The artillerymen were waiting on the side, and when they saw Li Qingyuan speak, they immediately pushed out the tiger squat cannon, and everyone walked towards the test artillery factory together, and there was a local method for testing the artillery, that is, to fill the artillery with gunpowder, and then ignite it, the first is to see if the artillery has exploded, and the second is to polish the cannon bore that has been released, so that if there are cracks, you can see it at a glance.

The principle is very simple, that is, to use the penetration of gunpowder, gunpowder burning will blacken the cracks, and you can see the black lines when polishing, and there are black lines that there are cracks, which is not what Li Qingyuan came up with, this is the wisdom of the working people, and it is the summary of the predecessors and craftsmen.

Li Qingyuan heard that this method was still robbed of the Qing army's weapons workshop, where the craftsmen and ancestors did this, they contributed this method of checking cracks, and before this Li Qingyuan only knew how to test the cannon with gunpowder, and did not know that it could be polished and tested.

Seeing the craftsman pouring gunpowder into the barrel, everyone was very nervous, even Li Qingyuan was a little worried, after the gunpowder was filled, a long lead was pulled out, Li Qingyuan and others hid behind the bunker, and the soldier who lit the fire hid in the trench, and there was a bang, and the soldier shouted: "It's safe."

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Li Qingyuan and the others breathed a sigh of relief, the craftsmen hurriedly went to see, first of all, there was no crack in the outer ring, the gun body was intact, and the others began to wipe the gun breech, and then polished it a little, this time the polishing did not take much effort, only the layer of black cannon fodder on the surface was grinded off, and after a while, the craftsman took the bronze mirror again, introduced the light into the inner wall of the cannon and began to observe carefully.

After looking at it three times from the inside out, the craftsman excitedly said to Li Qingyuan: "No problem! ”

Li Qingyuan nodded: "Okay!" You have worked hard, and you are doing your best! ”

Li Qingyuan ordered the artillerymen to pull the cannon away and go to practice, while he himself left the artillery factory, and the thing was not such an environment that was not suitable for him, with him not only could not make everyone increase efficiency, but made everyone more likely to make mistakes because of nervousness.

With the expansion of his sphere of influence and the increase in strength, Li Qingyuan found that the distance between him and everyone was getting farther and farther, from the beginning of Li Qingyuan's connivance with everyone to deify himself, Li Qingyuan knew that one day he would be farther and farther away from everyone, but he didn't expect that this day would come so soon.

Li Qingyuan has always maintained a lofty image, there is no way that as an ordinary person, he has not studied any imperial academics, nor has he had any leadership wisdom, he can only do it with the things he understands and sees, such as deifying himself...

Although this apotheosis is different from the apotheosis of the leader of the Qingshui Sect, the purpose is the same, just like between the tests, these craftsmen said that he knows everything, but there are also disadvantages, that is, once the aura of the god is broken, then he will fall very badly.

Li Qingyuan returned to the temporary Luliang headquarters, thinking about sending that army to cross the Yellow River, the northern Shaanxi region is a treasure land, the people of the Sanqin hometown are fierce, it is an excellent source of soldiers, and the northern Shaanxi is in chaos, so the soldiers in the west will not have the experience of praising the Yellow River to this side.

It's like now that Lu Liang is making trouble, then Taihang will be safe, and he has time for development, and he was hesitating, when suddenly Wang Qing from the logistics department hurriedly ran over: "General, the family of Chief Engineer Li and Division Commander Qin are fighting!" ”

Li Qingyuan frowned, ordinary contradictions naturally did not need him to deal with, but this Chief Engineer Li was the chief engineer of the musket workshop, and Division Commander Qin was the deputy commander of the Third Division of Luliang, and the level of these two people was naturally not something that Wang Qing could manage.

Li Qingyuan immediately got up: "Let's go, come with me to have a look, and tell me why they are fighting?" ”

Wang Qing looked at Li Qingyuan carefully and said, "For the sake of the land..."

Li Qingyuan was stunned: "For the land? ”

Li Qingyuan remembered that he didn't divide the land for the people in the logistics department, why did he fight for the land?

Wang Qing scratched his head and said: "In the past two days, those mothers-in-law are talking about the general's division of land, and the mother-in-law of the commander of Qin said that the people of this place have been divided, why don't they give them the families of these heroes..., and then the mother-in-law of Chief Engineer Li laughed at him for taking advantage of small advantages, and this little money is still in his eyes, and then the wife of Master Qin said that Chief Engineer Li is a struck iron Why does he earn more than his husband desperately, and then Chief Engineer Li's mother-in-law said that you have the ability to do it desperately, don't rush it yourself, and then the two of them became more and more noisy, and they also started to move. ”

Li Qingyuan rubbed his head, what kind of is this! However, Li Qingyuan figured it out as he walked, this matter is not a trivial matter, on the surface, it seems that two people are arguing, but from the perspective of a ruler, there are two contradictions hidden in it.

The first is that some people who have not been allocated to the land feel uncomfortable, and the other is that the wages of logistics have made the soldiers on the front line red-eyed.

Therefore, Li Qingyuan's matter is not as simple as persuading the two to separate, but to find a way to solve or alleviate these two contradictions.

One is that the soldiers are not given land because they are afraid that the soldiers will lose their will to fight after they settle down, and the other is that the land here is not good land in the first place, and there will be no harvest if it is divided. Will there be a shortage of land?

Li Qingyuan felt that if he succeeded, then there must be land, and if he failed, it would be useless to divide the land.

Therefore, Li Qingyuan thought at first that he would simply not give the soldiers land now, and wait for the future to lay a good place to divide it, but now that this kind of future is too far away for everyone, some people can't wait.

There is also the problem that the wages of craftsmen are higher than those of soldiers, and the wages of soldiers are now rated, and soldiers who work the battlefield really can't be paid too low, otherwise what will inspire the sense of honor of soldiers?

But then again, if you want to increase your military salary, you have to have money, and now Lu Liang has indeed accumulated some wealth by fighting local tyrants and dividing the land, but the recent expansion of the army, the expansion of military factories and other expenses are also the same as flowing water, and these money will last for a year until next summer's harvest before there is income, and I don't know how many battles there will be and how long they will be fought.

Li Qingyuan now has an immature idea, that is, to divide the military salary of soldiers into two parts: peacetime military salary and wartime military salary, and the military salary in peacetime remains unchanged as it is now, but the military salary in wartime is doubled, and then a little allowance is added appropriately, so that the soldier's income will increase, but this proportion still needs to be carefully planned, and it cannot be set just by patting his head.

Walking to the family living area, the two quarrels had already been persuaded to leave, everyone saw Li Qingyuan coming and consciously made a way, the two saw Li Qingyuan coming, and they were embarrassed to bow their heads, Li Qingyuan smiled and said: "Why do you see that I am not welcome?" ”

Everyone was a little embarrassed, and the others hurriedly said welcome, Li Qingyuan nodded and asked: "I heard Wang Qing say that you are discussing problems, and the discussion is very intense, let me come over to listen to what you are discussing and writing?" ”