When he woke up in the morning, Liu Jun felt refreshed. turned his head, only to find that the person next to the pillow was already gone. After a while, Ah Bao came in and waited for Liu Jun to get up and dress him and comb his hair.

"Where's Yaoyao?" Liu Jun asked her.

"She went to wait for her lady to get up early in the morning, and she rewarded her with a good set of heads." Ah Bao helped Liu Jun comb his hair neatly and reported while reporting. Yaoyao spent the night here with Liu Jun last night, and then the whole house knew about it early in the morning. Yaoyao waited for Xueqi to get up, and then followed Xueqi to greet the old man and the old lady, Xueqi told the two old men about the situation last night for Yaoyao, and then asked the two old men to lift Yaoyao.

Now, Yaoyao has been promoted, the woman's hair has been combed, and the old man and Liu's mother have also rewarded her with a set of hair and several clothes, and even specially selected a small courtyard for her, and has been officially promoted to Liu Jun's concubine.

Bao'er was originally full of Yaoyao, but today she feels that Yaoyao is very scheming and dislikes her.

Liu Jun keenly felt that Bao'er was a little hostile to Yaoyao, the newly superior sister, and smiled, it was a normal situation. He now almost understands what Lu Xueqi means, Lu Xueqi knows that he has two women outside, Shen Man and Chen Yuanyuan, and also knows that one of them used to be a red man in Qinhuaihe, and the other was a red actor of Wu Song, and they both had been concubines, so although he had recognized these two women, he refused to let them enter the door of the Liu family, at most it was Liu Jun's outer room.

For this reason, she even took the initiative to raise her dowry as her backup.

The war of the women of the back house. Liu Jun understands all this, but he doesn't intend to interfere, as long as he doesn't exceed a certain boundary. He will go with them to fight, anyway, this kind of thing is forbidden to stop. Moreover, he didn't plan to let Shen Man and Chen Yuanyuan enter the door of the Liu family.

However, Yaoyao left herself here early this morning, but ran to Xueqi's side, and then to her father and mother, she was indeed a little scheming. It seems that he does know too little about Yaoyao. But it seems normal to think about it, which girl doesn't want to be on top, of course you have to seize the opportunity. And even if he is promoted to a concubine. But she can't shake Xueqi's status as the main room at all, and it's normal for her to leave herself to please Xueqi.

Hey, there are rivers and lakes everywhere.

"Bao, I'll lift you up too. Would you rather not? Liu Jun got dressed. Suddenly said to Bao'er.

Bao'er was obviously startled, her face turned red all of a sudden, and she couldn't speak for a long time.

Liu Jun looked at her frightened look and felt very funny, "Since you don't object, then I'll let you agree, and I'll talk to Mrs. and the old lady and the old lady in a while, and give you a lift." ”

"Master Hou, don't make fun of me." Bao'er's heart suddenly jumped.

Liu Jun smiled. After leaving the room and going directly to the hall, Xueqi and her sister-in-law were still there to invite an open tea. Yaoyao had really combed her hair in a bun, and her clothes and jewelry had been changed, all of them were good hair and fabrics, and she knew at a glance that it was Xueqi who rewarded her.

When Liu's mother saw Liu Jun coming, she told him that she had lifted Yaoyao up. Liu Jun nodded, "This is as it should be, just right, Bao'er is also raised." ”

Everyone in the hall was a little stunned, Lu Xueqi was stunned, and Yaoyao was also stunned. Sister-in-law Mei even looked at Liu Jun in surprise, she knew that Liu Jun accepted Yaoyao's room last night, why did the second uncle accept Bao'er in half a morning?

Liu Jun wants to lift Bao'er, this is not a big deal, after all, Bao'er has been serving Liu Jun in the past, Bao'er is still born in the family, knows the roots, and the two old people have no opinion. Lu Xueqi couldn't have an opinion at this time, so she nodded in agreement, and among the crowd, only Yaoyao seemed to smile a little reluctantly.

"In the future, Yaoyao and Bao'er, you two will take good care of Mrs. and the old lady at home." Liu Jun said to the two newly promoted concubines.

Bao'er seemed to be still immersed in a huge shock, and she was stunned until this time, and only then did she finally come to her senses, her face full of complicated looks, but more of it seemed to be surprise. Although she was suddenly attacked, she finally accepted the matter by default, and according to the rules, she stepped forward to give tea to her father, Liu's mother, Liu Jun and Xueqi in turn, which can be regarded as a ritual.

Although they have been promoted, they are now just concubines, and they are not even qualified to hold a banquet.

Liu Jun was not immersed in the gentle township too much, he stayed in Xiwan for another day, and that night was naturally spent in Bao'er's room. Then early the next morning, Liu Jun said goodbye to his family and rode his horse to Hutou Fort. Before leaving, Lu Xueqi originally wanted Liu Jun to bring Yaoyao, but in the end Liu Jun refused.

"When your husband is outside, there must be someone to take care of him."

"It's enough to have relatives and military companions, and it's not suitable to take women in the army."

Lu Xueqi glanced at Liu Jun lightly, and whispered, "Husband, I'm afraid that Yaoyao will hinder you from being happy with those three ladies and Yuanyuan girls." ”

"You really have the demeanor of a lady!" Liu Jun said with a smile.

"The husband can't take care of too many women and concubines outside, but there is one point, which is a little restrained, and he is never allowed to bring it back, even if he gives birth to a child, the concubine will not recognize it."

Liu Jun just smiled at her warning, then turned over his horse and waved goodbye, and rode away.

After Liu Jun returned to Hutou Fort, he immediately inspected the workshops under his name, and accompanied by Zhao Shun and other craftsmen, he personally walked through the workshops below.

As Zhang Shan reported earlier, everything is going well in the workshops now.

"Zhao Shun, you have done a very good job, during my absence, the management and operation of the workshops are in an orderly manner, which is very good." Liu Jun first praised the foremen, and rewarded them with points coupons of ten taels to one hundred taels of silver on the spot as encouragement.

"The momentum of the workshop is very good and the profit is good, so we need to keep it going." Now this situation, there is chaos everywhere, the soldiers are in chaos, those squires, landlords and even businessmen are also recruiting a large number of trainers to guard and buy weapons, and the imperial court is now gradually turning a blind eye to this situation and not strictly managing it. Even in various places, in addition to the official training of the bravery. The local squires began to set up a large number of township soldiers and militias, which were all acquiesced by the imperial court.

This situation makes the ordnance business very hot now. Ordinary knives, guns, arrows and spears are in great demand, and even these firearms and artillery produced by Liu Jun's firearms workshop are also not worried about sales. Especially now that Liu Jun's firearms store has played out the brand, the quality is very good, although the price is higher, but the quality is guaranteed, and many people come to order firearms.

"Last time I added you a group of workers. The production capacity of our firearms workshop has increased a lot, but now I have a big order to hand over to you, and the time is very tight. You have to hurry up and get some more craftsmen back, and you have to recruit more apprentices yourself, and you have to let the craftsmen bring more apprentices. Money is not a problem. Now rush first. Do you understand? ”

Liu Jun's order this time is indeed very large, a full 50,000 guns, of which Liu Jun himself has to train 50,000 recruits, so he himself opened 20,000 guns, although not all soldiers are equipped with guns, but guns are not better than knives and guns, and the consumption is larger.

In addition, Qin Liangyu also ordered 10,000 firearms from Liu Jun, after she saw Liu Jun's nine-headed bird firearms sharp last time. He was also determined to equip his white pole soldiers with certain firearms in order to improve the combat ability of the white pole soldiers. Qin Liangyu is also the same as Liu Jun. Receiving the emperor's request to train a new army, Qin Liangyu was ready to increase the number of white pole soldiers to 30,000, not including the two battalions of 6,000 white pole soldiers subordinate to Liu Jun's Chongqing staff general and Kuizhou staff general.

And Mei Zhihuan, Li Changgeng, Yuan Jixian and other governors also had to train the new army, they had to train 50,000 new troops, and they were also ready to take the road of being equipped with a large number of firearms, and the three of them also gave Liu Jun a total of 20,000 strokes at once.

Fifty thousand guns, that's a big order. However, time is very tight, and they are all waiting for these firearms equipment to be trained.

"All Wyverns?" When Zhao Shun heard the order of 50,000 guns, he was also shocked, but he was immediately surprised and excited.

"Well, after all the commanders have seen our flying dragon guns, how can they be willing to use backward bird guns. 50,000 rods, all flying dragons. ”

"How long do you have to get the goods?"

"It will take up to three months to deliver all the goods, and we can supply them to each customer in batches."

Zhao Shun hurriedly shook his head when he heard this, "Time is too tight, we can drill a maximum of 10,000 rods in a month, and 50,000 rods, at least in May." ”

"I don't have that much time for you, you have to figure out how to ramp up the capacity. In short, if the raw materials are not enough, they will step up procurement, if they are not enough, they will recruit, and if there are not enough craftsmen, they will find a way to poach people. In three months, three months at the latest, all 50,000 dragon guns were delivered. ”

"Master Hou, how much does our batch of goods cost?"

"Ten taels, all ten taels and one strokes." Liu Jun replied.

"Ah, why is it only ten taels, didn't we sell twenty taels and one strokes before?" Another steward in charge of the accounts exclaimed.

Ten taels and one flying dragon guns, this is the price set by Liu Jun. It turned out to be twenty taels, of course, because of the high price. Now several governors and themselves ordered 50,000 rods at once, and they also offered 20 taels, which is unrealistic. And in fact, the cost of the firebolt is not high, and the cost of the bird's gun in the imperial court is even only two taels of silver, of course, it is a version of cutting corners, but even if it is a more advanced flying dragon gun, the cost will not be too high.

In particular, Liu Jun's current fire hammer workshop is so large, and after the standardization and assembly line operation are adopted, whether it is the procurement of raw materials or the labor cost of manufacturing and processing, many costs have been greatly reduced.

The Wyvern is more advanced than the Bird Gun, and it is only a design and process improvement.

Now in Liu Jun's firearms workshop, the entire manufacturing cost of a flying dragon gun has been compressed to five taels of silver. Therefore, even if Liu Jun reduces the original selling price to half and collects ten taels and one strokes, he will still have double the profit.

Of course, this is a large-scale purchase, or an order from one's own people, so that there is such a price. If it is another order, it must not be so favorable, and if it is a scattered small order, the price will be higher. But overall, the price has dropped significantly, but Liu Jun expects that after the price of Feilonggong is reduced, sales will definitely increase and more customers can be won.

If the price of the flying dragon gun is low, it will be able to have a higher competitiveness and snatch some customers who originally wanted to buy the bird gun. After all, now that the production capacity of Huojifang has increased greatly, as long as more customers are grabbed to start running at full capacity, they can make more money.

"In addition, the artillery workshop also has to be expanded, and we have also received a lot of orders for artillery this time."

Last time, Liu Jun dragged hundreds of artillery pieces to Sichuan to fight, and the artillery made great contributions and played a huge role, but the losses were also large. Most of the artillery casts now are mainly bronze, supplemented by iron. The bronze cannon is more expensive, but the performance is better, a bronze Buddha can shoot a thousand shots, while an iron cast cannon can only fire about 600 cannons. And if the battle is fierce, the artillery fire is more intensive, and the interval is short, then the life will be reduced, and the iron cast cannon will drop even more.

Fortunately, scrapped cannons can be recycled and reforged, especially bronze cannons.

However, after all, the proportion of artillery equipped by each department is small, but Liu Jun has received orders from tens of thousands of new troops, which is also a large order.

"This time, I hope we can start casting some 1,000-pound Hongyi cannons or 3,800-pound heavy cannons." Liu Jun made another request to Zhao Shun. Although the Hongyi cannon is heavy and the field performance is not strong, if it is a battle or siege war, it also has an important function that other artillery can replace.

Hongyi artillery can fight farther, so it can be used to siege the city, or used to break up and destroy the enemy's formation from a distance, in general, all kinds of artillery have their role, there is no possibility of which cannon is useful and which is not good, but just whether it can be better used by various artillery.

If you use the Hongyi cannon to load shotguns for melee combat, it is obviously a misuse, and you use a tiger crouch to attack the city, and you obviously have too high expectations. Liu Jun hopes to equip his troops with some Hongyi cannons, just so that he can have more tactical choices and stronger combat capabilities when he fights in the future.

"We don't have a problem with the Hongyi cannon technically." Zhao Shun assured Liu Jun.

"That's good, now I have another task for you, we will build another car workshop, build the wagons of the baggage battalion, and the chariots of the chariot battalion, and the artillery carts. In the future, we will have a great demand for all kinds of vehicles, so it is more reliable and cheaper to build our own factory, recruit a group of craftsmen, and purchase our own materials to build ourselves. ”

"In addition, we will build a cotton armor workshop, build a helmet casting workshop, and build a quilt workshop!"

Liu Jun put forward many plans and requirements in one breath, and Zhao Shun and other stewards wrote them down carefully one by one, and instantly felt that the burden on their shoulders was much heavier.

"Let's build a workshop to meet our own equipment, and then find a way to expand production, sell to the outside world, and make profits!" Liu Jun has great ambitions, and the army building workshop is not only to invest money in it, but to make money in the future. However, there is still a long way to go before it can be like the current Firecracker Workshop. (To be continued......)