Hua Zhang and Jiang Chong were good friends. When Jiang Chong said that his uncle would not give any news, Hua Zhang was also a little uninterested. He leaned against the wall helplessly and sighed.
But just as Hua Zhang finished sighing, he heard Jiang Chong say something.
"But I don't want to run away!"
Hua Zhang was stunned for a moment, suspecting that he heard wrongly: "What?"
Jiang Chong said again: "I don't want to run away!"
"You don't want to have a wife anymore?"
Jiang Chong looked at his little boy and said, "Hua Zhang, don't you think things in the village have become different?"
When Hua Zhang heard Jiang Chong's words, he tilted his head and thought for a moment, then said: "The new management team came this month, buried all the garbage, and built public toilets. Is this what you are talking about?"
Jiang Chong said: "Have you not noticed that this month, the commander and the new management team are afraid to let us help them with farm work?"
Hua Zhang spat: "That's because it's the slack time for farming now. Don't worry, when the wheat is harvested in a few months, those two broken households will really give you a hard time!"
Jiang Chong shook his head and said, "I don't think so. This time last year it was also the slack season, but the two commanders and the old management team still wanted us to help them weed the fields and grind flour for him in his barn.
All kinds of miscellaneous things use us like cattle, for fear of leaving us idle."
Hua Zhang blinked and said: "What you said is still vague. It will be fine this month. Is it because of the new management team?"
"There is a new management team! Hua Zhang, let me tell you, this new management team has a good background. It is called Chengdong Li Family. I heard someone said that he set up a workshop in Tianjin Acropolis and hired one or two thousand people.
Each helper's monthly payment is two taels, and no one is in arrears for a month." After a pause, Jiang Chong said: "They also provide three meals a day, and all three meals include meat dishes!"
After hearing his friend's description, Hua Zhang licked his lips and said, "Is there such a good thing? Aren't those helpers treated better than us as soldiers?"
Jiang Chong looked at Hua Zhang, his face became a little excited, and said, "Moreover, did you see the 'rifle' of the leader yesterday?"
"I've never seen anything so powerful. Hey, what was I thinking about when I was watching the show? What's the point of setting up a target so far away? It's good if it can hit a target of a hundred steps. But what happened? That rifle turned out to be
It can penetrate an inch-thick wooden board at a distance of two hundred steps! I was dumbfounded at the time. This is simply a magic spell of an immortal! With such a weapon, what is a rogue? He will be defeated by this rifle from a few hundred steps away.
.Even if the Jian slaves come, they won’t be able to survive with such a rifle!”
"You said that as soldiers, don't we rely most on weapons? If we have a rifle like this, who will we be afraid of when fighting?"
Hua Zhang thought for a while, then nodded and said: "That rifle is really sharp. The blunderbuss can only shoot accurately at fifty paces. This rifle can shoot accurately at two hundred paces. It is really sharp! I have never heard of such a thing before."
thing!"
Jiang Chong said: "You think, how many military exploits will a military attache with such powerful weapons make in the future and how high will he be promoted?"
Hua Zhang was stunned and spat: "What does it have to do with you whether you can be promoted to a higher official in the management team?"
"You are stupid. As soon as the management team entered the village, they started cleaning the village, disposing of the garbage and digging drainage ditches. They also strictly enforced discipline so that the officers would no longer occupy our sergeants. This is all hard work and offending work. There will be big consequences for this.
Only talented people would do this!" After a pause, Jiang Chong continued: "The Guan team has great ambitions and has such powerful weapons. It is impossible to build only one or two. It is obviously to recruit troops. We are in Fanjiazhuang.
This is a good location. If you can join the team of the team leader, why not follow the team leader and rise to great heights in the future?"
Hua Zhang was stunned for a long time and asked: "Is this why you are not planning to escape?"
Jiang Chong smiled proudly and scolded: "You idiot, good times are coming soon, and you are still trying to escape! Show off your tricks and wait for the good days brought by the team leader!"
After the trial production of Mini rifles was successful, Li Zhi began to recruit more people and mass-produce them.
There are actually three guards in Tianjin Guard, including Tianjin Guard, Tianjin Left Guard, and Tianjin Right Guard. The three guards are all in Tianjin Guard City. There are many craftsmen in the city. Li Zhi searched all directions and found more than sixty guilds.
The craftsmen who made the muskets were all hired with a salary of three to two months and moved to Fanjiazhuang.
These were all veterans of matchlock making. They had Li Zhi's design drawings. Under the guidance of Wang, Boss and the other five, these people quickly learned how to make Minie rifles.
In order to motivate the craftsmen, Li Zhi stipulated that every time he made a qualified Mini rifle, he would be rewarded with one tael of silver. These craftsmen could make a rifle in about a month, and the monthly reward plus monthly money would be almost the same.
I can get four taels of silver. When have the craftsmen received so much silver? They are all working enthusiastically.
Of course, in order to prevent the production of inferior products, Li Zhi asked the craftsmen to engrave his name on the rifle butt. Once the rifle was found to be substandard or even exploded, two months of monthly payment and six taels of silver would be deducted for the first time, and six taels of silver for the second time.
If it happens again, it will be dealt with by military law!
However, these craftsmen alone are not enough. Li Zhi's Fanjiazhuang is isolated outside Tianjin. In the future, there will be great military pressure to defend against the invading Tatars. Li Zhi needs to quickly form an army of several thousand people. The first step is to prepare Li Zhi
Recruit two thousand soldiers, both of whom are equipped with Mini rifles, to guard Fanjiazhuang.
To form an army of 2,000 people, at least 2,000 rifles are needed. These more than 60 craftsmen are not enough. These craftsmen can only produce 60 to 70 rifles every month. To make up 2,000 rifles,
It would take two or three years to make a rifle, not to mention that the rifle was still worn out during training, so it would take even more time. Li Zhi then found more than a hundred skilled blacksmiths from Tianjin Guard and hired them for two or two months.
They served as apprentices to craftsmen who knew how to make rifles.
More than a hundred craftsmen and blacksmiths moved into Fanjiazhuang and occupied all the dilapidated houses of the fleeing military households. Li Zhi gave them ten taels of moving expenses each, so these people had money to hire masons and carpenters to repair the dilapidated houses. Tianjin Wei
The masons and carpenters found work again, and hundreds of craftsmen moved in and out of Fanjiazhuang carrying various bricks, tiles, and wood, making the small Fanjiazhuang very lively.
Li Zhi hoped that these apprentice blacksmiths would be able to make guns independently after half a year of training, so he stipulated that every craftsman who could make rifles would bring two blacksmith apprentices. The gunsmiths would not only make rifles but also teach the apprentices rifle-making techniques for a period of time.
Half a year. After half a year, the apprentice blacksmith starts to make rifles independently. After the apprentice makes a qualified rifle, the monthly salary increases to three taels of silver. After the apprentice leaves the apprenticeship, every time the apprentice makes a qualified Mini rifle, the master gets three
The reward money is given to the apprentice, and the remaining seven coins are given to the apprentice.
If the apprentice cannot become a master after studying for half a year, the apprentice will change his master and continue to learn. However, the monthly salary of the original master and the apprentice will be reduced by five silver coins each month until he becomes a master.
Under such a reward and punishment system, the gunsmiths taught each other everything they had and took the time to teach the skills to the apprentice blacksmiths. I believe that soon Li Zhi will have more than a hundred craftsmen who can make Mini rifles.
