He moved quickly overnight, and it was the second half of the night when he arrived in Yiliang. It was a bit inappropriate to go to the arsenal at this time. He suppressed his anxiety and Yang Meng returned to Yiliang's manor with exhausted people...

"Master, I came back in such a hurry, but what big thing happened?"

The third master returned home and made the back house full of chaos. Lian'er, who was sleepy, asked softly, but Yang Meng smiled bitterly.

"Hi! The business on Xishan is not doing well. I am anxious about Yiliang's affairs and want to come back and take a look."

"Master, I'm so anxious that I can't eat hot tofu. It's better to let some things go naturally!"

It is not easy to say this from Lian'er's mouth. In Yang Meng's heart, Lian'er is not a virtuous supporter. Her biggest role is to connect the Pan Yang family. If you want to talk about feelings, the relationship between him and Lian'er is not as good as Wei Zhiqing and Tang Meiyi!

In Yang Meng's heart, the beautiful Lian'er looked like a toy like a wife. If you count it carefully, Tiffany on the turret of the West Mountain is much stronger than Lian'er's presence. Most of his favor for Lian'er was due to maintaining the relationship between Pan and Yang families.

I was anxious and couldn't eat hot tofu. Lian'er said this in time. Many things cannot be accomplished overnight. Xishan is an example. No matter how anxious I am, Xishan's development speed is still a certain level. What I said today will bring about results tomorrow. This is impossible.

There is still a long way to go to the introduction of machinery and equipment. An order arrives in half a year, which is the fastest speed. If you want a result, it is also based on the half-year period. What's the use of being anxious? Let it go naturally, it is a good way.

"Yo... it's not easy to say this from the third lady? Are you enlightened?"

Lian'er's words dispelled Yang Meng's feeling of panic in his heart and became calm. Yang Meng leaned on the chair and began to tease Lian'er.

"Master...you know how to make fun of others. Last time I returned to Guangdong to visit my relatives, I told my mother about Yunnan. My mother asked me to share more things for you.

Now, Mei Yi has gone to western Yunnan to do business for me. Zhiqing has been with me all the time. I am the only one who stays at the manor and does nothing. These days when I come to Beijing, I am also learning things with Taichen!

Lian'er does not have the ability of Mei Yi, and can control the tribe in western Yunnan for his master, nor does he have the knowledge of Zhiqing. He follows his master and helps him solve his problems. All Lian'er can do now is Anding Manor."

Lian'er was talking while wiping her tears, and she really looked like a resentful woman.

"Well! Not bad! You are determined, but the acting is really not very good. Let's do it! I'll say hello to Taichen tomorrow, so don't try hard in the back house.

There are many women from the farmers and tenants in Yiliangzhuang, and there are many people who stay at home and stay at home without going out. You should be responsible for calling them out to work! I will lend you Zhiqing for a few days. If you don’t understand something, learn from Zhiqing.”

He sent Tang Meiyi to western Yunnan and took Wei Zhiqing with him, and also neglected Lian'er. The little girl said this not to share her worries, but to compete for favor. This is not a good sign. Now she is thinking about competing for favor. It is not impossible for her back home to be full of smoke.

Arrange some things for Lian'er, and focus on her competing for favor. If you have something to do, you can click her a few times from time to time. Such thoughts will be less.

"Master..."

After being revealed, Lian'er was very reluctant to do so. Now when she looked at this little girl, she didn't look sleepy? She clearly looked like a little fox.

"Come here! When acting again, think more about how to deceive me and make a resentment. I don't like to listen. As a punishment, I will test your poses!"

"Master...how did you know how to slap others? This is the main hall! Besides, I am the wife of my main wife!"

As soon as she heard what Yang Meng said, Lian'er immediately turned into an ostrich. She had never done this before. If the people in the back home saw it, she would not do it, as the third lady.

"Madam, the wife of the wife? That's my wife too! Be quick!"

Sometimes, some things, as long as they are used correctly, are also a means. Lian'er regards her identity too high, and her main wife is nothing in Yang Meng's eyes.

"Okay... OK!"

Lian'er's glutinous rice teeth bit her lips, and responded half-pushed and stumbled to close the main hall door. Lian'er then moved to Yang Meng step by step and bent down gently.

"Don't use teeth, that's it..."

The hall was accompanied by Lian'er's exclamations and strange screams from time to time, and the ridiculous night passed quickly.

"Taichen, I brought back a few old horses. I want to use the remaining strong horses. Other strong horses will be assigned to the horse farms everywhere and matched with the best horses. After a while, there may be foreign horses coming over in Guangzhou, and you have to arrange them.

The uncle told him that no matter what the cost, he would have to get thousands of Hequ horses and Mongolian horses in the past few months. People who could train horses and raise horses in various parts of the Qing Dynasty should also seize the time to get a batch of horses.

Also, Mrs. Lian'er, don't let her mess up in the back house, let her come forward and encourage the women from the tenant family in Yiliangzhuang to come out to work. You can place some suitable and cautious staff and help her.

Don’t treat this as a small matter. This is not a small matter. Some business is not much worse than men. If these people don’t want to show up in public, just open a few women’s factories for Mrs. Lian’er. The specific regulations will be created by you, Zhiqing and Minghu Academy.”

Good horses are the basis of cavalry. In this era, the mobile surname of cavalry should be the best. Good horses are also indispensable for Yunnan, just like muskets and cannons.

As for female workers, it is even more important. Many poor girls have come out to work, but most families do not agree with the women at home to work. For families with some family background, the women at home have almost no other business except washing, cooking and taking care of children.

Let Lian'er go out to set an example and slowly drag some women out to work. It is a great thing for those families and the development of Yunnan.

"I understand. Third Master, here I..."

"Is there something wrong? If it doesn't matter, I'll talk about it in a few days. I'll take a look at the arsenal in the next few days!"

Ding Taichen was just about to report, but was interrupted by Yang Meng. Although Lian'er's tips last night made Yang Meng feel much more at ease, he still had great expectations for the arsenal.

Yang Mengbuqiu's arsenal can now manufacture rifles and artillery in batches, but the Colt revolver still needs mass production. Although this thing is much less powerful than a rifle, its effective range is not much different from that of a rifle.

Once it is time for melee combat, the revolver fires six bullets, and the rifle can only fire one shot, and one gun hits six people, charge, melee, hand-to-hand combat. In this mode, no one in Yunnan will be afraid of land battles.

When he went to the arsenal with Ding Taichen, Howard gave Yang Meng a pretty good news, three hundred revolvers and fifty rifles a month, the result was quite unsatisfactory.

"General Yang, because of your quenching technology, the quality of the products produced by the Qing Arsenal has exceeded that of Miligan's local products. If we follow the quenching method of Miligan, our output can be increased by another thousand.

Moreover, the efficiency of this arsenal is much higher than that of Miligan. Can I send these new methods to Mr. Colt?"

Any advantage has its disadvantages. Although Xishan's quenching method has good results, it also slows down the production efficiency of the arsenal. Howard asked this and wanted to use the original quenching method.

Although the new quenching method improves the quality of the gun body, it also increases the cost. The cost of the new gun in the Qing Dynasty is 15 times that of the Miligan factory. Compared with the entire gun, it is somewhat irrelevant whether such a quenching method is adopted or not.

After all, as an arsenal, more sales are the purpose, and the durability of firearms is almost done, so there is no need to pay too much attention to it.

"No! Just use the new quenching method! The better the quality of the gun, the more durable it is, which is my standard. As for the cost, don't care.

However, the current methods and past methods must be familiar with the workers. The firearms produced now are the equipment I want to use for myself. If sold, the previous technology will be used.

As for technology sharing, it is not impossible, but we have taken out something, should Colt have something useful?”

Firearms are the second life of soldiers, so naturally the more durable the better. The 50% difference in cost is still acceptable to Yang Meng. This batch of revolvers is something that Yang Meng wants to equip the new army in large quantities.

With a quantity of nearly 100,000, as long as this batch of revolvers can take several more months, the cost gap of 50% is nothing.

Yang Meng did not refuse the idea proposed by Howard, and used the best one himself. If you take out food in the future, of course, the lower the cost, the better.

As for sharing technology with the Colt Arsenal in Miligan, such quenching method and production process are not very important technologies. Using this as a condition for technology sharing is considered a disadvantage for Yiliang Arsenal.

"Oh...this is certain. Our technology is shared with the local Militar factory.

A few days ago, Mr. Colt went to Europe and he got a few of the world's advanced gun samples, and the samples we gave us had already arrived.

There is also the technology of making rifles. Mr. Colt also sent someone to bring them over. During this period, I was thinking about expanding the scale of the gun manufacturing plant!"

This is the benefit of the Militarists. They are loyal to their work. Although they are serving Yunnan, Howard has no intention of being prepared and said whatever he wants. Of course, this is also inseparable from the huge reward Yang Meng promised him.

"Well! Not bad! Don't rush to start production of rifles. I'll take a look at the types of rifles first.

As for Colt 1847, your output is a bit low. Three hundred pieces are not the output I want. Thirty thousand pieces a month is the production scale I want.

The current group of workers must have become familiar with the manufacturing of firearms? Starting from tomorrow, the production scale of revolver will be expanded by 100 times!

Taichen, if you arrange the manpower, let men do what is suitable for men and women, try to let women do it! Isn’t the third lady going to hire female workers? These two things are done together.

Technical workers also have to bring apprentices, and in large quantities, the scale of gun factories will be expanded by a hundred times, and the scale of these apprentices will be expanded by three or five hundred times!"

One hundred times! Three or five hundred times! This is not only a bit incredible to Howard, but also to Ding Taichen. The current arsenal has a scale of nearly a thousand people, not to mention three or five hundred times, even one hundred times, that's impossible! One hundred thousand people! This number is too huge for Yiliang!

"Third Master..."

"General Yang..."

"Don't say it, just follow what I said! If there is not enough manpower, recruit people from other places in Yunnan. The strong farming laborers can give them horses and cattle as compensation.

Taichen, you are also urging Minghu Academy to use some farm tools and livestock on the farm. Tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of strong labor can be saved by using livestock and farm tools.

Howard, you have to systematically get the production process of firearms and sort out the processes of each link for me. The newly recruited group of people is enough to be familiar with one link.

Of course, I didn’t let you achieve this one hundred times immediately, it’s not like this one! Within a year, the production of the revolver must reach 30,000 per month!”

Yang Meng also knew that this was a blind command, but it was also a helpless move! He didn't have much time left. Once the Qing Dynasty riots, an army of tens of thousands of people would not be enough.

Regardless of whether they can complete it or not, put the burden on them first!

"Howard, take me a look at the rifle that Colt sent me!"

Yang Meng did not give the two a chance to complain, so he directly ordered Howard to take him to see the rifle.

"General Yang, this is the batch of rifles sent by Mr. Colt. These are almost all the most advanced goods in various countries."

Nearly a hundred rifles were displayed in a large workshop, with a few rifles in sight. When Yang Meng saw them, his eyes narrowed.

"Try the gun!"

Yang Meng did not give Howard a chance to explain, how was the gun? After trying it, he realized that those familiar things were what Yang Meng was most concerned about.

After trying more than 100 rifles one by one, Yang Meng kept asking Ding Taichen to record something.

Since the Iron-shelled Ship, Yang Meng feels that he has encountered a big era. These 100 rifles, in terms of range and lethality, are not comparable to those of Brown Beth.

Yang Meng looked at the bounce point at a few front-mounted rifles, at least about five or six hundred meters. Such rifles can no longer be called muskets. Their power is comparable to modern rifles.

"Haha... Is the gun installed afterwards! Is the great era coming?" (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!