I want to be emperor

Chapter 71 Senior Talents
After hearing Luo Zhixue's question, Blacksmith Song didn't answer immediately, but thought for a few seconds and finally said: "The current output is still relatively low, and we should be able to produce about fifty guns in the first month. This is mainly because many workers are not skilled enough, and some of our auxiliary machinery often have problems, and further improvement is needed.”

"But by next month, we should be able to make about 130 guns a month when we get on track."

Luo Zhixue said: "Okay, this is much faster than the old method."

When blacksmith Song and the others were building muskets, one craftsman had to complete most of the processes alone. The requirements for craftsmen were not high, and the output was extremely low.

According to this old-fashioned production method, on average, a craftsman can only make one musket per month.

There are not many craftsmen who are skilled in making muskets in the weapons workshop. There are only three fathers and sons of Song Blacksmith and seven or eight apprentices who have followed Song Blacksmith and the others to learn how to make muskets.

If the old method is followed, all these people will go to battle, and if they die in a month, they will build more than a dozen muskets.

But now, by directly adopting the assembly line production method, these skilled craftsmen can free up their hands to do some fine processes, or simply exist as technical guidance, while ordinary workers complete a large number of repetitive boring processes.

In this way, there are also a dozen or so skilled craftsmen, but with the assembly line and dozens of ordinary workers, the output of muskets can be directly increased to more than 100.

The yield boost is huge.

And this is why Luo Zhixue has unswervingly promoted the assembly line production since a few months ago, and has created a lot of messy auxiliary machinery for this.

According to the output of the musket factory, next month I will be able to obtain more than 50 muskets for the replacement of the second infantry sentry. Not only can we complete all the refits of the existing five whistles, but we can also replace the small-caliber bird guns that were directly captured by the Ming army.

Three months later, the five infantry posts under his Rural Protection Battalion will all be equipped with the new [-]mm matchlock guns.

As for the future, there is no need to worry that the muskets produced will be useless, because the expansion of the Baoxiangying will not stop. Three months later, Luo Zhixue estimates that he has already established several new infantry posts.

The gun factory was responsible for the transformation of the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Battalion and the subsequent military expansion. Not only Luo Zhixue attached great importance to it, but even the other guards in the Baoxiang Battalion also attached great importance to it.

Everyone also knows that if you want to bring more soldiers, you have to expand, and expansion requires enough musketeers or archers to act as long-range firepower for infantry.

Don't count on archers. They have been cultivated by themselves for several years, and it is difficult to recruit them from outside. The only way to get a large number of archers is from prisoners of war, but there are not many prisoners of war now.

Therefore, now Lin Dongsheng, Huang Dingquan and the other infantry sentinels can only count on the musketeers.

After all, musketeers, as long as they can make enough muskets, they can use it by recruiting civilians and training for a few months. It is simple, convenient, and cheap.

Therefore, after Luo Zhixue's inspection, in the next few days, Huang Dingquan and other infantry sentries could be seen running to the gun factory from time to time to have a look.

Blacksmith Song was under a lot of pressure. He was afraid that something might go wrong to make these big men angry, and they would end up decapitated.

Song Tiejiang still wanted to leave this den of anti-thieves alive.

In order to save his life and leave here alive, Blacksmith Song went out early and returned late, and stayed in the weapon workshop all day long, that is, as the chief engineer of the entire weapon workshop, he provided technology for cannon casting, musket making, and cold weapon making. Consulting, but also as the top management of the weapon workshop, coordinating raw material procurement, production, placement of workers, etc.

The busy thing is not to touch the ground.

And Luo Zhixue noticed him like this.

"This old Song, he has a heart!" Luo Zhixue was already thinking about further improving Song Blacksmith's salary, and giving Song Blacksmith even more courage.

Recently, he was just preparing to rebuild the civil and military management system of the entire Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp, and there was an organization called the Industrial Department.

As you can tell from the name, this is an institution specialized in industrial construction.

Now, of course, there is no industry in Funiu Mountain. The only thing that can be linked to industry is the weapon workshop.

The reason why a special industrial department was set up instead of direct management like the previous weapon workshop is mainly because the scale of the weapon workshop is getting bigger and bigger, and the things it does are getting more and more complicated. Now in this weapon workshop, there are not only They make cannons, muskets, swords and spears, other tents, clothes, kettles and all kinds of messy things.

However, if the weapons workshop can make anything that is needed by the rural protection camp, it will make it.

As a result, the weapon workshop is too chaotic, and the management is also messy.

So Luo Zhixue already planned to divide the weapons workshop into three, and set up an arsenal factory, a logistics factory, and a machinery factory respectively.

Needless to say, the arsenal will inherit the main body of the weapons workshop and continue to produce all kinds of ordnance.

And the machinery factory is to develop and produce all kinds of machinery, regardless of hydraulic machinery, power storage / human-assisted machinery.

The logistics factory is a hodgepodge. Anyway, it includes all the other things in the original weapon workshop except weapons and machinery. By the way, it also added some independent workshops, such as the brick workshop, so there are some messy things. They sew tents, military uniforms, and produce kettles, tableware, and various agricultural tools such as hoes and sickles.

In the future, Luo Zhixue will also split up the logistics factory, but right now, there is not enough manpower and energy.

The main purpose of Luo Zhixue now is to ensure the production of important ordnance such as guns, cannons, knives, spears, arrows, armor, and ammunition.

The second is to ensure the purity of the machinery factory, with specialized personnel and specialized links to ponder and improve, invent and manufacture various types of mechanical equipment.

As for other messy production, let's mess it up first, and clean it up slowly later.

According to Luo Zhixue's rectification, there will be an industrial department, and the candidate for the director of this industrial department is naturally Song Blacksmith, the director of the weapon workshop who also manages a large stall.

In the huge Funiu Mountain, only this person is capable of such an important task.

Ever since, Blacksmith Song was a little dumbfounded...

Why is he getting better and better in this den of anti-thieves, and the speed of promotion is even afraid of himself.

When he was first captured into the mountain, he was just an ordinary craftsman, and later he became the steward who presided over the manufacture of guns, and then became the chief steward of the entire weapon workshop, and began to manage more than 100 people under his hands.

But now, Luo Zhixue directly appointed him as the director of the industrial department, in charge of hundreds of people in all three major factories...

The question is, is such a self a traitor?Will the officers and soldiers let themselves go when they reach Funiu Mountain?

Blacksmith Song didn't dare to think too much, because the more he thought about it, the more desperate he became...

Blacksmith Song who had been promoted was uneasy and woke up several times at night, but the other promoted people were different, all of them were happy.

Luo Zhixue's reform of the Baoxiangying was not limited to the weapon workshop, it was as simple as creating an industrial department.

The Industrial Department is actually just one of these institutions, and Luo Zhixue has also set up many institutions at the same time.

The first is the Operations Office. This is the core organization for Luo Zhixue to carry out organizational reforms. It is mainly used as an organization directly under Luo Zhixue to assist Luo Zhixue in managing many business affairs. It can be regarded as a private auxiliary secretarial organization.

The second important institution is the Grain Collection Department, which is responsible for collecting various taxes such as grain at a fixed rate from the villages under the control of the Baoxiangying.

There is a commercial office, which is responsible for purchasing local products from various villages and selling them outside, and purchasing salt, cloth, iron materials and other materials from outside the mountains. However, the purpose of this organization is not to exchange goods and make money. Instead, through commerce and trade to obtain various strategic materials needed by the Rural Protection Camp.

By the way, use the caravan to spy on various news.

The Farming Department manages the farming and mulberry affairs.

There is also the Food and Pay Office, which is mainly responsible for the management of the distribution of rations, and the allowance and pocket money of some officers and managers.

Then there are the Ordnance Department, the Logistics Department, and the Staff Department, which are purely responsible for the military. Their functions can be known by their names, so there is no need to introduce them too much.

There are only eight offices set up temporarily, and Luo Zhixue will adjust their functions according to the situation in the future, adding or subtracting places.

However, although they have been set up in various places, and Luo Zhixue has selected the directors of the various places, the problem is that one of the eight directors counts as one, and all of them are illiterate...

There is no way, there are not many scholars in such a large rural protection camp, and there are only a dozen or so people.

Most of these ten or so people were captured Ming army prisoners of war, such as Huang Guangmao and Fei Bingqing, middle and senior generals.

There are also a few half-baked scholars who fled famine and came to the mountains.

Luo Zhixue counted these half-baked scholars who were born in the mountains as one, and recruited them all, regardless of whether they wanted to or not. The director is waiting for an important position.

As for prisoners of war, it is even more troublesome. Some officers and prisoners of the Ming army were temporarily assigned vacant positions after expressing their sincerity. The high-ranking general has not yet indicated that one of them has surrendered, and is still staying in the prisoner-of-war camp.

Therefore, it also led to the special situation in the Baoxiang Camp. All the directors were illiterate, and the appointed deputy directors and section chiefs were all illiterate.

Later, even those half-educated mountain people and defected prisoners of war joined in through the inspection period, and they would not be able to fill the positions above the section chief.

Talent is rare!
This is the biggest feeling Luo Zhixue has made in the past few days of system reform. At the same time, he also understands why Li Tonglin and Sun Jiancheng paid so much attention to him.

Nima, it's hard to get a scholar who is willing to be a traitor with them, can you not pay attention to this...

It was a coincidence that when Luo Zhixue was in short supply of scholars, Lin Dongsheng, who was sent by him to gather grain outside the mountains, returned with his team. In addition to bringing back a lot of grain, mules, horses, cloth, gold, silver, iron, etc. .

Lin Dongsheng also brought back scholars, not one or two, but a whole bunch.

This string is not an exaggerated adjective, but a straightforward description, because the seven scholars were tied with ropes and strung together like candied haws...

They don't look very old, most of them are in their 30s or [-]s. Among them is a young man who looks like [-] or [-] years old. These people all wear Confucian uniforms and square scarves, and they speak incomprehensible words, even swearing. The kind of scolding that others can't understand.

There is no doubt that these are the high-level talents that Funiu Mountain urgently needs!
Lin Dongsheng has done meritorious service, and he has brought back the urgently needed high-level talents to Funiu Mountain. The only problem facing Luo Zhixue now is how to persuade them to join Baoxiangying, a warm and promising rebel family, and work together for the rebellion. effort!
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