The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 55
After drinking, he came back and found that He Xiang, Huang Mingli and Han Guang were waiting for him, and the room was full of boxes.

Huang Mingli said: "My lord, here are the betrothal gifts returned by the He family, and there are two boxes given to you by Miss He's family."

"Okay, just accept it. Remember not to reject the person who wants to come, and don't force the person who wants to leave. Everything will be fine as it happens!"

"However, when the Huang's family went to the He's family, they generally knew how many betrothal gifts they received, and there were more than twice as many things here."

"Oh? That's it. It's okay to keep it. We need too much money for military training and steelmaking. The He family sent it sincerely, and we will happily accept it. Everyone is happy."

"Okay, my lord, I know that the family has no money, and now there are hundreds of people eating, you should be very worried."

"No, how good it is now, the He family is simply sending charcoal in a timely manner. Tomorrow we can still receive the military salary and go back. Finally, the urgent need has been relieved."

He Xiang looked at the two talking with her beautiful eyes, it turned out that the young master was really training soldiers, and he had no money left.

She said: "My lord, Madam and Miss gave a lot of treasures to the servants. Originally, the servants refused to take them, but now the servants decided to keep them all, and exchange them for the young master's money to train soldiers."

"He Xiang, now you know that you will be poor if you follow me, do you regret it?" Huang Sheng just likes to tease He Xiang.

"My lord, why are you poor? The two elder brothers have told the servants that the young master is a big business with a population of several hundred. It's getting late, and the servants will take care of you and rest!" He Xiang has come out of the psychological shadow, It's sunny now.

"Happy! From now on, I will be blessed to have Miss Hexiang by my side." Huang Sheng said with satisfaction.

He Xiang shyly said: "My lord, what is wrong with this servant, you can tell this servant, I can change it."

At this time, the posthouse servant brought hot water, and He Xiang knelt down to take off Huang Sheng's shoes. She tried the water temperature and put Huang Sheng's feet into the water to rub gently.

Her actions are completely different from Zhao Rui's. Although Zhao Rui has been reduced to a slave, she has never served anyone at all, while He Xiang has been serving Miss He's family since she was a child, and she is used to it.

Huang Sheng closed his eyes comfortably and said: "He Xiang, you can't serve me like this, I am used to serving me, how will I adapt if I go to the battlefield?"

He Xiang wondered: "Master, did you forget the agreement, He Xiang is going to accompany you on the battlefield to kill Jian Nu!"

But I forgot about this, this beauty is very stubborn, at this time, I can't talk to her about the topic of fooling her today.Huang Sheng could only vaguely say: "I can't ask for more, of course I will take you with me wherever I go, but I'm afraid it won't be safe..."

He Xiang said firmly: "My lord, don't worry, the servants will take care of themselves and won't distract you. I just ask you to take care of yourself and don't get hurt again."

Huang Sheng asked strangely: "When did I get hurt? Why didn't I know?"

Han Guang hurriedly said, "My lord, don't take those small injuries seriously, the little ones are all worried!"

Huang Shengduo was clever, so he understood right away, and said with a laugh: "In the future, with the lotus fragrance, I won't rush to the front, let that boy Han Guang go."

Han Guang smiled awkwardly, and said, "The little one was willing to be the first one, sir, can you give the little one this chance next time?"...

The next day, Ma Shihu helped Huang Sheng deliver the official certificates, military pay, and several sets of official uniforms of two trial hundred households and two general banners to the post house.

Two trial hundred households, a general banner with 54 officers and soldiers, plus 20 guards, a total of 76 people, paid in advance for one year to 500% of the hands and feet, more than [-] taels of silver.

From this point of view, the Ming Dynasty was willing to spend money on the officers and soldiers who dared to fight to the death with the Jiannu. No wonder the Liao salary was as high as several million taels of silver every year, which finally dragged down the court finances year after year.

Two days later, Huang Mingdao brought the Black Tigers to pick up Huang Sheng. At this time, the ice on the sea surface was much thicker, and the "Guangning" still broke through the ice and landed. It has been proved by practice that there is no difficulty, but it just takes more time.

Huang Sheng took Mao Yuanyi's official documents and went to the military supply warehouse in Shanhaiguan to get one hundred Lumi guns, thirty pairs of armor, three thousand catties of gunpowder, and some other military equipment. The market price of these items has exceeded 4000 taels of silver.

It is convenient to have a relationship, and things are in hand without any effort.After bidding farewell to Mao Yuanyi and inviting Ma Shihu back, He Kegang and the three brothers of the He family returned home full of rewards after drinking farewell wine.

When he returned to his private port, he found that there were several unknown ships moored here. Huang Sheng knew that the Ming warship under his command must have arrived.

As expected, the gunners and sailors on the ship all knelt and kowtowed when they saw Huang Sheng.

Although there are not many people on Huangjiashan Island, the military discipline is strict. The sailors and gunners of the warships must stay on board at ordinary times.

This kind of management is very beneficial. The sailors will know the situation of the sea surface in the port at any time. When the ice breaking is always in progress, they will get used to it, and they can leave as soon as they encounter emergencies.

Huang Sheng inspected each of the ships under his command. The ships were well maintained. A total of eight cannons were all high-quality products supervised by Sun Yuanhua, and they were from the same batch of equipment as his own 'Guangning'.

This is a reasonable and legal imperial army. With the cooperation of Mao Yuanyi and Sun Yuanhua, of course they will choose the best artillery to arm these two warships.

The 36 sailors and gunners are in good spirits. They have just been here for three days.

Zhao Rui handled the affairs meticulously, provided them with food on the day of their arrival, and arranged for Gu San to choose two cabins on their ship to install briquette stoves for heating, and provided enough briquettes so that these soldiers would not suffer from hunger freeze.

Huang Sheng specially told these soldiers to pay attention to maintaining the flue of the briquette stove, and they must not be injured by charcoal gas. In this era, carbon monoxide poisoning is unknown, but they already know that burning charcoal can kill people. They think it is caused by the gas emitted by charcoal. lead to.

The civil servants kindly asked them to pay attention to safety. These ordinary soldiers were very surprised. When they heard Huang Sheng's statement that they would be paid in full and on time from now on, they knelt down to show their loyalty.

Huang Sheng carefully observed the icing condition of the port, and decided to splice the temporary pier two hundred steps away from the pier. Twenty "sealed pontoons" named by himself were spliced ​​into a platform, and then each was connected in four steps, a total of fifty. When we arrive at the coastal wharf, we will not break the ice within [-] steps of the wharf and let the sea water freeze.

With such an extension, the sea water is much deeper, and the ice layer on the sea surface is of course much thinner, which greatly reduces the workload of ice breaking.

The wooden board roads paved with 'sealed pontoons' leading to the coastal wharf will be firmly frozen in a day or two.

Next year, after the spring sea ice melts, put away the 'sealed pontoon' and maintain it with tung oil, and then continue to use it in winter. How is the effect?Results will be known within a few days.

In the evening, a plenary meeting was held to read out the documents of Huang Mingli and Huang Mingdao's appointment as military officers from six ranks and one hundred households, and handed them official certificates, seals and official uniforms.Due to his outstanding military exploits, Hei Hu was promoted to be the military officer of the General Banner, and Li Dagang and Han Kuan were all in charge of the small banner officers.

There is also a quota for the general banner that has not been allocated. These four veterans are all qualified, but they are not as outstanding as the black tiger, so they are not allocated at all, so as not to affect unity.

Even if he actually has a better life than tens of thousands of people, he only sees a few people around him who are similar to him but do better than him. When he thinks it is unfair, he will lose happiness feel.

People are the most elusive, and managers need great wisdom to create a positive atmosphere for everyone.

Huang Mingdao and Huang Mingli are alright, they are already officials, and now they have been promoted to a higher level, the joy in their hearts can still be controlled.

Hei Hu, a simple man, couldn't bear this stimulation anymore. He never thought in his life that one day he would become an official and lord, grinning his mouth wide and crying until he was in a mess....

In the end, Huang Sheng announced that everyone should practice their combat skills in extremely cold weather, learn to protect themselves from frostbite, and lead everyone to attack in the first month to strive for brilliant results.

Excluding the on-duty personnel, there were about [-] people who came to the meeting. Everyone was rejoicing, especially the recruits. They were all looking forward to the first battle in their lives, and they were all eager to make contributions and get rewards.

Life on Huangjiashan Island is carefree, everyone is paid, and even his own women have jobs and monthly payments.If he can get a part-time official Guangzong Yaozu is just around the corner.

Ten days later, when Huang Sheng learned that Mao Yuanyi had returned to Ningyuan, he went to play the autumn wind again, and brought some equipment and two hundred shi of grain.The most gratifying thing is that Mao Yuanyi specially approved five thousand catties of gunpowder for Huang Sheng to use for exercises.

He knew that this little friend relied on firearms to win, and Mao Yuanyi himself liked to obtain first-hand information about the decisive effect of gunpowder in wars.So at the risk of being impeached by the officials, Huang Sheng was given a lot of gunpowder and firearms.

Scientists know that the near sea has been frozen. It is not easy for this little friend to come to Ningyuan. When we parted, he reminded him not to let himself down. The good news came soon, so Huang Sheng should be careful and not rush too far. forward.

Although Huang Sheng has a well-thought-out plan, he still acts as heroic as Jing Ke and Yi Shui, and as tragic as Yi Shuihan, which made the scientists shed tears a few lines!
Ningyuan Wharf was already surrounded by sea ice, and it took a day to transport these materials onto the ship.

Everyone adopted the method of breaking the ice first and then building a temporary pier, using wooden boards and a 'sealed pontoon' to land and load goods. In the cold winter, there was no one near the pier.

In this kind of weather, the rich would not go out because they were afraid of the cold, and the poor could not go out without enough warm clothes. This kind of weather would freeze to death, so no one discovered Huang Sheng's login method at all.

All production activities in Liaodong have stopped. Only Huang Sheng and his servants are still busy. Of course, they all work indoors with a briquette stove for heating. Even the women are like this. I don't feel tired from working, and I don't get sleepy easily.

He brought back more than 4000 taels of goods plus payment from the He family, and had five thousand and several hundred taels of silver on hand, and the economic crisis was temporarily resolved.

If you have money, you can do things easily. No, the steel factory can only be regarded as a steel workshop. Production has already started. The goods and raw materials purchased by Wu Xiang have already been in place. After freezing, they will be delivered by sea ships from the south.

Several craftsmen who were good at using beef tendon to make bowstrings for the Ming army used their special technology of tanning beef tendon to make several solid beef tendon tires under the joint research of Huang Sheng.

Since then, the wheels produced by Huang's family have never been head-to-head. This invention has improved the comfort and load capacity of the carriage by several levels.

Under the guidance of Huang Sheng and the hard work of skilled craftsmen, the first four-wheeled carriage with steel structure was born.

For the convenience of disassembly and transportation, this carriage is assembled from [-] main parts, except for the girder, which weighs [-] jin, the other parts do not exceed [-] jin.

With basically qualified steel used to make the steel ring of the wheel, it is no longer an obstacle, and the steel wire used for support is not complicated. The only complicated thing is the roller bearing, because the precision requirements of the roller are relatively high, and the speed of the carriage depends largely on it. here.

Slow work produces meticulous work. Zhang Laifu led a few ingenious craftsmen to grind slowly, treating the parts as jewelry, and finally made a qualified product.

In the future, this will be the standard for roller bearings. Everything is difficult at the beginning, but with more and more standard accessories, it will be more effective in the future.

(End of this chapter)