Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 14 Closing Ceremony
After some haggling, the Englishman Thomas, who was impressed by the quality of the Hidden Immortal Wine, reluctantly said: "Your Highness, the price of seven silver coins per catty is still the old rule."

"Well, what's the old rule?" Zheng Kezang asked doubtfully.

Thomas waved his hand and said, "Dear Your Highness, the cash in our East India Company's hands is running out. If the amount of hidden fairy wine is too large, we can only use a batch of red barbarian cannons and shells to offset the money. "

The Hongyi Cannon is a cannon produced in Britain in the late sixteenth century. It was a high-level artillery in that era. It was introduced to China during the Wanli period, but it is now in the late seventeenth century. This kind of Hongyi Cannon has been outdated in Europe. , but it is still easy to use in Asia.

Zheng Kezang expressed his understanding. If he doesn’t take this batch of arms, he can’t let the British guys sell them to others. If they sell them to the Qing Dynasty, it will be uncomfortable: “Then how much Tibetan fairy wine do you want to buy now?”

Thomas thought for a while and said affirmatively, "If possible, we would like to buy 10 catties."

"That's impossible. The quality of Tibetan Immortal Liquor is excellent. This year's output is very small. You can sell it for 4 catties at most. If there is any more, you will have no more. And you have to prepare the wooden barrels for the wine." Zheng Kezang pretended to be very determined In fact, the annual output of 10 jin can still be achieved. It is nothing more than getting more bagasse, and this is the appetite of the British.

The two parties came and went, and finally reached an agreement that the East India Company would pay half of the payment in advance, and Zheng Kezang would sell 6 catties of Tibetan fairy wine.

Sending away the contented Thomas, Zheng Kezang made a small fortune today. He earned the artillery of the youth battalion by himself. A new training subject - shooting.

2 months later.
"His Royal Highness Jian Guo, the youth camp should have 100 people, and if there are 100 people, please instruct whether to start the assessment!" The sweaty instructor Liu Lai reported to Zheng Kezanghui on the podium of the school grounds.

"Start the assessment!"

"Yes!"

Today is a big day for the youth camp—the graduation assessment. As long as you pass the assessment, you can participate in the graduation ceremony. The main assessment contents are: queue, shooting, stabbing, and physical fitness assessment.

The queue assessment is actually a free gift, because the boys in the youth camp have formed muscle memory after practicing the queue every day. Although they can't achieve the effect of copying and pasting, their queue movements are very standard. Anyone who sees it will have to praise it One sentence: Orders and orders are prohibited, elite soldiers among elite soldiers.

Therefore, there is no doubt that the queue assessment is passed by all.

The next step is the shooting assessment. The assessment uses the turtledove foot fire blunderbuss. The shooting assessment indicators are ten shots per incense stick. Six out of ten are excellent, three out of ten are qualified, and below two out of ten are unqualified.

With a shooting distance of 50 meters, a human-shaped target with a width of 1.7 centimeters and a height of [-] meters, most of the students in the youth camp who have been trained for three months can do it.

Shooting assessment is divided into eight steps.

One: Clean up the fire hole and gunpowder pool
Two: Pour the primer into the gunpowder pool

Three: Pour the propellant from the muzzle
Four: Lead bullets are loaded from the muzzle
Five: Pull out the cleaning rod from under the barrel, and tamp the projectiles and propellant in the barrel

Six: Light the match
Seven: Fix the matchlock on the matchlock clip
Step [-]: Pull the trigger. When the matchlock falls, the gunpowder pool cover pops open, and then the primer ignites the propellant to launch the lead bullet.

Bang... bang... bang... bang bang.

Because it is a matchlock gun, every time the gun is fired, there will be a puff of black smoke, resulting in a strong smell of gunpowder and smoke in the school grounds.

Zheng Kezang sat in the middle of the school yard, smoking black cigarettes until he was dizzy.

Zheng Kezang was delighted with the results of the shooting assessment. Only one or two unlucky ones failed. Zheng Kezang then instructed Chen Wei and others to arrange make-up examinations for them. .

In the shooting assessment, Pan Aqiang, who is amazingly athletic, has an amazing shooting talent. He can hit [-] out of [-] shots, and he will be a sharpshooter in the future. Qin Zhiguo is also good, with [-] out of [-] shots. It seems that he has been trained seriously.

As for the subsequent stabbing assessment, a wooden spear was used to demonstrate the bayonet technique in Zheng Kezang's "Dongning Infantry Manual". As long as the movements are in place, they are basically qualified.

The training of bayonet technique is well prepared. After a while, when he has more brilliant points, the bayonet will be arranged on the schedule.

Once Zheng Kezang's flintlock gun and bayonet are in place, the Eight Banners cavalry of the Qing Dynasty will have to withdraw from the stage of history with tears in their eyes.

"Students of the youth camp standing here, today I would like to congratulate you. After three months of intensive study and training, you have successfully completed your studies. Now I announce that all of you have passed the assessment and graduated successfully!"

Following Zheng Kezang's words, there was a burst of warm applause in the school grounds.

Leaders should applaud when they speak, this is the rule of the youth camp, but this time everyone applauded sincerely, wishing to slap their hands, because the inhuman training before was too painful.

"Don't be too happy, you still have to keep training, but you can take it easy in the future." In fact, these three months are the recruiting period of the youth battalion. The training is relatively hard, and then they will be given a little more relaxation.

"Next, I'm going to give you a graduation gift." As soon as the words fell, the folks who came to help pushed a pile of clothes over.

That's right, it is the gifts that Zheng Kezang painstakingly designed for them, namely summer and winter uniforms.

Xia Changfu is a white short-sleeved shirt with an armband embroidered on the left arm. The armband is a red background with the words Youth Camp on it. Below it is a white tiger, very domineering. The lower body of Xia Changfu is a pair of ordinary black straight-leg pants .

The boys in the youth camp had never seen such exquisite clothes before, and they were still disciplined. Everyone lined up to get them, without making any noise.

As for winter clothes, that's a big deal.

This is a black dress carefully designed by Zheng Kezang. With reference to the German military uniforms of World War II, combined with the characteristics of the Chinese people, the waist and shoulder pads are processed through three-dimensional cutting to make the clothes fit the body better. It highlights the beauty of a kind of strength.

This outfit doesn't have a good figure, and it still can't wear the inner flavor of the empire. In the future, the youth camp must not be allowed to relax in training, and must maintain its figure.

In addition, the white tiger armbands, ribbons, youth camp badges and other embellishments designed by Zheng Kezang have added a lot of color to the winter uniforms, and anyone who sees them will give a thumbs up.

It's a pity that it's summer now, otherwise when the clothes come up, the young people in Dongning Mansion will see them, and they will all be crying for their parents and begging to join the army.

A handsome and stylish military uniform is extremely attractive to young people.

"Everyone, go to the bathhouse to take a shower and change into new clothes. I still have a few words to tell you."

(End of this chapter)