Liu Bu looked at Master Li kneeling on the ground and said with gratitude: "Do you know why I want to give you an official?"

Master Li was so excited that he wanted to cry out loud. He said, "The villain doesn't know, but the adults are willing to crush them to pieces to repay the evil one."

The Ming Dynasty served as a farmer, industry and commerce. Only officials were the highest-level, the most identifiable and status. The Li family has been craftsmen since the founding of the Ming Dynasty and has been craftsmen for 250 years. If nothing goes wrong, it is estimated that they will still be craftsmen in the next 250 years, and their family will not be officials. He has now successfully become an official and has an official body, which is a beautiful thing he never dared to imagine.

Liu Bu said, "I don't want you to be crushed. Why do I want you to have a pile of 100 kilograms of meat? I've taken it to eat it? Now I want you to help me do something, that is, recruit a group of craftsmen and teach them to work. The monthly output cannot be less than 100 poles."

Master Li said in surprise: "How many people do you need to score 100 times a month?"

Liu Bu said, "I just said I would like to tear my bones to pieces for me now, but I don't want to do it now?"

Master Li said, "It's not that the villain doesn't want to, but that the villain just earns these 100 pounds, but he can't pay so many poles?"

Liu Bu said, "How many people are needed? That's your business. I will bring you here. You can also use it yourself, but I have a requirement?"

Master Li immediately nodded and said, "Little man listen to the advice of the master."

Liu Bu looked very unhappy, and he said, "Since I appointed you as an official of a hundred households, you will be a seventh-rank official in the court from today. Remember to call yourself a subordinate official when you see me. The villain's call is a loss of official power."

Master Li quickly echoed: "Yes! Yes! Yes! Xiaguan knows, Xiaguan knows."

Liu Bu said, "You build a coercion gun. From the first iron smelting to the last oiling, you are all made by yourself, but why don't you do this? There are special people who make iron smelting, and each accessories of the coercion gun are responsible for a special person. Since he specially creates something, he will naturally be faster. You break down the Vulcan gun into several accessories, and then each person is responsible for an accessory, and finally assemble it. Isn't that fast?"

This is the concept of production assembly line. There is currently no such production method, and even in Europe, it is just a preliminary attempt.

Liu Bu made this statement, giving the other party great inspiration, and he said, "Is this feasible?"

Liu Bu said proudly: "I have to do it if I say it is OK." The whole world will do this in the future, how can it not work?

Master Li nodded repeatedly and said, but he said, "In this way, the officials may have to recruit a lot of people?"

Liu Bu said, "As an official of a hundred households, what's the point of having one or two hundred people in your hands?"

Master Li was overjoyed. He thought that Liu Bu appointed him as an official of the hundred households, but he was just an official with a false title. Who knew that he was serious and asked him to take charge of more than 100 people. If he was asked to build one hundred muskets alone, it would not be possible to sell him and smash him. However, if he mobilized hundreds of people, he would be responsible for teaching and teach these people according to his adult methods. It is probably possible.

Master Li was very happy. He said: "Sir, it still takes time to get a job. Even if you go to various places to get acquainted with your hands, it takes time to teach them."

Liu Bu said: "I will give you a month to adapt. I don't want any gun in the first month, and my salary will be paid as much as possible. But from the second month, you will have to help me work and do your best. What I want is a gun. There are no 100 muskets at the end of the month, so you, an official of a hundred households, don't have to be a 100 household. What do you think?"

Master Li said, "I am seeking wealth and honor in danger. I am willing to issue a military order. If I cannot hand over a hundred muskets to the Lord in two months, I will not be the one who is a household official."

Liu Bu nodded and said, "Okay! You can do it now. I attach great importance to the mesh rope. You should go and find Butler Liu Gui immediately and let him cooperate with you. Now I want someone, so you can help me attract the person first."

Master Li kowtowed happily and left immediately.

Liu Bu's courtesy of Master Li, who is good at shooting bird guns, made the other masters very jealous and recommended their skills one after another.

Liu Bu said: "I have no interest in the archer now. If I am willing to be a craftsman here, I can be incorporated into Master Mao's department. However, I will also set up a department at the level of a hundred-level specialized armor production. You are responsible for this Master Zhang. As for the detailed production method, I can tell you that anyway, the human official can give you, and you must do your best to help me work."

Master Zhang said, "A hundred households, which means that villains can also become officials?"

Liu Bu nodded and said, "I will appoint you as a 100-household official who specializes in making armor. You must do everything possible to help me create more armor."

In the era after Liu Bu, he actually used armor, but the armor turned into a bulletproof vest at that time.

In the next 200 years, soldiers still need armor when fighting, and there is no guarantee in their hearts. However, when the combrope technology is fully popularized and everyone uses the combrope in war, the armor will officially withdraw from the stage of history, but they are still in urgent need.

As for the swords, guns, bows and arrows, Liu Bu didn't pay much attention to these, because they had the ability to make production, so he specially set up two departments, one for building muskets and the other for building armor.

At this time, if the soldiers fighting at war are armed with armor, they can protect their lives and are one of the manifestations of the combat effectiveness and quality of a unit.

In this way, Liu Bu was quite satisfied. Although he did not attract hundreds of craftsmen as he imagined, he recruited all the master level and chief engineer level. These people could teach some apprentices and some apprentices, and then help him set up a factory to specialize in making weapons.

If you want to do something well, you must first sharpen your weapons, so he agrees with Liu Bu. If his army company has poor weapons and equipment, can you still expect them to fight?

Even the People's Liberation Army in later generations had four major headquarters, one of which was the General Equipment Department, responsible for building and preparing weapons for the army.

So Liu Bu also had a plan to set up his own general equipment department to be responsible for creating and purchasing weapons for his army.

Raising an army is a huge and systematic project, and it does not mean that it can be accomplished by attracting more than a thousand people.

The first thing these thousand people need is to eat and drink, and make sure they eat, drink and dress well.

More than a thousand people need to eat and drink well, so their meat supply is very large. Therefore, there are many farms in Fushan that specialize in raising chickens, ducks and pigs for them, which indirectly feeds a lot of people.

As the saying goes, food, clothing, housing and transportation, clothing is more important than food, housing and transportation. That is to say, people and animals are different, and they must wear clothes to go out. Therefore, they must also establish their own military uniform factories, and these clothes also need to be made, so it is very necessary for them to set up a garment factory.

There is nothing like sewing machines in this era. All the clothes are sewn out with women using their hands.

Liu Bu knew that he had more than a thousand servants, and these servants had to wear clothes. Such orders were not something that a certain family could eat, so he decided to set up a garment factory and asked nearby women who could do needlework to make military uniforms and other supplies for him.

So just to maintain his army, he needs to open several factories to meet their needs.

Therefore, raising soldiers is an extremely expensive job. In order to support more than a thousand soldiers, there were as many as thousands of people who were responsible for carrying out logistics supplies for them.

Liu Bu and the others were very satisfied with the 1,000 servants he trained, which greatly improved the strength of their Liu family. If the time is ripe and conditions allow, they will convene more people to establish more servants to protect their rights, which means that the logistics demand will be further increased.

So Liu Bu is now preparing for his future and preparing his logistics supply, for fear that when he is preparing to expand the recruitment of the army, others will attract but have no weapons, so that is not a solution.

Liu Bu had his own plan for the equipment of the Taiping Army. When they first started working as a straw troupe, they must have used cold weapon weapons such as long spears and swords.

However, after they grow, they must develop in the direction of firearms, and firearms are the direction of future development.

Although Jiannu destroyed the Ming Dynasty and seized the world with their advantage in cavalrying and shooting, they believed that cavalrying and shooting were invincible in the world, this was just a misunderstanding.

The Jiannu army was domineering on the East Asian continent because they had never fought with the real European musket troops. If they had fought, they would not have thought so.

Moreover, when Liu Bu established his own firearms unit, he would definitely not be as scammers as the court's firearms unit. Liu Bu and his friends knew that the combat ability of the Jiannu army had actually reached the peak of the cold weapons era. Their cold weapons combat ability was truly powerful and had basically reached the peak era.

If the Taiping Army fights with them now, it will probably be a situation where both sides suffer losses and there is no advantage, but if they use firearms and weapons on a large scale, it will be different.
Chapter completed!