Shi Daxuan's eyes lit up: "Little brother, can you cast artillery?"

"Returning to Chief Shi, the villain's ancestors were craftsmen who fled to the south in northern Zhili. Both their ancestors and their parents learned the art of casting artillery. After arriving in Fujian, they received guidance from the monk Hongmao Yiyang, so they knew about casting artillery."

"May I have your name?"

"The surname is Zhang and his name is Sheng, and Zhang Sheng is also."

Shi Daxuan took out a list from the roster, compared it, and found that it was correct, so he was overjoyed: "Okay, I will test you first tomorrow morning! If I can satisfy me, I will ask my elder brother to come to you!"

The roster was filled out based on everyone's previous self-reports and the content on the road quotation. When Gao Shixin came out of the capital, he brought dozens of different road quotations, which could be used with various names. Moreover, the road quotations made by the Jinyiwei were all real, and even if the government checked, there would be no problem, let alone cheating these pirates.

Shi Daxuan compared the roster and had no doubt about what Gao Shixin said. There were also many fugitive craftsmen on Kinmen Island. Because the Daming craftsmen had a very low status and were struggling at the bottom of society, even food and clothing became a problem, and many overwhelmed craftsmen fled.

The Brothers Alliance especially liked to recruit craftsmen, blacksmiths, carpenters, shipbuilders, gunpowders, and construction craftsmen who fled to Fujian. These craftsmen who were not even full of food in the Ming Dynasty and were looked down upon became fragrant steamed buns when they fled to the Brothers Alliance, and the Brothers Alliance all competed for them.

After the craftsmen arrived at the pirate nest, they showed ten times more energy than they did in the Ming Dynasty, creating bird guns, swords and guns, bows and arrows, production ships, castles, and cast light artillery. The weapons they produced were not as good as ten times the quality of the weapons they produced when they worked for the Ming Dynasty’s Ministry of Works!

Similarly, after some craftsmen were kidnapped by the Later Jin Dynasty, their lives in the Later Jin Dynasty were much better than those in the Ming Dynasty, so the quality of the Later Jin Dynasty's firearms was actually better than that in the Ming Dynasty!

Although Gao Shixin did not have the skill of making guns and casting cannons like Zhang Yong, he was actually a little more familiar with it, which was much better than most craftsmen of this era.

The next morning, Shi Daxuan arrived at the barracks.

"Zhang Sheng, Chief Shi is here to find you!" A knock on the door outside Gao Shixin's bamboo house.

When he opened the door, he saw a soldier wearing black iron armor and a pointed, wide-eaved iron helmet standing at the door. The soldier had an envious expression on his face. He muttered to himself: This kid is so lucky. I have been here for two years, and Chief Shi has never seen me directly. This kid is good, but he was attracted by Chief Shi as soon as he came.

Shi Daxuan had been waiting outside the barracks for a long time. Behind him were two soldiers wearing iron helmets and armor, with muskets on their backs.

This equipment is much stronger than that of the officers and soldiers! Gao Shi said in his confidence.

The Brothers Alliance was rich, and their soldiers were dressed like the Ming army, and their military uniforms were mandarin ducks and war jackets, and they wore pointed iron helmets. The soldiers fighting on land were covered with iron armor, and the navy soldiers were covered with armor made of wood or bamboo.

Before, the Ming Dynasty had not tried to suppress the pirates of the Brotherhood, but they were defeated repeatedly and even the Navy was taken away. In the original time and space, until Yan Siqi's death, the Brotherhood split. Zheng Yiguan from Fujian brought up a group of people to break with Liu Xiang from Guangdong. Later, Zheng Yiguan accepted the court's envoy, and Liu Xiang went to surrender to the Dutch. Everyone had the next thing to do. Liu Xiang and the Dutch attacked Kinmen, and the Battle of Liaoluo Bay broke out. The Dutch and Liu Xiang's coalition were defeated. Finally, Zheng Yiguan assisted the Guangdong Navy and completely wiped out Liu Xiang's pirates.

Gao Shixin followed Shi Daxuan through the town. When he passed by the seaside shipyard, he saw a busy scene. He saw countless craftsmen in the shipyard busy building ships of all sizes.

The shipbuilding craftsmanship level during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty was very high, but later after Liu Daxia burned down sea charts and treasure ship drawings, the shipbuilding craftsmanship became worse every year. On the one hand, it was the sea ban, and on the other hand, the craftsmen were unwilling to work hard. However, many craftsmen still did not forget the craftsmanship passed down from generation to generation, but they were useless in the Ming Dynasty. When they arrived at the pirates, they could work hard. If they did well, they could get a considerable income.

There were ships of large and large moors on the sea surface. This was really a powerful sea empire! It was a pity that after Yan Siqi died young, Zheng Yiguan broke with Liu Xiang; later, Zheng Yiguan surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, which almost destroyed this powerful sea empire; Zheng Yiguan's son Zheng Damu insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty and re-established the sea empire. Unfortunately, with the failure of the Northern Expedition, the soldiers and generals were lost, and the hope of rebelling against the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty was completely lost. Zheng Damu later arrived in the Eastern Band and drove away the Dutch, and just when he was ambitious to seize Luzon Island, he died young.

If Zheng Damu had not died young and seized Luzon Island, perhaps later history books would have written: Zheng successfully recovered Luzon, and then Luzon Island became China since ancient times...

Not long after walking, I arrived at the Blacksmith Field.

The blacksmith farm of the Brothers Alliance was extremely large, more than five times the size of the blacksmith farm of the Ming Dynasty Works Department that Gao Shixin had seen. When he walked into the blacksmith farm, he heard the sound of "sharp clanging" irons. Outside a long row of corridors, there were rows of iron platforms. The iron sheets just taken out of the stove were placed on the iron platform. The first craftsman held a hammer and beat them with a "ding-ding-dang" and then quenched. After it was quenched, it was passed to the next blacksmith, and then put it in the stove for heating. After it was burned red, it was picked up and beaten. It was passed on in rows. When the last blacksmith finished, a sword that was refined into steel was released.

"This is simply assembly line production." Gao Shixin sighed.

"Assembly line?" Shi Daxuan was stunned. He had never heard of this word, but when he thought about it, he smiled. "Little brother, you are really vivid, it is transmitted like flowing water, which is more efficient. A piece of iron is transmitted from beginning to end, and a seedling knife that cuts iron like mud is done."

After passing through the blacksmith shop that builds swords and guns, we arrived at the blacksmith shop that builds muskets. Just like building swords and guns, it is also a flowing production method. A gun barrel is passed from the first iron platform to the last iron platform, and a gun barrel is completed. There are also several copper smelting furnaces, which are specifically responsible for building triggers, bolts and other components of muskets, as well as carpenter shops, which are specially built into butt stocks. After all the parts are completed, they are assembled into a high-quality bird gun.

Gao Shixin asked, "Did you learn this method from the Thais?"

"That's right, little brother, you have such a good eye!" Shi Daxuan nodded and smiled.

Gao Shixin asked again: "How can gun barrels and various parts made by different people be matched? Are you not afraid of mistakes?"

Shi Daxuan did not answer directly, but walked to a pair of iron thrust platforms with Gao Shixin and picked up two tools from the table on one side: "This is a card mark, this is a ruler. This card mark can be inserted into the gun barrel, push the two ends to the bottom, and then taken out. Use the Taixi ruler to measure the length, which is the inner diameter of the bird gun. Each gun barrel has strict requirements, and the error cannot exceed one millimeter."

Gao Shixin picked up the card and saw that the thing looked like a vernier caliper, but there was no scale on it. It was just a tool for measuring the inner diameter of the firearm. It also needed to be taken out and measured with a ruler. At this time, the vernier caliper (Wang Mang's long lost) had not yet been released, but in order to unify the caliber of the musket, Westerners adopted this method.

Going further inside, there is a blast furnace for iron smelting. The raw materials sent into the blast furnace are pig iron transported from land. After being sent into the blast furnace, they are trained into cooked iron. The cooked iron is then sent to make swords, guns, muskets and armor.
Chapter completed!