The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 100 The Great Shield
Ding Yi then went to the Iron Stove site to have a look.

Hundreds of men and women are transporting stones under the command of the craftsman. According to the craftsman on the spot, after the completion of the furnace, it will be five meters high. ) as raw material.

The place chosen by the craftsman is also quite good, away from the sea, there are rocks nearby, and the iron furnace is in the middle of the rocks.

If iron sand is used to train iron, each furnace can hold 600 catties of ore, and 4800 catties of pig iron can be produced in one hour, and [-] catties of pig iron can be produced in eight hours a day. The output is relatively high.

But Ding Yi doesn't have any iron ore now, he just bought pig iron.

It is temporarily used to practice wrought iron. After five furnaces, it becomes wrought iron, and after nine furnaces, it can become steel.

Pig iron can only be used to make helmets, so the large amount of pig iron that Ding Yi obtained from Shen Shikui this time must be returned to the furnace for remanufacturing to become proficient.

If he hadn't bought Su Gang during his trip to Dengzhou, it would take him some time to start training his Lumi blunderbuss.

After watching the iron furnace, Ding Yi went to the weapon department again.

Here mainly make knives, arrows, guns, shields and armor.

There are more than a dozen craftsmen and apprentices in their early twenties, and there are also female workers who sew armor.

In the Ming Dynasty, a pair of iron armor used sixty to seventy catties of iron and weighed thirty catties. Later, it was improved, and most of the armor now weighs twenty to twenty-five catties after being made.

Ding Yi mainly makes iron armor and cotton armor here. Since he has few soldiers, he started to equip them from the first division. There are eight words on the back of each iron armor: "Advance but not retreat, bloody battle to the end."

During the war, when the people in the back row saw the words written on the iron armor in the front row, they must know that they must fight to the end.

Although most of you are illiterate now, you must learn to read in the next step.

Even if they are illiterate now, they all know these eight characters, which means that there is no retreat, a bloody battle to the end.

Here, ten sets of iron armor can be produced every month, and the speed is a bit slow for the time being.

The main reason is that there are few craftsmen, and there are still people who make spears, shields, waist knives and other weapons.

Ding Yi also valued spears and shields.

There are two types of long spears in Ding Yi's army, [-] meters and [-] meters. They are completely different from other Ming troops, and they are not unified.

Everyone felt very strange at the time, but after seeing Ding Yi's style of play, everyone was speechless.

The shield is even more special, and the common round shield is not used.

The large rectangular shield is 1.2 meters high and [-] centimeters wide. There is a bracelet inside, which can fit half of the left arm into it. There is a small movable window in the middle that can be opened. It can be used to release guns and blunderbusses. There are gaps on the left and right sides. It is suitable. gun.

During the war, the shield is raised slightly, [-] centimeters and [-] degrees from the ground, and the sergeant squats down, covering almost the whole body, and it is impossible for the opponent to shoot.

The soldier carries three pieces of iron rods with him, with the lower point.

In wartime, iron rods are inserted along the gaps on the left and right sides of the shield, which can be nailed into the ground, and then an iron rod is used to support it and nailed into the ground.

It formed a 1.2-meter low wall. Even if the cavalry charged and hit it, they would be bloody.

For this shield, Ding Yi discussed with the craftsmen for a long time. This shield wall is also the most complicated that the generals in the army have ever seen.

Picking it up is a shield, and sticking it to the ground is a wall, but the generals can imagine that Ding Yi must have his own style of play if he wants to make the shield like this.

Those who have fought with Ding Yi, no one knows that Mr. Ding is insidious and invincible.

Originally, according to Ding Yi's idea, during the war, the spears of the Ming army were divided into three parts, which could be used as pillars, and it was easier to nail the shield to the ground.

But now that the technology is not good enough, it will take more time to do this. It takes a long time to make a long gun, so the sergeant is asked to bring three iron pillars.

At present, armor production is slow, and spears and shields are given priority, so that the sergeants can be proficient in Ding Yi's battle formation first.

It can produce 120 spears and [-] shields per month.

Then Ding Yi inspected the sewing of the clothes again, encouraging everyone to work overtime, so that the whole army must wear cotton-padded jackets when winter comes.

After watching the military industry, Ding Yi is quite satisfied, mainly because his craftsmen and supplies were prepared in an orderly manner in the early stage, and Dengzhou's replenishment greatly shortened the production time.

The next step is to recruit more craftsmen and replenish more materials and personnel while doing business.

After reading it that day, it was already dusk, Ding Yi did not go on tour, talked to everyone, and dispersed.

He only brought Ruan Siqing, Ruan Wenyan, Zhang Jing and a few others back.

The three walked to the military and civilian service center.

The building of the center is very simple. Twelve pillars prop up a place of more than 400 square meters. There are no walls or windows, just like a pavilion.

There are now ten girls inside, all wearing uniforms with the words 'Military and Civilian Service Center' written on them.

The little girls are young, full of energy, and look pretty when dressed up.

According to Li Shi (Zhang Jing's mother-in-law), the manager here, when it opened yesterday, many soldiers came to buy supplies after the exercise, and they also went to see the girls by the way. It was very prosperous.

At this time, there is no exercise, only the workers from all over the place are resting one after another. Most of the workers have no money, so they can only come in to have a look, so the flow of people is relatively small.

There are quite a lot of things here, and Ding Yi brought back from Dengzhou, which almost filled the hall. It is open until seven o'clock in the evening, and everything will be locked in the cabinet and guarded by sergeants.

Ding Yi looked at the price. The polished rice in the center was [-] per shi, which was the same price as in Dengzhou, and they did not make money from rice.

Pork is two yuan and five catties, which is more expensive than Dengzhou, with an average of 0.4 yuan per catty.

Because there are all kinds of sea fish on the beach, the price ranges from 0.2-0.5 yuan per catty.

Sea cucumbers cost 1 yuan per catty. When he saw sea cucumbers, Ding Yi immediately said, "Don't sell this one, and sell them to Dengzhou and Jiangnan in the future."

Ruan Wenyan nodded immediately, she was mainly in charge of this center.

White cloth costs 0.4 yuan a piece, which is also more expensive than Dengzhou.

A kitchen knife costs 100 Wen, which is twice as expensive as Dengzhou.

Cooking oil costs 100 Wen per catty, which is also more expensive than Dengzhou.

Green salt costs 0.2 cents per 100 catties, which is lower than that in Dengzhou.

Bailiang costs 0.5 yuan and 10 catties, which is more expensive than Dengzhou.

From Ding Yi's observation, rice and salt, which are urgently needed for people's livelihood, are generally sold at a low price, while other improved things are sold at a higher price.

According to Mrs. Li, the people who buy things at the moment are all soldiers with family members. They have paid their salaries, and they just come to spend money and improve their lives by the way.

Of course, there are also some Liao people who came from Pidao. Now they have no salary, but they have private money. Some directly want to barter with jewelry and other items, which are also accepted by the center.

The business was not very good in the first two days of opening. The sales were less than ten taels, but the profit was three taels. After deducting the wages, it was not considered profitable.

But Ding Yi and others are optimistic about the future.

At present, it has just opened, and most of them have no salary. After a few months and a half, there will be more and more sergeants, and more and more salaries. They have no place to spend money, so naturally they have to spend here.

Then Ding Yi looked at the bathhouse, stage, hotel and other buildings. These are all means for Ding Yi to collect the salary. He asked people to work overtime, and he had to build it first. He was very anxious to collect the salary sent out.

Ding Yi went to Ruan Mansion for dinner, and the Ruan family sat at the same table with Ding Yi.

Ruan Wenyan's brows were pretty, she couldn't express her joy.

Right now, Qin Nan is not here, nor is Shen Chuying, she is the only one in Lushun.

(End of this chapter)