A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 827 Inventory
At the end of July, the Times and military newspapers published many personal and advanced deeds, ranging from ordinary soldiers to high-ranking officials and generals, and also published an interview with Gao Shiyin, General Baotao of Dongzhen in Monan.

Interview: "I heard that after the general arrived in Kaiping, he worked eight hours a day. Are you tired?"

Gao Shiyin: "I'm not tired. When I think of the construction scene in full swing, I'm full of energy!"

Interview: "Kaiping has a lot of wind and sand. I heard that in order to raise chickens, you often go to and from various chicken farms in Shadian. Your skin has been beaten by the wind and sand. Are you suffering?"

Gao Shiyin: "It's not bitter. When I think of the tens of thousands of people in Ming Dynasty who can't eat or wear clothes, my heart feels like a knife! All the soldiers of our East Town responded to the general's call to overcome all difficulties. Production and construction will go up."

Finally, General Gao Shiyin said affectionately: "This is the time of burning passion!"

In fact, what Gao Shiyin said was: "This dog, Zhang Gui, promised to give me [-] cows and [-] horses, but in the end, only [-] cows, [-] horses, and [-] veterinarians came. One hundred and fifty, he ate everything else? Lao Tzu's day. His mother's ancestor!"

Because of his vulgar language, which did not conform to the image of the Jingbian army, after the interview was published, the words were falsified.

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The cattle and horse veterinarian who drifted away from Gao Shiyin was actually Wang Dou's idea. Gao Shiyin was determined to do a big business and worked hard in Dongzhen. In order to deal with the poisonous grassland snakes, he even raised a group of big white geese himself.

However, Kaipingwei is not suitable for farming and grazing, otherwise the desertification will be more serious. It is not without reason that the Ming Dynasty abandoned Kaiping back then. The logistical pressure is too great. Occupying this place is more of military significance.

However, the original Shacheng and Xinghesuo areas under his jurisdiction had been operated quite early, and the farming affairs were on track, and so many cattle and horses were no longer needed.It is feasible to raise chickens in pastures. Chickens eat insects, ants and grass seeds, which will not destroy the ecology, and excrete chicken manure, which can also make the grass grow more luxuriantly, but there is no need for as many as [-] veterinarians.

In addition to being the first line of defense in Xuanfu Town, Dongzhen has also become a commercial and trade distribution center because Kaiping City is the only place to go north and south. Caravans who go north to trade or hunt for fur often stop here.Most of the caravans going to Northeast Ridge for logging trade here. Compared with the dilapidated city last year, it is already much more prosperous.

In order to expand the defense line of Dongzhen as much as possible, as early as the beginning of this year, Gao Shiyin restored the Yingchang Town established by Li Wenzhong during the Northern Expedition on the edge of Dacihaizi, [-] miles north of Kaiping City, and set up a village beside Haizi.

Soon after, another village was built beside Changshui Haizi, a hundred miles to the left of Dacihaizi, which echoed Yingchang Town.

In May, Gao Shiyin set up an outpost near Lingji Spring in Jieshenggang, [-] miles north of Yingchang Township, where the Guangwu Township built by Li Wenzhong was located.

In this way, Kaiping City is the rear, Yingchang Town is the middle, and Guangwu Town is the head.

In July, Gao Shiyin set up a second outpost at the ruins of Shahu City by the Yinma River and the ruins of Jinglu Town in the southeast of Bell Lake, and relied on the fees received from the caravans to maintain operations, and his influence penetrated into the eastern part of Mongolia.

The several Northern Expeditions in the early Ming Dynasty took the road of Dongzhen, but now Wang Dou does not intend to use weapons, so he is now focusing most of his attention on West Town.

The area of ​​Hetao in Xizhen was originally an important farming place for the Han family in the past dynasties. There are also huge coal mines and iron ore deposits near the town of Jiuyuan City in Xizhen, and there are also gold, copper and other minerals.

Let’s not talk about farming here, Wang Dou immediately opened a gun factory here, named “Lucheng Gun Factory”, which is also the third artillery owned by Wang Dou after Yongning Gun Factory and Xuanfu Zhencheng Gun Factory factory.

Wang Dou continued to adopt the old tricks, permitting folks to open mines, and Youzhen to open mines, and the Duhufu was responsible for purchasing the ore, and even allowed them to rough process it, and then buy it back for further processing.

For Wang Dou, mining is costly and profitable, and mining by himself is not worth the loss. Subcontracting out, not to mention licensing fees, can also harvest more interest groups.Moreover, the more people who open mines and set up factories, the more people need to be hired, so that more people can have a meal.

Not only that, Anbei Bank is also willing to lend money to encourage more people to come to Xizhen to set up factories and mines. The Information Department has also continued to publicize these people with a noble cloak: "Serve the country with industry."

In this atmosphere, wealthy mine owners from Xuanfu Town, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Ningxia, and Gansu flocked to Xizhen, and even people from far away in the south of the Yangtze River came here.Among them, Dingxingbo Wang Pu, the chief soldier of Datong, was the most active. He invested 50 silver dollars in one breath and opened many factories near Jiuyuan City.

Duhufu follows the rules of Xuanfu Town, only those with Chinese nationality and various titles, and various industries that are in demand and make money can be given priority to participate.

In order to obtain the qualification to open a mine and set up a factory, wealthy mine owners from all over the world donated money and materials one after another. The gathering of "good people" in Anbei seems to have become the most benevolent place in Ming Dynasty.And because of the existence of factories and mines, Monan West Town became prosperous in an instant.

Mining requires a lot of manpower. If a large mine needs 5000 people, and if they have family members, one mine can support 3 to [-] people.

Mining requires transportation, which supports many transportation caravans and restaurants, and smelting requires a lot of manpower.Ironmaking definitely needed coal, and a large number of people who mined and smelted coal were needed. These people also had to eat, drink, and support countless trade caravans.

The local area is prosperous, and there must be spiritual needs, and the tertiary industry and entertainment industry are booming again.

Due to the large number of manpower needed for mining, not only all the captured prairie horse thieves were invested in factories and mines, but even the herdsmen in Hetao Mongolia after the surrender became miners, and most of their families were engaged in the tertiary industry.

Jiuyuan City changed every day, and quickly became a famous city in the grassland. Even though Wen Fangliang had followed Wang Dou for many years, he felt incredible seeing this situation.

Now, apart from farming, he puts most of his energy in the factory in Xizhen.

According to the original division of Xuanfu Town, iron materials are divided into three grades, Grade A, B and C. Grade A iron is used for military industry, Grade B iron is used for private high-quality goods, and Grade C iron is ordinary pig iron.

Most of the farm implements and instruments of second-class iron products are made by the original Xuanfu town merchants. The iron products made by them are constantly sold to all parts of Daming. There is an endless stream of ox carts coming to buy and transport every day. Xuanfu brand and Anbei brand iron wares famous.

With sufficient refined iron, many things can be done. Nowadays, on the bank of the Yellow River, in the Gunpao Factory, there are dense hydraulic drilling machines and hydraulic forging machines, and they are constantly making bird gun armor and artillery every day.

At the end of July, Wang Dou saw the report sent by the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs. So far, the logistics inventory has reached 15 rods and [-] hand guns. This is mainly due to the skilled use of hydraulic drilling machines and experienced Artisans increased.

Craftsmen in Daming now know that Xuanfu Town and Anbei Duhufu are the places in the world that treat craftsmen the most kindly. There is a steady stream of craftsmen who defect to them every day. There are already plenty of military craftsmen in the various military factories of Duhufu.

With sufficient manpower and material resources, the production capacity of Duhufu is astonishing. Last year, the military factory in Xuanfu Town was able to produce [-] guns per month, and now it is even more.

Most of these bird guns in stock are still flintlocks. As early as last year, except for one factory left to continue to produce Li's fire guns (matches), the rest of the fire gun factories have all produced Lai's self-generated fire guns. .

After South Korea took over the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs, they invested a lot of energy in researching the spring steel sheet of the flintlock gun, which made the gun stronger when snapping. It is found that the misfire rate of the flintlock gun has been reduced a lot, and it is no worse than the matchlock gun. How many.

At the same time, he improved the sleeve of the gun sword, and installed the gun sword on the left side of the barrel, so that the front sight was exposed, which increased the accuracy of the gun's aiming.

After Han and North Korea took office, they submitted a plan to ask for permission to implement flintlock guns in the Jingbian Army Jia and other battalions. The time to fire the gun has come.

After several meetings and discussions, all the generals felt that it was indeed possible to completely change their costumes. Wang Dou decided to start changing costumes in September and complete all the changes by the end of the year.

This thunderbolt flintlock gun will also be equipped with a gun sword. The body of the gun is also equipped with a strap. It uses a metal buckle, which can be easily stretched and shortened. After the flintlock, it also marked that the Jingbian Army has entered modern times in an all-round way.

There are still [-] rods of Zhong's cavalry blunderbuss in stock. This blunderbuss was originally made by Zhong Susu for hunting with Wang Dou, but unexpectedly, it was unintentionally inserted into the shadow of willows and willows. Once it was launched, it was immediately welcomed by the cavalry hunters in the army. At the same time, it is also very popular among bodyguards in various bodyguard bureaus.

In view of this, the Duhufu launched the horse guns used by bodyguards.

The effective range of this blunderbuss is fifty steps, which is about ten steps weaker than the riding blunderbuss used by the Jingbian army. At the same time, the wood of the blunderbuss body is also incomparable. Instead of brass, the bottom plate of the butt is made of fine iron, and the copper hoop is replaced by an iron hoop. The upper layer is weaker, but it also has a gun strap.

Even so, it was very popular.

For bodyguards, if they encounter horse thieves who can use horn bows, their bows and arrows can only shoot more than 20 steps, and their own horse guns have the upper hand.

Even if the thief uses a step bow, his range is still slightly better, and the power cannot be compared.

And riding on a horse, hit and run, much more free and flexible.

The Duhu Mansion does not sell hand guns to the people, but the audited bodyguard bureaus are not among them, so after having horse guns, the equipment of those bodyguards who use firearms is a horse gun, two hand guns, and a saber.

They also developed tactics. When holding horse guns, they are divided into several layers. At four or fifty steps, they use horse guns in the front row, and then put the guns across the saddle. , the back layer continues to be like this, and it goes round and round, and it is always unfavorable when dealing with horse thieves and bandits.

Their tactics even affected the Jingbian Army Chasers. Originally they were equipped with only one cavalry gun, but later they were also equipped with several hand guns, so that when the enemy approached, they no longer needed the cover of the hussars, and they had the power to fight back alone. the same tactics.

With the continuous production of riding guns, Zhong Susu's unintentional work also brought her a lot of wealth, and she will not have to worry about her life.

The report also includes the inventory of artillery. Since the establishment of the Lucheng Cannon Factory, it has started casting at the same time as the Zhencheng Cannon Factory and Yongningcheng Cannon Factory. So far, a total of 250 Hongyi cannons have been produced, and the Neihongyi Heavy Cannon Fifty doors.

Wangdou currently has three artillery factories. In terms of artillery, the Zhencheng Artillery Factory mainly casts Hongyi heavy artillery and mortars.

Yongning City Cannon Factory casts small and medium-sized Hongyi cannons, Flang machines, Baizi guns, etc.

Lucheng Gun Cannon Factory casts both light and heavy guns, and also produces rockets.

(End of this chapter)