Wanli 1592

Chapter 422 The Returning Matteo Ricci
It’s not the first time for Matteo Ricci to come to Xiao Ruxun’s military workshop. As an irrelevant person, Xiao Ruxun allowed Matteo Ricci to enter his military workshop. This is not high-tech, nor is it black technology. .

In terms of firearms these days, some of the Ming Dynasty have them in Europe, and they are a little more advanced than the Ming Dynasty, only Xiao Ruxun is going to learn from them.

However, the rigor and formality of this military workshop has made Matteo Ricci sigh more than once. It is hard for him to imagine such a formal, rigorous and clean military workshop in China, which does not pay much attention to science and technology.

The craftsmen are responsible for the affairs of each level level by level, and each level is in charge of the level. If there is a problem, the superior should be held accountable first and then the subordinate. Sometimes the superior will be punished more severely than the subordinate.

Therefore, the superiors here are more nervous and stressed than the subordinates one by one. It is completely different from those in the Daming Ministry of Industry who first find the scapegoat when something goes wrong. Xiao Ruxun must be the first to be held accountable when something happens The craftsman in this area is the craftsman who does the actual operation, Xiao Ruxun thinks that the important factor for your defective products is the lack of supervision and guidance from the superior.

If the workmanship is too poor, you can tell it at a glance. If you see it, you should report to ban his position. Why do you allow him to make so many defective products?The power of quality supervision is in your hands, but you don't care about it, you must have a problem!

This system has been in operation so far, and it has not received any complaints from the army for a full year.

You know, the pawns in the Zhennan Army under Xiao Ruxun have to conduct shooting training every day. Xiao Ruxun is terribly stubborn on this point. Basically, the year before the establishment of the military workshop, a large number of people were mobilized to find lead mines in the mountains. The lead mines were sealed off to make lead bullets for the army to practice.

The elite soldiers brought well-made war knives, daggers and hand crossbows, which are suitable for small-scale mountain warfare, and a group of 100 soldiers with flintlock guns stationed here to protect the safety of the place while also monitoring these craftsmen. See if there will be malfeasance in them.

With such strict and standardized management, Matteo Ricci feels that there is little possibility of producing defective products. With Xiao Ruxun's investment, the firepower and training level of this army has long surpassed that of the Spanish army. This battle is really impossible to fight, otherwise When the overwhelming artillery of the Ming army hit the past, it is estimated that the Spanish army on the island could doubt life.

Matteo Ricci shook his head, followed a guard into the workshop, and entered a room where a group of master craftsmen were tinkling irons and grinding something, Xiao Ruxun turned his back to Lima Dou, I don't know what I'm doing.

Matteo Ricci stepped forward.

"General Xiao, I have completed your entrustment."

Xiao Ruxun didn't move.

"General Xiao? I have already completed what you entrusted to me."

Xiao Ruxun remained silent.

Matteo Ricci couldn't help but stepped forward.

Suddenly, Xiao Ruxun turned around, holding the gun in both hands, the black muzzle of the gun was facing Ricci, and then there was a bang when he pulled the trigger, Ricci was caught off guard, was shocked, and stepped back a few steps with a loud cry. He fell directly to the ground.

"Hahahahahaha, Mr. Li, I am just kidding with you. There is no gunpowder and lead bullets. What are you afraid of? No one will die!"

Xiao Ruxun laughed heartlessly.

Matteo Ricci now feels like ten thousand beasts galloping past his heart.

"General Xiao, you can't make more jokes like this, it's terrible."

With a feeling of survival after disaster, Matteo Ricci patted his chest fiercely, Xiao Ruxun stretched out his hand and pulled Matteo Ricci up.

"It happened that they made a few good guns, so I took a look, haha, what a good gun, it is accurate and powerful, but the rate of fire is not enough, and there is no suitable ammunition, which is really unacceptable. Such a good gun, but it cannot be used on a large scale, so we have to use that kind of gun that is not accurate, alas!"

Matteo Ricci couldn't help but slander a few words - if this kind of rifled gun can have the same rate of fire as the smoothbore gun, is there still a need for the existence of the smoothbore gun?Besides, rifling is not so easy to make, so you have so many craftsmen, can't you just make a few hundred?
"General Xiao, I have finished what you entrusted to me, and now I am coming back to report to you."

Matteo Ricci couldn't help bringing the topic back to the original place.

Who knew that Xiao Ruxun looked astonished.

"Entrust? When did I entrust you with something? Why don't I know?"

Matteo Ricci looked skeptical about life.

Xiao Ruxun looked at him for a long time before laughing.

"Just kidding, don't mind."

Then Xiao Ruxun walked out of the workshop hahahahaha, and walked outside to a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters.

Leaving Matteo Ricci with a dull look on his face for quite a while, he chased out to find Xiao Ruxun.

It's been a long time since we saw each other, how did General Xiao become like this?
When Matteo Ricci chased him out, Xiao Ruxun stood outside admiring the surrounding green mountains and green waters. This workshop was built in a valley with mountains on both sides and lush vegetation. It was a very secret place. If no one led it, Basically, don't even think about arriving here, and don't even think about going out completely when you arrive. As long as you are someone who wants to do something wrong, the more than 100 secret whistles around here are definitely not vegetarians.

It is precisely because it is very safe here that Xiao Ruxun stood outside to watch the scenery under the protection of Ma Wei alone, and at the same time inhaled some cool air-it is too hot on the flat ground, and only in the mountains and forests can it be a little cooler .

Matteo Ricci chased outside, but before he could speak, Xiao Ruxun spoke.

"Are the Spaniards willing to return all the Han people to this Marquis?"

Xiao Ruxun's serious look made Matteo Ricci doubt his own eyes and memory.

His memory is obviously very good, but why did he just remember Xiao Ruxun's strange appearance just now?
Shaking his head to get rid of distracting thoughts in his mind, Matteo Ricci nodded and said: "Yes, General, the Spaniards have agreed to return all the Chinese to you. You can send a boat to pick them up. They will actively cooperate with you and will not hinder you." Your."

Xiao Ruxun looked back at Matteo Ricci.

"This attitude is a bit strange, Mr. Li, what did you say? They agreed like that? Could it be because you said that Ben Hou would send troops to attack them, so they were afraid, so they agreed to Ben? The request of the Marquis? The Marquis has heard that it is impossible for the court to go to war against Lu Song, and without the order of the court, the Marquis cannot send troops to attack Lu Song privately."

(End of this chapter)