On September 23rd, the sixth year of Tianxuan, after spending three or four days in Midway Twin Islands, Qu Mao and Xuande finally bid farewell to Kong Ming and Li Xiang, boarded a navy warship, and prepared to return to Yi Island, the holy land of Yi Gong.
In fact, Qu Mao and Xuande returned to Yidao together with 240 skilled workers from the new military factory that Xuande sent to the Firearms University for two months of training.
These 240 skilled workers did not hold on to the last few days of the two-month training period, and were brought back to Yidao by Xuande in advance. After all, Jidao New Military Industrial Park and Liandao New Military Industrial Park now have more than 50 factories in total, Not fully started, just debugging equipment and trial production, these 240 skilled workers are the key to start the factories in the two new military industrial parks.
At the beginning of Kong Ming's research on muskets and artillery on behalf of Yigong Territory, Meng De built a musket factory and a cannon factory in each of the four southern industrial islands. Unfortunately, due to limited production equipment, these eight factories have been barely surviving. No significant development has been achieved.
At the request of Qu Mao, Xuande took over the planning and layout of the new military industry, and the eight factories built by Mengde were converted into exclusive parts factories for the new military industry, from the production of finished guns and artillery to only the production of guns and artillery. The barrels and barrels, so the 240 skilled workers in charge of assembly, machinery and other processes were taken away by Xuande directly.
The workers that Meng De stayed in the eight exclusive parts factories were mainly skilled workers responsible for casting, grinding and micro-processing of gun barrels and gun barrels.
Xuande took away 240 skilled workers from Mengde, and immediately sent them to Midway Shuangzi Island Firearms University for a two-month technical training. Key technicians of Yuanxin Military Industry Factory.
As compensation to Meng De, Xuande will give priority to equipping Meng De with two newly produced boring machines.
In fact, the number of 240 skilled workers is still very small, but these 240 skilled workers are somewhat different and have been working in the eight factories of Mengde for more than half a year.
Xuande initially built 48 factories in Jidao New Military Industrial Park and Liandao New Military Industrial Park, and later built two new gunpowder factories and two explosive package factories under Qu Mao’s suggestion, making a total of 52 factories On average, a factory does not even have 5 trained technicians.
Of course, Xuande also reached an agreement with Kong Ming on the Twin Islands. Starting from October 1, Xuande will select 100 skilled workers from the new military industrial park on the 1st of every month and send them to the Firearms University for a two-month acceptance. The training will continue until the end of the seventh year of Tianxuan, which means that by the end of February in the eighth year of Tianxuan, there will be 1,740 skilled workers who have received formal training in the new military industry in Yigong Territory.
This number does not include the number of skilled workers who have received training at the Firearms University and returned to the factory to train other colleagues in the factory.
After boarding the returning navy warship, Xuande hurriedly said goodbye to Qu Mao, and then got into the cabin.
The reason why he didn’t stay with Qu Mao was because the cabin contained things that Xuande cared more about.
First of all, there are two boring machines produced by the small-batch production workshop of the Firearms Research Institute. This is the compensation Xuande promised to Meng De when he took away 240 skilled workers from Meng De.
Liandao Boring Machine Factory has actually started production a long time ago, but the production capacity is mainly used to meet the needs of the military factories in the new military industrial park, and there is no additional production capacity for the Ministry of Industry.
Xuande promised Mengde two boring machines in stock, which is also worthy of Mengde's provision of 240 skilled workers for Xuande.
In addition to the parts of the two boring machines, there are 50 finished samples of rear-loading flintlock guns in the cabin. These are all products of the small-batch production workshop of the Firearms Research Institute. A new type of firearm equipped with a front sight on the top of the barrel and an aiming scale on the back of the gun.
These finished samples of firearms are for Xuande to bring to each firearms factory for the technical workers of each firearms factory to conduct research. In fact, Xuande really wanted to poach some production technicians from the small-batch production workshop of the Firearms Research Institute, but Kong Ming flatly refused. , but promised Xuande that if he still needs him in July of the seventh year of Tianxuan, Xuande can be allowed to dig no more than 10 people back.
Of course, finished samples of the artillery are also available in the small batch production workshop of the Firearms Research Institute, but considering the weight of the artillery, Kong Ming did not let Xuande bring it back this time.
After all, Xuande is on a naval warship, not a transport ship or a troop carrier. In addition to the naval fighters that the warship will be equipped with, it also carries an additional 240 technicians, Qu Mao and Xuande. It will be very light, so none of the finished samples of the artillery are brought.
However, Kong Ming has also reached an agreement with Xuande, that is, on October 1, Tianxuan Six Years, a merchant ship from Lvlin Town, Liandao Island will deliver 11,000 tree seedlings to Dadao, Twin Islands in the middle. Xuande brought a total of 30 finished artillery products of 10 specifications, which will also be distributed to various new military factories as samples for production.
With these treasures on board, Xuande returned with a full load, so he was naturally unwilling to chat with Qu Mao. With eight or nine hours of sailing at sea, Xuande was more willing to stay in the cabin and look at his goods.
As for the finished samples of grenades and landmines, as well as the finished samples of improved explosive packs, Xuande naturally brought a lot this time, but the new formula of gunpowder, Xuande only brought the formula table, and did not bring the actual gunpowder on board. .
Although Yigong Domain has not spent a long time researching gunpowder, it consumes a lot on the battlefield. Therefore, in the process of desperately producing gunpowder, Yigong Domain has reached a very good state of gunpowder production technology and mixing technology. , probably not much worse than Pengda Principality.
Qu Mao naturally knew that Xuande had stayed on the Twin Islands for three or four days this time, and finally returned with a rewarding experience, so he didn't bother Xuande.
In any case, Xuande quickly put the new military industrial park into operation and continuously provided the Yigong territory with new gunpowder weapons and equipment. The one who benefited the most was the Yigong territory as a whole. Therefore, in some recent decisions, Qu Mao favored those from the logistics department. The signs are very clear.
Even if Xuande has no way to coordinate some relationships, Qu Mao will take the initiative to help Xuande coordinate.
The update and iteration of the entire firearm is the result Qu Mao hopes to see most.
But after telling Kong Ming about the musket sighting device and artillery carriage device, Qu Mao was a little worried whether Kong Ming would return to the lord's hut on time on October 1, Tianxuan Six Years to take on his duties. Kong Ming's madness and dedication to technological innovation, Qu Mao Mao has seen it before.