Therefore, there are many benefits to the southern expedition, but Cai Dao knows that this matter is urgent, and he has the ability to capture the Great Yue Kingdom now, but the premise is that Lu Huiqing must also prepare in advance on Guangnan West Road.

The city of Thang Long was broken, and the news reached the border pass, in case the leading general of the border pass of the Great Yue Country could not think about it for a while, under the situation that the general trend had gone, he prepared to burn the jade and lead the army to attack the territory of the Great Song Dynasty.

If Lu Huiqing can't prevent it, it will be more than worth the loss.

If you're not afraid of 10,000, you're afraid of what if!

Moreover, Cai Dao did not want to expose the true military strength of his subordinates.

And training is that soldiers take time.

The Art of Reduction was specifically implemented by Cai Dao's father, Cai Bian and Di Yong, which was also the busiest thing in Bianliang City in recent times.

And the armor protection law will definitely be implemented in the future, however, Hebei is not in a hurry, Zhang Shuye and Zong Ze have not fully grown up, when they were in Chang'an Mansion, the main work was only in political affairs, and there was no practical experience in military affairs.

However, there is one place that can be up and running ahead of time. That is the Huanqing Road where Zhang Kai is located, and he took the initiative to give up a large area north of Huanzhou, which is of course strategically unfavorable to Zhang Kai's current situation.

Moreover, once the Western Xia State tore up the peace treaty, the first area to attack would be Huanqing Road and Huanzhou.

Therefore, Zhao Xu prepared to mobilize elite forbidden troops from the Beijing Division and stationed them on Huanqing Road, sparing no effort to strengthen the defense of Huanqing Road.

In this regard, the others did not say anything, but after Cai Dao found out, he deliberately took the initiative to enter the palace to meet Zhao Xu, and persuaded him to withdraw this plan.

The reason why Cai Dao opposed it was because, since everyone expected that once the Western Xia Kingdom launched an attack, the preferred target of its army would definitely be Huanqing Road, then the Great Song Dynasty would definitely strengthen the garrison of Huanqing Road. This is not difficult for the Western Xia Kingdom to detect, since this is the case, who can guarantee that the Western Xia Kingdom will not make adjustments?

Once the Western Xia Kingdom feels that Huanqing Road is difficult to take, there is a high chance that it will re-select the target of attack.

Yan'an Mansion is the focus of this.

In that case, the situation would be even worse for the Great Song army, which lacked a mobile force like cavalry. At that time, there will be fires everywhere on the border, and you may repeat the mistakes of the Battle of Mikawaguchi or Komizugawa.

It is better to face the enemy on the battlefield than to be led by the nose by the enemy.

It is better to take advantage of the opportunity of implementing the law of military reduction this time to replace some of the soldiers on Huanqing Road and supplement the last part of the veterans who are young and have experience in war.

On the surface, Huanqing Road was actively weakened by the traitors of the imperial court, but in fact, the soldiers who defended the entire Huanqing Road were replaced by elite soldiers.

In the surrounding two roads, the Yanyan Road and the Jingyuan Road are arranging a sufficient number of mobile troops, and at this point, Cai Dao is responsible for purchasing a certain number of horses from overseas, and roughly preparing 10,000 cavalry all the way.

Once Huanqing Road was attacked by the Western Xia army, the small details were specifically commanded by Zhang Qi, the pacification envoy of Huanqing Road. However, the general direction is still inconvenient, focusing on defense, containing the army of the Western Xia Kingdom, and buying time for the cavalry of the other two roads to sneak attack.

During this time, Zhang Qi wanted to implement the armor protection law on the entire Huanqing Road, and arm the civilians so that they could have a certain ability to protect themselves in the event of a sudden attack.

For this reason, Zhao Xu also specially issued an edict that starting next year, Huanqing Road, Jingyuan Road, Yanyan Road and Xihe Road will be exempted from the field tax, Dingkou tax and exempt money, and sternly issued a warning to the chief officials of Fuzhou and County of these four roads not to arbitrarily levy arbitrary taxes and miscellaneous taxes other than those paid by the imperial court.

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After Cai Dao helped the craftsmen of the Ordnance Superintendent to seek justice, for a while, the morale of the Ordnance Superintendent was greatly boosted.

After inspecting the Ordnance Supervision and the various workshops that manufacture weapons in Bianliang City, and seeing the factory assembly line operations in later generations, it is natural that he will not look down on these purely manual and extremely inefficient places.

Moreover, those craftsmen who are highly skilled like to hide bootlegged goods. Therefore, if you want to train a qualified craftsman in a workshop, it will not only take a long time, but also the effect will not be good. People will have relatives and distant people, and if they are also disciples, those craftsmen will definitely follow their sons, relatives or sons-in-law to teach.

As a result, Cai Dao immediately promulgated three regulations after inspecting the ordnance superintendent.

First, from now on, the Ordnance Superintendent implements a craftsman hierarchy system.

After the assessment,

The junior apprentices did not have any salary within a year, and all the apprentices who worked in the ordnance prison were in charge of three meals a day in the future. However, the premise is that the food is not allowed to be taken out of the armory.

Intermediate and senior apprentices are paid, but they do not have a fixed salary for any level of apprenticeship. The wages are all piece-rate. If you must complete a specified number every day and pass the inspection, you will be given different wages according to the type of work. This is very beneficial for apprentices who are quick with their hands and feet and have a high pass rate.

Of course, when you get the wages in your hand, you don't have to take a few pieces of wages, and when you pay piecework wages, you have to deduct the loss of those unqualified workpieces.

For example, if so-and-so completes the production of 100 arrows in one day, of which 91 are qualified and 9 are unqualified, and the salary of one arrow is calculated as a penny, then this apprentice can get 82 pennies for one day.

However, once the number of non-conforming wages exceeds a certain amount, the deduction will be incremental.

Case-by-case analysis.

As for the apprentices, there are craftsmen.

Artisans are also divided into three levels.

Beginner Craftsman, Intermediate Craftsman, and Senior Craftsman.

The craftsmen have a fixed salary, but the amount of this fixed salary is still relatively low, and after calculation, it can only maintain the basic life of a family of five.

However, Cai Dao still left them other channels to get rich, other sources of income,

First, it is the same as the apprentices, they are all piece-rated. The same applies to rewards and punishments. However, this salary is neither high nor low, even if it is super fast, it will not make a fortune.

Second, teach apprentices, whoever teaches a junior apprentice can get a reward of 100 yuan.

Then, if one of his apprentices is promoted to an intermediate apprentice, he will receive a reward of two mo. And those who are promoted to senior apprentices will be rewarded with five mo.

In the end, if an apprentice becomes a craftsman, he will get the same amount of money.

Above that are the master craftsmen and master craftsmen, as well as the master craftsmen sacrificing wine.

If you want to become a craftsman, you must meet two conditions. One is that it is highly skilled in its own craft, and the other is that it must teach a sufficient number of craftsmen.

If it's just a skilled person, but he cherishes himself and doesn't want to teach any apprentices, then okay, this person is at most a junior craftsman, such a person, now is the time to employ people, of course Cai Dao will not drive them away, but he will only give this kind of person this title.

The standard for a master craftsman is that there must be more than 50 craftsmen under his hands, and a master master must have more than 100 craftsmen.

However, the title of the craftsman's sacrificial wine is a completely different field.

The requirements for this title are completely different from before, even if a person is still a low-level apprentice, as long as he can invent and create better weapons, Zhao Xu will not hesitate to reward him at all.

And if someone can create something formulated by Cai Dao, Cai Dao will also secretly envelop this person.

It's a pity that such talents can be met but not sought, and Cai Dao has never encountered one so far.

Cai Dao's subordinates, even those masters in the steel factory in Yizhou and those craftsmen in the shipyard, could not reach the height and requirements of Cai Dao's heart for the craftsmen to sacrifice wine.

Apprentice promotion is not based on the number of years, if the apprentice is not good, he may only be a junior apprentice in this life. If the scrap rate is too high, you may be kicked out of the ordnance prison.

This time, in order to stimulate the willingness of these craftsmen to accept apprentices, Cai Dao specially issued a military order to Zhao Xu, and after three months, the ordnance supervisor was restored to the production level of Yuanfeng's eight years, and within half a year, the output of weapons produced by the ordnance supervisor doubled. And because of this military order, Cai Dao also received a special order and offered a very high reward to those craftsmen who made great contributions.

A senior craftsman must teach thirty qualified craftsmen within three months before he can be promoted to a quasi-craftsman, and within a year, if the number of craftsmen under his command reaches fifty, he will be promoted to a craftsman.

Qualified craftsmen here do not require these craftsmen to be as proficient as every senior craftsman, they only need to be proficient in one process or one part processing. For example, a high-level craftsman who makes bows and arrows only needs to break down the process of making bows and arrows and give them to several apprentices. Those who make arrow shafts specialize in making arrow shafts, and those who make arrowheads specialize in making arrowheads.

Moreover, those who complete this basic indicator will be rewarded with ten full copper coins.

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.