Zuo Fanglian always wanted to perform well, strive to be able to sleep with her, and be the first to be Huang Yi's concubine.
Things are different now. Three months ago, Zuo Fanglian was full of confidence and felt that she was the most beautiful and talented woman in the base area.
Only she can talk about poems, songs and write good articles with the master, and only she can write rules and regulations for him. She can see that the master actually likes her to serve him personally.
Who would have thought that suddenly there would be four to five hundred more women in the base area, dozens of whom were not only good-looking, but also literate, including Ye Huiling, Xiao Jiu, etc. who were not weaker than her in reading and writing.
She was under great pressure, and she always hoped that the master would accept her, but it was a pity that such a story has not happened yet.
At this time, she was competing in her heart. She must write good music and lyrics to show off her talent and outshine everyone else.
After listening to Huang Yi's creative ideas, Xiaojiu was suddenly inspired. She really hated Jiannu and wanted to take revenge.
The master said that this drama should be used to awaken the masses and let everyone not have illusions about the Jiannu. If the Jiannu were killed, everyone would take up arms and fight to the death. She felt deeply.
There were so many people in Yongping Mansion at that time. If half of them shared the same hatred, how could Jianu possibly break into the city? How could she...
well! The past is too painful to look back on, and now she can only learn from the pain. She has lost a home and cannot repeat the same mistakes again. If Jiannu really comes to the base, she will definitely pick up a blunderbuss and fight to the death.
Huang Dazhi has never called Huang Yi "Dad". He used to call him "Master", but now he has changed his name to "Sir".
However, he has long regarded Huang Yi as his father, and it is his task to participate in the screenwriting and tell the working people, officials, soldiers and civilians about the suffering suffered by the Han slaves.
Huang Dazhi obeys orders and obeys orders. He will spare no effort to tell his story well, allowing the audience to compare their past and present, and increase their awareness that "Han people will never be slaves!"
The script was created, cast and rehearsed, and after the autumn harvest it will be performed in the completed auditorium, which is estimated to be able to accommodate six to seven hundred people.
Spiritual strength is very important. Even if it is hard work, cultural life is indispensable. Huang Yi's ideals are so great, so he has high hopes for the people in the base area.
Teach everyone how to learn culture and use drama to tell everyone that the Jurchens are cruel, ignorant and inhumane.
He warned everyone that they must not be slaves of the Jurchens and strive to twist the hearts of the people in the base area into one rope.
It's a bit exaggerated to say that people's hearts are moving.
But Huang Yi believed that with his own leadership and tens of thousands of people working together, there was a city to defend.
Even if the Jiannu and Tatar coalition forces came with 10,000 or 20,000 troops, Huang Yi was confident that he could hold on until the enemy could no longer hold it and retreat in despair.
Base areas that may face all-out war at any time must implement military-first principles and policies, and those who receive preferential treatment must be soldiers.
The best-paid warriors are definitely the cavalry who are skilled in bows and horses.
Even though the base area requires a large amount of labor, the cavalry can be fully off-duty and does not need to participate in spring plowing and autumn harvest. Their mission is to patrol, eliminate and arrest anyone who tries to approach the base area.
Other arms can only be semi-off-the-job and need to participate in spring planting and autumn harvest, which means they have to be busy with farm work for more than one month a year.
There is no way, agriculture is the foundation, food is the hope, and farming requires time for farming.
During spring sowing and autumn harvest, infantrymen, craftsmen, and workers in workshops all had to participate in the work.
People like to compare.
Soldiers in the base area are well treated and respected, so the vast majority of the people hope to become fully-off-the-job cavalry and basically off-the-job infantry soldiers.
However, the selection of soldiers is very strict. They are not only judged on physical fitness and combat skills, but also on riding skills and mounted shooting. Musketeers are also judged on loading speed and shooting performance.
Those who fail to meet the standards can only become grassroots militiamen who train every three days.
Two hundred Rumi muskets sent by Geng Zhanghua were added, and 20 bird muskets made in the base area were added.
Three or four times more muskets were used for practice, causing the number of musketeers to grow rapidly, soon reaching 800, a third of whom were women.
Unless it was a defensive battle, women would not be used on the battlefield as much as possible in the future, so 180 young and middle-aged men were selected to become regular soldiers using muskets.
Of course, they all have the best shooting performance and relatively fast reloading speed.
Compared with training soldiers with cold weapons, training musketeers is almost instant. As long as there is no problem with their brains, even women with poor physical strength can basically master shooting skills in a month.
In the future, of course, practice makes perfect, and your speed and accuracy will improve.
There were not many spearmen and sword and shield bearers, a total of one hundred and eighty people, and they were all powerful young men.
The carefully selected one hundred and eighty musketeers, one hundred and eighty shield bearers, and spearmen can all gallop on horseback and are infantrymen who move on horseback.
In other words, Huang Yi currently has 360 armored cavalry, 360 mounted infantry, and 360 planned artillery and baggage troops to be formed.
Artillery must have cannons. There is too much work at the moment and there is a serious shortage of manpower, so the plan to cast cannons is postponed to the slack time after autumn.
Huang Yi estimated that in a few months, the small steel-making blast furnace that will produce products should have enough steel to cast seven or eight "six-pound Napoleon cannons."
The specifications of Napoleon cannons, caliber, wall thickness, length, weight of the gun body, etc., including drawings, are all saved in Huang Yi's mobile phone.
Huang Yi must have drawn the drawings and written out the casting process himself. Not only did he use Mas Rodman's central cooling method to cast the cannon, but he also used segmented steel splicing molds lined with quartz sand, so that the molds could be quickly formed and used repeatedly.
These are the technologies of later generations, successful technologies that have been verified by countless failures.
With such a golden finger, the quality of the artillery cast in the base is not only leading the world, but the cost can be saved by 70 to 80%, and the working hours are only one-third.
There is also a huge benefit. With the same caliber, the weight of the body of the locally cast cannon can be reduced by more than half, and the service life can be increased by three to four times.
The Portuguese can make huge profits by casting cannons and selling them in Macau. Why can't they do this business in their base areas in the future?
As long as we are sure not to sell them to the establishment of slaves, but to the dozens of khanates in Central Asia and Eastern Europe, so that the intensity of the war between them will be stronger and they will have the strength to fight against White Russia, why not do it.
As long as the cost-effectiveness is high and there are enough profits, there is no guarantee that merchants will reopen the Silk Road and sell the artillery forged in the base to Persia and Western Europe.
The late Ming Dynasty was a turbulent time and experienced brutal wars. But when did Europe, Central Asia, and the Gulf region experience peace?
There have always been ethnic conflicts, religious divisions, territorial disputes, racial distinctions, etc. in those places, so there was only a few days of peace and constant fighting.
Wouldn't it be nice to sell some artillery to help them?
