If a senior craftsman can exceed the task within these three months, in addition to being promoted to a craftsman or a senior craftsman, he will also be given an official status.

The official body referred to here refers to the military attache Jilu official.

Those who reached fifty were given the lowest rank of lieutenant.

Whoever reaches a hundred will be given the rank of lieutenant of benevolence.

And if it reaches two hundred, it will be directly given to the lieutenant of the imperial army, which is a military attache from the eighth rank,

Although these Jilu officials are not real positions, once these craftsmen have this identity, they will immediately put out the identity of the ordinary people of the poor people, and they will also become a member of the national civil servants of the Great Song Dynasty, which can receive the imperial court's salary.

For Cai Daoli's military order, everyone is not optimistic, and the punishment for failure is not clear to others, but anyone who has seen Zhao Xu's smug smile knows that this punishment will definitely make the little emperor happy, and the official family has long wanted to find an opportunity to rectify Cai Dao. The military order he set up was to take the initiative to send the knife handle to Zhao Xu's hands.

It's no wonder that this time, Zhao Xu will agree so well.

But as a result, it didn't take a month at all, only 20 days, and the output of weapons in the ordnance prison had already exceeded that of Yuanfeng's eight years, and the output of weapons at the peak of the ordnance prison was more than doubled.

During this time, those apprentices were basically learning, and did not interfere in the production of any weapons, and Cai Dao also opened a dozen craftsmen who had always disobeyed the rules and had good skills.

In other words, the Ordnance Superintendent completed the military order two months and 10 days ahead of schedule when the actual number of personnel did not increase, but decreased.

You must know that there are still many craftsmen with good craftsmanship who escaped from the Ordnance Prison during these eight years, that is to say, the level of craftsmen in the Ordnance Prison today cannot catch up with the level of Yuanfeng in the eighth year.

Zhao Xu naturally didn't believe it, and sent Di Yong to personally inspect this batch of newly created weapons.

Di Yong also went with a skeptical attitude, but after he tested it himself, he was surprised to find that this batch of newly created weapons was actually much more sophisticated than the weapons made by Yuanfeng in eight years.

For example, Pu Dao, Di Yong ordered people to use the batch of Pu knives in the first year of Yuanyou and the eight years of Yuanfeng to cut each other, as a result, of course, the two Pu knives were damaged, but the Pu knife in the eighth year of Yuanfeng was actually cut off on the spot.

The results are quite shocking.

The manufacturing speed is fast, the finished product is of excellent quality, if the Western Army uses such weapons, even Di Yong himself feels full of confidence in defeating the Western Army.

Di Yong immediately returned to the palace and told Zhao Xu the truth, for this result, Zhao Xu was silent, and he had to choose silence.

However, Zhao Xu was even happier about this, because although he lost the bet and lost the opportunity to punish Cai Dao again, he made his country more stable, and he didn't mind losing a few more times.

The reason why these craftsmen of the Weapons Prison were able to achieve such great results was not because of Cai Dao's monetary reward, but because of their official status. As artisans, they have been looking for a way to get their children and grandchildren out of this identity for countless moments, and now, Cai Dao has given them this shortcut, how can they give it up so easily?

The reason why the production of weapons can be completed so quickly is entirely because these craftsmen want Cai Dao to win the bet in advance. In the next two months, these craftsmen will spend more of their time training craftsmen. As for the apprentices and middle and low craftsmen, they are also working hard to improve their ranks.

It's not that there are no craftsmen who cling to their own skills and refuse to teach them to others, but Cai Dao chose to ignore them.

Of course, the improvement of quality is not the credit of these craftsmen, but the other two regulations promulgated by Cai Dao have played a very big role.

In ancient times, weapons were made by hand, so it was difficult for each person to make weapons to be consistent. For a single weapon, there is not much of a problem, but there are very few single weapons in the real sense.

For example, a simple knife is divided into a handle, a blade, and a scabbard. A craftsman who makes a simple knife, and the blade he makes, for the carpenter to make a suitable handle, must be measured and adjusted for each one.

If you copy the previous data, it will definitely be a defective product.

The second regulation promulgated by Cai Dao was to unify weights and measures, and to strictly enforce the signature system on every manufactured weapon, as small as an arrow or as large as a blade, with a mark that could belong to every craftsman.

To this end, Cai Dao also specially formulated a set of password recording methods for the Ordnance Supervisor to distinguish each craftsman.

Therefore, Cai Dao's first job to the Ordnance Supervisor was to produce a set of standardized and standard tools for measuring weights and measures.

Vernier calipers, tape measures, etc., these are the tools that craftsmen will have to work in the future.

The dozen or so craftsmen who were kicked out of the ordnance prison blatantly ignored the second regulation formulated by Cai Dao, and still made weapons according to the old tradition, Cai Dao would never want such a person.

And the third rule is to reward the craftsmen who invent and create better things.

This regulation, because everyone is busy completing the task and striving to obtain the official position within three months, everyone is riveting their energy, so everyone has not paid much attention to it for the time being.

Cai Dao raised several problems encountered in the production process of the steel mill on Yizhou Island, but even if he offered a reward of up to 100 yuan, no one answered.

To be honest, Cai Dao did not approve of Wang Anshi's art of war.

If it is operated according to the art of war, it is very easy for the strength of the border army to exceed the forbidden army stationed in Bianliang City. In his opinion, if the forbidden army has undergone rigorous training, even if the chief general is changed, the command is not too much of a problem.

Because most of the Song army was engaged in the work of defending the city.

Moreover, if the forbidden army troops stay in Bianliang City for a long time and do not experience battlefield fighting, they will completely become a waste of food in a few years.

Therefore, while implementing the law of war, it should not be completely abolished, these forbidden troops cannot fight in the field, and they can also be used to defend the city by sending them to the border passes.

Regarding the method of taking scholars, Cai Dao did not give much advice to Zhao Xu, because he had already made an earth-shattering suggestion.

Later, in this regard, Cai Dao only made two suggestions to Zhao Xu.

The first suggestion is the relationship between Taixue and Guozijian, their responsibilities and the source of students recruited.

In the Great Song Dynasty, Taixue was originally under the supervision of Guozijian. Needless to say, the origin of Guozijian's students is that no matter what the origin of Taixue's students was before, this time, its students must be students who were born in poverty and are younger than 20 years old.

On the contrary, Guozijian should adopt a strategy of wide entry and strict exit, where there is no longer a limit on the age of students, even if you are forty or fifty years old, if you can't pass the academy's exams, you still can't graduate from Guozijian.

As in the past, it would be very difficult to be directly granted an official position by relying on the shade. After that, just like Fan Chunren, he can no longer rely on the fame of his father, and he may not be able to graduate from the Guozi Prison.