On September 23, the sixth year of Tianxuan, after spending three or four days at the Twin Islands on the way, Qu Mao and Xuande finally said goodbye to Kong Ming and Li Xiang, boarded a navy warship, and prepared to return to Yi Island, the holy land of Duke Yi.

In fact, returning to Yi Island with Qu Mao and Xuande were 240 technical workers from the new military factory who Xuande sent to the Firearms University for two months of training.

These 240 skilled workers did not last the last few days of the two-month training period and were taken back to Yidao by Xuande in advance. After all, Jidao New Military Industrial Park and Liandao New Military Industrial Park now have more than 50 factories in total, and

Construction has not been fully started, but equipment is being debugged and trial production is underway. These 240 skilled workers are the key to the start-up of the factories in the two new military industrial parks.

In the early days when Kong Ming was studying muskets and artillery on behalf of Yigong's territory, Meng De built a musket factory and an artillery factory on each of the four southern industrial islands. Unfortunately, due to limited production equipment, these eight factories have been barely surviving, and

It has not achieved any major development.

At Qu Mao's request, Xuande took over the planning and layout of the new military industry. The eight factories built by Mengde were converted into exclusive accessories factories for the new military industry, switching from the production of finished muskets and artillery to only the production of muskets and artillery.

Gun barrels and gun barrels, so these 240 skilled workers responsible for assembly, machinery and other processes were taken away directly by Xuande.

The workers that Mengde left in eight factories were converted into exclusive parts factories, mainly skilled workers responsible for the casting, grinding and micro-processing of gun barrels and barrels.

Xuande took away 240 skilled workers from Mengde and immediately sent them to Zhongzhuangshuangdao Firearms University to receive a two-month technical training. After the training, they will be used as Jidao New Military Industrial Park and Liandao New Military Industrial Park.

Key technical personnel of Yuanxin Military Factory.

As compensation for Mengde, Xuande will give priority to equipping Mengde with two newly produced boring machines.

In fact, the number of 240 skilled workers is still very small, but these 240 skilled workers have been working in Mengde's eight factories for more than half a year.

Xuande initially built 48 factories in Jidao New Military Industrial Park and Liandao New Military Industrial Park. Later, on Qu Mao's suggestion, he built two new gunpowder factories and two explosive pack factories, totaling 52 factories.

, on average, a factory does not even have 5 trained technicians.

Of course, Xuande also reached an agreement with Kong Ming on the Twin Islands on the way. Starting from October 1st, Xuande will select 100 technical workers from the new military industrial park and send them to the Firearms University for two months on the 1st of every month.

The training will last until the end of the seventh year of Tianxuan, which means that by the end of February of the eighth year of Tianxuan, the new military industry in Yigong territory will have 1,740 skilled workers who have received formal training.

This number does not include the number of technical workers who received training at the Firearms University and trained other factory colleagues after returning to the factory.

After Xuande boarded the returning navy warship, he hurriedly said goodbye to Qu Mao and then got into the cabin.

The reason why he didn't stay with Qu Mao was because the cabin contained things that Xuande was more concerned about.

The first is two boring machines produced by the small batch production workshop of the Firearms Research Institute. This was the compensation Xuande promised to Mengde when he took away 240 of Mengde's skilled workers.

At that time, the parts and components of these two boring machines will be directly handed over to the Minister of Industry, Meng De, who will select a dedicated parts factory for assembly to speed up the production of gun barrels and barrels.

Liandao Boring Machine Factory has actually started production a long time ago, but the production capacity is mainly used to meet the needs of the military factories in the new military industrial park, and no additional production capacity is given to the Ministry of Industry.

Xuande promised Mengde to have two boring machines in stock, which was worthy of Mengde providing Xuande with 240 skilled workers.

In addition to the parts of the two boring machines, there are 50 finished samples of breech-loading flintlock rifles in the cabin. These are all products of the small-batch production workshop of the Firearms Research Institute. Among them, 10 breech-loading flintlock rifles have been produced by Kong Ming.

A brand new model of firearm equipped with a crosshair on the top of the barrel and a sighting scale on the back of the gun.

Xuande asked Xuande to bring these finished musket samples to various musket factories for the technical workers of each musket factory to conduct research. In fact, Xuande wanted to recruit a few production technology experts from the small batch production workshop of the Firearms Research Institute, but Kong Ming refused.

, but it promised Xuande that if he still needed it in July of the seventh year of Tianxuan, Xuande could be allowed to recruit no more than 10 people back.

Of course, finished samples of the artillery are also available in the small batch production workshop of the Firearms Research Institute, but considering the weight of the artillery, Kong Ming did not let Xuande take them back this time.

After all, Xuande was traveling on a naval warship, not a transport ship or a troop carrier. In addition to the naval soldiers required to operate a warship, it also carried an additional 240 technical personnel as well as Qu Mao and Xuande. The weight of the two lying beds was also small.

It would be extremely light, so I didn’t bring a single sample of the finished artillery piece.

However, Kong Ming has also reached an agreement with Xuande, that is, on October 1, the sixth year of Tianxuan, there will be a merchant ship from Liandao Green Forest Town to transport 11,000 tree seedlings to Midway Twin Islands. When the merchant ship returns, it will

A total of 30 finished artillery pieces of 10 specifications brought by Xuande will also be distributed to various new military factories as production samples.

With these treasures on board, Xuande returned home with a full load. Naturally, he did not want to chat with Qu Mao. During the eight or nine hours of sailing at sea, Xuande was more willing to stay in the cabin and look at his goods.

As for the finished samples of grenades, landmines, and finished samples of improved explosive packs, Xuande naturally brought a lot of them this time. However, for the new formula of gunpowder, Xuande only brought the formula sheet and did not bring the actual gunpowder on board.

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Although Yigong Territory has not been researching gunpowder for a long time, its consumption on the battlefield is large. Therefore, in the process of desperately producing gunpowder, Yigong Territory has reached a very good state in terms of gunpowder production technology and proportioning technology.

, it is estimated that it is not much worse than the Principality of Pengda.

Qu Mao naturally knew that Xuande stayed on the Twin Islands for three or four days and finally returned home with a full load, so he did not bother Xuande.

In any case, Xuande quickly put the new military industrial park into operation and continuously provided new gunpowder weapons and equipment to the Yigong Territory. The one who benefited the most was the Yigong Territory as a whole. Therefore, in some recent decisions, Qu Mao favored the logistics department.

The signs are very clear.

Even if Xuande couldn't coordinate some relationships, Qu Mao would take the initiative to help Xuande coordinate.

The update and iteration of the entire firearm is the result that Qu Mao hopes to see most.

After telling Kong Ming about the gun sighting device and the artillery carriage device, Qu Mao was a little worried about whether Kong Ming would return to the lord's cabin on time to assume his responsibilities on October 1, the sixth year of Tianxuan. Kong Ming's madness and persistence in technological innovation, Qu Mao
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