Coming out of the study, Li Zicheng went directly to the craftsman's workshop, Fang Zhizheng led the craftsmen to disassemble the cart and cast the Xining rifle in full swing, and when he saw Li Zicheng, he hurriedly knelt on the ground: "Fang Zhi, grass people, knock to see the adult!" ”

The craftsmen who were busy, as well as the workers who were temporarily recruited from the people, also followed Fang Zhi's example and kowtowed to Li Zicheng one by one.

"Let's all get up, don't be polite, it's serious to cast rifles quickly," Li Zicheng waved his hand and asked them all to get up, seeing that the craftsmen were busy, Fang said: "Fang Zhi, how is it, how many rifles have been cast?" ”

"So that my lord will know that after the lord left Xining, more than 200 rifles cast by the grass people have been delivered to Song Baihu, and now this third batch will be delivered soon," Fang Zhi's face was full of joy, the craftsman workshop can run at full capacity, and the craftsmen can get more remuneration, compared with the original, their current life can be said to be heaven, if Xining Wei can make guns like this forever, "My lord, now there are two molds, and two hundred rifles can be cast every month." ”

"That's good," Li Zicheng said in his heart, at this rate, after about a month, the five hundred households of the Song Ministry of Culture can all be equipped with rifles, but the amount of this pig iron is ...... "Fang Zhi, if this batch of pig iron is all used up, how many rifles can be cast?" ”

"If all these carts are dismantled, plus a small amount of pig iron purchased by proprietor Mu and proprietor Jin, it should be able to make Song Baihu's soldiers reach one per person, and there will even be some surplus."

"Fang Zhi, you have worked hard, I will not give you any less of your remuneration!" Li Zicheng calculated that if there were rifles left, he would equip his own soldiers with some first, at least the original two small flags, and they should be equipped with rifles.

If there is any surplus, will it be distributed to the 100 household officials?

This question is related to the next move of the Xining Army, Li Zicheng thought about it, and decided to distribute it to the 400th Li Ji Department.

After the completion of the training of the Song Ministry of Culture, he will be transferred to the Triangle City, because the distance between Kadang City and the Triangle City is only fifty or sixty miles, and they will be stationed in the Song Ministry of Culture, while Li Jibu will be transferred back to Xining, and while the training is carried out, he will be stationed in Xining.

However, in this way, the soldiers of the five hundred households of the Song Ministry of Culture and Culture are overstretched, and the army must be expanded, at least to reach the full strength of ten hundred households.

If the east enters Longyou, Li Zicheng will have Liu Yunshui, Li Guo, Zhou Bin, and Ma Youshui in his hands, and the total strength will reach more than 5,500 people, and among these soldiers, Liu Yunshui and Li Guobu each have 600 cavalry, while Zhou Bin and Ma Youshui have already issued rifles to 500 households each, and they all have actual combat experience.

With such a force, to attack the already rotten Longyou, Li Zicheng did not doubt the issue of victory, and his only worry was how to hold Longyou after the war.

Once the Yellow River is broken, the imperial court will inevitably know that the relationship between the Xining army and the imperial court will also be completely broken, and it will officially become an enemy on the battlefield, and the Xining army will no longer be able to rely on the big tree of the imperial court to provide support.

Once the imperial court finds out that the Xining army has captured Longyou, it is inevitable that there will be no food and salary, and what will follow will be a conquest and suppression army, I don't know if it is Cao Wenzhao who led the troops this time.

What Li Zicheng wanted to prepare was to first expand the army of the Song Ministry of Culture, let him guard the northwest area of Xining, and then smash the pot and sell iron, and it was best to cast five hundred rifles and hand them over to Li Ji's department for training.

Pig iron can not be purchased in large quantities for a while, it seems that only the armor can be melted again, in addition to the cavalry, the infantry is gradually equipped with Xining rifles, it is difficult to have a chance to fight with the enemy in close combat, the protective effect of the armor has become very limited, and the rifle itself has a weight of twenty or thirty catties, if the soldier has to wear dozens of catties of armor, but also to carry a heavy rifle, the battle, marching will be extremely inconvenient, the armor will be scrapped sooner or later, it is better to scrap sooner rather than later, and these wrought iron can be used to make rifles.

Fang Zhi opened his mouth, and saw that Li Zicheng was pondering, and he didn't dare to speak for a while, until Li Zicheng gestured with his eyes, and Fang said, "My lord, the rifle ...... Soon it will be delivered to the soldiers, but there will be insufficient bullets......"

Li Zicheng said lightly: "Is there a lack of red copper warheads?" Is the rest of the material sufficient? ”

Fang Zhi hurriedly bowed down and said: "Lord Hui, the rest of the materials, including gunpowder, are very sufficient, but the amount of red copper is insufficient, although the soldiers have been asked to recover the warheads, but the red copper in the inventory has been ......exhausted."

This is expected, Li Zicheng got a large number of steel carts in Ganzhou, transported them to Xining, and disassembled them all back to the furnace, so that the number of rifles increased greatly, and the soldiers used these rifles for training, which inevitably consumed a large number of bullets, and the red copper was originally insufficient, and it was impossible to recover all the bullets, so it was even more overstretched.

The laterite cliff copper mine in Dabanshan has been mined, but the red copper will not be seen for a while and a half, so we can only wait, "Fang Zhi, in the near future, there will be red copper entering Xining, and now we can only overcome all difficulties." ”

"Yes, my lord, my subordinates will try to save copper."

Li Zicheng nodded slightly, glanced at the old craftsman workshop again, and said: "Fang Zhi, this craftsman workshop is really too dilapidated, you first empty all the left half, I will rebuild it on the original site, when this part is completed, you move over, I will rebuild the right half." ”

Fang Zhi was overjoyed, but he didn't dare to fully believe it for a while, "Your Excellency really wants to rebuild the craftsman's workshop?" ”

"Of course, the current construction workshop is not only too dilapidated, but also extremely easy to rust even if it stores pig iron and red copper." Li Zicheng also prepared to divide the craftsman's workshop into two parts: the R&D department and the production department, although there was no room for improvement for the rifle for a while, and the craftsmen did not understand its principle and could not improve it, but the craftsman's workshop was not just an institution for the research and development of rifles.

Li Zicheng even plans to wait for the students of Xining colleges and universities to graduate, select some of them to enter the craftsman workshop, first learn from the craftsmen, and wait until they accumulate a certain amount of experience, which will completely replace these illiterate craftsmen who work only with experience, and gradually establish a group of high-quality research and development personnel.

The original craftsmen will gradually become the backbone of the production field until they retire in old age.

"Thank you, sir!" Fang Zhi arched to the end, his body almost bent at a right angle, "The grass people will go immediately and let them empty the house on the left." ”

"Shen Dao Master Craftsman Workshop, I'll talk to him first, you discuss the specific matters with him!"

"Yes, sir!" Fang Zhi saluted again, and then ran away, shouting: "Everyone rest for a while, move all the things to the house on the right, the adults are going to rebuild the craftsman's workshop......"

Li Zicheng was about to leave, but when Shen Dao came back, he saw Li Zicheng coming to the craftsman's workshop, and hurriedly kowtowed: "Your Excellency, ......"

"You came just in time," Li Zicheng motioned for Shen Dao to get up and speak, "Shen Dao, you immediately arrange manpower to push the craftsman's workshop to rebuild, in order not to affect the work of the craftsmen, first build the left half, and after the left half is completed, then rebuild the right half." ”

"Subordinates take orders!" Shen Dao patted the dust on his knees and said, "My lord, the comprehensive reconstruction of the craftsman's workshop will take a lot of time, and the wall mud will have to be piled up layer by layer, and the wall mud below will be completely dry before the upper layer ......can be built."

"No!" Li Zicheng categorically refused, "No wall mud, change to stone wall, and there is no need to classify craftsmen as before, the new craftsman workshop only has a production workshop and a small research and development workshop." ”

Li Zicheng wants to briefly describe his ideas, "There is a shortage of manpower, supplemented by the auxiliary soldiers of the hundredth household, and I will inform Yunshui!" ”

"Yes, sir!"

"In addition, how many idle craftsmen are in the craftsman's workshop, gather them," Li Zicheng took out a folded cloth from his arms and handed it to Shen Dao, "In this way, with the same materials and the same size, a hundred flags can be made." ”

"Flag?" Shen Dao unfolded it and looked at it, with a hesitant look on his face, "My lord, this is ......"

"You don't have to ask, just do it!"

"Yes, sir!" Shen Daoyi arched his hand, "My subordinates will complete these hundred flags as soon as possible." ”

When Li Zicheng left the craftsman's workshop, he first asked his soldiers to give an order to the tailor shop he had visited last time, telling him to make 1,000 sets of the same camouflage uniforms within two months.

Last time, he personally paid a deposit and asked the tailor shop to produce hundreds of camouflage uniforms, but these quantities were far from enough, and the Xining army must play its own banner when it is about to march east to Longyou, and at least thousands of more sets are needed.

Li Zicheng asked his soldiers to tell the proprietor of the shop that the task would be divided into a number of tailor shops and completed together, if these camouflage uniforms could not be completed on time, it would be a trivial matter to have a penny of silver, and the Xining Army would punish the shop, or even let them close down forever.

Subsequently, Li Zicheng turned over and got on his horse and hurried to the training ground.

At this time, the soldiers' training was nearing the end, and there were only the infantry of Liu Yunshui's department on the training ground, as well as the personal soldiers of the three small banners that Li Zicheng had expanded in Ganzhou last time.

Ren Erxi, as a temporary instructor, was training these soldiers, when he heard the sound of horses' hooves, he turned his head and saw that it was Li Zicheng, so he hurriedly stopped the training and shouted to the soldiers: "My lord is here, hurry up and salute!" He took the lead in getting up and greeted Li Zicheng, who was still more than ten steps away from the war horse, and had already turned over and knelt down, "Subordinate Ren Erxi, knock to see your lord!" ”

The soldiers behind him also rushed over with Ren Erxi, and bowed to the ground one after another, "Subordinates knock to see your lord!" ”

Li Zicheng lightly jumped off the war horse, handed the reins to He Xiaomi, held the two ends of the whip in his right hand, and swung twice on his left hand, "Get up, Erxi, how are the brothers training?" ”

"Lord Hui, the brothers were originally soldiers, and it is not difficult to train, as long as they learn the military discipline of Xining, but they have not been tested on the battlefield, and I don't know how effective it will be......"

"Take your time," Li Zicheng smiled and turned to his soldiers, "Brothers, joining the Xining Army, what do you think is the difference from when you were in Ganzhou?" ”

"This ...... The training is very strict, and the training ground needs to be desperate! It was a long time before the soldier whispered.

Li Zicheng nodded slightly, but did not speak, he was waiting for the soldiers to say, let them taste it for themselves.

"I eat better than Ganzhou, and I have broth almost every day!"

"The training was strict and tiring...... But we can eat enough, and we don't seem to care about anything except drills! ”

……

Li Zicheng smiled faintly and said: "Yes, in the Xining Army, you will gradually understand what a real soldier is, as a soldier, you only have one thing in mind: fighting and making meritorious service, and the rest of the things, including salary and promotion, you don't have to care, I will give you a fair environment, you will be rewarded for meritorious service, and you will be punished if you make mistakes, if you want to live well, you have only one way: meritorious service, only if you make meritorious service, you will get a reward," he suddenly looked furious, "In the Xining Army, No one will covet your money, and no one will dare to covet your money! ”

"Adults ......" these pro-soldiers seem to understand at once, the words of adults, like an initiation, although there are only a few words, but grasp the core, soldiers are soldiers, can not be distracted by food and other things outside the body, but in Ganzhou, if you do this, I am afraid that you will be gnawed to the slag, is this the essential difference between the Xining Army and the Ganzhou Army?

Li Zicheng looked at his own personal soldiers and said, "Continue to train for ten days, and after ten days, you will officially become my personal soldiers, with me!" ”

"Subordinates obey orders!"