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Time has entered July of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, the weather is still hot, and the construction site of Hutoubao is still busy in a hurry. Because of the hot weather, the construction site starts to work every day at a slight dawn, rests for two hours in the middle of the sun, and continues to work until the evening is dark.

Although it is very tiring to work on such days, the remuneration is very good, and the money can be settled every three days. Even Liu Jun arranged for someone to prepare herbal tea for them every day, and even asked the big canteen to prepare three meals for everyone. The enthusiasm of the craftsmen is quite high, and the tiger head fort is changing with each passing day, and the nine earthen buildings are constantly rising, and they have been built to the third floor.

Liu Jun compiled a drill code for the instructors, which contains the training content guidelines of each unit of the mounted rifle artillery, and even contains the rules and regulations of the nine-headed bird, etc., which are some of Liu Jun's own military knowledge in later generations, plus his understanding of the army battles in this era, and summarized and formulated.

In fact, Liu Jun believes that it is not difficult to lead troops, and it is also not difficult to train troops. Do three things well, and a soldier can become a combatable soldier. First of all, they have to be fully paid, if the soldiers can't even eat enough to support their families, they are not good soldiers.

The equipment of the army is actually secondary, Chongzhen's grandson on the throne, he took the Western artillery expert Sun Yuanhua as the mainstay, let him establish an elite firearms unit, the imperial court pulled out a lot of money, made artillery firearms, and even invited the Portuguese as instructors, this army became the most elite firearms unit at that time, with a large number of advanced artillery.

But even such elite troops, the result was also seriously underpaid, and at that time, Sun Yuanhua took in a large number of generals such as Kong Youde of the former Mao Wenlong and the old department who withdrew from Liaodong into Shandong, and these Jiangdong soldiers launched the Dengzhou Mutiny in the fifth year of Chongzhen, and the cause was the arrears of wages. At that time, Kong Youde's troops, who had been owed wages for a long time, withdrew troops from Liaodong, and the local gentry not only did not provide supplies, but bullied them, and finally provoked a mutiny. In just one year, Dengzhou fell, Laizhou was besieged, three governors died, one prefect died, more than 10,000 soldiers were killed, the people were devastated, and the prosperous Denglai area became a piece of rubble.

In the end, the firearms unit carefully built by the imperial court took refuge in Houjin, and tens of thousands of elite firearms troops became Houjin thugs since then.

Such things are not exceptional, but there are many. For example, when it comes to the great uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty in later generations, they all think that it was not a peasant uprising at the beginning, but a rebellion caused by the border soldiers, who first ignited the fire of the rebellion, and even from beginning to end, the Central Plains rebel army at the end of the Ming Dynasty was the backbone of those former Ming soldiers.

The border troops fled and rebelled, and they all arose because of non-payment of wages.

Training is the most important thing, sufficient money and food, and no deduction of sufficient salary, this is one thing that Liu Jun attaches the most importance to. I can't even eat enough to eat, and I still talk about killing the enemy and going into battle to protect my family and defend the country.

The second thing to do in military training is to be foot soldiers.

The current army of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention the guard army that has been rotten for a long time, is the border army, and the border army that has been recruited also has a large number of vacancies. Even if it is a border army, there are only enough sixty percent, and even these sixty percent are not all real soldiers in many cases. The vast majority of them are just cannon fodder, with extremely low salaries deducted, and the generals eat empty quotas, deduct military salaries and food, and use some of the money and food to focus on building their own domestic troops, and the rest of the large troops fall into their pockets. Therefore, even the most elite border troops today often have less than 20% of them capable of fighting. The others are either empty or cannon fodder, and only the small number of domestic troops can really fight.

Liu Jun spends his own money to supply the troops, so there will be no vacancies, and he will not deduct military salaries and food, and his nine-headed bird and hundreds of men and horses almost all enjoy the treatment of family members in the Ming army.

Foot salary, foot soldiers, this is the basic of a soldier and horse, plus foot training, it is enough.

Three meals a day, the meals are rich and nutritious, Liu Jun's nine-headed bird practices every day, every day, and the training intensity is very high. Compared with those border troops, who exercise every three days and five days, it is obviously a great surpass. Liu Jun believes that with diligent training and appropriate actual combat to suppress bandits, then his team can quickly become a combatable elite soldier.

The batch of ordnance purchased by Liu Jun has been delivered, and after inspecting them one by one, it was found that although the price was doubled, the quality was indeed not comparable to that of the ordnance delivered to the officers and soldiers at the original price.

Ordnance has already been distributed, especially the bird guns, gun-carrying troops, and tiger squat artillery members, and according to Liu Jun's wishes, they have to fire dozens of rounds of ammunition every day for live-fire training. Liu Jun is very willing to spend money, although gunpowder is not cheap, but if he is not trained and familiar, then even if he is equipped with good firearms and artillery, it will be useless to hit the enemy at that time.

Zhao Shun's workshop now has a preliminary prototype, Liu Jun spent a lot of money to recruit a lot of craftsmen, many of them were dug directly from the corners of those official workshops, gave the workshop officials a sum of money, and then gave the craftsmen high salaries, and it was easy to dig up a lot of skilled craftsmen.

"My lord, according to your meaning, we have now tentatively agreed on the division of the workshop into several manufacturing groups. At present, there are nine groups, including iron refining group, pipe making group, welding group, drilling group, scraping group, machine parts group, butt group, assembly group, and finishing group, each group has at least three skilled craftsmen, and then there are many ordinary craftsmen, in addition to experienced craftsmen who are responsible for checking quality. Zhao Shun stood beside Liu Jun and introduced Liu Jun carefully.

With a large amount of silver, the workshop is no longer the utility room it used to be, and a row of brick houses has been expanded, many tools have been added, and more importantly, there are many craftsmen.

"I'll make a few comments, you can remember them." Liu Jun glanced at the craftsmen and said, "It's good to be divided into nine groups now." However, I think that within each manufacturing group, it can be divided into several groups, and each skilled craftsman will bring two or three ordinary craftsmen, and each ordinary craftsman will bring two or three apprentices, so that the group can be divided into groups. However, when manufacturing, we must strictly follow our requirements, and engrave the number of our own group and the name of the craftsman with the group on the ordnance we manufacture. ”

"In terms of quality inspection, it is necessary to strictly control each manufacturing group, and each manufacturing group must have a skilled craftsman who is responsible for checking the quality of the group's processes. In addition, there must be patrol inspections, mobile inspections to check the quality of each process, and a general inspection to inspect each firearm after the production is completed. After the general inspection, a random inspection is set up to conduct a sampling inspection of all completed products. ”

Firearms are no more stringent than knives and guns, and they have stricter quality requirements. If the quality is not up to standard, then on the battlefield, for the soldier with the firearm, it will be murder. Liu Jun asked for so many quality inspections, which is to improve the quality to the highest. And he clearly put forward the responsibility system, each craftsman must engrave on his own products, quality inspection. If there is a problem with the manufacturing quality of the craftsman, and the quality inspection of the group is not found, although the working quality will be punished, the quality inspection punishment will be heavier. The craftsmen and quality inspection of the later processes are the same, if you find the previous problems to take out, there is a prize, if you don't find it to put it down, then you will also be punished.

Although the workshop has not yet started formal production, Liu Jun explained the rules first.

At the same time, in addition to giving these craftsmen very generous treatment, Liu Jun also proposed performance awards. Fundamental their performance, piecework commission rewards. There is a reward for doing a good job, and there is a reward for doing more.

"When will it be officially produced?" Liu Jun asked Zhao Shun, having invested so much, he always wanted to see the output as soon as possible.

"We have already carried out the trial construction of the Lumi guns, and the first two Lumi guns have just been completed, and they are very good after testing." Zhao Shun said with some excitement, he was also under a lot of pressure during this time, Liu Jun obeyed him, asked for money to give money, asked people to give people, asked for tools to buy tools, and asked for drilling machines to buy drilling machines, he spent so much money before and after, and he also hoped to be able to make firearms as soon as possible.

A craftsman brought over two handfuls of try-made Lu Mi guns, and Liu Jun took them and watched them carefully. This Lu Mi gun is different from the previous one of Zhao Shun, and Liu Jun has also put forward a lot of opinions on this Lu Mi gun, such as on the butt, the curvature has increased, and the butt has also been widened and increased, and it has generally been completely the same as the rifle butt of later generations.

In addition, this Lumi gun also has a strap that can be carried on the shoulder when not in use. In addition, Liu Jun also asked the craftsman to add a sword, and the mouth of the gun was designed with a card position. The sword is equivalent to a bayonet, but this time it was already there, and the earlier fast gun was equipped with a sword, and after firing, the sword was inserted into the barrel to become a long spear.

Liu Jun asked for the newly made Lu Mi Gun to also add a sword, which was only more than a foot long, flattened in shape, and had blood pools.

The brand-new gun body still exuded a metallic smell, and Liu Jun called someone to get the bullets.

Zhao Shun personally brought a box of bullets to Liu Jun, and Liu Jun glanced at it, which was different from the previous ammunition, but was in the shape of a cylinder wrapped in paper.

"As my lord intended, we put gunpowder and buckshot together."

Liu Jun nodded, this is the fixed ammunition. In the past, gunpowder and lead bullets were separated, and the gunpowder was loaded in advance with a small bamboo tube, and each tube was exactly one round. Then pour the ignition powder into the powder room, light the fire rope, and you can aim and fire.

The fixed ammunition proposed by Liu Jun and Zhao Shun is to wrap the quantitative propellant and lead bullet together in paper, and when they use it, take it out and directly bite the corner of the paper ammunition, pour the medicine from the muzzle, and then stuff the remaining lead bullet and paper directly into the barrel and stab it solidly.

This is equivalent to simplifying the original two steps into one step, and it is definitely more convenient to operate. There is no need to carry dozens of small bamboo pipes on your body, just carry a box of fixed ammunition.

Reload, pour the ignition, light the arquebus, aim, pull the trigger.

After a thud, a puff of white smoke rose.

"Hit, a hundred steps away, right in the heart of the rake!" Before the smoke cleared, an excited roar was heard in the distance.

Liu Jun put away the gun and smiled with satisfaction.

"Very good, from now on, this gun will be officially produced, but the name will be changed, no longer need to be called Lumi Gun, it will be changed to the Flying Dragon Gun, and a thousand will be produced first."

"A thousand?" Zhao Shun and other craftsmen were surprised.

"Such a good gun, of course, it needs to be produced." Liu Jun said with a smile, in fact, he was thinking in his heart that it wouldn't be long before he would not only be able to self-sufficient, but he would even be able to sell them for money.