Mu Dao Fu Dao. Later generations also had a variety of mutual aid groups in China.

Well-coordinated, such mutual aid cooperatives can indeed solve the problem of production with a shortage of labour. On weekdays, the members of the society help each other, and if they do less, they will find wages according to the number of jobs, and the military families must also be in favor, although they have spent a certain amount of wages, but the sons and daughters of the family do not need to go home to work in the farm, so they take this opportunity. They can go out to fight, get a reward, and get more money, food, and rice.

Wang Dou said: "This method is feasible

He sighed a little that his subordinates finally had their own ideological power, and they didn't need to be guided by themselves. They also have their own ideas of governance. In the future, I just need to take a long-term view and give them some advice appropriately. You don't have to do everything yourself, and it's much easier for you.

Wang Dou said: "In addition to the mutual aid cooperative, the scale of the farming team can be expanded, and now there are many displaced people who enter Baoan Prefecture every day, you can recruit them as members of the farming team, and let them work in the spring ploughing and give them enough to eat, as for the wages, you can look at it."

Lin Daofu happily agreed, and the outline of governance that he painstakingly worked out was affirmed by the garrison lords, saying that it was false to be unhappy. Zhang Gui was also very happy. He still put forward the proposal of this mutual aid society, and if this matter is done well, the garrison will definitely appreciate his ability to do things.

After the discussion, it was imperative for the three thousand generals to reorganize the personnel of the cavalry team and the troop carrying team, and Wang Dou first went to Shunxiang Fort to see the results of Zhao Yan's restructuring of artillery mounts and artillery training in the past few months.

Zhao Hao's temporary transformation and training was still carried out in Shunxiang Fort, which has 14 bronze and iron cannons, 20 small copper cannons, and 15 tiger squat cannons, with 112 main and deputy gunners, and a team officer.

Now these cannons, these people are all under the management of Zhao Xian, and I don't know what the results of Zhao Xianqi's practice are, Wang Dou wants to take a look at it to rest assured.

The training ground for the artillery of Shunxiangbao was set up in a wilderness one mile south of the teaching ground, and a barracks were built here. For the artillerymen to live. In order to allow the artillerymen to fully train. There was a powder magazine in the barracks with enough gunpowder and ammunition? At this time, gunpowder was relatively expensive, and there were very few people who used it as extravagantly as Wang Dou to scrape it. In order to improve the mathematical knowledge of the artillerymen. The loud sound of the tiger squat cannon, as well as the thick fire and smoke are amazing, Wang Dou saw that Zhao Rein used the whole tiger squat cannon shotgun, although it is more difficult to stab the bullet bag with an iron rod to the end, and it needs to be pushed hard little by little, but compared with the previous loading of the tiger squat cannon shotgun, it is much faster to fill a layer of ammunition with a layer of soil. This is very important in real combat.

After the live-fire performance, Zhao Yan looked at Wang Dou with expectant eyes, hoping to be praised by Wang Dou.

Wang Dou was silent, Zhao Mei had achieved remarkable results in improving the gun mount, but when it came to the training of gunners, although he had made some progress compared to before, he was still too far from achieving what he wanted. Think about the fact that it takes at least six years for a good gunner to train, and most of his own gunners are illiterate. Indeed, I am anxious. And at this time it was already difficult for artillery to aim and shoot, and the artillery did not have a ruler. There are no basic ranging tools, light is visual. It is difficult to train qualified artillery in batches.

There were also problems with the cannon at this time.

Although all kinds of cannons in the Ming Dynasty have design drawings, how much is the length of the gun, how much is the thickness of the tube, there are strict standard sizes, want to shoddy, it is quite difficult to cut corners, unlike the manufacture of muskets can be arbitrary, so the quality of all kinds of artillery in the Ming Dynasty can be guaranteed.

However, at this time, the artillery at this time is not strictly standardized, the same type of gun, the inner diameter of the gun chamber is difficult to be consistent, the difference between the shell and the barrel is inevitable, after the gun is discharged, it can not fly in a theoretical straight line, which brings a lot of trouble to the gunner's aiming, basically every gun has its own temper, which also affects the results of artillery training.

After pondering for a long time, Wang Douxian still praised Zhao Xian a few words, his credit in the past few months is obvious, and then Yu said: "Mr. Zhao Qian, do you know the ruler and ranging tools of artillery?" ”

The artillery of the Ming Dynasty did not have a ruler, not even a basic range-measuring tool, and the gunner fired at this time. They all rely on their years of experience in direct firing distances, so valuable gunners are rare. To gain this experience, the shells needed to train a qualified artilleryman went to the sea, and the life of the artillery at this time was only a few hundred. I'm afraid that if we train a group of qualified gunners, many cannons will have to be destroyed, and it will take a long time, maybe as many as a few years, Wang Dou hopes to save some time and money.

Zhao Xiao was stunned for a moment, some didn't understand what Wang Dou meant, Wang Dou explained it in easy-to-understand words at the time, Zhao Yan understood, he said: "I'm ashamed, I've never seen this thing, according to what the adults said, it must be some auxiliary gunner's shooting utensils ()." ”

He pondered for a long time and said: "According to what the lord said, there is a way for the lowly position, which is to choose a few cannons and make up a shooting meter ruler through test firing.

Zhao was able to come up with a way to solve the problem of the shooting scale. Wang Dou was pleasantly surprised, there are still talents in this era, it depends on how you dig it. He said: "Okay, this matter will be handed over to President Zhao Qian." ”

He pondered for a while and said, "About gunner training." The official has a problem, proposing. Seeing Zhao Yan looking at himself with wide eyes, Wang Dou said: "Gunner training, you don't have to introduce every one in the future, the gunner is thoughtful to teach, just Buddha wolf machine cannon, small cannon, tiger squat cannon, each find a capable person to teach, the rest of them, let them study by themselves." ”

Zhao Shu exclaimed: "My lord, in this way, won't the rest of the artillery be inaccurate?" ”

Wang Dou said: "In the actual combat of artillery, each type of artillery shall observe the enemy's situation with the capable person of the officer, and then all such artillery shall fire a salvo according to the direction and angle of the artillery fire determined by the officer, and each gunner shall not take care of his own aiming and shooting. ”

What Wang Dou said is the secret of the British artillery salvo in later generations, when the British fleet defeated the Spanish fleet and then the German fleet. At that time, Spain had a large number of excellent gunners, but they were all in charge of one gun. It's accurate, but it can't be as powerful as a salvo.

And the British, a warship only needs a good gunner, although the hit rate is not high, but the power of the salvo is more ferocious than the firepower of a group of experienced high artillery of the Spaniards. A good gunner needed to train for several years, and after several years of war, along with huge losses in Spanish artillery. Spanish defeat was inevitable.

This is the secret of the success of British artillery in modern times. Wang Dou hoped that he could replicate the Ming Dynasty in the mid-seventeenth century.