Xiangjiang Island, firearm factory.

This is one of Jia Qiang's lifeblood.

Most of the factory are old men named Delin, while the guards are elite Ye Owls.

Everyone knows the truth, and their families are all under the care of Delin.

It is not a hostage, but a guarantee that they have something to raise and learn from the young, and that they are foolproof...

One of the night owls' heads, Li Hetian, the disciple of Grandma Sun's robe and bowl, was personally in charge.

The other person is Ni Er.

This civilian man who originally puts money on his penis to make a living is a very filial man.

Later, it was valued by Jia Yun and introduced to Xixijie Street.

Later, someone kidnapped Ni Er's wife, his daughter, and threatened him to poison the courtyard of Huiguan East Road, Xixi Street.

The East Road Court is full of heroic officials. As expected, two of them were poisoned to death, and Jia Qiang couldn't afford to take care of them.

As a result, even though Ni Er saw the fingers of his daughter, he did not betray Jia Qiang.

How many people in the world can do this?

Such a loyal and courageous man was naturally included in the core of the Delin.

Now the family has moved to Xiangjiang Island and become the chief manager.

"Ni Er, why did I hear that you are a father again?"

After visiting the artillery workshop, Jia Qiang came out to wipe her sweat. Looking at Ni Er, whose clothes were soaked beside her, she asked with a smile.

Ni Er was so happy when he heard this, he couldn't stop talking and nodded, "I didn't expect that the Duke of the State is still paying attention to such a small matter, and I'll be like this! My wife gave birth to a boy for me, Duke of the State, Ni Er has a son!"

Jia Qiang smiled and said, "Then you have to make up a gift when you look back. By the way, what's wrong with your girl Xiao Xinghua?"

When Ni Er heard this, his smile faded a little, and he scratched his head and said, "Miss, I feel so distressed, it's just that her mother is a person who values ​​her son. Plus...ah, it's okay, Duke Lao is worried about it."

Jia Qiang naturally understood what he meant. Having a daughter these days is a loss of money, and the more women they are, the more boys they prefer, even Li Jing, let alone ordinary women?

Then Ni Er's girl lost another finger and became disabled. Later, even said that her husband's family was inferior to others...

He pondered for a moment and said, "Ni Er, turn around and bring Xiao Xinghua. I want to take over an adopted daughter. This matter should have been handled for a long time, but I didn't think about too much, and it has been delayed until now."

Ni Er was shocked when he heard this and hurriedly said, "Mr. Prince, how can this make me? That girl is so lucky that she can't bear it!"

Jia Qiang waved his hand and said, "No need to say more. The original incident was the adults' business, and it shouldn't be involved in the innocent girl. Now that I have reached this point, if I don't give an explanation, I will even feel sorry for my conscience. When I return to Beijing, Xiao Xinghua will go back to Beijing with us and study with my daughter in the future. When your son grows up, it will be the same. Let's go to the clan school with Li Si and study as a companion."

When Ni Er heard this, his black face turned red with excitement. He knelt down and kowtowed, saying a kind thing.

Jia Qiang smiled and shook his head, "Not mentioning these things, you and Li Dangtou will stay here for a while. When Xiao Liuqiu is stable, move over. But even if it goes over, you will still be responsible for the vital points of this lifeline. I can't believe anyone except you."

Li Hetian was a taciturn person and didn't say much at this moment, kowtowing to greet him.

Jia Qiang smiled at him and said, "Your son Li Zhan is now heading south with the clan school, reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles. I guess we will meet in February."

Li Hetian was naturally excited when he heard this, and stood up and said, "It depends entirely on the cultivation of the Duke of the People!"

This is something that can really change the fate of a family. When I was working for the salt merchant in Yangzhou Prefecture, how could I ever imagine that one day his son would be able to go to school like this?

When I arrived at the musket workshop, as soon as I opened the door, I saw the oncoming heat wave.

The sound of iron "Tingyan" is endless.

"My grandfather, fire-making weapons are completely different from guns. Cannons are cast, but this fire-making weapon is much more refined and grinding. The first thing is to smelify iron, use Fu iron to refine it, and use the best charcoal material, and only then can it be familiar with ten kilograms of Fu iron to one kilogram."

"Then use this cooked iron to make the mold, keep heating and pounding..."

"After the mold is formed into a tube, you have to turn it over again, wrap it around again, and continue to heat and beat it..."

"After that, we will also carry out drilling, merging, purging the gun heart, washing the gun heart and other processes..."

"To build a firearm alone, you need to use more than 40 kilograms of iron, three cents of silver, five hundred kilograms of carbon, and eight cents of silver. Six people use six people to make a furnace of iron, thirty kilograms of silver, nine cents of silver..."

Listening to Li Hetian counting each step carefully, even the value of the work was clearly clear, Jia Qiang nodded.

"Are these Western barbarians diligent in their work?"

Seeing that there were many obviously Westerners in the workshop, busy with their leather and holding hammers, Jia Qiang asked.

Ni Er laughed and said, "There are some disobedient people who have been urinated and don't know how to be rich after some horses are urinated. After slaughtering two of them in the sea and feeding them sharks, they all became honest. There are also those who want to resign, but Delin has signed a contract with them and gave them such high monthly money. They said that they would not be able to do it for five years or less! However, no one abused them on weekdays, as long as they do things seriously, everything would be easy to say. Later, we found that we are not bad people, we paid monthly money on time, and the food was excellent, and we could send money out. Gradually, we calmed down."

Jia Qiang nodded and said, "Okay, let's see this."

Although he is a time traveler, he knows how to create military merits?

Apart from the concept of post-loading guns, paper-packing bullets, and using copper as shell shells, he couldn't help anything else.

And these concepts cannot be realized in one or two years.

Times are too short at the moment. For safety, people are trapped on Xiangjiang Island, which makes people feel difficult to settle and is not conducive to further research and development.

Now it can only be considered a secret workshop...

It is better to wait until it is moved to Xiaoliuqiu and have sufficient defense capabilities to expand the scale and improve step by step.

After leaving the workshop, Jia Qiang's whole body was wet with sweat. He asked, "This firearm workshop has been established for a year and a half. Let's talk about how many wealth has it saved?"

Li Hetian said: "When the prince returned to China, he has saved up 284 artillery pieces on the island, including 32-pound cannons and 80 of them, 12-pound cannons, and 112-pound cannons. The rest are all six pounds and three-pound cannons. In addition, there are 6,872 firearms."

Don’t think that so many artillery guns are enough. As far as Jia Qiang knows, a real four-masted heavy warship at sea requires ninety to one hundred cannons!

However, because this heavy warship is too heavy, it is very rare for Western Yi countries to use it, and it is mostly used in the nearshore areas because it is difficult to travel long distances.

But even so, normal battleships will launch at least 64 to 74 guns.

Therefore, Xiangjiang Island has accumulated more than a year of wealth and can only equip four main battleships.

The gap is too far...

"It's not bad. It's already rare for us to do this step secretly here."

Jia Qiang still focused on encouragement and said, "When you move to Xiaoliuqiu, you can quickly expand the scale. You need silver and people to give them. What is the biggest difficulty right now?"

Li Hetian said: "The man who returned to China is short of people, and the staff who can work on the island are still much short of coal. The second is that he is short of coal. Fujian has sufficient pig iron for the time being, but there is not much good coal and it is too expensive."

“Low coal?”

Jia Qiang naturally understood that smelting iron requires good coal, but what he thought was: "Come on, I happen to know where the best coal is available!"

Although Jia Qiang was not a top student in his previous life, he also knew that there was a Hongji coal mine in Annan, and the open-pit mine alone had a reserve of 200 million tons!

They are also high-quality anthracite, and they are right by the sea, so shipping is extremely convenient...

"Don't worry, it won't take long to get good coals delivered! Well, the same is true for iron ore!"

The most abundant mineral in Annan is coal, and the second is iron of good quality.

Now that we have accumulated technology, there are people in Xiaoliuqiu. It is no problem to prepare iron and coal to cast guns and build guns!

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"My master is back!"

Go up the house in Guanhai Manor, and under the veranda of hand-copying.

Seeing Jia Qiang return, Xiangling was chatting with a group of little girls looking into the distant sea and chatting about the sun going down to the beach and playing stubbornly. She immediately cried out happily.

He didn't dislike Jia Qiang, and ran over with a smile on his face.

Seeing her wearing a snow-covered white silk embroidered dress, she didn't wear any jewelry head or makeup, and her bangs were fluffy on her forehead, which clearly showed a charming and charming face, but she had a pair of ignorant and innocent eyes, like a child.

But this girl with a pair of innocent eyes like a child now has a body...

"Madam, don't let you go out?"

Jia Qiang asked with a smile.

Xiangling laughed and said, "Mrs. said that the sun is too poisonous and easy to get rid of the sun, so it cannot be done."

Jia Qiang smiled and said, "How about letting someone wear a few straw hats? If you wear them on your head, you won't be afraid of the sun."

When Xiangling heard this, her whole beautiful face became lively, and she smiled and said, "I'll go find my wife and say it!"

After saying that, with Xiao Jixiang behind him, Xiao Jiaoer and the other generals, he ran to find Daiyu.

There was a well in the corner of the courtyard. Jia Qiang raised a bucket of water and poured it on his head, which immediately became much more refreshing.

At this time, Qingwen poked her head out of it and saw him taking a shower, so she came to serve her.

"Do you miss me?"

There was also one person who had not been together for seven or eight days. Seeing Qingwen approaching her with a pretty face, Jia Qiang said funnyly.

Qingwen glanced at him with a fierce look, took off his sweaty clothes and scrubbed them with a veil and washed them with a cold water.

"My grandma told Lin yesterday that after finishing the work, I will set up a few banquets and invite everyone to a host..."

Jia Qiang said this, deliberately stopped and smiled and waited for Qingwen's movement.

Sure enough, Qingwen stopped hearing this, looked up at Jia Qiang, and pursed her lips and said, "I asked the host, what are you doing?"

Jia Qiang laughed and said, "What do you think? Of course, it is to celebrate Ping'er, Xiangling has a body..."

Seeing Qingwen slapped her face and continued to scrub him. Jia Qiang shouted, "Auntie, it's gentler. She's even told you to rub her skin!"

Seeing her crying again, she smiled and said, "I'm so ignorant! I told Lin Meimei that Qingwen's room, who is as beautiful as a fairy girl, always has to set up a few banquets before she can be put into the door. There are so many girls in the family, and she is the most arrogant. If she doesn't rely on her, what if an angel bites me hard?"

Qingwen burst into tears and laughed and said, "You are a puppy!" But seeing Jia Qiang looking at her with a smile, she lowered her head and scrubbed her while scrubbing, "No need to place a banquet. If you have this intention, it is better than setting a hundred tables! The family members of the family did not show any of them except two wives. Just me, wouldn't they be frivolous and ungrateful? No one is causing trouble."

Jia Qiang smiled and said, "Why not do that? Just tell the outside world that you are together?"

Qingwen hesitated for a moment after hearing this, nodded for a moment, and finally looked at Jia Qiang and smiled.

Jia Qiang smiled softly with his ears and said, "Since that's the case, then there's no need to find another way tonight?"

Qingwen blushed when she heard this. After spitting at Jia Qiang, she did not refute. She blushed and continued to scrub him...

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Chapter completed!