Li Xian did not blindly expand military production, the reason is that in the Qing Dynasty of this era, there were very few workers who could strictly abide by discipline and engage in the production of gunpowder-related products. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Of course, the wages of the workers in the military factories are extremely high, and each person can earn at least seven or eight yuan a month, which is higher than that of many officers in the convoy.

Li Xian introduced Wang Jiuxuan to the military production, as well as various rules and regulations, but Wang Jiuxuan was stunned by such detailed regulations and the luxury of the facilities (mainly transparent glass windows).

Afterwards, Li Xian talked to Wang Jiuxuan in detail.

"The price of this glass is so high, isn't it a bit too extravagant to put it in a factory?"

"It's extravagant, but it's necessary.

You know, assembling bullets and grenades and whatnot, dealing directly with gunpowder, never with oil lamps or candles or anything like that.

Assembling things directly in the open, and the wind blowing around, is also not good for production.

With glass windows, it is easier to do things inside, and when you need to rush work, you can barely cope with the stirrups outside the window and the like.

All in all, it's worth the money.

There is nothing else in military production, the cost of machinery is not high, and the biggest difficulty lies in how to reduce the occurrence of accidents such as explosions. ”

Li Xian just explained casually, but he didn't expect Wang Jiuxuan to immediately have a look of concern.

Li Xian asked about it and found out that Sanyuanguan attached great importance to the role of grenades and other firearms, and originally planned to establish a similar military factory to produce grenades and bullets.

It's just that the Sanyuan Concept is only a martial arts school, limited to knowledge, and has not figured out the Tao here, nor has it recruited craftsmen with military production, or studied what technology and production management methods, etc., but only designated an elder to be in charge of this matter.

This elder is very conscientious, but he just doesn't have any concept of safe production, just find a remote house, take some disciples and start assembling bullets and grenades, and his management level can be imagined.

They knew that there were no fire-starters in the house, but there were no rules and regulations other than that, and no measures were taken to eliminate static electricity, and all kinds of things were scattered in the house, and the assembled bullets and grenades were piled up directly in the house, and it took ten days and half a month to move to another place.

The result can be imagined, in just a few months, there were two explosions, several disciples were killed, even including the elders above the grandmaster, and finally Xuan Zheng issued a strict order not to produce these things by himself, which also made Wang Jiuxuan can only buy grenades and bullets from Li Xian.

It wasn't until Li Xian's side saw the tightness of the assembly workshop that Wang Jiuxuan understood how rough the original approach of the Sanyuan Temple was.

Hearing this, Li Xian was a little messy on the spot, he didn't expect that such a big faction as Sanyuanguan would make such a low-level mistake.

Li Xian is doing military production here, and he also knows how to look for workers with good discipline and workers with experience in firecracker production.

However, Li Xian directly purchased the new gunpowder of good quality and more dangerous from foreign merchants, but the Sanyuan concept was limited to traditional thinking, and only bought inferior gunpowder produced locally in the Qing Dynasty, which made the quality of the final product drop a lot, but also reduced the loss after the explosion.

In fact, in this era, the production of bullets and grenades was extremely simple and did not require too high technology.

There are still many technical difficulties in the production of gunpowder, but most of the gunpowder on Li Xian's side is purchased from outside, and only a very small part tries to produce it by itself, just to master the production technology of new gunpowder.

In this era, paper-wrapped bullets were composed of lead bullets and gunpowder wrapped in paper, in which spherical lead bullets were directly clamped with a nutcracker-like pliers-like tool to directly clamp the molten lead, and then used directly after cooling.

As for the gunpowder paper packet, there is no technical difficulty, and the gunpowder paper package is much simpler than the production of firecrackers, after all, firecrackers also pay attention to compacting the gunpowder to a certain extent, but the gunpowder paper bag does not need this restriction.

When producing grenades, pig iron is cast into a specified shape, gunpowder is poured into it, the fuses are installed, and then sealed.

In order to reduce the technical difficulty, Li Xian did not even put a wooden handle on the grenade, but only adopted the appearance of a traditional British grenade, that is, the appearance of putting gunpowder in a fist-sized piece of iron, which was very simple to make.

However, it is very easy to produce ten or eight of these things casually, once the number goes up, it is necessary to introduce a strict management system and control every process and step, otherwise it is easy to have problems.

The current production capacity of the military factory of the Mixed Yuan Sect is actually very weak, and it can also assemble bullets and grenades, and can also produce the simplest whaling cannons and whaling cannon lists, among which the most critical new gunpowder still relies on external purchases.

The rest from artillery, firearms to other weapons, technical materials and books are quite complete, but there is a lack of enough technical personnel and workers to implement, this time it is from Foshan and Macao to recruit a lot of workers, but it will also take a period of running-in, exploration and learning to form production capacity.

"The production of bullets and grenades is not difficult, the production framework has been built on my side, and now there are many craftsmen who have experience in gunpowder production, so let them join in.

A skilled worker can pack more than 5,000 rounds of ammunition and assemble more than 1,000 grenades a day.

As for metal parts such as lead and iron, they are mainly used in casting technology, and with the ability of the blacksmiths and shipbuilders we recruited, it is not too difficult to make 100,000 grenade iron shells.

The real trouble is the production of the grenade lead, it is not difficult to make a lead that can ignite the gunpowder, but it must be detonated within the specified time, not too early or too slow, which is quite a consideration of the technical level.

Fortunately, this technical difficulty has already been broken through on my side, and it is safe to produce, and there will be no problems.

Well, the big problem is how to get a lot of new gunpowder.

Based on my relationship with the businessmen in Macao, it is not difficult to buy 5,000 catties to 10,000 catties of gunpowder, but if there are more, there will be some problems.

First of all, there is not necessarily so much gunpowder on the market, and even if it does, the Macao Parliament has also come out to interfere, after all, with such a large amount of gunpowder, it is difficult for the Macao authorities to explain to the imperial court and the British what problems arise. Li Xian said to Wang Jiuxuan.