"Reporting to the leader, Ningxian County County originally had a household registration of 3,000 and a population of 15,000. Due to the continuous recruitment of landless refugees in the past six months, the population of Ningxian County has increased to nearly 30,000."

"There are more than 670 blacksmiths in the county town, of which nearly 500 blacksmiths came from the various halls of the Caobang. Except for some of these blacksmiths joining the military manor, the rest settled and opened blacksmith shops in Ning County."

"Because of the continuous supply of craftsmen in each hall, the research and development of firearms in the military industry has also accelerated a lot. As of yesterday, more than 500 thunder and fire rifles, more than 100,000 paper-shell bullets, more than 100,000 landmines, nearly 600 explosives, and three dragon-power cannons. They have been successfully tested and can be fully put into use..."

"As of the end of last month, the Cao Gang expanded 68 halls, developed more than 36,000 formal gangs, and more than 200,000 outer disciples. They have initially controlled the canal, the Yellow River and the docks on both sides of the Huai River. It is expected that by the end of this year, the halls will be opened in cities on both sides of the Yangtze River and Hai River to control the two sides of the Yangtze River...."

"In addition, Caobang obtained a total of 15.7 million taels of silver in the past three months through operating terminals, shipping, selling iron tools, private salt, etc., of which 8.7 million taels were used to distribute disciples' silver and disability death subsidies, and 2 million taels were distributed to military industrial manors for firearm manufacturing, and the remaining 5 million taels of silver..."

"In the past six months, the gang has secretly formed thirteen chambers of commerce, opened 139 restaurants and inns, and 48 brothels, and won nearly 400 officials, including more than 200 civil servants, more than 170 military officers, more than 3,600 horse thieves, thirteen sects, fifty-nine gangs, big and small gangs, made friends with more than 30 high-ranking officials of the Qing Dynasty, and cleaned up 100 traitors and traitors..."

"Currently, the gang has accumulated 650,000 stones of food and grass, 5,600 sets of steel armor, 13,000 swords and guns, 1,000 sets of bows and crossbows, 300,000 arrows, 800 good horses, and combspears..."

Accompanied by Xiao Wangshu's story, Zhu Chenhao finally had a clear understanding of the current Cao Gang.

Before we knew it, the Cao Gang has developed into a giant that no one can ignore. It can be imagined that once the Cao Gang officially enters the world stage, it will surely shock the sky and move everyone.

Of course, with the material reserves of the Cao Gang, anyone can imagine that the Cao Gang will definitely have huge plans in the future, or it will definitely rebel.

Otherwise, which gang in the world would recruit people so unscrupulously, develop firearms, equip firearms, store swords, weapons, and even buy war horses.

However, the senior leaders of the Cao Gang who knew this information were basically brainwashed by Zhu Chenhao's red thoughts, or had already devoted themselves to the red wave. Of course, they would not report it. Instead, they were all looking forward to the arrival of that day.

In order to sacrifice, I recommend Xuanyuan with my blood!

"Okay, very good. You did a very good job. I didn't expect that you have achieved such a great result in just half a year. This makes me feel ashamed!"

Zhu Chenhao praised without hesitation. He never expected that, but in just half a year, the Cao Gang had developed from nothing to something and developed to such a level.

"The gang leader is too honored. If it weren't for the gang leader's leadership and teachings, we might be still kowtowing to the Tartars in the Qing court. After reading the "Red Theory" written by the gang leader, I realized that the books I used to read were useless. The so-called words of the sages of the Four Books and Five Classics were just useless statements. Even if I could not save the country or the people, I was really ashamed when I looked back now!"

Xiao Wangshu, who was over fifty years old and was once a scholar in the Ming Dynasty, said with a shame.

When Zhu Chenhao heard this, he smiled and explained: "Sir, there is no need to do this. The words of Confucius and Mencius are not completely useless. The Four Books and Five Classics are also the treasures of my Chinese sages. However, time has changed, we must keep pace with the times and cannot keep holding on to the words of the saints. After all, the words of the saints cannot eliminate foreign enemies or educate the barbarians outside. If you want to save the country and save the people of the world, we still need to take real action, find the cause and solve the problem from the root. This requires everyone to work hard and work together."

Zhu Chenhao said here, paused slightly, and continued, "Let's go to the military industry manor together. I heard that the Dragon Power Cannon was successfully developed before, but I was very happy. Today we will go and see if the Dragon Power Cannon is worthy of the name "Dragon Power".

Dragon power, Dragon power!

The Chinese nation has always regarded itself as the descendant of the dragon, and the dragon is a legendary divine beast, so its majesty cannot be offended.

Zhu Chenhao named the new cannon Dragon Wei because he hoped that this cannon could show the majesty of a dragon, drive away foreign enemies, and spread the reputation of China throughout the world, so that no one dared to offend it.

The Military Industry Manor is located on a plain three miles away from Ningxian County. It was originally a royal manor, but was later transformed by Zhu Chenhao into the Caobang Firearms Research Office and named it the Military Industry Manor.

The person in charge of the military industry manor is Dai Zi. He is not very old, but he is only twenty-three or four years old. Zhu Chenhao specially sent someone to tie him up and "invited" to preside over the development of firearms.

At first, Dai Zi was unwilling to accept the job. Later, Zhu Chenhao took out three days to personally conduct friendly exchanges and persuasion with Dai Zi. Only then did he join the military industry manor with passion and enthusiasm to study firearms and guns for Zhu Chenhao.

Maybe some people have never heard of Dai Zi, who can be said to be the most awesome firearm research expert in the early Qing Dynasty.

How awesome is this person?

In the 13th year of the rebellion of Emperor Kangxi, the year Wu Sangui rebelled, Geng Jingzhong from Fujian responded to Wu Sangui's rebellion and invaded Zhejiang. The court sent Prince Kang Jieshu to lead the Qing army to Fujian and Zhejiang to fight Geng Jingzhong. Dai Zi applied for the recruitment in a civilian manner and presented a kind of musket and a pearl musket.

This continuous beaded musket is also known as the twenty-eight continuous beaded musket. The back of the musket is a magazine that can store 28 gunpowder lead balls. There are two gun machines, which are connected to each other and pull one machine. The ammunition falls into the barrel and is released from the other machine and fires. It can be called the Qing Dynasty version of the single continuous rifle.

In the 25th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi, the Dutch government sent envoys to China and paid tribute to the "Panyan Bird Gun". Dai Zi was ordered to imitate ten guns, which scared the Dutch in awe of the Qing Dynasty. Soon, he was ordered to imitate the Folang machine cannon, which is the most powerful artillery in the Western world. As a result, Dai Zi only took five days to imitate it.

In the 26th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi, Emperor Kangxi ordered Dai Zi to supervise the construction of "Sky-sky cannons" (i.e., "son-child cannons"), which were made in eight days. The cannon was two feet and one inch long (about 0.672 meters) and weighed about 300 kilograms, making it easy to carry. The cast shells were shaped like melon-shaped, weighing 20 to 30 kilograms, and were filled with "bullets". When this cannon was fired, "the son was in the mother's womb, and the mother sent the son out, falling from the sky, shattering pieces, and being sharp and unstoppable."

The strongest record of the sky-storm cannon was said to have only fired three cannons to quell the Galdan rebellion. I don’t know whether it was true or false.

It can be said that Dai Zi has extraordinary talent in research on firearms, especially in imitation and imitation, and his skill points are full. Zhu Chenhao caught him, but it was wrong. He invited him to know that the Thunder Fire Rifle and Dragon Power Cannon according to the design drawings is definitely looking for the right person.

Similarly, it was Dai Zi's addition that the firearms in the military industry manor were studied at the same speed. In a short time, they rely on a design drawing to produce finished products from scratch.

"boom!"

At the military industrial manor shooting range, accompanied by a huge roar of artillery fire, more than a dozen dummies wearing steel armor rose directly into the sky and turned into pieces of residual value fractures scattered around.

When the smoke and dust were gone, a large pit with a diameter of two or three meters and a depth of more than one meter appeared in the center of the shooting range. All the dummies around were blown away by the huge aftermath of the explosion and turned into pieces of debris scattered on the ground.

"Okay, very good, really great!"
Chapter completed!