At the dock in Nan'ao, Li Yuan boarded the ship with a bag of grain on his back, then got off the ship, went to the warehouse to receive the wooden chips for calculating wages, pinned it on his waist, kicked it in his arms, and then carried the grain again and boarded the ship.

, back and forth.

After a long time, the sea-going ship sailed away from the dock and gradually disappeared into the sea and sky. During this period, Nan'ao Island was still the same Nan'ao Island. What was missing was just those sea-going ships, just like every time they went out to sea for sea trade.

Same.

The ship set sail, and Zheng Chenggong also issued a new order—from now on, the general’s camp and every town will begin to implement the ten-day rest system that the weapons workshop had already started. Of course, it is limited to ten-day rest.

, other benefits of the weapons workshop were not copied over, and why is unknown.

However, with the implementation of the ten-day holiday system, the people who were eating official meals on Nan'ao Island were all cheering. In private, there were many rumors that it was Chen Kai who suggested it to Zheng Chenggong, which also gave Chen Kai a lot of invisible gains.

Chen Kai received little praise and gratitude. In this regard, Chen Kai did not comment, but continued to strengthen the production capacity of the weapons workshop in accordance with his established direction.

When gun craftsmen arrived, they all brought the tools for making bird guns. As far as the current craftsmanship is concerned, the firearms in the middle and late Ming Dynasty were influenced by the West, and fire guns were not as "big guns" as they were before.

Instead of using copper for casting, small blunderbuss should be forged with iron, it is forged by rolled tubes. This is actually not much different from Europe and Japan in terms of technology.

Chen Kai has seen the technical level of these craftsmen. Generally speaking, they are uneven, but at least they can be built independently and the finished products can be used normally.

After these few days, the finished products are already available. Basically, they are still the style of blunderbuss that was popularized in the army by Qi Jiguang during his war against Japanese invaders and the Ming Dynasty after that. The power is not beyond Chen Kai's expectation, with a few grams.

The lead bullets, the relative charge, and the lethality of effectively breaking armor within dozens of steps.

Compared with the walking bow, the advantages in range and lethality are not big, but regardless of future development trends, the advantages of the fire gun are already extremely high in terms of the training time of the manufacturing craftsmen and the molding speed of the finished products.

It's huge.

Chen Kai remembered that in the past, you could always see comparisons about the advantages and disadvantages of firecrackers and bows and arrows on the Internet. Later, someone even made up a jingle.

Among them, "the assembly line of the musket industry, a longbow lasts three summers and winters", "small projectiles, round and round, the molten lead of the high tower is like an egg; small arrowheads, long and sharp, a pot of long arrows can be made for several days", what they say is

The advantages and disadvantages of production speed. For example, "A musketry attack is like diarrhea. A batch of line soldiers in March is worth sixpence each. It is not a pity to recruit the soldiers after they are dead."

"Malnutrition and disease make it difficult for substitutes to recruit", which explains the training cycle clearly. In terms of power, it is also indispensable: "Musketeers, sitting like a bell, can pierce golden bells with their fingers; playing with bows and crossbows depends entirely on strength.

"My arms are weak and the arrow falls to the ground" and "Black gunpowder comes from the east, and the lead shot flies out of the armor, which is difficult to stop; when the bow is fully drawn, the arrow is like a glow, and when it encounters the shield and armor, it is called my mother."

To put it bluntly, it takes a long time to cultivate an excellent bow craftsman. However, the Jiajing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty first imitated bird guns and produced tens of thousands of them to equip the troops. This is evident from this. In the same way, a

The training time of an infantry archer may take up to a year, or even many years. After years of hard work, an infantry archer who has been carefully trained may very well be beaten by a gunman who has only been trained for three months on the battlefield.

Shot to death.

Which one is better or worse, no need to say more.

However, due to the level of technology, it took an extremely long time for muskets to completely replace bows and arrows. As far as the actual situation is concerned, in today's continental Europe, firecrackers are the real mainstream, and the Chinese battlefield is still going through this process.

Among Zheng Chenggong's armies alone, only Qinding Town currently has a gunman establishment. In the final analysis, the number of weapons is too small. This burden naturally falls on Chen Kai.

After detailed observation, Chen Kai had a detailed understanding of the manufacturing process of gunshots. It is undeniable that the professionalism involved is indeed very strong. If nothing else, just the names of the parts, Chen Kai looked at Qi Jiguang's "Chronicles".

After reading the "New Book on Effectiveness" and "Records of Military Training" for a long time, I could barely write them down. Only then did the communication with the craftsmen lose that layer of obstacles.

Generally speaking, a bird gun is divided into a gun body, an enemy dragon, a stick, a gun stand and a human face bracket. These things respectively correspond to what later generations or the West would call the barrel, trigger, and gun bar.

Handguard and butt.

This is the main structure. The gun body has front and rear sights, a muzzle, a fire door and a fire door cover. The enemy dragon also has a dragon head, a dragon tail, a match rope, a dragon tail pin, an iron bar foldback, an upper folding bar, and a lower folding bar.

There are small parts such as pillars and wrenching pins on the gun stand, which are used to fix the gun body and the gun stand. To make a bird gun, it is not just as simple as rolling up a barrel.

After Chen Kai carefully observed and thought about it, he finally even invited the gun craftsmen and carpenters to have a meeting to study together. Finally, it was decided that the gun craftsmen would build the gun body and the enemy dragon, and the carpenters would make the gun body according to the requirements afterwards.

and the size of the enemy dragon to create the division of labor and processes of other main components.

Division of labor is one of Chen Kai's surefire skills that he relies on to improve production efficiency. It's like the reason why assembly line workers are so efficient is because they do one thing mechanically, with higher muscle memory and proficiency.

Of course, going one step further, Chen Kai has not never thought about standardized assembly line operations in the true sense. However, with the industrial foundation of such a handicraft industry, it cannot even guarantee standardization, let alone other things.

This still requires a lot of time to run in and coordinate. Chen Kai is not in a hurry about this, because the materials used for bird guns are more stringent than ordinary cold weapons, and refined iron is required to withstand the chamber pressure. Raw materials are scarce, and Chen Kai

Kai was also powerless, so Zheng Chenggong could only choose such an island that did not produce iron ore as his base for the time being.

Zheng Chenggong returned to his army this time and took over Dongshan Island, a South Fujian island not far from Nan'ao Island that was almost ignored, and sent troops to guard Qianhu Station in Tongshan there to rule it.

It is the second largest island in Fujian, covering an area nearly twice as large as Nan'ao Island. There are a large number of salt fields that can be developed and are in use, which is a big benefit to Zheng Chenggong.

However, what makes Chen Kai a little disappointed is that in later generations, Dongshan Island relied on agriculture, forestry, fishery, glass industry and tourism as the regional economic pillars. Now it only has agriculture and fishery. In addition to the wood on the island, shells and isinglass from the sea.

It has something to do with the weapons workshop.
Chapter completed!