Liu Bu had already prepared several workshops in Jimo Garrison Camp to build weapons for his army.

They dug up many craftsmen from the capital to serve them. At first, these craftsmen in the capital had doubts about coming to work in this small place in Shandong. After all, they had a hard time and had few full meals, but they could be passed down from generation to generation. No one knew whether it was good or bad when they came to this small place in Shandong to make a living.

But when the first batch of craftsmen arrived in Shandong, they worked for a month or two and sent back a large sum of silver, the people in the capital began to cause a sensation and they began to try every means to send people here.

They rushed to Liu Gui, the Liu family's Beijing office, and asked to come here to work. They could easily acquire a large number of craftsmen.

The craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty were all from generation to generation. They grew up under the hands-on teachings of their parents since childhood. Their skills were quite exquisite. Compared with the craftsmen in Jimoying, their skills have improved many times. The addition of a large number of industrial and commercial enterprises has made their workshops produce output. The supply of cold weapons workshops and armor workshops has normalized, which can provide them with a large amount of equipment.

What Liu Bu values ​​more is their artillery workshop. Under the guidance of the master craftsman Li Wenshan, their musket workshop has begun to be produced, with more than 100 muskets per month. After they have been changed to day and night shifts, the output will be further increased after working at 14 hours, which can provide muskets to their Liu family's servants.

Their muskets were not made by the Ming Dynasty's three-eyed guns or bird guns, but were built by the Portuguese meshes. Their performance was better than that of the Ming Dynasty's bird system and had reached a first-class level.

Of course, they could make such good muskets. In addition to the strong help of Li Wenshan's craftsmen, there was also Zheng Zining transferred craftsmen from her family. They often did business (war) with the Portuguese Goulan people and captured a lot of craftsmen from them. These craftsmen also built muskets for the Zheng family. Under the guidance of these Portuguese and Spanish technicians, their Liu family also had first-class musket manufacturing workshops, which could make mesh rope guns no less than the Portuguese.

Because of the powerful power of the fire spear, they rarely train swords and spearmen now, but focus on training musketeers, because training musketeers is faster and easier to succeed.

It takes at least one or two years to successfully train a well-trained and highly skilled swordsman, but it only takes three or four months to succeed.

However, the production of red-clothed cannons still stagnated. Although they were hosted by Huang Dong and Zheng Zining sent a large number of craftsmen to help, they still could not create their own first-class cannons. After all, making cannons is a job of top technology, and it is not just a matter of doing it. This is equivalent to the top technology today.

Huang Dong only knows how to make ordinary Folang machine cannons, and he has never made them such as the red cannon. He also coordinated and studied with the help of technicians sent by Zheng Zining.

You should know that the original Jiannu was obtained from the branch of the Dengzhou Military Arts Bureau of the Ming Dynasty. It took nearly seven years to have their own artillery production capabilities and create their own red cannons.

Now Jiannu and the others do not have the technology to make red cannons. They only own more than a dozen red cannons bought by the Ming Dynasty from the Portuguese. Although they organized a large number of craftsmen to imitate, they still did not imitate them for a while.

When Liu Bu saw that the artillery production was not satisfactory, he couldn't help feeling a little unhappy. After all, he spent so much money and invested so much manpower and material resources, but he didn't hear a sound, and he couldn't help but feel angry.

Helplessly, he had to go through the Zheng family's network, hoping to buy some red cannons from the Portuguese.

Nowadays, only the Portuguese in Macau can own Macau. If the Portuguese are bound by the Ming Dynasty, the Ming government has warned him that it is not allowed to sell red cannons to other people, otherwise they will be deprived of the right to pay tribute.

The relationship between the Portuguese and the Ming Dynasty is a bit funny. In the minds of the Portuguese, they pay 500 taels of silver to the Ming Dynasty every year, which is the rent to rent Macau from the Ming Dynasty.

However, the Ming Dynasty believed that the 500 taels of silver from the Portuguese were tributes and expressed respect for the Ming court, so the Ming Dynasty lent them a large amount of this place to them, let them do business, and reward them with a bite of food.

The Ming Dynasty court has always regarded itself as the country of the Celestial Empire. As the country of the Celestial Empire, it has abundant resources and possesses everything. It does not need to do business with foreign countries. Foreigners want to do business with them, so they can only pay tribute.

Therefore, it also shows that there is a very scam, that is, all the surrounding countries paid tribute to him in order to do business with the Ming Dynasty, but in the eyes of people in these countries, this is just doing business.

But in the eyes of the monarchs and ministers of the Ming Dynasty, this is tribute, this is surrender, this is kneeling down. If you are disobedient, I will not allow you to pay tribute.

So if Liu Bu and his friends bought red cannons from Portuguese people in Macau, they would definitely not be able to buy them. They would not dare to offend the Ming Dynasty, a big buyer. However, if the Zheng family, which has always been in smuggling business with them, would be different. It would not work on the surface, but it would still be possible in the secret. The key is that the money is in place.

Liu Bu also knew that he was a little too impatient because manufacturing red cannons is the top casting technology today after all. He was not something that was poor and innocent, and he was very surprised that they could successfully create muskets.

After Liu Bu returned to Jimo Camp, he immediately began to focus on his military production. He wanted to ensure that several of his military workshops started work day and night, to build weapons, armor, muskets, and equip his army.

Now their Liu family is not short of people. If they don’t have enough staff, they can match people at any time. Often, two or three are equipped with help from a master craftsman. Even so, they decided to divide into two shifts and build them day and night.

Liu Bu began to prepare their Liu family's car camp. The Liu family's car camp mainly consists of artillery, muskets and spears, forming a powerful camp as their strategic strike force.

Liu Bu knew that as long as the New Year was over, it would be the eighth year of Chongzhen, which was a very lively year. You should know that the eighth year of Chongzhen was also very famous in history, and it was also a year when the Ming Dynasty was in great decline.

Because of the great chaos in this year, the bandits caused trouble to Shaanxi, Henan, Shanxi, Huguang, Sichuan and other provinces. The court dispatched a large army to encircle and suppress it. Who knew that the bandits broke out from the encirclement and attacked Fengyang, Zhongdu of the Ming Dynasty, and dug up all the ancestral tombs of the Ming royal family.

Since the Ming Dynasty’s ancestral tomb was dug up, the national destiny of the Ming Dynasty has been getting worse every year.

Liu Bu also knew that the situation was critical, so after he became a kiss, he immediately went to Jimo to rectify military forces, train his army, and wait for chaos in the world to arise.

You should know that they got married on December 20th, and the Lunar New Year will be the Lunar New Year ten days later. After the New Year, it will be 1635. Logically speaking, they should take the opportunity to rest and talk about it after the New Year, but in the absence of any help, he can only take charge of his army.

Although Zheng Zining is a strong woman, she is also inevitably bound to the limitations of the times. She is to marry a chicken and follow the chicken, marry a dog and follow the dog, and marry a monkey running all over the mountain. Liu Bu insists on not resting and wants to continue working and continue to promote his military plan. She has to follow Liu Bu to Jimo Camp. The husband and wife follow him, which is sweet.

Originally, in Liu Bu's mind, he wanted Zheng Zining to live in the Liu family mansion to take charge of the overall situation. This is what the young lady of the Liu family should do. Then he brought Chen Yuanyuan to Jimo, so they could live together and enjoy the blessing of a beauty.

But Zheng Zining was very smart. She didn't want those fake things, but just real things. She didn't live in the Liu family's mansion, but followed Liu Bu to Jimo Camp. Even if Liu Bu was brave enough, she wouldn't dare to bring Chen Yuanyuan to Jimo Camp. This was the plan that could not keep up with the changes.

However, Liu Bu's position in Jimoying has indeed greatly increased their work progress.

Liu Bu is now recruiting many professional talents. As long as they prepare enough talents, they will start to expand their troops comprehensively.

You should know that in March this year, they only had more than 1,000 employees, but now they have exceeded tens of thousands. Of course, many of these tens of thousands have not been strictly trained.

What Liu Bu has to do now is to train more than 10,000 servants. As long as he trains more than 10,000 servants, they can dominate the country.

These soldiers must give them generous benefits, excellent equipment, and restrain them with strict military training and military regulations to make them elite troops.

Liu Bu didn't want to have 40,000 to 50,000 troops like Liu Zeqing, but these 40,000 to 50,000 troops were all vulnerable garbage soldiers.

In Liu Bu's vision, they had 12,000 people, and they could form three groups. The three groups were a bit like the role of the three major camps that had previously prepared the Japanese department.

The three major groups echo each other, and it is already quite good to have an elite servant of 8,000 people guarding the three eastern prefectures.

The other 4,000 is their mobile strike force. Whether they are arranged to attack bandits or attack Jiannu, it is a matter of one sentence.
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