Qin Zhao was watching the craftsmen build a medley gun in the blacksmith area of ​​Jinghai Weibao that day.

The working temperature in the blacksmith area is very high, and it is full of heat everywhere. The blacksmiths hired by Qin Zhao are not wearing clothes, and they are all wearing shorts, and they are sweating profusely.

Qin Zhao stood there and did nothing, and felt hot all over and sweating.

Qin Ning suddenly walked in with a document.

"Governor-General of Guangdong and Guangxi! The writing from Zhaoqing Guangdong and Guangxi Governor's Office."

Qin Zhao took the letter and saw it, and laughed.

The writing was written in a large text with a few big words "Zhaoqing Guangdong and Guangxi Governor's Office", and the following reads: "On the tenth day of the seventh month before, Ning Dengyun, the magistrate of Xiangshan County, tried the law with his own hands, and forced the 12 villagers to build an irrigation canal, which angered the Lai Shui Canal to pay a salary and serve the regiment. Later, the soldiers bombed the camp and made money, burned the Xiangshan County Yamen, and suffered casualties."

"This time, the blame is for Ning Dengyun, the magistrate of Xiangshan County. Our court has impeached Ning Dengyun, the magistrate of Xiangshan County, to the magistrate of Ning Dengyun, and fined him one year's salary."

"Responsible for the commander of Jinghaiwei, Qin Zhao, to comfort the veterans of the bombing camp, and don't let the soldiers be disturbed again."

The signature of the article is "Ding Kuichu", and it is also covered with a seal as big as a slap of the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.

Qin Ning approached Qin Zhao and smiled and said, "Ding Kuichu knows that he is afraid of us this time!"

Qin Zhao asked, "Can you understand this official document?"

Qin Ning smiled and said, "Do not underestimate me, I have learned more than a thousand words now."

Qin Zhao nodded and said, "You can only read and understand more than a thousand words, right? Let me tell you that Ding Kuichu made this life-long bombing of the camp a normal phenomenon and put all the responsibility on Ning Dengyun."

Qin Ning smiled and said, "Why did Ding Kuichu help us so much this time?"

Qin Zhao thought for a while and said, "He probably was afraid of being able to eliminate me if I was a rebel, and I would not be able to take advantage of it."

When Qin Ning heard this, tears almost burst out when he laughed. He couldn't stand up with a stool next to him.

Qin Zhao threw the writing table casually and said, "Let's look at the bird guns made by these blacksmiths. It's been more than half a year, and only more than forty guns have been built."

Qin Zhao looked serious and took Qin Ning and Qin Youli to inspect the blacksmith area.

The method of these craftsmen to build a clamp gun is too primitive.

They first wrapped a half-inch thick piece of cooked iron on a round steel bar, then heated the iron sheet and forged the iron sheet, so that the iron sheet was wrapped on the steel bar and turned into a cylindrical shape. Then they used red-hot cooked iron sand to sprinkle the cracks in the cracks, fused them and repeatedly forged them to make the cooked iron sheet with a silk seam into a complete iron cylinder.

It is not enough to make such a cylinder. Such a layer of cylinder will explode. These craftsmen also need to heat it with a long strip of cooked iron bars and wrap it in a thread-shaped manner on the original layer of iron bars. After the entire cured iron bars are wrapped, they must also be sprinkled with iron sand and heated it repeatedly, so that the cooked iron bars can be completely tightly wrapped with seams.

This way, the iron tube is the beginning of making a gun.

The next steps are even more time-consuming. The steel awl made of good steel is constantly rotating and penetrated into the iron barrel. The good steel awl cannot be used for more than three turns at a time, because after three turns of steel awls, it will heat up, and the steel awl will deform after heating up, and finally produce a deformed barrel. After three times, the steel awl must be cooled with oil, and cooled for four or five seconds before it can be put into the gun chamber again.

Every twenty rounds of the chamber are used, take out the gun barrel and put it in a pair of light to see if the chamber is still straight. If the chamber becomes bent because the chamber is dug, you must also knock on the gun barrel and straighten it.

There are countless detailed steps.

In short, Qin Zhao saw these blacksmiths building bird guns, and they saw one head and two big ones.

This way, if you can make a clamp gun in a month, you will not be lazy. If you want to rely on these dozen blacksmiths to produce flintlock guns, you will not know that you will have to wait until the year of the Monkey and Horse Month.

What's more, Qin Zhao also needs to train infantry on a large scale, ensuring the training volume of each infantry. In that way, qualified muskets will be consumed on a large scale during training. Finally, a qualified infantry requires at least two rifles - one to be scrapped during training, and the other to be truly used in actual combat.

Qin Zhao thought about it and said to Qin Youli: "Old accountant, this bird gun is too slow to build. Go and recruit blacksmiths?"

Qin Youli said in surprise: "Governor, the blacksmiths who have built bird guns in Guangzhou Prefecture are here. How to recruit new blacksmiths?"

Qin Zhao said: "Using the master-apprentice system, a master who can make bird guns brings three blacksmith apprentices, and requires him to go out in two months. Two months later, the apprentice will try to make a bird gun, and after passing the apprentice will automatically be promoted to a master. The master will bring new apprentices until we have two hundred blacksmiths who can make guns."

Qin Youli thought about it and said, "Governor, this is a solution."

Qin Zhao looked around and said, "Also, we seized more than 100,000 taels of silver on the Huguang battlefield this time, and another 40,000 taels of stolen silver in Ning Dengyun's cellar, which is relatively relaxed. I will recruit another thousand soldiers in Xiangshan County this time."

Qin Ning and Qin Youli were both very surprised when they heard Qin Zhao's words.

The Guardian is going to recruit troops again!

In this chaotic era, only having soldiers in your hands is the real way to preserve your strength. No matter whether it is the official title of the court or the local power, there is no real military force in your hands.

Of course, if there is no official title or power at all, only soldiers will be bandits, and they will not receive the real hardship of soldiers.

Qin Zhao is now the commander of the guard and is in the garrison. Of course, he can hold two thousand troops. After all, even ordinary guards can recruit hundreds of nearly thousands of battalions.

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Zhan Ren opened a jar of rice wine at home and poured wine into the glass next to the dish.

Zhan Ren’s younger brother Zhan Hong said, “Brother! Are you still drinking today?”

Zhan Ren smiled and said, "You will go out tomorrow. Today is a good day to send you to the army. I will invite you to have a drink."

Zhan Hong looked at the wine and food on the table with some restlessness and asked, "Brother! This rice wine is very expensive, can you afford it?"

Zhan Ren smiled and said, "Zhan Hong, you have recruited the new recruits from the Guardian. You will go to Jinghai Fort tomorrow to report. Tell me, are you going to live a good life?"

Zhan Hong smiled and said, "Brother, I rely on you for the recruitment this time. When I went to the recruitment last time, I felt a little weak and my eyes were blurred and I couldn't see the direction of the word "shan". Over the past year, you have made me eat white rice and eat openly every meal. Sometimes, every month, I buy some meat for me to eat."

"I have been raising this for a year and my body is not weak and my eyes are not blurred. So I went to recruit soldiers that day and I was recruited in an instant."

Zhan Ren slapped his thigh and said, "It's great, be a soldier under the command of the Guardian! The future is promising!"

Zhan Hong nodded and nodded vigorously.

Zhan Ren smiled and said, "So today it is my wedding banquet that I sent you to the army. How could I not have any wine or meat?"

Zhan Ren and Zhan Hong sat on the table and started eating wine and picking up food.

Zhan Hong took a bite of pork belly and asked, "Brother, you are the one who is responsible for this family. You can do whatever you want. I shouldn't have asked. But I don't understand. Our family only has three acres of paddy fields and has to pay three stone land taxes. No matter how you count it, it's a day of barely enough to feed. Why is this family so rich that I not only send me to the town to study, but also cut my flesh to eat from time to time?"
Chapter completed!