The next day.

The cold wind howled, snowflakes flew down from the sky, the cold wind brutally grabbed the hair of pedestrians, pierced the skin of pedestrians like needles, and the pedestrians wrapped their tattered jackets tightly.

Frostbite-covered hands tugged into their sleeves, craned their necks, and staggered forward.

The scenery in the snow is magnificent, the heaven and the earth are one, and as far as the eye can see, it is all silver, as if the whole world is made of silver.

Thirty craftsmen arrived at the Tianjin Zuowei Institute, which was specially granted to Jia Baoyu by Jia Zheng by taking advantage of his authority.

These thirty craftsmen were all skilled in the Ministry of Works, and they were proficient in smelting iron, crafting weapons, birds, and gunpowder...... There's even one that can cast a cannon!

Jia Baoyu gave these craftsmen the highest treatment, and opened up a courtyard in the guardhouse, named the Weapons Bureau, which was specially used to build weapons and armor.

The leader of these craftsmen is called Zhao Gang.

"My lord, I don't know what you want the villain to do?" Zhao Gang asked respectfully.

Jia Baoyu had already prepared and made a list of spears, shields, firearms, daggers and other weapons.

As for the most common bow and arrow, Jia Baoyu didn't write it at all.

It's not that he doesn't want it, it's that training an archer is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and he can't afford to wait or raise it.

First of all, the cost of bows and arrows is too high, a good bow requires a variety of composite materials, and there are merchants who boil fish bladders in Liaodong all year round, because fish bladders are important raw materials for making composite bows.

In addition, there are consumables such as arrows, which are no less than the consumption of firecrackers.

And the fire gun is the trend of the future.

Think about it more than 200 years later, when foreign troops landed on this land, 2,000 foreign spearmen could chase tens of thousands of Qing troops and fight from south to north.

Although there is a reason for the corruption of military discipline in the Qing Dynasty, it also shows that the musket is a dimensionality reduction blow to cold weapons.

The training of firearms is much simpler than that of archers, and can be extremely useful as long as the soldiers' fear of firearms and the quality of firearms are solved.

Zhao Gang pointed to the cattle lane behind him: "This time, Jia Gong asked me to bring a thousand bird guns, all of which are high-quality products made by the Firearms Bureau of the Ministry of Industry." ”

Jia Baoyu asked him to take out one, "This bird gun seems to be slightly different from ordinary bird guns?" ”

Zhao Gang hurriedly said: "My lord has good eyesight, this bird gun has added a yin machine, and ordinary bird guns have to open the fire door to fire, after this bird gun pulls the hook, the yin machine and the yang machine are launched together, eliminating the need to open the fire door." ”

Lu Jianxing stood aside and watched carefully, he was the captain of the fire weapon brigade designated by Jia Baoyu.

The firearms of the Great Zhou Dynasty have developed very rapidly, and many of the Jinyi guards also use firearms.

Jia Baoyu asked, "What is the convenience of this design?" ”

Zhao Gang explained: "When the firearm is used, if the fire door is opened, it is easy for the wind to blow away the gunpowder, and it may get wet when it rains on a cloudy day. ”

Jia Baoyu asked, "These thousand firecrackers are all of this kind of Yin machine?" ”

Zhao Gang shook his head and said: "Only 500 have been improved, because adding a yin machine, you need to change the gun bed and iron bars, the chief officer in charge of firearms in the Ministry of Industry thinks that the original bird gun is enough, and the change will increase the cost, so there are only these 500, and the remaining 500 are the previous inventory of the Ministry of Industry." ”

Jia Baoyu asked again: "In your opinion, can you make a bird gun here?" ”

Zhao Gang glanced at the left guard house on the four walls of the house, and stopped talking: "My lord, it's not a villain who pours cold water, this guard is poor and white, and there is not even a stove to burn the fire, I'm afraid it's difficult." ”

"Hard is hopeful."

Jia Baoyu was not worried at all: "Everything is made from scratch, you are an expert in this area, you can mention any machinery and equipment you need to me, I will ask someone to buy it, if you can't buy it in Tianjin, you can buy it in Beijing." ”

Science and technology are the primary productive forces.

Jia Baoyu will not be stingy with investment in science and technology, if there is no production capacity of firearms, then he will be stuck.

Zhao Gang was not ambiguous, and immediately made a list and handed it to Jia Baoyu: "If you can buy all these things, the villain will dare to pack tickets and make a firecracker." ”

Well, there are a few more items in Jia Baoyu's purchase list.

Lu Jianxing suddenly interjected: "My lord, you have been here for three days in Tianjin Zuowei, and you haven't gone to see the governor yet. ”

Jia Baoyu slapped his head, "I almost forgot about business!" ”

When this new official takes office, he not only has to burn a fire, but also has to worship God.

Tianjin Governor Feng Yuanyang naturally would not come to visit a small thousand households, he, a newcomer, did not visit Feng Yuanyang for the first time, it was already a taboo in officialdom.

Jia Baoyu hurriedly asked the attacker to prepare a gift, and after it was ready, Jia Baoyu took Shen Lian to Tianjin City.

Feng Yuanyang was a jinshi in the first year of Longqian, and was the director of the Water Department of the Ministry of Engineering, and soon returned to his hometown.

Later, he was reinstated as the director of the Ministry of Rites, a member of the foreign army, and an official to Fujian to promote the deputy envoy.

In the eleventh year of Longqian, Liaodong was in an emergency, and the Shandong garrison was urgent, so he was appointed as the Jining military garrison.

At the end of last year, he became the deputy envoy of Tianjin's military garrison, and at the beginning of this year, he was promoted to the imperial history of the right capital, served as the governor of Tianjin, and also supervised Liaoyu.

The governor of Tianjin is not something that ordinary people can do.

This location is extremely important, controlling Liaodong in the north, Shandong in the south, Shenjing City in the west, and Bohai Bay in the east.

It can be said that Tianjin is the throat of Shenjing City, and whoever controls Tianjin will be able to control Shenjing City.

Because the people in the capital, food, clothing, housing and transportation, are inseparable from Tianjin, Tianjin is the last canal transfer point in the north, cutting off the connection between Tianjin and the capital, and the capital will run out of food.

Such an important position can only be done by the emperor's henchmen.

Feng Yuanyang doesn't have much fame in history, but this is not a reason for others to despise him.

Those who are good at fighting have no great feats.

But none of the names that can be left in the history books are simple.

Jia Baoyu once simply thought that those faint kings and traitorous ministers in the history books were incompetent, but as he grew older, he knew that the person in the history books was not a complete one.

It was just a simple character image sketched out in a few words when it was compiled by later generations.

A good guy is a good guy, and a bad guy is a bad guy.

But where in the world are such pure bad guys and good guys?

Maybe the bad guy is in that position, but he just made the wrong choice, and he doesn't know whether his choice is good or bad, only time will tell.

Later generations often look at them from the perspective of God.

Feng Yuanyang's governor is a second-rank official, and he is also a second-rank civil official, not counting the first assistant who has entered the cabinet, he is already a very popular minister.

Due to the preparation of the imperial court to fight a war in Liaodong, the grain from Huguang and Guangzhou, as well as the cloth from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, were transported north through the Grand Canal, stored in Tianjin, and then shipped to Jiubian by land.