The roar of steam engines and the smell of metal filled the military workshop. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Briefly talking about the purpose of coming here this time, Xiao Ming inspected the musket workshop and artillery workshop as usual.

In the musket workshop, he focused on the production of conical bullets, which were cast in molds and then polished and calibrated by craftsmen.

The advantages of rifled guns are obvious, but the requirements for bullets are also strict, and unqualified conical bullets can have disastrous consequences for soldiers.

Therefore, after each batch of bullets are cast, the craftsman will strictly check it, and after the verification, the craftsman will stuff the wooden tray into the hole behind the conical bullet, which is also to ensure the airtightness when shooting.

Xiao Ming said that each craftsman making three bullets a day is only a minimum prediction, after all, the current military workshop has skillfully learned to assemble production.

Different craftsmen are responsible for different processes, casting, grinding, manufacturing wooden supports, and assembling, and these four sets of processes are carried out by this thousand people.

After a tour of the musket workshop, he went to the artillery workshop again, and he had asked Chen Qi to study rifled guns a long time ago.

According to Chen Qi, the production speed of rifled guns is slow, but the range is much farther than before, and now the shells can be fired five miles away.

"Five miles?" Xiao Ming was slightly satisfied with this data, five miles is two thousand five hundred meters, and this range should not be lost to Western artillery.

"Give priority to providing this kind of gun to the battleship." Xiao Ming commanded, and the news of both the French and the British made Xiao Ming start to be vigilant.

The internal worries have not yet been resolved, and this external trouble is coming, Xiao Wenxuan really left him a big mess, but fortunately, this place is too far away from the west, and it is impossible for either France or Britain to deploy a large-scale army here.

Now they are just playing the role of-stirring sticks, stirring up trouble in East Asia, and now his main enemies are still the barbarians, the Wa Kingdom, Goryeo, and the King of Chu.

And this is precisely the object of Britain, which France wants to use to contain him, so with the cooperation of France and the King of Chu, Britain went to the Wa Kingdom.

Although Xiao Ming was angry at the small actions of these two Western powers, he was helpless at present, but this world will not always be their decision.

When the six states popularized industry and the people's livelihood in the north was restored, this was the time when he showed his claws.

After inspecting the military workshop, Xiao Ming and Qian Dafu returned to Qingzhou City.

At the same time, under the auspices of Fiji and Pang Yukun, the Six States Reform Movement was also unfolding step by step.

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At the door of the Qingzhou Chamber of Commerce, Zhu Wuliu, like other businessmen, was waiting for Li Kaiyuan to come out.

News of private workshops in the newspapers had spread throughout the six states, and businessmen who wanted a piece of the pie immediately flocked to the city.

In the past two years, Zhu Wuliu has made a lot of money because of the white sugar workshop, and his family has become rich, not only bought a big mansion in Qingzhou City.

Not only him, but there are also five wealthy families in Zhujia Village, all of whom lent Zhu Wuliu silver when Zhu Wuliu built a white sugar workshop.

At that time, Zhu Wuliu promised to give them the silver according to the amount of silver when the profit came, and because of this, they also became rich and envied many people.

"Brother Five or Six, there are so many people here today." Behind Zhu Wuliu was a slightly shorter lean young man, his name was Shangguan Yong, and he was also from Zhujia Village.

Zhu Wuliu looked at the long line behind him, there were not a thousand but seven hundred businessmen who came to the Chamber of Commerce this time, he said: "This time it is dangerous, these businessmen are all from a solid family, we are afraid that we will not be able to fight them, it is said that the number of this steam engine is limited, and we have to wait when it is sold out." “

Shangguan Yong is even more anxious than Zhu Wuliu, many people in the village did not participate in the matter of the white sugar workshop last time, and this time Zhu Wuliu is going to set up a workshop again, and they all gave Zhu Wuliu the silver, the purpose is to be able to get a piece of the pie from this workshop this time.

Touching his chest, Shangguan Yong confirmed whether the silver ticket exchanged at Qingzhou Bank was still there, the silver on his body was the savings of the whole village, if he lost it, he couldn't replace it if he sold it.

"Fifth or sixth brother, it's really not okay, you go to the third and fourth brothers, I heard that the third and fourth brothers have been transferred back from Ryukyu and promoted to lieutenant, you let him go to fight the relationship, won't the steam engine be stabilized this time?" Shangguan Yong said hehehe.

Zhu Wuliu's face darkened when he heard this, and he said: "The second brother is a member of the army, and he can't participate in business, if he is known, he will be kicked out of the army, and if you ask me to go to him, you are harming him, I can not do this business, and the second brother can't take off his military uniform, which is an honor for our old Zhu family." “

Shangguan Yong laughed twice: "I'm not in a hurry, in fact, if I hadn't broken my leg when I was a child, and now I want to be a soldier, you see how majestic the current soldiers are, not to mention the rice and noodles sent by the government at the end of each year, it is said that many things can be prioritized by soldiers now, even if you go to the store of the Qingzhou Chamber of Commerce to buy things, it only costs half of the silver." ”

"Of course, if no one was willing to be a soldier before, now it's okay to break their heads one by one and become a soldier." Zhu Wuliu was also a little envious as he spoke.

It is said that many soldiers were enriched by the two years of war, and they were rewarded after each battle, which made many troops scramble to fight.

And the soldiers who returned from the village gave their families dozens of taels of silver at a time also confirmed this rumor.

When the two of them were stunned, suddenly Li Kaiyuan appeared at the door of the Chamber of Commerce, glanced at the businessman who was waiting, and frowned.

"There are a total of 100 steam engines for sale this time, but it is said that it is a steam engine, in fact, it is a complete set of steam engine production lines, that is, this is a hundred sets of production lines, for the sake of fairness, the sale of the production line adopts the auction method of the highest bidder, you can now enter the venue to prepare."

Li Kaiyuan made a "please" gesture, and the businessmen immediately poured into the auction hall of the Chamber of Commerce.

One by one, anxious businessmen passed by, Li Kaiyuan showed a trace of helplessness, he had quarreled with Lin Wentao for the matter of these hundred production lines in the past two days.

For him, the more steam engines the better, but Lin Wentao prevaricated him on the grounds that he had to sell the silver to continue to make it.

He only got these 100 sets of steam engines from the steam engine workshop, and now he is really a monk with more porridge and less porridge.

In a short time, the auction hall was filled with excited businessmen.

Before they arrived, they were impressed by the role of the steam engine in the imitation workshops and the white sugar workshops.

The businessman who chased profit immediately saw the value contained in it, which led to today's scene.