Zhao Shizhen of course admitted that the Qin army was the only one in training, but he still had some doubts.

"We can imitate the Europa firearms and make improvements based on this. What if the foreign vassals can do it?"

He raised such doubts about Xiao Ruxun.

Xiao Ruxun patted his shoulder.

"Changji, you must have confidence in our own people."

If imitation is such a simple thing, the so-called technological generation difference will lose its meaning of existence, and there are too many differences between the successful imitation to the successful assembly to the battlefield to exerting combat effectiveness.

First of all, the imitation is successful to the successful assembly. It is certainly not very difficult to imitate. Some technologies in this era can be obtained by studying hard and summarizing them. The development of technology has not yet reached the point where it cannot be caught up with imitation. Otherwise, the Qin Dynasty would not be able to successfully imitate the Red Cannons and Flintlock Guns and load them.

However, if the imitation is successful, it means the assembly is successful. Then Zhao Shizhen successfully imitated the Lumi gun in the original history and also summarized his experience. However, until the Ming Dynasty fell decades later, the Ming army was unable to equip the flintlock gun such as the Lumi gun.

What is the reason?

It is easy to imitate it, but the assembly requires at least thousands or thousands of flintlock guns. In the current Daqin, it also takes two years to work hard to achieve it. It is not guaranteed that each one is a good product.

Between the successful imitation and the successful assembly, a central government with strong execution requires a large amount of money and scientific researchers to ensure that each step of the personal imitation process can be simplified to the extent that mass production is possible, because mass production and personal meticulous craftsmanship are completely different concepts.

The more you need to produce in large quantities, the operation should be almost fool-like, the simpler the better. Even in links like military products, it should be as simple as possible, which involves a series of expenditure issues that summarize talent issues.

Need people and money.

Since the time of Myanmar, Xiao Ruxun has invested a lot of money in order to develop military innovation and production. In the three years in Myanmar, he has invested more than 400,000 taels of silver every year. He has invested a considerable amount of money earned by businessmen from Europa and merchants from Southeast Asian countries.

After the founding of the Qin Dynasty, the fiscal revenue was more abundant, and although the expenditure was greater, Xiao Ruxun still guaranteed at least 600,000 taels of silver could be invested in military industry innovation and creation. As for other funds, there is no need to say more. In total, one million taels a year is not much.

With such high-standard investment, Daqin's military industry has flourished, especially smelting technology and forging technology, and the steel refined has become more and more beautiful. This is not the first time that Zhao Shizhen praised Xiao Ruxun for how their smelting masters worked hard to study smelting technology.

Xiao Ruxun has never been stingy with the rewards and benefits of these people. With so much investment in every year, he also rewards the main technicians with a lot of rewards.

During the Qin Dynasty, Xiao Ruxun abolished the untouchable system, craftsmanship, military, medical and households and other systems, allowing them to circulate freely. At the same time, he registered some technical personnel who master important technology through national rules and regulations, and gave officials welfare benefits.

According to the technical level and contribution, the relevant treatment of third-rank officials to ninth-rank officials is given. There are hundreds of craftsmen with official treatment in the Ministry of Works and Military Industry of Daqin. They are all first-class experts, and all of them are skilled in all aspects.

It is these people who have broken through the process of a technology from conceptual proposal to successful application in mass production and assembly.

They kept the goals proposed by Xiao Ruxun and the direction proposed by Xiao Ruxun, and they worked hard in this direction, and achieved considerable results.

Even Xiao Ruxun talked about the concept of the steam engine a little bit, and a few craftsmen actually remembered it in their hearts.

When Xiao Ruxun went to inspect, he was surprised to find that several craftsmen were fiddling with the steam engine, making it look very good, and Xiao Ruxun couldn't understand some important parts.

The ancestors are no more stupid than modern people, they just lack time and conditions.

These people, Xiao Ruxun, did not allow strangers to contact them because they mastered the technology that was very important to the Qin Dynasty, which especially restricted their foreign exchanges. They also signed a confidentiality treaty and were willing to keep secrets and not interact with strangers.

To be honest, as long as some of the core technologies they master are not obtained, you can copy them and try them. You can successfully produce them within ten years and count them as a loss.

Ten years later, are you sure that those craftsmen will not be poached by the Qin Dynasty? Are you sure that your country will be safe and sound?

What was not the improvement of the bird gun production technology of the Qin Dynasty, the production technology of the Fran machine gun and the red-clothed cannon, and the research of General Weiyuan cannon and the flowering bullets, which one was not obtained by countless craftsmen who stayed asleep day and night to study and experiment?

Do you say that mass production and assembly is mass production and assembly?

Small and big countries are far different in size, their administrative levels and regime strength are also far different, and their capital investment is even more different, and their emphasis on craftsmen is far less than that of the Qin Dynasty.

When the craftsmen of Daqin learned that they would receive welfare benefits from officials after the establishment of Daqin, they all followed the demons, crying and screaming.

This was even more true after they got the real money, the real silk cloth, oily rice, flour and meat, and moved into the new house provided by Xiao Ruxun.

For thousands of years, craftsmen have never dreamed that they could live in such a bright small yard, eating meat, drinking, and having silver flowers, and such treatment.

Then Xiao Ruxun announced the right to freely choose a profession for their descendants, and they immediately expressed what choice they wanted. I have been eating this bowl of rice for generations, and the little boy has no choice!

They were driven away and they were unwilling to leave, so Xiao Ruxun knew that his policy was successful, retained talents, and prevented them from scattering among the people to cause harm to the Qin Dynasty.

At the same time, Xiao Ruxun also instructed local governments to widely collect craftsmen with special skills among the people. No matter what skills they are, they should be recommended to the central government to try it.

The determination to buy horse bones with a thousand gold coins was to collect all the craftsmen from Daqin, which really allowed him to get a group of thousands of miles of horses.

Various technologies, some can provide support in the military, some can provide support in agriculture, and some can provide support in engineering. Xiao Ruxun's actions made some officials in Daqin know what talents are among the people.

After all, if the base is large, the chance of producing talents is also high. However, the talents among the people are not endless, and the talents they cultivate themselves are endless.
Chapter completed!