After taking Yao Fu Liwei, the Xiangjun and the shepherds on the school field obviously cheered up. Li Buqi took the opportunity to announce some rules and regulations, and then asked the former envoy Xiang Jun under Yao Fu to elect a commander and three capital heads. As expected, the elected commander was Zheng He.

I was secretly proud of myself - this eyesight is okay.

Let the new army start training, and the envoy Xiangjun and Muzi go to work separately, Li Buqi called Zheng He and Tan Baosi, the old village chief of Muzi, into the official office for a meeting.

Tan Baosi is also a somewhat capable person. Yesterday, Li Buqi chatted with him and found that this old man was very clear-headed, and there were more than 100 families of herdsmen, how many people in each family, how much labor there were, what they were good at, and who was diligent and lazy could come with their mouths open. Although I don't know if what he said is the truth, it's no problem to be a village chief just by being shrewd.

Now Li Buqi asked Zheng He about the situation again. It turned out that Zheng He was originally a farmer in Henan Province, and ten years ago his hometown was hit by a drought and had no way to live. In the Xiang Army, he learned carpentry work from an old carpenter, and explored while doing it, and had his own experience in building houses, digging ditches, and building roads. Because every time he was sent to work, it was completed quickly, and he gained prestige in the Xiang army, Yao Fu's previous commander saw that he was relieved to work with him, so he promoted him to the head of the capital.

Later, when Yao Fu took office, he also threw it to Zheng He if he had anything, and he specially pondered how to leave some money and food on his subordinates and how to tie up with his boss. Because Zheng He had to do everything, Zheng He also had the capital to bargain with Yao Fu, and he could fight for some money and food for the Xiang army.

After listening to Zheng He's self-introduction, Li Buqi nodded and said, "Since you two are trusted, then you will be my right-hand man in the future." Just one thing you have to remember, I don't want to see you take advantage of my trust. I will always ask your men about the situation, and if I find that you are the same as Yao Fu, I will punish you severely. ”

The two didn't dare to say anything, and Li Buqi said again: "This is another box army, and Muzi's manpower is not easy to deploy, so they can't divide each other in the future." I think so, Zheng He is the positive, Father Tan is the deputy, and your people will cooperate in the future, anyway, your money and food will be in the test field in the future. ”

Seeing that the two had no objections, Li Buqi said again: "You also have a division of labor in doing things. Since Zheng He is proficient in carpentry and construction, he will mainly follow the people who work in the workshop in the future, and Father Tan has been raising horses for decades, so he mainly grazes and farms. Turning back, Zheng He first selected fifty skillful ones, preferably carpenters, to be apprentices in the workshop, and then selected thirty strong laborers to work in the winery. By the way, it also requires dozens of skillful women to make silk threads and do needlework. Daddy Tan also chose 20 of the best horses to raise horses and donkeys. Also, see if your people have any special skills, such as planting trees, raising pigs and chickens, and weaving. If a woman has the ability, check it out for me. The rest of the people, strong laborers, temporarily followed Father Tan to continue to plant trees and grass, and level the fields. ”

"In the past few days, many pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks have been transported, and you will divide a few for each family, and choose the diligent ones first......

After talking for a long time, Li Buqi asked, "Do you all remember?" ”

Zheng He and Tan Baosi both said that they remembered. Li Buqi was afraid that the two of them would be fooled, so he asked the two to repeat what he said, but both of them broke their fingers and said it clearly. Li Buqi was not very surprised by this, because he had long known that the master was in the people. Before the crossing, there was a squad leader under him, who was said to have been in elementary school for a year and could only write his own name, but at the end of the month, he made it clear how much the annual output of the month was, and whether there was any abnormality. This kind of brain is not convinced.

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The second group came from the Liang family, who originally made bronze ware, and more than a dozen craftsmen from the general prison, and more than a dozen carts pulled a lot of wooden boxes. This time, the crate was filled with a newly built lathe and a variety of tools and drills that would be built by the supervisor. There was also a big cart loaded with sacks of bristles.

Today's lathes are very simple, not large, and can be used directly after being fixed with tenon riveting on a thick wooden frame. So three days later, the bamboo and wood workshop started. The first products were toothbrushes and shoe soles.

Yes, you read that right, it's the toothbrush and the soles.

It is said that during the Tang Dynasty, the Chinese began to use toothbrushes, called toothbrushing. Advanced, right? By this time in the Great Song Dynasty, toothbrushes had become quite popular, and Li Buqi had a toothbrush, and he saw that the three Xungui and Xu Zhong had their own toothbrushes.

It's just that in this era, the toothbrushes that Li Buqi can see are very expensive, and the toothbrushes sold in grocery stores are too rough to make. The reason for this problem is the material and manufacturing process of the toothbrush.

The bristles of toothbrushes in this era were actually made from ponytails. But the Great Song Dynasty originally had few horses, and the horsetail was still a raw material for making weapons and armor, do you say this material is not expensive?

Let's talk about the manufacturing process. There are several rows of holes to be drilled into the handle of the toothbrush, and even a skilled craftsman may not be able to drill neatly every time if the hole is drilled by hand. And the polishing of the toothbrush handle also requires a lot of labor. Therefore, a small toothbrush consumes a lot of effort, and if it is not expensive, the craftsman will starve to death.

Now with the lathe, it is different, after a group of top craftsmen of the Great Song Dynasty for several months of repeated improvement, with the drill bits and cutters that will be used as the casting, the speed of drilling and shaping has been greatly accelerated. Li Buqi also contributed to the design of a crankshaft, and now a person uses the pedal as a power, and the original time for the craftsman who is the supervisor to make a toothbrush handle is like a small worker can make more than ten handfuls.

As for the bristles, of course, they are replaced with bristles. As a city of one million people, Tokyo City needs to consume a large number of live pigs every day, and most of the bristles used to be wasted, and Yang Shiro went to buy the bristles almost for nothing.

This method of making toothbrushes has been successfully tested in workshops outside of Tokyo, and it is natural that the craftsmen who will work as supervisors will guide selected workers to treat pig bristles with alkaline water and make toothbrush handles with lathes. A large group of women would divide the treated bristles into bunches, which would be placed in the holes in the handles of the toothbrushes and held in place with silk threads.

This has solved the employment problem of a large number of women.

Other craftsmen from the prison guards began to teach the new workers how to make wooden soles. It is to sawn the solid wood into pieces, then cut it into the shape of a foot with a knife on the car window, then cut a groove in the bottom edge, drill twenty or thirty holes along the shallow groove, and finally use a knife to process a few teeth at the bottom.

In addition to wearing cloth shoes, leather boots, hemp shoes, and straw sandals, the Song people also wore clogs and clog-soled shoes. Especially in rainy and snowy weather, people with conditions will wear a pair of wooden shoes when they go out to prevent wet shoes and socks. Officials also wear clogs like the "morning boots" in the theater. So, clogs are actually not uncommon.

It's just that although this wooden sole is wear-resistant, it is also labor-intensive to make. Because to make a good pair of wooden soles, it is not a carpenter's job, but a carver is required to operate.

Now, although it still needs to be trimmed and polished by hand in the end, most of the work is done on the lathe, and the cost is naturally reduced a lot.

Li Buqi chose these two projects first not because of how much money they can make, but because the shipment volume is definitely large. With enough demand, more lathes are produced, more tools and drills are needed. After a period of time, the level of Da Song's manufacturing tools will definitely go up to a higher level.

Not to mention anything else, Li Buqi was very surprised that the craftsmen who would be the prisoners actually made bolts and simple twist drills according to the drawings he had drawn. Although it is still close to the state of crafts, it is made after all. Manufacturing continues to improve the manufacturing process, and it is believed that it will soon be practical. Li Buqi regretted letting the maritime merchants find the people who made the lead screws, and he knew that the craftsmen of the Great Song Dynasty could make it themselves, and it would be over!