The craftsmen were a little panicked when they heard this, when many of them applied for recruitment, they were running for high wages, but they didn't expect that after coming here, they would not be able to go back in the future, and some people cried on the spot.

Yu Xiaotian didn't pay attention to them, turned his head and continued to check the qualified parts, but Zhang Blacksmith said to the craftsmen: "What are you crying about? Does the old man's still look like a man? Isn't it just not going back to land? At the beginning, Lao Tzu was also forcibly tied up by the big boss!

Isn't Lao Tzu alive and well now? The big boss is a reasonable person, as long as you work hard for the big boss here, you will be happy!

Now someone is coming to carry Lao Tzu back in a sedan chair, and Lao Tzu is not willing to go back, and you don't want to think about it. The government will let us work at every turn, but we still work in vain, and even the iron materials have to be put in by ourselves.

I used to fucking be on land, and I could only drink porridge every day, and I didn't see meat once a year, but when I got here, as long as you did a good job, you could eat meat every day, even if you just came, wouldn't you still eat meat once every three days? What's there to do when you go back? Still like before, eat vegetable porridge every day, and even think about it for a long time before you dare to eat it?

Let's just say this, you work hard, our big boss is a person who talks about faith, you are indispensable for you, follow the big boss to work, the more you work, the happier you are! In the future, you will know that this is the right time! ”

After Blacksmith Zhang appeared, the mood of the blacksmiths stabilized a little, but there were seven or eight blacksmiths, thinking that their skills were not good, and they did not dare to do this work anymore, preferring to get less wages and want to do some other rough work.

Yu Xiaotian was not difficult for them, he directly agreed, sent someone to take them out of here, and sent them directly to Jilong Bay another day, anyway, where will there be a big construction in the future, and the blacksmith will do some rough work in the past, these blacksmiths who are not very good at craftsmanship, since they can't do this kind of fine work, they can only do rough work, two of them are willing to go to the cannonware, and they were immediately sent to the cannoning by Zhang Blacksmith.

Anyway, the main thing to do is casting, there are ready-made iron cast cannons, the blacksmith's skills are a little worse, and there is no problem, let them polish the cannon body to remove burrs, they still have no problem doing it.

On the whole, the big blacksmith shop managed by Zhang Blacksmith is now not small, and there are as many as 50 blacksmiths plus apprentices.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian implemented a division of labor and cooperation in the blacksmith shop to carry out production, and the work efficiency is at least two or three times higher than the efficiency of a blacksmith to complete the construction of a flintlock pistol, so that the scale of the existing blacksmith shop can ensure the production of dozens of Nanri type flintlock rifles a month.

In a year, he can produce about 1,000 flintlock pistols, such an output is already quite considerable so far, as long as there is a year or two, he can form a flintlock pistol regiment, who is he afraid of at that time?

Thinking of this, Yu Xiaotian himself was startled, he didn't expect that he would be so tossed and developed! Even he felt a little scared.

However, his algorithm is a bit too idealistic, and in the first few months, he did not dare to expect this iron to produce dozens of flintlock pistols for him every month, because now it seems that many fixtures and tooling have not yet been perfected, and the craftsmen need to spend a considerable amount of time while being familiar with the craft, while creating and modifying various tools, in order to gradually increase the output.

To really reach the production rate of dozens of flintlock pistols per month, I'm afraid it will take two or three months, but even so, Yu Xiaotian is already very satisfied, in two years, he only needs to form an army equipped with 1,000 to 2,000 flintlock pistols, and no matter where he goes in the future, he can basically go sideways.

In addition, after Yu Xiaotian saw the iron work, he simply merged it with the cannon and officially renamed it the Seawolf Ordnance Institute, and also included the ready-to-wear shops where the women made ready-to-wear clothes for the Seawolf Ministry, which were also merged together, and later belonged to the council hall, and could become an independent department alone, responsible for providing weapons and uniforms to the Seawolf, basically establishing a militarized logistics support system within the Seawolf.

As for this arsenal, after thinking about it for a while, Yu Xiaotian temporarily handed it over to a person named Yuan Tieli in the council hall to be in charge.

This Yuan Tieli used to be one of Qian Song's subordinates, and he was injured in the leg, so he became a disabled person, and he has always followed Qian Song very loyally.

After Qian Song's death, Yuan Tieli was helpless, he was secretly sad, and he didn't know what to do in the future, but Yu Xiaotian accidentally found that this person was very organized, although he could no longer get on the boat to do things, but he was very good at coordination, and he was more or less literate and knew a little about bookkeeping.

So even if Yu Xiaotian arranged him to work in the council hall, and directly gave Li Gouzi a hand, his status was really not low, which made Yuan Tieli very grateful to Xiaotian, anyway, Qian Song was no longer there, he turned his loyalty to Yu Xiaotian, he was very diligent in his work, and his hands were very clean.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian decided to hand over the military weapons to Yuan Tieli to be responsible for management, and give full play to this person's ability, although he doesn't know much about technology, but managers don't necessarily have to know all skills, as long as he can coordinate well and supervise well, as for the technology, Zhang Blacksmith will be in charge of it, so that one is responsible for administration and the other is responsible for technology, and the War Bureau can basically operate normally.

After Yuan Tieli was summoned by Yu Xiaotian, he was very happy, and immediately took office and did the thing of the manager of the War Bureau, and Zhang Blacksmith was also very happy to do the work of the deputy manager of the War Bureau, which can be said to be very happy.

Yu Xiaotian looked at the blacksmith shop and then ran to the cannon to take a look, the production of the cannon has now entered a stable period, the production technology of the imitation six-pound cannon has been very mature, and the output is also steadily increasing, under the alternating use of two sets of iron molds of imitation six-pound guns, the craftsman's skills are becoming more and more mature, almost every month can now produce six or seven imitation six-pound guns, and in about three months, the sea wolf's ship can basically be replaced with this light six-pound gun.

Moreover, this six-pounder cannon can not only meet the use of ships, but also meet the use of shore defense artillery on the shore, and arrange it on the batteries on both sides of Dazhai and the mouth of the bay on Nanri Island to directly resist the enemy invading Nanri Island.

But Yu Xiaotian is not concerned about this kind of light six-pounder gun now, he knows very well the current level of development of naval artillery of Western maritime powers, such light artillery, has long been not their mainstream equipment, the warships of Western maritime powers in this era, more than thirty pounds of heavy long-range artillery have begun to appear, this kind of artillery has a strong ability to destroy ships, even if it is light artillery, their smallest artillery is already an eight-pounder gun, and this kind of six-pounder gun is no longer the mainstream artillery of Western maritime powers.

Even the Western maritime powers still use this kind of six-pounder gun, but it is basically only equipped with some light armed merchant ships or small patrol ships, and it is not used as a main gun, at best as a secondary gun.

Moreover, the main force of the current ships of Western countries has mostly belonged to the advanced Galen ships, and the most inferior is the improved Clark sailing ship, these Western-style ships use strong wood, dense ribs and thick planks, and have strong protection and carrying capacity.

So don't look at the current Seawolf's self-produced imitation six-pounder cannon to deal with peers, or to deal with the ships of the Ming Naval Division in this era, there is not much problem, and even has a great advantage, but once it is used as the main artillery to deal with the Spanish or Dutch warships, even if it is against their lightly armed merchant ships, it is impossible to take advantage of it.

Now Yu Xiaotian knows very well what kind of opponent he will face in the future, so he must make all preparations in advance, the six-pounder cannon can no longer meet his current needs, he must have a more powerful and long-range artillery.

After the successful trial production of this imitation six-pounder gun, Yu Xiaotian had already ordered the blacksmith Lei to start trial production of the twelve-pounder cannon at the same time as the six-pounder cannon, and now he is most concerned about the trial production of this twelve-pounder cannon.

So after the cannon was made, Yu Xiaotian immediately called the Lei blacksmith and asked how the trial production of the twelve-pound cannon was.

When the blacksmith Lei heard this, he hurriedly said with a smiling face: "If you go back to the big boss, the small one doesn't dare to be lazy during this time, the big boss wants the small one to try to make the kind of bigger cannon, and the small one has already cast a cannon mold.

So this new cannon has been delayed, and I hope the big boss will understand! ”

As soon as Yu Xiaotian heard that the casting of the twelve-pound cannon paused temporarily, his face immediately fell, and he turned his head to Li Gouzi, who was following him, and asked, "Did you arrange this?" ”

Li Gouzi nodded hurriedly when he heard this: "What Lei Blacksmith said is that these days, the captains and management teams of all ships are looking at this cannon and dying of redness, and they ran to the council hall to make a fuss about urging it, we really can't do anything, so let Lei Blacksmith and them hurry up to build this kind of cannon, but let Lei Blacksmith slow down about the new cannon!" ”

"Nonsense! What do you want so much for that kind of light artillery? Just a few, just enough! Now this new cannon is the most important thing, I thought that this time back, this new cannon should at least be cast into one or two, now it's good, until now, just cast the iron fan! You're going to delay a big thing!

Thunder Blacksmith, from today onwards, you will stop the production of this cannon by half, and use the fastest speed to gather the craftsmen who make the cannon and start trying to forge a new cannon! I'll give you another ten days, make sure you can forge a new cannon for me, pull it to the shooting range and start testing it!

In addition, in addition to this new cannon, you add one more item to me, on the basis of the new cannon, lengthen the barrel length, increase the length of the barrel by 30%, and thicken the cannon wall to ensure that it can be loaded with more gunpowder, and it must be able to hit farther and more accurately!

You write down these two things for me, do it together, you can't delay, the number of the previous six-pound guns has been reduced, and the production must be maintained, no less than ten guns per month! If you want someone, I'll give you someone, and if you want something, I'll give you food!

Both lines of the new gun and the old gun must be guaranteed to work together, and the focus is on the trial production of the new gun, and I want to do it as soon as possible! If you delay my big event, I want your head! ”