a group of craftsmen, all dumbfounded, blocking the armor of the musket bullets, they really can't make it, what to do, and they don't have a clue, isn't it difficult for a strong man?

"Third master, we can make this leather armor together, and it may block the leather armor of the musket, we really don't know how to do it?"

As the chief craftsman of the shoe factory, Zhang Leather Maker complained of bitterness, and it was the first time they had seen the musket, how to resist it, no one knew what to do!

"Find a coppersmith, get a copper plate, see how thick it can block the bullet, and then you will be done with the copper plate embedded in the leather armor, how can you not think of it? Hurry up and do it! ”

These stupid people are too uncreative, they can't think of such a simple way, but it's a pity that they give their own salary. Looking at the craftsmen who had dispersed, Yang Meng was also worried.

These people, you give them ideas, you give them sketches, they do a good job, but it's harder to let them make something by themselves than to kill them.

"Cen Yuying! Cen Yuying! ”

Thinking of this, Yang Meng thought of Cen Yuying, a little cub, to see if he had any good ideas.

"Third Master, what are you calling me?"

Cen Yuying, this kid, although he is thin, has also practiced a few hands, his body and bones are not bad, and his running speed is also very fast, as soon as he heard Yang Meng's shout, this little cub hurriedly ran over.

"These craftsmen in our shoe factory are all idiots, the third master can't talk to them together, you say we want to make something new, who should we find to help?"

These cobblers, blacksmiths, and workers in the shoe factory are among the best, and it is more refreshing to let them engage in skills than to slaughter them.

"Reader!"

Cen Yuying's answer made Yang Meng a little puzzled, a reader? What kind of calf, after reading a few books, can you become an engineer?

"What can a scholar do? Will they design the military boots on the feet of the third master? ”

"My miscellaneous studies in the Qing Dynasty are broad and profound, "Dream Creek Writings" and "Heavenly Creations" are all written by readers, what the third master needs is a strange and skillful reader, what the third master has ideas, give it to these people, it will definitely save a lot of thoughts."

For the familiarity of the Qing Dynasty, Cen Yuying is far stronger than Yang Meng, which is also the reason why Yang Meng wants to keep him, although he does not approve of it, Yang Meng has agreed with Cen Yuying's statement in his heart.

"Can such a person be of my use?"

"The third master doesn't have to worry, most of the scholars are poor, most of the people like this are unlucky readers in the examination room, such people, except for a few people with rich family resources, most of them are also bitter people, as long as the monthly salary given by the third master is suitable, the students think they can still be recruited."

I know my own family affairs, Cen Yuying is a student, and she naturally knows the poverty and loneliness of the study tour, once she loses in the examination room, it is difficult for students to eat enough.

"That's good! You are responsible for this matter, you watch the monthly salary, use the least money, do as many things as possible, you control the degree of this, and the silver is withdrawn from Uncle Ding, the more such people, the better. ”

I have been busy with drug production recently, and these things will be handed over to Cen Yuying to do, this kid is getting easier and easier to use, which may not be a good thing.

Yang Meng looked at Cen Yuying, who was slowly leaving, and was also thinking in his heart, how to control this clever little cub, if he is used well, he is his right-hand man, and if he doesn't use this kid well, it will be a deadly poison.

It didn't take much effort, and the coppersmith also made a one-inch thick copper plate, Yang Meng became popular when he saw this thing, such a thick thing can block bullets, and it can be made into a cuirass, not to mention the price, the weight alone can be difficult to die of a knife hand wearing this.

"Make it thinner, how heavy this thing is! One-tenth of the thickness, hurry up and get it! ”

These stupid things are so worry-free, who can use such thick copper armor, isn't this nonsense?

The blacksmith who was in a hurry forged a copper plate, which was three or four millimeters thick! Yang Meng asked people to nail the copper plate to the wall, and tried to hit it with a musket a few times, but within seventy or eighty meters, it was barely possible to occasionally block the lead bullets.

"Just according to this thickness, the armor that comes out, as long as it is in the chest and abdomen, try not to be too heavy."

Yang Meng explained while gesturing, and finally explained it clearly, but he was busy sweating profusely, explaining the problem to these craftsmen, it was really harder than killing people.

It seems that Cen Yuying's words are good, and she really has to find some readers to help.