New Empire at the End of Ming Dynasty

Liu Bu looked at Master Li kneeling on the ground and said, "do you know why I want to do it for you?"

Master Li was a little excited and wanted to cry. He said, "I don't know, but I'm willing to break my bones in case of the deep kindness of adults to villains."

In the Ming Dynasty, only those who were officials were at the highest level and had the most status and status. The Li family had been craftsmen since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. They had been craftsmen for 250 years. If there were no mistakes, it is estimated that they would still be craftsmen in the next 250 years. Their family would not be officials. Now he has successfully become an official and has an official status, This is a beautiful thing he can't dream of.

Liu Bu said to him, "I don't want you to be broken into pieces. What do I want you to do with this pile of meat? Eat it? Now I want you to do one thing for me, that is to recruit a group of craftsmen and teach them to work. The monthly output can't be less than 100 strokes."

Master Li said in surprise, "how many people does it take to score 100 shots a month?"

Liu Bu said to him, "just now I said I would like to be crushed to pieces for my official. Now I don't want to?"

Master Li said to him, "it's not that the villain doesn't want to, but that the villain can't pay so many shots even though he has cooked up this 100 kg?"

Liu Bu said to him, "how many people do you want? That's your business. I'll recruit you. You can recruit experts yourself, but I have a request?"

Master Li immediately nodded and bowed and said, "little man, listen to your excellency."

Liu Bu looked very unhappy. He said, "since I appointed you as a hundred family official, you will be the seventh grade official of the imperial court from today. Remember to call yourself an official when you see me. It's a loss of official prestige."

Master Li quickly agreed and said, "yes! Yes! Yes! I know, I know."

Liu Bu said: "You make a firerope gun by yourself from the first ironmaking to the last oiling, but why don't you do it like this? Ironmaking has special people to make iron, and each part of the firerope gun is in the charge of a special person. Since he specializes in making one thing, his natural speed is fast. You decompose the firegun into several parts, and then each part One person is responsible for a part and finally assemble it. Isn't that fast? "

This is the concept of production line. At present, there is no such production mode. Even in Europe, it is only a preliminary attempt.

Liu Bu said this to the other party with great enlightenment. He said, "is this feasible?"

Liu Bu proudly said, "if I say yes, I can do it." in the future, the whole world will do so. How can it not?

Master Li nodded again and again, but he said, "in this way, the lower officer may have to recruit a lot of people?"

Liu Bu said to him, "as an official of a hundred households, what is it that you have one or two hundred people in your hands?"

Master Li was overjoyed. He thought that Liu Bu appointed him as an official of a hundred households. In fact, he was just an official with a false title. Who knows he was serious and asked him to take charge of more than 100 people. If he was allowed to build a hundred muskets alone, he would not be able to sell and smash himself. However, if he mobilized hundreds of people, he would be responsible for teaching them according to his adult methods. It is estimated that It's still possible.

Master Li was very happy. He said, "my Lord, it still takes time to recruit experts. Even if I go to various places, I also need time to teach them."

Liu Bu said, "I'll give you a month to get used to it. In the first month, I don't want a gun from you, and my salary will be paid. But from the second month, you will help me work and do your best. What I want is a gun. There are no 100 fire guns at the end of the month, and you don't have to be an official of a hundred households. What do you think?"

Master Li said to him, "I'm willing to make a military order. If I can't hand over a hundred muskets to adults in two months, I'm not a hundred family officials."

Liu Bu nodded and said, "OK! Go now. I attach great importance to the firerope gun. Go to housekeeper Liu GUI immediately and ask him to cooperate with you. I want people now. You help me recruit people first."

Master Li knocked his head happily and left immediately.

Liu Bu's courteous treatment to master Li, who is good at shooting bird bullets, made several other masters very jealous and recommended their skills one after another.

Liu Bu said: "I'm not interested in bows and arrows now. If I'm willing to be a craftsman here, I can join master Mao's department. But as for armor, I'll set up a 100 household level department specializing in armor making. Master Zhang is in your charge. As for the detailed production method, I can tell you. Anyway, I can give it to you. You should do your best Make great efforts to help me. "

Master Zhang said to him, "at the level of 100 households, that is to say, villains can also be officials?"

Liu Bu nodded and said, "I will appoint you as a hundred household officials specializing in making armor. You should try your best to help me make more armor."

In the era after Liu Bu, armor was actually used, but the armor at that time became bulletproof armor.

In the next 200 years, soldiers still need armor to fight, and there is no guarantee without armor. However, when the technology of firerope gun is fully popularized and everyone uses firerope gun in war, armor will officially withdraw from the stage of history, but they still need it at present.

As for Liu Bu's swords, guns, bows and arrows, he didn't pay much attention to them, because they had their own production ability, so he set up two departments, one for making fire guns and the other for making armor.

At this time, the soldiers in battle, if they have a pair of armor, can ensure their life safety, which is one of the manifestations of the combat effectiveness and quality of an army.

In this way, Liu Bu was quite satisfied. Although he said that he did not recruit hundreds of craftsmen in his imagination, they all recruited master level and chief engineer level. These people can teach some apprentices and apprentices, and then help him set up a factory to manufacture weapons.

If you want to do good things, you must first sharpen your tools. Therefore, Liu Bu agrees with this very much. If your army's weapons and equipment are not good, can you expect them to fight?

Even the people's Liberation Army of later generations has four headquarters, including a general equipment department, which is responsible for building and preparing weapons for the army.

Therefore, Liu bu also has plans to set up his own general equipment department to be responsible for manufacturing and purchasing weapons for his army.

Raising an army is a huge and systematic project. It does not mean that it can be accomplished by recruiting more than 1000 people.

The first thing these 1000 people need is to eat and drink, and make sure they eat, drink and dress well.

If more than 1000 people want to eat and drink well, their meat supply is very large. Therefore, there are many farms in Fushan to raise chickens, ducks and pigs for them, which indirectly feeds a lot of people.

The so-called clothing, food, housing and transportation, clothing is still above food, housing and transportation, which means that people are different from animals. They must wear clothes to go out, so they must also establish their own military uniform factory. These clothes also need to be made, so it is very necessary for him to set up a garment factory.

There is no such thing as a sewing machine in this era. All clothes are sewn by women with their hands.

Liu Bu knew that he had more than 1000 servants who wanted to wear clothes. Such orders could not be eaten by a family, so he decided to set up a garment factory and invite nearby women who could do sewing to make military clothes and other supplies for him.

So just to maintain his army, he needs to open a few factories to meet their needs.

Therefore, raising soldiers is an extremely expensive job. In order to support more than 1000 soldiers, they are responsible for carrying out logistics supplies for them alone, there are thousands of people.

Liu Bu is very satisfied with the 1000 servants they have trained, which greatly improves the strength of their Liu family. If the time is ripe and conditions permit, they will convene more people to set up more servants to protect their rights and interests, which means that the demand for logistics will be further increased.

Therefore, Liu Bu is now preparing for a rainy day and preparing his logistics supply. He is afraid that when preparing to recruit more troops, others will recruit but have no weapons. That is not a way.

Liu Bu has his own plan for the equipment of the Taiping army. When they first became a grass-roots team, they must have used cold weapons such as long guns and long knives.

However, after their development and expansion, they must develop in the direction of firearms, which is the direction of future development.

Although JianNu destroyed the Ming Dynasty and captured the world with their riding and shooting advantages, they think riding and shooting is invincible in the world, but this is just a misunderstanding.

The JianNu army is domineering on the East Asian continent because they have not fought with the real European Musketeers. If they did, they would not think so.

Moreover, Liu Bu established his own firearm army, which is certainly not as stupid as the firearm army of the imperial court. Liu Bu and they know that the combat ability of the slave army has actually reached the peak of the cold weapon era. Their cold weapon combat ability is really strong and has basically reached the peak Era.

If the current Taiping army fights with them, it is estimated that it will lose both sides and have no advantage. However, if they use firearms and weapons on a large scale, it will be different.

It is impossible for the Taiping army to recruit more than 100000 brave and skilled soldiers like JianNu, but he can recruit more than a dozen omnipotent soldiers. If the soldiers' personal force value is second after using fire guns, Liu Bu will decide to let the army develop in terms of firearms now.