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Chapter 203 Craftsmen

In addition to the fire gun and bayonet, there are also ammunition belts, gunpowder cartridges, induction cartridges, bullet boxes, water bags, backpacks, small needle and thread bags, and first aid medicine bags.

These things are done by several factories, and people who contributed their contributions to each other came out to work together.

At this time, Sun Jingting calculated for a while and said, "The gun and bayonet are more than seven taels, and the rest of the miscellaneous things are not cheap either. With several sets of clothes and boots, it takes twenty taels for a soldier to buy weapons, robes, quilts, Wen Lan, you are always expensive."

"Soldiers are more expensive than elites. If a person uses a bamboo bow and iron spear, even if he is a soldier, it is cheap, and he may not be of much use."

Twenty taels per soldier are just weapons and equipment costs. In the early stage, the construction of barracks and various supporting facilities has already been a lot of money. In the future, it will be a bottomless pit for each workshop. The money used is like flowing water. Li Yujing, the account room, was frightened and persuaded Zhang Han to save some use... The thousand-dollar house and schoolyard used nearly 20,000 yuan, and they had to buy utensils and beds when they went down. The money was just beginning.

There is also the monthly salary and food consumption of each soldier. Based on two thousand people, to ensure high-intensity training, you must have sufficient nutritional intake. According to preliminary statistics, every two thousand people can cost at least 5,000 taels of silver per month. This is not a wartime system, it is just training.

Zhang Han said to everyone at this time: "Wang Debang initially made a flintstone. Although it has not been successfully finalized, it has made great contributions..." He paused and continued: "A reward of one thousand silver, two in the courtyard and one building."

"ha?"

Wang Debang opened his mouth like a toad, and his mouth twitched and he only inhaled into the lung tube. His hands were trembling. Zhang Han seemed very worried. Wang Debang was his most capable craftsman leader at the moment. If he had a stroke happily, the loss would be too great.

Yang Hegao and Li Changnian next to him were not much better than Wang Debang, and Chen Yaozong and others who rushed over after hearing the news were also shocked.

"Old Wang looks at your appearance and is a little promising." Zhang Han smiled and cursed, waved his hand: "Everyone has been separated. If someone makes contributions in the future, there will generally be a reward."

He said it was relaxed, but how could the people present feel relaxed?

One thousand taels, if it were the previous Wang De List, it would not be able to make this amount in a hundred years. In the past, the craftsmen were hungry and cold, and the average people earned only five or six taels of silver annually. It would be a good year for good weather. One thousand taels and farmers with thirty acres of land would have to make two hundred years.

The courtyard is also the same. There is a large residential area near the north of several military camps, near the riverside. There are three main rooms and two rooms in the gatehouse. Once inside, there are stables and miscellaneous rooms. The cost price of each room is more than one hundred taels. This room is only built with dozens of units, and it is planned to be used for the officers and Zhang Han to live in. Now only one room is Zhang Han and Sun Jingting each live in. I don’t expect that Wang Debang has won this huge lottery.

Zhang Han waved his hand and left, Li Changnian and Chen Yaozong stared at Wang Debang, their eyes similar to those of bull's eyes.

...

Yang and Gao returned home in a daze, and he didn't know how to walk on the dark road.

Now everyone lives in the dormitory area. The dormitory area of ​​the workshop is on the west side. The entire building community is a large shape, extending from north to south along the riverside. The innermost character is the Sihe Courtyard, the east is the military camp area, the middle is the large schoolyard, the west is the workshop area, and the outermost is the dormitory area of ​​the workshop area.

There is a large shack to the south, where there is a temporary camp where recruited workers live, which will be converted into a warehouse and an armory in the future.

Yang Hegao and his friends originally lived in shacks. As the tiled house was built and the furniture was almost done, they all moved into the dormitory area for 6 consecutive days.

The houses here are five rooms in a row, similar to the miners' dormitory built by Zhang Han in Lingqiu. If there are families, they can live in a single room. The bachelors only have one room. There are not many houses completed now. When all the houses are completed in the future, even the bachelors can live in a single room.

Yang Hegao's house is also a single room. The five families share a thatched cottage. The house is decorated and placed according to Zhang Han's requirements and standards. There is a dining table next to the window, a wardrobe and wooden boxes against the wall. In addition to a large bed, families with children also offer small beds, blue bricks, walls and tops of the walls are all pasted. The house is clean and elegant, and very practical. Yang Hegao's wife is already planning to add some practical small items herself, such as buying a mirror and a box with rouge and decorations... In the past two months, Yang Hegao's wife has dared to buy a few inexpensive silver jewelry. Even if she dreamed a year ago, she didn't have the courage to think about this kind of thing.

Seeing his yellow-faced woman dressing herself up, Yang Hegao was very happy. He walked out of the house with a small song every day when he went out to work. He felt very happy, and the same was true when he went out at night. When he walked into the house, his face was as ugly as his parents.

Yang and Gao's wife came over, handed a glass of boiled water, and asked, "What's wrong?"

"I feel so suffocated..." Yang He held his glass high and drank it all, looked at his wife, and told everything about tonight.

"Siheyuan..." Every woman has her own dream home in her heart. Before moving into her current house, Yang and Gao's wife's highest fantasy was to live in a yard with a patio and a water well. The tile house is not necessarily there. As long as there is a yard that can be used, it is fine. If there is a thatched house, it is necessary to have a thatched house. This will satisfy her fantasy. Now that she heard Yang and Gao's words, she didn't care much about a thousand taels of silver. What was hit hard was that Wang Debang's wife could move to the courtyard with a green brick floor, a thatched house and a bath room. Yang and Gao's wife seemed to see the proud face and the flamboyant laughter of the Wang family's sister-in-law. She felt as uncomfortable as if she was stabbed by a needle.

"One thousand taels, have you heard it? One thousand taels!" Yang He Gao growled in a hoarse voice. Now he and Yusheng are buying land in Tianchengwei near Lijiazhuang. The average dry land is three to four taels, five to six taels of paddy fields, and one thousand taels of silver is enough to buy more than 300 acres of dry land. Wang Debang suddenly received such a big reward, and Yang He Gao felt that he was going crazy.

Yang and Gao's wife said with an anxious look on their faces: "Boss, how can we be rewarded by the boss? I don't want that one thousand taels, I just want to live in the big yard with two inches."

Yang Hegao drank another sip of water, feeling very hot, and at the same time he had extremely strong strength. He stood up and said to his wife: "Dongzhu, I and Chen Yaozong are making that wire drawing machine. Chen Yaozong has made a lot of mail in the capital. Unlike me, I only made cotton armor and cloth armor before, I have made iron scale armor and can also make mail armor. However, the boss said that these things are expensive and difficult to build, and the construction period is too long, and they are only called mail. There are still wire drawing machines that can be made quickly. There are rolling machines, boring machines, and drilling barrels. If these can be made, I will have one thousand taels and a large courtyard."

His wife looked at him with a gaze and asked, "Can you make it?"

"Chen Yaozong has an advantage, but I am not a vegetarian..." Yang and Gao said: "It really doesn't work with him."

"Then didn't he ask him to learn your skills?"

"In the past, I had hidden crafts because I was afraid that my disciples would starve the master to death. Now what are we running? Is stupid?"

Yang Hegao didn't know that Zhang Han planned to introduce patented technology to further promote the research motivation of craftsmen, but the bonus was enough to make him not hide his private interests.

Since the Tang Dynasty, China's metallurgical capacity has declined significantly. A large number of craftsmen have died in wars, and annealing and cold forging techniques have declined a lot. The famous Tang Mo swords, horizontal swords, and forging techniques have been lost. However, Japanese disciples learned them and the Japanese swords made are sold to China every year, and there are still many people who buy them.

"I'm leaving and come back to bed in the second half of the night."

Yang He Gao was so hot that he couldn't sleep. He got up and put on his clothes again, lit a lantern again. This time he saw the road clearly and walked out steadily.

"Mo is the leader of the family, and his wife Yang and Gao didn't persuade him much. Her eyes were full of enthusiasm and expectation when she looked at her husband.

When we arrived at the workshop, someone had already lit a light to look at the drawings. Yang He Gao walked closer and saw Chen Yaozong, whose heads had turned a lot white. Yang He Gao nodded, and the two craftsmen looked at each other and smiled.

...

"Stand up, line up!"

Tang Wangzong was holding a red and black stick in his hand and shouted loudly, his voice was already very hoarse.

In late July, all the barracks were built and most of them were placed in furniture. At the same time, Zhang Han had already received official licenses and became a formal inspection, and began to recruit archers in all townships and eight miles.

Zhang Han's conditions are very generous, with a monthly salary of one or two taels, which is better than the border army. He also provides three meals a day. The recruits are not allowed to go home during training. After passing the training, they can take turns to go home. Being a archer is not a border army. Although Zhang Han made it clear that he wanted to fight the bandits, everyone still felt that the risk was very small. Once the list was posted, the entire Tianchengwei to Weizhou area caused a sensation.

In half a month, he picked out six hundred archers.

Zhang Han picked dozens of people from the bodyguards in Xinpingbao to be an officer, and all the bodyguards who were selected were very happy.

Eleven people stood in a row in a mess.

There were such scenes everywhere on the entire school ground, with more than a dozen people standing at the end of the team holding military sticks. Of course, all the team officials were studded men. They had already experienced Wang Changfu's long training, but they were actually qualified border soldiers.

Tang Wangzong glanced at his subordinates. He was not short, his shoulders were very wide, his chest was thick, his arms were mostly thick, his hands were thick, and most of them had no beards. Only a few people had some black beards left behind in their chins and mouths.

No one has ever counted the average height of men in the Ming Dynasty. However, after Zhang Han had seen many people traveling around the country, he felt that the average height of men in this era was between 1.65 and 1.7 meters. Of course, all the people he had seen were northerners, and their average height might be taller than that in the south.

The people in front of Tang Wangzong were all selected by the top people among the 10,000 applicants. Most of them were farmers from Tiancheng, Zhenlu and Weizhou, and about 30% were selected from refugees. Zhang Han did not take care of them because of refugees. He would just be disqualified. There were not many qualified archers among refugees.

It's a little normal today, sweat
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