Chapter 054
Sun Yuanhua looked at these military households. Although these military households were dressed in rags, they also held various tools in their hands. Many of them even held hatchets, poles, even wooden guns, wooden spears, or even wooden sticks.
However, the problem is that Cheng Shijie actually mobilized the entire Zuo Qianhu Army.
At this time, these military households also saw clearly the true face of the army in front of them. They were wearing brand-new mandarin duck war jackets, hanging wild goose feather knives on their waists, holding long spears or firecrackers, and were well-equipped.
"How is this going?"
An official from one hundred households in the field came forward and asked.
"Lord Baiguan, these people refuse to give their names and are ready to beat them!"
"Misunderstand!"
Sun Yuanhua's staff stepped forward and said: "The governor is here to inspect Ning Haijun. In order to test Ning Haijun's training, he deliberately did not pass Ning Haijun in advance. Let you Cheng Shou come to greet you!"
After checking the waistband and credentials, it was confirmed that he was from the governor's Yamen.
"Stand still and wait!"
Geng Zhongming said unhappily: "They are too presumptuous!"
"No, this Cheng Shijie is imitating the ancients and sages!"
"What?"
Xu Dacheng looked at Geng Zhongming and said: "Xiliuying, Zhou Yafu! You don't understand even if I tell you!"
Sun Yuanhua said: "Now that I have come to Xiliu Camp, I must take a look at this Zhou Yafu!"
Whenever he thought of Cheng Shijie's rich and naive look, he couldn't help but want to laugh.
It was too cold outside, so Sun Yuanhua sat in the carriage. Although his carriage was an ordinary carriage, there was a small red stove inside, burning fine willow charcoal, which could make tea and drive away the cold.
After waiting for half an hour, a loud voice came from outside: "Greetings to the Lord Guard!"
Cheng Shijie is here.
It had been more than a month since the last time he saw Cheng Shijie. What Sun Yuanhua didn't expect was that Cheng Shijie, who used to have a fat face, now actually didn't have much flesh on his cheeks, but instead had a strong air.
"I'm here to pay my respects to Lord Futai. I didn't know that Lord Futai was coming, so I missed you from a distance. Please forgive me for my inconvenience!"
"Shijie, come here and get on the carriage!"
"Master Futai, please get on this carriage!"
"Oh, what's different about this carriage?"
"Master Futai, you will know once you try it!"
Cheng Shijie led Sun Yuanhua and Xu Dacheng onto a very tall carriage. The carriage alone was eight feet long and eight feet wide, and was pulled by three draft horses.
This is also a troika. In the Zhou Dynasty, this was an exclusive ride for scholar-bureaucrats. In the Ming Dynasty, only a civil servant of the fifth rank or above could be qualified to ride a troika. When it came to a four-horse carriage, it belonged to the three ministers, nine ministers and cabinet ministers. Exclusive, or noble marquis or above.
This carriage is a new product produced by Cheng Shijie's carriage factory. It is ready to be launched on the market and sold at a high price. This axle is equipped with bearings and adopts bridge type shock absorption and spring shock absorption. More importantly, it uses Four wheels, two in the front and two in the rear, provide a larger and wider cabin space.
Entering the carriage, there is a sofa with a pair of booths. The two sofas in the front and back are about six feet long. There is a narrow aisle in the front and rear, which can lead to the back or the front.
Before Cheng Shijie had time to introduce it to Sun Yuanhua, Sun Yuanhua, a technocrat, quickly discovered the differences in this carriage. For example, the ordinary desk contained two small stoves, one for making tea and the other for making tea. Simple cooking is possible.
At this time, the stove in the carriage was already on fire. Although the cold wind was howling outside, it was as warm as spring inside.
There is a small independent partition at the back of the carriage, which contains a toilet and a sink. What is even more rare is that there is a mirror inside for you to take care of your appearance. When riding this carriage, you don't have to get off the car to go to the toilet. The 1.86-meter-long sofa serves as two beds, so you can rest directly.
It's just that Cheng Shijie's design of this carriage and RV did not satisfy Sun Yuanhua. After all, it was a sofa with two booths. If he could sit on this RV, no maid could sit on an equal footing with him.
However, Sun Yuanhua felt that these shortcomings were innocuous. He could also start designing. The opposite side could be changed into a bookshelf, with pens and ink ready. When marching and fighting in the future, he could work directly in the RV.
When the RV entered Ninghai City, Sun Yuanhua was surprised to find that it was actually a huge construction site.
"Is this a carriage?"
"Exactly!"
Cheng Shijie pointed to the four-wheeled carriage being formed and introduced: "I am going to equip Ning Haijun with this kind of four-wheeled carriage. One carriage can carry twelve soldiers. A formation and a sentry need four such carriages. With just one dining car, the whole post can be marched like mules and horses. It is a pity that the post station is abandoned, otherwise..."
Sun Yuanhua silently calculated in his mind that the distance between the post stations was twenty or thirty miles. If the troops could change horses, they could completely use horse-drawn carriages and the marching speed would be faster. It is two hundred and forty miles from Dengzhou City to Ninghai City. There is a good chance that we can arrive there in eight hours, that is, in one day.
Such an army of mules and horses can march quickly through official roads and inns. In fact, it is far more efficient than feeding a cavalry. In order to reduce the weight of the cavalry, the cavalry will choose to wear light equipment. Therefore, the light cavalry will face fully armed and well-formed troops. Infantry, in fact, cannot take advantage.
But these infantry are different. First of all, they are more equipped and can adapt to fighting in more situations. More importantly, their speed is not slow. Even if they go to an area not covered by a post station, although mules and horses cannot run very fast, but, But you can pull a cart and walk slowly, and you can march a hundred and twenty miles without any problem.
Soon Sun Yuanhua discovered the difference between this kind of carriage: "This is..."
"Bearing!"
"Miao, Miao is so clever!"
Daming actually does not have bearings, but the bearings of Daming are roller type, which are not as light as ball type, and the quality of steel is not good, so they are easy to break.
"This is……"
"Bridge shock absorption!"
While introducing it, Cheng Shijie gave Sun Yuanhua a popular science introduction on the role of shock absorption on carriages.
Sun Yuanhua is a technocrat, and he also likes his subordinates who understand technology very much. At this time, he really took a new look at Cheng Shijie. He originally thought that Cheng Shijie was just a warrior who knew how to train and use troops. Such a person became Sun Yuanhua's confidant. He just The object being exploited.
On the eve of Wuqiao's rebellion, after discovering the chicken theft, if Sun Yuanhua stood up for Kong Youde, would Kong Youde rebel? Definitely not. It would take a lot of courage to use eight hundred soldiers to rebel in Shandong.
There are two capital divisions in Shandong. One is the Shandong capital command division, which has nine guards and ten independent thousand-household posts. The Shandong Beiwa Dusi has eleven guard posts and three battalions. A total of more than 200,000 troops.
Given the choice, Kong Youde did not dare to use 800 Dongjiang Army soldiers to rebel in Shandong, which had an army of more than 200,000. Moreover, as Sun Yuanhua was the governor of Denglai, Wang Xiangchun was only a meritorious official (from the fifth rank) of Nanjing's official department, and he was forced to become an official. Sun Yuanhua said a word, how could Wang Xiangchun not give him face?
From this aspect, Sun Yuanhua actually looked down on military attaches, and he only used them.
However, it is different now. Cheng Shijie is not only able to lead troops, but is also an official who is good at technical management. The entire Ninghai City not only has a carriage factory, a textile factory, an ordnance factory, a briquette factory, a furniture factory, and a wood factory (producing doors and windows). ), quilt factory, mill, farm implement factory, water well factory, kiln factory and porcelain factory.
Throughout the city, there are forty or fifty factories, large and small, with six to seven thousand craftsmen working. However, these craftsmen can work in an orderly manner. The whole city is running well, and the streets are impossibly clean.
This shows that Cheng Shijie has excellent management capabilities.
At this time, the craftsmen were making a very weird knife. This kind of knife was completely different from the Ming Dynasty-style knife. In appearance, it looked like a dog leg. In later generations, this kind of knife also had a name, Nepal. Saber, this is recognized around the world as the most mechanical kukri knife.
Cheng Shijie tried to equip the entire army with waist knives, but there was a very cruel reality. The Dam + Ming style waist knives were too long. When long gunmen fought with guns or shot with crossbowmen, the long handle would affect their health. The action plays out and becomes a burden.
However, if they are not equipped with this knife, once the slaves or spearmen are attacked by the enemy, they will just wait to be killed. This is very inconsistent with Cheng Shijie's original intention, so he brought the Nepalese military knife to the late Ming Dynasty and asked craftsmen to imitate it.
Sun Yuanhua soon discovered the problem. The craftsmen in this ordnance factory were throwing old sabers, hatchets and even rusty axes into the furnace to recast them.
"Shijie, you don't have any iron material here!"
Cheng Shijie owned two iron mines, and he also knew that children who could bark would be fed by milk, so he followed suit and said, "Ning Haijun is poor. He is Zuo Qianhu of Dengzhou Guard. If it weren't for the capture on the battlefield, Ning Haijun would Now we don’t even have the weapons.”
Sun Yuanhua was silent. Cheng Shijie was telling the truth. He thought for a while and said, "I am in a hurry this time. When I return to Dengzhou, I will have someone send you six thousand... no, twenty thousand kilograms of iron!"
"Thank you, Lord Futai!"
Twenty thousand kilograms is just over ten tons. However, in the Ming Dynasty, each kilogram of iron cost one penny of silver, equivalent to more than two thousand taels of silver. It can be regarded as Sun Yuanhua bleeding.
Cheng Shijie heard that Sun Yuanhua also built a batch of machinery for the purpose of casting cannons, so he deliberately took Sun Yuanhua to the gun bureau and made more than a hundred craftsmen laboriously drill the gun tubes.
As Cheng Shijie expected, Sun Yuanhua couldn't stand it anymore after seeing this scene.
"Shijie, there are a number of boring machines and planers in Dengzhou City. I will give you a set!"
Sun Yuanhua was actually a little reluctant. Those foreign devils were too dark and a pile of rotten wood and steel. They dared to ask him for eight thousand taels of silver. However, the problem was that those machines were really easy to use. Not only did the time to drill the blunderbuss tube be shortened by several Ten times more stable.
Sending this set of equipment away means that 40,000 to 50,000 taels of silver are gone.
Futai University has a lot of personnel. Sun Yuanhua stayed in Ninghai City for two days and prepared sixty fire cannons for Cheng Shijie. These were not junk made by the Ministry of War, but fire cannons with a longer range and greater power.
There are also eight Folang machine artillery pieces. Cheng Shijie can now finally form his artillery unit, such as squatting tiger cannons and bowl-mouth blunderbuss, which are actually just large shotguns.
