Li Chengbin was put in a cage, but Princess Chang'an asked Jia Min to reason. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info sprayed Jia Min without conscience, and used her to get the permission of the Ministry of War, so she crossed the river and demolished the bridge.

Jia Min didn't argue with her, and let her say whatever she wanted.

He knew that it was useless to argue with her or something. The values and understanding of the rules of the two sides are hundreds of years apart, and it is not possible to explain them in a moment.

It wasn't until Dai Zhi came that Princess Chang'an left stupidly.

Dai Zhi came down accompanied by Hu Yiyi and Fang Xiucai.

In fact, Dai Zhi arrived yesterday. It's just that after arriving, I didn't come directly to Noduju. Instead, he arrived at Fang Xiucai's house first.

Because he is a cousin with Fang Xiu, and Liujiazhuang is relatively close to Yeduju, he thought of Fang Xiucai to get to know Jia Minqi. Unexpectedly, Fang Xiucai was very familiar with Jia Min.

Fang Xiucai naturally praised Jia Min, which dispelled Dai Zhi's doubts.

Jia Min was very happy, and immediately asked Ping'er to arrange for a wine at noon to wash the dust for Dai Zhi.

After setting the meal and drinking tea for a while, Jia Min, Dai Zhi, Fang Xiucai, Liu Cheng, Liu Tieshan, Hu Yiyi, and Jiao Li came to Xiawazi.

The land of Xiawazi was flickered by Jia Min from Shuntianfu with a bus and carriage project. Now, more than 1,000 acres of land here belong to him.

Although it is a depression, the dry land still accounts for the vast majority of the area. It's just that it's undeveloped, it's not populated, and it's a bit desolate.

In fact, as long as the land is organized, a large amount of arable land can still be reclaimed here. The vast majority of places are also suitable for human habitation. As for opening a firearms workshop here, there is no problem with that.

Seven or eight families who used to live here have moved away. Their house was bought by Jia Min. Together, there are more than 40 houses, of which about 20 are connected and serve as firearms workshops.

There is land here, and if you want to expand the scale of production in the future, you can build a house at any time.

Jia Min set this place as the location of the workshop, mainly because of the relatively remote geographical location here. There is no family, which is conducive to secrecy. The noise and some smells and smoke generated by the workshop will not have any impact on the nearby residents. In terms of neighborhood, there is basically no trouble.

Although a firearms workshop is being built here, the products of the future will not only be firearms.

According to Jia Min's plan, the future production business will basically consist of three major parts.

The first is the development and production of firearms presided over by Dai Zhi.

This part was mainly used to equip his own government corps. Considered a high-tech weapon.

While equipping its own corps, it is researching and developing a number of new firearms, and at the same time carrying out a reserve of technology and production capacity for large-scale manufacturing in the future.

Jia Min had a hunch that as the Fu Corps went to the battlefield in the future and achieved excellent results, the size of the Fu Corps would expand. Either recruit new recruits or incorporate other armies, future expansion is inevitable.

Therefore, he must have a strategic vision and be ready for technology, processes and even production equipment from now on. In the future, as soon as the situation requires it, it can be mass-produced and quickly equipped with the army.

The second piece, also presided over by Dai Zhi, produces some conventional military products that are currently equipped by the army of the Dade Dynasty.

These military products include bows, arrows, crossbows, knives, guns and other conventional cold weapons. He used some of these weapons himself, and the rest was mainly for the military market, which was exclusively for the military department to procure.

The current military products market can be said to be uneven and disorganized. Some conventional cold weapons not only have a single variety and the style has remained unchanged for hundreds of years, but also have many problems in quality.

Due to the monopoly of a few major families, the price is still high, and it is basically a situation of high quality and high price.

It can be said that this level of equipment is far from meeting the needs of the times. If there is no large-scale war, the current supply of military goods can be barely maintained. Once there is a large-scale war, whether it is technical reserves, craft water products, or production capacity, it will not be able to meet the demand.

Since the founding of the Dade Dynasty more than 100 years ago, the world has been peaceful for a long time. With the exception of a few border wars, there have been no large-scale wars for decades.

A direct result of this situation is the backwardness of military doctrine. Today's military doctrine remains at the level it was at the time of the founding of the country more than 100 years ago.

The military department was controlled by a number of civilian and conservative military attachés. What they all have in common is that none of them have ever experienced a large-scale war. Even the military attaches did not have much real combat experience.

In terms of the level of equipment and training of the army, even some of the more powerful tribal armies in the surrounding area have surpassed the regular army of the Dade Dynasty.

Some local armies, especially those controlled by the three feudatories, even refused to purchase the military products set by the Ministry of War, preferring to make their own.

This formed a unique phenomenon of the military industrial system of the Dade Dynasty: the military industrial system of the imperial court was in a state of immortality. And the military industrial system of the quasi-warlords of the local forces like the three feudatories is booming.

Not only in terms of production scale, but also in terms of technical level, it has exceeded the official level.

In peacetime, the drawbacks of this pattern are not too obvious. In the event of a large-scale war, not to mention other aspects of the war mobilization capability, the supply of military products alone will not be able to meet the demand.

Another purpose of Jia Min's production of these conventional cold weapons is to cover up his sensitivity to developing and producing cutting-edge firearms.

The reason still comes from the prevention of conservative forces in the military department.

It is precisely because of the conservatism of the military department and the monopoly of several major families on military products that the imperial court not only does not support the innovation and progress of military production, but often suppresses and rejects it. Dai Vegetation's debasement is a living example.

Jia Min's purpose is to use conventional cold weapon production to cover up the impact of the sensitivity of his firearm production on conservative forces. Prevent them from causing strong suppression and counterattack.

Even for the production of conventional military products, Jia Min is ready to control the scale. It does not have a strong impact on the existing market structure, and does not directly challenge the core interests of several monopoly families.

In short, in the area of military products, Jia Min's current strategic goal, in addition to the equipment of his own government corps, he is not ready to occupy much of the market on a large scale.

At present, what he has to do is mainly to reserve forces.

This reserve includes a reserve of technology, a reserve of production equipment, a reserve of skilled workers and a reserve of the main strategic raw materials.

In the future, once the war requires, it can be put into mass production in the shortest possible time.

This line of thinking is undoubtedly correct. However, a problem arises with this, and that is the limited profit of the workshop. Relying on this kind of thinking alone to produce is bound to be the result of making ends meet.

So, in order to maintain such reserves, there must be new sources of profit.

This new source of profit is the third business to be launched in Xiawazi - the production of civilian products.

The production of civilian products is not sensitive, nor is there the suppression of monopoly forces and official restrictions, and the market is huge, and the profit margin is also considerable.

This is Jia Min's strategy of using the people to support the army.

There are two main markets for civilian products, one is agricultural tools, and the other is household tools.

The Dade Dynasty was an agrarian society, and the mode of agricultural production was still a traditional small-scale peasant economy, and there was no concept of large-scale agriculture at all.

Even some of the larger landlords adopted the mode of production of a small-scale peasant economy. Although there is a lot of land, it is just a superposition of multiple smallholder production methods.

In this regard, Jia Min has already chosen the product. At present, there are several products that have been confirmed.

The first is the seeder, which can realize a person's planing, planting, and burying pits. Turning the work that used to be done by three people into one person at once. It not only saves manpower and reduces labor intensity, but also has three or four times the production efficiency.

The second product is the corn thresher.

The original corn threshing was completely manual, and the corn kernels were pulled off the cob with both hands. With this kind of threshing machine, although it is also manual, it is semi-mechanized, the efficiency is greatly improved, and the cost is very low, even if it is a small farmer family, it is all affordable. One only costs 500 yuan, which is equivalent to the price of 2 catties of pork.

In addition, there is the rice threshing machine and the popcorn machine.

Household utensils are mainly some kitchen utensils and agricultural tools, such as shovels, pickaxes, sickles, hoes, hooks, shovels, pots, etc.

These utensils were originally made by some small blacksmith shops in urban and rural areas, with low production efficiency and poor quality.

After Jia Min adopts specialized large-scale division of labor, not only the quality can be improved, but also the production efficiency can be greatly improved, so it has a huge advantage in cost, so the market prospect is still very broad.

With the profit support of civilian production, it is enough to support the technical reserves and production of military products.

Among them, the most important thing is to maintain a large team of technicians. This team can be transformed immediately in the future large-scale production of military products. Continuity can be maintained both in terms of production capacity and technology transfer.

In a large sense, war capability is economic capability and logistical capability. With a similar level of training, whoever has strong logistics is the winner.

This principle is exactly the same as Jia Min's forward firepower projection ability and rear logistics transportation ability in his previous life.

These words were said by Jia Min and Dai Zhi alone.

Since Dai Zhi had been invited from all over the world, Jia Min felt that it was necessary for him to tell him his true thoughts.

This is not only to show his trust in Dai Zhi, but also to let Dai Zhi understand that he is actually engaged in a very important mission, not just a craftsman.

It's just that this mission is still relatively sensitive, and some means are needed to cover it up.

From the first time he met Dai Zhi, Jia Min knew that this was a very talented and very arrogant person.

Most of these people are very upright. As long as you provide him with a platform to display his talents and trust him, he will deduce a story for you.

The story is: the man who dies for his confidant.