At Xu Xingxia's suggestion, Weizhenbao built a septic tank outside the city to centralize the treatment of manure. A ditch was dug from the inside of Fort Weizhen to lead the manure to the septic tank outside the city. In this way, the hygiene in the city is suddenly much better. Every morning, there is no need to have a special truck to pull manure, and collect manure from door to door. Every household no longer needs to send someone to pinch their noses and bring out the clean bucket at home and pour it out. Many new houses no longer use clean buckets or anything, and they all use squatting pits. The toilet can't be made, and the squatting pit is still okay.

To be honest, the feeling of using the squatting pit for the first time, Xu Xingxia felt indescribable. For the traverser, the most painful thing is probably to eat, drink, and Lazar. I'm not used to it in a lot of places. Xu Xingxia likes to fight in the field, but in fact, being unaccustomed to life is also one of the small reasons. It's a hassle to use a clean bucket. Fighting outside, the sky is big, just squat anywhere, and everything will be solved. Now, it is finally gradually in line with the life of the next generation.

The thing that is still more troublesome is tap water. The living water source of Ningxia Town mainly comes from the Yellow River or well water. In the days when there was no electricity, it was obviously impossible to build a waterworks. Even if there is a technology to build a tower with running water, there is no way to lift the water up! If you want to use tap water in advance, you must divert water from the mountainside of Helan Mountain. The problem is that this project is very difficult! There is no way to implement it yet.

However, even so, Xu Xingxia still found a way to build a lot of public baths in many places in Ningxia Town, advocating that everyone take a bath often. His basic requirement, not to mention washing once a day, at least, should be washed once every three or five days, and the dust on his body should be brushed vigorously. It seems like it used to be like this, I don't take a shower once a month, it's too much. I really don't know how people lived in the past, aren't they afraid of fleas?

The use of the public bath is almost free, and it is only three copper plates that can be used once. Xu Xingxia took the lead in using the men's bath, and Tesna took the lead in using the women's bath, demonstrating by example. The public baths at Fort Weizhen can accommodate a hundred people at a time. In the beginning, the water in the public bath was clean and black. After a full month, almost everyone took turns again, and the water that came out was not so dirty.

Of course, children are the most welcome to these public baths. The public bath is free for children and can be used as much as you like. As a result, a child like Dongzi goes to the bath almost every day and rubs his body clean, which is really more and more like a little white face. Some girls and daughters-in-law who like cleanliness also come to take a bath every day. Everyone's living habits have gradually changed. Many people say that this is like soaking in a hot spring, and it is purely enjoyable.

Among these girls and daughters-in-law, Lin Xiaoniang is the leader. She is the little daughter-in-law of the Xu family, and others are naturally headed by her. She has Xu Xingxia's aura on her body, and she still has a propaganda effect. The people of the stewardship committee were also very attentive to the public baths in Weizhenbao, and they took care of it very well, so that later, many people from afar came to take a bath in Weizhenbao, which was a joke for a while.

If Miss Azhu returns to Fort Weizhen now, she may not be recognizable in many places. Perhaps, many of her living habits will also change. Of course, the teahouse where she once stayed remained the same. That's probably the only thing that hasn't changed at Fort Wytown. The stewards tacitly kept this teahouse. In addition to this teahouse, all other buildings in Weizhenbao, including Wang Qinian's grocery store, were all demolished.

Wang Qinian is now the head of Xuan Yingwei, and he is in charge of many spies separated from Jinyiwei. As Xu Xingxia smashed a lot of silver, the scale of Xuan Yingwei gradually expanded, and there was already a structure of a thousand households, and there were about 500 active spies. Their tentacles extend to every corner around Ningxia Town. As long as there is a need, there is gradually a dark stake of the Xuanying Guard to garrison it. The farthest has even been sent to Yarkand. Xuan Yingwei also has plans to send dark stakes to the Kingdom of Khorasan.

Xuan Yingwei's headquarters is in the Black Mountain Camp. This is a secret place, and no one except the people of the Xuan Ying Guard themselves knows about it. There, it is the central nervous system of the White Army, responsible for receiving, reviewing, proofreading, and approving all kinds of information. Wang Qinian obviously enjoyed this kind of fun, and worked at the headquarters all day and night. If there is no accident, basically, Wang Qinian will not have a chance to return to Weizhen Fort.

"Da Da Da!"

Xu Xingxia and the others' horses' hooves stepped on the cement road, making a crisp sound.

The people of Weizhenbao all smiled knowingly when they saw that it was Xu Xingxia appearing, and then silently moved out of the way. The people who live here are all old people born and raised in Weizhenbao, and almost every one of them grew up watching Xu Xingxia. In the past, it was simply unbearable to look back. Now, Xu Xingxia is leading them to a new life, and their hearts are definitely full of gratitude. If you want to say that in Ningxia Town, who has the highest loyalty to Xu Xingxia is definitely this small group of people in Weizhenbao. They're definitely die-hards!

In fact, the cement pavement also has a bad point, that is, it is very damaging to the horseshoe. The horse's hooves are also a kind of injury when they step on such a strong road for a long time. However, in order to facilitate the rapid mobility of the troops, especially the rapid mobility of logistics and transportation, Xu Xingxia implemented a large number of cement road construction plans. The initial result was that with the Black Mountain Camp as the center, the cement road continued to expand to all sides, connecting all the fortresses, workshops, training grounds, gathering places, and markets, and the four-wheeled carriages could be accessible in all directions.

There are even two concrete roads that lead to the depths of Helan Mountain. It's just that few people know what these two concrete roads are used for. Xu Xingxia also specially instructed that these two cement roads should be kept secret. Therefore, many people find it a bit mysterious. Actually, to put it bluntly, there is no secret. A concrete road leads to the Eagle Nest Peak, where a group of secret women exist, who are reluctant to make contact with the outside world. The other is to Xu Fuqing's porcelain kiln, where glass and bone china are produced.

In the middle of Fort Weizhen's cross long street, turn right and you will find the area of the craftsman's workshop. In the past, the craftsman's workshop was only a small area, not as large as the average house. Now, a quarter of the Fort Weizhen is included in the scope of the craftsman's workshop. Moreover, this range has a tendency to continue to expand. On all sides of the workshop, there were heavily guarded soldiers in white. Anyone who comes near will be strictly examined.

Xu Xingxia came to the craftsman's workshop today. He wanted to see the production level of the craftsman's workshop and the manufacturing process so that he could know it in his heart. Looking at the numbers alone, there is no deep feeling. If you're not careful, you might forget. The White Army has been expanding at a rapid rate lately, and he must be aware of everything. If even he, the supreme commander, didn't count it in his heart, then something would go wrong.

In fact, the expansion of the army is nothing more than three things: manpower, financial resources, and material resources. Manpower is soldiers, financial resources are money, and force is weapons and equipment. With the original ruling structure of the original Ningxia Town being broken up, a large number of military households are seeking a way out, and joining the white-clothed army is the best choice. Therefore, the white-coat army does not need to worry about soldiers. As for the money, the money excavated from Ningxia City has not been used yet. Therefore, in terms of money, there is no problem in the short term. It's a matter of weapons and equipment, which is a bit troublesome.

According to the current expansion rate of the White Army, at least 100 Yueyue guns must be produced every day to meet the needs of the expanded troops. The production of 100 Yueyue guns per day is about 3,000 a month, which is just enough to expand the white-clothed army of two brigades. In a year, twenty-four brigades of white-clothed troops can be expanded. Judging from the current situation, this expansion speed can basically meet the needs. Of course, it would be better if the production was higher.

However, it is not possible to increase the output of weapons and equipment overnight. There must be a transition period. Not to mention other conditions, there are three most basic conditions: the need for more labor, the need for more raw materials, and the need for larger processing sites. At present, Weizhen Fort, the craftsman's workshop has occupied a large area. Many of the original military households took the initiative to relocate to other places because of the need for the expansion of the craftsman's workshop.

To be honest, this place is not very suitable for people. Well, to be precise, after the expansion of the craftsman's workshop, Fort Weizhen is not very suitable for living. The craftsman's workshop starts at night, and the noise is constant, which affects life very much. In addition, the choking smell of gunpowder produced by craftsmen and the lead used in processing mini bullets will have a great impact on people's health. For the sake of one's own safety, if it is not necessary, it is absolutely no good to stay in Fort Willytown.

In Xu Xingxia's positioning, Weizhenbao in the future will be a pure military factory. At that time, the Xu family will also move away from Weizhenbao. It can be said that the mission of Fort Will, as a place to live, has come to an end. Its new mission is to manufacture weapons and ammunition. The three major items, such as the moon gun, the Mini bomb, and the explosive bag, will be the main products of Weizhenbao.

In order to achieve this role change, Xu Xingxia gave some subsidies to the military households in the name of the white-clothed army, allowing them to live in other places and free up more places to facilitate the expansion of the craftsman's workshop. Anyway, now the Black Mountain Battalion, Zhenshuo Fort and other places are very safe, and as long as the military families have enough funds, they can build new houses anywhere.

"Your Excellency, you're here!"

"Your Excellency, it's been a long time since you've arrived!"

The leaders of the craftsmen in the craftsman workshop all found time to introduce the situation to Xu Xingxia.

Today's craftsman workshop is indeed a concentration of the essence of all craftsmen. Artisans from Ningxia City and other places also joined this huge production team. With everyone's efforts, the output of the moon gun has approached 80 per day. Next month, it is expected to exceed 100 per day. In the long-term plan of the craftsman's workshop, the final output is about 150 pieces per day. Of course, the premise is that there are enough raw materials of all kinds and the number of craftsmen is also sufficient.

Xu Xingxia carefully watched the latest production process of Yueyue. The original processing technology has been eliminated. In today's machining process, each person processes their own parts and then assembles them together. In this assembly process, experienced craftsmen will select some better parts and components to assemble a moon gun. The moon gun assembled in this way performs well in terms of range and accuracy.

The previous musket, at a distance of a hundred meters, the deviation of the bullet, as long as it did not exceed a foot, was considered a good accuracy. Now, this requirement has been raised, and the impact point cannot deviate more than five inches. In other words, the standard of accuracy has been doubled. A very small number of muskets, whose accuracy has reached the level of deviation of less than an inch, can be used as sniper rifles. Such muskets of better quality, called superior goods, were generally snatched by the Eagle Cavalry. The Eagle Cavalry used these moon guns as sniper rifles.

The production of mini bullets was originally about 300,000 rounds per day. Now it has risen to 500,000 rounds. If necessary, it can be raised to more than one million rounds per day. However, there is no need for this for the time being. The 500,000 rounds of Mini ammunition per day are enough for all the combat units of the White Army. Unless it's a white-clad army, it's expanded a lot in an instant. In order to avoid some unnecessary troubles, Xu Xingxia did not want his troops to have too many ammunition reserves at once. It would be nice to be able to meet the needs of regular use.

Speaking of which, the manufacturing technology of this mini bullet is really simple. As long as the raw materials lead and pig iron are sufficient, the average craftsman, with the help of simple equipment, can produce 3,000 rounds of mini bullets a day. A hundred craftsmen produce together, and the output is 300,000 rounds a day. If three or five hundred craftsmen work at the same time, producing one million rounds of mini shells a day, it will basically not be a problem. Therefore, the production of Mini bullets is definitely not a bottleneck.

In fact, the bottleneck of the front-loading rifled gun was entirely in the reloading itself. Because it takes a long time to reload, the Moon Gun does not consume much of Minnie bullets. After a fierce battle, which lasted for an hour or two, a musketeer fired dozens of Minnie rounds at most. Therefore, a musketeer, usually carrying three hundred rounds of mini rounds, can be used for a long time. If it is not necessary, the current white-clothed musketeers only carry a hundred rounds of mini ammunition to lighten the burden on the horses.

No matter from which point of view, the ammunition support of the white army is absolutely sufficient. Generally, when packing, 3,000 rounds of Mini bullets are packed together. One box of Mini ammunition is enough for a squadron (about 300 people) for a battle. A white-clothed army unit (calculated according to the full strength of 1,500 people), a combat sortie, carrying about fifty boxes of mini ammunition, is enough to support several fierce battles.

(To be continued)