Listening to Min Yuanqi's comforting words, Shen Yong agreed with his fists, but he frowned. At least from his appearance, the craftsman leader was not very confident.

Min Yuanqi looked at the bramble in front of him, and was still quite satisfied.

The thickness should be 30% to 40% higher than that of ordinary braids, and the cold metal iron sheets are very textured.

It can even be said that it is not a small piece of iron, but is densely packed like marijuana pieces.

Hemp ropes are also specially made, and there are unique tricks to wear armor.

Minimize the exposed hemp rope as much as possible to avoid a large number of armor leaves falling down after being scratched by the knife.

The mahjong mat-like armor leaves are also as dense as possible. Although they are not as layered as iron scale armor, there are not many gaps exposed.

Min Yuanqi called Chen Liang, who had run to the workshop to wait, and asked him to put on a collar and become a model on the spot.

Chen Liang did not refuse, and with the help of Li Junsun and others, he quickly put his armor on his body.

"Okay, what a majestic fighter!"

Even though Min Yuanqi had a few iron armor under his command, he couldn't help but lit up when he saw the Shen Liang in front of him, and even laughed happily.

Everyone who followed also smiled, especially Li Junsun and other martial artists were extremely happy.

The armor in front of me was also polished very brightly. After being paired with a trouser, a stern, arm protection, heart protection, and shin protection, a majestic iron man appeared in front of everyone.

"A year later..."

Min Yuanqi also felt a little fascinated.

Even according to the current plan, there will be two thousand armors within a year, and even more.

As long as there is a slight savings in money, Min Yuanqi will definitely increase the efforts of craftsmen to hire, increase manpower, expand the scene, and hoard the iron and steel. As long as it is necessary to build weapons and armor, it will definitely be given priority to reserve and purchase.

In fact, even in the occupied areas and semi-occupied areas like Henan and Shandong, economic activities and material exchanges have not completely stopped. There are even some material transactions, such as salt, grain and other materials, which are much more active than before.

Because the economy of the war zone has been severely damaged, it takes time to resume production. For a long time, whether it is a gentry, landlord or ordinary people, the demand for purchasing food and related materials will be much greater than usual.

The business roads opened by the Zhu family to Henan and Shandong are believed to increase greatly in a short period of time, and it depends on the situation of the war.

However, even if it is more optimistic, Min Yuanqi feels that the armored rate within one year can only satisfy the first battalion of soldiers.

All the staff were wearing armor, and the iron man in front of him could not see the edge at first sight...

Min Yuanqi's eyes went from bright to dark, and it was obvious that it was an unrealistic delusion for all members to assemble iron armor.

Even in Liao Town during the heyday of the Ming army, the 100,000 troops on the books were actually enough to wear armor, and most of them were Mianjia, namely Li Chengliang's 8,000 cavalrymen.

Later, Liao Town, which was supported by the Ming Dynasty, had 30,000 or 4 million yuan in military pay a year. The war-capable soldiers raised by Wu Sangui were the most powerful period, and there were only more than 30,000 soldiers.

Moreover, the most important thing in the Wu family is still Needing, that is, the cavalry mainly composed of the Iron Cavalry Camp, and not all of those cavalry were equipped with iron armor.

The Ming Dynasty produced more than a few thousand iron armors in a year, but the "heroes" were 2 million. Even if other towns did not give them much armor, even if the nine sides were allocated, the generals would hoard a batch and damage a batch. Even if they were not assigned to battalions, they would not be assigned to cannon fodder. There were dozens of generals in each town, each with hundreds of Need and personal cavalry. If everyone had armor, they could only dream.

If Min Yuanqi was an ordinary general, he would have two or three thousand elite soldiers wearing iron armor as the base, plus tens of thousands of battalions who had been passing by for tens of thousands or more than tens of thousands of cannon fodders. He would usually be a baggage chef and pull up the knife head in wartime. As long as he controls his confidant generals and elite soldiers properly, he would have a structure of a general in the town.

Even if you can't defeat the Ming army such as Wu Sangui and Sanshun, or the elite bandits, it is enough to deal with ordinary Ming army and bandits.

But if I want to conquer the Qing army, especially against the strongest Manchu Eight Banner elites of this era, Min Yuanqi definitely feels that it is not enough, far from enough.

"Sir, this is our new musket, and it is also a machine-machine gun built according to the requirements of my master. If you want to see the big turtledove gun, it will take about ten days to produce the finished product."

Iron Man Chen Liang paced back and forth, looking proud.

Chen Liang used to be a battalion soldier, but he never took such good armor. He was not a personal soldier or an elite cavalryman, so the iron armor was not his turn.

But as soon as the musket was taken, Chen Liang quickly rushed up. The people around him heard clanging sounds. After a moment, Chen Liang also stood beside Min Yuanqi.

Shen Yong had a serious expression and handed the long gun in his hand to Min Yuanqi in an extremely respectful manner.

Min Yuanqi's attitude was also quite serious. The musket in front of him was something he could use in this era, and he felt that he was stronger, more suitable than the Qing army, and the only chance to turn the tables.

Of course, it does not only refer to the musket, but also the superposition of muskets and cannons.

If Min Yuanqi could control the national power, reform the tax system, military system, and financial system, and even do not control the entire Ming Dynasty, he would only have to be completely controlled by the current Nanming.

In a maximum of three to five years, Min Yuanqi can build about 200,000 elite troops, cooperate with 100,000 auxiliary troops, and 300,000 people can resist and fight back the Qing army to the south.

If Min Yuanqi is given ten years to build a strong army of 500,000 people, most of the soldiers will wear armor and go north to Beijing, and sweep across Liaodong, it will not be difficult.

But what he has now mastered is Yuntiguan Qianhuo Station. Strictly speaking, it will take another month or two to fully master it.

The manpower and material resources that a thousand households can provide can't even afford a battalion of soldiers. If Min Yuanqi had not made money from his own family, he would probably not even be able to have the current situation.

He could only use the resources he had as best as possible. The machine gun in his hand was a weapon prepared to deal with the enemy.

During the decades of war from the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was also a period of vigorous development of firearms in China. From a straight-tube fire door without a door, it turned into a fire-sighted door with a sight-seeing door and did not directly trigger the fire. It used a curved gun support to aim and fire. A bird gun that ignites fire with a fuse rope with a dragon head is an important achievement in the development of firearms at that time.

After the bird gun, there were various firearms such as the Heji gun, the Turtle Dove gun, the Big Turtle Dove gun, the Lumi gun. In terms of artillery, the Ming army developed from the tiger squat cannon to the big and small Folang machine, and then the cast red barbarian cannon.

Due to the corruption of the dynasty's last days, the firearms made in the late Ming army, in addition to the artillery being heavy weapons of military and national wars, the better the quality, the more the quality of various firearms, the different quality was uneven. Even the new guns cast during the Chongzhen period were far less than those of Wanli and even the old guns of Jiajing.

The quality of the muskets was poor, the gunman lacked training, and the influence of natural conditions, for example, during the Battle of Sarhu, the sky was dark, cold and wet, and the Qing army was not affected by the archery shooting. The Ming army could only control the fire to fire the firearm, but instead turned itself into a target of archery, and even suffered a crushing defeat.

In this way, the Ming army became less and less heavy in muskets, and the quality became worse and worse. They were all sent to battalions for cannon fodder, thus forming a vicious cycle.

For a later generation, if one does not know the benefits of firearms in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties and makes good use of them, it would be self-satisfied and even a little stupid.

Min Yuanqi knew the advantages of muskets!

In the Qi Jiguang era decades ago, the battalion was about 2,700 people, and there were more than 1,000 bird gunners, accounting for about 40% of the entire battalion.

When Sun Chengzong rebuilt Liao Town, the firearms camps that were fully equipped had more than a thousand bird guns, and all large and large cannons were all rationed.

If the Ming army followed it, like the Qi family army, used well-made bird guns and were trained strictly, they would naturally be able to sweep the enemy and be invincible.

The knives in Min Yuanqi's hand were five feet long, the barrel was three feet long, and the weight was about seven kilograms.

It is divided into Yin and Yang machines, Yang fires, Yin opens the door, and even if there is strong wind, there is no need to worry about the dispersing of the gunpowder in the door. The entire bird gun is composed of a gun barrel, butt stock, and bolt.

It is composed of components such as organic cover, steamer, female machine, male machine, switchboard, open-closed waist hoops.

"It is actually easy to build parts." Shen Yong said: "According to the methods taught by the adults, each blacksmith and apprentice create parts separately and use assembly lines to make them. Everyone is good at making parts. Use calipers to determine the size and finally assemble the parts, which can save time. The gun machine, gun barrel, and gun support are all made according to regulations, using high-quality sophisticated iron as gun barrels. I have been in Dengzhen for many years, but I have not seen many of them like this. The Portuguese barracks in Dengzhen were held by the Portuguese barracks at that time, and they were even slightly inferior to those of them."

Min Yuanqi nodded and smiled, agreeing with Shen Yong's words.

China is not short of excellent craftsmen. As long as they are told to live like individuals, everyone will never be worse than those in Europe when they do their jobs.

In particular, the Ming Dynasty has been built and used for more than a hundred years. It has been imitated since the early stage of Jiajing Middle School. Later, several geniuses have improved their own designs. This machine gun is a type of bird gun. Compared with the functions of multiple Yin and Yang machines of the simple bird gun, this function alone can also ensure the release of the weapon in rainy and snowy days and windy days.

There were even self-produced muskets, and Min Yuanqi also handed over to Shen Yong for research. After research, Min Yuanqi gave up the plan of large-scale imitation.

The technology of self-generating guns is now immature, and the main problem is that the success rate of shooting is too low.

The success rate of fuse burning and releasing is more than 90%.

Pull the trigger and rub the flint, burst out Mars and ignite the gunpowder in the fire gate, with a success rate of less than 70%. When you shoot ten guns, at least three guns to four guns are silent. This success rate is too low and it is really embarrassing.

If Min Yuanqi's period was sufficient, even if he was given one more year, he would have made a self-generated musket without hesitation.

But Min Yuanqi has only been less than a year now, and this time is too nervous to go from imitation to technological improvement. To be fair, Shen Yong is a good military blacksmith, but he is two levels away from master craftsmen and geniuses...
Chapter completed!