Chapter 148

Cheng Shijie's requirements for the arsenal are not too high, even if he can't make a bolt-action rifle, at least he has to make a breech-loading rifled rifle.

Principles and templates, southern Liaoning has actually appeared. Now whether it is a Thunderbolt or a Franc machine gun, it is a rear-loading smoothbore type, this kind of artillery and gun, it makes no sense to deliberately pursue the range, because when the shell is discharged, there is no rotational force given by the barrel or barrel rifling, and the shell and bullet are actually not accurate.

The elite range of the Thunderbolt is only about 80 steps, more than 80 steps to 150 steps, the first hit rate is only less than 70 percent, 150 steps away, and the accuracy is less than 30 percent. 200 paces away, where to hit, depends on where the bullet is willing to run.

Fortunately, what the Thunderbolt needs is not accuracy, but an approximate range, forming a dense rain of bullets and taking covering shots at the enemy.

The same is true of the Franc machine gun, but the stability is far better than that of the Thunderbolt, but four hundred and fifty steps is already the limit, and six or seven hundred steps have such a range, but it requires an element of luck. The artillery position of the German rebels was hit by the first round of three rapid-fire shots, which is not a normal level, and it can be said that it is mostly a factor of luck.

Let Yuan Shiliang hit a second round of shelling at the same distance, Yuan Shiliang is afraid that nine times out of ten he will not be able to do it, in this case, it is the most wasteful situation to carry out a comprehensive outfit.

Therefore, the technical reasons have not been solved, the current artillery unit of the Ning Navy is less than 2,000 people, and the total artillery equipment is less than 240 guns, as for the firearms, there are only 12,000 of the three divisions, and there are a large number of pikemen, sword and shield soldiers, and crossbowmen who are accompanied by the firearms.

When it comes to designing guns, in fact, it is not too complicated, it is a matter of concept change, and the current objective technical level is already very good, Cheng Shijie just introduced the development trend of future pistols and artillery to the R&D craftsmen of the Gun Bureau, and then the specific design will be handed over to the professionals, I believe that the craftsmen of the Gun Bureau can give Cheng Shijie a satisfactory answer.

"New Prototype ...... Actually, there already is, it's just ......"

"With a new gun, why didn't you say it earlier?"

Cheng Shijie immediately got up and said, "Go and have a look!" ”

"Now the new gun has not been finalized, it is just a prototype gun, there are too many problems, the failure rate is too high, the gun bureau is still improving, the craftsman in charge of developing this gun originally wanted to tell the marshal, but it was just ...... Autumn harvest, Dashuai is too busy! ”

Cheng Shijie smiled bitterly: "How much does the autumn harvest have to do with Ben Shuai?" Ben Shuai neither went to the ground to harvest potatoes, nor did he put the autumn grain into storage, and now during the autumn harvest, Ben Shuai is an idler! ”

"Actually, it's because there is not enough security guarantee, otherwise they will definitely invite the marshal to participate in the new gun experiment!"

With Su Huaicai's successful example, all the craftsmen are actually full of energy and ready to do a big job, once they succeed, not to mention earning a bite to eat, they can even leave an iron rice bowl for future generations.

"How's the artillery going?"

"It's slow!"

Zhou Yandong was embarrassed to say that Cheng Shijie gave the craftsmen a big problem, because the artillery he needed not only needed to have a long range, but also be powerful enough and light enough to be able to do it.

These requirements can stump the craftsmen.

The more powerful the artillery, the thicker and longer the barrel of the gun, so that the barrel of the gun will definitely be thicker, if the wall of the pipe is thin, there is not enough chamber pressure, but once the gun is light, then the barrel cannot be thin.

Cheng Shijie knew the difficulty of howitzers or cannons in later generations, he retreated, and prepared to develop and equip mortars, compared with traditional artillery, mortars have many benefits, the most important advantage is that the structure is simple, easy to operate, and it is very suitable for Ning Navy soldiers with a low level of education.

In addition, for a long time, the face-to-face enemy of the Ning Navy was only Jiannu, and the Jiannu cavalry moved quickly, and the terrain of Liaodong was also suitable for the Jiannu cavalry to move in a large area, and the traditional artillery, even the lightest Franc machine artillery, was not as fast as mortars.

The movement of mortars is also more convenient than traditional artillery, and it is very difficult for traditional artillery to move in places where there are no roads in eastern Liaodong, so it is difficult to accompany the troops, and mortars can be done as long as the caliber is not too large, and it can be accompanied by the rapid movement of infantry, suitable for a variety of complex terrains, and can be done with the load, hit and run.

……

Liaodong Jingluo pacified the Yamen, the Ning Navy General Command, the backyard, and the warm pavilion.

Gao Qiqian is holding Xiao Jiaxin, who has been babbling. Xiao Jiaxin is now chubby, she reached out and vigorously grabbed the fake beard that was high and submerged, and the beard that was hard to stick to her face was pulled by Jiaxin.

Gao Qiqian was not angry, but very happy.

From time to time, he took candy to lure Jiaxin and called Grandpa.

Xiao Jiaxin didn't eat this set.

Since Cheng Shijie brought Yang Yunniang and Xiao Jiaxin back to Liu Ji Inn, and later Cheng Mansion in Dengzhou City, including now, Xiao Jiaxin has been living with Cheng Shijie.

Now Yang Yunniang is also busy with bank and accounting matters, and has almost no time to take care of Xiao Jiaxin, Xiao Jiaxin is not Yang Yunniang's biological daughter, she is just Yang Yunniang's former prop.

In order to take care of Xiao Jiaxin's life, Cheng Shijie specially invited a nurse to take care of Xiao Jiaxin, her identity is so confused, in the eyes of others, Xiao Jiaxin is Cheng Jiaxin, like Cheng Anning and Cheng Jingning, they are Cheng Shijie's adopted daughters.

In less than a month, he followed Cheng Shijie to sell sweet potatoes and potatoes, and earned more than 600,000 taels of silver, which is the money

The silver is earned cleanly, even if it is to sue the emperor for face, Gao Qiqian will be confident, this is the money he earns with his ability, and he can use it with peace of mind.

However, I don't know when the matter of "Jiannu's bones can fatten the ground" spread in southern Liaoning. At first, it was only circulated in the streets and alleys, and soon it spread to every corner of southern Liaoning, and then spread to the rear like a plague, and in a blink of an eye, it spread throughout southern Liaoning.

Gao Qiqian also felt curious and worried. Because he sold Cheng Shijie's high-yield crop seeds to almost all the Huangzhuang stewards, especially those Huangzhuang stewards, who saw the yield of these crops with their own eyes, they generously bought the seeds of the crops.

Gao Qiqian earned more than 300,000 taels of silver by selling sweet potatoes, and more than 200,000 taels of silver from selling potatoes and corn, and in less than a month, he made a net profit of more than 600,000 taels of silver.

Now he is more worried about one thing, if these seeds really want to be rumored, they need Jiannu's bone meal to grow well and have a high yield, so since then, the problem is big.

The steward of the Huangzhuang did not have the ability to get the bones of the Jiannu, and if the crop seeds were sold to the steward of the Huangzhuang and the officials, if the yield was reduced because there was no bone meal of the Jiannu, Gao Qiqian would be angry.

He is not afraid of offending a few insignificant stewards of the imperial village, nor is he afraid of offending a few officials, if he causes public anger and the eunuchs of the inner court oppose him, he will not be able to sit down as a part-time supervisor of the Ning Navy.

"Father-in-law, why are you here?"

When Cheng Shijie came back, he was a little tired, he wanted to take a bubble bath to relieve his fatigue, and he could only speak to him patiently.

Gao Qiqian handed Jiaxin in his hand to the nurse next to him, and the nurse picked up Jiaxin and was about to leave, but Xiao Jiaxin watched Cheng Shijie come in, stretched out her hand, and shouted at Cheng Shijie: "Ah...... Yikes! ”

Seeing that Xiao Jiaxin wanted Cheng Shijie to hug him, Cheng Shijie smiled slightly: "Come, hug!" ”

Cheng Shijie reached out and hugged Xiao Jiaxin.

Xiao Jiaxin showed a sweet smile towards Cheng Shijie, she stretched out her little hand and showed Cheng Shijie the loot in her hand.

The nurse knew that Cheng Shijie and Gao Qiqian were going to talk about important things, and she wanted to coax Xiao Jiaxin to leave the warm pavilion.

Waiting for the nurse to leave the warm pavilion with Xiao Jiaxin in her arms,

"Cheng Jingluo? Did you really grind the bones of Jiannu into powder and sprinkle them on the ground? ”

Saying that the rumors are false, Gao Qiqian also has his own judgment, all the cultivated land in southern Liaoning is not all high-yield, and some of the land produces sweet potatoes and potatoes, only 26,700 catties, although this product is not low, and there is an obvious gap with the fields with bone meal, this is only a gap in the yield of sweet potatoes and potatoes, like traditional food crops There is also a gap.

"True or fake?"

Cheng Shijie looked at Gao Qi and said, "Does Grandpa Gao think this is true?" ”

"Our family also hopes to be true, but the rumors outside have noses and eyes, and our family doesn't know who to believe!"

This is actually a blind spot of knowledge, the bones of the human body contain a lot of phosphorus, calcium, organic salts, are the main elements of fertilizer, Ning Haijun's military field is indeed sprinkled with bone meal, most of these bone meal are not human bones, but the bones of cattle and sheep purchased from Jiannu, these things were originally garbage that Jiannu did not need.

However, Ning Haijun bought it at a price of two or three cents or even five cents per catty, so that Jiannu felt that there was money to be made, so he took the initiative to collect the bones that had been discarded before and handed them over to Ning Haijun's merchants to exchange for salt and iron pots.

A bag of two catties of salt can be a hundred catties of bones, and a herdsman, collecting and collecting, can get hundreds or thousands of catties at will, so these bones are pulled to southern Liaoning, ground into powder with a stone mill, used as fertilizer, and sprinkled in the fields.

"Father-in-law, think about it, there are more than 5 million mu of fields in southern Liaoning, of which more than 3 million mu are sprinkled with bone meal, how much bone meal is needed?"

Cheng Shijie sighed and said, "Where did Cheng find the bones of so many Jiannu as bone meal?" ”

Gao Qiqian's voice was sharpened: "More than three million acres, if you sprinkle one or two catties of one acre, it will only take fifty or sixty thousand hundred catties, but our family has heard that you can get seven or eight thousand car bone meal!" ”

"Father-in-law, whether you believe it or not, this is actually a coincidence!"

Cheng Shijie did buy five or six million catties of bone meal, as well as five or six million catties of sun-dried cow dung, because these bones are actually cheaper than cow dung. Cow dung was something that Jiannu needed, and they also used cow dung to boil water for cooking, and even to burn meat. Later, it was discovered that the bones were cheap, so a large number of bones were bought.

In addition, many cattle and sheep in Jiannu froze to death last winter, and these cattle and sheep that were frozen to death could only be slaughtered on the spot, the bones were removed, and they were made into beef jerky or mutton jerky.

"The potatoes and sweet potatoes are grown in Kannai, and the yield is ......."

"The yield may not be so high, but it will definitely not be less than two thousand catties per mu, and if it is good land, it is not a big problem to harvest three or four thousand catties!"

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "The key is to use the right planting method, but also to drain the water in time, rest assured, once these sweet potatoes and potatoes are planted, it is guaranteed that there will be a bumper harvest next year, and there will be countless living people, and when the time comes, my father-in-law will ascend to the Buddha!" ”

"Our family doesn't ask for thousands of families to ascend to Buddhahood, but I'm afraid it's ...... Just complain! ”

Gao Qiqian overlooked Cheng Shijie at first, even if Cheng Shijie had a great victory in Haizhou, it was actually the same, but with the bumper harvest in southern Liaoning, Gao Qiqian knew that whether it was the imperial court or himself, he had actually lost his restraint on Cheng Shijie.

Don't look at Gao Qiqian who has not really fought, he can still see the army that can be fought or not, he has seen the army of the Guanning Army, including the Tianxiong Army of the Daimyo Mansion, he has also seen it.

These troops are not enough to see in front of the Cheng Shijiening Navy.

With the bumper grain harvest in southern Liaoning, Cheng Shijie's status has risen in the hearts of all the soldiers and civilians in southern Liaoning, especially this rumor, which directly sent Cheng Shijie to the altar.

Gao Qiqian did not continue to ask, but got up to say goodbye.

"Godfather!"

When Gao Qiqian left Cheng Mansion, he boarded the four-wheeled carriage, and one of his godsons, Wang Muzhi: "I'm afraid Cheng Jingluo didn't tell the truth to his godfather!" ”

"Does it matter if the truth is told and the lie is told?"

Gao Qiqian sighed.

"Does it matter?"

Wang Muzhi was stunned, not knowing how to pick up the words.

"We're going to bleed this time!"

Gao Qiqian took advantage of the bumper harvest in southern Liaoning and earned more than 600,000 taels of silver, which was given to him by Cheng Shijie in disguise, and it was also the heaviest large-scale bribery given by Cheng Shijie in these few times.

Gao Qiqian originally thought that he could eat so much silver by himself, but now he can't do it, he can only divide part of the silver out, the palm prints of the twelve eunuchs, the eunuchs guarding the town of Nanjing, and the eunuchs of the prison army in various places, all need to send some benefits.

It's nice to be able to keep half of it, but half is not a lot.

……

Gao Qiqian is a quick response, in fact, the rumor that Jiannu's bones can fatten the ground has spread more and more widely, and it has spread to the army of the Ning Navy.

"Is this true or false?"

The current second wealthy family in southern Liaoning is not Shen Mingyu of the Ning Navy, nor is it Zhang Yu, but Zhou Yandong's father and son, although the three of them are not as good as Xie Jingze's father and son, both belong to the Liaodong Management Committee, but the problem is that Zhou Ning has been promoted to the deputy commander of the Ning Navy's Guards Division.

Although this level is lower than Shen Mingyu and lower than Changyu, the problem is that his elder brother is now because of his meritorious service in blackmailing Zu Dashou, and has changed from Ganquan Town to become the deputy commander of the garrison capital.

This is even more rare, the father and son have all entered the core positions of the Ning Navy.

"Do you mean that Jiannu's bones can really fatten the ground?"

"Whether it's true or not, don't you know how to judge for yourself?"

While eating, Zhou An said to his father-in-law, Kang Shishi: "Yue Weng, you have also planted land all your life, have you ever seen anyone who has planted land with such a high yield?" ”

"This is true, there is no bone meal in our town, although we have also sprinkled mud in the ground, as well as plant ash, but the yield is only two thousand eight or nine hundred catties, and the wheat is only more than three stones!"

"That's true, I've been planting for half my life, and I've never heard of such a high yield!"

"Jiannu's bones can fatten the ground, no wonder!"

Kang Shi smacked his lips and said, "I haven't seen it, and I haven't heard of it!" ”

Zhou An's father-in-law, Kang Shishi, arrived in southern Liaoning at the end of the fourth year of Chongzhen, as a military dependent, a single independent household. Although it is said that military families have welfare benefits, the problem is that military families will not divide the land, and the land planted by Kang Shi is actually the land that Zhou An, the deputy commander, is divided into, and Zhou An is the land that Zhou Yandong planted.

But the problem is that although the yield of the 350 acres of land planted by Kang Shi is slightly higher than that of the land in his hometown in Shandong, it is only a little more than two stones, which is more than one stone less than the wheat of the Tuntian Army, and the output is nearly 200 catties.

Although the yield of sweet potatoes and potatoes is not low, the problem is that it is only a little more than 2,000 catties, but the yield of the Bining Navy Tuntian is much lower.

"Could it be that Jiannu's bones are really fat?"

There are many fields that are not sprinkled with bone meal, and there is a significant difference in yield.

Kang Shi said with some words in mind: "You are an official soldier, can you ......?"

"What?"

"If you have the chance, pull a few corpses of Jiannu for the family!"

"Yue Weng, you're not afraid of corpses......

"What's so terrible about corpses, I'm even more afraid of starvation!"

Kang Shishi said: "If we get hundreds of corpses at home, grind these bones into powder, and scatter them into the ground, our family's field can collect a few hundred more stones!" ”

……

In the fields near the Yanchang Post Station in the southwest of the Acropolis of Jinzhou, more than 500 former bandit prisoners are working hard to harvest corn.

After nearly a year of labor reform, the effect of the transformation is not bad, the loose nature of this gang of bandits has been almost grinded, obviously across a ridge is the former sworn friends, they just don't have a squeak to set friendships, even if the sworn friends talk to them vigorously, they don't answer much, they only care about doing their own work, at most when they straighten up and take a break, they show a friendly smile at each other.

"Rest, come and eat!"

Due to the most intense time of the autumn harvest, these prisoners will not go back to eat, and all the autumn harvest workers are in the fields, temporarily setting up stoves to solve the problem of eating.

Because of the autumn harvest, even if they are labor prisoners, the food is much better, sweet potato and pumpkin stewed porridge, potatoes and braised pork, although there are more potatoes and less meat, but the problem is that they can now eat big fat meat every three or five times, and they will be full of oil in one bite.

Mao 100,000, the former big boss, has no one to take care of, follow him, hungry four meals in three days, and a fart, if they are not the identity of labor prisoners, but the military households in Tuntian, the grain of the 100 households in Tuntian only needs to be handed over 30%, and 70% belongs to them in the 100 households, and the 100 households will also settle the grain according to how much each person works.

Well, now, as labor prisoners, they only have the right to eat, but they have not distributed the right to enjoy the fruits of their labor.

If it weren't for the fact that the management was too strict and he was not allowed to kill people at will, even if Mao 100,000 had a hundred lives, it would not be enough to cut it.

"Guo Tou, I heard that the bones of Jiannu can increase grain production?"

"yes, I've heard about that, too!"

"I don't know, does the previous rule count?"

"What rules?"

"Chop off a Jiannu head and reduce the sentence by five years!"

"Count, it's written clearly in black and white, Cheng Dashuai spits a nail in one mouthful, who dares to say that it doesn't count?"

"Guo Tou, the brothers are doing okay this time, right?"

"Yes, last night, the Working Committee also showed that we have 100 households!"

"Guo Tou, can you discuss?"

"What?"

"React to the above, and let our brothers go to the north!"

"To the north?"

"That's right!"

"You're not afraid of meeting Jiannu!"

"Hey...... I wish I could meet Jiannu! ”

A scarface said with a cruel smile: "I Lao Zhang still has eight years in prison, if I feed the whole family alone and don't go hungry, I will work here for ten years, twenty years I Lao Zhang, absolutely no, just my child's mother, with my family's dog eggs, and my old lady, also came to southern Liaoning, looking forward to me going home every day." ”

Speaking of this, Scarface's eyes showed a trace of warmth, and he continued: "I think about it, my Lao Zhang can only fight for this life, if you are lucky, cut off two Jiannu's heads, I will be developed, and I can restore my freedom immediately. ”

"That is, I also have an eleven year sentence, and it is the most cost-effective to cut off three Jiannu heads!"

"You are not afraid of death......"

"Dead, dead counts ball!"

……

The current soldiers of the Ning Navy already knew that Jiannu's bones could increase food production, and their families also sent them letters, or directly sent letters, telling them that when they were fighting, they would find a way to get a few corpses to take home.

Because the corpse of Jiannu can increase the production of grain.

Located outside Fort Fuzhou, a team of Ning Navy soldiers trained twenty miles of armed cross-country, and the disbanded soldiers rested on the side of the road.

These Ning Navy soldiers were babbling to their commanders: "Mr. Zheng, what does the above say?" ”

"What can you say above, train with peace of mind, and if there is a combat mission, it will be issued from above!"

"Why can't you make it clear above, even if our bureau can be a death squad, there are more than 700 people in our bureau, and there is not a single miscellaneous, when Jiannu comes, our brothers will be on the first wave!"

Qin Buregret of Jinyiwei has found that his three views have become a little fragmented since he entered Fuzhou.

Because whether it is the Ning Navy soldiers or the garrison soldiers, they are all thinking about the same thing, how to kill Jiannu and how to leave Jiannu to fertilize the land.

Some proposed to set up traps, others proposed to set up death squads, and almost every military camp had young people who came to sign up to join the army and kill Jiannu.

Qin Buregret felt that he was a little insufficient.

Almost all the armies of the Ming Dynasty, seeing that Jiannu was cowardly before the battle, Ning Haijun was good, it was just a group of crazy people, but what they wanted was to let Jiannu stay and fatten the land.

Is Jiannu so easy to kill?

Even if the most elite troops of the Ming Dynasty can fight with Jiannu three to one, there are few Jiannu left.

Even if it is a ten-to-one fight, Jiannu can't afford to fight.

(End of chapter)