Chapter 28: 28Old acquaintances

Chapter 28: 28Old acquaintances

 Chapter 28 28Old acquaintance

They were not dismissed by Tang Mo, but left by themselves - they also have to eat, and they cannot starve to death squatting here in Tang Mo.

"I found two people according to your request. Their skills are pretty good, and their characters are not problematic. They are all old acquaintances. They have worked with your father before, so they can be trusted. In addition, there are a few newcomers. , The foundation is very clean, but the skills are average." Seeing that Tang Mo seemed to be recalling, Roger continued: "They are very satisfied with the treatment we have given them, and they are willing to give it a try."

 These days, war is approaching and the economy is in a slump, making life difficult for everyone. Now that there is demand again in the workshop and wages are guaranteed, these old people are naturally willing to come back and continue doing the work they are familiar with.

The same goes for those young people. They have no skills and have just entered the mercenary industry. They always need to accumulate some work experience and train themselves so that they can accumulate some good qualifications for themselves.

Tang Mo nodded. He urgently needed to build a team of his own to ensure his safety.

 After all, he now only has one Weiss who can be regarded as his armed force, which seems too thin.

What's more, Weiss is also a ranger in Beiling, and he came to him on his own initiative, so his loyalty is really not very high. He is only used because no one is available. This is Tang Mo's current dilemma!

 So, he naturally recognized Old Roger's work and agreed: "Very good! We don't need great skills, we just need them to be loyal to us."

As he spoke, he sighed helplessly: "As you can see, the people here are getting more and more mixed."

Tang Mo has actually been thinking about building up his own defense force, but he has never had enough energy and strength.

On the one hand, he is eager to resume production and start making the entire workshop profitable. On the other hand, he also wants to expand production to ensure the speed of his development... As a result, the manpower and material resources that can be squeezed out to prepare private armed forces are very limited.

Now he can ask Roger to find some reliable people. He did not even keep any profit and spent the last bit of his "private money" to get it done.

Tang Mo hung up the towel, then turned back, sat down in his seat, and continued to say to Roger: "You know, our security protection is all from the Earl, but there is nothing wrong with Tiger's character. , But we can’t always rely on the soldiers brought by Tiger, we must change the status quo, which is why I asked you to find some reliable old people to come back.”

"You're right. Although Wes is good, his loyalty is actually not reassuring." Roger was also uneasy about the messy relationships in the entire workshop before, so he agreed: "So, I Loew and Bernard are back. With them here, I think the safety of the workshop must be guaranteed. "

“I knew you could definitely handle it.” After recalling the appearance of these two people in his memory, the smile on Tang Mo’s face became even wider.

Both of them are old men in the workshop. Bernard has been with Tang Mo's father since he was seventeen or eighteen years old, and now he is thirty years old and is in his prime. The other Loew is about forty years old, mature and steady, and has good swordsmanship. Gao Qiang is also a trustworthy acquaintance.

After recognizing these two people, Tang Mo looked at Old Roger and continued: "So I hope you will focus on cultivating your own armed forces in the future. Anyway, we will mass-produce needles soon. "It is not difficult to arm a dozen people with our hand-made revolvers and build a defense team loyal to us."

In Tang Mo's view, tactical advantages based on advanced weapons can easily eliminate shortcomings caused by lack of combat experience.

As long as this independent armed force affiliated with him can be equipped with revolvers, then in close combat, the superiority in firepower will allow them to easily defeat enemies several times their size.

What's more, he still has more weapons that can be developed and equipped to his personal guards first. With these weapons, even if these people are allowed to fight against the soldiers brought by Tiger, they can easily defeat them.

"I have brought them here and handed them over to Loew. According to your request, I will issue them weapons and let them start training as soon as possible." Old Roger heard that Tang Mo was very interested in his work. Satisfied and relieved, he said.

 He is not young anymore, he is already forty-three years old this year. With old arms and legs, it is not easy for him to run around every day.

For half a month, he has been running around in the workshop. While helping to assemble a new steam engine, he also has to collect raw materials for Tang Mo. He is so tired that he is about to fall apart.

You must know that it is not easy for the entire workshop to operate, especially since Tang Mo is still expanding and improving equipment at the same time, which makes all the work more messy and trivial.

"Use the tattered flintlock guns left in the warehouse first! Let them do some simple training! It doesn't matter, there will be needle guns soon." Tang Mo did not intend to treat his own people badly and let these armed forces belonging to him It is obviously in his fundamental interest to use the most advanced weapons first.

However, Tang Mo didn't intend to let these people out of work. He was not rich enough to raise an out-of-work force.

So he continued: "In addition, after training, let them level some land first... Anyway, I gave the money, so they can't be idle! First, open up a shooting range in the wasteland so that they can shoot in peacetime. Training!" "Understood!" Roger nodded, thinking about Loew's expression after hearing this order, and there was a slight smile on his face.

Tang Mo also knew that in terms of candidates, the most suitable person for him to lead this team was Weiss, but Weiss's loyalty was obviously not as good as that of old Roger.

What's more, Roger is old, he has no children, and has always been alone, so it is not suitable to work in a factory all the time.

 Tang Mo wanted to let Old Roger out of work and let him be his housekeeper and help with trivial things. Old Roger is indeed developing in this direction, leaving all work matters to Matthews and Parker.

"In a moment, let Loew and Bernard come to see me, and... assign wooden houses to these people... let them live as comfortably as possible." Tang Mo thought for a while and ordered Old Roger.

"Okay! I'm going to take a rest, and then I'll go to Matthews to look at the parts of the third steam engine. Is there anything I can do to help..." Roger stood up and said to Tang Mo.

 “Thank you for your hard work!” Tang Mo also stood up and sent this uncle-like elder who had been taking care of him since he time traveled out of the room.

"Nothing." Roger said without looking back.

 The available talents were still too few in every aspect. Even if we found some old people in the workshops, they were still stretched thin... Tang Mo sighed secretly in his heart and walked out with his hands behind his back.

He passed by the factory he had just left, which was the only one in the entire workshop that was currently producing, and looked at the work of Parker and several of his apprentices.

He was gratified that these apprentices were very grateful and knew that job opportunities were hard to come by, so they were very careful and studied very hard, and the quality of the parts they completed was quite high.

 At least, now we have a good start, right? Tang Mo comforted himself in this way, so that he could get out of the negative emotions as soon as possible.

 In fact, Tang Mo now has more than 300 people in his hands. Judging from the number of people, the scale of his workshop is not small. Among the more than 300 people, there were about one-third of the workers in the original workshop, about 100 people.

Including the workers from Beiling, the number was more than a hundred. Originally there were not so many, but in order to get the weapons as soon as possible, the count gathered 100 for Tang Mo, and the actual number that arrived was 106.

 In addition, there are also workers and construction workers recruited one after another, as well as family members of workers arriving, numbering about 70 or 80 people.

 There were nine Tigers and his top soldiers, as well as seven or eight factory "security guards" recruited by Tang Mo.

 In short, this is a workshop with complex components and a large number of people. Among these people, about 220 people have wooden houses or dormitories, and the remaining 80 or so people can only live in tents.

Of course, wooden houses are also being built, and some space has been moved out of warehouses, but no one has been living there.

Because Tang Mo was transforming it into a smokeless gunpowder production workshop, several carpenters were building long tables and some benches there.

 The workshop can produce guns and can also process wood. But no one expected that Tang Mo would overuse his talents and ask the carpenters who produced gun stocks and bodies to make some simple tables, chairs and benches...

 Now the entire workshop looks like a huge construction site, with construction scenes everywhere. Half of the original iron-making factory is now being renovated, and the only one still maintaining production is the factory where the steam engine is located.

There, Parker and his apprentices were working hard to use the steam engine, and some other workers were also learning.

The drilling machine is working day and night, manufacturing gun barrels one by one. In fact, it would not be wrong to say that Tang Mo did not produce K1 fast guns, because he is indeed accumulating barrels for the production of guns.

 After a few days, he had saved thirty gun barrels. This amount is actually very scary, because in other workshops, this is almost the total output of the entire workshop in a month.

Tang Mo knew that once his workers started to move, within a few days, they could use up the accumulated gun barrels and provide Tiger with more than thirty K1 fast guns.

 (End of this chapter)