Lao Niu: Sorry, I took a day off yesterday because I was too tired and I will make up for it today. Generally speaking, this book will be updated every day. If it is not updated the day before, it will be filled in the next day or a few days later.

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On September 2, 1590, Wuzhai Fort.

"Brother, sister is here again."

In the afternoon, when Huang Laifu returned to Qianhu House, he was happy to find that the sisters who went out in June were back today. They came this time to attend Huang Laifu's wedding on September 9. As soon as they arrived, Qianhu House seemed much more lively. It can be seen that Huang Sihao and Yang were both very comforted and laughed happily.

When he saw Huang Laifu, several nieces and nieces surrounded Huang Laifu and said sweetly: "Uncle."

Huang Laifu smiled and said, "Okay, be good."

The eldest sister Huang Zirou sat beside Yang and said to Huang Laifu with a smile: "Brother, sisters are here again, are you happy?"

Huang Laifu smiled and said, "Of course I'm happy. It's best for the sisters to go home often and talk to their parents."

Yang smiled from the side and said, "You, I'm back this time, I don't know what other ideas I'm going to make. With you as my sister here, it's considered that he's unlucky."

The eldest sister laughed and didn't care. The second sister Huang Wanrou and the third sister Huang Birou sat aside and smiled.

The eldest sister Huang Zijuru said: "I heard about it in Bajiao Fort. This time, Wuzhai Fort has a bumper harvest and has obtained hundreds of thousands of stones of grain. Your sister was fine at that time, but your brother-in-law was very surprised when he heard it. He said that Wuzhai Fort and Bajiao Fort can produce so much grain. He couldn't even understand it. He said that on the 8th, he must come to see you. One is to drink your wedding banquet, and the other is to see what happened to this Wuzhai Fort."

Huang Laifu said: "Brother-in-law, how is he okay?"

The eldest sister said, "What's the point? He is a poor guard and always looks like a ghost when he takes some salary every year."

She sighed and said, "Oh, it's better to be Wuzhai Fort. It's getting more and more prosperous and lively. It's not like the ghost place of Octagon Fort, which is deserted. Look, it's just some poor soldiers. When your sister wants to build a card, she can't even find someone to find a place to pick up a cart."

Among Huang Laifu's three sisters, the eldest sister Huang Zirou married Xu Xueshi, the garrison of the Bajiao Fort. The garrison of the Bajiao Fort is actually just a thousand-household house. Because it is located in the Jichong area of ​​Shanxi, there is a guard guard. The second sister married Li Yingchun of the Baodezhou garrison, and the third sister married Tian Dafu of the Shenchi Fort. These places are not far from Wuzhai Fort, and can be back and forth in one day.

Huang Laifu felt aroused and said, "My elder sister is bored in Bajiao Fort. Why not move back to Wuzhai Fort in the future? She can also accompany her parents. You know, brother, I am busy with official business all day and don't have time to accompany my two elders."

The eldest sister slapped her thigh and said, "Look, it's really good to be said that siblings are connected to each other. Your sister has made up her mind to move that family to Wuzhaibao. My sister will not leave this time."

Huang Lai Fuxi said: "The relationship is good, and there are more people in the family, so it will be even more lively." After a while, he hesitated: "But, does brother-in-law agree?"

The eldest sister disagreed and said, "What does he disagree with? That family is your sister who is in charge. I agree, you mean he agrees."

Huang Laifu laughed and said, "Brother-in-law is an honest man, don't bully him." He knew that his in-laws were easy-going, and his brother-in-law was honest. That family was indeed the eldest sister's eldest sister.

The eldest sister laughed, which attracted Yang's laughter and scolded her, saying that she was unlucky after her eldest son-in-law married her.

Huang Laifu suggested that his second and third sisters move back, and both of them said that they had this meaning.

The eldest sister said, "Brother, have you ever thought about it? If everyone moves back, then this family will not be able to live there."

Huang Laifu said: "I also thought that this family is indeed a little crowded now, but it is autumn now, and the residents are bored. At that time, they will be recruited to repair the house. Anyway, the family is not short of this money and food."

The eldest sister laughed and pointed at Huang Laifu and said, "Look, wealthy people speak differently. With this younger brother, my sister will definitely eat."

Everyone laughed, and Yang scolded his elder sister with a smile, and said, "At that time, we can call all the in-laws to live together, so there will be so many people and fun."

After everyone said a few words, Huang Laifu saw that his third sister looked a little bad, so he paid attention and thought that his third sister had something to worry about and took time to ask, wouldn’t it be his husband’s family bullying her again?

What everyone talked about next was Huang Laifu's marriage issue. In addition to the marriage of Ming product officers, in addition to the orders of parents, the words of matchmakers and the conditions for engagement, the marriage process must also be carried out in accordance with the procedures of the six rituals: lottery, name, naji, enrollment, appointment, and wedding. The six rituals are complete and the marriage relationship is established.

Huang Laifu didn't understand these things, and he was busy with autumn harvest and military training, and his own marriage preparation, so he handed them over to the two elders. Now that the sisters are here, it's just right to help.

After discussing Huang Laifu's marriage for a while, the eldest sister clapped her hands and said, "Okay, okay, anyone who wants to ride a horse will come and take the stage." Immediately, my mother Yang, second and third sisters all surrounded her.

I feel that a few girls in my family are about to start playing mahjong again, but Huang Laifu can't play, he has a lot of things to do.

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Now Huang Laifu's schedule is that he usually takes the sergeants to practice in the morning, practice queues, flags and orders, etc. In the afternoon, he patrolls in Wuzhai Fort, busy with other things.

Sometimes in the morning, Huang Laifu would not be in the competition. Anyway, the deputy Qianhu Heru Town is an honest person. Although he is not smart, the key is to be serious and responsible. Huang Laifu handed over the camp to him, don't worry. Anyway, there is a training booklet now, and Huang Laifu doesn't need anyone to innovate. Just follow the booklet and train meticulously.

"Sir, this is the case with this civil arts workshop. Do you think it's still satisfactory?"

When he came out of Qianhu House, Huang Laifu went to inspect the Wuzhai Fort Minqifang.

In early August, Huang Laifu ordered Liu Tianlu and General Banner to divide the craftsmen of Wuzhai Fort into Minqifang and Junjianfang. Junjianfang was located in the original place, while the Minqifang workshop was not far from Junjianfang. It was originally a wasteland pond in the fort, but when it was dry, it was used to build a factory. After a period of hard work, a factory was built here, which contained a site, warehouse, canteen, etc., which specially made various water trucks, pear utensils and other items needed by each farm in Wuzhai Fort.

There are 200 people in it, divided into supervision, managers, craftsmen and workers. The rewards for supervision, managers and craftsmen will be higher, while workers are slightly lower. Of course, the various reward mechanisms of civilian workshops are the same as those of each farm. Anyone who does not work hard will be punished. If you do well, you will be rewarded.

Wuzhai Fort Minqi is managed by Liu Tianlu and Liu Zongqi, but Sun Tianzheng, the first military craftsman, is the manager. In fact, Sun Tianzheng, the person in charge here is Sun Tianzheng. Liu Zongqi is busy with military craftsman's affairs. He is busy all day long and has no time to come to Wuzhai Fort Minqi.

When Huang Laifu brought a few servants into the place, he saw that the workers here were working hard. Everyone was concentrating on their minds, and some supervisors were patrolling and staring at everyone. In fact, there was no need for supervision, and all the workers worked very hard.

Some of the craftsmen of the Wuzhaibao Minyifang were diverted from the military craftsmen of the original military craftsmen. Most of these people are now craftsmen, supervisors and managers of the Wuzhaibao Minyifang.

They are the ones who are most grateful to Huang Laifu, and the ones who first appreciate the benefits of the reward mechanism. If you do well, by piece count, at most one person can get more than two stones of monthly food per month. I remember when I was a military craftsman in the past, I worked hard and had only two or three dou of monthly food per month. My family was hungry and cold and couldn't eat enough every day. They cherished their current good days.

Many of the other workers were households outside the fort, or refugees from Wuzhai Fort from all over the world. These people may be difficult to feel grateful to Huang Laifu as the military households and military craftsmen of Wuzhai Fort. However, under the strict reward and punishment system of Wuzhai Fort Minqiu, they could only do their best to work.

Moreover, compared to the days when I was working hard all year round, now, as long as I work hard, I can eat and wear and tea. In addition, the craftsmen in the shop are constantly instilling in them a sense of crisis, such as how many refugees came to the fort today, where disasters were caused, and where the whole village fled. If I don’t work hard, some migrant workers in Wuzhai Fort are.

Thinking about the hard days at home in the past, now work is easier than in the fields. There are five dou of monthly food guaranteed every month, just to let you and your family have enough food. And the more you work, the better you will get, the more rewards you will get. Therefore, all workers cherish the good life you are now.

When Huang Laifu entered the Wuzhai Fort Minqifang, everyone was busy working hard, no one looked around, and many people didn't notice Huang Laifu's entry. Only the manager Sun Tianzheng saw Huang Laifu and others and hurriedly came up.

Under the leadership of Sun Tianzheng, Huang Laifu inspected Wuzhaibao Minqifang, working places, canteens, etc. To be honest, this Minqifang is a bit similar to the small factories in later generations. Many places are very simple. When workers work, they sit on the ground in long large rooms, with a bunch of people in the east and west, and everyone is busy with handwork.

However, the Minyifang at this time was considered a large workshop in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty. Even in the Jiangnan region at this time, handicraft workshops with hundreds of people like this were not everywhere. In fact, compared with the Ming Dynasty, most of them were family handicraft workshops, and special handicraft factories such as Wuzhaibao Minyifang were already very advanced.

The canteen, like each farm, is a large room with tables and chairs, run by some military craftsmen's family members, selling some food and so on. Some workers' families are also here to help, earning some money every month.

There are still many types of food, including noodles, rice, fish, meat, vegetables, carrots, etc. However, Huang Laifu discovered one thing, that is, compared with the military craftsmen, the workers eat very well, try not to eat meat, eat more, and the vegetables are just made into vegetables. Many workers also leave the factory and go back to their rented places and eat with their families.

As for housing, the Wuzhai Fort military craftsmen have houses in the fort. Although they used to be some broken houses, after a few months, everyone has basically repaired them. Some workers want to rent houses from the former Wuzhai Fort military households. As more and more merchants and refugees come to Wuzhai Fort, the housing prices in Wuzhai Fort have risen steadily.

Huang Laifu was considering whether to build some workers' houses so that these workers could have some cheaper houses to live in. In the future, there will only be more and more factories in Wuzhaibao, and the matters of workers' houses will be raised. Just like the various farms in Wuzhaibao, each farm has a house for the townsmen and some family members to live in. There is no charge for them, or only a small fee will be charged.

However, obviously, there is no place to build a worker house in the fort. Wuzhaibao Minqifang is becoming more and more crowded, and the place is too small. It seems that I should move Wuzhaibao Minqifang outside the fort, and there will be factories outside the fort in the future, so I should also put them outside the fort to build.

There are all kinds of places outside the fort, and it is suitable for building factories, but there is a certain security issue. Wuzhai Fort is close to the border. What if the Mongols come to rob one day? In addition to strengthening their own force, it seems that the city wall should be expanded by then.

After seeing the Wuzhaibao Minqifang, Huang Laifu, with his thoughts, left the first civilian handicraft factory in Wuzhaibao with respect from the manager Sun Tianzheng, and then arrived at the Wuzhaibao Military Mailhouse, not far from the Minqifang.

There are more than 200 military craftsmen and men here, which is quieter than the civil artifact yard. It is jingling and bustling here. The military craftsmen are carefully making some armor and weapons. After seeing Huang Laifu, Liu Tianlu and Liu General Banner hurriedly welcomed him.

Huang Laifu asked about his work achievements this month. Mr. Liu said that this month he had made three pairs of armor, five copper-handled hand guns, and two hundred waist knives and long spears. As for the bird gun, Mr. Liu secretly tried it. After a month, after hard work, he finally made a bird gun. After the test shooting, the quality was good.

Huang Laifu nodded. This result was already good. According to Qi Jiguang's "Ji Xiao New Book": "The original hole of the bird gun is very small. Use a steel drill to drill it. It will be about an inch a day until the bottom, and it will be better to drill it in one month."

According to the Ming Dynasty, bird guns, commonly known as combroach guns, are not easy to make. They are only the part of the drilling barrel, and this process alone takes one month. If you consider other processes such as barrel forging, engaging, trigger sets, etc., it takes about 2 months to build a bird gun in total. Of course, if there are thousands of military craftsmen, if you are familiar with them, you can produce an average of 40 bird guns per month, but the process for a batch of them will take at least one month.

Huang Laifu said: "We must pay attention to the quality of military weapons and there must be no problems."

Mr. Liu respectfully said that he was. Then he complained that the stock of cooked iron was almost used up. There were also various raw materials for making weapons, and there were not many stocks.

Huang Laifu pondered. It was hard for a good cook to cook without rice. Without iron and other raw materials, he naturally did not want to make weapons. But who should I buy this iron? Think about some information from the Ming Dynasty. At this time, the trend of private iron management in the Ming Dynasty should be very strong.

According to the iron trading system of the Ming Dynasty, in the early Ming Dynasty, the management was relatively strict, and most of the iron produced was sent to the Military Arts Bureau, Baoyuan Bureau and relevant government handicraft workshops. However, after Xuande, the official iron smelting stations quickly declined and most of them were closed. By the time of Wanli, even the largest official mining and smelting stations in the Ming Dynasty, Zunhua Iron Factory, went bankrupt, and replaced them with the private iron smelting workshops that were widely present after the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

These private iron smelting workshops can be mined with the approval of the government as long as they pay a certain amount of mine course. Therefore, the trend of private iron management in the Ming Dynasty was extremely strong. Wherever there was iron production, merchants from all over the country transported cattle and transported them to various places for sale. After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, many people made a living by transporting iron, and many people started their fortunes. In particular, many people even evaded taxes and robbed iron ore privately, so countless people became rich.

Shanxi has abundant resources such as salt, iron, and coal, and the operation of private iron tools is also very prosperous.

Finally, Huang Laifu decided to buy some of the iron materials from his adoptive father to see if he has inventory. Some of them were then to see which of the Wuzhaibao merchants were operating and selling. (To be continued. If you want to know what happens next, please log in to www.qidian.com for more chapters, support the author and support genuine reading!) (To be continued)
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