"I humble my duty and obey my orders."

Ke Chenmei bowed his hands in a salute, and with just one movement, the guards present swarmed up and started beating the man and woman with their weapons.

From the moment he saw Ke Chenmei's name on the roster, Chen Kai had already determined that Zheng Chenggong was not ignorant about the weapons workshop, but the current output produced by relying on whips was still acceptable for the time being.

That’s all.

Of course, in Chen Kai's view, and perhaps in Zheng Chenggong's view, the speed of self-production may not be inferior to that of the Qing army. After all, the Dongjiang Army, which was located along the coast of Liaodong at that time, could not be better.

For example, attention to this is naturally more limited.

However, now that Chen Kai is there, Zheng Chenggong's plan to nearly double the current output undoubtedly gives Zheng Chenggong some hope - it is dangerous to march on the battlefield, and walking on two legs is better than just hoping to win the battle of Haicheng, which is still unknown.

Be strong. That's why Ke Chenshu came to Buda not only to stand up for Chen Kai, but also to make Ke Chenmei stand on Chen Kai's side!

With a justifiable reason and the support of the guards, the outcome is clear. Of course, being a "factory tyrant" is nothing more than a trivial matter. The real key lies in whether the output can be achieved as effectively as Chen Kai said.

promote.

Everyone will be happy if he can't do it. If he can't do it, Chen Kai will have to face the disappointment and cold reception of Zheng Chenggong. I am afraid that even You Er's backstage will jump out and add insult to injury - Zhong Zhenbo Hongxu, Chen Kai remembers future generations

People often praise him with words such as loyalty, but a person who can rise up in the pirate den is probably not a good person.

In the final analysis, if you want to succeed, especially if you are working alone like Chen Kai now, it is best to rely on your own efforts. To forge iron, you need to be hard-working. This is an eternal truth!

You Er and his wife were rudely kicked out by the guards. Chen Kai immediately sent Shu Xuzi to list and summarize the amount of food and groceries that the two had embezzled in recent months.

Mouse Beard was in charge of the accounts, and You Er was greedy for a lot of food and groceries. If he said that he was not given any benefits to keep quiet, no one would believe it. At this moment, Chen Kai gave him this job.

It is what I crave most.

"Once the kitchen manager is gone, the weapons workshop's kitchen will also need someone to take care of it in the future. Between the three of you, can your mother-in-law know how to cook?"

After driving away You Er and his wife, Chen Kai pointed out the other three supervisors. After hearing this, the three of them still didn't understand what it meant.

"Look at what Join the Army said, there's no mother-in-law who can't cook."

Supervisor Wang Fugui and the other two supervisors all looked flattering. However, when Chen Kai heard this, the question immediately popped up in his mind: "It's cool for a woman to not know how to cook." However,

He did not put it into words, but directly said to the three of them: "Let's do this for lunch today. In the afternoon, call your mother-in-law to prepare a dinner for the guards. I am not interested in knowing the specific division of labor.

, but there is one thing, everyone in the weapons workshop must be fed to me!"

Chen Kai made a bold statement, and was immediately greeted with cheers and thanksgiving from everyone, followed by another round of salutes, efforts, and formal remarks such as "This is what should be done."

Compared with those people who had the hope of having enough to eat, the three supervisors were also satisfied - after all, You Er pulled Hong Xu's tiger skin and did a great job. In addition to the rat whiskers, they could still make some money every month.

Apart from the pitiful hush money, the others didn't get any profit at all. Even if the benefits are greatly reduced because of Chen Kai's words, if there are three more people to share, the benefits will not be much, but the kitchen errands will still be there.

In terms of wages, there is another difference.

After allocating these things, the meal distribution returned to its original state. Although the food was still the same as before, and even a little colder, everyone's hearts felt a lot warmer, and at least they had hope of having enough to eat.

After taking care of the factory tyrant, Chen Kai let the boy who delivered the meal go back, and then returned to the office to have dinner. He also called over Ke Chenmei, who had just completed the eviction task.

"join the army."

From Chen joining the army to joining the army, the direct reporting lines between superiors and subordinates became clearer. Chen Kai smiled slightly and said to Ke Chenmei: "Come and try the skills of the chef of the general town government."

"I don't dare to do this in a humble position."

"It's just you and me here, no need to be formal. Could it be that your brother often brings some back from the main town house, and Brother Ke is tired of it?"

Chen Kai smiled and handed Ke Chenmei a pair of chopsticks, and the latter had to sit down a little uneasily. In comparison, Chen Kai seemed much more comfortable, commenting on the food while eating, and later even Ke Chenmei sat down.

Chen Mei was also embarrassed and had no choice but to eat along with Chen Kai.

This is a reward and also a win over. With Ke Chenshu's status, Ke Chenmei will be put to great use sooner or later. Here it is just to accumulate experience and qualifications. Now that Zheng Chenggong has sent this good fate to him

, if Chen Kai doesn’t continue, that would be called being short-sighted.

"Both the virtuous brothers show their talents, which makes people feel close to him. Your brother is very talented. In my opinion, Brother Ke is a great disgrace to his talents by guarding a workshop here."

"Joining the army is too honorable. There are many brothers in the humble position and I don't dare to think too much about it."

"Don't worry, I'm very good at judging people."

Chen Kai smiled and said, Ke Chenmei also immediately thought of You Er. He only met him once, and then he came over and attacked him directly. With such accuracy, his eyesight was indeed indispensable.

But Ke Chenmei didn't know that no matter what era, there were always a lot of people like You Er. Their methods were different, but in Chen Kai's view, there was no cat in the world that didn't steal fish, let alone

For someone as arrogant, domineering, and self-righteous as he is, it would be even easier to find fault with him.

Lunch time passed quickly, and the sound of tapping metal resounded in the workshop. Chen Kai and Ke Chenmei finished their meal and left the office room.

The guard was divided into two shifts, one for the day and one for the night. During the day, Ke Chenmei led the team, and at night, the deputy captain led the team to keep watch. When the two of them left the office, Ke Chenmei inspected the checkpoints at the gate, and

Chen Kai called a handyman over and helped him hold pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and followed him out of the yard and into the "factory area" of the workshop.

When he arrived at the "factory area", the supervisors, craftsmen, guards and handymen saluted again, which made Chen Kai very unaccustomed. Especially when he thought of the impact of these red tapes on work efficiency, he secretly made up his mind to wait until the appropriate time.

Always change the rules when necessary.

When work resumed, Chen Kai took the handyman to a blacksmith's shop, took a pen and paper, dipped them in the ink from the inkstone held by the handyman, and started writing and drawing.

"You continue to do your business, don't worry about me."

The blacksmith in this blacksmith shop is called Tang Quanyou, but he has a pockmarked face, which is very consistent with Chen Kai's image of the Liangshan hero Tang Long, a golden leopard. In the shop, in addition to Tang Quanyou, there is also one of his eldest son-in-law and a younger brother.

Son, the apprentice who was "touched and killed" by Chen Kai while receiving the meal was the latter.

At this moment, Chen Kai stood in front of the shop and stared at them at work. The three of them seemed extremely uncomfortable even under Chen Kai's orders. However, Chen Kai had been watching in front for a long time, and the three of them gradually became more and more aware of their work.

got used to it.

Blacksmithing is a laborious job. In the shop, the youngest son pulls the bellows, and the flames in the furnace start with a whistling sound. Chen Kai has heard someone say before that ancient blacksmiths can determine the temperature based on the color of the flame. This golden leopard is obviously

He has a good hand at this. According to the temperature of the furnace, Qian Baozi rhythmically controlled the rhythm of his son pulling the bellows. The iron material slowly turned red in the flame. When the iron material was as bright as a lamp, he held the pliers in his left hand to pull the bellows.

The iron clip was taken out and placed on the anvil, and a small hammer in the right hand was struck on one point.

The golden leopard struck with a small hammer, and then his son-in-law held a sledgehammer in both hands and struck the same point. Crisp and muffled sounds came one after another. The sweat of the naked blacksmiths splashed, and the original strips of iron were

The material also slowly changed its shape during the constant tapping.

"Heating, forging..."

Chen Kai silently recorded the general process while thinking about some areas that could be improved. The ink of the brush gradually dried up in the high temperature environment. Chen Kai turned his head and was about to dip some more ink. Unexpectedly, he was holding

The handyman holding the inkstone turned into the supervisor named Wang Fugui, and he was nodding and bowing to him at this moment.

"Supervisor Wang, you are a supervisor, not a handyman."

"I tell you to join the army. I just want to listen to the teachings of joining the army."

Wang Fugui had a flattering look on his face, but Chen Kai was dumbfounded. Seeing this, he smiled and said to the supervisor: "Well, I have a lesson, I wonder if Supervisor Wang is interested in hearing it?"

"I would like to thank you for joining the army and teaching me."

"Well, Supervisor Wang, listen up. I believe that only through division of labor and cooperation, and everyone doing their own thing well, can official duties be completed better."

After Chen Kai finished speaking, he didn't dip his toes in the ink and just stood there and looked at him. Wang Fugui savored the flavor of Chen Kai's words, but he quickly reacted and quickly apologized to Chen Kai and looked for him nearby.

A handyman came over to hold the inkstone and follow Chen Kai to wait on him.

"You are a smart person and easy to do."

Wang Fugui left in a hurry, and Chen Kai shook his head with a smile. Since he is in charge of the weapons workshop, it is necessary to cultivate cronies, but for a person like this, You Er will rely on You Er when he becomes powerful, and he will have nothing to do with him after he crushes the local snake.

He came over to flatter him without hesitation, but Chen Kai couldn't arouse much interest, at least he wouldn't let these people become his core confidants.

After the interlude, Chen Kai dipped his head in ink, and when he turned his head, the rough outline of a gun head began to appear. In ancient China, the size of the gun head tended to become smaller and smaller. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was popular among the military

The ones used are those willow-leaf guns whose heads are shaped like willow leaves.

The length of such a gun head is about three to four inches, and the gun blade is only about one and a half inches long. In comparison, the ones Chen Kai saw in TV series and movies were mostly deliberately made for visual effects.

For this reason. With such a length, the weight is naturally not more than one tael, and it has a thick spine and thin blade. As recorded in the famous military work "Zhen Ji" in the mid-Ming Dynasty, "The spear tip must be short, sharp and light, with no more than 2 taels."

Rate".

The forging was far from over, and the strips of iron were still slowly deforming. After Chen Kai observed it for a long time, he asked Tang Quanyou: "Doesn't the gun head need to be sharpened?"

Hearing Chen Kai's question, Tang Quanyou stopped quickly, raised his hands and replied: "If you want to join the army, the spear head only needs to be sharpened, but when making swords, it needs to be sharpened."

"oh."

A long gun is generally divided into three parts: the gun head, the gun barrel and the spear. The spear head and the spear shaft, to put it bluntly, are the sleeves at the end of the gun head and tail to fix the gun barrel. This thing is also made by a blacksmith. Chen Kai looked at it

Looking at the making of the gun head, he roughly understood the process, and the sword part still needed some time, so he turned to the carpenter's shed to observe the making of the gun barrel.

The carpenter's shed is even simpler than the blacksmith's shop. It is just a simple place built with bamboo and wood and covered with thatch. When Chen Kai came over, the carpenters also put down their work and saluted like blacksmiths.

Later, after Chen Kai explained again, he reluctantly returned to his original state.

"Why are they all bamboo, no white wax poles?"

This time, Chen Kai came up with the problem earlier than before. He clearly remembered that when he read books on the Internet, he always insisted that white wax rods were the best choice for making gun shafts. This kind of inertial thinking made Chen Kai subconsciously believe that

The gun shaft made of bamboo was not as tall as the white wax pole, so he immediately asked.

"When I join the army, the gun shafts in the army are all made of bamboo. Only civilian martial arts practitioners will use gun shafts made of pewter."

The carpenter's answer is not entirely true. There were armies in the Ming Dynasty that used white wax poles as gun shafts, such as the white pole soldiers of Shizhu Tusi.

However, the white-armed soldiers are a special case in the army. Even the record about the weapons of the white-armed soldiers in "Records of Manchuria" only uses the phrase "holding a spear with a five-foot-long bamboo handle, a sharp sword and a broad knife." Is Shizhu Tusi really

Carrying white wax poles in an array to fight against the Eight Banners of Manchuria itself was quite controversial.

In terms of material properties, the "Arm Record" even calls the white wax rod a stick because it is strong but not hard, soft but not broken, has strong flexibility, and has strong natural pulling force, which is obviously suitable for folk use.

Martial artists use this to better display their martial arts skills. In fact, even the theory that white wax poles are excellent gun materials was put forward by martial artists in later generations, but it was not the case in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and before the Ming Dynasty.

Recognized by the military.

Most of the guns used in the military are bamboo and other harder woods. For example, "Zhen Ji", "Lance Selection", "Weaponry" and other works have mentioned that bamboo is generally used for gun shafts in the south, and most of them are made of bamboo.

It is best to use seedling bamboo, which must undergo special processing. In the north, to prevent it from drying out, it must be tied with silk tendons, but it is best to use wood such as dense wood, or even a composite type such as bamboo and wood.

Material.

After listening to the carpenter's clumsy explanation about the texture of the material, Chen Kai immediately sweatdropped. It is best to discover such fallacies as early as possible. He is responsible for managing the weapons workshop. If it is true in the future

The use of pewter rods as gun shafts was ridiculed by others. Secondly, because the battlefield practicality of the weapons was lower than that of the Qing army and a large number of soldiers were killed, that was really a big deal.

Bamboo is self-contained, and there is no need to dismantle and process the logs to obtain the appropriate thickness like wood. The carpenters accurately checked the thickness when felling, and now cut out a length of about seven or eight feet (note) and processed it.

After necessary polishing, the gun head and Hongying can be fixed with holes.

After wandering around the factory for an afternoon, when it was time to finish work, the craftsmen had all completed their daily quotas. Chen Kai asked the supervisor to check the work, and after confirming the quality, he sealed it in the warehouse, and then gathered all the craftsmen again.

In the small courtyard.

"Seventeen craftsmen and more than twenty guards. There are not as many workers as there are security guards, and they are also drunk."

The craftsmen in the workshop include masters and apprentices, and can also be divided into blacksmiths and carpenters. This is already very primitive. At least Chen Kai did not see "high-tech talents" such as gunsmiths and gunsmiths. However,

It is not a bad thing to start everything from scratch and develop and grow bit by bit.

At this moment, the sun had begun to set towards the west and the sky was gradually getting dark. Chen Kai did not intend to waste too much time, so he loudly announced something to the craftsmen that they could not believe.

"I have just come to take office today, but everyone's hard work has been noticed by everyone. As a token of appreciation and encouragement, I will have a day off tomorrow and resume work as usual early the morning after tomorrow."

Note: There are different opinions on the length of spears in the army, but according to historical records and unearthed cultural relics, the spears used in the army from the Qin Dynasty to the later generations are generally between 2.10 and 2.60 meters, which translates to seven or eight meters.

The length of a foot. No matter how long it is, there are weapons that are one foot, two feet, one foot, five feet, or even two feet away, and there are many of them. However, these weapons will affect the technical and tactical movements of the soldiers because they are too long.
Chapter completed!