This should be the original residence of a wealthy businessman in Yan'an Prefecture.
After Catherine walked into the heavily guarded gate, she looked at the open space inside the gate and was slightly lost in thought. It could be seen that these open spaces should have been planted with some flowers and plants, and even some broken pieces.
There are traces of stone-paved paths, but in this empty land at this moment, these things that were originally on the land do not exist, leaving only a path leading directly inside.
"Is this a shooting range?"
She hesitated for a moment and asked Jiang Wan beside her tentatively.
"It's okay to call it a shooting range, but the name of the workshop is a test shooting range. Once a musket is made, I don't want it to break after being shot ten or twenty times. So, I will keep a good musket here.
Break them and see how many times they can be fired in total, and which part breaks first. In this way, the army will have an idea when using these muskets, and the workshop can also make improvements based on the defects revealed by these test firings!
"
Catherine nodded. She had also been to the firearms workshop in Hao Jing'ao, but it seemed that their Franco machine gun manufacturing was not so particular.
Someone hurriedly walked over from a distance. Apparently the news of Jiang Wan's arrival had alarmed the people in the workshop. However, when the leader walked in front of Jiang Wan, Jiang Wan frowned slightly - the person who came was not...
Not Zhao Yuan.
"Master Jiang, our master is developing and improving firearms, and there is no time to greet Master Jiang, so disciple Chen Xi will do it for you!"
"I've seen you at the Ministry of Industry in the capital!" Jiang Wan pointed to the place: "You were the one who almost shot me face to face at that time..."
"Your Excellency, you still remember this..." Chen Xi, Zhao Yuan's disciple, suddenly looked embarrassed: "That was the master's test firing, and the disciple only followed his old man's order!"
"It's okay, I'm not dead!" Jiang Wan laughed and explained to Catherine: "The only people in the world who still attack me are the master and the apprentice..."
Catherine looked at Chen Xi with interest, her eyes were like a knife, running up and down Chen Xi's body, and then a smile broke out on her face: "You are indeed lucky!"
Chen Xi broke out in a cold sweat on the spot. It's okay for Mr. Jiang to joke, but this Catherine is in charge of the money and food allocation for the workshop. If this is true, she feels that she is disrespectful to Mr. Jiang, and based on the virtue of this woman who has come all the way to join Mr. Jiang.
, will the firearms workshop still have good fruits to eat from now on?
Ha ha ha ha!
Jiang Wan saw the other party's embarrassment and laughed: "It's just a joke. Since you are in charge of the workshop today, show us around. Miss Catherine wants to see where the thousands of taels of silver he appropriated go."
I couldn’t explain it to him, so I had to come and take her to see it myself!”
"Okay, Mr. Jiang, Miss Catherine, please come with me!"
Chen Xi wiped his sweat and led them towards the workshop: "According to my master's plan, the entire firearms workshop has built eleven furnaces, including the furnace for smelting refined iron in the future. You must know that this firearm is actually
Ironware, how to smelt fine iron, and how to make these fine irons into the firearms we want, among which a good stove costs a lot of money..."
In what was originally the courtyard, there were many low-rise houses scattered one after another. At this moment, people were busy in these houses.
"The workshop in Yan'an Prefecture has recruited more than a hundred apprentices of various kinds. Some of these people have no foundation at all. It takes a lot of time to teach them some basic things from scratch, but these people have room and board in the workshop, and even
It costs a lot to pay wages!"
"The workshop currently lacks enough materials and some equipment, so it is not fully operational. Master's intention is to lead apprentices now, and then tinker with them, thinking about ways to improve some of the existing firearms. Last time Xu
Your Excellency hopes that the workshop can quickly produce a batch of simple firearms that can be used in the military, not necessarily sharp weapons such as muskets. However, Master refused, saying that he came to Yan'an Mansion and did not make these junk things, but let Master Xu
I was very unhappy at the time!”
"I've heard about this!" Jiang Wan nodded: "If you don't want to make it, don't make it. I don't care about these junk things!"
"However, Master Tiger Crouching Cannon still plans to make some, but there are too few iron ingots at the moment. The iron tools sent are small in quantity and of poor quality. There is not much refined iron that can be refined to make cannons. If possible, Master
I hope the 5,000th household will pay more attention to this aspect..."
Jiang Wan nodded slightly, and Catherine listened very seriously. Now she was really participating in Jiang Wan's army building. She no longer had a stay-away mentality, and naturally paid attention to more things.
A personal guard hurriedly walked up from behind and whispered something in Jiang Wan's ear. Jiang Wan was slightly startled: "When did it happen?"
"Just now!" the guard said softly.
Jiang Wan glanced at Catherine and was a little hesitant, but Catherine smiled at him: "If you have something important, just go and take care of it first. I have them here with me, but I don't necessarily need you."
Stay with me here!"
"Then when you're done with your work here, come to me and let's eat together!" Jiang Wan nodded: "Although it's not easy to grow those sweet potatoes, you brought them all the way here, so it's not too much for us to taste a little freshness.
Bar!"
"If you want to give it up, then of course I won't be polite!" Catherine laughed: "However, I remind you, the taste of that food is not very good, that is, it will not kill you if you eat it!"
"That's because you don't know how to eat!" Jiang Wan chuckled: "Let's go, see you later!"
When they were talking, Chen Xi had already stopped talking. When Jiang Wan left, he said sincerely: "Master Jiang really respects you, Miss Catherine!"
"Oh, compared with Mr. Xu!" Catherine smiled and turned her head: "I heard that before I came to Yan'an Mansion, Mr. Jiang and Mr. Xu were inseparable. Is there such a thing?"
"This, this is different..." Chen Xi stuttered a little: "I'll take Miss Catherine to the cannon-making workshop to have a look. Our first Tiger Crouching Cannon has been built..."
"Haha!" Catherine chuckled twice and nodded slightly: "I can't even ask how this firearms workshop spends money. It must be so secretive. This cannon maker must be so secretive.
I really need to take a closer look at the workshop, we can’t let some people waste the hard-earned money of our fifth thousand family!”
"This..." Chen Xi wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and complained about his master in his heart. He had made up his mind. If Catherine came to the firearms workshop again in the future, he would never show up, even if he was killed.
The master threatened to be a target, but he stopped coming to receive him.