The female shopkeeper immediately smiled and said: "That's a good feeling! There are always some unscrupulous people wandering around our workshop recently, and the slave family is also worried!"
Zhang Peijia heard this and immediately said: "Master Huang, do you know this?"
Master Huang immediately said with a sorry smile: "Miss Zhang, we already know this. It's just that too many people have come to Tianjin County recently, and there are really not enough manpower in the county government! But I will instruct the officers to go there more Take a spin."
Hearing Zhang Peijia’s explanation, he became cold! She said: "Master Huang, don't use such words to deal with the slave family! Lianshenghao subsidizes the county government one hundred and fifty taels of silver every month, just to allow you to maintain local public order! How many people can be hired with this money? Why are there still not enough people? You won’t have to swallow them all, right?”
When Master Huang heard this, the smile on his face immediately froze! Because he knew that the money was really divided among them privately, and he didn't hire more people at all! However, he did not dare to mention this matter clearly, so he could only say: "Don't worry, Miss Zhang, I will report this to the county magistrate immediately after returning, so that he can recruit more people as soon as possible!"
Zhang Peijia said coldly: "Master Huang, the slave family can still have some more money, and make up two hundred taels per month! But you must allocate more manpower! The slave family is not afraid to tell you, Master Huang, the garment shop is full of people Woman, if something happens to ruin someone’s reputation, the slave family will send everyone from your county office, except the county magistrate, to dig coal in the coal mine!"
Master Huang is really scared now! He knew that the woman in front of him was nothing special, she was just a merchant's daughter! But her fiancé is a ruthless character that he can never mess with! Those heads hanging on the docks are proof of that!
So he hurriedly stood up and explained: "Miss Zhang, it's not that the county government didn't do its best, it's just that there are too many people coming to Tianjin during this period! Especially many people from the noble family came. Some of these people are domineering and troublemakers. Yes, but these people cannot be beaten or scolded. We can only send more people to protect them. That’s why it seems that there are not enough manpower!”
Miss Zhang said loudly: "Master Huang, please stop fooling the slave family! When those people cause trouble, your people just watch from the sidelines and have nothing to do with it! The garment workshop is far away from where they usually gather. Stay away! If you continue to fool me like this, I will ask my uncle to talk to your county magistrate himself!"
Master Huang waved his hands repeatedly and said: "Don't worry, Miss Zhang, this matter will be taken care of next! Today we will transfer ten brothers to live there!"
Zhang Peijia snorted with satisfaction after hearing this, and then said softly: "Master Huang, it's not that the slave family is unreasonable, but the workshop is full of women, and they are all locals. If something happens, this How can the local folks let you and me go! So we have to be careful in everything we do!"
Master Huang was knocked down by Zhang Peijia's beatings and pulls. All he could do was nod his head in agreement. Then the meeting continued after he sat down wiping his cold sweat.
The meal Liu Haojia ate at the military camp at noon was also a meal with ingredients, but the content of the meal was much better than that of ordinary soldiers.
Liu Haojia did not deliberately go deep into the military camp and do anything to get close to the soldiers. He implements a strict hierarchy system in the military. Each level enjoys the same treatment. The higher the level, the better the treatment. This is also one of the motivations to stimulate the officers and soldiers to work hard!
Want an extra piece of meat for lunch, no problem! As long as you are excellent at a certain skill, that’s it! Want to be an official? Learn how to read, and then work hard to take the exam. Once you become an officer, you will have everything! After this system was implemented, the soldiers really had the motivation to make progress!
In particular, Liu Haojia announced that soldiers with more than 500 literacy skills would not only be eligible to become officers. You will also get an extra 20 yuan of salary every month! If you can read more than 1,000 words, you will be eligible for a position above the team leader. And there will be an additional fifty dollars of salary every month!
Only those who can read more than 3,000 words are eligible to obtain official titles above the garrison level. However, once you become a garrison officer, the salary increase due to literacy will be stopped. Because their military pay is already very high!
Of course, you can also choose not to be an officer for the rest of your life, but to be a top soldier! Then this literate salary will follow you forever! But I don't think it would be that confusing.
People, instead of taking the higher salary, work hard for these dozens of pennies!
Therefore, under the stimulation of Liu Haojia, the atmosphere of learning in the entire army was very strong. It is gradually transforming into an all-officer force! Once there is a war, as long as soldiers are quickly added to it, it will become a very large team! .
After he finished lunch and left the military camp, he rushed directly to various military factories. The first one he rushed to was the gunpowder workshop and the artillery shell workshop farthest outside the city. The reason why they are arranged far away from the city is for safety.
The gunpowder factory was quite simple. He walked around, checked all the safety facilities and left with satisfaction. Then he rushed to the cannonball workshop. Today there is a new round of shell testing here.
Many people will find out after watching the movie "Burning the Opium at Humen" that the cannons were made by the Qing Dynasty at that time. They are still simply using solid shells. This is really regrettable! Because there were already blooming bullets in the Ming Dynasty, but they were lost in the Qing Dynasty!
The current explosive bomb is also very simple to make. It is just an iron shell filled with explosives. However, there is a round hole in the iron shell, from which a wooden message tube can be inserted. The inside of the tube is hollow and filled with slow-burning gunpowder, and the amount of gunpowder is used to control the explosion time of the shell.
And the way to ignite this kind of message tube is also very simple, that is, to directly load the shell into the barrel and fire it out. The high temperature in the gun chamber will naturally ignite the decelerating gunpowder in the message tube. Then the gunpowder continues to burn while the cannonball is flying. Completely ignite the gunpowder in the shell before and after it lands!
When Liu Haojia arrived at the shooting range, the preliminary preparations had been completed and she was just waiting for his arrival. So he didn't hesitate, stood on the high platform, took the telescope and said directly: "Let's get started!"
The first targets were about three hundred paces away from the artillery, and you filled them with human-sized wooden dolls! This was specially requested by Liu Haojia, because the straw target cannot reflect the specific impact point of the shrapnel.
Following three cannon shots, three shells landed in the target and exploded. Then some soldiers quickly ran up and carried all the wooden dolls back. He also brought back the shrapnel that could be found on the ground.
