Wanli 1592

Chapter 421 Xiao Ruxun's Workshop
Bishop Alexander, who had made his goal clear, already knew what he should do.

So at the decisive meeting held by the Governor of the Philippines, on the issue of how to deal with the Chinese, Bishop Alexandria expressed his attitude to everyone on behalf of the Catholic Church - to hand over all the Chinese to Xiao Ruxun in exchange for the Philippines. Stability, to prevent Xiao Ruxun from using various means to hit the Philippine economy.

Once the economy of the Philippines collapses, it will be a very terrible thing for the Holy See and the Spanish Empire. Not to mention that the Holy See is in short supply of funds, but that the Spanish government is fighting everywhere. The military expenditure required is an astronomical sum. The importance of the Philippines is self-evident.

Everyone should understand the importance of the Philippines.

This was the last concluding sentence Bishop Alexander said. Then, the atmosphere of the whole meeting froze. In the final voting session, except for a few diehard members of the military faction who disagreed, most people agreed. Under the double pressure of China and the Catholic Church, it is necessary to send away all the Chinese who have become unstable factors.

The diehard members of the military faction expressed their protest by withdrawing collectively. However, the governor of the Philippines finally issued a resolution to contact the Burmese side, asking General Xiao Ruxun to send a boat to pick up the Chinese. They are willing to give up the Chinese on the island in exchange for General Xiao's friendship.

Bishop Alexander and Matteo Ricci breathed a sigh of relief—the nearly one-month crisis in the Philippines was finally resolved through diplomatic mediation, which could avoid the destruction of the Philippines by the terrible war, preserve their vested interests, and get Xiao Ruxun’s support Friendship, thereby obtaining permission to spread Catholicism in Burma.

congratulations!What a pity! Congratulations!
Matteo Ricci immediately set off to return to Myanmar to inform Xiao Ruxun of the matter, while Bishop Alexander, in order to gain a good impression in front of future believers, brought some food and supplies to the Chinese community to "send warmth" to let everyone feel God The warmth laid the foundation for the next missionary work in Myanmar.

Anyway, he was convinced that these people would be his disciples, his supporters, and the backbone of his support to become the pope.

When Matteo Ricci returned to Myanmar to visit Xiao Ruxun, Xiao Ruxun was inspecting the production line of craftsmen producing firearms and the studios of the master craftsmen who specially made rifled guns for the SS in the military territory in the northern mountainous area.

At this time, Xiao Ruxun has no way to create an industrial production system, no way to use machines to mass-produce rifled guns, and can only let skilled masters grind out the rifled guns one by one.

This is also something that can’t be helped. Xiao Ruxun can’t time travel repeatedly, can’t do time-space business, and doesn’t have a system, can’t get points, and can’t buy high-tech products. Machines can be used, and there are batches of skilled workers, so it is not difficult to make guns and shells.

But now it is poor and empty, only the handicraft workshop, a group of master blacksmiths, and some skilled workers recruited from abroad, a group of people work together to create several firearms production lines, and Xiao Ruxun is able to achieve today's situation. I really don't think it's easy. I spent a few 10 taels of silver, let alone anything else.

In the earliest days, some jobs had to be purchased from Daming and then sent to Myanmar. During the period from purchase and use to independent production, Xiao Ruxun also invested a large amount of money to maintain the operation of the workshop, so he almost didn’t pay the official’s salary. At that time, the commercial tax was levied, and the commercial tax of a few 10 taels could barely solve his predicament.

Among the several firearms production lines under his command now, the biggest one is the matchlock musket. We strive to achieve the ultimate, increase the medicine room and so on. Anyway, the power and range of the matchlock gun under Xiao Ruxun's Zhennan Army are better than the original Daming bird gun. More than one-third, and the quality is nothing to say.

Xiao Ruxun directly ordered the accountability system, which was carried out according to the system of the Qin Army. If any link went wrong, the person in charge of that link and the craftsman in charge should be held accountable. Be responsible, if there is any defective product and the army complains, Xiao Ruxun will not hesitate to drag him out to vent his anger to the army, and then send him to prison.

The second production line besides the matchlock musket is the flintlock production line. This is a batch of special firearms produced in consideration of the windy environment. Only about 2000 people with the highest shooting accuracy and the richest experience in the blunderbuss hold them. The flintlock is also the fire brigade that must stand in front of the rest of the gunmen at critical moments.

And the rest is the production line of rifled guns, or a small studio, which gathers dozens of master craftsmen's manual workshops, and is responsible for making firearms for Xiao Ruxun himself and the pro-guards. For rifled guns, it has been three years. Xiao Ruxun only has more than 300 pistols in stock, and there are about ten pistols.

It's not that more can't be produced, but that the production efficiency is too low. Xiao Ruxun took the initiative to lower the requirements and just produce enough.

When you can’t handle the Mini bomb, the existence of the rifled gun is a tasteless one. To load the bullets, you have to hammer the bullets into the barrel with a wooden hammer and then shoot. The time it takes to fire a shot is several times that of a smoothbore gun. , Although the accuracy is incomparable to a smoothbore gun, but your firing efficiency is so low, before the second shot is fired after one shot, the smoothbore gun on the opposite side has already fired several shots in a row.

Therefore, the rifled gun can only be used as a sniper rifle at this time. With the addition of the rear sight and the front sight, it is equipped for sharpshooters who are particularly good at shooting. It is still very useful to snipe and kill enemy officers on the battlefield and cause confusion among the enemy. If you expect to use rifled guns to defeat the enemy on the battlefield, then you should go to sleep.

However, the Minnie bullet was also born at an untimely time. It was born too late. After only 20 years of birth, the bullet primer technology has matured, and then it was the era of rear-loading guns, and front-loading guns were soon eliminated.

Xiao Ruxun picked up a rifled flintlock gun that had just been built, played with it, looked at the rear sight and front sight, and felt that it looked pretty good.

"Is the mold of the ammunition still not progressing?"

Xiao Ruxun asked his chief craftsman this way, a 50-year-old master craftsman in his 45s.

"Master Hou, we tried to make the mold style you gave us, but it was really difficult to grasp. This old thing really needs high-quality steel to work. It must be hard and strong. Even steel can’t achieve this effect, so let the old disciples now make three hundred and five hundred refined steels to see what the result will be, as for the results, the old man can only say that he will do his best.”

Xiao Ruxun couldn't force them either. The way of manual workshops couldn't compete with the way of large-scale machine production. Xiao Ruxun nodded and didn't continue to say anything, so as not to put too much pressure on the master.

At this moment, someone came in and reported that Matteo Ricci had arrived. Xiao Ruxun calculated the time and smiled.

It is estimated that he has fulfilled his request, and now he has come back on his own initiative.

"Let him in!"

(End of this chapter)