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After entering the iron work, Xiao Tianjian did not patrol around, but went directly to the kiln to watch the situation here, and the focus of his attention was the most labor-intensive drilling process. (.. ）

And here are a few drills of the craftsman, is carefully with a four-edged iron drill, little by little to drill a few has been built a few guns, their process is very simple, basically all by hand to drill the barrel has been drilled, the whole process to use three four-edged drill bits to completely drill the pipe, during which to polish the smooth and clean guns.

Xiao Tianjian looked at it, then he had an idea, Yang Changshou said that the most delayed thing is the problem of drilling, with the current process, it is true that a person can drill two guns a month, which is already the limit, this is still the speed that craftsmen work overtime to achieve, and according to what Yang Changshou said, they used to make bird guns for the government, and it took a month to drill a gun pipe, which is not false at all.

Moreover, there is a quality problem in this kind of manual drilling, the craftsmen cannot guarantee that the drill bit will be drilled into the pipe in an absolutely straight line, and sometimes in this process, it will cause a large number of defects or even scraps.

"I see! It is indeed not easy to drill the chamber in this way, and I think this matter needs to be solved by a machine! I'm going to do nothing tomorrow and design a machine specifically for drilling guns, as long as you build a machine for drilling guns, I can assure you that in the future, a craftsman will be able to drill a gun pipe in one day! Moreover, it can ensure the quality of the pipe drilling and reduce the current scrap rate! In this way, the production of bird guns will definitely increase significantly in a month! Xiao Tianjian said to Yang Changshou with confidence.

Yang Changshou didn't dare not believe Xiao Tianjian's words, because Xiao Tianjian had indeed shown his superhuman level, since he said yes, then he should be able to! Xiao Tianjian is not the kind of person who brags casually, if it is really as Xiao Tianjian said, first build a machine to drill a pipe, so that a craftsman can drill a qualified pipe every day, then it is equivalent to breaking through the bottleneck of building a bird's gun, so that the speed of building a bird's gun will improve by leaps and bounds, and then calculate the reduced scrap rate, it should not be a problem to make hundreds of qualified bird's guns a month.

Yang Changshou hurriedly thanked Xiao Tianjian and said: "If the general really makes such a machine for the little ones, then it would be great, thank the general on behalf of these brothers!" ”

Xiao Tianjian laughed out loud and smiled at Yang Changshou and a few craftsmen: "Haha! Why do you thank me? I'm here to help myself! Ha ha! Okay, that's the matter here, I'm responsible for designing a drilling machine for you to drill the gun, you can arrange it, assign manpower to Gao Su, and build a workshop for special cannon casting, and quickly arrange manpower to melt those copper night pots and other things for me, so that they can become our cannons! Ha ha! ”

Yang Changshou immediately laughed along, while Gao Su looked around curiously, then picked up a gun and looked at it with his eyes.

"General, the barrel of this arquebus is thicker than the barrel of your current arquebus, and it must be much more powerful! It's almost time to catch up with the heavy arquebuses we used! It's not quite the weight of the heavy arquebus we use, but it's a little too heavy for you Orientals, especially the general's musketeers! With the current weight of this arquebus, it may be difficult to aim with only arm strength, and you need to add a bracket to aim! ”

Gao Su's words were recognized by Yang Changshou, the layman looked at the excitement, the insider only looked at the doorway, this foreign devil just glanced at the half-finished gun, and immediately thought of so many things, it seems that this guy should not be in vain!

After Xiao Tianjian thought about it for a while, he felt that Gao Su was still a bit level, and for him and the development of Western arquebuses, they were both pursuing stronger firepower, and to a certain extent, they were all on the same path, so he nodded and said: "This arquebus is newly made by us, the caliber is much larger than the original, and the power will naturally be much greater, it may not be as large as the caliber and weight of the heavy arquebus you use, but in our place, this powerful arquebus is enough, no matter how heavy it is, It will affect the soldier's ability to carry, after all, our Han physique is not as tall and strong as your Western Westerners, which is almost close to the limit of what my soldiers can bear! As for the bracket, there must be one, if there is no bracket, it will be difficult to aim!

By the way, since you also know how to make arquebuses, you might as well communicate with Master Yang, learn from each other's strengths, and improve each other! Don't tell me, Gaosu, you're stingy with someone who tells me how you know how to build it! ”

Gao Su hurriedly said: "Don't dare, don't dare!" Since I work for the general, I don't dare to hide it privately, but I haven't built an arquebus, I just know the shape of some of the arquebuses we used! As long as it is useful, I will tell Master Yang in the next place! ”

Xiao Tianjian patted Gao Su's shoulder and said with satisfaction: "Yes, you are a good guy, I like you very much!" Okay, you will stay here in the future, the specific things will be arranged for you, what do you need, you can first tell Yang Dajiang, if he can't solve it, then find Zhang Whistle and say, they will fully support you to cast cannons! You'll be my gunsmith from now on! Remember the promise you made to me! ”

In the next few days, Xiao Tianjian stayed in Shuangfeng Village to work, but he did not forget other things between the drilling machines used to drill the chamber, and one after another orders were still being issued from Shuangfeng Village.

Fu Deming should speed up the division of the land, distribute the land to the local people as soon as possible, and send special personnel to take charge of accepting the displaced people who have come from outside, make preparations for the resettlement of the displaced people who have recently entered this area in advance, leave some villages vacated after the merger for the settlement of the displaced people, expand the local population as much as possible, so that the arable land will be basically distributed before the spring, and the arable land in this area will be developed to the greatest extent.

Then he ordered Li Lingfeng to send more than a dozen scouts to start climbing the mountain to Yuanqu County, which is separated from Yangcheng County by a mountain, to investigate the situation there, collect information on local villages, landlords, poles, etc., and then summarize it to prepare for the next move of the Xingtian Army within the year.

In addition, he sent Feng Xi to Yangcheng County, sat in Yangcheng County, and got close to those local officials in the county government, keeping an eye on all movements in the Yangcheng County Government, and ordered Feng Xi to find a few people and send them to Zezhou City to monitor the movements of the government and the official army in the direction of Zezhou, so as to make sure that once the government moved, he would find out in advance and arrange defense in advance.

In addition, he also ordered to recruit a group of fine workers in the local area, with the help of their local identity and accent, as well as their understanding of the local situation, to extend their tentacles to the northern area of Yangcheng County, collect all kinds of intelligence in the north of Yangcheng County, and temporarily summarize the information from these places to Li Lingfeng, and transfer Luo Yingjie out, and cooperate with Li Lingfeng to sort out the intelligence collected from these places.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Xiao Tianjian received a reply from Fu Deming, saying that several villages had been merged in the surrounding areas, and a commander had been elected.

So Xiao Tianjian ordered Zhang Chao, a group of soldiers who had been disabled because of the battle in Shuangfeng Village temporarily in the general, to gather in front of him.

(I tried hard to collect it!) ）