In the newly established grenade workshop of the Ordnance Institute, the newly recruited grenade assemblers are conscientiously completing their own part of the work.

These 300 people were selected from thousands of people who had heard the news, and among them there were quite a few knowledgeable firearms craftsmen.

In addition, the assembly of the grenade is not so troublesome, and it is necessary to start working after repeated warnings and precautions, and with a little training.

The casters were responsible for casting the thin iron bullets filled with black powder, and dozens of blacksmiths were assigned to polish them until they could be assembled.

Add to that a group of carpenters who specialize in hollowing out wooden handles, and the rest of the work is a large group of people working on the water.

Which group is responsible for pressing gunpowder, and which group is responsible for producing twists, assembling ......

The entire grenade workshop did not stagnate because of the arrival of Song Yingxing and Liu Hongji, which was a rule made earlier.

Focus! It is one of the most important qualities of a scientific craftsman, and it is one of them that no one is ordered not to stop the work at hand.

The new recipe for black powder and the rationing of black powder have been tightened.

In the grenade workshop, anyone who makes a mistake must be deducted from the performance, those who can't keep up with the speed must also be deducted from the performance, and those who make a big mistake are directly driven out of the workshop.

If the matter involved the secret of the armory, the person was to be imprisoned directly in the edict of the Jinyi Guard until there was no need for the secrecy to be kept secret.

There is no way, in this land, the imperial power is the law, and Liu Hongjian is the talker.

In order to achieve mass production as soon as possible with quality and quantity, Song Yingxing even stipulated that the grenade workshop was divided into two gears a day, and each gear worked for four hours.

Even so, in order to be able to leave the craftsman status and enter the coveted ordnance station, these craftsmen still cut their heads and wanted to enter the armory.

Because the temptation of detachment is too great, not only detachment, but the grenade assembler's monthly silver has reached a terrifying three taels!

And if you complete the work of the month with quality and quantity and do not make mistakes, you can still have a silver or two of what performance!

What a concept! Four taels! Honest work, the family can basically eat and drink without worrying and saving a lot!

It was only eight hours, and they often stayed up all night when they were working as free laborers at the official master's house.

And the overseers here not only never beat and scolded them, but they also didn't have to say anything about what they ate, and the rice and steamed buns were full!

What's so picky about this? Let's do it with all your strength!

Even if you do it to the ground, you won't get bored!

"Old Song, the workers are very motivated!" Liu Hong gradually walked in and walked around, and came out and said.

"Yes, my lord, our armory has never deducted wages, and this month's silver is also unprecedented, these poor people are naturally eager to sell their lives to our armory!"

When Song Yingxing said this, he admired Liu Hongjian even more.

Because the performance setting is from Liu Hongji's hand, most of the workers are not because of the fixed monthly silver, but for the extra silver or two.

This is the same momentum as the sprint bus for the 500 yuan full attendance award of office workers in later generations.

"Well, as it stands, how much can we produce per day?" Liu Hong gradually saw that a lot of wooden boxes had been made outside the grenade workshop, and he thought that it was for grenades.

"My lord, the proficiency of the workers is still not good, there are about 2,000 grenades a day, if they become proficient in the future, they will be improved." was checked for homework, and Song Yingxing was also worried.

"Well, yes, yes, the workers work hard, and don't push people too hard, otherwise it will have the opposite effect.

Also, the food and nutrition must keep up, if you lack anything, or if you have any requirements, you can send someone to find your father-in-law! Liu Hong gradually explained to Song Yingxing seriously.

Fortunately, the ability of these poor people in Daming to withstand pressure is not low, after all, no matter how tired they are, they are better than starving to death in a family.

Three hundred assemblers are only, even if they eat hard, and they can't use two thousand taels of silver to survive for a month plus their monthly silver.

And what about the value of these grenades?

Is that a few thousand taels of silver measurable?

To be able to completely defeat the Jianyu and even the Mongolian iron cavalry, this is the long-cherished wish of the Ming Dynasty for 300 years, and the guns and grenades will complete an epoch-making change.

What's more, these grenades were not provided to the Ming army for free......

As for what price to set, it's not up to him to decide?

Well, Uncle Zhu is also a shareholder, forget it, his own people's silver will earn less.

However, in the future, with the replacement and strengthening of firearms, the lower version of firearms can be exported.

While thinking about the future, Liu Hongjian was chatting with Song Yingxing, and suddenly heard a boom in the distance.

Liu Hongjian thought that the newly established grenade workshop had exploded, and he was so frightened that he almost fell to the ground.

"Second gear! It worked! It worked! Add...... Cannon! The test launch was successful! A moment later, a middle-aged man came from outside the armory at a trot, shouting as he ran.

"What? Lao Tzu's Italian cannon came out? Liu Hong gradually shouted at this person.

"This lord, I don't mean it...... What kind of cannon, the second gear head said that our cannon is called a cannon! This person may not have seen Liu Hongji, and stubbornly corrected it.

"Hahaha, don't blame me, this is the craftsman under our artillery workshop, they are testing new cannons in the back mountain!" Song Yingxing hurriedly explained.

"So what are you waiting for? Take your father-in-law to see it! Italian cannon, Lao Tzu's Italian cannon! Liu Honggradually laughed excitedly as he walked.

"My lord, it's a cannon, a cannon!" The stubborn polytechnic man shouted as he chased.

……

In a clearing in the back mountain, a cannon with a slender barrel was lying on the ground with thick smoke, and it fell???!!!

"What the hell is going on? Hit a shot and overturned? Liu Honggradually felt a little disappointed when he saw it.

"Don't blame me, my lord, this is an experimental product, and it is not equipped with a gun carriage and a front car, we are just trying to prove our power! My lord, this cannon is amazing! An uncle who was clearly in the lead hurried to play the round.

"My lord, this is Zhang Feng, the head of our artillery workshop, except for below, he knows how to make artillery the most." Song Yingxing seemed to be choked, and coughed as he spoke.

"How's it mighty? Said to the national public. Liu Hong gradually never fired a cannon, and he was still angry about the overturned Italian artillery.

"My lord, our cannon, the body of the cannon is made of the steel smelted by the open-hearth steelmaking method you provided, and it is more durable than our bronze, brass and iron cannons.

The bronze cannon is too soft, and the barrel is easy to deform if it is fired too much, and the barrel of the iron cannon is easy to burst, but our raw material called steel not only does not burst, but also does not soften, it is a good thing, my lord! ”

"Is that all?" Liu Hong was gradually dissatisfied, because he already knew this.

"Oh, and our cannon has a low trajectory and a high muzzle velocity, and it hits at least twice as far as the Franc cannon! Probably even further......

It's just that the accuracy is not good......"

"Just tell me how many yards you can play!" There are so many models of Franc cannons, how do you know which one you are talking about?

"My lord, that shot just now hit more than 800 yards and directly smashed a big tree at 850 yards......

But according to the amount of charge, it can be adjusted again, but I don't know how much medicine our steel can withstand......"

The implication is that as long as the steel is hard enough, it is possible to kill the Tartar knife and axe man eight hundred miles away.