Lin Ziran was very satisfied with Wu Guanlin's performance.
The gun test arranged today was naturally not a show off, but an attempt to let Wu Guanlin see something that could not be seen elsewhere, so that he would be willing to serve for him.
In such troubled times, it is both easy and troublesome to make a talent available to oneself.
You are so powerful that even a lot of people want to join you!
But if you are not strong enough, it will undoubtedly be extremely difficult to recruit talents.
There is no doubt that the current Lin Ziran is the latter.
Lin Ziran still valued Wu Guanlin. He had a professional background and had tactical understanding and other aspects that he and his bandits and peasant officers did not possess.
Unfortunately, there is currently only an officer with a professional background like Wu Guanlin in the Qingshan Patrol Camp.
Otherwise, we wouldn't have arranged a test shoot specifically for him.
After watching the gun test, Lin Ziran turned to Wu Guanlin and said: "This gun generally meets the needs of instructor Wu's new tactics!"
"To put it bluntly, there is still some excess performance. The actual effective range of this gun can even reach more than 400 meters, but the distance is too far and it is difficult to aim with the naked eye!"
With that said, Lin Ziran took the soldier's gun and handed it to Wu Guanlin.
Although there were only two days, Lin Ziran had already decided to use Wu Guanlin and looked forward to Wu Guanlin's more complete and detailed tactics.
At the same time, Lin Ziran was not too worried that Wu Guanlin would reveal the secret of the Mini rifle in a short time, and was worried about rebellion and other behaviors.
Because although Lin Ziran planned to use him, he did not plan to let him lead the troops. He just wanted him to serve as an instructor and also as a staff officer. In this military camp, there is no need to worry about these problems.
In addition, Lin Ziran also planned to send him a few guards to ensure his 'safety'.
Naturally, Wu Guanlin didn't know about Lin Ziran's many thoughts. He took the gun and looked at it carefully.
Being familiar with firearms, he could naturally tell at a glance that this gun was modified from the Fuyuan Musket. Except for the rifling in the barrel, the other parts were almost the same as the Fuyuan Musket.
Even the gun's body is engraved with the inscription of Fuyuan Ordnance Factory.
But then he became interested when he saw the Mini bullet. Although this bullet was still a lead bullet, it was conical and had a wooden plug at the bottom.
Later, he loaded and fired a few shots himself. The overall process was actually similar to the current flash cap musket. He first poured the gunpowder wrapped in paper into the barrel, then put the lead bullet in, compacted it with the whole body, and then
Add a flash cap and finally aim and shoot.
After personally test-firing, Wu Guanlin became even more interested in this kind of gun. In his opinion, this kind of gun can not only take the new line tactics to a higher level, but also greatly improve the light infantry tactics that he has studied for a long time.
great promotion effect.
With many ideas in his mind, he went back after the gun test and started studying tactics.
Seeing him like this, Lin Ziran naturally let him go and didn't even urge him to give lectures in the crash course. Anyway, if he gave lectures now, he would only talk about some old-fashioned things. It would be better to wait for him to perfect the new tactics.
Conduct lectures and then directly train officers on new tactics.
As for the current training of the army, it is still mainly traditional various trainings.
After dealing with Wu Guanlin's matter, Lin Ziran was in a good mood. He patrolled one side of the camp on horseback and watched the training of the troops, and then ran to the oil field area to see the survey and exploitation of the oil field.
The No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 oil wells still maintain a stable original output, neither more nor less. The total output is exactly forty barrels per day. Although this output can still meet the refining capacity of the refinery.
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However, after a period of time, when the newly relocated equipment of the refinery is installed and debugged, I am afraid that the refinery's production capacity will be sufficient.
Ding Quankun introduced Lin Ziran this way: "After half a month, our refinery will be able to refine fifty tons of crude oil every day, and we are continuing to order equipment, so after a month, our refinery's refining capacity will be able to
Achieving sixty barrels per day!”
"And two months later, this production capacity can even reach 100 barrels!"
Speaking of this, Ding Quankun said with some worry: "Sir, if we expand the refinery in advance, if the oil exploration does not go smoothly, wouldn't it be a waste of so much money!"
Lin Ziran was speechless when he heard this. This Ding Quankun was still a little short-sighted and timid.
There is a large oil field under their feet. Although no one can give Lin Ziran an accurate figure yet, judging from the current situation, the reserves of the oil field under their feet are still quite good. As long as they continue to drill and produce
Oil is for sure.
By then, it is possible to produce not just a hundred barrels per day, but even hundreds or even thousands.
In order to avoid large-scale oil production in the future, but the refinery's refining capacity could not keep up, Lin Ziran felt that it was very necessary to expand the refinery in advance.
Otherwise, there will be no way to refine so much oil by then.
Not to mention refining it, even storing so much oil will probably be a troublesome problem.
He didn't intend to argue with Ding Quankun, nor did he intend to persuade him. He just said: "Don't think about so many things, just follow the plan!"
Although Ding Quankun was still worried after hearing this, he still said: "I understand, little one!"
After visiting the oil fields and refineries, Lin Ziran went to Qingshan Trading Company for a brief inspection.
The day has passed like this.
In the next few days, Lin Ziran still spent most of his time on the training of the troops, and a small amount of time on handling the affairs of Qingshan Oil Company.
But on this day, the people who stayed behind in Qingshan Town quickly reported back, saying that the new guard appointed by the superiors had arrived in Qingshan Town.
"New guard?" Lin Ziran almost didn't react when he heard the news!
Because since Wang Jinquan escaped, Lin Ziran faked a fire in the town's mansion and Wang Zhengshou died in the flames, and finally informed the superior Yamen of Qingshan Town, Lianguan County.
However, even the Guan County Yamen has not appointed a new guard for a long time, and over time Lin Ziran stopped paying attention.
In the early days, Lin Ziran was still personally in charge of some affairs of the garrison, but soon he focused entirely on the oil company and army expansion and training. Later, he received an order to send troops to escort the baggage north to Chongguang, and then received orders.
He was ordered to participate in the encirclement and suppression of the rebels fleeing south of Guang'an.
After returning to Qingshan Town, he was tossing about the relocation and paying attention to the patrol of the troops.
I have no time to pay attention to the affairs in Qingshan Town, and I even forgot that Qingshan Town still lacks a guard.