Luffy Hao walked into the small wooden house where Ji Aojian was, "President, there are many cracked and blew-fried muskets we used in the battle, and nearly 20% of them have been damaged."

Ji Aojian was stunned, "So many?"

We only fought two battles with Heifeng Village and scrapped so many muskets. The quality of firearms in this era is really unreliable.

Luffy Hao said, "We brought more than 300 muskets this time. President, if you follow the firearm training camp you mentioned, you will probably finish all these muskets in training in less than a few months."

Ji Aojian sighed, "Don't worry, the damage of guns will not always be so high. Those firearms are defective products themselves, so they are not used. Muskets that can withstand the test of two wars will not be damaged at this rate in the future."

Luffy Hao thought for a while, "But there must be some defective products in the more than 200 guns we have spared. If the newcomers exploded during training, they will definitely be very afraid of the firearms."

Ji Aojian said, "Then let's try to grab more and try to pick out all the defective products."

It is very difficult to enter the musket era. The quality of guns alone is a huge obstacle. Just like the germination of capitalism, the commodity economy had flourished to the advent of paper money in the Song Dynasty, and the Ming and Qing Dynasties had repeatedly hired production. However, these germinations finally failed to grow out of traditional resistance and were strangled in their infancy.

The musket tactics advocated by Ji Aojian are also the beginning of a new thing, and they will definitely encounter various difficulties during their growth. If they are not handled properly, everyone will think that the firearm is just like this, and they still trust the cold weapons of the big sword and spear.

On the land in the northeast, Manchus have horses, while Hans have no horses. Therefore, Manchus are rulers and Hans are ruled. Only by popularizing firearms and giving everyone a musket can they have the confidence and courage to defeat Manchus.

In the era without muskets, people here even if they want to be bandits, they must have horses to dare to deal with the official army of Manchukuo. Therefore, the bandits in the northeast must be all horse bandits. If they have horses in their hands, they can naturally advance or retreat. They hide in deep mountains and valleys and fight guerrillas with the Eight Banners soldiers. It is very troublesome for those Manchu cavalry to catch them, and if they go to the mountains to suppress the bandits a few times, they will be left alone.

The head of the Hao Da family in Heifeng Village, one is that they have never seen the power of firearms, and the other is that they bully the peasants and workers' union without horses. The most important thing is to see that they are not the official army, and they think they are new forces that are black and eat black, and they don't want to lose their reputation on the black road, so they launch a head-on charge. If Hao Dalong is cruel and does not fight and only fights guerrillas in Heifeng Mountain, it will be very troublesome if Ji Aojian wants to take them down.

Luffy Hao said, "President, even if you jump out of all the defective products of the musket, it will not be enough for a few months to train."

Ji Aojian asked, "Why?"

Luffy Hao said, "We have limited gunpowder reserves and will be used up soon."

The budding of musket tactics has encountered another big problem, and it is absolutely impossible to have a gun or no bullet.

Ji Aojian looked out the window and said, "Master Lu, Wuliugou is a good place."

Luffy Hao said, "I still think Black Wind Village is better. They have been operating for so many years, not only have ready-made villages, but also various garrison facilities."

Ji Aojian said, "We must not put our headquarters in Heifeng Mountain. It has long been a bandit nest. If we occupy it, others will feel that we are the heirs of the Heifeng Village cause, which is not conducive to mobilizing the masses."

Luffy Hao said, "So what's good about this Wuliugou?"

Ji Ao Jiandao, "There are coal mines and iron mines here."

Luffy Hao was stunned, "Coal Mine Iron Mine?"

Ji Ao Jian said, "With coal mines and iron ore, we can build our own guns and cannons. I have seen it. The coal produced here is adhesive and is most suitable for steelmaking."

Luffy Hao asked, "Who will dig coal, who will smelify iron, and who will build muskets?"

Ji Ao Jian said, "Digging coal is the easiest. As for the talents who make iron and guns, the Immigration Hall will find them. The next group of people who come here will be these craftsmen."

Now Ji Moli has built an immigration hall under the Butianhui, paying special attention to talents with technical jobs and helping them develop outside the customs.

Luffy Hao thought for a while, "It's easy to find a craftsman who makes iron and iron, where can he get the gunmakers?"

Ji Aojian said, "We can't always secretly resell the firearms in the imperial court. Sister Qi will dig up a few masters who made guns and guns to come."

Luffy Haoqi said, "Miss Seven can even dig this?"

Ji Aojian said, "Sister Qi often says that as long as you dance well in the hoe, you can't dig it up without a corner. Think about it, the craftsmen in the official workshop only have a fixed salary all year round, and the more they do, the less they do. If they come to the Northeast, we will pay them piece-rates and send them various expert subsidies. How could no one be willing to come?"

Luffy nodded, "I have iron smelting and guns, so what about gunpowder?"

Ji Aojian said, "Gunpowder is easier, it is nothing more than using saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal to make it according to the proportion. Fireworks and firecrackers are also set off during the Chinese New Year in Northeast China. Those who make firecrackers are invited to come and start at Wuliugou, and specially equipped with black gunpowder."

All the matters of making guns and bullets were solved, Lord Lu said, "I have one last problem."

Ji Ao Jian said, "What else is there?"

Luffy Hao said, "President, according to your opinion, there will be a thousand people here to train one period. And we will also stock up on thousands of regular people here."

Ji Aojian said, "That's right, this way you can train more than 10,000 people in a year and use muskets. A person can only have a gun in his hand, not a horse, and he can fight guerrillas with the crowded horse soldiers in the valleys and woods."

Luffy Hao said, "Then from now on, there will be thousands of people here. How much food and drink should I have to eat and drink in a day? Wuliugou is located in a remote place, so it is inconvenient to transport grain in."

The mountain road in Wuliugou is very narrow, and can only accommodate a few horses in parallel, which is even narrower than the mountain road in Heifeng Mountain.

Ji Aojian smiled and said, "There is a town outside Wuliugou. If there are thousands of people here, it will be a huge market. Materials from all parties will be transported over to sell. We can just go to the town to move the goods."

Luffy snorted, "President, you think so beautifully. What other things are okay, how can you sell food? These people who come outside the pass are all afraid of famine in their hometowns. They will store the excess food themselves when they have it."

Ji Aojian said, "There are many wastelands outside Wuliugou. Didn't we organize immigration to come? We will naturally let them practice guns and reclaim land. This was called legion farming in ancient times."

Luffy said, "In addition to raising people, we also have to raise horses. After we captured the Black Wind Village, we have almost 300 horses. As the saying goes, if you spend horses for a month and a year, a horse will be the appetite of more than a dozen people. You can't afford to raise them now."

Ji Aojian said, "If you can't afford it, just sell it first. Let's go, let's go to the town to sell horses."

Since people from all walks of life gathered in Wuliugou to join the peasant union, most of them were merchants, they naturally held a trade fair in the town.

Ji Aojian brought two hundred horses to the town. The horses in the Northeast were already popular, so he only sold them at half of the usual market price, and soon they sold them out.

The people who bought the horses all smiled and praised, "President, you are so generous, the selling price is so cheap."

Ji Ao Jian said, "The people we join the society are all brothers, so we will naturally give a discount."

Anyway, these horses were also stolen from Heifeng Village and there is no need for capital.

Ji Aojian said again, "Now you bought a horse and you also bought a carriage. Then we go to Heifeng Village to trade the inventory there, and you buy it and move it away."

There were quite a lot of homes in Heifeng Village. Ji Aojian felt it was too troublesome to move all back to Wuliu Town, so he simply kept someone to guard. At this time, he mobilized merchants from all walks of life to buy inventory, saving his own transportation skills.

Everyone was happy and saw that the president sold horses so cheaply. If the inventory in Heifeng Village was to be sold, it would probably be cheap.

Someone asked, "Is there any carriages sold here?"

Ji Aojian said, "This is a logging farm and a woodworks shop. I am rushing to build a carriage recently, and it will be enough for everyone to use in a few days."

Someone asked again, “How much does a carriage cost?”

Ji Ao Jian said, "I bought the horses just now, and I gave them all to the carriages for free."

Everyone likes it so much that they put on a carriage, how many more goods can they ship.

I heard a merchant sigh, "It's good to have horses and cars, but the horse bandits outside the pass are rampant. They will come to rob them when they see horses. And those people often requisition our horses and will not return them."

This made everyone feel sad. The foreign business movement in the pass was extremely risky, so the scale could not be increased.

Ji Aojian smiled and said, "Actually, this is easy. We can jointly establish our association's transportation business. Everyone has the marks on the horses. If they are stolen, I will come to settle the score with them."

Everyone cheered and felt the warmth of joining the club again.

Ji Aojian thought to himself that there should be special vehicles and horses outside the pass, which can not only be transported in a unified manner, but also form an intelligence network. In the future, as long as there is a turbulence in the cargo route, I will know what the horse bandits and the Manchus will move, I will know early.

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