The next morning, Chen Wen sent someone to continue to hand over the rewritten version of the Southern Song Dynasty "Titanic" to the person in charge of contacting Li Yu, and he went to the Military Equipment Department Workshop located in Jinhuafu City.

The main officials and craftsmen of the Military Weapons Department of Jinhua Ming Army came from the Construction Department of Dalanshan. The personnel management and job classification were already very complete by the standards of this era. Most of the other personnel came from Jinhua Prefecture, and the bird gun craftsmen brought by Yu Guowang are also here to help for the time being.

During this period, Chen Wen had a lot of things to do, and the funds were seriously insufficient. The requirements for the Military Weapons Department were only to supplement the missing weapons and armor, and to repair the damaged weapons and armor.

As for artillery, a limited number of artillery craftsmen can use the loss of wax and mud mold method to make artillery, but the caliber is not large, and both methods require time to dry the mold. In particular, the loss of wax method is suitable for a short time at the temperature in Zhejiang, so the manufacturing speed is also very slow.

In addition to these, Chen Wen only gave them one task, which was to create the Lumi gun based on the records in a copy of "The Artifacts" copied from Ma Jinbao's study room.

The so-called Lumi gun originated from the Match Rope gun of the Ottoman Turkish Empire. "History of Ming Dynasty. Biography of the Western Regions 4" records that the Ottoman Turkish Empire, known as the "Lumu Kingdom" in Asia Minor, once tributed to the Ming court many times. The prototype of the Lumi gun flowed into China as a tribute at that time, and was soon imitated and improved by Zhao Shizhen, the author of the "Artifacts", into the Lumi gun.

According to records, the Lumi gun "weights about seven or eight kilograms, or six kilograms, about six or seven feet long, and the gear rails and the machine are all in the bed. When pinching, it falls, and the fire burns again. There is a steel knife at the end of the bed. If the enemy approaches, it can be used as a sabre to cut the horse. When putting it, grab the hand in front and hold the back. The machine is only pinched, and the hand does not move, and the fire door is aimed a little far away. The first smoke rises, and the eyes will not be shocked. This is better than the Japanese bird gun. Use four cents of medicine and three cents of lead bullets."

The Lumi gun is better than the bird guns equipped by Chen Wenjun in terms of effective range and caliber. Its technical content is not much higher than that of the bird guns, and the level of existing craftsmen is acceptable. Therefore, it is most suitable to replace the bird guns at present.

At the same time, Chen Wen also issued the first R&D task to the craftsmen of the Military Equipment Department, which was to manufacture the wheel-type bolt he had seen on the forum while making the Lumi gun, and managed to install it on the Lumi gun. For this reason, he also issued a reward of up to fifty taels of silver. As for the steel knives used to make guest appearances in the record, they were directly removed on the grounds of being unpractical.

The Lumi gun is not a big problem for these firearm craftsmen who have been making bird guns all year round. Even though these craftsmen are all illiterate and rely on the skills passed down from generation to generation, the small officials of the Dalanshan Construction Department recited the texts in the book for them, and combined with the original pictures, the first Lumi gun was quickly manufactured. It was only a long way from the mass-produced equipment troops.

The wheel-type flintlock bolt that Chen Wen was looking forward to was far less easy to manufacture than he imagined. The craftsmen took countless hours and materials according to the drawings drawn by Chen Wen based on memory, but did not create bolts that met the normal use standards. Moreover, according to the official craftsmen, even if the work hours and materials required for the construction of this flintlock bolt is far higher than that of the comb-rope, and it is impossible to popularize at all.

What these professionals say is not without reason. In history, after the flintlock rifle was released, it took a long time to gradually replace the flintlock rifle. Almost everyone can understand that the flintlock rifle is superior to the flintlock rifle, but the existence of problems in its manufacturing process has led to a slowdown in the speed of renewal.

France, the first to equip flintlock rifles in history, decided to formulate flintlock rifles as a standard military rifle in 1717 and produce large quantities of equipment to regular infantry regiments. Before that, only relatively elite troops and troops in European countries, such as grenadiers, could equip flintlock rifles, and ordinary troops that occupied the vast majority of the troops could only continue to use combroster rifles.

Chen Wen was not unaware of these things, and he was also very clear about what they said. However, the increase in firing speed and the fact that flintlock rifles no longer use open flames, musketeers can stand more intensively, which effectively improve the musketeers' killing ability, making musketeers gradually become the real main combat weapon of infantry, which is the trend of future development.

Without hesitation, he denied the application to cancel the manufacturing of flintlock rifle bolts. Chen Wen directly doubled the reward. Even though the things they made could only be equipped with a very small number of elite troops, he even dragged the hindrance of the combroach gun while manufacturing, he chose to endure it. At least the accumulation of technology must begin now, and win in the present to win in the future.

In contrast, the manufacturing of cold weapons made Chen Wen more at ease. According to the current organization, in addition to the original Yuanyang Array weapons, there are now more spear tips of 15 feet long spears. When this spear tip was made, Chen Wen heard Yu Guowang mention that when he was besieging Linhai County, the Qing army tried to cut off the gun rod, so he specially asked to add a metal cover to protect the gun rod at the connection between the spear tip and the gun rod.

However, for those blacksmiths, this is just a little more skilled and cannot be regarded as technical content, so they have no impact on manufacturing speed.

Although the Military Equipment Department is now subordinate to Jinhua Town, its actual control is still in the hands of civil servants of the Dalanshan Construction Department. He can make requests for many things, but it is not convenient to interfere too much, which makes Chen Wen feel restricted in many things, unlike Wang Jiang who was still alive without worrying as long as he said it.

The threat from the Qing army is still in the present, and the excessive personnel transfer has led to production cuts, and the interference of civil servants in the military supervision is something he cannot afford. He can only slowly digest these officials so that he can do it like an arm and finger.

After staying in the workshop of the Military Equipment Department for a whole morning, Chen Wen returned to the camp without even having lunch. However, Cao Conglong decided to go to Dongyang County to resettle the camp to visit Yu Guowang in the past two days before arrival, so he could only put it aside.

After returning to the camp, Chen Wen continued to observe the training of the battle camp after lunch. The old version of the Mandarin Duck Formation had already had certain rules, so the speed of forming combat power was very fast. However, his newly designed long spear formation was far less flexible than the Mandarin Duck Formation, and it seemed quite dull. The reason was that the weapons were too long and too single, so many changes in the Mandarin Duck Formation could not be used. So he was very glad that he decided to practice the new battle formation, but did not abandon the old Mandarin Duck Formation, but allowed half and half of these two infantry battle formations to exist in the army.

As the other half of the new and old killer teams in the infantry team, the bird gunners in the firearm team performed mediocrely in the Battle of Xiaoshun Town due to the firepower coverage problem. When Chen Wen reorganized the organization, he had to change the organization to one captain, ten members and one fire soldier in each team. The ten members changed from simple bird gunners or archers to half of each mixing, so as to increase the long-range fire killing of the infantry team after the battle through uplift shooting.

The other units have not changed much, except for the increase in the organization of the artillery team as the number of seizures increased. After using Qi Jiguang's cavalry battalion, the cavalry team also led to many officers. The soldiers need to re-train their weapons, and the speed of forming combat power will inevitably drag the entire army back again.

In any case, the reorganization and training have been carried out gradually since the end of last year. It is estimated that these three fully organized war barracks will be available on the battlefield in another month.

Just as Chen Wen continued to supervise the training, a carriage quickly drove into the alley behind the government courtyard under the control of the handlebars. Waiting for the carriage to stop, a woman in a simple and beautiful dressed woman wearing a curtained hat took off her stool and then walked down slowly after the maid placed the stool.

The carriage stopped aside with skillful driving skills in the handlebars, while the maid walked to the back door of the government office and knocked on the door. After a while, the maid guarding the door opened the back door and invited the woman directly after learning about the identity of the visitor.

The woman walked towards the courtyard where Sun Yu's wife's youngest son was led by a maid in the government office. She was only halfway through, but when she saw the mistress of the Jinhua Prefectural Office, she came up with her personal maid.

"younger sister……"

"It's hard to see us sisters since Sister Qing got married. It's a good thing to meet again today, so don't do that."

Yi, who had met, had already held the hand of the Zhou family's younger sister with both hands, and her eyes were filled with tears of reunion after a long time. Although the Zhou family said it truthfully, the heart was also like Yi. The two of them had a handkerchief that could talk about in their girls' age, wandering in troubled times, life and death were lingering. They had not seen each other for many years, so they naturally missed them very much.

After they walked into the hall together, they began to talk about their past years of separation. The Zhou family’s younger sister was fine, but she had never gotten married, so she was naturally at home. Even the chaos after the Jinhua Massacre and Chen Wen rushed into Jinhua Mansion were avoided one by one and called herself luck.

In contrast, Yi has had a lot of hardships in recent years. After getting married, her parents-in-law and husband treat her very well. Moreover, her husband is a well-known talent in Jinhua City, and her imperial examinations have been quite smooth over the years. If nothing unexpected happens, there is still a chance to be named on the Golden List.

However, this good day didn't take long to catch up with the Qing army going south. That year, "Wucheng captured the southwest corner, and the heads fell like rain for three days." Yi was lucky enough to survive in the countryside, but her in-laws suffered misfortune, and even the children in her womb could not be saved. Since then, her husband's temperament has changed drastically. Although he is still as always to her, he never smiles again. The pain in his heart is as sensitive as she can naturally empathize with it.

He brought the dowry maid with Sun Yu to join Yin Can's army. After several changes, even the dowry maid disappeared during a Qing army encirclement. It was thought that he was either no longer alive or robbed by the Qing army.

After Yin Can's defeat, Sun Yu, Wu Dengke and others went to Dalan Mountain to join Wang Yi, and later settled a home at the foot of Dalan Mountain. I thought life would go like this, but who knew that within a few months, as Chen Wen brought the Qing army's plan to encircle and suppress Siming Mountain, Wang Yi, Feng Jingdi and others gathered various Ming troops in Siming Mountain but were defeated by the banks of Siming Lake. The Qing army followed him. Yi, who had just gotten pregnant, came to the brink of life and death with her husband again.

Snuggling in her husband's arms, she struggled to pass on the warmth to the man who spent her whole life with her, but the threat of the Qing army in the winter night was still full of coldness. Until that moment, the messenger of Nantangying's victory came, and the warm sun tore open the shackles of the cold winter. She and her husband finally got rid of their destined fate.

In the days that followed, her husband tried his best to assist the Marshal Chen Wen and Chen, who was secretly identified by her husband as the "Star Lord of the World", fought from Dalan Mountain to Tiantai Mountain, and then returned to their hometown Jinhua Mansion from Tiantai Mountain, and occupied it here with the banner of "guarding the land without losing".

From the beginning of the fourth year of Yongli, to the restoration of Jinhua City last year, it has been too much in just two years. With the emergence of Chen Wen, the gods seem to have begun to take care of their miserable family again. Last summer, she and Sun Yu's child were born, and they were also a boy. After the restoration of Jinhua City, Sun Yu's personality gradually became brighter and brighter again, but his attitude as if he was like Lao Bao of Yan in business, Hai Rui, had never changed.

Telling about hardships and warmth, Yi's tears passed through his smooth face again. He originally planned to use the reminiscence of the past to inquire about the character of this Chen Dashang, and thought that the Zhou sister, who was planning at home, was still moved by the mutual support between her sister Yi and the prefect Sun.

After saying that, the two of them quickly turned the topic to Yi's son. After the wet nurse brought the child, the little guy met a stranger like Zhou's sister, but he didn't cry or make a fuss. He just stretched out his hand.

The green fingers were hooked with the baby's tender little hands, and the little sister of the Zhou family was instantly infected by Yi's motherhood. Her heart full of pity rose out of every pore in her body like water vapor, covering her whole body.

"It is said that a boy looks like a mother. This child is really carved from the same mold as Sister Qing. It is so cute. No, I want to be the child's godmother, and no one can stop him." As he said that, the little sister of the Zhou family made a swaying gesture, as if the child would take him away if she didn't let her be the godmother.

Seeing the little sister of the Zhou family being maternal, Yi smiled and said in a slight manner: "You are so anxious to be a mother in the family of a girl who is not yet married. Okay, the godmother is just a godmother. Just because of the friendship between you and my sisters, my uncle won't say anything. But..."

Seeing Yi's expression like this, the little sister of the Zhou family was immediately shocked. "It's just something?"

"It's just that this child already has a godfather. If you are a godmother, hehe."

"Sister Qing!" Yi's marriage has been married for many years, and his mentality is no longer different from that in the boudoir. After all, the little sister of the Zhou family is still a girl's house. Yi's words made the little sister of the Zhou family blush. "Sister Qing is used to playing tricks on others. If you say this again, I will not dare to come again in the future."

The two close friends teased the child for a while. Until the little guy was a little sleepy, he took the nurse back to the room to sleep.

After someone else left, the little sister of the Zhou family said seriously: "To be honest, I'm not only here to visit my sister, but also want to ask my sister about the matter of the Chen Dashui. You know, my brother is doing something under the curtain of Chen Dashui..."

The Zhou family’s younger sister must have something else to come here, otherwise she would not be so anxious. In addition, when she just talked about her experiences over the years, she always mentioned Chen Wen. The attention in the Zhou family’s younger sister’s eyes flashed, and she was as sensitive as Yi, how could she not know that the Zhou family’s younger sister must be related to Chen Wen. However, before the Zhou family said this, Yi thought that it was her close friend who admired Chen Wen. Now that she was talking seriously, it might not be as she thought.

"When Marshal Chen first arrived at Dalan Mountain, he stayed at home for a while. He was knowledgeable and talented, eloquent, and had many opinions that were far away from others, and was able to avoid hardships. Therefore, Wang Jingluo relied heavily on his life."

As he said that, Yi seemed to have thought of something, and then said to the Zhou sister: "In fact, this is nothing. Although such a person is rare, it is not without him. However, most of these people are arrogant because of their talent. However, this Marshal Chen is approachable. Whether it is a high-ranking official or a nobleman, a peddler or a baron, he can be treated equally, even women and children..."

"The other ones don't say it, but only said that the day when the old Wang Jingluo appointed Chen Dashen as a guerrilla general, he followed Dalan with his son, including Wu Shuai and Yin Shuai, swore to follow Chen Dashen in my yard. After most of the time, Chen Dashen was invited by the old Wang Shuai to discuss. Before leaving, Chen Dashen specially gave money and asked my uncle to buy some food in the village's food shop, but because there were too many people in the past half day, it was not convenient for me to come out to cook."

Equality is extremely rare in class society. The same class cannot achieve true equality, let alone different classes. In the mouth of Yi, Chen Wen actually regarded women and children as equal individuals, which really made the Zhou sister stunned.

Next, Yi told the Zhou sister a lot about Chen Wen, from telling the story of Taizu when she first arrived at the Sun family to comfort everyone, to telling the ancients in the village to gather people's hearts; from asking her to help embroider the camp flag to give cloth so that the Sun family, who lacked extra income due to Sun Yu's integrity, could buy a few pieces of clothes, and then after the defeat in Siming Lake, he led everyone south, and when the Qing army chased him, he resolutely led the troops behind the palace to seek vitality for the people.

In the past year, Chen Wen had too many things to tell, so that the two of them chatted until the darkness of the sky, when the Zhou family girl came home with the reminder of the maid.

Sitting in the carriage and returning home, the Zhou family's younger sister was full of Chen Wen's figures and deeds. She had met her parents, but she was too lazy to eat and returned to her boudoir. She silently found the book that had previously caused Zhou Jingting's displeasure from the drawer of the dressing table. The book was still the same book, with the cover wrapped with good paper to ensure that it was not worn.
Chapter completed!