Chapter 054

Sun Yuanhua looked at these military households, although these military households were dressed in tatters, and the guys in their hands were also varied, many of them even held firewood knives, flat poles, and even wooden guns, wooden spears, or even wooden sticks.

However, the problem is that Cheng Shijie actually put the entire army of Zuo Qianhu into soldiers.

At this time, these military households also saw the true face of the army in front of them, they were wearing brand-new mandarin duck battle jackets, wearing wild goose swords on their waists, holding spears or firearms, and they were well-equipped.

"What's going on?"

A Tuntian hundred-household official stepped forward and asked.

"Lord Baiguan, these people refuse to give their names, and they are ready to beat people!"

"Misunderstanding!"

Sun Yuanhua's staff stepped forward and said: "This is the governor who came to inspect the Ning Navy, in order to test the training of the Ning Navy, he deliberately did not pass the Ning Navy in advance, let you Cheng Garrison come over to greet you!" ”

After checking the waist card and the letter, it was determined that it was the person from the governor's yamen.

"Stand still, wait!"

Geng Zhongming said with some unhappiness: "They are too presumptuous! ”

"No, this Cheng Shijie is following the sages of the ancients!"

"What?"

Xu Dacheng looked at Geng Zhongming and said, "Xiliuying, Zhou Yafu!" You don't understand it! ”

Sun Yuanhua said: "Since you have come to the Xiliu Camp, you must always see this Zhou Yafu!" ”

Whenever he thinks of Cheng Shijie's rich and simple appearance, he can't help but want to laugh.

It was too cold outside, Sun Yuanhua sat in the carriage, although his carriage was an ordinary carriage, a small red stove was arranged inside, burning fine willow charcoal, which could boil tea and drive away the cold.

After waiting for half an hour, a loud voice came from outside: "Meet the guard!" ”

Cheng Shijie is here.

It has been more than a month since the last time I saw Cheng Shijie, and what Sun Yuanhua didn't expect was that Cheng Shijie, who was originally fat, now doesn't have much meat on his cheeks, but has an extra fierce atmosphere.

"The lower officials visited Lord Futai, but I didn't know that Lord Futai had arrived, and I missed the welcome, please forgive me!"

"Shijie, come and get into the carriage!"

"Lord Futai, please get into this carriage!"

"Oh, what's different about this carriage?"

"Futai-sama will know if you try it!"

Cheng Shijie led Sun Yuanhua and Xu Dacheng to board a very tall carriage, which was only one foot eight feet long and eight feet wide, and was dragged by three horses.

This is also a three-car car, in the Zhou Dynasty, this belongs to the exclusive seat of the scholars, in the Ming Dynasty must be a civil official above the fifth grade to be eligible to sit in the troika, to the four troika, it belongs to the three princes and nine ministers and cabinet ministers of the exclusive use, or the lord of the marquis or above.

This carriage is a new product produced by Cheng Shijie's carriage factory, ready to be introduced to the market, sold at a high price, this axle, equipped with bearings, bridge shock absorption and spring shock absorption, more importantly, this is to take four wheels, two in the front and two in the rear, with a larger and wider compartment space.

Entering the carriage, there is a sofa with a pair of booth seats, two sofas in the front and rear, about six feet long, and a narrow aisle in the front and rear, which can lead to the back or front.

Before Cheng Shijie could introduce himself to Sun Yuanhua, Sun Yuanhua, a technocrat, quickly discovered the difference in this carriage, such as the unremarkable table table, which contained two small stoves, one for tea and the other for simple cooking.

At this time, the stove in the carriage was already on fire, and although the cold wind was howling outside, it was warm as spring inside.

A separate partition at the back of the carriage with a toilet, a sink and, even more rarely, a mirror to keep you groomed. Riding in this carriage, you don't need to get out of the car to go to the toilet, the one-meter-eighty-six long sofa is two beds, and you can rest directly.

It's just that Cheng Shijie's design of this carriage RV did not satisfy Sun Yuanhua, after all, this is a sofa with a card seat, and if you can sit on this RV, which maid can sit on an equal footing with him.

However, these shortcomings Sun Yuanhua feels harmless, he can also start to design, the opposite side can be changed into a bookshelf, ready pen and ink, and in the future, he can work directly in the RV.

When the RV entered Ninghai City, Sun Yuanhua was surprised to find that this was actually a huge construction site.

"Is this a four-wheeled carriage?"

"Exactly!"

Cheng Shijie pointed to the four-wheeled carriage being formed and introduced: "Xiaguan is going to equip Ning Navy with this kind of four-wheeled carriage, a carriage can carry twelve soldiers, a whole formation, a post needs four such carriages, a dining car, you can realize the march of mules and horses at the whole outpost, it is a pity, the post station is abandoned, otherwise it will ......."

Sun Yuanhua silently calculated in his heart, twenty or thirty miles between the post station, if the troops could change horses, then they could completely use horse-drawn carriages, and the marching speed would be faster. From Dengzhou City to Ninghai City, two hundred and forty miles, there is every chance that you can arrive in eight hours, that is, in one day.

Such a mule-horse army, which can march quickly through official roads and post stations, is actually far more efficient than feeding a cavalry, and the cavalry will choose to be lightly armed in order to lose weight and bear weights, so the light cavalry can not take advantage of the infantry who are fully armed and ready to fight.

But these infantry are different, first of all, they are more fully equipped and adapted to combat in more situations, and more importantly, they are not slow, even if they go to areas that are not covered by post stations, although mules and horses cannot run as fast as they can, but they can pull carts, walk slowly, and can march for one hundred and twenty miles, and there is no problem at all.

Soon Sun Yuanhua discovered the difference in this carriage: "This is ......"

"Bearing!"

"Wonderful, wonderful, so ingenious!"

Daming is not actually without bearings, but Daming's bearings are roller type, which is not as light as the ball type, and the quality of steel is not good, and it is easy to break.

"It's ......"

"Bridge shock absorber!"

Cheng Shijie introduced the role of shock absorption in the carriage to Sun Yuanhua.

Sun Yuanhua is a technocrat and also likes his subordinates very much about bureaucrats who understand technology, at this time he was really impressed by Cheng Shijie, originally just thought that Cheng Shijie was just a martial artist, knew how to train soldiers, and could use soldiers, such a person became Sun Yuanhua's henchman, he was just the object of use.

On the eve of the Wuqiao mutiny, after discovering the matter of stealing chickens, if Sun Yuanhua stood up for Kong Youde, would Kong Youde rebel? Definitely not, with 800 soldiers to rebel in Shandong, it will take great courage.

Shandong has two divisions, one is the Shandong Metropolitan Command Division, which has nine guards and ten independent thousand-household offices, and the Shandong Beiwei Capital Division has eleven guards plus three battalions. A total of more than 200,000 troops.

Wherever he had a choice, Kong Youde did not dare to take 800 Dongjiang Army soldiers to rebel in Shandong, which had an army of more than 200,000. Moreover, Sun Yuanhua is the governor of Denglai, and Wang Xiangchun is just a meritorious officer of the Nanjing Ministry of Officials (from the fifth grade), and he was forced to become a minister. Sun Yuanhua said a word, can Wang Xiangchun not sell him a face?

From this point of view, in fact, Sun Yuanhua also looks down on military attachés, and he only makes use of them.

However, now it is different, Cheng Shijie is not only able to lead troops, but also an official who is good at technical management, the entire Ninghai City, not only has a carriage factory, a textile factory, an ordnance factory, a briquette factory, a furniture factory, a carpentry factory (the production of doors and windows), a clothing factory, a mill, a farming tool factory, a water well factory, a kiln and a porcelain factory.

There were forty or fifty factories in the whole city, large and small, and there were six or seven thousand craftsmen who took part in the work, and these craftsmen were able to work in an orderly manner, and the whole city was functioning well, and the streets were not as clean as they could be.

This shows that Cheng Shijie has good management ability.

At this time, the craftsmen were creating a very strange knife, this kind of knife and the Ming standard knife, completely different, in appearance, as if like a dog's leg, in later generations this knife also has a name, called Nepal Sabre, which is recognized in the world as the most in line with the principle of mechanics of the recurve knife.

Cheng Shijie tried to equip the whole army with waist knives, but there was a very cruel reality, the length of the waist knife of the big + Ming system was too long, and when the spearmen were fighting with guns or shooting with crossbowmen, this long handle would affect their movements and form a burden.

However, if you don't equip this knife, once the sabers or pikemen are attacked by the enemy, they will just wait to be killed, which is very inconsistent with Cheng Shijie's original intention, so he brought the Nepalese saber to the end of the Ming Dynasty and let the craftsmen imitate it.

Sun Yuanhua soon discovered the problem, the craftsmen of this ordnance factory threw things like worn-out sabers, hatchets and even rusty axes into the furnace to recast.

"Shijie, you don't have any iron here!"

Cheng Shijie has two iron mines, and he also knows that the children who can scream have milk to eat, so he pushed the boat down the river and said: "Ning Haijun is poor, the old man is Zuo Qianhu of Dengzhou Wei, if it weren't for the capture on the battlefield, Ning Haijun wouldn't even be able to match the blade now." ”

Sun Yuanhua was silent, Cheng Shijie was telling the truth, he thought for a while and said: "This time I came in a hurry, and when Benxian returns to Dengzhou, I will send you six thousand...... No, 20,000 catties of iron! ”

"Thank you, Lord Futai!"

20,000 catties is only more than ten tons, but in the Ming Dynasty, each catty of iron was a penny of silver, which was equivalent to more than 2,000 taels of silver. It can also be regarded as Sun Yuanhua's bleeding.

Cheng Shijie heard that Sun Yuanhua had built a batch of machinery in order to cast cannons, so he deliberately took Sun Yuanhua to the Gun Bureau and let more than 100 craftsmen work hard to drill the pipe.

Sun Yuanhua was really as Cheng Shijie expected, and when he saw this scene, he really couldn't stand it.

"Shijie, there are a batch of boring beds and planers in Dengzhou City, and this Xian will give you a set!"

Sun Yuanhua is actually a little reluctant, those foreign devils are too dark, a pile of rotten wood and steel, they actually dare to ask him for eight thousand taels of silver, but the problem is that those machines are really easy to use, not only the time for drilling pipes has been shortened by dozens of times, but the stability is higher.

If this set of equipment is sent out, it means that forty or fifty thousand taels of silver are gone.

There are a lot of people in Futai, Sun Yuanhua stayed in Ninghai City for two days, and he will prepare sixty guns for Cheng Shijie, which is not a tattered gun supervised by the military department, but a longer range and more powerful firearms.

There are also eight Franc machine guns, and Cheng Shijie can now finally form his artillery unit, like the Tiger Squat Cannon and the Bowl Mouth Gun, which are actually just large shotguns.