Chapter 344: Have a gun

There are hourly wages and piece-rate wages in the wage distribution system. The use of hourly wages often leads to laziness and a serious phenomenon of foreign workers. As long as you get off work, you will get one day's wages. However, there is nothing to say about piecework. fair.

The Southeast Government attaches great importance to the quality of weapons. All guns have a factory number. Once a quality problem occurs, they will be chased by the number immediately. The punishment is severe and the system is strict!

However, the salary and rewards are generous, and the basic salary is 2 taels per month, generally seven or eight taels per month, and it is not uncommon for a master to have more than ten taels per month. (At that time, 2 taels of silver could get one acre of land, since it was a bad land, it was still land)

One advantage of piece rate wages is that men and women are equal. Whether it’s a male or a female depends only on the number of pieces. In some work areas that don’t require heavy physical strength, women’s income is not bad, like making bullets, but fixing bullets. After the gunpowder was weighed, it was put into hard paper, and the women did it quickly and well.

"Our Southeast Government protects women’s property. Their income from work is at their disposal and is not controlled by their families. Our Southeast Government has issued special laws and regulations."

Listening to Yan Changwu’s introduction, Hong Maofan was nothing, and Sun Yuanhua was secretly surprised. He knew that in the Ming dynasty, women’s status was very low, they were not allowed to be public, and they had no property rights. After getting married, it was often difficult to earn income except for dowry. If there is income, they are all returned to their husbands.

However, Sun Yuanhua has heard about the relative freedom of women in southern Fujian. They go fishing or doing business because their husbands are away from home, and even many southern Fujianese go to Southeast Asia to make a living, leaving their parents, wives and children on the mainland. Housewives have to support their parents-in-law and children. Apart from relying on their husbands to make money, they often have to work to help the family (what if Nanyang’s money can’t arrive in time?) It’s not a big deal to show up. They, as housewives, There is still a certain degree of control over family property.

This is a kind of mass foundation, which is difficult to do in other places. It is impossible for Yan Changwu to go against the sky. He only dared to do so in the Southeast Mansion, which is mostly southern Fujian.

Even better, the Southeast Mansion believes in the sea **** Mazu Empress, who is a woman, so Yan Changwu's implementation of the law to protect women's property did not incur serious opposition.

"Through the liberation of women, I have increased my productivity by at least 50% in Southeast Mansion!" Yan Changwu's statement was approved by Sun Yuanhua. He supported the policy of Southeast Mansion, and Gein Sun Yuanhua knew about foreign history. , Knowing that in the English country, there was a queen (Elizabeth I reigned from 1558 to 1603), and the nobles loyal to her, just like Wu Zetian in China.

Yan Changwu and Sun Yuanhua are very close together. You must know that there are some feudal scholar-bureaucrats in the Southeast Prefecture, but they all oppose Yan Changwu's policy without exception. On the contrary, Sun Yuanhua is even more enlightened.

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When they arrived at the cannon foundry, they saw that the area was not small, but the caliber of the cannon was very small, and they could only cast small bronze cannons under six pounds.

The fore-bore cannon was cast. The cannon was in a conical shape and gradually thickened from the muzzle to the tail. The barrel was cylindrical and consisted of attachments such as lugs and tail buttons.

What is even more worrying is the accumulation of a large number of waste cannons, at least thousands of them. This is an astonishing number-bronze cannons and iron cannons are easily damaged. Copper cannons are fired 600 times and iron cannons are fired 1000 times After that, it is not very useful.

Due to the "Moon, Moon, Water, Fire, Wood, Golden, Gold" training carried out by the Southeast Fleet, it fired a lot of guns and fired recklessly during the war. Artillery experts suggested that the artillery should be cooled for at least one hour after 40 shots. , In order to restore the shooting effect, so as not to damage the artillery, but it is difficult to do in actual combat, as long as it is not too hot, you must fire!

A lot of guns were scrapped in training and battles, and Yan Changwu allowed Hong Maofan to make enough money to level the trade deficit between the two sides.

The Southeast Mansion was blocked by Hong Maofan, and no good artillery could be found. It can be said that the technical requirements for making artillery are very high. The low-level artillery only learns the fur. Once the artillery is cast, this problem will become apparent.

Now the Southeast Mansion has been blocked by Hong Maofan. Without artillery, the battleship has become a decoration. So you can imagine the urgency of the arrival of Sun Yuanhua and foreign experts!

They can forge Hongyi Cannon!

Its original shape is a naval long gun manufactured around 1600 in Europe. It has a long barrel, a thick tube wall, and a large caliber. It has a front sight and a rear sight for aiming and combat!

They got a positive answer. They used the mud mold integral mold casting method, that is, the outer mold and the inner mold were made with mud based on the caliber of the gun mold, and the outer mold was hoisted and sleeved in the integrated shaft with a lifting device. Outside the mold, the gap between the two molds is the thickness of the barrel. Then pour it with bronze or steel solution, after cooling, remove the inner and outer molds, and finally process it into a complete artillery with various accessories. The defects of the artillery cast by this method are: when the clay mold is baked with charcoal fire, the outside is dry and the inside is wet, and the water vaporizes into moisture during casting, which makes the cast artillery often have honeycomb-shaped holes, which are easy to burst when fired; the effect is very low. ; Can’t carry out in-depth processing of the barrel, resulting in the chaotic trajectory of the projectile, which reduces the accuracy of shooting; most people do not understand the actual meaning of the barrel to caliber ratio and the position of the fire door in the burning of gunpowder. The vast majority of fire doors Drive too far, too big.

Sun Yuanhua and Hongmaofan’s artillery experts have rich experience in reducing these problems, and immediately began to build artillery tools and prepare to cast artillery!

Sure enough, a month later, the first bronze cannon was built, it was a 12-pounder!

Yan Changwu was overjoyed. He looked at the gun and saw that the barrel of the gun was smooth and integrated. When the gun was fired, the sound was loud, and the range of two miles was not a problem, and the quality was far superior to that of an artificial gun.

"Mr. I am really talented!" Yan Changwu was very grateful. He gave the gunners the same income as the Ming Dynasty, but with dividends, that is, for every gun that was cast, the 12-pound gun was rewarded with 8 silver dollars and the 18-pound gun. It's 10 silver dollars, and a 24 pound gun is 12 silver dollars!

Therefore, foreigners are excited and actively build artillery. The larger the number and caliber of the artillery, the discarded artillery was cast out and rebuilt, and with the support of no cost, manpower and materials, a hundred heavy artillery (over 12 pounds) were built a month.

Yan Changwu finally breathed a breath. He was no longer afraid of having a boat without a gun. He could comfortably brag that his fellow was thicker, bigger, and harder than others.

He appointed Sun Yuanhua as the deputy minister of the Ministry of Construction, in charge of artillery production, and then asked him to serve as the deputy dean of Southeast Technician College (technicians) ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and gave Sun Yuanhua the task of supervising artillery production and organization Technical research, that is, the method of making iron molds, drilling holes in solid artillery, casting iron cannons, improving materials, using hydraulic power, etc., he knew a little bit before putting it on, but there was no actual posture. Said I can't do it

Look, these are the high-tech of that era. Before, he couldn't find a master of Han Chinese to help him. Can he tell these things to foreigners, and let foreigners learn to return to China to beat him?

Sun Yuanhua ---- Absolutely can be trusted!

There is also the cultivation of talents, that is, the training of good experts and workers. An industry needs qualified labor.

Sun Yuanhua accepted his arrangement and started enthusiastically.

In the Ming court on the mainland, there was a lot of noise about the whereabouts of Sun Yuanhua. Ministers such as Lu Zhenfei, Yu Yinggui, and Li Mengchen announced that Sun Yuanhua had conspired with rebellion. He fled after failure. When he issued a sea arrest document, he was hunted down and blamed. His family, respect and imitate you!

You are so diao, do your parents know? Have you ever asked me about Southeast Mansion?