Zhu Yuanzhang touched the exquisitely made gun body with satisfaction and said:

"It's a good thing, but it's a pity that it still can't be fired in a row, Li Aiqing, you have to continue to work hard, and make the kind of gun we want as soon as possible."

Li Wei pursed his lips secretly, thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty, although this gun can't be fired in bursts, it can allow soldiers to line up in three rows and shoot in turns, so that it can also have a similar effect as bursts." ”

"Oh, you're still going to use soldiers?"

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes lit up, and he exclaimed, as soon as he heard it, he knew that this was a military formation with firearms!

Li Wei's face changed slightly, and he said in his heart that this is the rhythm of wanting to liven up again! So he decisively denied:

"No!"

"Really?"

"No, no, really!" Li Wei denied the triple.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Li Wei suspiciously, he found more and more that this dog thing has a lot of skills, but he just didn't want to take it out.

Originally, if Li Weiruo could only make some military objects, no matter how powerful these weapons were, he was just a powerful craftsman, at most he could only be a favorite under the protection of the emperor, and it was never possible to squeeze into the power center of the Ming Dynasty.

But if he still uses soldiers, it will be different.

In the power center of the Ming Dynasty, there are only three kinds of people, one is a military general with great military achievements, the other is a capable minister, and the third is a politician who plays with power and scheming.

Zhu Yuanzhang is not only a military genius with great military achievements, but also a politician with great power, only if he owes a little bit of civil governance, so he can be the emperor.

If Li Wei knows the army and can get military exploits, then he will have the opportunity to squeeze into the power center of this imperial court, otherwise he will always be just a peripheral person.

But Li Wei didn't understand this, and even if he did, he didn't want to get involved in these power struggles.

"Hmph."

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly, he could see that this guy just didn't want to work more.

After thinking about it, Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile: "Let's give you thirty pro-army guards, you train us according to the method you said, if you practice well, we will reward ten thousand gold!" ”

As soon as he heard the money, Li Wei's eyes immediately lit up: "Really? ”

"Then of course, how can our golden words be false?"

"The minister must do his best! Your Majesty, please rest assured! ”

Li Wei immediately responded sonorously and vigorously!

This opportunity to make a fortune must be seized!

The ancients said: Mighty can't be bent, but wealth can be bent!

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at him as a loyal minister and a good general, and suddenly understood the way to deal with this guy, but since this guy is greedy for money, why is he not corrupt, he has to check it when he has time.

Li Wei didn't know Zhu Yuanzhang's plan, and he was still preparing to do it in high spirits, and his mind was full of piles of gold shining.

Seeing him like this, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but nod with satisfaction.

After returning home, Li Wei planned how to train three-stage shooting, in the era of cold weapons, the courage of soldiers is more important, like nomads, although not much training, loose discipline, but when you want to fight, the team that is temporarily pulled up is very capable of fighting, in this regard, the nomads are stronger than the Central Plains of agricultural civilization.

However, in the age of firearms, the importance of discipline is particularly important, as long as soldiers abide by discipline, obey orders, and give full play to the superiority of firearms, personal bravery is insignificant in the face of these guns.

Of course, this is not to say that bravery is not important, after all, it is also necessary for soldiers to have courage to obey discipline, otherwise they will be scattered in a fight, and what discipline is there to speak of.

Li Wei plans to learn from the methods of military training in later generations to train these guards, and the important thing about the three-stage attack is that the queue cannot be chaotic.

After roughly planning the training plan, Li Wei went to make soap again, ten yuan a day, this can't be stopped.

Recently, most of the work of making soap is done by Xiaoqing, Li Wei is only responsible for a few tiring steps, and sometimes Xiaoqing can't wait for him to do it himself, after all, Li Wei still has the work arranged by Zhu Yuanzhang to do.

"Master, you are busy with official business, just let me come."

Xiaoqing, who was busy, saw Li Wei walk in and said to him softly.

"It's okay, don't rush at this time."

Li Wei took the big spoon in Xiaoqing's hand and began to stir.

Seeing that he insisted, Xiaoqing could only hand it over to him, thought about it and suggested:

"Master, now that we have money in our house, why don't you recruit a few more people?"

Li Wei's heart moved after hearing this, although he didn't want to be that kind of big man with a group of servants, but now because of making soap, Xiaoqing is still very hard, and he has to cook and clean up or something, and he has almost no leisure at the end of the day.

It's just that if he finds someone else, he's worried that the soap recipe will leak.

"If we recruit people, will we leak our method of making soap? This method is not too difficult, and if it is learned by others, we will lose a lot. ”

Li Wei frowned.

"If the master is worried about this, he can directly buy a few slaves and come back." Little Qingdao.

At this time in the Ming Dynasty, there were slaves, slaves were the private property of the master's family, which could be bought and sold, and the slave's crime of breaking the law was increased by one degree, and the crime of the master beating the slave to death was reduced by one degree, which was generally the cane punishment, which was the same as slaughtering cattle and horses without permission.

Moreover, a slave can only marry a slave and have children, and his descendants are also slaves, one day a slave, a slave for generations, and there will never be a day to turn over!

In fact, the slavery system had changed during the Song Dynasty, but after the Mengyuan Dynasty, this slavery system rose again and was inherited by the Ming Dynasty.

Li Wei thought about it, although he felt that this kind of slavery system was very inhumane, but from the perspective of his own interests, buying a slave was indeed the best way, and the loyalty of a slave was more secure than that of a servant recruited.

Thinking of this, Li Wei also put away his Virgin heart.

"Okay, let's find a time to check it out."

Seeing that Li Wei agreed, a smile appeared on Xiaoqing's delicate little face.

As it is close to the end of the year, it is the time when the market is lively, Li Wei's business has become more and more prosperous in the past few days, and if it goes on like this, he feels that it will not take long to set up a shop, and the money is bright!

The soap was quickly sold out, and in the noisy voices of everyone's dissatisfaction, Li Wei left with Xiaoqing.

If you want to buy a slave, you have to find a tooth shop, which is the intermediary of this era, Li Wei took Xiaoqing to the largest tooth shop nearby, and under the leadership of Ya Yu, he came to a slave trading place.

"Most of these slaves were resold by other masters, and some were prisoners of war, or sold themselves, you can take a look, and tell me about some of them."

Tooth said with a flattering smile.

Li Wei nodded, his face was a little unsightly, most of the slaves here were in tattered clothes, their bodies were thin, and some even wore wooden shackles around their necks, which looked very miserable.

He casually looked at a few and asked the tooth for the price.

Among them, ordinary maids, the cheapest one is less than ten times, and the better ones are only a dozen to dozens of times.

Male servants are a little cheaper than female servants, but there are also strong ones that are quite a bit more expensive.

Li Wei's brows furrowed together, a little unbearable, and some didn't want to buy it.