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Unfortunately, at this time, due to the limitations of many reasons, the technology of using coal to smelt iron, especially to build blades, is not mature enough, and Li Yuanqing can only choose to reverse the wheel of history and choose a more mature and stable charcoal iron smelting technology.

Originally, the blacksmith could make 80 to 90 bird guns a month, but if they were made of charcoal, the number might have to be halved.

If you want to increase production, you can only increase labor input, which will inevitably increase costs.

The midsummer offensive is just around the corner, and there is not much time left for Li Yuanqing.

However, being able to find a talent like Cao Tiehammer from the blacksmith shop also made Li Yuanqing's eyes light up.

Just like the saying of later generations, time is like a woman's career line, as long as you are willing to squeeze, there will always be.

The key is to take root and preserve and protect this young flame.

There were technical problems in the blacksmith shop, many things had to be redone, and production could not be resumed for the time being, and Li Yuanqing also took this opportunity to relocate all the old camps to Changsheng Island.

Changsheng Island is Li Yuanqing's legal jurisdiction, and this time he entered Beijing to be rewarded, and the surrounding Middle Island and West Island were also included in Li Yuanqing's legal rule.

This creates a lot of buffer space for Changsheng Island to do more.

At this time, in addition to the blacksmith shop, Li Yuanqing's family members on the old camp side no longer have too much population, and the three departments of Li Yuanqing, Chen Zhong, and Zhang Pan in southern Liaoning have become the de facto overlords of this sea area, and Guanglu Island is not far from Changsheng Island, and most of the time is enough to arrive.

Although the relocation was a big move, it was just a process of the fleet going back and forth, and it didn't take much effort.

On the seventh day of the first month of April, the pirate fleet of Guancanghai arrived at the old camp on Guanglu Island, which had already been prepared and set off immediately.

So far, all of Li Yuanqing's foundation has moved to Changsheng Island.

The official hall on this side of Changsheng Island has been built for a long time, and after these days of exposure to the scorching sun, you don't need to clean up too much, and you can move in directly.

At that time, although Li Yuanqing was only a garrison, the craftsmen who planned it also played tricks, although the official hall was only the scale of a thousand houses, but the surrounding space had already been reserved, as long as you wanted to add it, you could do it at any time.

However, Li Yuanqing now only has three female dependents, no children, and a thousand houses cover an area of more than ten acres, which is enough to live, so naturally he will not waste financial resources for this.

The An family can be arranged by the women, but the distribution of population housing has cost Li Yuanqing all his brain cells.

Shang Lao Liu went to Dagukou to get food from the Qu family, but he hasn't come back yet, and these things can only be done by Li Yuanqing himself.

At this time, the total number of Ding Kou under Li Yuanqing's command has reached nearly 12,000 people, of which nearly 3,000 are young and strong, nearly 7,000 are strong women, and the remaining 2,000 are all old and weak and children.

However, the size of the houses in this town is only about 2,000 households, which naturally cannot meet the needs of everyone.

After racking his brains, Li Yuanqing made a decision on the case, and all the soldiers and meritorious sailors under his command arranged residences according to their qualifications, from high to low.

This time, basically the veterans, soldiers, and sailors under Li Yuanqing's command can all be assigned to residences.

Officers such as Guan Canghai, Xu Heizi, Shunzi, and Duan Xiliang can choose a residence, or they can choose a homestead near a thousand houses and build it themselves.

The land of Nanxinkou is very wide, and when designing, Li Yuanqing asked the craftsmen to do it, and the space is very sufficient.

Not surprisingly, Guan Canghai and these people did not choose a residence, but each paid for a homestead, and wanted to build a large number of buildings near thousands of houses.

This is also expected by Li Yuanqing, after all, these people are not married, and they are all bare-bones commanders, they usually live in the barracks, and they are not in a hurry to live close to their own houses at this time.

In fact, most of the soldiers are like this, but housing and land can be the biggest guarantee for them to work hard for Li Yuanqing.

In the process of dealing with these affairs, Li Yuanqing was of course too busy to do so, so he had to ask Zhang Yunniang, Qu Minqiu and Caizi to come over to help, as well as Lotus Child's father, Ma Steward, Ma Deqiang.

To Li Yuanqing's surprise, Ma Deqiang, the housekeeper, can handle the housekeeper's chores, and he is also very proficient in accounting and is good at handling complex interpersonal relationships.

Li Yuanqing immediately appointed him as the head of the 'real estate sales department', and he was responsible for coordinating a series of issues related to the division of houses.

This time, Li Yuanqing instantly relaxed a lot and got rid of these chores, but there were more important things, which was to waste a lot of Li Yuanqing's brain cells.

This time he entered Beijing to be rewarded, Li Yuanqing was promoted to guerrilla, and these generals under his command should also be rewarded for their meritorious deeds.

And this most critical personnel right is also the most basic guarantee for Li Yuanqing to control this army.

According to the military system of the Ming Dynasty, Li Yuanqing is now a guerrilla rank, and he can actually lead 3,000 people under his command, and he can also promote three thousand households and garrisons.

As for the sub-thousand households, there is no fixed quota. But if it's too much, it's too blatant.

After careful consideration, Li Yuanqing finally decided to promote Shang Lao Liu, Guan Canghai, and Xu Heizi to be Zheng Qianhu, Duan Xiliang, Wang Hai, and Shunzi to be deputy Qianhu, and Yang Xiaochuan, Huang Guoshan and other officers to be reported to the Dongjiang Headquarters, and after Mao Wenlong's approval, they were reported to the imperial court.

There is also Liu Dadou, who has recently defected, he is a thousand-household rank, according to reason, Li Yuanqing should also mention him to the first level, but at this time, Li Yuanqing is just a guerrilla, and it is not impossible to mention him to garrison, but after all, he has not made an inch, and it is difficult to convince the public.

After Li Yuanqing discussed with Liu Dadou, Liu Dadou did not agree to immediately promote him to an official, and was willing to maintain the status quo and wait for meritorious service before mentioning the matter.

Li Yuanqing expressed satisfaction with Liu Dadou's attitude, and he also made a small obstacle clear.

After the upper structure of the army is completed, the next step is the improvement and reorganization of the army.

Before, although Li Yuanqing's department only had 1,000 people, in fact, it was divided into several units like a miscellaneous army, except for Li Yuanqing's old battalion, the others were very reluctant in combat effectiveness.

At this time, Li Yuanqing's young and strong people have reached 3,000, so there are more choices.

Let's start with the superstructure.

Although Shang Lao Liu was promoted to the number one thousand-household official under Li Yuanqing, in fact, he was like Li Yuanqing's big butler, responsible for more logistics affairs, and did not really lead the army.

This time, the specific military affairs of his headquarters are all in charge of Deputy Qianhu.

However, although there are 3,000 people, it is not suitable to add all these people to the soldiers. After all, fighting a war is not just for soldiers.

After careful deliberation with several major officers, Li Yuanqing formally reorganized the army of his headquarters.

From then on, Li Yuanqing's headquarters was called the 'Changsheng Battalion', and it had a combat strength of 3 thousand households.

The 1,000 Corps, the sixth of the 1,000 General Merchants, and the Deputy 1,000 General Duan Xiliang, commanded 700 soldiers, 600 auxiliary soldiers, 20 large and small warships, and 5 main ships.

The 2,000 Corps, the 1,000 General Officer Canghai, the Deputy 1,000 General Wang Hai, stationed at the South Wharf of Changsheng Island, commanded 600 soldiers, more than 1,000 auxiliaries, pirates, and sailors, and more than 300 large and small warships, which are the main navy and transport team under Li Yuanqing, responsible for Changsheng Island, Zhongdao, and West Island, including Lushunkou, Guanglu Island, Chenghuang Island, Ocean Island, Changshan Island, Heidao, and Denglai, and this wide area of liaison, intelligence, and defense.

In fact, the pirate group under the command of Guan Canghai has been incorporated into the establishment of the Changsheng Battalion, but in line with the principle of secrecy and secrecy, the 2,000th Corps only announces the number of soldiers, not the number of auxiliaries.

The 3,000 Corps, Xu Heizi, the deputy commander, Zhang Sanshun, the 100 households, Yang Xiaochuan, 300 soldiers in the headquarters, and the auxiliary soldiers are tentative.

Among them, Shunzi led a team of 100 bird soldiers, Yang Xiaochuan ordered a team of 100 bird soldiers, and also included a team of more than 100 engineers directly under Xu Heizi.

Although they did not have many large ships, they had 7 or 80 small ships, which was a miscellaneous army of thousands.

And Huang Guoshan, with a hundred household positions, was promoted to the leader of Li Yuanqing's personal guard battalion, and actually led a full 200 soldiers, directly under Li Yuanqing.

Liu Dadou led more than 100 people from his headquarters and was promoted to the leader of the Thousand Cavalry Corps.

It's a pity that all the horses on Changsheng Island now add up to less than 30, which is obviously a false position, and it can't be reported.

However, Li Yuanqing had already prepared, and Liu Dadou's headquarters was tentatively designated as a scout team with a thousand general treatment, and at the same time, he was responsible for training cavalry, and Li Yuanqing's three headquarters and thousand corps enjoyed the same financial allocation treatment.

After the personnel transfer was completed, Li Yuanqing held a grand ceremony for the formation of the army in the colonel field of Changshengdao Town, and personally awarded military flags to the commanders of the four teams.

But Shang Lao Liu and Xu Heizi were no longer on Changsheng Island at this time, and their deputies, Duan Xiliang and Shunzi, were led by them respectively.

That night, a grand celebration ceremony was held on Changsheng Island, and all the soldiers and people participated in the celebration ceremony.

However, although the Changsheng Battalion was established, and the drills of each department were coordinated and responsible by the officers of each department, it was still difficult for Li Yuanqing to take it easy.

First of all, there is the work of the blacksmith shop.

The ancients said, 'If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools.' ’

If personnel is the top priority, finance is the second, then weapons are the third.

The facilities on the blacksmith's side have been built, but the specific production will still have to go through a period of debugging and improvement.

Li Yuanqing basically had to personally participate in the development and shaping of various weapons and equipment, including birds, armor, swords, and guns.

Fortunately, Xu Liang and Old Man Yang are very experienced, and they have a lot of labor, so Li Yuanqing only needs to put forward his requirements and hand them over to implement them.

But there is one more crucial thing that makes Li Yuanqing rack his brains all the time, and that is intelligence.

In fact, Li Yuanqing really hesitated for a long time on Yang Xiaochuan's arrangement.

Although Yang Xiaochuan is not very old, he has a clear mind and is loyal to Li Yuanqing, and is actually the best person in charge of intelligence.

It's just that he lacks experience in this area, Li Yuanqing doesn't have much experience, and Liu Dadou just came, so it was not good to rashly arrange Yang Xiaochuan to his side, so he could only maintain it temporarily and slowly look for opportunities.

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