Lu Yuan has implemented an apprenticeship system in the management of technical talents, that is, each master is required to bring five apprentices, and must unconditionally pass on his skills to the apprentices.

If the apprentice learns a skill well, the corresponding master and the apprentice himself will be rewarded with one or two silver at a time, and the apprentice's learning time is tentatively set for one month.

If the apprentice still can't learn a skill after a month, the apprentice's salary will be reduced by half, and the corresponding master will also be fined one tael of silver.

If the apprentice fails to learn after three months, the apprentice will be expelled, and the corresponding master will be fined two taels.

Lu Yuan's purpose in doing this was to prevent the family-style tradition of passing on skills and hiding the skills of skilled craftsmen in this era.

By doing this, Lu Yuan can expand his technical team.

Therefore, Zuo Tiejian taught his five apprentices the technique of drilling gun barrels without reservation.

From the outset, the five apprentices had their own independent machine tools for barrel drilling.

In this way, Lu Yuan's firearms team can drill out fifteen barrels a month.

Lu Yuan still felt that it was slow, so he simply promoted these five apprentices directly to quasi-mechanics, and let each bring five apprentices, so that twenty-five people were responsible for drilling the barrel.

Fortunately, it is not very difficult to drill the barrel, and the emphasis is on care and patience, after all, it is necessary to accurately drill a smooth and symmetrical barrel.

So, in less than five days, these twenty-five people were able to drill the barrel independently.

As a result, Lu Yuan's firearms team drilled out more than 80 barrels a month later.

There are prospective mechanics who have mastered the technology and can drill out one or two barrels in more than a month.

During this period.

Left Iron Arm, who was in charge of building the flintlock gun, also began to take the five newly recruited apprentices to build the flintlock gun machine needed for the flintlock pistol.

The principle of a flintlock gun is not much different from that of an arquebus, except that a flintlock pistol needs to hit the flint with a hammer to ignite the gunpowder.

Therefore, the speed of making a flintlock gun is very fast, and you can basically make one in a day.

To be precise, assembly, because Lu Yuan designed an assembly line of firearms manufacturing process.

The hammer was made by another quasi-mechanic, He Mazi, while the spring was still made by the mechanical group where Blacksmith Yang belonged, and the bolt assembly was in charge of the left iron arm.

In the whole process of manufacturing flintlock pistols, even Zuo Tieji, the director of the machinery company, only knew the barrel manufacturing technology and spring making technology, as well as what parts were needed for the flintlock pistol, but did not know the manufacturing technology of the drilling machine tool and did not know the smelting technology of spring steel, that is, high-carbon steel.

In this way, Lu Yuan did not have to worry about the phenomenon that one of these technicians would defect and cause the enemy's scientific and technological strength to be greatly enhanced.

Of course, Zuo Tiejian and the others are also extremely loyal to Lu Yuan now, because they now also know that it is unrealistic for them to go out and do it alone, because any new and ingenious gadget they have made now is inseparable from the support of the entire Lu family's industrial system, and even more inseparable from Lu Yuan, the supreme ruler of the Lu family.

Lu Yuan continued to recruit technicians, and the assembly workshop of the firearms group where Zuo Tiejian was located alone was expanded to thirty-six workshops, each with a mechanic or quasi-mechanic plus five apprentices.

By the end of Chongzhen's tenth year, Lu Yuan's machinery company was able to mass-produce fifty flintlock pistols a day, which was the result of the speed restrictions in the barrel workshop.

In the middle of December of the tenth year of Chongzhen, Lu Yuan's mighty army already had eighty flintlock pistols, and the mighty army would not all form firearms, so it was no longer a problem for these eighty flintlock pistols to be used for preliminary training and combat.

As for how to let the mighty army conduct array drills so as to give full play to the combat effectiveness of the mighty army to the strongest point, Lu Yuan was not without rules, because the Qi family army, which already had the nature of modern infantry drills, had already given him a model left and right.

Qi Jiguang's Qi family army mandarin duck array is the best example of the Ming Dynasty's use of firearms, Lu Yuan has consulted for a long time the "New Book of Ji Xiao", that is, Qi Jiguang's book of war, but also refers to some western flintlock pistols phalanx in history, and finally decided to divide the infantry into firearms soldiers, spearmen, sword and shield hands and firefighters four kinds, each team with a number of these four types of soldiers, to form the simplest array, and then every three teams to form a team, every three teams to form a company, each company and the commander of each team can be based on the actual situation of firearms, spearmen, Swords, shields, etc. are gathered.

"This old immortal surnamed Fei, a bastard, where did he think of so many crooked ideas, let people do push-ups, pull-ups, and run with sandbags, so tired that Lao Tzu's waist is broken."

The recruit Xiong Zhiyuan lay on his bunk and cursed, and he couldn't help but sigh.

Zhou Laojiu, who was in the same dormitory as him, couldn't help but echo: "It's better to be Master Lu, every once in a while he comes to ask us if we have enough to eat, whether we are tired, whether we are cold, and personally send us winter clothes, which is better than my father." ”

"If it weren't for the fact that Master Lu was different from other officials, I wouldn't have been fucking this Rausch soldier!"

Xiong Zhiyuan just scolded, and Yue Changgui next to him was a little speechless and said: "Xiong Zhiyuan, you don't scold a few words, Uncle Fei, this is all for your good, Uncle Fei said, now let you suffer more, and leave less blood when you go to the battlefield and fight hard." ”

"The surname Yue, you don't say good things for the person surnamed Fei, he just suggested that Team Sun is mentioning you as the captain, you will really become his dog?!"

Xiong Zhiyuan spat at Yue Changgui and scolded.

"Bear bear, clean your stinky mouth! Lao Tzu only listens to the son, and only follows the son to kill the slave! ”

Yue Changgui also roared at Xiong Zhiyuan.

Xiong Zhiyuan snorted and scolded secretly: "I thought my surname was Yue, so I really thought I was Yue Fei!" It's just a captain, what's the spirit! ”

As he spoke, Xiong Zhiyuan closed his eyes and prepared to sleep, and began to snore.

However.

That's when it happened.

Outside the dormitory area of the mighty army of the entire Qingquan Village, an earth-shattering trumpet suddenly sounded.

Lu Yuan was already standing outside the dormitory area at this time, and Uncle Fei and Shen Guangzu were standing from the side.

"Brother, the field soldiers have been training too hard during this time, either off-road to a hundred miles away, or constantly practicing arrays, assassination, shooting, and night classes, let's let them rest."

Uncle Fei said with some reluctance.

"No! Within a month, each company must have three training sessions that suddenly carry out tasks at night from time to time! This is the training rules we agreed on at the beginning, those who can't arrive within five minutes will still be punished for doing 100 push-ups, and those who are not well-dressed or talking will be fined 50, and you can't talk about the slightest emotion, Uncle Fei, you have to strictly enforce this point, but you can't tell them that this is my idea, just say that it is your own idea, understand?. ”

Lu Yuan said without hesitation.

"Understood, brother, isn't a hundred push-ups too much," Uncle Fei asked.

"Then add a run and get them moving, and if it's necessary to apply the confinement I taught you to those who don't obey, but it can't be said to be my idea, understand?"

Lu Yuan said and left.

Uncle Fei nodded, and didn't say anything except secretly lamenting that his son-in-law's training was so strict, and only lowered his face: "One by one, they sleep like dead pigs, and each team is going to drag your own soldiers out, and those who don't do it within ten minutes will do fifty push-ups!" ”

It didn't take long for Uncle Fei to hear the shouting and scolding one after another, and then he also heard Xiong Zhiyuan's most obvious shouting and scolding: "The surname Fei, is his mother sick or deliberately can't get along with Lao Tzu and these field soldiers, Lao Tzu sleeps well, why do you wake up!" ”