The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 470
The captains and belts of the navy have also been promoted a lot, most of whom are educated young musketeers.The captain is not necessarily the leader, the leader must be the captain, and they may command several or even a dozen warships.

Today, the navy has more than 400 large and small warships, with more than [-] sailors and gunners, and nearly [-] auxiliary soldiers serving on the warships.

The naval auxiliary forces basically have sailor skills, and usually focus on services, such as cooking fires, carrying ammunition, and manpower driving, etc. Casualties of regular sailors are immediately made up.

The population of the Huang family has increased rapidly, and the benefit is that labor is everywhere. After five or six years of education, everyone in the Huang family can write and count. The more apprentices the better.

The Huang family treats technical talents favorably. The number of masters and apprentices and their skills are directly related to the income of the master. For the interests of the Huang family and their own interests, no one is self-serving.

Before Huang Sheng came to this era, the science and crafts of the Han people were all empirical, and were passed down from generation to generation through oral instruction from masters.

If the fortune is not good, the master master with experience and skills does not find a successor, or has no son to teach, or dies unexpectedly, and many unique skills will often be lost.

This is the result of Hua Tuo's medical research in history. Up to now, people still don't understand whether there is such a thing as Mabotang, and what is it?
And Huang Sheng began to record all the experience talks in writing on the first day of owning craftsmen, and recorded every technology obtained in detail. Not only that, the craftsmen of Huang's family also explored the principles to get theoretical support.

The Huang family has developed for six years, and a series of standards and operating specifications have emerged as the times require, becoming a reference book for training industrial workers.Even so, it is not resting on its laurels, and everyone who can propose improvements and improve the process will be rewarded, even if they are whimsical.

This year, due to the large expansion of the Huangjia factory, extensive recruitment has been carried out. Too many young people aged [-] or [-] who have left school have become technical apprentices, and too many strong laborers from Houjin and Beizhili have become the basic laborers of the factory.

The Scorpion Island arsenal has been expanded to produce at full capacity, and the new factory area of ​​the "Huaxia Island" arsenal is even larger, and the layout is more advanced and reasonable due to the accumulated experience.

Taking the production of flintlock rifles alone as an example, assembly line production has basically been achieved. It is no longer a master craftsman who is in charge of the whole gun. Such master craftsmen often become leaders above the workshop director.

Refinement of social division of labor is one of the concrete manifestations of the highest productivity. The same is true for arsenals. With relatively fine weights and measures and unified standards, flintlock parts are already standard products for large-scale production of animal power and hydraulic mechanization. They can definitely be used universally.

The gun factory has subdivided the work, and the workers in each workshop can go to work after a short period of study, and will soon become skilled workers.

Because it is no longer necessary for a worker to master the entire production process, it saves time and effort in training.

Drilling gun barrels, producing bayonets, bolts, flints, triggers, butts, pots of priming, etc. are all operated by professional skilled workers. Maybe they will only be proficient in manufacturing a process that they are responsible for.

The assembly and quality inspection of guns is quite strict, and all guns that exceed the specified tolerances are held accountable. Each gun has a gun number, which can be traced to the end by comparison with the records. It is even clear at a glance which furnace the steel that provides raw materials comes from.

The quality inspectors are all experienced master craftsmen. If they release unqualified guns out of the factory, the light ones will be sentenced to forced labor and the severe ones may be decapitated. Therefore, in the Huangjia Arms Factory, everyone can't be flexible about the quality requirements. very.

The catchphrase of the quality inspection master: "Honestly work overtime and redo, it's useless to treat guests and give gifts, no one will hold their heads and cover up."

The production of flintlocks is now doubling, and is increasing every month.Due to the trade with Japan, the raw materials for producing gunpowder, sulfur and saltpetre, including willow carbon, were imported in large quantities.

Japan's sulfur and saltpeter are of good quality and cheap. I don't know if General Zhengyi has already occupied Iwo Jima. It is covered with a layer of sulfur caused by volcanic eruptions and can be directly mined in the open pit.

Having been busy with the big plan to capture Cochin, it is imperative to capture the Ryukyu Islands. Strategic materials such as saltpeter and sulfur need to be imported, which makes Huang Sheng feel very uneasy. It is better to have it himself.

Although Iwo Jima is only about [-] square kilometers, it has unique resources and is a strategic location, so it is imperative to have it in your pocket.

Due to the high quality and low price of raw materials, the Huang family now produces a lot of gunpowder, which is not only used for military purposes, but also used to open mountains and explode rocks. The Huang family even carried out shallow water underwater blasting regardless of cost when dredging the waterway of the Yangtze River.

It's not too difficult. Take turns to go into the water to drill holes with steel drills on the boulders that affect navigation, seal the gunpowder with oilcloth, and burn the fuse in the hollowed out bamboo tube to detonate the underwater gunpowder. Just water.

Since there is no diving equipment, we can only choose to operate in shallow water during the dry season, but this is enough. In the dry season of the Yangtze River, it is enough to keep the ship's draft five or six feet from hitting the reef.

On June [-]th of the third year of Chongzhen, three years ago today, the first batch of private soldiers of the Huang family suffered casualties in the south of Jinzhou City. This day will always be remembered by all the people of the Huang family system, and it has become a holiday to commemorate the heroes.

Huangjiawan Island held a large-scale public memorial ceremony for the fallen soldiers, and the Hall of Martyrs on Shuangding Mountain was filled with cigarettes. In front of the more than [-] martyrs of the Huangjia private soldiers, all the soldiers present solemnly swore: for the country, the nation, and the patriarch. Sprinkle blood to write Spring and Autumn.

At the end of the memorial ceremony, there will be rewards for meritorious deeds, and all head rewards and military merit rewards will be honored.

This time, the amount of rewards reached more than two million silver coins, and the deposits of "Huaxia Big Bank" increased several times. The commercial houses in "Huaxia Island" were sold out even in the second phase, and the third phase was booked for more than just after planning. Thirty percent.

The islands of the Huang family system have been fully connected to the postal service, and it has radiated to every city with a "Huaxia Big Bank". It is Huang Sheng's ultimate goal to connect the world and postal services to the world.

The mail route between Huangjiawan Island and "Huaxia Island" is the fastest, and the letters written by the soldiers to their families can be delivered in three or four days.

This is because the Huang family's new sentry horse boats are constantly coming and going, and they have undertaken the task of postal delivery.The postage is quite cheap, a letter from home costs only five cents, and a registered letter costs three times the postage.

The pattern of the first Wuwen stamp is Huangjiashan Island, the island where the Huang family started. The pattern of the ten stamps is Shuangding Mountain on Huangjiawan Island. The area with zip code 100101 is Huangjiashan Island, Juehua Island 100102, Zhongmingbao 100103...

Although the soldiers bought ordinary commercial housing, Huaxia Investment Company was not profitable, but the overall effect of the residential area developed by the contiguous area was much better, and the mid-range commercial housing and high-end villas were also very profitable.

All the meritorious officers and soldiers were rewarded with silver, and at the same time, a large number of grassroots officers were promoted to serve as captains, chief executives, general chiefs and other official positions.

The eight dedicated loaders have become disciples and studied with the Patriarch for more than two years. This time, all of them were appointed as Baizong to enrich the team.

Liu Guozheng has already expanded the personal army to a total of 600 people, half of them are martial artists, [-] are from the cavalry of the Ming army, and [-] are first-class musketeers and super shooters.

The general of the personal army enjoys the great logistics of the Chinese army, and has auxiliary soldiers dedicated to serving the Chinese army. Even the camp of the Chinese army is completed by engineers.

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