Goryeo, Tamra, Gongfang District.
"Bao Dazhong, the little man, has met the guarding master! May your blessings last for generations to come!"
As the saying goes, eyes can see in six directions and ears can hear in all directions! Bao Dazhong also started as a handyman. After more than ten years of serving tea and water, plus deliberate flattery, and countless hardships, he was able to get the master to teach him the blacksmithing skills. Therefore, after work, this guy would always use the corner of his eye to scan to see if any big customers or big shots came to his shop, lest he inadvertently offend someone he shouldn't offend, and Kang Lin was shouting from the side. With so many people behind it, the recognition is quite high! Therefore, the master craftsman immediately left his apprentice and Lifu who were working, and trotted all the way out of the blacksmith shop.
"You're welcome, Master Bao, get up quickly! We Chiyang usually bow our hands, bow, or kneel down on one knee. There is no need to give such a heavy gift. Besides, we need tools and farm tools for development and construction. , as well as weapons, please pay more attention to me! Speaking of which, it should be me, the guard of Tamluo, who always bows to you. How can I ask you to always give such a gift to me, a junior! How about life and work? But if you have any difficulties, please tell me, and I will ask someone to come and handle it..."
Seeing Bao Dazhong, a skilled blacksmith with a simple face, kneeling on his knees and kowtowing to himself, Kang Lin immediately stepped forward and reached out to gently lift him up. At the same time, he did not forget the order. His own soldiers brought two little horses for him to sit down and talk, in the manner of a virtuous corporal. To be honest, I can't blame this guy for greeting the former with polite greetings as soon as they met. It's true that such a big man Chiyang desperately lacks someone who can understand the work of a carpenter, a blacksmith, and a handyman. Before Bao Dazhong came, There are also carpenters, blacksmiths, and handymen in Chiyang. However, those people can repair damaged ships and build some iron components. If you want to ask them to go further and make muskets, artillery, or warships according to the patterns and methods, then It doesn’t work. But Bao Dazhong is different from them. His title of intermediate craftsman gives him better skills and broader knowledge than ordinary craftsmen. The most important thing is that this guy has been studying for several years and can understand the production drawings given by the system! Therefore, Kanglin would be so condescending as to hand over his head to a small craftsman in such a difficult manner!
"Don't dare, don't dare, Lord Guard, the little old man is here, he eats well, lives well, and doesn't have any troubles. If you have to find one, it is the apprentice that the adults have found for the little old man. Too dull, plus a bunch of Gao Lifu are always complaining and not willing to do their best..."
Bao Dazhong carefully sat down halfway, his face was smoky, and he thought for a long time, then looked at Kang Lin's expression and realized that the other party was not joking with him, so he calmly told his difficulties. The former is better, but the apprentices are a little dull. As long as I teach them patiently, I can always lead them on the right path in the future, but the latter is not so easy to solve. There is a bunch of stick rebels, plus Those who commit crimes are not only unintelligible but also very unruly and unruly. Not only do they work slowly, but they also like to sneak around and play tricks. I have set up this stove for such a long time and I have never had to worry about it for a day! At this moment, the leader of his family was asking, and he just wanted to reflect on this situation and see if he could change these Korean uncles and recruit a new group of obedient and honest people from the country to attack him!
"Usually complaining endlessly and refusing to do their best? How dare these Korean gangsters do this? It seems that we are too soft-hearted! Someone, please order Luo Guobin, the deputy director of the execution room, to come to see me. I would like to ask this guy, how do you do it? Trained sinners? How unreasonable, how unreasonable! You and I, I will make a note of it. Once things calm down here, I will immediately dispatch a patrol team to garrison. If anyone dares to violate the rules and complain randomly, they will be immediately sent to the mine and mined until they die... …”
After listening to Bao Dazhong's complaint, Kang Lin immediately nodded. The Goryeo rebels and criminals were unruly and difficult to manage. Even he, the leader of Chiyang, and the guard of Tamluo had heard about it, but they didn't expect that these guys actually dared to work, cheat, and utter resentful words! It seems that our side has been too indulgent to them. Next, we must teach these guys what it means to "have a human heart as strong as iron and a king's law as strong as a furnace"! Thinking of this, Kang Lin sent for Luo Liang and Luo Guang, the first lieutenants of the soldiers, and asked them to go and personally invite Luo Guobin, the deputy chief of the execution room, to discuss the matter. As for why he didn't invite the execution room boss, Danluo Zhizhou, Liu Laoliu, who is also the prison chief, is because this old man is still sitting on Tuoji Island and is responsible for managing Chiyang's rear base! After all, he also holds the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Navy. If the Guard comes to find something, he can deal with it and buy enough time for Kang Lin to return.
"Okay, Master Bao, let's continue talking about weapons production. After all, during this period, the garrison has recruited a lot of new reserve soldiers, new auxiliary troops, and patrol sergeants, so there is a huge gap in weapons. Big. If we can produce it ourselves, we can save a lot of money and use it to build more important warships. By then, even if Bangzi’s Jeolla Water Camp makes a comeback, we won’t need to worry too much..."
After dealing with the desperate Korean stick, Conlin quickly shifted his focus back to weapon building. During this period, in order to cope with the increasingly serious situation, the latter, who felt that their troops were insufficient, recruited two reserve guards from the new immigrants, and sent young Korean civil servants from each area to the city to serve as corvees to select strong men. Joined the new auxiliary army. In addition, in order to liberate the regular army and reserve forces, the latter also selected suitable personnel from injured veterans and new immigrants to establish Chiyang's own security force, patrol sergeants, responsible for the defense of the city and the maintenance of public order! As a result, there has been a shortage of weapons. Chiyang used to be a regular flag army or a reserve army. Most of them were equipped with weapons rewarded by the system. But now that the territory is larger and the number of troops is larger, the system rewards them. Weapons began to run out. Therefore, the manufacture of weapons was put on the agenda. The focus of Kang Lin's visit this time was to ask Bao Dazhong about the status of weapon trial production and see if he could produce his own firecrackers and cannons to arm the newly expanded troops!
"Master Guard, I have seen the drawings and procedures you gave me, and I think we should have no problem in imitating them! First of all, Yan Ling Dao, Yan Wing Dao, saber, iron-tipped spear, crossbow, as long as the materials are sufficient, Xiao I can keep making them for adults; secondly, the matchlock gun, the flintlock gun, and that, what is that called? Please forgive me for my incompetence. I haven't fully figured out the two yet. As for the flintlock gun, it is no problem to make the gun body, handguard, medicine tank yin and yang machine, and trigger. However, the steel wheel spring is quite difficult to imitate. , Your Excellency, give the little boy some more time to fully understand it. The same is true for Yi Ren Kuai Gun;
Finally, the artillery that is the most difficult to imitate is the Tiger Crouching Cannon. Folangji can be manufactured in batches, but the powerful front-loading smoothbore cannon is quite difficult to cast. The former can be forged with pig iron or copper materials, but the latter can No, because we lack qualified gun steel, we can only use bronze to cast the guns. In this way, in addition to wasting a lot of money and causing the cost of making cannons to soar, the cannons will not take too long to cast. It is estimated that after dozens or hundreds of rounds are fired, the barrel will deform and affect the copper cannon. power, and range. Therefore, the little old man is working on the forging of steel materials. You know, given our current situation, it is not easy to forge qualified gun steel..."
"Then do we have any successful finished artillery pieces? Let me take a look..."
Artillery and ships were Conlin's biggest concerns at the moment. Therefore, after hearing that his side could make artillery, this guy immediately asked Bao Dazhong to watch the artillery! Although this gun is just a Tiger Crouching Cannon and a Folang Machine that fire small shells, it is Chiyang's first artillery that can be mass-produced anyway. Its emergence has ended the former's shortcoming of being unable to manufacture its own artillery! From then on, as long as the raw material personnel could keep up, Chiyang would continue to produce qualified artillery! Since the light artillery can be mass-produced, it is not far away from Chiyang to create a long-barreled, powerful front-loading artillery! Conlin couldn't help but feel a lot better when he thought that his industrial capacity had unknowingly increased a lot. Therefore, he couldn't wait to see the first batch of artillery built by himself!
"Master Guard, please come here. The cannons we forged are all stored in the warehouse. I will ask someone to pick them up right now!"
Seeing that his boss wanted to watch the cannon, Bao Dazhong felt that the time had finally come to show off his skills! So he ordered his apprentices to bring in two artillery pieces, one was a thirty-six-pound squatting tiger cannon that fired loose powder and stone bullets, and the other was a large Folang machine that fired one-pound lead-iron shells. Kanglin Kangda guards to check the quality! In order to more intuitively demonstrate the range and power of the artillery, Blacksmith Bao also had wooden targets set up at fifty, one hundred, and two hundred paces, waiting for his leader's order. Just fire the cannon and shoot at the target!
"Squat with the tiger and cannon, and let Fo Langji fire three rounds first to see!" Seeing that everything is ready, he can fire the cannon at the target just after he gives the order. Kang Lin took a deep breath, tried to calm down his complicated mood, and then gave the order to fire to the respectful Bao Dazhong and others! So the next moment, as the torch gently fell, the thirty-six kilogram Tiger Crouching Cannon violently sprayed out orange flames and thick smoke. Dozens of cannonballs of different sizes flew forward. Driven by high-quality black gunpowder, it flew over dozens of steps in an instant, and then, nothing happened after that! It was normal for the first test firing to miss. The blacksmith apprentice who was responsible for firing the cannon saw an ugly look on his master's face, so he didn't need to give instructions and immediately started to reload the cannon, preparing to fire another shot!
