Compared with the arrogance of the craftsmen of the Xu family, these apprentices of the homeless craftsmen are extremely enthusiastic about honing and improving their skills, transforming and innovating various technical processes, because they have seen many examples, because of a trivial invention or mentions, the whole family has changed from a slave to a good citizen, with a family property, and actually has a life in a middle-class family, such a reward naturally makes everyone enthusiastic, for such enthusiasm, the craftsmen from the Xu family always sneer, but secretly do not dare to relax, Xu Housheng, the eldest young master of his own family, has never been partial to those from the Xu family.

But whether it is the Xu family or the homeless people, or the craftsmen who have taken refuge in themselves, everyone has one thing in common, that is, they all look down on these ghosts, the nose is so high, the eyes are blue and green, and there is so much hair all over the body, what craft can you know, and I don't know why Jin Ye values it so much, doesn't this seem that our Heavenly Empire has no ability?

The old wheat who drinks all day long is also commonplace, and now he is actually a talking role, I heard that he can have this position, because he gave Jin Ye a trick to make cannons, and he is really lucky, he must have been blessed by a foreign Bodhisattva.

What's even more angry is Yu Shan, who finally has such a Xu family background, who can take the lead in supporting everyone, but he was mixed with those ghosts all day long, and he always said what to ask for advice and study, what a joke, there are only two large coal and iron distributions in the world, one is Xuzhou, one is Foshan, what can not be learned in these two places, and I want to "and the ghosts ponder."

Since Yu Shan can't count on this, on the one hand, everyone wants to be motivated, but on the other hand, they pin their hopes on the new Zhu Xingshu, this Zhu Xingshu is a very strange character, and he chats about the work of beating iron and burning fire, he is proficient in everything, looking at the color on his face, looking at the burn scars on his hands and those calluses, this is all old-fashioned, but he usually behaves and looks like he has a hard background, and he always likes to wear a long shirt on his body, shaky.

Although the style on weekdays looks strange, but this Zhu Xingshu's style really convinces everyone, not only knows how to anvil, hammer, and furnace skills, those ghost things are actually proficient, don't look at everyone is not used to seeing ghosts, but I have to admit that those high-nosed, deep-eyed and blue-eyed ghosts also have their own means of doing work in iron, the language is not comprehensible, and it is not easy to ask, but this Zhu Xingshu can give you an answer, what is even more rare is that he never hides his selfishness, and his skills are taught to everyone without reservation, which is really admirable.

"This Zhu Xingshu is the clan over there in Huguang, but the Chu King family in Huguang was dominated by more than 20 generals and auxiliary generals, and these 20 or so should discuss and decide on major and minor matters, not in these 20 or so, there is not even a way out, Zhu Xingshu has been poor since he was a child, and he helped in the blacksmith shop at the age of nine, and he has understanding in this line, but when he was fifteen years old, a Fengguo general in the city wanted to forcibly occupy this blacksmith shop, and felt that there was a clan whose work was ugly, and wanted to drive him away, and he killed the other party's guards in a rage, escaped from Huguang" Regarding the origin of Zhu Xingshu, Xu Housheng knew very well from Li Laohai.

After Zhu Xingshu ran out of Huguang, he went to Foshan, Guangdong, where the iron industry is prosperous, and it is the place where his skills can be used.

In the end, he is a child of the clan, poor to poor, his vision pattern is different from that of ordinary craftsmen, and he also has the idea of traveling the world, so he simply left Foshan, went to sea in Xiangshan County and Macao, and drifted overseas, he must have suffered some hardships, but he was lucky to survive, and he also learned real skills.

The Spaniards, the Portuguese and the Dutch are not generous and unhiding, but the local white people lack manpower, in this hot and humid climate, no one to engage in this fire tormenting work, the local natives are stupid and abnormal, not only can not accept the skills of forging and smelting, and even fear places like blacksmith workshops, as for the Han people from the Ming Dynasty are self-contained, they have their own crafts to open their own shops, Zhu Xingshu is so knowledgeable and willing to do too few.

That's how I learned.

People like Zhu Xingshu are rare, not only for the local whites, but also for those sea lords and maritime merchants, although the maritime ships are all merchant ships, and the pirates and naval warfare are just doing it easily, but there are also a lot of artillery and firearms on the ship, at least they have the capital to defend themselves.

Although there are a lot of shoddy goods, they can't be used and lost, and they really can't be used to repair, but the foreigners' workshops are either only for the foreigners, the government and the army, or there is no spare energy to do the business of the maritime merchants, and the Han people like Zhu Xingshu and the Han people who know how to build firearms are very rare.

After the name came out, several sea lords wanted to recruit him, and finally was accepted by Li Laohai's relatives, although it was a solicitation, but he was finally regarded as a craftsman, and the attention was limited, so that Li Laohai wanted to give it to Zhao Jin.

"It may not matter to them, for us, this is a heavy gift, Zhu Xingshu understands the language of the Buddha machine, with him, the craftsmanship of these masters can be learned by us." Xu Housheng introduced it very carefully.

Zhao Jin nodded again and again, he agreed with Xu Housheng's judgment, even a foreigner like Louis who is very proficient in official speaking, is still much worse than Zhu Xingshu's role, especially in integration and communication, Zhu Xingshu will be of great use.

"Although Li Laohai said that he took a lot of silver from us, he also did a lot for us, what does he want? Or what do the clansmen behind him want? Zhao Jin asked a question, there was no show of favor for no reason, Li Laohai was so active, he must have a plan.

"Brother-in-law, I asked Yu Zhiyuan over there, and he said that such old fur dogs are used to lending money first, and then collecting debts when they save more, what he wants, he should come to the door." Xu Housheng replied with a smile.

Facts have proved that Zhao Jin's evaluation of Zhu Xingshu is not low at all, the Burges brothers came to Xuzhou for a few months, always improving the gun carriage and gun carriage, they changed the style of the cart base designed by Yu Shan, to the wheel of the cart plus the axle, there is an iron frame fixed artillery, such a gun carriage gun carriage is more solid and flexible than Yu Shan's, and the angle of fire that can be adjusted is larger.

After this design came out, Xu Housheng and Louis first arranged for a carpenter to make a model and send it to Zhao Jin, who was very satisfied with this style, which was already very close to his requirements.

However, there is also a problem with this design, that is, the artillery is heavy, and it takes good wrought iron materials to make such a gun mount, and it takes a lot, the production task of the Zhao Ziying Firearms Workshop is already very heavy, and the blacksmiths keep forging iron to make fire guns, and they can't take care of the production of this gun carriage at all, and everyone has also summed it up, forging such a gun mount material, the iron material consumed and the labor cost is too much, and it is not worth it at present.

Zhao Jin was also helpless about the limitations of production capacity, but as soon as Zhu Xingshu came, he and the Burges brothers summed up a few days, and dragged Louis and them away, and actually made a living with a hydraulic forging hammer.

"I don't know, some of these foreigners have little knowledge, some have narrow thinking, but more have seen but don't know what's going on!" Zhu Xingshu has his own explanation for the invention of this hydraulic forging hammer.

At present, the Zhao Ziying is expanding, and the production capacity of the firearms workshop and even the entire Xu family is producing firearms and armor, so this hydraulic forging hammer is also a drawing, and then a carpenter made a model and sent it over.

After seeing this, Zhao Jin was really pleasantly surprised, because of those reasons in his memory, he was very interested in machinery that could replace or reduce manpower, but he had not been able to advance, from Louis to Lao Mai Zai Burges brothers, said that they had seen water conservancy machinery, but how to build it but did not understand, never expected, it was actually a craftsman from the Ming Dynasty who made it.

Everyone in the Zhao Zi camp knows that Jin Ye has never been stingy in rewarding military merits and craftsmanship, this Zhu Xingshu was immediately promoted to the position of supervisor, only a few days later, he has been at the same level as Louis and Yu Shan, what everyone didn't expect is that at present, the expansion and restructuring of the Zhao Zi Battalion manpower and material allocation are complicated, and there are thousands of things, and the top and bottom are very busy, and Zhao Jin has seen this Zhu Xingshu many times in a row, I really don't know why Jin Ye is so interested in the things made by craftsmen.

"Jin Ye, let's build this fire gun barrel is to use good wrought iron, first dig a pit in the ground, use bricks and stones to lay the bottom around, wait for the blast furnace to produce iron, put the molten iron into this pit, and then stir it with a wooden stick, and then pick it up for forging, and then go back to smelting, just like that, this time and again, this time and again, this time and again, the wrought iron can be beaten out, and more than 20 catties of pig iron have become more than two catties, this time it takes too much labor, and it is changed to a hydraulic forging hammer, which saves a lot of effort, and the axle base of the gun carriage and gun carriage is large. It is more convenient to be able to use this forging hammer to fight" Although Zhu Xingshu also suffered back then, but in the end, he was born in the clan, and he went south and north, and he could talk eloquently in front of Zhao Jin.

Several people were there at this meeting, Wang Zhaojing, Cao Ruhui, and Xu Housheng were all looking at Zhao Jin incessantly, thinking that it was rare to see Zhao Jin happy like this, and then looking at Zhu Xingshu, who was middle-aged, thinking that just such a broken sect disciple, what could be outstanding?

"How do you know the structure of this hydraulic hammer?" Zhao Jin asked with a smile.

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