To build weapons such as muskets and cold weapons, as well as various living and production supplies such as farm tools and iron pots, this requires a large amount of iron, and Huangzhushan itself cannot produce iron, so it can only secretly purchase iron materials from outside for production, but the scale of this procurement has not been large.

After all, Zhengtai County itself is not a large iron-producing county, and the iron in this year is originally a high-priced material, otherwise there would not be a situation where a family only has an iron pot and a kitchen knife.

Huang Zhushan used to buy iron outside, and he secretly found some businessmen to make agricultural tools, iron pots and other daily life and production tools for the purpose of making tools.

However, now that so many weapons need to be built, the amount of iron needed is not a small amount, not to mention how much it costs to purchase so much iron, the key is that it cannot be bought.

Li Xuan thought about it, first try to buy, after all, there will always be some businessmen who are not afraid of death who dare to trade with these bandits in Huangzhushan in order to make money.

Even if he couldn't procure a sufficient amount of iron by then, Li Xuan planned to melt some of the unusable iron tools in Huangzhu Mountain to make weapons.

For example, the messy weapons that were redressed before, the quality of these weapons is uneven, and the styles are different, which no longer meet the requirements of the unified standard weapons of the Tang Dynasty, and can only be placed in the warehouse as a strategic reserve in case of accidents.

When the iron was not enough, these weapons were melted down and used to make muskets, various cold weapons, and armor.

If it's still not enough, then it can only be solved by the old way: go out of the mountain and grab it!

After all, the people of the Tang Dynasty in Huangzhushan are bandits themselves, robbing villages, and traveling in the past is their old business, even if they change careers and rebel, but they can't lose their old business.

After the establishment of the new army was decided, everyone again entered into a competition for the posts of the generals of the major new armies.

In this new establishment, Li Xuan abolished the two separate names of the Standing Army of the Tang Dynasty and the Guards, and instead adopted a new establishment.

Each team uses a unified number number, from the first to the ninth team, in order to distinguish the attributes of each team's troops, after the number is distinguished by the name of the troops.

All of the above-mentioned units are directly under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council, which has established three new divisions: the Operations Division, the Ordnance Division, and the Logistics Division, and at the same time abolished the authority of the Ordnance Department and logistics supply.

And Li Xuan is still personally in command of the Privy Council, and does not set up any deputy privy or other deputy positions, in other words, Li Xuan will personally command these eight combat units, and do not want deputies.

Abolishing the Standing Army and the Guards, and placing each team directly under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council was Li Xuan's core plan to further consolidate military power.

Gathering military power and suppressing Fang Dongquan, Huang Xueren and others is the core policy of Li Xuan's several military reforms in the past six months.

Now that the standing army has been directly eliminated, it is also to further weaken the military power of Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren.

As for the withdrawal of the Guards, it is also to limit Wang Danxu, who has been expanding recently, and the Guards have been in the limelight recently, Wang Danxu has vaguely surpassed Fang Dongquan and become the first army leader of the Tang Dynasty.

He is not like waiting for Wang Danxu to become Fang Dongquan half a year ago, his power has increased enough to affect the trend of the entire Tang Dynasty, and even threaten the life of him, the emperor.

This time, the new army was directly brought under the direct jurisdiction of the Privy Council, and while Li Xuan was collecting military power, it was impossible for him to kick Fang Dongquan and Wang Danxu out with one brain.

He just wanted to limit their power, and he didn't want to abandon it, but on the contrary, he would continue to reuse it in some ways.

For example, the real power captains of the major teams continue to use these people.

The captain of the first musket team is Wang Danxu, the captain of the second musket team is Bai Yunqi, the captain of the third spear team is Fang Dongquan, the captain of the fourth spear team is Huang Xueren, the captain of the fifth spear team is Cai Erhu, and the captain of the sixth sword and shield team is Chen Butcher.

The captains of the 7th Archery Brigade, the 8th Baggage Brigade, and the 9th Cavalry Regiment, as well as the vice-captains of each team, were also their henchmen.

However, among the various divisions of the Privy Council, these generals were not used, but were prepared to be selected directly from among the middle and low-ranking military attachés.

And Li Xuan also set a hard condition, that is, if you want to serve in the Privy Council, you must be able to read and write.

You don't have to be able to write a splendid article, but you must be able to read and write.

This is also to stimulate and even force those martial artists to read and write on their own!

As early as last year, Li Xuan tried to set up literacy classes and train his own readers, so that Liu Bagou, Wang Wenhua, and Qian Mengjiu, the only scholars in the Tang Dynasty, took turns to teach, which can be regarded as achieving certain results, but most of the people who came to study were originally people under the civilian system, but there were few people in the army who came to study.

This time, Li Xuan made up his mind to turn these illiterate people into semi-literate!

In the future, those who can't read and write, don't expect to be able to command the army in the Tang Dynasty in this life, and they will be a captain if they die.

After a military reform, Li Xuan was satisfied to let go of these 'military and political affairs', and then looked in other directions with satisfaction.

There has already been a complete set of plans for military training, and as long as the people below don't mess around, they just need to train step by step, and there will be no problems.

And the government affairs are simpler, just such trivial matters, which can be handled casually in the court every day, and it can't waste much of his energy at all.

Recently, he has divided the main time into two halves, half for the harem and half for research on small inventions.

On the second night after returning to Huangzhushan, Li Xuan gave Zhu'er the Fa on the spot, and in the following few nights, Dong Yunyun and Zhu'er's master and servant played the indescribable game with Li Xuan every night.

So much so that Li Xuan walked a little unsteadily in those days, and then he was reminded by Liu Bagou in a roundabout way: saying that others are still young, don't die on a woman's belly.

But Empress Dowager Bai also found him, and said in front of Li Xuan that Dong Yunyun, the queen, only eats rice and does not lay eggs, from the end of last year to now, it has been so long, and she has occupied Li Xuan every day, but she is stunned and does not lay any eggs.

In the end, he said to Li Xuan seriously, don't run to Dong Yunyun every day, you kid has another wife, Ye, that girl is a big breasted and big ass, and you kid has to go there for the night.

What he said made Li Xuan remember, there is also a Ye family!

When the Ye family first entered the palace last year, he was quite amazed by her feelings at first, but he was soon dazzled by Dong Yunyun's active dedication, and for a long time, he only had Dong Yunyun and Zhu'er in his mind, a pair of master and servant, and he had already left the Ye family behind.

An ordinary woman, even if she looks a little prettier, but there is a combination of Dong Yunyun and Zhu'er, a brutal maid, who is very attractive!

Even if the factor of identity is not considered, the reason why the Ye family can't compare to Dong Yunyun and Zhu'er, the master and servant, is not because Li Xuan doesn't like her, let alone because she is not beautiful, but because she is weak and has only one person!

How can there be double flying when flying solo!

In addition, the Ye family did not live in the same big house as Li Xuan and Dong Yunyun, but was close to the Empress Dowager Bai's side, Li Xuan, like Dong Yunyun, would never go to the Empress Dowager Bai's side to find trouble.

Calculating the time like this, he really hasn't seen the Ye family for some time!

Now that his mother Empress Dowager Bai said this, Li Xuan estimated that he would go to Ye's side a few more times during this time, find an opportunity to eat her, and he couldn't let a delicate beauty stay alone in the empty boudoir, so his sin would be great.

It's not annoying to talk about all the things in the harem, it's not too much, Li Xuan didn't pay much attention to it, after he was busy with the military reform in the past two days, he focused on research and invention again.

Among the most important research inventions, of course, were flintlock pistols and artillery.

Now Li Xuan dreamed of getting the flintlock pistol out, and originally thought that after the new 'invited' more than 30 craftsmen, there was hope to solve the problem of spring steel, but after inquiring about it, no one knew how to make spring steel, and in the end it could only give them time to continue to study and strive to get the spring steel out as soon as possible.

As for artillery, this thing is very simple, Li Xuan doesn't understand the artillery of later generations, but he knows that the ancient artillery, isn't it just an enlarged version of the arquebus, how difficult it can be, I didn't do it before because I couldn't find enough copper, I went out of the mountains to loot a lot of copper materials before, and I also grabbed a few big bells from several temples, although the copper material obtained is still not much, but it is enough to make a cannon of several hundred catties, so let people try to do it.

As for what kind of artillery can be made, it depends on the character, anyway, Li Xuan didn't give them specific performance restrictions, but just gave them the most basic drawings of the front-loading smoothbore gun, as for the detailed design, don't expect it.

Li Xuan can remember that this gun is loaded from the muzzle, it would be good to have a big pipe, and the ghost knows what the internal design of those front-loading smoothbore guns is.

Anyway, Li Xuan didn't expect them to be able to make any good artillery, and when the time came, they just needed to be able to shoot the shells, and they didn't force it to hit the enemy.

This cannon, not to kill the enemy, but to scary!

The reason why the requirements were so low was because he couldn't really expect these blacksmiths to turn into grandmaster-level craftsmen in minutes, and they could make some divine weapons by looking at the drawings on those few pages of papyrus.

If this was all right, he Li Xuan would have become an immortal a long time ago, and he would still be a fart emperor!