"If you drink, you'll be spared." Li Dongxue smiled faintly and said, "It's not that I look down on you, but I'm your direct supervisor. If everyone always drinks together, I won't be able to speak with a stern face."

Everyone looked at each other, and then they knew what role the person in front of them was from the big guys to the official.

Li Dongxue turned to Yang Hegao again and said, "Your Weapon Bureau should cooperate with the Firearm Bureau. The rolling machine is important to the Firearm Bureau, and it is also important to your Weapon Bureau. With this machine, there are more people who press the iron plates. Now, the adults do not require the Weapon Bureau to make iron scale armor, but I think it is not a good idea to be afraid of the lock mail alone. The cotton armor is not at all. To be honest, the cotton armor is not very useful. You must magnify your vision and pattern, and strengthen cooperation between each bureau. The results are not only the credit of one person, but under my control in the future, I will see which one is sincere in cooperation with others and which one is cherished by itself."

Yang Hegao cooperated with Chen Yaozong very well because of the wire drawing machine. He had no resistance to working with others. He responded very readily and then said: "There is one thing that craftsmen have their own life. They used to ask them to take their apprentices with a fixed monthly salary, but now they have changed to piecework. I am afraid that they will be busy with their own work and will not care about their apprentices."

Li Dongxue smiled and shook his head, saying, "You are so stupid. You are paying for pieces. If the apprentice helped early before becoming a regular, would you do more than others?"

"I see!"

"Sir Li is really wonderful."

Each formal craftsman is responsible for bringing a group of apprentices. If the piece-based salary can be called an apprentice helper. On the one hand, the apprentice can quickly master the skills and become a regular as soon as possible. On the other hand, the craftsman can get free helpers before they become a regular, and increase their finished product volume. On the other hand, the output will be increased, and on the other hand, the number of qualified craftsmen will also increase sharply. This is a win-win situation.

"There is a layer." Yang and Gao thought for a while and said, "I'm afraid they will only focus on leading apprentices to do those jobs that don't have to use their brains, and their previous research and development and teaching will still be affected."

"Apprentices can attend cram schools, take turns to teach courses for each process, and cooperate with literacy courses. In addition, a special R&D institution should be established, and each craftsman can work part-time. The results are rewarded, and the achievements made by the apprentices will also be rewarded." Li Dongxuedao: "Adults are interested in introducing a patent system, which is to introduce technological innovation. If a factory uses new technology, a finished product can be produced by a factory. If a factory is produced with new technology, R&D personnel can get a bonus. Of course, it is not as good as getting more at one time, but it is better to be in a long run. As long as the factory is in, Li Zhuang and other factories are in, and Yusheng are in, the descendants can always win."

Everyone's faces shine, and everyone feels extremely excited in their hearts.

Many craftsmen who were doing things on the side heard it, and they had a flexible mind and understood the meaning of Li Dongxue's words, and they were also excited.

Li Dongxue went to the end and was already a squad. The qualified gun barrel and guardrail were arranged together, and then the trigger gunpowder pool faucet and other components were installed. Finally, the test shot was successful and you could appear. Li Dongxue said: "A bird gun currently costs a lot of material, labor costs, time, and cost?"

Wang Debang said: "Our gun is 40 kilograms of square iron and titanium to about eight kilograms. It is much more loss than the 20 kilograms of the imperial court. Three kilograms are practiced for every ten kilograms. The price of silver is more than one qian. Use five craftsmen, two qian and five cents of silver, and about one qian and six cents of charcoal. Multiply by five times it is more than one qian and five cents of qian. The wages are 1 qian and 5 cents of qian and 5 cents of qian. The labor costs are 1 qian and 5 cents of qian and 5 cents of qian and 5 cents of qian and 5 cents of qian and 5 cents of qian and 5 cents of qian and 5 cents of qian and 5 cents of wuhan. The remaining handyman accessories cost more than one liang. The total labor cost is 5 liang and 5 cents of qian and 5 cents of each bird gun."

"Very good." Li Dongxuedao: "If you use today's method, how much labor and material silver should you save?"

"It's hard to say," Wang Debang said: "If everything is really easy, I'll probably save about one or two dollars, and no matter how much it is, it's impossible."

"Very good. You should work harder on bird guns. This process is already very proficient. It is still too small to produce fifty one month. If both the hydraulic drilling rig and the rolling mill are successfully manufactured, the number should be increased to more than 200 one month."

Wang Debang said suspiciously: "Recently, sir has repeatedly said that it is a general trend to replace flintlock guns, so the most important thing in the Firearms Bureau is to successfully shape the flintlock guns. Recently, the army has begun to use undefined flintlock guns to explore the skillful flintlock gun tactics as soon as possible. Why do we still have to make a large number of bird guns?"

Li Dongxue smiled but said nothing. Wang Debang knew that this matter might involve the overall situation or the secret. He immediately made a move and said that he was stupid.

At this time, Li Dongxue turned to Yang Hegao and Chen Yaozong again and asked, "How is the wire drawing machine?"

"It will be finalized soon," Yang and Gao and Chen Yaozong looked at each other, and they were filled with joy on their faces. Yang and Gao said: "After the finalization, the finished product will be produced. Please ask the adults and Li Siguan to come and see it."

"After this war in the army, there will be corresponding requirements for armor," Li Dongxue said: "You have to hurry up. In addition, whether to ask for patents or one-time rewards, you can also consider it now."

...

When Li Shenming arrived at the capital, he happened to catch a heavy snow. The whole city was covered with white areas, and the woods and straight official roads were hidden in the snow. A small number of families only exposed light yellow thatched roofs from the edges of the forest and roads. Most of the square farmland was covered by snow, and only a little green spot was revealed.

If this scene is a painting, it is a very freehand painting of the landscape village customs. However, along the way, Li Shenming encountered many dead bodies of dead bodies, and he was unwilling to appreciate the snow scene in front of him. Moreover, there was so much snow just in winter, which means another cold winter. In spring and summer, it was severely deficient in water. This has almost become a cycle. The bad weather is year after year, and there is almost no time to turn better. This is called a lot of people already think that the weather is wrong. Some clear currents begin to connect the weather with the rule of man. There are already many voices that have been secretly discussed by Emperor Wanli of the wrong time and the wrong time.

When we entered the city, a large convoy came together. When we entered the city gate, a tax collector came over. He took a look, collected some scattered silver and put it on.

Li Shenming was going inside with his entourage, but someone in the convoy shouted: "Mr. Li."

"Hey, it's Fang Yi."

Li Shenming smiled on his face. The person who was escorting the team was a deputy shopkeeper of a branch in He Yusheng, which was equivalent to being the deputy general manager of the army. He was also from the young man at the time. Now he is carrying heavy responsibilities. He escorted Jingtie from Lingqiu to the capital. On such a long way, there were still many bandit poles, tax cards and local big-name extortions and exploitation, and rogues. He had to handle the local snakes in the capital smoothly. It was really not easy, but he still had the strength to see Fang Yi looked like this.

"Mr. Li, it's a coincidence that we met." Fang Yi said with a smile: "I'm going to the branch later. Do you always stay in our branch?"

Li Shenming said: "I was planning to stay in the branch, but I want to see Li Guobin first."

"He should come to pick up this batch of goods." Fang Yi said: "This batch has sixty complete vehicles, each with 5,000 kilograms of fine iron and 300,000 kilograms of fine iron on the car, so he will not come."

"Three hundred thousand kilograms..." Li Shenming calculated that according to the pre-declared one kilogram and two cents, the selling price of this batch of goods was less than 4,000. Fortunately, the net profit was very high. Because the cost was very low, Heyusheng's carriage saved a lot of intermediate links. The logistics in the north had never been compared with the south. The iron in Fujian and Jiangsu were transported to the north by sea or canal. Jinhai sold it layer by layer, because no merchant could directly sell a large amount of goods thousands of miles away. The profits naturally decreased a lot in the transfer of the layers. Heyusheng's iron farm not only directly supplies goods, but also cuts a lot of cost expenditure. The biggest expenditure was to deal with the tax cards along the way, which was already extremely cost-saving in other places.

"What batch is this?"

"The sixth batch." Fang Yi said: "Every iron farm has been working hard to produce. Of course, we and Yusheng are the most, but did we originally occupy the largest stock."

"Is it less than a month?" Li Shenming said in surprise: "So many goods have been sold in such a short time, how many of them have been ordered?"

"It will take at least twenty or thirty batches before the New Year." Fang Yi said: "And it will have a much larger scale. Our fleet may have to reach more than a hundred vehicles. Our boss said that we may have to make good joints on the tax cards along the way, otherwise the expenses will be bribed to these local snakes, which is really disgusting to think about it."

"I will try my best to do this." Li Shenming said: "But if you want to completely settle this matter, don't talk about me, even Governor Wen can do nothing."

Fang Yi smiled apologized and said, "That's right, I just hope you can save a lot of money if you always go there."

According to the current fleet size, the profit for each trip is about 1,000 taels. This is the net profit, the gross profit is actually 70%, and about 40% of the profit is the expenses along the way. Among them, not only are people eating and chewing, but the biggest one is tax cards from all over the country, but as long as the tax cards are privately set up, they are all people with great eyes.

Not to mention anything else, there are many cards set up by the King of Dai and the relatives. Even if the governor or even the governor came forward, it would be useless. There would be no result when the lawsuit was fought in front of the imperial court. If the relatives make more money, as long as they do not want to rebel, the emperor is generally favored. The "kiss" is not a waste of time, as long as they don't make too much trouble.

"After all, selling iron is a big deal." Li Shenming calculated the details for a while and estimated that Lingqiu would exceed ten million kilograms in just half a year, and it would probably exceed 30 million kilograms in a year. However, the more you sell, the more the cost will increase exponentially. I am afraid it will be difficult to recover a large amount of funds in the short term.
Chapter completed!