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Time flips into July of the 12th year of Chongzhen. The weather is still hot, and the construction site of Hutoubao is still busy working. Because the weather is hot, the construction site starts to work slightly dawn every day, and rests for two hours in the middle of the sun. It will continue to cool down in the afternoon until the sun is dark.

Although working like this is very tiring, the rewards are very generous, and the money can be paid every three days. Liu Jun even arranged people to prepare herbal tea for them every day, and even asked the cafeteria to prepare three meals for everyone. The enthusiasm of the craftsmen is quite high, and the Hutou Castle is changing with each passing day. Nine earthen buildings are constantly being lifted and have been built to the third floor.

The members of the Nine-Headed Birds were still conducting closed training. Liu Jun wrote a ritual for the instructors, which contained the training content guidelines of various cavalry and infantry departments, and even the rules and regulations of the Nine-Headed Birds, etc. These are some of Liu Jun's military knowledge in his later generations, plus his understanding of military combat in this era, and he summarized and formulated it.

In fact, Liu Jun believes that leading troops is not difficult, and training troops is not difficult. Do three things well, and a single soldier can become a warable soldier. First of all, get enough salary. If the soldiers cannot even eat enough to support their families, they will not be good soldiers.

The army's equipment was actually secondary. When Chongzhen ascended the throne, he mainly used Western artillery expert Sun Yuanhua, and asked him to build an elite firearm unit. The court drew a lot of money, made artillery guns, and even invited the Portuguese to be instructors. This unit became the most elite firearm unit at that time, with a large number of advanced artillery.

But even such elite troops were incurred severely. In addition, Sun Yuanhua took in a large number of former Mao Wenlong's former subordinate Kong Youde and other generals who had retreated from Liaodong to Shandong. These Jiangdong soldiers launched the Dengzhou mutiny in the fifth year of Chongzhen, and the cause was that they were owed wages. Kong Youde's troops, who had been owed for a long time, withdrew from reinforcements from Liaodong. The labor camps were scarce on the way, and the local officials and gentry not only refused to provide supplies, but were bullied, and eventually triggered a mutiny. In just one year, Dengzhou fell, Laizhou was besieged, three governors were killed, one prefect, and more than 10,000 soldiers were killed, and the people were tragic. The prosperous Denglai area became a piece of rubble.

In the end, the firearms unit carefully built by the court defected to the Later Jin Dynasty, with tens of thousands of elite firearms troops, and since then became the Later Jin Dynasty thug.

Such things are not exceptions, but many. For example, when it comes to the great uprising in the late Ming Dynasty, they all believe that it was not a peasant uprising at the beginning, but a border soldiers fleeing and causing trouble. They were the first to ignite the fire of rebellion. Even from beginning to end, the Central Plains rebel army in the late Ming Dynasty were the backbone of the Ming Dynasty.

The border troops fled and rebelled because they were in debt.

Training is the most important thing in military training. It is sufficient money and food, and no deduction for enough wages. This is the thing that Liu Jun attaches most importance to. He can’t even have enough food to eat, so he still talks about killing the enemy and defending his country.

The second thing to do is to train soldiers is to do the full soldiers.

The current army of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention the long-destroyed guards, even the border troops, the border troops recruited also have a large amount of empty quotas. Even the border troops are only 60% of the full amount, or even these 60%, and are not really real soldiers in many cases. Most of them are just cannon fodder, holding the extremely low pay, the generals eat the vacant amount, deducting military pay, money and grain, and using some of the money and grain to focus on building their own servants' troops, and the remaining large forces fall into their pockets. Therefore, even the most elite border troops today often have less than 20% of the fighters. The others are either empty or cannon fodder, and only a small number of servants' troops can truly fight.

Liu Jun spent money to supply the troops himself, so there would be no vacancy, nor would he deduct military pay, money and food. His nine-headed birds and hundreds of people almost all enjoyed the treatment of servants in the Ming army.

Full pay and sufficient soldiers are the basics of a military force, and with sufficient training, it is enough.

Three meals a day, the meals are rich and nutritious. Liu Jun's Nine-Headed Bird practices every day, and the training intensity is very high. Compared with those border troops who work every three days and every five days, it is obviously a great success. Liu Jun believes that diligent training and appropriate actual combat against bandits will quickly become an elite soldier who can fight.

The batch of weapons purchased by Liu Jun has been delivered. After checking them one by one, they found that although the price was doubled, the quality was indeed not comparable to those weapons delivered to the official army at the original price. These weapons were engraved with numbers or even craftsmen's names as Liu Jun means. Once problems arise when using them, they will have to pay double the compensation.

All the weapons have been issued, especially the bird gun players and the tiger squatting gun players. According to Liu Jun's wishes, they have to shoot dozens of rounds of ammunition every day for live ammunition training. Liu Jun is very willing to spend money. Although gunpowder is not cheap, if you are not familiar with the training, even if you are well-equipped, it will be useless if you cannot hit the enemy at that time.

Zhao Shun's workshop has now taken its initial prototype. Liu Jun spent a lot of money to recruit many craftsmen, many of which were directly dug from the official workshops, giving the workshop officials a sum of money, and giving the craftsmen a high salary, and easily digging many skilled craftsmen.

"Sir, according to your intention, we have now preliminarily agreed to divide the workshop into several manufacturing groups. Now nine groups have been set up, including iron refining group, pipe assembly group, welding group, drilling group, scraping group, machine assembly group, butt stock assembly group, and assembly group, etc., each group has at least three skilled craftsmen, and then there are many ordinary craftsmen, and there are also experienced craftsmen who are responsible for checking the quality." Zhao Shun stood beside Liu Jun and introduced to Liu Jun carefully.

With a large amount of money, the workshop is no longer the original custody room. A row of brick houses has been expanded here, and many tools have been purchased. More importantly, there are many more craftsmen.

"I will give you some suggestions, please remember them." Liu Jun glanced at the craftsmen and said, "Now it is divided into nine groups, which is great. But I think it can be divided into several groups in each manufacturing group, each skilled craftsman leads two or three ordinary craftsmen, and each ordinary craftsman leads two or three apprentices, so that the group will 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 leading the group on the weapons they are manufactured."

"In terms of quality inspection, strict inspection must be carried out. Each large manufacturing group must have a skilled craftsman who specializes in acceptance and inspection, responsible for checking the quality of the process. In addition, patrol inspection must be set up, mobile patrol inspection must be checked for the production quality of each process, and a general inspection must be set up to inspect each firearm after the production is completed. After the general inspection, a random inspection must be set up to sample and inspect all completed products."

Firearms are no more stringent than swords and guns, and have stricter quality requirements. If the quality is not up to standard, then on the battlefield, for soldiers holding the firearms, it will be murder. Liu Jun requires so many quality inspections to improve the quality to the highest level. He also proposed a responsibility system, and every craftsman must engrave his own products, and the quality inspection must also be. If there is a problem with the quality of the craftsman manufacturing and the quality inspection of the group is not found, the working fluid will be punished, but the quality inspection will be punished even more. The craftsmen and quality inspection of the subsequent processes are the same. If you find the previous problem and take it out, there will be a reward, and if you don’t find it and put it down, then you will also be punished.

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

At the same time, in addition to giving these craftsmen generous treatment, Liu Jun also offered performance awards. Basically, they were rewarded with piece-based commissions. Those who did well were rewarded, and those who did more were rewarded.

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

"We have already conducted a trial construction of the Lumi gun. The first batch of two Lumi guns have just been completed and they are very well inspected." Zhao Shun said excitedly. He was under great pressure during this period. Liu Jun obeyed his advice, asking for money, asking for people, asking for tools, and having drilling machines. He spent so much money before and after, and he also hoped to build a firearm as soon as possible.

A craftsman brought two trial-made Lumi guns, and Liu Jun took them and watched them carefully. This Lumi gun was different from the one Zhao Shun had previously. Liu Jun also made many suggestions for this Lumi gun, such as the curvature on the butt stock, and the butt stock was widened and widened. Overall, it was completely the same as the rifle stock in later generations.

In addition, this Lumi gun also has a strap, which can be carried on the shoulder when not in use. In addition, Liu Jun also asked the craftsmen to add a gun sword, and the muzzle was designed to be stuck. The gun sword is equivalent to a bayonet, but it was actually already available at this time. The earlier quick gun was equipped with a gun sword. After firing, the gun sword was inserted into the barrel and turned into a long spear.

Liu Jun asked the newly built Lumi gun to add a gun sword. The gun sword is only more than one foot long and is flat, with blood vessels.

The brand new gun body also emits a metallic smell, and Liu Jun asked someone to get the gun bullet.

Zhao Shun personally brought a box of guns to Liu Jun. Liu Jun looked at it. This was different from the previous ammunition, but was wrapped in paper in a cylindrical shape.

"According to the meaning of the adults, we put gunpowder and lead bullets together."

Liu Jun nodded, this is the fixed ammunition. In the past, gunpowder and lead ammunition were separated. The gunpowder was loaded in a quantitative manner with a small bamboo tube in advance, and each tube was exactly one round. In the near future, open the small bamboo tube, pour most of the gunpowder into the muzzle, use a straight strip, and then take out the lead from the lead bag and put it in tight. Then pour the lead into the gunpowder chamber, ignite the fuse, and then aim and fire.

The fixed-loading ammunition proposed by Liu Jun and Zhao Shun is to wrap the quantitative launching medicine and lead ammunition together in paper. When using it, take it out and bite a corner of the paper ammunition, pour the medicine from the muzzle, and then stuff the remaining lead ammunition and paper directly into the barrel and stab it.

This is equivalent to simplifying the original two steps into one step, which will definitely be more convenient to operate. There is no need to carry dozens of small bamboo tubes on your body, just carry a box of fixed loading.

Load the bullet, pour in the lead-in powder, ignite the fuse, aim, and pull the trigger.

After a bang, a burst of white smoke rose.

"I'm hit, a hundred steps away, just in the center of the rake." Before the smoke of gunpowder had dissipated, an excited rake sound had already been heard from a distance.

Liu Jun put away his gun and smiled satisfied.

"Very good. From now on, this gun will be officially produced. However, if the name is changed, there is no need to call it Lumi gun anymore. Just make it a flying dragon gun, and produce a thousand first."

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

"Such a good gun, of course, you have to produce more." Liu Jun smiled. In fact, he was thinking in his heart that it won't take long to not only be able to support himself, but also sell it to make money.
Chapter completed!