Although Liu Jun is only a martial artist and a county regiment training general, he is obviously much more clever than Lu Zhixian who was born as a jinshi in terms of negotiation skills. Especially during this negotiation session, Lu Zhixian had not brought his Shaoxing master with him.

As a result, he was led by Liu Jun throughout the negotiation, which was completely Liu Jun's rhythm.

On the issue of equipment for team training, Liu Jun successfully achieved his preset goal in the end. On behalf of the county, Lu Jinxi agreed to pay Liu Jun a one-time payment of 10,000 taels of silver as equipment and equipment for the training of the Nine-headed Bird, and this money was specifically used to purchase ordnance and was not paid directly to the Nine-headed Bird.

Instead, the nine-headed bird made a list of ordnance purchases, and then directly purchased them from the ordnance workshop in Nanjing through the county. Of course, this does not belong to the general official procurement, Liu Jun has long known that there is erosion in all parts of the Ming Dynasty, erosion in the government, erosion in the guards, and even the workshop.

If it's an official order, then what you can buy with money will definitely not be good, just a bunch of rags. If you buy a bird, you will explode, and if you buy gunpowder, the ratio will definitely be wrong.

Therefore, although this batch of ordnance procurement was made through official channels, it was not an official order in the end.

Those workshops in Nanjing, although they are official. However, there are two kinds of equipment they manufacture, both planned and unplanned, and the planned is the official order, and the price is small, so the craftsmen also cut corners and find ways to save a sum of silver, such ordnance is naturally foolish.

There were also unplanned production items in the workshop, and these unplanned orders came from the private orders of some generals or local gentry, mainly to equip the family or equipment to the village regiment. These orders are equivalent to private work in the workshop, and the price is relatively high, but the quality requirements are also high.

Liu Jun previously spent four times the normal price to buy the bird gun, which belongs to this category. However, at that time, because of his small order, the nine-headed bird belonged to the private army, so the price was more expensive. Now he has more ordnance to order, and he is now an officer. Although the batch of jobs received by the workshop is still considered private work, since it is sold to the local government and army, it still relieves a lot of risks and troubles, so the price can be slightly lower.

The bird is 10 taels and 11, which is half cheaper than last time, but it is still twice the normal factory price. Since he couldn't cash out the money for the equipment in the county, Liu Jun simply purchased more equipment at one time, with ten taels of birds and five taels of pipes.

The nine-headed bird has more than 200 bird guns, and now there are only 100 bird guns in hand, considering that some spare ones are needed, so Liu Jun plans to purchase another 300 bird guns, fortunately, there are 300 spare guns last time, and this time there is no need to buy spare guns.

Three thousand taels of silver were gone at once. The team originally purchased 100 sets of cotton armor, and this time Liu Jun purchased another 300 sets, originally wanted to have one set per person, but it was too expensive. The last time I bought it was a set of fifty taels, this time the price has been reduced, twenty taels and a set, and it is still not cheap. 300 sets cost 6,000 taels, but fortunately, they come with a bright helmet and net boots, face armor, and throat guards.

Ten thousand taels of silver, only one thousand taels remained.

Liu Jun placed orders for all kinds of cold weapons, shields, spears, hook guns, boring palladium, bows and arrows, etc., and bought a lot of gunpowder and lead, and in the end, 10,000 taels of silver was not enough.

In the end, Liu Jun had to pay another 5,000 taels of silver, which could be regarded as making up for the payment.

"I have a requirement for these ordnance, one is to ensure quality, and the other is to deliver quickly."

Lu Zhixian has his own relationship in Nanjing, and he patted his chest and assured that the goods would arrive in half a month at most, and the quality would definitely be guaranteed.

On the same day, Lu Zhixian and his entourage had a sumptuous banquet at Hutou Pass, and at the banquet, Lu Zhixian even pooled together with the squires a hundred taels of silver to reward the nine-headed bird practitioners.

After sending them away, Liu Jun asked the team members to continue training, although many people have not yet obtained their own ordnance and armor, but they can't relax, if they don't have weapons, they will first practice their physical strength and fists and feet.

Picking up the account book and recording the few sums of money spent today in the account, Liu Jun couldn't help but sigh, the money was spent too fast.

The county gave 10,000 taels of equipment money, not to mention that he didn't get a cent, and he also posted 5,000 taels upside down to buy ordnance. The county promised to give 1,000 taels a month, but he calculated that there were nearly 600 people in the nine-headed bird, and nearly 2,000 taels of food and wages were consumed in January, and he still had to put 1,000 taels into it every month.

There is also the firearms workshop, which is still at the beginning, and he doesn't know that the Year of the Monkey will only produce firearms, but he has already pulled out three thousand taels of silver.

Open source and reduce expenditure, but now there is no source to open, and it can only be reduced first.

Liu Jun thought about it, but he still had to reduce his expenses. Otherwise, his nine-headed bird team really wouldn't last long.

However, how to reduce expenditure is also a difficult problem, the food expenditure must not be reduced, the soldiers practice every day, the amount of exercise is very large, if the food is out of oil and water, there is no meat supplement, it will definitely train people to cross. Horse feed can't be reduced, more than two hundred war horses are treasures, but one horse eats more than five strong guys, and even has to give them eggs. But the war horse is not a horse, and if it is not carefully raised, the horse will be abolished, which cannot be saved.

"Change the salaries of the players." In the end, Liu Jun only thought of this method, not to reduce it immediately, but to change the original uniform treatment of the regular team members with two or two months of salary plus six buckets of monthly rations, and temporary team members with one or two months of salary and four buckets of monthly rations.

"In the future, the rewards of the team members will be changed to points or promotions, and the rewards will no longer be directly issued."

"Well, Kexin will set up a level for the team members, so that the basic salary will also have a high difference, which can not only motivate the soldiers to be motivated, but also promote the soldiers after making meritorious contributions in the future, and replace the direct distribution of rewards with upgraded levels and monthly salaries."

Liu Jun thought about it carefully, and finally thought of a new way to assign ranks to his soldiers, similar to military ranks.

After all, now their team can be regarded as an official army, and the officers above have a rank and rank. The following team members should also have a rank, and the army pays the most attention to the upper and lower ranks, which is not only conducive to the command of the team, but also conducive to stimulating the motivation of the soldiers.

How to engage in this level, Liu Jun thought about it for a long time.

In the end, it is planned that as long as the flag general is below the classification, the flag general and above do not need to be included in it because they already belong to the military attache with a formal rank.

"The squad can always be regarded as a non-commissioned officer, which can be divided into three grades, first sergeant, second sergeant, and sergeant. When a player achieves one of these three levels, they are eligible to serve as team leader. ”

"And the captain corresponds to two ranks, a first class corporal and a second class corporal."

"Ordinary members below the rank of captain are classified as sixth class, senior private, first class, second class, third class, senior private, and private."

There are eleven levels below the flag general, and above these eleven levels, there are officers, flag generals, hundred generals, and general generals. For the time being, Liu Jun does not plan to set up a rank similar to the rank of the officer, and only divides the rank of the soldier first.

Reserve members are awarded privates, and new members of regular members are awarded senior privates, and after the training, regular members who have passed the recruit period can be promoted to third-class privates.

If you go further, you must have military merit. If a third-class soldier is promoted to a second-class soldier, he must kill one level, a second-class soldier must be promoted to a first-class soldier and must kill two levels, and a first-class soldier promoted to an upper-class soldier must be killed at the third level, and after each promotion, the previous first-class merit will no longer be accumulated. Or rely on the usual training performance, or the excellent performance score on the battlefield, and you can also be promoted after accumulation.

Different levels will have different salaries.

Privates, the basic salary is five cents per month plus three buckets of monthly rations. In addition, there are five coins of silver, but you must get full marks in attendance, hard training, combat performance, etc., if the performance is not good enough points, you have to deduct points, then the five coins of silver must also be deducted. If you perform well, you can get an extra silver reward of five coins. Among them, the most outstanding performance can also be rewarded with additional points, but no longer give cash rewards.

The private's basic salary is five cents of silver, and three buckets of monthly rations. Promoted to one level, plus two coins of silver basic salary and five liters of monthly ration, the special reward for the soldiers of the six levels of silver is five yuan, while the sergeant of the two ranks is eight yuan, and the sergeant of the third rank is one tael.

Private five cents, private of the upper class seven cents, third class soldier nine cents, second class private one two two, first class private one two four, senior soldier one two six.

Promoted to sergeant, the basic salary is two taels, plus five dollars for each level. The second-class corporal is two taels, and the first-class corporal is two taels and five cents.

Promoted to non-commissioned officer, the basic salary is three taels, plus one tael for each rank, three taels for sergeant, four taels for second-class sergeant, and five taels for first-class sergeant.

The monthly ration of the sergeant is eight buckets, and the monthly ration of the non-commissioned officer is one stone, regardless of rank.

The salaries of the commanders and team commanders have risen, but the salaries of ordinary soldiers have been lowered.

But with this level, the top and bottom will be more distinct in the future, and at the same time, if you fight again in the future, the soldier will be mainly upgraded, supplemented by rewards, and a lot of reward can be saved. After all, a person has a head of twenty taels, and Liu Jun, who paid this money, is already a little painful.

In the beginning, heavy rewards were meant to boost morale, but now that the team has entered the regular stage, such heavy rewards are not very suitable. In the future, military merits should be more based on collective performance, and instead of rewarding a lot of silver, they should be changed to issuing points.

Captures on the battlefield can also be classified into the service cooperative, so that the team members can exchange points for them, which can not only solve the problem of selling the loot, but also avoid cheap sales, and after the rewards are exchanged for points, they do not have to pay directly to cash. The points of the team members are stored in the points book, and they can exchange items from the service club at any time, which is actually equivalent to a new currency circulation within the nine-headed bird, and the pressure on the demand for silver will be reduced a lot.

However, it is not possible to blindly reduce expenditure, the most important thing is to open source and find inputs.

What projects are you looking for to make some money? Liu Jun meditated hard, he had to find some inputs, otherwise it would never work to sit and eat.

But now the most urgent thing is to transport the gold and silver of Qiting back, otherwise the nine-headed bird will run out of rice to cook.