In early July, Chen Xin returned to Daying, located between Uiju and Myeongju, by boat. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

When I stepped on the temporary pier, I found that it had completely changed after months of vigorous renovations.

Five kilometres behind the two bastions, which had been preliminarily completed, a barracks had been erected.

Under the brainstorming of some pottery craftsmen, the brick-burning workshop and the primary cement workshop opened by the Ministry of Civil Affairs have begun to take shape, so the new barracks adopt a brick and stone structure.

The barracks all adopt long townhouses, and the three townhouses form a concave building pattern, with the recess facing inward, and a row of houses houses houses a squadron, and a building complex is three squadrons.

The doors and windows are all open in a concave shape, and the outer walls are also made in advance with shooting holes, which can be plugged in peacetime, and in wartime, the barracks are fortresses that support each other, and soldiers can use firearms to attack the enemy through the shooting holes.

Now a total of 5 such buildings have been built, with an interval of 500 meters between each building, and each building has a small vegetable field in front of it, which does not take up training time, as long as you take a shift during the break, you can harvest a batch of fresh vegetables at intervals, which can be used as a supplement to the company's food when it is stationed.

In the easternmost part of the complex, across a small river, there is also the military's own pig farm, each company has a breeding room, raising more than 10 piglets, and the personnel are rotated to feed the pigs, clean the pigsty, and also solve part of the army's meat.

Chen Xin walked into the barracks, looked all the way, and walked into a building in the center, which is the military center department of Chen Xin's department, Chen Xin's office is in the north, and there are staff officers, military law, logistics and other departments around it.

The big cat happened to come out, and suddenly saw Chen Xin, and said in surprise, "General, why did you come back quietly?" The big guy is still thinking about preparing a big dock to pick you up. ”

Chen Xin said with a smile, "What are you polite about, tell the heads of various departments that we don't need to do any vain greeting ceremonies here, and working well in the post is the best greeting ceremony." ”

The big cat smiled and replied, "Yes." ”

"By the way, Zachdan, gather the directors and military commanders of the various divisions, and after lunch, have a meeting together."

Recently, I have been drifting on the sea, and important things will be sent to the falcons of various departments, but there are still a large number of unimportant official duties, according to the regulations, the heads of each department only need to decide for themselves, and then send a report to Chen Xin's office to report here.

So after entering the office, Chen Xin was not in a hurry to meet with the heads of various departments, and first picked up a thick stack of documents and slowly read them, which was the fastest way to understand the development of the territory.

First of all, it is a matter of civil affairs, and the people regard food as the sky, and the recent big moves of the Ministry of Civil Affairs are in this regard.

First of all, the establishment of a few tiger ben and some farming experts for the business guidance of the seed cultivation base, now is the age of discovery, the exchange of species around the world is very fast, the seed base in various places to collect potatoes, corn, although the number is insufficient, but has entered the breeding stage, next year should be able to reach a certain degree of planting scale.

Potatoes can be grown in mountainous areas, and the yield is huge, although when used as a staple food, it is not suitable for Asian eating habits, but it is still no problem to eat it as a staple food, and when it comes to recruiting displaced people, hungry people will not care about any eating habits, and it is good for those who stutter to survive.

Then it was the organization of idle labor, and vegetable gardens and orchards were set up in the hills near each farm, and the first vegetables were ready for harvest, while the orchards had to wait several years for growth.

The most important thing is to establish a breeding base on a relatively large island near the sea, in which a chicken farm, a pig farm, a cattle farm, and a fungus farm have been established.

In addition to supplying the food supply in the jurisdiction, the most important purpose of the base on the island is to breed and improve high-quality breeds, and the future chicken farms should be divided into broilers and laying hens, and cattle farms should be divided into beef cattle, dairy cows, and cultivated cattle, these are all long-term plans, it takes time to complete, and now it is only a primitive breeding base.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs has also established a livestock base on a piece of wasteland not far from the military camp, where the cultivation of military horses has begun, although the current war horses are captured, but in the future the army's horses must gradually achieve self-sufficiency, and they must continue to improve the excellent breeds.

The 11 heavy war horses made by Chen Xin are now frequent visitors there. After the frightened surrender of the Tsushima Domain, they were sent back here, causing another sensation, and in the envious eyes of all their own warriors, the chosen horse breeders waited on those horses every day as if they were the elders after that.

The iron mill that Chen Xin was most concerned about had also been established in Maoshan, where iron ore and coal resources were extremely abundant, and after smelting iron on the spot, it was transported along the Yalu River to various workshops.

The iron-making blast furnace was also built after the refractory bricks were fired.

The first iron-making blast furnace was built, with a huge heat storage chamber and a huge hydraulic bellows next to it, which could produce 1,000 catties of iron at a time, and the effect of this blast furnace shocked all the local craftsmen at that time.

Unfortunately, because the coal used contains a large number of impurities, it cannot be directly used to make steel from a blast furnace.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs began to prepare to build a coal washing workshop, but after all, I had only heard Chen Xin say that there was such a method, and no one had ever seen it, so he could only experiment slowly.

In terms of weapons for the army, there is an abundance of iron, so the production of some weapons at the Ordnance Factory has also increased recently.

The two-year-old arquebus (Chen Xin stipulated 1626 as the first year of his own crossing in his army, and the external version is that that year happened to be the first year of Chen Xin's army), which has already equipped all the horses in the headquarters, and is now stepping up to change the equipment of the southern detachment and the Japanese detachment, and will soon be able to completely eliminate those Korean birds. When steel can be smelted directly from the blast furnace, it begins to change to flintlock pistols.

Hand cannons and infantry guns require a lot of steel, and now the steel production is insufficient, so they can only be manufactured slowly for the time being, but the molds have been prepared a lot, and when the steel is in place, it will soon be able to manufacture a sufficient quantity.

The 10-kilogram cannon equipped with the Kuai-5 was originally made of copper, but because copper is used too extensively, the propeller and the bottom of the ship need a large amount of copper, so now all the 10-kilogram guns have been changed to wrought iron casting, and the weight of the cannon body has increased a lot, but this is a naval gun, and the warship is not as sensitive to the weight of weapons as the army, so it is used first.

The biggest increase in production was in armor, which used to be made with insufficient materials and a large number of skilled craftsmen.

Now it's different, Chen Xin's original plan for body armor was brought out by the armor workshop, and the difference from the body armor of later generations is that there is an extra pair of shawls on the shoulders, and the other styles are similar.

The waist-length armor, made of thick canvas on the outside, was wrapped in paper tendons and two layers of shredded skin, which was enough to protect against close-range slashes and bows and arrows from 100 meters away.

Coupled with the plug plate, it is more solid, the plug plate protection area can protect the bird's shot at close range, although within 20 meters, the impact of the musket can not get up for a long time, but after all, it can save life.

The plug-in plate is not the ceramic plug-in plate that Chen Xin had a big brain at the beginning, but a wrought iron casting plug-in plate.

Craftsmen have also recently improved the casting process, when pouring molten iron into the mold, the hydraulic forging hammer or pulley forging hammer is smashed for a while, and the product qualification rate and durability have been significantly improved.

The bulletproof insert made in this way weighs 4 pounds, and the front and back add up to only 8 pounds, plus the canvas coat, a total of no more than 12 pounds.

Fortunately, the muskets of this era used round lead bullets, and their penetration ability could not be compared with the pointed bullets of later generations, so such armor was just enough.

According to the nomenclature convention, the previous kind of cotton armor that could be inserted with bulletproof inserts after improvement was named two-year armor, and this armor of the body armor style was called two-year type B armor.

According to the production of Type B armor in the second year at this time, it will soon be able to equip the whole army.