Daming pirates

The craftsmen were a little panicked when they heard this. When many of them applied for the job, they were looking for high wages. They didn't expect that after coming here, they would never be able to go back. Some of them started crying on the spot.

Yu Xiaotian ignored them and turned around to continue checking the qualified parts. However, Blacksmith Zhang said to these craftsmen: "Why are you crying? Do you still look like a man? Don't you just want to go back to the mainland?"

Really? I was also kidnapped by the boss back then!

Aren't I living a good life now? The boss is a reasonable person. If you work here for the boss, as long as you work well, your life will be happy!

Now, even if someone comes to carry me back in a big sedan chair, I am not willing to go back. You don’t even think about it. We are the only people on land. Who will take a serious look at us? The government will ask us to work at every turn, but it will still be in vain.

, even the iron materials have to be put in by myself.

When I was on land, I could only eat porridge every day and not see meat once a year. But here, as long as you do a good job, you can eat meat every day. Even if you just came here, you can't eat it for three days.

Meat last time? What’s so good about going back? Are you still eating vegetables and porridge every day as before, even having to ponder for a long time before you dare to eat anything?

Let’s put it this way, you guys work hard, our boss is a man of faith, and you cannot do without what should be given to you. Work with the boss, the more you work, the happier you will be! From now on you will know that this is the right thing!”

After Blacksmith Zhang appeared and gave his own explanation, the mood of the blacksmiths calmed down a little. However, there were seven or eight blacksmiths who thought that their skills were not good enough and did not dare to do this work anymore. They would rather get less wages and want to do other rough work.

Yu Xiaotian didn't make it difficult for them. He agreed directly and sent someone to take them away from here and send them directly to Jilongwan another day. Anyway, there will be a lot of construction work there, and blacksmiths will be needed to do some rough work. Their skills are not very good.

Since the blacksmiths couldn't do such fine work, they had to do rough work. Two of them were willing to transfer to the artillery factory, and they were immediately sent to the artillery factory by Blacksmith Zhang.

Anyway, the main job of the cannon maker is casting. There are ready-made iron molds for casting cannons. If the blacksmith's skills are slightly less, there will be no problem. If you ask them to polish the cannon body and remove burrs, they will still have no problem doing it.

Overall, the large blacksmith shop managed by Blacksmith Zhang is now quite large. There are already fifty blacksmiths plus apprentices. If all the blacksmiths have mastered their skills, each person can make at least one in a month.

There is no problem in producing five qualified gun tubes.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian promotes specialized division of labor and cooperation in production in the blacksmith shop. The work efficiency is at least two or three times higher than that of a blacksmith completing the production of a flintlock gun alone.

There is no problem. In this way, the scale of the existing blacksmith shop can guarantee the production of dozens of Nanri Type 1 flintlock rifles a month.

In one year, he can produce about a thousand fusiliers. This output so far is already considerable. In just one or two years, he can form a fusilier regiment. Who else will he be afraid of at that time?

What about a bird?

Yu Xiaotian was shocked when he thought of this. He didn't expect that after so much effort, he could develop so fast! Even he himself felt a little scared.

However, his algorithm was a bit too idealistic. In the first few months, he did not dare to ask this iron factory to produce dozens of flintlock guns for him every month, because now it seems that many fixtures and tools

It has not yet been perfected, and craftsmen have to spend considerable time familiarizing themselves with the craft while building and modifying various tools in order to gradually increase production.

It may take two or three months to really reach the production speed of dozens of flintlock muskets per month. But even so, Yu Xiaotian is already very satisfied. In two years, he only needs to build an equipment

With an army of one thousand to two thousand flintlock muskets, no matter where he goes from now on, he can basically go sideways.

In addition, after Yu Xiaotian saw the iron work, he simply merged it with the artillery work and officially renamed it the Sea Wolf Armory. In addition, the clothing shop where women specialize in making clothes for the Sea Wolf tribe was also merged.

Affiliated to the Council, it can become an independent department responsible for providing weapons and uniforms to the Sea Wolves. Basically, it has initially established a militarized logistics support system within the Sea Wolves.

As for the armory, after Yu Xiaotian thought about it, he temporarily handed it over to a person named Yuan Tielia in the council.

Yuan Tielia used to be one of Qian Song's subordinates. He suffered a leg injury and became disabled. He followed Qian Song and was very loyal.

After Qian Song's death, Yuan Tielia was left helpless. He was secretly sad and didn't know what to do in the future. However, Yu Xiaotian unexpectedly discovered that this man was very organizational. Although he could no longer work on the ship, he was very good at coordinating and organizing things.

I can read a little bit and understand some accounting.

So Yu Xiaotian immediately arranged for him to work in the council, and he directly helped Li Gouzi. His status was really not low. This made Yuan Tielia very grateful to Xiaotian. Anyway, Qian Song was no longer here, so he transferred all his loyalty to Xiaotian.

But I turned to Yu Xiaotian, who worked very diligently and kept his hands clean.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian decided to hand over the management of the weapons institute to Yuan Tielia and give full play to his abilities. Although he does not know much about technology, managers do not necessarily have to know about technology. As long as he can coordinate well and supervise well, it will be fine.

, As for the technology, Zhang Tiejiang will be in charge of it. In this way, one will be responsible for administration and the other will be responsible for technology, and the war bureau can basically operate normally.

After Yuan Tieliang was summoned by Yu Xiaotian, he was very happy. He immediately took up his post and became the manager of the Military War Bureau. Zhang Tiejiang was also very happy to be the deputy manager of the Military War Bureau. It can be said that everyone was happy.

After Yu Xiaotian finished looking at the blacksmith shop, he ran to the artillery factory to take a look. The production of artillery artillery has now entered a stable period. The production technology of the imitation six-pounder cannon has been very mature and the output has been steadily increasing. Two sets of imitation cannons have been produced.

With the alternate use of iron molds for six-pound cannons, the skills of craftsmen have become more and more mature. Almost six or seven imitation six-pound cannons can be produced almost every month. In about three months, the ships of Sea Wolf will basically be

Then they can all be equipped with this lightweight six-pounder gun.

In addition to being used on ships, this six-pound gun can also be used as a shore defense gun on the shore. It can be deployed on the forts on both sides of Dazhai and the bay mouth of Nanri Island to directly resist enemies invading Nanri Island.

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But Yu Xiaotian is not concerned about this kind of light six-pound gun now. He is well aware of the current development level of naval guns of the Western maritime powers. Such light artillery is no longer their mainstream equipment. The Western maritime powers of this era are

Heavy long-range artillery of more than thirty pounds has begun to appear on warships. This kind of artillery has extremely strong ability to destroy ships. Even if it is a light artillery, their smallest artillery is already an eight-pounder, and this kind of artillery has a very strong ability to destroy ships.

The six-pounder gun is no longer the mainstream artillery of Western maritime powers.

Even Western maritime powers still use this kind of six-pounder gun, but it is basically only equipped on some lightly armed merchant ships or small patrol ships, and it is not used as a main gun, but at best as a secondary gun.

Moreover, the current main force of ships in Western countries are mostly advanced Galen ships, and the worst are improved Clark sailing ships. These Western-style ships use strong wood, dense ribs and thick ship plates, and have strong protection.

Because of their strength and carrying capacity, hitting them with a six-pounder is like tickling them and basically cannot hurt their muscles and bones.

Therefore, regardless of the fact that the imitation six-pounder gun produced by Seawolf currently has no big problem against its peers, or against the ships of the Daming Navy of this era, it even has a great advantage, but once it is used as the main gun

If used against Spanish or Dutch warships, even against their lightly armed merchant ships, it would be impossible to gain any advantage.

Now Yu Xiaotian knows very well what kind of opponents he will face in the future, so he must make all preparations in advance. The six-pounder can no longer meet his current needs. He must have a more powerful cannon with a longer range.

Just fine.

After the gun manufacturer successfully trial-produced this imitation six-pound cannon, Yu Xiaotian had ordered Lei Blacksmith to start trial-producing the twelve-pound cannon while putting the six-pound cannon into production. Now he is most concerned about the quality of this twelve-pound cannon.

Trial production status.

So after arriving at the cannon production, Yu Xiaotian immediately called Blacksmith Lei and asked him how the trial production of the twelve-pound cannon was going.

Upon hearing this, Blacksmith Lei quickly said with a smile: "When I return to the big boss, I haven't dared to be lazy during this period. The big boss wants a bigger cannon like the one I tried to make, and the little one has already cast a pair.

Cannon model, the board of directors has been busy during this period. It is said that all the shopkeepers in the fleet are urging for cannons. The younger ones are just busy working on making such cannons!

So this new cannon has been delayed, I hope you will understand!"

When Yu Xiaotian heard that the twelve-pound cannon was being cast, he paused temporarily, his face suddenly dropped, and he turned to Li Gouzi who was following him and asked: "Did you arrange this?"

Upon hearing this, Li Gouzi quickly nodded and said: "What Blacksmith Lei said is that these days, the captains and management teams of each ship are jealous of this cannon, and they will go to the council hall to make a fuss and demand it. We really

There is no other way, let Blacksmith Lei and his artillery craftsmen hurry up and build this kind of cannon, but let Blacksmith Lei take a break on the new cannon!"

"Nonsense! Why do you need so many light cannons? Just have a few, just enough! Nowadays, this new cannon is the top priority. I thought that when I come back this time, this new cannon should at least be cast into one

There are two doors. It’s a good thing now. It’s only now that the iron frame has just been cast! You are going to delay a big event!

Blacksmith Lei, starting from today, stop the production of this kind of cannon in half, summon the artillery craftsmen as quickly as possible, and start trial casting of new cannons! I will give you another ten days, and you must give me

A new cannon was cast and brought to the shooting range to start testing the cannon!

In addition to this new cannon, you can add another item to me. On the basis of the new cannon, lengthen the barrel length by 30%, and thicken the cannon wall to ensure that more gunpowder can be loaded.

You need to be able to hit farther and hit more accurately!

Please note these two things down for me. Let’s work together without delay. We will reduce the number of six-pound cannons in the past, but we must also maintain production. There will be no less than ten guns per month! If you need people, I will give you people, and if you need materials, I will give them.

You guessed it!

Both the new and old artillery lines must work together. The focus is on the trial production of the new artillery. I want it as soon as possible! If you delay my important event, I want your head!"