The wage distribution system has hourly wages and piecework wages, the use of hourly wages often leads to laziness, the phenomenon of grinding foreign workers is serious, as long as the grinding to get off work there is a day's wages, and piecework has nothing to say, according to the number of heroes, the work is tense, but it reflects fairness.

The southeast government attaches great importance to the quality of weapons, all guns have a factory number, once a quality problem occurs, immediately chase back according to the number, the punishment is severe, and the system is strict!

However, the salary and rewards are generous, the basic salary is 2 taels of silver/month, generally seven or eight taels of silver/month, and it is not uncommon for a master to have more than a dozen taels of silver/month. (During that period, 2 taels of silver could get an acre of land, since it was inferior land, but the land was still land)

Piecework wages have such an advantage, that is, equality between men and women, whether it is a man or a woman, just look at the number of pieces, in some work areas that do not require heavy physical strength, women's income is not bad, like making bullets, but fixed bullets, that is, gunpowder weighed and put into cardboard, women do it quickly and well.

"In our southeast province, we protect women's property, and the income they earn from work can be used by them freely, not controlled by their families, and our southeast government has specially issued laws."

Listening to Yan Changwu's introduction, the red-haired fan is nothing, Sun Yuanhua was secretly surprised, he knew that in the Ming Dynasty at that time, the status of women was very low, and they could not show their heads, and they had no property rights.

However, Sun Yuanhua heard that women in southern Fujian were relatively free, and because their husbands left home to fish or trade, and even many people from southern Fujian, they went to Nanyang to make a living, leaving their parents, wives and children on the mainland. Housewives have to support their in-laws and children, and in addition to earning money from their husbands, they often have to work part-time to help the family (what if Nanyang's payment does not arrive in time?). It's nothing to show up, and as housewives, they still have a certain amount of dominance over the family property.

This is a kind of mass foundation, which is difficult to do in other places, Yan Changwu is impossible to go against the sky, and only in the southeast province, where there are mostly Hokkien people, can he dare to do so.

Even better, the southeast province believes in the sea goddess Mazu Niangniang, who is a woman, so Yan Changwu's implementation of the law to protect women's property did not attract serious opposition.

"Through the emancipation of women, the productivity of our southeast province has increased by at least 50 percent!" Yan Changwu's argument was endorsed by Sun Yuanhua, who supported the policy of the Southeast Province because Sun Yuanhua knew foreign history and knew that in England there had been a queen (Elizabeth I reigned 1558-1603) and that the nobles owed their allegiance to her, just as Wu Zetian in China did.

Yan Changwu and Sun Yuanhua get along greatly, you know, there are some feudal scholars in the southeast province, but they all oppose Yan Changwu's policy without exception, but Sun Yuanhua is even more enlightened.

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When they arrived at the foundry, they saw that the area was not small, but the caliber of the cast cannon was very small, and only small copper cannons under six pounds could be cast.

The breech gun was cast, and the gun was conical in shape, gradually thickened from the muzzle to the tail, and the breech was cylindrical, consisting of accessories such as lugs and tail buttons.

What is even more worrying is the accumulation of a large number of waste cannons, at least thousands, which is an alarming number----- copper cannons and iron cannons are easy to damage, copper cannons after 600 fires, iron cannons after 1000 fires, it is no longer very useful.

Due to the Southeast Fleet's "moon, moon, water, fire, wood, gold" type of training, there are many cannons, and at the same time, the war is recklessly fired---- artillery experts suggest that the artillery should be cooled down for at least one hour after 40 fires, in order to restore the shooting effect, so as not to damage the artillery, but it is difficult to do it in actual combat, as long as it is not too hot, it must be fired!

During the training and battle, a lot of artillery was scrapped, and Yan Changwu allowed Hongmaofan to earn enough money to close the trade deficit between the two sides.

The southeast province was blockaded by Hongmaofan, and it was not possible to find a good gunsmith, it can be said that the technical requirements for making artillery are very high, and the low-level gunners only learn the skin, and as soon as the cannon is cast, this problem will appear.

Now that the southeast province has blocked the import route of cannons by Hongmaofan, and without artillery, the battleship has become an ornament, so it can be imagined that Yan Dashao is urgent for the arrival of Sun Yuanhua and foreign experts!

They are able to forge the Hongyi Cannon!

Its original form is a ship cannon manufactured in Europe around 1600, with a long barrel, thick pipe wall, large caliber, a front sight and a door for aiming and fighting!

Received a positive answer, they used the mud fan integral mold casting method, that is, based on the caliber of the gun mold, the outer mold and the inner mold were made with mud, and the outer mold was hoisted outside the inner mold with a lifting device, and the gap between the two molds was the thickness of the gun barrel. It was then poured into a solution of bronze or steel, cooled, the inner and outer molds were removed, and finally processed into a complete artillery with various fittings. The defects of the artillery cast by this method are: when the mud mold is baked with charcoal fire, it is often dry on the outside and wet on the inside, and the moisture is steamed into moisture when casting, resulting in the honeycomb holes of the cast artillery, which is easy to explode when fired; Very low efficacy; The barrel of the cannon cannot be processed deeply, resulting in the ballistic disorder after the shell is ejected, which reduces the shooting accuracy; Most people do not understand the actual significance of the ratio of body tube to caliber and the position of the fire door in the combustion of gunpowder, and most of the fire doors are opened too far forward and too large.

And Sun Yuanhua and the Hongmao Fan cannon experts are experienced in reducing these problems, and immediately began to build cannon tools and prepare to cast cannons!

Sure enough, a month later, the first bronze cannon was made, a 12-pounder cannon!

Yan Changwu was overjoyed, looked at the cannon in person, and saw that the artillery was smooth and integrated, and when he hit a cannon, the sound was loud, the firing range of two miles was not a problem, and the quality was far superior to that of the Ming man-made cannon.

"Sir is really talented!" Yan Changwu was very grateful, he gave the gunsmiths the same income as the Ming Dynasty, but there were dividends, that is, for every cannon cast, the reward for a 12-pound cannon was 8 silver dollars, an 18-pound cannon was 10 silver dollars, and a 24-pound cannon was 12 silver dollars!

The more the number of artillery pieces and the larger the caliber, the more discarded guns were cast and rebuilt, and with the support of manpower and materials, 100 heavy guns (more than 12 pounds) were built in a month, regardless of cost.

Yan Changwu finally took a breath of air, he was no longer afraid of having a ship or a cannon, and he could safely boast that his guy was thicker, bigger, and harder than others.

He appointed Sun Yuanhua as the vice minister of the Ministry of Construction, in charge of artillery manufacturing, and then asked him to serve as the vice president of the Southeast Technician College (technician class).

Sun Yuanhua's task is to supervise the manufacture of artillery, as well as organize technical research, that is, the iron mold cannon method, drilling holes in the solid artillery, iron casting cannons, improving materials, using water power, etc., he has some understanding between wearing them, but there is a posture but not reality, only said that he will not do it.

Look, these are the high-tech of that era, he couldn't find Han masters around him to help him before, he was able to tell these things to foreigners, so that foreigners could learn to return to China to beat him?

Sun Yuanhua ---- can definitely be trusted!

There is also the cultivation of talents, that is, the training of good experts and workers, and an industry needs qualified labor.

Sun Yuanhua accepted his arrangement and enthusiastically got going.

In the Ming Court on the mainland, there was a lot of uproar about Sun Yuanhua's whereabouts, and the ministers Lu Zhenfei, Yu Yinggui, Li Mengchen, etc., strongly announced that Sun Yuanhua was a rebellion, and he fled in defeat.

You guys are so diao, do your parents know? Have you ever asked me about the Southeast Mansion?