Li Dongxue was walking in a large area of ​​workshops. It was originally a wasteland near the mountains, a large area of ​​dead wood, shrubs and hilly areas. People did not reclaim all this land. Later, Zhang Han bought this wasteland and connected it to Lizhuang, and used it as a workshop area.

Seeing Li Dongxue come, Wang Debang, Yang and Gao Li Changnian and others come out to greet him.

"How many craftsmen and workers are there in the workshop area, along with firearms, carriages, weapons and debris groups?"

Now all the workshop areas are under the jurisdiction of the Military and Political Department, and everyone respects Li Dongxue. Wang Debang said: "Now there are 137 craftsmen, 350 apprentices, and 463 stumblers."

Li Dongxue said: "It's almost a thousand people."

He did not continue speaking, but Wang Debang and others were very nervous.

The craftsmen and apprentices, as well as the work and material expenses, are over 1,000 taels per month. Among them, the craftsmen like them are more than ten taels, more than one hundred taels a year, and their deputy, and the salary of craftsmen is not low.

Compared to before, they did more work than they do now, but as a result, they only had three liters of grain a month. The family could only live on wild vegetables and miscellaneous grains, and they didn't have enough food all year round.

Compared with social status and living environment, military craftsmen are always the lowest level of this empire, and even prostitutes live much better than them.

There are only homeless refugees and beggars, and the untouchables, which may be worse than them.

Li Dongxue said again: "Can the flintlock gun be fixed?"

Wang Debang's face was even more nervous and said bitterly: "It's still not. It's mainly because the adults proposed to cancel the safety buckle and connect the trigger-induced medicine box and brake. It's really a bit difficult, and it probably will take quite a long time to do it. In addition, the master Fusou Gun proposed to grind the bayonet and install it on the casing, and it's even more difficult to standardize the bayonet."

Li Dongxuedao: "This time in actual combat, the soldiers in front all proposed that the diameter of the bird gun barrel is different, and the bullets have to be polished by themselves to adapt to the barrel. Each person's bullets are different in size, which is difficult to do before actual combat and is not convenient in actual combat."

Wang Debang said: "Every craftsman has different strengths and tools to make the system, and it is difficult to have a complete consistency in space."

"This is my purpose here this time. Not only the production of bird guns, but also similar problems." Li Dongxue told several other craftsmen and leaders: "The production will be standardized from now on, both tools and personnel will be the same."

Li Dongxue walked into the workshop area in a flash. There was a north-south avenue that divided the workshop into two large areas: the carriage and weapon group were in the east and west areas, and the west area was the territory of the firearm group. Now Wang Debang and others’ key task is to flintlock guns. Not only Wang Debang and others know this matter very important, but even Li Dongxue and even all the officers were very clear and clear.

After Zhang Han came back from Liaodong, he knew that bird guns could not fight against the Later Jin. Although the range of the flintlock guns would not increase much, they would increase a lot in loading speed. The increase in the rate of fire represents a strong lethality. In addition, the flintlock gun has much stronger resistance to bad weather than the flintlock gun. Replacing flintlocks with flintlocks is a major development trend, just like the breeze eventually replaces the bore, and then the fixed-loading bullets replaces the projectiles, and the rifled gun replaces the smoothbore gun.

Zhang Han did not think of taking too big a step. The flintlock gun had appeared at this time. The Ming Dynasty once made a sample gun, and Europe had begun to install it. More than a hundred years later, the British brown bethbolt rifle became a classic of flintlock rifle. The British army used this beautiful borethbolt rifle to shoot all over the world and seized countless colonies... He now asked Wang Debang and others to make the Bethbolt flintlock rifle that the British army began to shaped and equipped in the late 17th century.

For Wang Debang and others, it was a craftsmanship decades ahead of time. The craftsmen Zhang Han has so far found are all good at making bird guns. Wang Debang's craftsmanship is also very good. After all, he was a good player selected in Datong Town. With him leading a group of experts to do such research and development, Zhang Han felt that it was still very likely that he would make it and install it for his troops decades ahead of time.

He never thought that a hundred thousand ak swept Liaodong, but a hundred thousand besse was enough.

Li Dongxue didn't know Zhang Han's ideas well, and he didn't need to know. What he knew was to do his own job well.

When he arrived at the factory of the Firearms Bureau, Li Dongxue pointed to the rows of tools and said: "Lao Wang, pick out the most suitable tools, then remember the size and weight, eliminate all the tools before, and everyone uses standardized tools."

Li Dongxue told Li Changnian and others: "The same is true for other workshops. All tools, including rulers, must be standardized, and all tools must be consistent in length and weight. Then select the best quality spare parts and remember the forging process, including how many hammers are hit. Although the weight of the hit cannot be completely consistent, the number of times and general weight must be consistent. The spare parts produced in this way and the diameter of the bird gun are approximately the same."

Li Changnian nodded and said, "The quality of the carriage is getting better and better, but the parts are not compatible. If so, it should be much better in the future."

Li Dongxuedao: "The carriages that are returned to repair can be slowly equipped and replaced with standard parts, so that they can not only save trouble but also money in repairs in the future."

When deciding on these things, Li Dongxue looked calm and composed, but his tone was very firm and could not be questioned at all.

Li Changnian, Yang and Gao Wang Debang and others looked at each other and smiled bitterly. They were already very busy, so there was more things to do at this time.

"Also," Li Dongxue did not look at their faces, and then said: "In the future, except for the craftsmen who have management responsibilities, all the craftsmen will not have a fixed monthly salary. Instead, they have apprentices. They can receive some subsidies, of course not a lot, and they can only live in living expenses, from apprentices to craftsmen, and then talk about money after passing this level."

Wang Debang said: "How can craftsmen calculate wages?"

Li Changnian also said: "Have there been any changes in handymen?"

Li Dongxue looked at the two and said, "The handyman has not changed, what should he do or what? The work they do is fixed. The foreman can master some working money. I will give you the handyman to do better. The handyman performs better every month, not more than 30%, which is called bonuses. If he does not perform well, he will not get it. If he does things in a slow and unruly manner and violates the rules, he will start a new job. The craftsmen will receive piece-based wages and will not receive a fixed monthly salary in the future."

"What is piece-based wages?"

Li Dongxue took out the parts of a flintlock gun, and held it in his hand and felt heavy and heavy. He pointed to the part and said, "I just said that I was grouping according to my skills and expertise. For example, it was a gun barrel group, so I just took care of the gun barrel. The trigger set, and only controlled the trigger. Of course, the gun barrel is more difficult. The basic salary is higher than the trigger set. Then I made a piece of money to get one piece. If I did it, I would receive more money. If I failed, I would not only have no money, but also be deducted. If I spent too much waste, I would be disqualified from the craftsman... I will issue a detailed rule for the specific management method and send it to you. Remember to look carefully. Your craftsman does not receive piece-based wages, but if the scrap rate is high, or if the production cannot keep up, you are responsible. The punishment method is naturally to deduct your bonus at the end of the year."

At this time, everyone was walking in the tall and spacious workshop of the firearm group. On the left side of each person was a row of furnace rooms and rooms for forging where there was no bottom visible. Each stove was on fire. The loss was considerable from forging pig iron blocks to barrels that could be used as muskets. Every day, refined iron was needed to replenish the share that had been used.

On the right hand side is precision processing, which separates dozens of rooms. Each room has craftsmen and apprentices, and there are handymen responsible for doing odd jobs. Handymen do not need to learn skills, and they are mostly doing chores and hard work. Craftsmen and apprentices devote all their energy to technical work.

Dozens of people were drilling the gun barrel. Li Dongxue frowned when he looked at it. There was more than one workshop for drilling the gun barrel. When he was nervous a while ago, people could be seen drilling the gun barrel in all the firearms workshops. Now there are nearly a thousand bird guns in the entire army, including the escort division and the guards in the iron field. This was produced in more than a year, and the output in recent months was particularly high.

Li Dongxuedao: "Has the hydraulic drilling machine been successfully tested yet?"

Wang Debang said with a bitter face: "I have been working on making bird guns before, and those with high skills have been trying other machines recently, because they have not made a drilling machine."

Li Dongxue said: "Last time you were rewarded with an adult with a thousand taels. You were determined to shape the flintlock gun as soon as possible. I know this. However, Lao Wang, I want to tell you that some things are what we must do, some things are urgent, and some things are what we must do and what we must do... Like a hydraulic drilling machine, it is an important thing that must be done. With it, it can greatly shorten the time and energy of drilling pipes. Apprentices can keep drilling out the gun barrels when they take care of the machine, and achieve twice the result with half the effort. This is the important thing that must be done. A while ago, the adults wanted to strengthen the training of firearms and make the firearm flag team form, so you are eager to do the bird gun. You, the craftsman, have to distinguish the level and importance of things, and distinguish what must be done in allocating resources..."

Not only was Wang Debang touched this time, but the masters on the side were all shocked.

No one has ever said these words to them. Maybe Zhang Han said some of them when talking to them, but Zhang Han didn't have time to explain them in detail. There is no way to explain them like Li Dongxue, who has the time to break them up and explain them to these craftsmen. In fact, after so long, Wang Debang and others have known a lot of words and have a lot of management experience. After all, from Xinpingbao to Lizhuang, the amount of craftsmen plus apprentice handymen has been expanded by dozens of times. They have a lot of things to manage, but no one has ever taught them how to manage them. Of course, Zhang Han and the upper class will also interfere in daily management, but the direct manager is still these craftsmen leaders.

Wang Debang said with a respectful look: "Li Siguan, what you said today is better than reading for ten years in the words of a literati."

"Ten Years' Book?" Li Changnian said on the side: "It's time for us to invite Li Siguan to have ten meals of wine."
Chapter completed!