Valley Emperor

Making muskets, cold weapons and other weapons, as well as agricultural tools, iron pots and other daily and production supplies, requires a lot of iron, and Huangzhushan itself cannot produce iron, it can only be purchased from the outside. to production, but the scale of this purchase has always been small.

After all, Zhengtai County itself is not a big iron-producing county, and iron is a high-priced material these days. Otherwise, there would not be a situation where a family only has one iron pot and one kitchen knife.

Before Huang Zhushan purchased iron from outside, he secretly found some merchants for the purpose of making farm tools, iron pots and other daily life and production utensils.

However, there are so many weapons that need to be built today, and the amount of iron needed is not a small amount. Let's not talk about how much it costs to buy so much iron. The key is that you can't buy it.

Li Xuan thought about it, try outsourcing first. After all, there will always be some businessmen who are not afraid of death who dare to make deals with these bandits in Huangzhushan. How did so many bandit dens in Dashan sell dirty before? Not looking for those unscrupulous businessmen.

Even if a sufficient amount of iron cannot be purchased by then, Li Xuan plans to melt some unused iron tools in Huangzhu Mountain to make weapons.

For example, the messy weapons that were replaced before. These weapons are of uneven quality and different styles. They are no longer in line with the requirements of the unified standard weapons of the King of the Tang Dynasty. Currently, they can only be placed in the warehouse as a strategy. Reserve in case of unexpected events.

When the iron is not enough, these weapons will be melted and used to create muskets and various cold weapons and armor.

If it is still not enough, then it can only be solved by the old method: go out and grab it!

After all, Huang Zhushan and this group of Tang Dynasty people are bandits themselves, looting villages, and their old business is their old business. Even if they change their careers and rebel, they can't lose their old business.

After the establishment of the new army was determined, everyone entered the competition for the positions of the major new army generals.

In this new organization, Li Xuan abolished the two separate designations of the Datang Standing Army and the Guards, and adopted a new organization instead.

Each team adopts a unified numerical designation, from the first to the ninth team, in order to distinguish the attributes of the arms of each team, the name of the arms is added after the number.

All the above-mentioned teams are directly under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council. The Privy Council has newly established three divisions: the Department of Operations, the Department of Ordnance, and the Department of Logistics.

And Li Xuan is still personally commanding the Privy Council, and does not set up any deputy positions such as deputy privy councils. In other words, Li Xuan will personally command the eight combat troops, and he will not be a deputy.

Abolishing the Standing Army and the Guards, and placing each team directly under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council, this is Li Xuan's core plan to further consolidate military power.

Consolidating military power and suppressing Fang Dongquan, Huang Xueren and others has been the core policy of Li Xuan's several military reforms in the past six months. When he established the standing army, he established the front and rear, left, right, middle and five armies in order to divide the power of Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren. The army was merged into one army, also to weaken Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren.

Now that the standing army is directly eliminated, it is also to further weaken the military power of Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren.

As for the withdrawal of the Guards, it is also to limit the recent expansion of Wang Danxu. Recently, the Guards have been in the limelight. Wang Danxu has the momentum to surpass Fang Dongquan and become the first army leader of the Tang Dynasty. For his own life For the sake of it, Li Xuan decided to limit it.

It's not like he waited until Wang Danxu became Fang Dongquan half a year ago, and his power increased enough to affect the trend of the entire Tang Dynasty, and even threaten the life and safety of his emperor.

This time, the new army was directly brought under the direct jurisdiction of the Privy Council. While Li Xuan was consolidating military power, it was impossible for Fang Dongquan, Wang Shanxu and the others to be kicked out.

He just wants to limit their power, and he has no idea of ​​throwing it away. On the contrary, he will continue to reuse it in some aspects.

For example, the real captains of the major teams continue to use these people.

The captain of the first musket team is Wang Danxu, the captain of the second musket team is Bai Yunqi, the captain of the third lance team is Fang Dongquan, the captain of the fourth lance team is Huang Xueren, the captain of the fifth lance team is Cai Erhu, The captain of the Six Blades Shield team is Butcher Chen.

The captains of the Seventh Archer Team, the Eighth Carriage Team, and the Ninth Cavalry Team, as well as the vice-captains of each team, were also under the confidants of these people.

However, among the chiefs of the Privy Council, these generals were not used, and they were prepared to be selected directly from the middle and low-level military attachés.

In addition, Li Xuan also set up a rigid condition, that is, in order to serve as a member of the Privy Council, as a member of the staff, as a member of the staff, and as a director, he must be able to read and write.

You are not required to be able to write a splendid article, but you must be able to read and write.

This is also to stimulate and even force those warriors to read and read by themselves!

As early as last year, Li Xuan tried to set up a literacy class to train his own scholars, and let Liu Bagou, Wang Wenhua, and Qian Mengjiu, the only scholars in the three Tang Dynasty, take turns to teach, which can be regarded as a success. There were certain results, but most of the people who came to study were originally from the civil service system, but there were not many people from the military who came to study.

This time, Li Xuan made up his mind to turn these illiterate people into semi-literate people!

In the future, people who can't read, don't expect to be able to command the army in the Tang Dynasty in this life. If they die, they will become a captain.

After the reform of the military system, Li Xuan was satisfied to let go of these 'military and political events', and then satisfactorily cast his sights in other directions.

There is already a complete set of plans for military training. As long as the people below don't mess around, there will be no problems if they only need to train step by step.

Political affairs are simpler, as trivial matters can be dealt with casually in daily court meetings, and he can't waste much energy at all.

Recently, he has divided his main time into two halves, half for the harem and half for researching small inventions.

On the second night of returning to Huangzhu Mountain, Li Xuan gave Pearl to the Fa-rectification on the spot. In the following few nights, Dong Yunyun and Pearl's master and servant played with Li Xuan every night. game.

So that Li Xuan walked a little unsteadily in those few days, and then Liu Bagou reminded him a bit: saying that others are still young, don't die on a woman's belly.

But the Queen Mother Bai also found him and said in front of Li Xuan that the queen, Dong Yunyun, could not lay eggs if she only ate rice. It had been so long from the end of last year to the present.

In the end, he said to Li Xuan earnestly, don't run to Dong Yunyun's place every day, you kid has another wife, Ye Shi, that girl is the one with **** and big buttocks, so you kid should spend the night there more often.

Li Xuan only remembered what he said, there is another Ye family!

When Ye Shi first entered the palace last year, he was quite impressed with her at first, but he was quickly dizzy by Dong Yunyun's active devotion. For a long time, only Dong Yunyun and Zhu were in his mind. This pair of master and servant has long forgotten Ye Shi.

An ordinary woman, even if she looks a little more beautiful, the combination of a lady like Dong Yunyun and a stubborn maid like Pearl is very attractive!

Even without considering the factor of identity, the reason why Ye Shi can't compare to Dong Yunyun and Pearl, the master and servant, is not because Li Xuan doesn't like her, nor because she is not beautiful, but because she is weak. only one person!

Solo flying is so cool!

In addition, the Ye family did not live in the same big house as Li Xuan and Dong Yunyun, but was close to the Queen Mother Bai. Li Xuan, like Dong Yunyun, would never go to the Queen Mother Bai's side to seek trouble. .

Counting the time like this, he really hadn't seen Ye Shi for some time!

Now that his mother, the Queen Mother Bai, said this, Li Xuan guessed that he would go to Ye's side a few more times during this time to find a chance to eat her. He couldn't let a delicate beauty stand alone in the empty boudoir, and it would be his own sin. just big.

This harem is not annoying, not too much. Li Xuan didn't pay much attention to it. After he was busy with the military reform in the past two days, he focused on research and invention.

Among them, the most important research inventions are naturally the flintlocks and artillery weapons.

Li Xuan's dream now is to get a flintlock gun. He originally thought that after "inviting" more than 30 craftsmen, he would hope to solve the problem of spring steel, but after inquiring, there is no one. Knowing how to make spring steel, in the end, they can only give them time to continue their research, and strive to get spring steel out as soon as possible.

As for the artillery, this thing is quite simple. Li Xuan does not understand the artillery of later generations, but he knows the ancient artillery. Isn't that an enlarged version of the arquebus~www.wuxiaspot.com~ How difficult can it be? It was because I couldn't find enough copper materials. I went out to loot and looted a lot of copper materials before, and even robbed a few large bells from several temples. Several hundred kilograms of artillery, so let people try to do it.

As for what kind of artillery can be made, it depends on the character. Anyway, Li Xuan did not give them specific performance restrictions, but just gave them a drawing of the most basic front-mounted smoothbore gun. As for the details Don't count on the design.

Li Xuan can remember that this cannon is loaded from the muzzle. It would be nice to have a large tube. The ghost knows what the internal design of those front-loaded smoothbore cannons is.

Anyway, Li Xuan doesn't expect them to be able to make good artillery. It's enough to be able to shoot the cannonballs at that time, and it's not a requirement to hit the enemy.

This cannon does not seek to kill the enemy, but seeks to scare people!

The reason why the requirements are so low is because he can't really expect these blacksmiths to become master-level craftsmen in minutes, and they will be able to create some kind of magical weapon after reading the drawings on those pages.

If this is all right, he Li Xuan has already become an immortal, and he is still an emperor!