Chapter 66 Inspecting Craftsmen

The news of the occupation of Guidefu is spread everywhere like a wing. At this time, some people in Nanjing have adapted this matter into a novel to talk about it. Compared with the speed at which the government gets the news, the people get the news faster and more accurately.

Liu Xia's actions this time once again found hope for those disheartened anti-Qingyi people. Liu Xia relied on thousands of people to rush to Guide Mansion, which also made some people worry about Liu Xia. They thought that the Qing court would definitely send a large army to retaliate and would not spare Liu Xia.

Some people are very optimistic about Liu Xia. After all, Liu Xia rushed out of Yangzhou City and hit Duoduo hard. There are also some people who don't like Liu Xia. In their eyes, Liu Xia's heavy damage to Duoduo was completely caused by the dark night attack. This time, the Qing court will certainly not be careless, so this time Liu Xia is dead.

Guidefu

At this time, it was less than three o'clock, and the sun in the sky was still shining hotly on the earth. The zhi on the roadside tree made a harsh sound, and the wind blew for a refreshing moment.

Liu Xia led Qinwei and Chen Liu to the place where the craftsmen and tailors were. It was impossible to find the houses where thousands of people lived in the city. Therefore, Chen Liu arranged these people to the camp outside the city. In addition to guarding the Hu Ben camp and the wolf roar camp guarding the gates, there were also always following Liu Xia's personal guard camp in the city. Outside Yingyang Camp, which manages public security, other battalions are stationed outside the city.

"The general is coming"

There are more than 3,600 soldiers in the two battalions of the new barracks and the Hu Ben battalion in this camp. As for the logistics battalion, it was not stationed outside at this time. Because of the particularity of the logistics battalion, Liu Xia deliberately moved them all to the city.

In this place, Liu Xia makes these craftsmen delicious and gives them enough silver. Naturally, these craftsmen are very willing.

Originally, these craftsmen were very angry and unwilling to work. After all, they were all forcibly brought by Zhang Yuan from home. Liu Xia said that they were not willing to come and tied up again, but few were willing to come. Most of them were unwilling to come. Naturally, they were tied up. However, when I knew that Liu Xia gave me such a generous salary, I stopped saying anything. One liang of silver a day, equivalent to one liang of money in the Ming Dynasty, which is equivalent to more than 600 yuan now. In the past, even if they worked for three or five days, they might not be able to get so much money. If they had money to make money, did they still disagree?

Which of these craftsmen is still suffering? Seeing Liu Xia's arrival, he seemed to look at the mountains of gold and silver, talking respectfully. Zhu Yuanzhang divided the people into military households, craftsmen households and civilian households. If there was still a way to live during the Taiping period. Nowadays, the soldiers are in chaos, and the officials are corrupt. It's good to have food. How can they earn so much money?

Thousands of craftsmen and tailors selected dozens of representatives to welcome Liu Xia. As soon as they saw Liu Xia's shadow, these craftsmen immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed happily, as if they had seen their relatives.

Liu Xia said, "Please get up, please get up."

One of the men in his forties said to Liu Xia with a strong voice and said with a smile, "General, you don't know that the hard life of our craftsmen was under the management of the Ming court. Not only the government bullied us, but also those ordinary people looked down on us. It was really a meal without a meal and starved to death. It's a common thing. The three younger sons starved to death because they didn't have food.

"After being managed by the king here, although he no longer mentioned the craftsmen and households, the king only cared about fighting and collecting grain. Naturally, he did not have a good life. Later, after being managed by the Qing army, his income did not change much, but the number of anger was more and more. These Qing army simply don't treat people as people. It's a common thing to beat and smash them. Lao Wu in the neighboring village did something wrong when doing things for those Qing soldiers, but he was beaten to death.

"Now the general is willing to give the little ones a taels of silver every day. That's really the little ones' food and clothing. I don't know if the general will need the little ones in the future."

Liu Xia thought that she would definitely leave after a few more days, but since these craftsmen are so willing to follow him, they might as well take them away. After all, the industrial foundation is very important, and the industrial foundation needs a large number of craftsmen. Even after arriving in Luoyang, he needs to find a large number of craftsmen. Instead of taking a lot of effort to find a few, it's better to raise these craftsmen first and take them with you when you leave here, so that you don't have to look around.

Liu Xia said, "In the future, the general needs more weapons and clothes. Of course, you need to build it for the general, but this should be said first. I don't want defective products, and the weapons can't cut corners. If the general finds out which of you dares to cut corners, he will definitely be heavily punished."

Those craftsmen hurriedly smiled and said, "How dare the little ones do the general's cutting corners? It will definitely be the strongest and best for the general.

Liu Xia'en said, and then asked, "Will you craftsmen build muskets?" Musket is a must-have thing in the future. It can't be developed. In the Ming Dynasty, there was a magic machine camp that specially used muskets. However, the officials in the Ming Dynasty corrupted and deducted food and salaries, so that those craftsmen did not have enough to eat and wear. How could those craftsmen have the mind to build muskets for the government? Therefore, most of the muskets are defective and easy to explode.

The Ming Dynasty's musket was easy to explode, which also made the Qing army afraid to use the musket, so that the musket was basically replaced by cold weapons again in China. Hundreds of years later, the door was opened by the Western powers. Others used muskets, and the Qing army also used big knives and spears.

Seeing Liu Xia's question, those craftsmen frowned one by one and began to whisper.

Liu Xia has little hope that there are people who can build muskets. After all, these are all folk craftsmen, and the craftsmen who make muskets are all royal craftsmen, which is naturally incomparable.

When Liu Xia lost hope for this matter, an old man in his fifties among the craftsmen suddenly came out and said, "The general, the little old man can make muskets, and the little old man's three sons and two nephews can also build them. In those years, we once built muskets for the government, but the most Later, the court was broken by the king, and we all fled here from the capital.

"Real?" Liu Xia's face showed excitement, and it was really there. Liu Xia continued, "Do you really know how to build a musket?"

The old man bowed to Liu Xia and said, "The little old man dares not coax the general. This is true."

Liu Xia was excited and said to Chen Liu beside him, "You can count how many muskets can be built later."