Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 344 Undressing

For a month, Yang Chao practiced horseback riding intensively every day. The skin on his legs became thinner, reddened, worn out, scabbed, carpeled, thinned again, reddened, worn out. , scab again...

This cycle went on and on, and finally I was able to sit on the horse safely, not feel vain under my feet, and I was able to gallop the horse without feeling flustered. Although I still couldn't pull the bow and shoot arrows on the horse, swinging the knife was no longer a problem.

As a commander of 10 people, this is enough.

Development in the barracks has also been smooth.

Under the training of experienced military trainers, the recruits made rapid progress.

At this time, Xinjiangkou was not only a barracks, but also a production base.

Yang Chao brought back more than 50 refugees from the north. In addition to recruiting 2000 soldiers, he finally recruited [-] craftsmen, including [-] blacksmiths.

These craftsmen plus the families of 15 soldiers, [-] people were brought back to Nanjing by Yang Chao for resettlement, and the rest of the big cities like Huai'an and Yangzhou were divided into more than [-] resettlement families.

The group of refugees brought back to Nanjing is a problem. They cannot be accommodated in Xinjiangkou, and they are also a big problem in other places. Refugees have been a problem since ancient times, a worldwide problem.

Because the influx of a large number of people into any city during a period of time will inevitably lower local wages and raise local prices, which will put a heavy pressure on the economy. Modern society cannot handle the refugee problem well, let alone explain the up.

Moreover, there were nearly 15 refugees in Xinjiangkou, plus these 20 to [-] refugees, how to support them?
Fortunately, Yang Chao added another [-] soldiers among the refugees, so that most of the refugees had relatives serving as soldiers, and the military pay was enough to support a family of three.

Therefore, what Yang Chao is facing is actually the housing problem for these people. It is obviously impossible for them to live in the barracks. The housing in the barracks is still tight now. The North Camp has been designated as living quarters and workshops for craftsmen, and the other three camps can accommodate 5 soldiers. It is already the limit. You must know that in the past there were only [-] or [-] people at most, but now it is overloaded.

Therefore, these refugees could only be allowed to build shacks on the wasteland by themselves. Fortunately, there was a large area of ​​wasteland outside the camp. As a result, a slum of more than 20 people was formed in the Xinjiangkou area along the river bank, where it was originally planned to open up wasteland.

Yang Chao has no spare energy to improve their conditions, so he can only let their family members help them slowly. They also do part-time jobs on the pier, and slowly build houses for themselves. Let’s settle down. This area has built a embankment and is close to the river. After settling here, you won’t suffer any disadvantages. They are all river view houses.

As long as the refugees do not have a humanitarian crisis, Yang Chao needs to care more about his own property.

Enough craftsmen have been recruited, and enough spacious barracks have been allocated to them, so that they can produce.

Among them, the production of blunderbuss, artillery and iron armor required the most attention.

Iron armor looks the most complicated, but the crafting requirements are actually the lowest. It is just made of fine iron pieces and strung together. Skilled blacksmiths can do it.

The most difficult part of the bird gun is to build the barrel.

Due to the limitation of materials, wrought iron sheets are used to make bird blunderbusses, and a cylindrical steel core is used as the cold bone in the middle. The hammer knocks the hot wrought iron out of the steel core and coils it into an iron tube.And in the process of cladding iron, the steel core is continuously drawn out to cool with water to prevent the steel core and wrought iron from being welded together.The thickness of the rolled iron pipe should also be about one centimeter.In this way, the gun barrel is strong and can withstand dozens of consecutive shots.

This kind of craftsmanship is actually not difficult, and it is no problem for skilled blacksmiths to be more careful.

The second step is to link. The length of the bird gun is more than three feet, and it is difficult to directly create such a long double-layer iron pipe with wrought iron. It is often linked together with short iron pipes. Cupronickel is used as flux and soldered together.

Since long blunderbusses over three feet long are welded joint by segment, poorly welded blunderbusses are easy to be bombed and boring. Craftsmen regard seamless welded barrels as the key to the success or failure of making blunderbusses.

The work of this link is obviously more complicated, and skilled craftsmen also need long-term practice to master it well.

The most difficult step is to drill the gun barrel in the third step.

Because steel brazing is used as cold bone to build the barrel, the technology of this era can neither make a completely round steel brazing, nor can it guarantee the deformation during the manufacturing process. Qualified, and you need to drill with a drill bit of the same caliber.

The Ming Dynasty introduced a special drill press to drill the gun barrel, basically a huge wooden frame, the lower wooden frame fixed the barrel, the upper wooden frame fixed the drill, one person on each side pulled the drill hole, and the upper part controlled the wooden frame along the The groove descends at a constant speed and requires three people to operate at the same time. Obviously this is a very primitive machine tool.

Yang Chao is very supportive of cultivating craftsmen's habit of using machines, so he spared no expense to build a large number of such drilling machines.

And spend more money on improvements, replace the wooden frame with a more stable cast iron frame, and make the drill vibrate less.

But the drilling speed is still not guaranteed.

There was no high-strength alloy drill material in the Ming Dynasty. The drill was made of a kind of artificially forged sub-steel, which is actually a high-carbon cold-quenched steel. Therefore, the hardness is not enough. If you drill for a long time, it will deform and damage the barrel. It affects the speed of drilling the barrel. The experience of craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty is that it takes one month to drill one barrel per day, which is the most time-consuming.

But Yang Chao discovered this problem when he was in Haizhou. It is impossible for a modern drilling machine to drill a hole a month, and the modern drill bit will also encounter heat problems. The modern solution is to use coolant to cool the coolant. Oil.

In order to prevent rust, Yang Chao chose to use oil.

After that, the speed has been greatly improved. If the drill bit is not afraid of loss, one barrel can be drilled in one day. If the drill bit is protected, three days is enough to drill one barrel. Therefore, the process that most affects the speed has been solved.

Therefore, the speed of making the blunderbuss has also been greatly improved. It only takes four days to make a blunderbuss in Yang Chao's barracks.

However, the total output is not high, only a hundred blunderbusses are produced every day, which is very scary compared to other craftsmen, but it is too embarrassing to compare Yang Chao's investment.

After Yang Chao built it, let Chen Jin lead someone to check it. After 30 rounds were tested, they had to be inspected once, and all of them passed the inspection before they could be put into use. The cost of a single bird gun reaches 20 taels of silver, so it is better to ask the craftsmen of the Bingzhan Bureau to make it, and they only cost [-] taels of silver.

But this is the difference between mass production and manual workshops. There is a break-even point. Yang Chao believes that as the output continues to increase, and the craftsmen's technology improves, the cost of substandard products will drop, and the cost will be greatly reduced. It is not impossible to make a shot with silver.

Compared with the bird blunderbuss, which already has a way forward, the cast cannon is not satisfactory. With the twenty gunners in Haizhou City as the core, a group of blacksmiths were recruited in Nanjing, and a dozen old Nanjing cast cannons were recruited through contacts. Under the guidance of the craftsman, the quality of the cannon casting is no problem, but the speed of casting the cannon is simply outrageous.

The most important thing is to make the cannon molds. It takes half a year to dry in the shade. Yang Chao started casting cannons after October last year, and this year the first batch of cannons were cast by King Beishangqin. Not only is the production cycle long, but the key is that the pass rate is too low. It is said among the artisans that the foreign artisans in Macao cast cannons, and those who can get one out of ten can be called national masters.

Yang Chao's first batch of clay molds were made of a thousand tiger squatting cannons. It is said that the casting skills are the lowest. They can even be forged and welded with wrought iron, but [-]% of them are still unqualified. Under Lao Jin's strict inspection, only one One hundred guns are equipped with artillery, and nine hundred can only be melted down again.

After a month, they can cast more than a dozen tiger squatting cannons and one or two general cannons. As for the red cannons, they have no skills for the time being and have not started casting.

Yang Chao promised a lot of money to reward the methods that can speed up the speed and improve the quality. If he promised to double the speed, he would reward the craftsmen with 1 taels of silver, but so far no one has been able to receive this reward.

It was brought to August in the military camp, which was the best day in Nanjing. The women wore thin summer clothes, and the time when the scholars paraded at the highest level was also the most prosperous day for the flirtatious industry.

Kang Xiaobao sent someone to find Yang Chao, saying that Jinchai Building was in trouble.

With Yang Chao's status today, it is really puzzling that someone would dare to make trouble.

But there are people in the world who are not afraid of death, or people who think they are not afraid of death.

The group of scholars in Erli Society.

Kang Xiaobao stood on the stage, and behind him were a group of pretty women in new clothes. The most coveted one was naturally Chen Yuanyuan.

Chen Yuanyuan, after the continuous hype of the Jinchai Building and the introduction of the woman the emperor valued, has long since developed from the number one beauty in Nanjing to the number one beauty in the south of the Yangtze River, and then climbed to the position of the number one beauty in the world.

With a slender figure, graceful charm, and an expression as calm as water, a man really wants to commit a crime when he sees her.

"Dear lords and sons, this is the latest style of the Jinchai Building, silk made in Suzhou, handmade by Hangzhou embroiderers, and hand-painted by everyone. If you are interested, you can take back a concubine of your own, and you will surely be able to win the prize." The beauty smiles!"

Kang Xiaobao said with a pleasant smile.

Running the Jinchai Building allowed him to gain wealth, fame and status. Uncle Liu Jingting, who he had always admired in the past, saw him now, so he had to call Uncle Kang.

He is not a person without ambition, who would not want to go further.

After Jinchai Building became a benchmark in Nanjing, it fell into a bottleneck. Yang Chao's suggestion to him was to develop products. The first batch was fans, which were very successful, and the second batch was clothes. He carefully planned to hold today's event. A fashion show, invited celebrities from all walks of life.

Even a few vassal kings and scholars living in Nanjing came to support him. Kang Xiaobao thought it was a good opportunity, and it would definitely be a success. Who knew that the fourth son of the Erli Society came uninvited, which made Kang Xiaobao worried. I went to inform Yang Chao early, hoping that Yang Chao could come to sit in charge.

But he can't wait, he can't afford to offend any of the masters he is doing, so he can only proceed honestly, hoping that Yang Chao will arrive sooner, and that the Erli Society will not cause trouble.

I don't want to think about anything, but why come here.

As soon as Kang Xiaobao finished speaking, Hou Fangyu stood up with a sneer and asked, "Mr. Gui, can you buy it if you have money?"

Kang Xiaobao didn't know what it meant, and said with a smile on his face: "Young Master Hou is joking, the Jinchai Building opens its doors for business, and naturally it will not refuse anyone who comes, and if you have money, you can buy it. But the materials are scarce and the quantity is limited, so they are sold out." But you can’t buy it.”

Kang Xiaobao felt that what he said was watertight, even if it was sold out, he shouldn't offend people, so he gave them a vaccination in advance, so as to save trouble if he couldn't buy it at the time, saying he looked down on them and so on.

But Hou Fangyu sneered and said: "Okay, I want the one on that biao!"

As he spoke, he pointed at Chen Yuanyuan and said.

Hou Fangyu's language clashed, and Kang Xiaobao was not surprised. He was rejected by Li Xiangjun, and he took all his anger on Jinchailou. The reason was that everyone said that Li Xiangjun rejected him because he had a crush on Yang Chao.

Kang Xiaobao didn't want to tell Yang Chao about this kind of trivial matter. He turned to Yang Chao for everything. It seemed that he was too incompetent to solve even small troubles. Why did he open a brothel?
So Kang Xiaobao still apologized and said with a smile: "Okay, will you wrap it up for Young Master Hou later?"

But Hou Fangyu didn't agree: "Later? No! I'm very tight on time, I want it now, let her take it off for me now!"

Hou Fangyu said viciously.

Kang Xiaobao was dumbfounded. Here, on the stage, let Chen Yuanyuan take off her clothes?
This is Chi Guoguo's slap in the face, bullying, humiliating.

Kang Xiaobao was immediately embarrassed: "Young Master Hou, if there is anything wrong with Jinchailou, you old Haihan, adults don't remember villains! Jinchailou will definitely make a special trip to apologize in the future."

Hou Fangyu smiled and said: "Offended? What is this talking about? How can I care about a group of brothel characters. You said that you open the door to do business, but I just want to buy a piece of clothing to make women happy. In front of all the princes , Scholars, are you kidding me?"

Kang Xiaobao was about to cry, he didn't even dare to speak.

Chen Yuanyuan stood on the stage, still looking calm and calm.

He glanced at Hou Fangyu casually, and said indifferently: "Isn't it just a piece of clothing, Mr. Hou wants it, and I will take it off for you!"

After finishing speaking, he began to slowly unbutton the button, and soon revealed the white orchid embroidered bellyband he was wearing inside. It was hot at this time, and he was wearing single clothes, and after dragging, only the close-fitting small clothes were left.

Kang Xiaobao said anxiously: "Miss Chen, stop!"

After Dong Xiaowan left, Chen Yuanyuan became the only pillar of Jinchai Building. I don't know how the outside world will comment on her delay, and Jinchai Building can't afford it.

But Chen Yuanyuan just looked at Hou Fangyu so calmly, undid all the buttons of his clothes calmly, opened them slowly, and took them off calmly.

At this moment, the door suddenly opened, and Yang Chao walked in among several guards in iron armor, wearing a green shirt and Confucian uniform.

Everyone saw Yang Chao, and they saw that Yang Chao didn't say anything, but strode towards the stage, taking off his clothes while walking.

After walking to the stage, she directly put her clothes on Chen Yuanyuan, who was wearing a bellyband and obscene pants, and then gently put her arms around Chen Yuanyuan, sending him backstage.

Chen Yuanyuan didn't say a word, and before leaving, she handed over the clothes to Kang Xiaobao and asked Mr. Hou to wrap them up.

As soon as Yang Chao sent her to the back hall, he burst into tears immediately.

Yang Chao hugged her lightly: "They forced you to take off your single clothes today, and tomorrow I will put on the most gorgeous clothes for you!"

(End of this chapter)