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Science and technology are primary productive forces.

Unfortunately, due to various reasons at this time, the technology for smelting iron from coal, especially for making weapons, was not yet mature enough. Li Yuanqing could only choose to reverse history and choose the more mature and stable charcoal iron smelting technology.

Originally, the blacksmith shop could make 80 to 90 blunderbuss a month, but if it were replaced with charcoal, the number might be reduced by half.

If you want to increase production, you can only increase labor input, which will inevitably increase costs.

The midsummer offensive is just around the corner, and there is not much time left for Li Yuanqing.

However, Li Yuanqing's eyes lit up when he found a talent like Cao Tiechui in the blacksmith shop.

As the saying goes, time is like a woman's career line. As long as you are willing to squeeze in, there will always be time.

The key is to take root, preserve and protect this young flame.

There were technical problems at the blacksmith shop. Many things had to be redone and production could not be resumed for the time being. Li Yuanqing took this opportunity to move all the old camps to Changsheng Island.

Changsheng Island is Li Yuanqing's legal jurisdiction. This time when he went to Beijing to award rewards, the surrounding Zhongdao and West Island were also included under Li Yuanqing's legal jurisdiction.

This creates a lot of buffer space for Changsheng Island and can do more things.

At this time, apart from the blacksmith shop and Li Yuanqing's family, there was not much population in Laoying. Li Yuanqing, Chen Zhong, and Zhang Pan in southern Liaoning had become the de facto overlords of this sea area, and Guanglu Island was far away from Changsheng Island.

It's not far, and it takes most of a day to get there.

Although this relocation is a big move, it is just a round trip process for the fleet and does not require much effort.

On the seventh day of April, Guancanghai's pirate fleet arrived at the old camp of Guanglu Island. The old camp had already made preparations and set off immediately. In the evening of that day, the men and horses of the old camp successfully landed on Changsheng Island.

At this point, all Li Yuanqing's foundations have been moved to Changsheng Island.

The official hall on Changsheng Island has been built for a long time. After being exposed to the scorching sun for many years, it can be moved in directly without much tidying up.

At that time, although Li Yuanqing only had a garrison title, the planning craftsmen were also clever. Although the official hall was only the size of a thousand-family house, the surrounding space had already been reserved. As long as he wanted to build something, he could build it at any time.

However, Li Yuanqing now only has three female dependents and no children. The thousand-family house covers an area of ​​more than ten acres, which is enough to live in. Naturally, he will not waste any more financial resources on this.

It would be fine to leave it to the women to arrange the An family, but Li Yuanqing wasted all his brain cells on the allocation of population and housing.

Shang Laoliu went to Dagukou to collect grain from the Qu family, but he has not returned yet. Li Yuanqing can only do these things himself.

At this time, the total number of Dingkou under Li Yuanqing's command has reached nearly 12,000. Among them, there are nearly 000 young men, nearly 7000 strong women, and the remaining 000 are old, weak and children.

However, the size of the urban housing here is only more than 0,000 households, which naturally cannot meet the needs of everyone.

After racking his brains, Li Yuanqing made a decision. All the soldiers and sailors under his command were assigned residences according to their seniority, from high to low.

As a result, basically the veterans, soldiers, and sailors under Li Yuanqing's command can all be allocated housing.

Officers such as Guan Canghai, Xu Heizi, Shunzi, and Duan Xiliang can choose residences, or they can choose homestead sites near Qianhu House and build them themselves.

The land in Nanxinkou is very wide. During the design, Li Yuanqing asked the craftsmen to work hard, so there is plenty of space.

Not surprisingly, Guan Canghai and others did not choose a house. Instead, they each spent money to buy a homestead and planned to build a large-scale construction project near Qianhu House.

This was also within Li Yuanqing's expectation. After all, none of these people had married, and they were all mere commanders. They usually lived in military camps, and were not eager to live close to their own homes at this time.

In fact, most of the soldiers are like this, but their houses and land are the greatest guarantee for them to work wholeheartedly for Li Yuanqing.

Of course, Li Yuanqing himself was too busy to deal with these matters, so he had no choice but to ask Zhang Yunniang, Qu Minqiu and Cai Zi to come over to help, as well as Ouer's father Ma Guanjia and Ma Deqiang.

To Li Yuanqing's surprise, housekeeper Ma Deqiang was able to handle housekeeping chores and was also proficient in settling accounts. He was good at handling complex interpersonal relationships.

Li Yuanqing immediately appointed him as the director of the "Real Estate Sales Department", and he was responsible for coordinating a series of issues related to housing allocation.

As a result, Li Yuanqing instantly felt a lot more relaxed and freed himself from these chores, but there were more important things that required a lot of Li Yuanqing's brain cells to be wasted.

This time when he went to Beijing to award rewards, Li Yuanqing was promoted to guerrilla, and it was time for these generals under his command to reward them based on their merits.

This most critical personnel power is also the most basic guarantee for Li Yuanqing to control this army.

According to the military system of the Ming Dynasty, Li Yuanqing now has a guerrilla rank and can actually command 1,000 men under his command, which means he can promote three thousand households to guard.

As for the deputy thousand households, there is no fixed quota. But if there are too many, it would be too blatant.

After careful consideration, Li Yuanqing finally decided to promote Shang Laoliu, Guan Canghai, Xu Heizi, to Zheng Qianhu, Duan Xiliang, Wang Hai, Shunzi to deputy Qianhu, Yang Xiaochuan, Huang Guoshan and other officers to Baihu.

Dongjiang Headquarters will report to the imperial court after Mao Wenlong's approval.

There is also Liu Dadou who has recently defected. He is originally a Qianhu. Logically speaking, Li Yuanqing should also promote him to the first level. But at this time, Li Yuanqing is just a guerrilla. It is not impossible to mention him for defense. But after all, he has not made any achievements, and it is difficult to

Hard to convince the crowd.

After Li Yuanqing discussed with Liu Dadou, Liu Dadou did not agree to promote him immediately, and was willing to maintain the status quo and wait until he has achieved meritorious service before raising the matter.

Li Yuanqing expressed satisfaction with Liu Dadou's attitude, and he also considered a small obstacle.

The upper-level structure of the army is completed, and the next step is the improvement and reorganization of the army.

Before, although Li Yuanqing's troops only had a thousand men, in fact, they were divided into several groups like a miscellaneous army. Except for Li Yuanqing's old camp, the others had very meager combat effectiveness.

At this time, the number of young men under Li Yuanqing's command had reached 0,000, and he had more room for choice.

First let’s start with the upper architecture.

Although Shang Laoliu was promoted to the top Qianhu official under Li Yuanqing, in fact, he was like Li Yuanqing's butler, responsible for more logistical affairs and not really leading the army.

As a result, the specific military affairs of his headquarters were all handled by Deputy Qianhu.

However, although there are 0,000 people, it is not suitable to add all these people to the soldiers. After all, war can be fought by more than just soldiers.

After careful discussion with several major military officers, Li Yuanqing formally reorganized his army.

From then on, Li Yuanqing's headquarters was called the "Changsheng Camp" and had a combat force of thousands of households.

The First Thousand Corps, with Chief Shang Laoliu and Deputy Chief Duan Xiliang, commanded 700 soldiers, 600 auxiliary troops, 0 large and small warships, and 5 main ships. They were stationed at Nanxinkou, Changsheng Island. It was considered a full establishment.

The first main force under Li Yuanqing.

The Second Thousand Corps, with Chief Officer Cang Hai and Deputy Chief Wang Hai, is stationed at the South Pier of Changsheng Island. They command 600 soldiers, more than a thousand auxiliary soldiers, pirates, and sailors, and more than 00 large and small warships. They are the main force under Li Yuanqing's command.

The navy and transportation team are responsible for the liaison and intelligence in this wide area of ​​Changsheng Island, Zhongdao, and West Island, including Lushunkou, Guanglu Island, Big and Small Chenghuang Islands, Ocean Island, Big and Small Changshan Islands, Black Island, and Denglai.

Defense.

In fact, the pirate group under Guan Canghai has been incorporated into the Changsheng Battalion, but in line with the principle of secrecy and confidentiality, the 2000 Corps only announces the number of combat troops and not the number of auxiliary troops.

The 3000th Corps, the 1000th General Xu Heizi, the Deputy 1000th General Zhang Sanshun, the 100th General Yang Xiaochuan, 00 soldiers in the headquarters, and the auxiliary soldiers are tentatively decided.

Among them, Shunzi led a team of 100 cannon soldiers, Yang Xiaochuan commanded a team of 100 cannon soldiers, and also included an engineering team of more than 100 people directly under Xu Heizi. Added together, the number of the 3000th Corps was

, which is also close to a thousand people.

Although they don't have many large ships, they have 7 or 80 small ships, which can be regarded as a miscellaneous fleet of thousands.

As for Huang Guoshan, he was promoted to the leader of Li Yuanqing's personal guard battalion with the rank of 100 households. He actually commanded a total of 000 soldiers and was directly under Li Yuanqing's command.

Liu Dadou, with 100 people from his headquarters, was promoted to the leader of the Thousand Cavalry Corps.

Unfortunately, the total number of horses on Changsheng Island is less than 0. This is obviously a false position, and it cannot be reported.

However, Li Yuanqing had already made preparations. Liu Dadou's headquarters was tentatively designated as a scout team, with a salary of one thousand generals. At the same time, it was responsible for training cavalry and enjoyed the same financial allocation treatment as Li Yuanqing's three headquarters, one thousand generals.

After the personnel transfer was completed, Li Yuanqing held a grand army formation ceremony at the campus in Changsheng Island Town, and personally awarded military flags to the officers of the four teams.

However, Shang Laoliu and Xu Heizi were no longer on Changsheng Island at this time, and their deputies, Duan Xiliang and Shunzi respectively, took charge of it.

That night, a grand celebration ceremony was held on Changsheng Island. All soldiers and people participated in the celebration ceremony.

However, although the Changsheng Battalion was established, and the drills of each department were coordinated and responsible by the officers of each department, it was still difficult for Li Yuanqing to relax. There were many things waiting to be done, and he still had to do many things personally.

The first is the work in the blacksmith shop.

The ancients said, 'If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools.'

If personnel is the top priority, finance is the second, then weapons are the third.

The facilities at the blacksmith shop have been built, but the actual production will still need to go through a period of debugging and improvement.

Li Yuanqing basically had to personally participate in the development and molding of various weapons and equipment, including blunderbuss, armor, swords and guns.

Fortunately, Xu Liang and Mr. Yang are both very experienced and have a lot of labor. Li Yuanqing only needs to make his request and let them implement it.

But there is one most critical thing that has kept Li Yuanqing racking his brains, and that is intelligence.

In fact, Li Yuanqing hesitated for a long time regarding Yang Xiaochuan's arrangements.

Although Yang Xiaochuan is young, he has a sharp mind and is loyal to Li Yuanqing. He is actually the best person to be in charge of intelligence.

However, he lacks experience in this area, Li Yuanqing does not have much experience, and Liu Dadou has just arrived, so it is not easy to arrange Yang Xiaochuan to his side rashly. He can only maintain it temporarily and slowly look for opportunities.

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I didn't learn math well and it really gave me a headache. I used my fingers and toes on the boat, and finally I understood a little bit.
Chapter completed!