Zhang Huangyan went to preach one military camp after another, and soon his speech became more and more down-to-earth, especially when he arrived at the "Wuying Camp" station in Zhenjiang Prefecture. At the last stop, the soldiers who had not heard of it before would never have thought that he was a juren. They only thought that Zhang Huangyan was also their boatman brother, but they were just slapped with oil and were particularly eloquent.

Zhou Shixian knew that the army of this era almost did not pay attention to spiritual power, and the generals were also limited by the times and did not realize the collective spirit, the honor of soldiers, and the strict military discipline and generous military pay would cause soldiers to burst out with combat effectiveness.

In other words, some military geniuses, such as Qi Jiguang, foreseeed it, but the Ming Dynasty could not send such military pay at all, without material support, and other things were just a mess.

Of course, in Zhou Shixian's plan, the instructor will become a system, just like the military and judicial department that is being prepared, they will manage the army together, check and balance the officers, and avoid corruption and loose discipline in the army. In the future, it may not be Zhang Huangyan, the general instructor, who will preach everywhere, but the entire system is operating.

After being banned by Emperor Chongzhen, the Nanjing court finally got a chance to breathe, and Zhou Shixian finally took off from the busy government affairs. Before patrolling the army, he first came to the firearm workshop in Nanjing with Ni Yuanlu.

Nowadays, the craftsmen in the official workshops in the Jiangnan area have been transferred to Nanjing by Chongzhen's order. However, due to the corruption of the Ming Dynasty, many of the craftsmen in the official workshops have fled and finally only more than 200 people have been summoned.

Fortunately, Jiangnan has a prosperous economy, developed handicrafts, and there is no shortage of excellent craftsmen among the people. Zhou Shixian directly offered a monthly salary of one twice the market price, and soon recruited more than 3,000 craftsmen from nearby major cities. Most of them can be used to make armor and muskets after learning for a while.

At the same time, he had already begun to recruit a group of artillery and firearms from Fujian and Guangdong to meet the army's needs for weapons and guns. During this period, the two places with the highest artillery technology in the Ming Dynasty were these two places close to Macau.

After Zhou Shixian gathered all the craftsmen, he left the artillery, guns, crossbows and armor in the weapons workshop in Nanjing, and prepared to form the main force of the "Nanjing Weapon Bureau" with the Portuguese craftsmen invited by Johnson Chan from Macau.

The rest of the craftsmen, who are well-skilled, stay in the "Nanjing Weapon Bureau" and whose level is worse, are assigned to the weapons workshops in various military camps to repair some weapons and repair weapons and manufacture consumable weapons such as lead bullets and arrows. Once the war begins, the workload in this area will also increase rapidly.

After discussion and planning by Zhou Shixian and the craftsmen, the "Nanjing Weapon Bureau" was divided into more than a dozen workshops such as cannons, muskets, crossbows, swords and guns, armor, shields, etc.

Various cold weapons are naturally the strengths of local craftsmen, such as tiger squat cannons, bird guns, etc. Old-style musket cannons, and local craftsmen can also produce high-quality products when the materials are sufficient. New cannons, new muskets, such as four-pound cannons, Lumi guns, etc., have to rely on the Portuguese craftsmen that Johnson Chan is about to invite to assist in manufacturing.

Zhou Shixian naturally would not interfere in the specific management of the workshop, but the new management system, assembly line production methods, division of labor and cooperation, training of new craftsmen, and flexible salary incentive systems, these things related to the production efficiency and progress of firearms are things he must worry about, and they are also problems that only he can solve.

These are also methods that Zhou Shixian can improve productivity through management reforms without changing the science and technology of this era. This is the advantage of him, the superior, and it is also Zhou Shixian's dimensionality reduction blow to this era.

Zhou Shixian, the son-in-law of the dynasty, was visited by the Minister of Revenue Ni Yuanlu, accompanied by the sudden inspection of two heavyweights, which caused a considerable sensation to several musket and artillery workshops in the Weapon Bureau.

Whenever they walked into the workshop, the craftsmen would immediately gather, kneel down to Zhou Shixian, shouting "See the Prince Consort". Although Zhou Shixian felt a little awkward, he could only follow the local customs.

Zhou Shixian would always ask these craftsmen to get up, and then talk to them cordially about their work situation, whether they encountered any difficulties, and whether their communication with their superiors was smooth... In addition, they would usually ask whether the families of these craftsmen had been resettled and whether they had difficulties in food and clothing.

Although he was just pretending, he was the prince consort. In this era, this identity was enough to make countless people die, let alone be so polite and polite. Zhou Shixian would not let go of things that could win over people's hearts without spending money.

After inspection, Zhou Shixian asked Wang Ying, the Minister of the Artificial Department of the Weapons Bureau, to summon the two craftsmen from the musket workshops to the office room of the Weapons Bureau.

According to Zhou Shixian's requirements, two craftsmen were arranged in each firearm workshop. One was the Han people in charge of personnel and craftsmanship, and the other was left for the Portuguese, responsible for supervising quality and guiding technology.

This is the power balance of workshop management. Foreigners have nothing to do with local forces. They only obey Zhou Shixian and don’t have that much worry when using it.

In fact, when Joshua Chan set out for Macau, Zhou Shixian also told the other party to buy more books on weapons manufacturing and military formations. At the same time, he also brought more missionaries to Nanjing. He planned to pay additional wages and asked the Portuguese to translate the books on weapons manufacturing purchased from Macau into Chinese characters, and then print them into books to prepare for the batch training of craftsmen in the future.

This is not to say that the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty did not know how to build guns and cannons, but it is another matter to be able to make them based on the matching of the gourds, understand the caliber ratio and even the modules of different cannons, and then continuously develop artillery technology.

Otherwise, it is very likely that like the Qing Dynasty, the cannons made are getting bigger and bigger, their appearance is getting fancy, but their power is getting smaller and smaller. Although technology and systematic science look very similar, they are not the same thing.

What Zhou Shixian had to do was to use his own insights from later generations to promote the accelerated establishment of the scientific system in the Ming Dynasty, so as to form a crushing weapon advantage against the Qing Dynasty, and even after the recovery of the rivers and mountains, the Russians in the north, the Dutch in the southeast, and the British who were about to be involved in Southeast Asia.

Soon, Wang Yinglai, with a round face and a little fat figure, led two craftsmen to the office room. He came to Zhou Shixian and bent his waist with a very respectful attitude: "The prince consort, the minister has brought them here, please ask the prince consort to give a lecture."
Chapter completed!