The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 476

Huang Sheng took a different approach and asked for the mass production of flintlock muskets with traditional round lead bullets. This kind of guns will become the munitions for sale in the market, and the six-pound smoothbore gun is also included.

Without rifling, the output of muskets increased immediately, and it became possible to equip Xiangyong smoothbore guns on a large scale in the future. The service life of smoothbore guns is much higher than that of rifled guns, and maintenance is much easier.

The flintlock musket produced by the Huang family is lighter than the Lumi blunderbuss, and can be equipped with triangular military thorns. Due to the widespread use of fixed-pack granular gunpowder, the air-tightness is better than that of the Lumi blunderbuss, and the effective range is increased by more than ten steps.

The key is good quality. It is not an iron gun like the Lumi gun but a steel gun. As long as the standard operation prevents the danger of explosion.

The cost of a flintlock musket was ten taels of silver each, and the cost of a six-pound smoothbore gun was about 200 taels of silver. The high cost was entirely because Huang Sheng treated industrial workers favorably.

Selling guns and cannons is not a one-shot deal. The supporting ammunition and wearing parts that need to be replaced regularly, such as firing springs, firing pins, firing flints, etc., as long as you buy the Huang family's arms, you have to purchase them regularly.

If it is found that the party buying the arms has become a hostile force, immediately start to get stuck and stop the supply of all ammunition and accessories.

This is exactly the same as the Yankees playing in the arms trade. First of all, you can't get the most advanced weapons, and whether the sub-advanced weapons you get can be used for a long time depends on his face.

Huang Sheng sold Li Guozhu 30 muskets at a preferential price of 800 taels each, and [-] six-pound field smoothbore guns at a price of [-] taels, and sent two Xiaoqi instructors to serve as military advisors for tactical training. guide.

These 20 people are grass-roots officers who have been gilded in the school, including the navy and the army, and there are six professional artillerymen.

Huang Sheng dealt with some affairs of "Huaxia Island", and got the unexpected joy that the Dutch and Li Guozhu two gangs of robbers were going to join forces to seize the Japanese territory.

The investment of the Huang family has begun to reap rich returns, and a large amount of seizures have been made in every battle. Now funds are no longer a problem. Since there is no shortage of money in a short period of time, of course the development benefits of the Huang family should be shared with every follower of the people.

Huang Sheng decisively decided to adjust the wages, not only for soldiers, but also for craftsmen.

The basic monthly salary of the Zhengbing of the Huang family is all raised to two taels or four a month, the first auxiliary soldier gets two taels for the driver of the armored carriage, and the rest can be deduced by analogy. Rice grain is four buckets of rice per month.

Due to the launch of the civil war this time, the grassroots civilian workers have shown strong organizational skills. Of course, wages must be increased. Two taels, because they are half-full production and have no real rice grain.

The head of the pavilion gets the same salary as the regular soldiers every month, and the same rice and grain.The pavilion chief of the Huang family system manages at least 8000 households, with a population of as many as [-] and as few as three or four thousand. In the past, the pavilion chief was the largest civil official of the Huang family.

Time has passed, and the population of Huang's family has expanded rapidly. Now all the people and reserve people are close to 90, and this number is still increasing rapidly.

The promotion of civil officers was naturally guided by the situation, so the officials who managed the three pavilions, the township chief and the town mayor, were born from outstanding pavilion chiefs or professional military officers with meritorious performance.

At present, there are not many township heads, most of them are town heads, because the mature communities of the Huang family are dominated by industrial workers and are all managed by urbanization.

The treatment of the township head and the town head is the same as that of the soldiers and small flag officers, with a monthly payment of four taels of silver.

When Huang Sheng convened a meeting of civil officials, the head of the pavilion and the newly appointed mayor responded to a problem. This time, many soldiers retired due to injuries and transferred to the civil affairs system, and there were also military officers at the level of the General Banner.

They have no objection to the job positions provided, but only made a small request, can they be allowed to bring their own battle armor and retire with honor?

In the past, soldiers could take all their weapons with them when they retired from the army, but they had to keep their armor. This was entirely because the output of armor could not keep up with the expansion of the team. Although this problem still exists today, after adding too many craftsmen to participate in the labor this time, there will be a big problem. change.

Huang Sheng immediately stated that all veterans could bring back the items issued by the army, including armor, and asked civil officials at all levels to encourage the Han people in the Huang family system to own weapons and armor.

Not only cold weapons, but also flintlock rifles and smoothbore guns can be owned by individuals, but the gun number and owner need to be registered. If they are lost, they will be convicted and sentenced to at least one year of community labor camp.

Advocate and encourage Han people to get used to walking with swords. In the future, Han people in the Huang family system will appear one by one, all with swords on their waists, looking like knights, and they look not easy to provoke. Slowly, martial arts will spread to The entire nation will never again become the sick man of East Asia in the long run.

Most of the civil officials are from the military, and they have a soft spot for force. Seeing that the patriarch is not afraid of ordinary people wielding knives and guns to increase the crime rate, they will strongly advocate it.

In the future, the community will regularly organize folk martial arts competitions, such as knife skills, archery skills, spear skills, sword skills, shooting results, loading speed, etc. will all become competition items.The records in the archives during the military expansion have more convincing data.

Now the Huang family system does not count the villagers of Guangning Prefecture, and the number of adults has reached 10,000+. It is out of date for all of them to carry out the training of village courage.

Xiangyong changed from getting political points for fulfilling his obligations to getting proper compensation and getting promotion conditions.

Xiangyong has just been selected to participate in military training as a junior Xiangyong. He will be given a monthly allowance of two silver coins and no less than [-] hours of practice.

After training and passing the assessment, he will be promoted to a higher level, and his allowance will be raised to four dollars.

The intermediate-level Xiangyong who passed the assessment again became the highest level of Xiangyong and became a reserve soldier. Those who trained hot weapons could be issued with flintlock muskets, and those with excellent shooting performance were issued with rifled guns. The allowance was increased to seven silver coins per month.

Most of the army selects the auxiliary soldiers to select the reserve soldiers, and the main soldiers are selected from the auxiliary soldiers in principle.

Huang Sheng's arrangement is to reward everyone who has worked hard, reject egalitarianism, and reward hard work and punish laziness for the survival of the fittest.

All major family affairs were arranged, and personnel adjustments were basically in place. After seeing He Xiang, Chu Er and his son in the evening, Huang Sheng went to Caier Yaju to rest. As soon as he entered the yard, he felt different. The original unique flower fragrance became the smell of traditional Chinese medicine. .

Huang Sheng hurried to the small building and pulled Cai Er to look left and right, confusing the beauty, "Master! What's wrong with you today? What's wrong with my slave's house?"

"Cai'er, you look good! Who is sick?"

The clever Cai'er immediately understood the reason, her pretty face blushed, and said leisurely: "My family is not promising, my belly is not up to date, and I can't get pregnant all the time, so I am in a hurry!"

It turned out that the beauty was anxious when she saw the babies of the Huang family croaking to the ground, so she asked Li Chenxu to prescribe a prescription for improving pregnancy and tonic.

"It's none of your business, and it's even more irrelevant to whether you are successful or not. If you want to be open, what should come will always come. Drinking medicine is better than serving the master more." Huang Sheng teased his beauty and said.

"Master..." The moon hid in the clouds again, and I don't know how much romance is left in the red silk tent....

(End of this chapter)