"Drinking is free." Li Dongxue smiled faintly and said: "It's not that I look down on you, it's just that I'm your direct boss, if everyone drinks together, I can't speak with a straight face." ”

Everyone looked at each other, and then they knew what the role of the master in front of them who had gone from a big guy all the way to a judge was.

Li Dongxue turned to Yang Hegao again and said: "Your Ordnance Bureau must cooperate with the Firearms Bureau, the roller machine is important to the Firearms Bureau, and it is also important to your Ordnance Bureau. Now the Lord does not ask the Weapons Bureau to make iron scale armor, but I think it is not enough to be afraid of chain mail, and the Lord of Cotton Armor can't look down on it at all, and the actual cotton armor is not very useful, you have to enlarge the vision and pattern, and strengthen cooperation between various bureaus. It is not only the credit of one person who has produced results, but also under my control in the future, I will be able to see which one is truly cooperating with others and which one is self-cherishing. ”

Yang Hegao cooperated very well with Chen Yaozong because of the wire drawing machine, he had no resistance to cooperating with others, and responded very happily at the moment, and then said: "There is one, the craftsmen have their own work, before they were asked to take apprentices with a fixed monthly salary, but now they are changed to piecework, I am afraid that they are busy doing their own work and can't take care of the apprentices." ”

Li Dongxue shook his head with a smile and said: "Your brain is too dead, you are paid by piece, if the apprentice helps earlier before becoming a regular, do you do more than others?" ”

"I see!"

"Siguan Li is really wonderful."

Each formal craftsman is responsible for bringing a group of apprentices, if the piece-rate wage can be called an apprentice helper, one apprentice can quickly master the skills, can be turned into a regular as soon as possible, second, the craftsman can get a free helper before they become regular, improve their piece-rate wage finished product, and third, for the management on the one hand, increase the output, on the other hand, the number of qualified craftsmen will also increase sharply, which is a win-win thing.

"There's just one layer." Yang Hegao thought for a while and said: "I'm afraid that they only care about taking apprentices to do those jobs that don't require much brains, and the previous research and development and teaching will still be affected." ”

"Apprentices can go to cram schools and take turns teaching each process to complement the literacy lessons. In addition, a special R&D institution should be set up, and each craftsman can work part-time, and the results will be rewarded, and the achievements of the apprentices will also be rewarded. Li Dongxue said: "The adult also intends to introduce the patent system, that is, there is a technological innovation, the factory uses new technology to make the finished product, out of one, the R & D personnel can get a bonus, which is of course not as good as a one-time get, but the victory is in the long stream, as long as the adults and Li Zhuang these factories are in, and Yusheng is in, the children and grandchildren can always take it down." ”

The faces of everyone who said these words were full of light, and everyone had an extremely excited feeling in their hearts.

Many craftsmen who were doing things on the side heard it, and their flexible brains already understood the meaning of Li Dongxue's words, and they were also excited.

Li Dongxue went to the end, there was already a group room, the qualified gun pipe and handguard were grouped together, and then the trigger gunpowder pool faucet and other components were installed, and finally the test shot was successful and you could play, Li Dongxue said: "At present, a bird gun costs a lot of material, how much work, how much time, how much does it cost?" ”

Wang Debang said: "Our gun is forty catties of square wool iron smelted to about eight catties, compared to the imperial court's twenty catties to seven catties to lose much more, every ten catties of three catties, the price of silver is more, with five craftsmen, two cents and five cents of silver, about one penny of charcoal six cents and six cents, multiplied by five times is more than one or two five cents, wages, drill to a month, one or two five dollars, the rest of the handyman accessories to one or two more, the total cost of materials is five taels and five cents per bird. ”

"Very good." Li Dongxue said: "If today's method is used, how much material and silver will be saved?" ”

"It's hard to say," Wang Debang said: "If it's really easy, it is estimated that you can save about one or two silver, and no matter how much it is, it will be impossible." ”

"Very good, you still have to speed up the work, this process has been very proficient, fifty pieces a month is still too little, if the hydraulic drilling rig and roll machine are successfully manufactured, the number should be increased to more than two hundred pieces a month."

Wang Debang doubted: "Recently, adults have repeatedly said that it is the general trend for flintlock guns to replace arquebuses, so the most important thing for the Firearms Bureau is to successfully shape the flintlock guns. ”

Li Dongxue smiled and said nothing, Wang Debang knew that this matter might involve the overall situation or secrets, so he made a hand gesture at the moment, saying that he was very stupid.

At this time, Li Dongxue turned to Yang Hegao and Chen Yaozong and asked, "What happened to the wire drawing machine?" ”

"It will be finalized soon," Yang and Gao and Chen Yaozong glanced at each other, both of them had unconcealed happiness on their faces, and Yang and Gao said: "After the finalization, the finished product will be produced, and when the time comes, please come and see it with Master Li." ”

"After this big war, there will be corresponding requirements for armor in the army," Li Dongxue said: "You have to hurry." In addition, whether to ask for a patent or a one-time reward, you can also consider it now. ”

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When Li Shenming arrived in Beijing, it was just in time for a heavy snowfall, and the entire outside of the capital was full of white, with woods and straight official roads hidden in the snow, and a small number of houses were only showing light yellow thatched roofs on the edge of the forest and roads, and most of the farmland was covered by snow, and only a little bit of greenery was revealed.

This scene is a very freehand picture scroll of mountains and rivers, but along the way, Li Shenming encountered many road-fallen corpses that died of cold and starvation, and he had no intention of appreciating the snow scene in front of him. Moreover, there is so much snow just in winter, which means that it is a very cold winter, and there is a serious shortage of water in spring and summer, which has almost become a cycle, and the bad days are year after year, and there is almost no good time, which makes many people already feel that the time is wrong, and there are faintly some clear streams that begin to link the time of the day with the rule of man, and there are many voices that secretly talk about the immorality of the Wanli Emperor and the improper time.

When he entered the city, a large convoy came together, and when he entered the city gate, a tax collector came, looked at it a little, collected some loose silver, and put it away.

Li Shenming was going inside with his attaché, but someone in the convoy shouted, "Mr. Li." ”

"Hey, it's Fang Yi."

Li Shenming showed a smile on his face, the escort team was the deputy shopkeeper of a branch of He Yusheng, which was equivalent to the level of the deputy general manager of the army, and he was also born as a young man at the beginning, and now he is shouldering a heavy responsibility, from Lingqiu to Jingshi, such a long way, there are still many bandits along the way, tax cards and local bigwigs extort and exploit, scoundrels and ruffians, so all the way to Beijing, and to beat the snake in Beijing, it is really not easy, but looking at Fang Yi's appearance, there is still room for power.

"Mr. Li, what a coincidence we met." Fang Yi said with a smile on his face: "I'm going to the branch in a while, do you always live in our branch?" ”

Li Shenming said: "I was going to live in the branch, but I want to go to see Li Guobin first." ”

"He's supposed to be here to pick up the shipment." Fang Yi said: "This batch has sixty truckloads, each car is 5,000 catties, and 300,000 catties of skilled iron are on the car, he won't fail to come." ”

"300,000 catties ......" Li Shenming calculated, according to the pre-said one catty and two cents, the selling price of this batch of goods is less than four thousand, but fortunately, the net profit is very high, because the cost is very low, and Yusheng's carriage directly saves a lot of intermediate links, the logistics of the north has never been compared with the south, Fujian iron and Jiangsu iron are transported to the north by sea or Cao, Jin iron is sold layer by layer, because no businessman can directly sell a large number of goods thousands of miles away, and the profits in the hands of the layers are naturally reduced a lot. And Yusheng's iron yard is not only a direct supply, but also cut a lot of costs, the biggest expense is to deal with the layers of tax cards along the way, other places are already extremely economical.

"How many batches is this?"

"Sixth batch." Fang Yi said: "All the iron farms have played with their lives, and of course we and Yusheng are still the most, but we also originally accounted for the largest shares." ”

"Less than a month, right?" Li Shenming was a little surprised and said: "There are so many goods in such a short time, how many are still ordered?" ”

"There will be at least twenty or thirty batches a year ago." Fang Yi said: "And the scale is much larger, I'm afraid our fleet will reach more than 100 vehicles." Our proprietor said, I'm afraid that the tax cards along the way should be well jointed, otherwise the majority of the expenses will be to buy these local snakes, and it's really disgusting to think about it. ”

"I'll try to do that." Li Shenming said: "But if you want to settle this matter completely, don't talk about me, even Governor Wen has no problem." ”

Fang Yi said with a smile: "That's right, I just hope that you will save a lot of money if you go for a long time." ”

According to the current fleet size, the profit of each trip is about 1,000 taels, which is the net profit, the gross profit is actually seventy percent, and about forty percent of the profit is the expenses along the way.

Not to mention anything else, there are many cards set up by the king and the pro-vassal clans, this kind of card is useless even if the governor or even the governor comes forward, and the lawsuit will not have any result before the emperor, the pro-vassal makes a lot of money, as long as he doesn't want to rebel, the emperor is generally tolerant, and the "kiss" is not said in vain, as long as it doesn't go too far.

"In the end, selling iron is a big deal." Li Shenming calculated the account for a while, and estimated that Lingqiu would exceed 10 million catties as long as it was sold for half a year, and I am afraid that it would exceed 30 million catties in a year, but the more it was sold, the cost would also increase exponentially, and I am afraid that it would be a little difficult to recover a large amount of funds in the short term.