When he woke up in the morning, Liu Jun felt refreshed. ●⌒, turned his head, but found that the person next to him had disappeared. After a while, Abao came in to wait for Liu Jun to get up and dress and comb his hair.

"Where is Yaoyao?" Liu Jun asked her.

"She went to serve her wife to get up early in the morning, and the wife gave her a good face." Abao helped Liu Jun comb her hair neatly, while reporting. Yaoyao spent the night at Liu Jun last night, and then it became known to the whole mansion early in the morning. Yaoyao served Xueqi to get up before, and then followed Xueqi to pay tribute to the master and the old lady. Xueqi told the two old men about the situation last night, and then asked the two old men to lift Yaoyao up.

Now, Yaoyao has been able to lift her up, and the woman has combed her hair. The old man and Liu’s mother also gave her a set of hair and face and a few pieces of clothing. She even specially tied up a small courtyard for her, and she has officially lifted her into Liu Jun’s concubine.

Baoer originally came to Yaoyao with a good match, but today she felt that Yaoyao was very scheming and was a little disliked by her.

Liu Jun keenly felt that Baoer was a little hostile to Yaoyao, the newly promoted sister, and smiled. It was normal. He now understood what Lu Xueqi meant. Lu Xueqi knew that he had two women outside, Shen Man and Chen Yuanyuan, and also knew that one of them was a celebrity in the Qinhuai River before, and the other was a popular actor of Wu Song, and they had both been concubines. Therefore, although he had already recognized these two women, he refused to let them enter the Liu family's house. At most, it was Liu Jun's outdoor room outside.

For this reason, she even took the initiative to polite her dowry as her support.

Liu Jun understood all this in the war between the women in the back home, but he did not intend to interfere. As long as it did not exceed a certain limit, he would just follow them to fight. Anyway, such things could not be stopped. Moreover, he did not intend to let Shen Man and Chen Yuanyuan enter the Liu family's door.

However, Yaoyao threw herself here early this morning, but ran to Xueqi's side and went to her father and mother. She was indeed a bit scheming. It seems that he knew too little about Yaoyao, but it seems normal to think about it. Which maid doesn't want to be on the throne? Of course, she has to seize it when she has the opportunity. And even if she is polite, she can't shake Xueqi's status as a regular wife at all. It's normal for her to leave herself to please Xueqi.

Alas, there are rivers and lakes everywhere.

"Abao, I'll give you a thumbs up too. Are you willing?" Liu Jun put on his clothes and suddenly said to Baoer.

Baoer was obviously startled, her face turned red and she couldn't speak for a long time.

Liu Jun found her frightened look very funny, "Since you don't object, I will pretend you agree. I will talk to you later, my wife, the old man and the old lady, and I will give you some advice."

"Mr. Marquis, don't joke about me." Baoer's heart was dancing.

Liu Jun smiled and went out of the room to go directly to the hall. Xueqi and his sister-in-law were still there to offer tea. Yaoyao had indeed combed her hair and had changed her clothes and jewelry. They were all good heads and fabrics. You could tell at a glance that Xueqi admired her.

When Liu's mother saw Liu Jun coming, she told him that she had lifted Yaoyao. Liu Jun nodded, "This is what it should be. Just right, Baoer also lifted it."

Everyone in the hall was a little stunned, Lu Xueqi was stunned. Yaoyao was also stunned. Sister-in-law Mei even looked at Liu Jun in surprise. She knew that Liu Jun had taken over Yaoyao's room last night. Why did the second uncle take over Baoer, the girl in half a morning?

Liu Jun wanted to raise Baoer. This was not a big deal. After all, Baoer had been serving Liu Jun in the past, and Baoer was born in the family and knew the truth. Neither of the two old men had any objections. Lu Xueqi was even more likely to have any objections at this time, so she nodded in agreement. Among the people, only Yaoyao seemed to smile a little reluctantly.

"In the future, Yaoyao and Baoer, you two must take good care of your wife and the old lady at home." Liu Jun said to the two newly promoted concubines.

Baoer seemed to be immersed in a huge shock and was stunned. It was not until this time that she finally woke up. Her face was full of complicated expressions, but she seemed to be more surprised. Although she was suddenly attacked, she finally accepted the matter by default. According to the rules, she went up to serve tea to her father, Liu's mother, Liu Jun and Xueqi in turn. This was also considered passing the ceremony.

Although they were elevated, they are just concubines now and are not even qualified to hold a banquet.

Liu Jun was not immersed in the gentle village for a long time. He stayed in Xiwan for another day. That night was naturally the night in Baoer's room. Then the next morning, Liu Jun said goodbye to his family and rode his horse to Hutou Castle. Before leaving, Lu Xueqi originally wanted Liu Jun to take Yaoyao with him, but Liu Jun refused.

"Your husband must be taken care of by your side."

"It is enough to have personal soldiers and military companions, and it is not suitable to bring women in the army."

Lu Xueqi gave Liu Jun a light look and said in a low voice, "Husband is afraid that Yaoyao will hinder you and that third lady, let's have fun together with Miss Yuanyuan and the others."

"You really have the style of a big wife!" Liu Jun said with a smile.

"You can't take care of too much if you have a woman outside, but there is one thing you should be more restrained and never bring it back. Even if you have a child, I won't recognize you."

When Liu Jun warned her, he just smiled, then turned his hand and waved his hand to say goodbye, and rode his horse away.

After Liu Jun returned to Hutou Castle, he immediately inspected the workshops under his name. Accompanied by Zhao Shun and other craftsmen, he personally walked to the workshops below.

As Zhang Shan reported before, everything is going well in each workshop now.

"Zhao Shun, you did a good job. During my absence, you have managed and operated the workshops in an orderly manner. It was very good." Liu Jun first praised the foremen and rewarded them with points vouchers of ten to hundreds of taels of silver on the spot as encouragement.

"The workshop is in a good momentum now and the profits are good. We must continue to maintain it." Now the situation is full of chaos and chaos. The gentry, landlords and even merchants are recruiting and training guards to buy weapons. The court is gradually turning a blind eye to this situation and not strictly managing it. Even in various places, in addition to the practice of officials, local gentry began to build village soldiers and militia groups, which were all the defaults of the court.

This situation has made the ordnance business very popular now, and ordinary swords, guns, arrows and spears are in demand. Even the muskets and cannons produced by Liu Jun Fire Equipment Floor are not worried about sales. Especially now, Liu Jun's fire equipment business has already made the brand, the quality is very good, although the price is higher, but the quality is guaranteed, and many people come to order fire equipment.

"Last time I added a group of workers to you. The production capacity of our firearm shop has increased a lot, but now I have another big order to hand it over to you. Time is very tight, so you have to hurry up and drive more craftsmen to come back. In addition, you also recruit more apprentices and let the craftsmen bring more apprentices. Money is not a problem. Now the first thing to drive goods is, do you understand?"

The order Liu Jun brought this time was indeed very large, with a total of 50,000 muskets, of which Liu Jun himself had to train 50,000 new recruits, so he himself fired 20,000 muskets. Although not all soldiers were equipped with muskets, muskets were not as expensive as swords and guns, and they consumed more.

In addition, Qin Liangyu also ordered 10,000 muskets from Liu Jun. After seeing Liu Jun's nine-headed bird firearm last time, she decided to equip her white-rod soldiers with certain firearms to improve the combat ability of the white-rod soldiers. Qin Liangyu, like Liu Jun, received the request of the emperor to train the new army. Qin Liangyu was preparing to increase the white-rod soldiers to 30,000 men, which did not include the 6,000 white-rod soldiers of the Chongqing Governor General affiliated to Liu Jun and the Kuizhou Governor General.

Mei Zhihuan, Li Changgeng, Yuan Jixian and other governors also had to train new troops. They wanted to train 50,000 new troops and were preparing to take the path of equipping with a large number of firearms. The three of them also gave Liu Jun a total of 20,000 shots.

Fifty thousand muskets are a big order. However, time is very tight, and we are waiting for the equipment training of these muskets.

"It's all flying dragon guns?" Zhao Shun was shocked when he heard the order for 50,000 muskets, but he was immediately surprised and excited.

"Well, after all the governors and generals saw our flying dragon gun, how could they still use the backward bird guns, 50,000, all flying dragon guns."

"How long does it take to get goods?"

"All delivery must be made in up to three months, and the goods can be supplied to each customer in batches."

Zhao Shun shook his head quickly when he heard this, "Time is too tight. We can drill up to 10,000 gun barrels in January, and 50,000 gun barrels, at least May."

"I don't have so much time for you. You have to find a way to increase the production capacity. In short, if there is not enough raw materials, you need to step up the purchase, and if there is not enough manpower, you need to recruit. If there is not enough craftsmen, you need to find a way to poach people. In three months, at the latest, all 50,000 flying dragon guns will be obtained."

"Mr. Marquis, how much is our batch of goods sold?"

"Ten taels, all ten taels are one shot." Liu Jun replied.

"Ah, why are there only ten taels? Didn't we sell twenty taels before?" another manager in charge of the account said in surprise.

Ten taels per flying dragon gun, this is the price Liu Jun ordered. It turned out that twenty taels was of course because of the high price. Now, the governors and governors ordered 50,000 yuan at once, and the price was 20 taels. In fact, the cost of the musket was not high. The cost of the bird gun in the imperial court was even only 2 taels of silver. Of course, it was a cut corner version, but even if it was a more advanced flying dragon gun, the cost would not be too high.

Especially since Liu Jun’s current musket workshop is so large, it adopts standardization. After the assembly line operation, the labor costs of raw materials procurement or manufacturing processing are greatly compressed and reduced.

The flying dragon gun is more advanced than the bird gun, and it is mostly just some improvements in design and craftsmanship.

Now, the entire manufacturing cost of a flying dragon gun in Liu Jun’s firearm has been reduced to five taels of silver. Therefore, even if Liu Jun lowered the original selling price to half and charged 10 taels per shot, he would still have double the profit.

Of course, this is a large-scale purchase, or an order from one's own people, so there is such a price. If it is another order, it will definitely not be so discounted. If it is a scattered small order, the price will be higher. But overall, the price will still drop significantly. However, Liu Jun expects that after the price of Feilong Gun is reduced, sales will definitely increase and can win more customers.

The price of Feilong Guns is lower, and they will have higher competitiveness and snatch some customers who originally wanted to buy bird guns. After all, the production capacity of the musket shop has increased significantly. As long as more customers start operations at full capacity, they can earn more money.

"In addition, the artillery shop has to expand its scale, and we have also received a lot of artillery orders this time."

Last time, Liu Jun dragged hundreds of cannons to fight in Sichuan. The cannons made great contributions and played a huge role, but the losses were also great. Most of the cannons cast now are mainly bronze, supplemented by iron casting. Bronze cannons are more expensive, but their performance is better. A bronze Folang cannon can only fire about 600 cannons. If the war is fierce, the cannons are relatively densely fired and the interval is short, the lifespan will decrease, and the iron cast cannon will decrease even more.

Fortunately, the scrapped cannons can be recycled and recasted, especially bronze cannons.

However, the ratio of artillery units to be equipped is relatively small, but Liu Jun received orders from tens of thousands of new troops, which was also a considerable order.

"This time I hope we can start casting some red artillery cannons of thousands of kilograms or 3,800 kilograms of heavy artillery." Liu Jun put forward another requirement for Zhao Shun. Although the red artillery cannons are heavy and have poor field combat performance, if they are fighting battles or siege wars, they also have important functions that other artillery can replace.

The Red Barbarian cannon can hit farther, so it can be attacked or used to break up from a distance and destroy the enemy's formation. Generally speaking, various cannons have their functions. There is no possibility of any cannon being useful or not being useful, but just whether it can be better used to utilize various cannons.

If you use Red Barbarian cannons to load shotguns to fight melee, it is obviously an inappropriate use. If you use tiger squats to attack the city, you will obviously have too high expectations. Liu Jun hopes to equip his troops with some Red Barbarian cannons in order to allow him to have more tactical choices and have stronger combat capabilities when fighting in the future.

"We have no problem with casting red cannons." Zhao Shun assured Liu Jun.

"That's good. Now I have a task to you. Next, we will build another car building workshop, build vans for the baggage battalion, chariots for the chariot battalion, and artillery cars. We will have a great demand for various vehicles in the future, so we will build a factory ourselves, recruit a group of craftsmen, and purchase materials ourselves to make it more reliable and cheaper."

"In addition, we need to build a Mianjia Shop, a helmet casting workshop, and a quilt clothing workshop!"

Liu Jun put forward many plans and requirements in one breath. Zhao Shun and other managers all took them seriously and instantly felt that the burden on their shoulders was much heavier.
Chapter completed!