That night, several maids who were on duty outside heard various strange sounds coming from Mr. Lin from time to time in the house.
Mr. Lin was in the room for a while and would say something about smashing them to death and smashing them to death with gold.
After a while, I heard Mr. Lin say: Who, who else is richer than me?
There are other words such as being ordered by God to live forever and prosper.
Just hearing these words, these maids knew that Mr. Lin in the room was dreaming!
But early the next morning, they saw Lin Ziran coming out listlessly. A younger maid boldly asked: "Sir, what's wrong?"
Lin Ziran said weakly: "It's nothing, I just feel that reality is too cruel!"
How wonderful it was in the dream. He led the golden army across the five continents, became the common master of the world, became the emperor, and lived a life of wallowing in gold every day.
But when he woke up in the morning and found that the bed he slept on was not a golden bed and the room was not a golden palace, he sighed deeply.
Since Lin Ziran has let me have such a beautiful dream, why do you want me to wake up?
In his dream, he was used to eating one hundred and eighty golden buns a day, but now he felt that it was tasteless when he ate this millet porridge and white bread.
After barely eating two bowls of porridge and two bowl-sized steamed buns, Lin Ziran went out.
First, he went around the refinery next door, and then he took Luo Mazi out on horseback to prepare for the oil field.
When they almost arrived at the oil field, Lin Ziran saw Scar and the others.
At this moment, Scar is leading a group of bandits to transport oil. The carriages and oxcarts are filled with barrels of oil.
After Scar saw Lin Ziran and others, he quickly stepped forward to Lin Ziran: "Sir, you are here!"
Lin Ziran hummed, then looked around, slightly raised his voice and said: "Thank you for your hard work, brothers!"
Then he turned to Scar and said: "You can make arrangements later and give extra meals to the brothers. They are all my brothers. I can't mistreat anyone I mistreat my brothers!"
Hearing what Lin Ziran said, these old bandits were immediately happy, and someone immediately shouted: "Sir, you are righteous!"
Looking at the expressions of these people, Lin Ziran nodded slightly!
Even though these bandits may seem vicious to outsiders, in fact they are also very pure people.
If they can have a full meal, occasionally drink a large bowl of wine and eat a large piece of meat, and give them some money to go out and have fun, then they will be very satisfied.
In essence, there is no difference between them and the soldiers in the patrol camp. They all work for Lin Ziran for money.
After passing the convoy transporting oil, Lin Ziran and the others arrived at the oil field in a short time.
After arriving at the oil field, Lin Ziran actually didn't do much. He just made a routine inspection and then told Ding Quankun to prepare to drill the third well.
Now that the second well has successfully found the oil layer, the next thing is simple. Just continue to drill the well according to the existing data.
However, Lin Ziran did not let Ding Quankun and the others be in a hurry. They had to do a good job in safety and did not need to use too many manpower to speed up the progress. The current scale would be enough.
After all, drilling with too many manpower and equipment would cost a lot, and the refinery's refining capacity is currently limited, so even if it builds a third oil well in a short period of time, it won't be able to refining it.
Yesterday, Lin Ziran asked Qingshan Commercial Bank to increase the scale of purchasing steam engines and other mechanical equipment, but no matter what, it is estimated that it will take a month to increase the refining capacity on a large scale.
So there is no need to rush things in the oil field.
After finishing these matters, Lin Ziran took the people back. On the way back, Lin Ziran was still not idle, but discussed the recruitment of troops with Luo Mazi and Wu Dajiang.
"The scale of the current patrol camp is still small, and the manpower is tight when using it. Mazi, you take people to recruit troops nearby!"
Lin Ziran continued to tell Luo Mazi: "We must pay more attention this time and be careful when recruiting people. We can't recruit those second-rate people. We must recruit farmers!"
"Other conditions are still in accordance with the old rules from last time. A certain amount of settling-in allowance and a salary of eight yuan will be given as appropriate!"
Luo Mazi said: "Your Excellency, you are so thoughtful. Last time, we were able to recruit so many people just because you said we would give them housing allowance and salary!"
After saying this, Luo Mazi continued: "Sir, how many people will we recruit this time?"
Lin Ziran said: "Now our patrol camp also has four infantry platoons and one artillery platoon. This time I plan to train two more infantry platoons and one baggage platoon. Let's recruit 150 people first!"
After saying that, Lin Ziran turned to Wu Dajiang and said: "Dajiang, you will go with me this time. The control must be strict. You must arrest the two steps recruited this time for the follow-up training!"
Wu Dajiang listened and showed an honest smile: "Don't worry, sir, I will definitely help you train this soldier well!"
Although Wu Dajiang is honest, it does not mean that he is a fool. He can also hear the unintended meaning of what Lin Ziran just said.
That is, the two new infantry platoons were ostensibly trained by him, but if nothing unexpected happened, they would probably be left in charge of him in the future.
Wu Dajiang's guess was correct. Lin Ziran was planning to continue to reuse Wu Dajiang. Wu Dajiang was an honest man. The most important thing was that he listened to Lin Ziran and never raised any questions.
He would do whatever Lin Ziran asked him to do!
Although his ability is a bit poor, he is not clever enough, and his personality is a bit dull, Lin Ziran feels that it is quite easy to use!
This time Lin Ziran planned to let him train two platoons of new recruits, plus the platoon that Wu Dajiang was originally in charge of, so there would be three platoons and more than 150 people in total, which was already the size of an infantry company.
When the company expands later, Wu Dajiang will be one of the company commanders under him.
Recruiting soldiers was a simple matter. They decided it in just a few words on their way back. Although Qingshan Town and the nearby rural areas were a bit remote, it also meant that there were many poor families and poor children.
As long as the patrol camp's treatment is decent and they can have enough food to eat, then there is no need to worry about not being able to recruit soldiers.
On the ordnance side, Lin Ziran had to put a lot of thought into it.
Qingshan Town does not have the ability to produce its own firearms, flash caps, and gunpowder. Boss Wang's ironworks workshop is at best a small factory. They were asked to rifling the ready-made muskets, and then purchased several new ones.
There are no problems with the device.
But it would be impossible for them to directly produce rifled guns.
They were able to make guns before, but they were all made in the most primitive way. The barrels were rolled. Basically, they wrapped an iron rod with iron sheets, then knocked and rolled it into a hollow barrel, and then made it into a hollow barrel.
Perform finishing.
Although the barrel produced in this way was barely usable in the era of muskets, the quality was naturally not very good.
In today's large arsenals in the world, such as the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory in Nanhai Prefecture, they drill holes directly into a steel pipe.
The barrels produced in this way are of high quality, very precise and of uniform caliber.
Only such high-quality barrels can be used for rifling and transformed into rifled guns.
Boss Wang's ironworks workshop obviously does not have such capabilities, so the guns must continue to be outsourced.
No, after returning to Qingshan Town, Lin Ziran asked people to find Zhou Li from Hongxiang Trading Company.