Dengzhou, Zhaoyuan Copper Mine.

This was originally the property of the Confucian Mansion, but now it has been blocked by the Jingbei Army, and all the clansmen and their families in charge of the Confucian family here have been controlled.

At that time, all the high-ranking workshop managers and thugs were sent to the Xiadian confluence where the Dagu River and the Zhaoyuan Copper Mine were located to dig a reservoir, which Li Xingmei called labor reform.

Choosing to excavate the reservoir here, Li Xingzhi considered the principle of proximity, the second is the impact of the Dagu River, the soil here is also relatively soft, and there is just spring, it is still a dry area, and it is more convenient to excavate.

According to Li Xingzhi's vision, this reservoir connects the Dagu River and borders Luoshan Mountain where the copper mine is located in the south, with a radius of about five miles and a depth of five zhang.

Such a large amount of work is neither large nor small, and it is obviously not enough to rely on those in the copper mine who have undergone labor reform.

For this reason, Li Xingzhi recruited people from Dengzhou to dig the reservoir according to Song Guangkun's suggestion, and it is now early spring, the seeds of the land have been sown, and there are not many fish caught in the sea.

Twenty big money a day, the military marshal's office provides corresponding food, the treatment of the Jingbei Army is not high, but there are still many people who take the initiative to sign up, in order to have something to eat, and the wages they get can also buy a little rice for their families.

While digging the reservoir, Song Guangkun and Sun Zhijie, who came from Laizhou, also formulated corresponding regulations for the management of craftsmen.

This regulation made it clear that the craftsmen of the Jingbei Army were no longer the craftsmen at the lowest level of society, but on the contrary, they were employees of the Jingbei Military Government, and of course the income of these employees was linked to their workload and work results.

According to the regulations, all the craftsmen of the Jingbei Army entered the workshop on time every day and left the workshop after the time of application.

During the post food is borne by the manufacturing bureau, the salary of the craftsman is tentatively set at one or two halves of silver per month, and the workload of each person per day will be recorded by special management personnel, and at the end of each month, the manufacturing bureau will carry out corresponding rewards and punishments according to the average output of this month.

If the number exceeds the average, the manufacturing bureau will issue a reward according to the excess quantity, and of course, all weapons that leave the factory will be engraved with the name of the builder, and the manufacturing bureau will not only inspect the quantity, but also strictly control the quality.

In contrast, if the quantity is not enough, at most verbal criticism, and if the quality does not meet the requirements, it will be severely punished or even beheaded.

Of course, there is also a rest time, the first day and the fifteenth day of each month, which is the legal holiday set by Li Xingzhi, this time is freely allocated by the craftsmen, if it is to catch up with the schedule, the craftsmen can choose to take a holiday or double the day's wages.

In addition, the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau will also select 10 labor pacesetters every month, and these people will not only be praised in the manufacturing bureau, but the military marshal's office will also give them a bonus of 50 taels of silver, and the Jingbei Military Government will give heavy rewards to those craftsmen who can put forward constructive proposals or improve production processes, and even confer official positions.

To tell the truth, the treatment of craftsmen in the Jingbei Army is not high, far less than the treatment of craftsmen in the Song Dynasty, but it is much higher than that of craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty, not to mention that Li Xingzhi has come up with incentives.

The craftsmen who were taken from Qufu were naturally very happy, and they never thought of such treatment, so they would have to pay one or two halves of silver a month plus the mother-in-law at home to grow some vegetables, and raise some chickens to keep them free of food and clothing, after all, the price of grain here in Shandong is only about two taels and one stone.

The reservoir is located in Zhaoyuan, and the workshop in Dengzhou will naturally be moved to Zhaoyuan, and these things will be handled by Song Guangkun, the prefect of Dengzhou, and Li Xingzhi will have more important things to deal with.

The Jingbei Army, as Li Xingzhi's capital to settle down in this troubled era, sacked the Confucian Mansion this time and obtained more than 5 million taels of cash, which will definitely reward the three armies, and Li Xingzhi is also ready to expand the three towns of the Jingbei Army to full capacity, so that the preferential treatment of the Jingbei Army will spread throughout Leiden.

After dealing with the matter of excavating the reservoir and relocating the manufacturing bureau, Li Xingzhi immediately ordered Song Guangkun to withdraw 300,000 taels of silver, personally go to the towns to distribute the salaries, and at the same time inspect the training situation in each town.

Ten taels of soldiers, fifteen taels of chiefs, thirty taels of officers and deputy officers, fifty taels of guerrilla generals, and one hundred taels of staff generals.

Li Xingzhi attaches great importance to army building, and the town generals and deputy generals in each town will naturally do what he likes, not to mention that when he was in Gaoyang, Li Xingzhi confirmed the core position of the Jingbei Army, and when he was in Li Jiashan, he was more able to set an example in person, so after solving the problem of Yue Tuo, the training of each town was not put down.

Especially in the first town where Qin Ying is located, the training of the white pole soldiers of the four infantry teams is already quite good, and these soldiers can not only conduct training according to the training standards of Li Jiashan, but also are quite proficient in the formation conversion of the white pole soldiers.

Zhang Shaoqian, who retired from the cavalry battalion, was mainly responsible for the training of the Mandarin Duck soldiers, and the Mandarin Duck Army formation was not difficult for Zhang Shaoqian, he already knew a lot about the tactics of the Qi family's army, and the first and second towns had the original Li Jiashan veterans to lay the foundation, so the training was naturally twice the result with half the effort.

The money and food obtained by the Dewang Mansion and the Confucian Mansion effectively supported the training of more than 10,000 officers and soldiers of the Jingbei Army.

Li Xingzhi spent nearly a month rewarding the three armies this time, and in order to win the hearts of the army, Li Xingzhi did not live in the government office, but ate and lived in the barracks.

When he entered the barracks, he completely followed the regulations governing the barracks, got up in the morning with the soldiers, lined up to wash, and dealt with personal problems.

The training is not ambiguous, not only with the soldiers to train in the queue, but also with the soldiers to run, meals are not specialized, what the soldiers eat, he eats, and squatting on the ground with the rice bowl and bragging with the brothers, chatting about homely things.

Before leaving, he handed over the silver to each brother in front of everyone, held our hands and said solemnly, sweat more in peacetime, shed less blood in wartime, and have a handsome bite to eat, and will never treat the brothers badly.

"Eat Li Dashuai's food, wear Li Dashuai's clothes, take Li Dashuai's salary, and die for Li Dashuai!"

This sentence has become the mantra of more than 10,000 soldiers of the Jingbei Army, and even Shuishi Town and the Green Flag soldiers also sang it after taking the silver.

Li Xingzhi's last stop was the second town stationed in Laizhou, although Qin Ying was in the first town, but Wang Zhong had already made a thorough understanding of the training methods, and Lu Xiucai was solid in his work, and the shields and spears needed by the white pole soldiers had been equipped.

Wang Zhong of the Mandarin Duck Army is also handy, he deducted a lot of fire in the first battle of Daze Mountain, for the time being, the equipment of the first town is much better than that of the second town and the third town, and the second town in Daze Mountain is with the real sword and gun of Dongyu, although it is a tired Tartar, that is also a Tartar, and the morale of the army is naturally extraordinary.