Daming Military Empire

Chapter 172
It is already very hot in Beijing during the daytime in June. This is undoubtedly a kind of torture for Zhu Cijiong, who is used to blowing air conditioners. In the past few years, his heartstrings were tense, and he was not in the mood to care about these things. Now, Daming has escaped the crisis and gradually moved towards prosperity. , his mood also relaxed. Once he relaxed, he couldn't stand this damn hot day.

Make air conditioners?That is impossible.

Make a fan?That is very simple.

Although he doesn't have a motor right now, and he doesn't have a place to connect it, but he has a steam piston, which actually has the same effect as a motor sometimes.

As an emperor, it was very easy for him to make something. He just drew a sketch and called Song Yingxing to explain a little. Come over, directly drive the piston and gear, and the impeller will spin up with a clatter.

The fan was made, but it was too noisy and had no cooling function, but it was not a problem for an emperor at all.He directly asked someone to set up a big shelf outside the window, and put ice cubes on the shelf, and the fan would blow on the ice cubes, blowing cold air in through the window, and then closing the other doors and windows, and the air-conditioned room was completed.

That day, he was taking Zheng Chenggong, Qin Mingyue, and Liu Rushi to read in the private study with the air conditioner on, when Cao Huachun suddenly came to report outside: "My Majesty, General Hou Shilu has a secret letter."

"Cengceng", Qin Mingyue and Liu Rushi, who were sitting on both sides of the big conference table reading, stood up like springs, pretended to run behind Zhu Cijiong and Zheng Chenggong with a small incense fan, and gently fanned them.Zhu Cijiong shook his head and smiled, then said loudly: "Come on."

Cao Huachun floated in with a whoosh, then quickly turned around and closed the door tightly, then walked up to Zhu Cijiong respectfully, and offered the secret letter with both hands.

This letter was requested by Zhu Cijiong. Hou Shilu would report to him in detail the situation in India every month. Of course, it is usually fine for him to lead an army of [-] to defend the city of Mysore. Shivira is the one who reports every time. And Conde's movements.

Zhu Cijiong checked the seal, then tore open the envelope, took out the letter paper and looked at it carefully.

He read the letter and murmured in his heart: "Well, these two guys are not bad, they have already conquered two small indigenous kingdoms, what, they even recruited dozens of Portuguese adventure teams to attack the Qutb Shahi Dynasty! Business Here we come, business is coming!"

Zhu Cijiong didn’t think they would buy weapons before attacking the Qutb Shahi Dynasty. If they wanted to buy weapons, they would not recruit so many adventurers. What he valued was the arms market after the Qutb Shahi Dynasty was conquered. .

Daming’s muskets and cannons are so good, those adventurers will definitely be tempted to buy some, this is not the main thing, you have to know that these adventurers are running around all over the world, they are like a group of mobile live advertisements, probably won’t be used How long will the garrisons and adventurers in all the overseas territories of Portugal know that their allies, the Ming Empire, have excellent muskets and cannons for sale, and at that time, business will be booming!

The business is booming, so the output is a big problem. Now the Wang Gong factory is rushing to produce 20 revolver semi-automatic rifles and revolvers for the navy. Even if it can produce [-] a month, it will not be ready until the beginning of next year. After this batch of guns is produced, there are still so many legionary cavalry to be equipped. It can be said that according to the current output, it will not be able to finish next year's Chinese New Year. How can there be time to produce guns for export!

In order to increase production, new machine tools must be built, but now the Wang Gong factory can no longer accommodate new machine tools, so should we build a new factory?When building a new factory, site issues, personnel recruitment issues, and management issues must all be considered. After considering and considering going to Zhu Cijiong, many serious issues have to be considered: overstaffed organization, overstaffed, overstaffed, and low efficiency.

In the absence of competition, the bigger the factory is, the more serious these problems will be. In the previous life, many companies closed down, how many companies were restructured, and many others could not be closed down or restructured due to various reasons. The final result is not only no profit. Money, countless money will be poured into it every year.

To avoid this situation, the only way to avoid this situation is to introduce a competition mechanism. There is competition, there is motivation, and there is competition, there is vitality. In connection with the policy of vigorously developing the private economy that he has recently considered, he came up with an idea, that is, part of the Wang Gong factory The parts are taken out for outsourcing processing.

This outsourcing involves many levels. First of all, you have to have a local outsourcing. Now all the firearm parts of Wang Gong Factory are processed by machine tools, but except for Wang Gong Factory, now Daming and even the whole world have Where can a machine tool without steam power be processed?This involves vigorously developing the private economy. Zhu Cijiong plans to select model workers in the Wang Gong factory, and select a few every month. After the selection, he will give them loans, equip them with machine tools, and let them build their own small factories to produce for the Wang Gong factory. Gun parts, as long as these parts are qualified, Wang Gong will buy them at market prices.In this way, not only the production of firearms has increased, but also the enthusiasm of the workers has been mobilized. Who doesn’t want to be a boss to make a lot of money, and after becoming a boss, he will definitely work harder to make money. Based on this alone, the efficiency of tea production will be significantly improved.

Then, in order to keep it secret, the core parts can’t be taken out for processing naturally, only those parts that are more time-consuming and not very core can be taken out for processing, such as the barrel, a barrel, it takes a quarter of an hour to form the outer wall car, It takes another quarter of an hour to drill the hole, another quarter of an hour to smooth the inner wall, and almost a quarter of an hour to draw the rifling, which means that one person can work five hours a day without producing ten barrels.The workload of this gun barrel processing is almost half of the total workload of the entire firearms, that is to say, as long as the barrels are taken out for outsourcing, the output of firearms can be doubled immediately.And the barrel is not the core of the flintlock gun. Without the flintlock device, the barrel is just a beautiful iron rod, so there is no need to worry about technical leaks at all.

Of course, there are many other problems in the outsourcing association, but Zhu Cijiong doesn't have to worry about these. Once the workers become their own bosses, he will worry more than you!

Arms orders will soon be pouring in like snowflakes. This matter should not be delayed. After careful consideration, Zhu Cijiong immediately issued an order to ask the Ministry of Industry to prepare new machine tools and new boilers, and immediately began to select model workers at Wang Gong Factory. The first batch Come more, first select ten or eight, and cover all the outsourcing of the barrel.

In addition, you can't just wait for people to order, like revolver semi-automatic rifles, revolvers have to be advertised, these two things will definitely sell for a higher price, but the premise is that people know that you have this thing!
This advertisement is very simple. Zhu Cijiong asked people to directly choose two revolver semi-automatic rifles and two revolvers, inlaid a gold thread dragon scale pattern on the buttstock, and then equipped each gun with five revolvers and one hundred rounds. Put the bullets in a beautiful sandalwood box, and send a hundred brocade guards directly to India to give them to Shivela and Kong Dede. They say this is the first commemorative edition of the new firearms, and they are only for sale. Please order if you want to buy , 200 taels of revolvers, 400 taels of revolver semi-automatic rifles, delivery within one month.

As for these Jinyiwei, they were actually sent as spies. When southern India stabilizes, economic colonization will begin, and the first work must be done well.

At that time in the Ming Dynasty, the speed of shipping was incomparable with modern times, so the hundred Jinyiwei arrived in India more than a month later. At this time, Shivira and Kundede had already won the Qutb Shahi Dynasty, and they were crazy with a group of adventurer leaders To celebrate.Even if Zhu Cijiong didn't send these [-] Jinyiwei over, they would probably ask Hou Shilu to order arms in a few days.

When a hundred royal guards appeared in front of Shi Weila, he was so excited. His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty actually sent someone to give him a gift. What an honor it is!When he opened the sandalwood box, all the adventurers were overwhelmed with excitement. Such an exquisite firearm is really unheard of and never seen before!
Under the strong request of the leaders of the adventurers, Jinyiwei Qianhu, who led the team, demonstrated the power of the revolver to them on the spot. He did not use Shivela's one. Due to the special nature of the work of this team, Jinyiwei can be regarded as The shotguns were changed, and each was given a revolver.

I saw this Jin Yiwei Qianhu quickly pulled out his revolver from his waist, and "slapped" six shots at a half-man's thick pillar twenty or thirty steps away. , He opened the fastener again and took out the runner, pinned it on his waist, took out another runner and installed it, closed the fastener with a click, and fired another six shots at the other column with a different front and back. By 1 minute, a total of twelve shots had been fired!

Now these adventurer bosses almost went crazy, such a fast rate of fire, such a convenient operation, what a bargain, this is simply an invincible artifact in melee combat!Facing the natives, unless it was a large-scale battle, they would rarely be attacked from a long range, and these adventurers had very few opportunities to participate in large-scale battles, so they fell in love with the revolver at first sight.

After a brief silence, all the adventurer leaders present began to frantically order revolvers, at least a hundred. They just followed Shivela and Conded to build a huge empire, and each of them divided at least more than 200 taels, [-] It's a bargain for two.

A leader of adventurers with only 150 men directly ordered 100 pistols. The leader next to him couldn't help asking curiously: "Don't you have more than [-] men under your command? Why did you order so many pistols?"

The boss said contemptuously: "You know what a fart, this gun doesn't need both hands to operate, with a Doraphone in one hand, ten or so enemies don't even want to get close!"

As a result, orders for revolvers nearly doubled.

Shivela and Conde are not as extreme as they are. Revolvers are good, but they are not very useful in large-scale battles. No one of them has ordered more than 1000 of them, which are used for artillery and officer protection; revolver semi-automatic rifles They like Weili very much, but their rifles are already fully equipped, so no one only ordered a thousand, just to strengthen their firepower; after that, they will probably focus on defending the city for a long time, so they Another person ordered [-] grenades and [-] landmines; in addition, they used almost the same amount of ammunition, and ordered a batch of ammunition by the way.

After this trip, there are nearly 2 revolvers, 1000 revolver semi-automatic rifles, plus [-] ammunition, [-] grenades, [-] landmines, and a total of nearly [-] million taels. This arms business It's like stealing money!
Of course, this is just the beginning. When these adventurers go to the territories of other Portuguese governors, there will be more orders!

(End of this chapter)