The Southern Suburbs Workshop and the Anxi City Ordnance Division were merged to form a new department, the Casting Bureau

The original site of the Ordnance Division of each city was retained, but it was renamed as the office of the Casting Bureau, which did not have the functions of manufacturing, research and development, and inventory, and its sole function was to serve as the Casting Bureau to do business in other cities.

The only benefit of this reform is that it can be managed in one place and unnecessary expenses can be reduced.

At the beginning, Li Zhi promised Zhao Jiujiang a heavy reward if he completed the reconstruction within ten days, and Li Zhi did not lose his promise and directly waved his hand to let him take up a heavy position.

Zhao Jiujiang served as the director of the Foundry Bureau

Chen Qing served as the deputy director of the Foundry Bureau.

This Chen Qingyuan served as the director of the Qingyang City Ordnance Division, with an innocent family background and exquisite skills, but there are not a few craftsmen with such conditions, but why did Li Zhi choose him to serve as the deputy director.

Because Li Zhi found that Chen Qing's ideas were very active and bold in the process of understanding these craftsmen, and his innovative thinking gave him a lot of wild ideas, especially the importance of firearms, under his leadership, the new firearms researched by the Qingyang Ordnance Division had begun to take shape, but due to financial problems, they were stranded.

Therefore, Li Zhi put it in such a heavy position, which was to give great convenience, and secretly ordered the new firearms research project to be restarted.

There are three more offices under the Foundry Bureau, namely the Porcelain Making Department, the Steelmaking Department, and the Ware Making Department, each of which is headed by a person with a clean background and good character, as for their families, Li Zhi sent people to strictly guard them, not only to contain these craftsmen who hold secrets, but also for the safety of their families.

As for the result of Li Zhi's bet with Zhao Jiujiang, there is no doubt that the weapons made by Li Zhi's crucible steelmaking method surpassed the craftsmanship of this era in any aspect, so the bet had a result, and Li Zhi was the winning party.

However, Li Zhi still issued another decree, and the craftsmen in the fiefdom were all overjoyed when they heard it, and even the craftsmen in the other provinces were also moved when they heard it, but this decree was limited to craftsmen from Suxixing Province.

With the establishment of the Casting Bureau, Li Zhi, as the lord of the fiefdom, could reform independently, but the second decree involved a lot, and Li Zhi did not dare to make an arbitrary decision, and he did not dare to reform without the emperor's approval.

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Time back to when Li Zhi just returned to the house, he just entered the palace and pushed the door in, and a person who had been waiting for him jumped up from the chair for a long time, and the person standing next to him was Zhu Kai, who was sent by Li Zhi to do an errand a few days ago.

After the man stood up, he leaned over and hurriedly said, "Your Highness, you can be regarded as back!" The Holy One has instructed our family to hand over the secret decree to you," he said, pulling out the secret decree from his sleeve.

"There is Father-in-law." Li Zhi is very up-to-the-point, and quietly handed over a piece of gold, which still has a good relationship with the people around the emperor.

The eunuch collected the gold, smiled, handed over the secret decree to Li Zhi, and said, "Our family has to go back to Beijing to report to the saint." With that, he left in a hurry.

The contents of the secret decree are nothing more than the following, that is, the two proposals on the reform of the craftsman nationality and the reform of the military system that Li Zhizuo asked a few days ago, in which the benefits of the reform are written in large strokes, as well as the importance of industry and the irrationality of the current military system.

In fact, Li Zhi couldn't make up his mind whether the emperor agreed to his suggestion, because the emperor didn't like Li Zhi in the past, but Li Zhi still had the courage to send Zhu Kai to Beijing with the music, but fortunately, the emperor replied to this and approved the reform of the craftsman's nationality, but the military reform has not yet been answered.

The emperor can also see the advantages of the reform of the craftsman and the military system, the emperor is not a faint monarch, but the current situation of the dynasty is not what he wants, and he also wants to prosper in Daxia several times, but the internal worries continue, and the knife of reform can not be waved for a long time, and the craftsman can be implemented, but the military reform is a big matter, and the emperor has not made up his mind for a while.

This time Li Zhi's suggestion was in the eyes of the emperor, and he couldn't believe that this was Li Zhi's handwriting, but Li Zhi had never done anything serious before, and he was disappointed with this son several times, so he wanted to send someone to check and then reply, but the emperor didn't want to delay the implementation of the new policy in vain, so he sent his cronies and eunuchs to hand over this secret decree to Li Zhi, and at the same time sent secret agents to secretly monitor Li Zhi's every move.

Although the reform of the military system was not approved, the reform of the craftsman registration system was urgent, and the content of the second decree was about the reform of the craftsman registration system.

The craftsman status of all craftsmen in the fiefdom is temporarily retained, but as long as you go to the Anxi City Casting Bureau for grading, the professional knowledge and practical operation of the craftsmen to which they belong are examined, and the craftsman rating system is carried out according to the results.

The household registration of the Great Xia Dynasty is mainly divided into three categories: civil, military, and craftsman. Among them, all the craftsmen are handicraftsmen, and most of the military members are soldiers in the army, but there are also a small number of people who are responsible for repairing military weapons in the army and also work as military craftsmen.

In terms of legal status, these craftsmen and military craftsmen who have been included in the special household register have a lower status than ordinary households, and they have to inherit them from generation to generation, and one person is a craftsman from generation to generation, and they are not allowed to divide their households in order to make up for it. If you want to get out of the original household registration, it is extremely difficult for you to get out of the original household registration, and you need to be approved by the emperor's special decree, so without the emperor's approval, Li Zhi really did not dare to reform, and those who are affiliated with the army and craftsmen are not allowed to participate in the imperial examination and rank among the scholars, nor can they engage in industry and commerce.

After the reform, the craftsmen who restored the households were able to start businesses, and their incomes increased, so that they could consume, thus driving the economic development of the fiefdoms.

This reform, really made the entire Suxi province of craftsmen flock to Anxi City, participate in the examination for grading, for a time the city is extremely prosperous, greatly driven the local economic development, so Li Zhi a decree to envelop all the exquisite craftsmen in a province, as for those craftsmen outside the province Li Zhi is also very greedy, but the emperor's approval can only be carried out within the fief reform, which is also to greatly suppress the dissatisfaction of some people with other intentions.

In this way, the impeachment of Li Zhi by the DPRK and the central government continued, but the emperor pressed all the twists and turns, and all of them were secretly transported to Li Zhi's mansion, which was also the emperor's secret expression of support for Li Zhi.

Although Li Zhi couldn't understand why the emperor had changed his opinion of himself so much and supported himself like this, he thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't figure it out, so he didn't think about it, as long as the emperor supported him, why did he think so much.

The grading of the Foundry Bureau is in full swing, and the craftsmen are mainly rated as the third level, and the treatment enjoyed by experts, masters, and grandmasters is also different.

After joining the Foundry Bureau, expert-level craftsmen earn five taels of silver per month, obtain the right to live in a set of annexes, and obtain permanent use rights after working in the Foundry Bureau for five years.

After joining the Foundry Bureau, a master-level craftsman will receive a monthly salary of 15 taels of silver, and will obtain the right to live in a set of annexes, and will be able to obtain permanent use rights after working in the Foundry Bureau for three years.

After joining the Foundry Bureau, a craftsman of the Grandmaster level will receive a monthly salary of 30 taels of silver, and will be granted the right to live in a set of annexes, and the right to use it will be granted after working in the Foundry Bureau for one year.

Under such a generous treatment, many craftsmen have chosen to join the Foundry Bureau, and for a time the Foundry Bureau has to expand a lot, and the craftsmen who did not choose to join the Foundry Bureau have also started businesses, which has greatly promoted the economic development of the fiefdom.