Li Laoshi wiped his hands on the clothes, then he carefully held them over and looked at them carefully. After a cup of tea, he raised his head and said, "Sir, this drawing looks a bit like an old Mauser at first glance, but when you look closely, it is very different in many places. First of all, the caliber is much worse, and the rifle and the bullet cabin are different. To be honest, the guns and grass people have never seen it before."

"It doesn't matter. Since you can see these differences, I ask you if you can create them?"

Li Laoshi looked at it for a while and then said, "It's still hard to say. You have to try to build it to make a decision, but it shouldn't be a big problem. The most important thing is that this barrel is far from the current guns and is more difficult."

Li Laoshi did not mention the bullet supply and cabin on the drawings. This is not because he thought the process of the bullet supply and cabin was not difficult, but because he had never seen such a thing, let alone made it, so there was no way to talk about it.

Although Li Laoshi did not agree at once, Liu Shaoqing still admired this serious and responsible attitude, which was much more reliable than directly patting his chest.

"Okay, I will give you time to try it out. How many days will it take?"

Li Laoshi thought about it carefully and said, "It will take at least seven days."

"Okay, seven days will be seven days. In seven days, I will come again. Also, this drawing can be placed here first, but." Liu Shaoqing emphasized here: "But don't leak it out, otherwise, I will be punished!"

Li Houshi hurriedly said: "The villain can save you, the villain can save you!"

After leaving Shenji Camp, Liu Shaoqing temporarily felt something and felt much more relaxed. He was ready to return to the military academy without any hesitation.

Liu Shaoqing, who returned to the military academy, wanted to take a break quickly, but he didn't expect that there was a man who could not afford to offend him.

"See Princess!" Liu Shaoqing saluted a military salute, "I wonder what the princess has to ask for the official?"

Prince Jianning first looked at Liu Shaoqing in military uniform carefully before saying, "Bold Liu Pifu, when he saw this palace, he dared not kneel down!"

Liu Shaoqing's mouth twitched: "Report to the princess, the emperor's special order, the registered soldiers in the new military uniform will cancel their kneeling and salutes!"

"Hmph, I have the ability, I know to use the emperor brother to suppress me. I don't have the same knowledge as you. I said, "I'm going back so late, and I won't study hard in the school, and I'm going to play there? Have you gone to visit the kiln?"

That sweat of Liu Shaoqing, Your Highness, after all, you are a royal relative, okay, you are still a girl, you can also say words like "you can also say "you can go to the kiln".

"I really don't have this. The subordinates were also ordered by the emperor to handle the task and went to the Shenji Camp Manufacturing Bureau."

"Oh." The little girl pouted, "You said you should use the emperor brother to suppress me, you are not finished yet? There is one emperor's life and another emperor's life. The emperor also ordered you to train me three hundred guards? Where are the people?"

Liu Shaoqing was stunned, "When did the emperor ask me to train three hundred guards?"

"You don't admit it yet? That's when we bet that day, you won the speculation. The emperor's brother said that you would go back and train me 300 guards, all of them stronger than your current personal soldiers. How long has it been? Where are the people?"

'So that', Liu Shaoqing understood, but he couldn't say: Princess, the emperor is coaxing you. In fact, the emperor has never mentioned this to me at all. It would be no longer true to say that the emperor is just for his own thunder. Thinking of this, Liu Shaoqing's eyes rolled and he thought: "Your Highness Princess, this is really not my concern, but you know, my soldiers have been in the army for several years, and have been trained in Guangnan for three years, so that they are at their current level. But it took only a few months after we bet, how could we train."

When the little girl thought, it was true that Liu Shaoqing's Soldier Emperor's brother had indeed said that they were all veterans of the Black Flag Army. The Black Flag Army fought with the French in Tonkin for three years, so these soldiers had been trained for at least three years. "Okay, what you said is reasonable, but you can't forget this matter. I will ask you for someone at that time."

Liu Shaoqing quickly said, "Don't worry, the people in our military academy are now Miaozi. After the army is expanded next year, three thousand people can be trained. Then, you can pick them up."

The little girl was very fooling and said with satisfaction: "You know what you are. Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. I ask you, this day is getting warmer, how can I decide this year's spring competition?"

"Spring comparison? What kind of spring comparison?"

"Liu Pifu! You are pretending to be stupid again!" The little girl was immediately unhappy. "Betting that the emperor said in front of all the ministers that he would have to do such competitions twice a year in the future. Do you dare to say you don't know?"

"Oh, Princess, you have to ask the emperor about this. How can I know about this? I just take care of the training of this school and the training camp."

"Hmph, I'm of course asking where the emperor brother is. I'm asking you, because I want to know what good way you can make this competition more lively."

Damn, Liu Shaoqing secretly complained that it was for this purpose.

Just think about it, for the quirky little princess, it doesn’t matter who wins and loses. What’s important is that there is fun to watch. Just like before, although I lost, dozens of people ran around, fired guns and fought and fought, which was much more lively than on the stage, which was satisfying the little girl’s wish.

However, this thing can be used. If done well, it will be beneficial to the training of the new army and the training of the troops in the future. Liu Shaoqing's eyes kept rolling, thinking about how to use this so-called "big contest".

"First of all, the number of people must be increased. We only had 30 people last time. What level can we see? It is necessary to have 300 people to see the training level of a unit. Secondly, the attack range must be wide, and it is best that all troops near Zhili can participate, so that the advantages and disadvantages of each army can be seen. The third is to simulate the real battlefield environment as much as possible to increase the sense of urgency. It is best to have real soldiers to fight against each other."

Whenever Liu Shaoqing said something, the little girl would applaud her. How good the people are, the more lively the more people they are. If you want to follow this person, it would be better to do it with real swords and guns, so that it would be better to be able to die a little.

"Okay, little man, follow this idea and quickly write a memorandum. I'll go to the emperor's brother to tell me."

Liu Shaoqing had just been thinking about how to do this thing, but he forgot about this aunt, "Oh? Oh, princess, this can't be written out immediately. I have to think about it carefully."

"We have to consider it again? OK, then you can think about it, how many days?"

Liu Shaoqing thought about it and said that the Machinery Bureau would take seven days to achieve results. There was nothing wrong with these days. It just happened to figure out this out and it would be useful in the future. So he said, "It will take five or six days."

Jianning agreed happily: "Okay, I will give you five days. In five days, I will come to get the note."

After saying that, he stopped caring about Liu Shaoqing and called the palace maid and eunuch to return to the palace.

So Liu Xiaopian found out that he was busy again. With Princess Jianning's reminder, Liu Shaoqing spent five days to prepare a plan for the "live-soldier exercise" to assess and test the training of the troops. These include cross-country, crossing the river, attack, defense, shooting, and thorn fighting, which can test the training of the troops and the quality of soldiers to a certain extent.

On the sixth day, the princess came indeed. Seeing the thick memorials brought by Liu Shaoqing, although she couldn't understand them, at least she didn't seem to be perfunctory. She took them to Guangxu with satisfaction.

Saw the little princess away. Liu Shaoqing thought about the time being, should he go to the Machine Bureau to check it out? So he said hello to Ronglu and took a personal soldier to the Machine Bureau.

After a while, they arrived at the gate of the Machine Bureau. After Tong Bing finished the gate, the young official named Hou was coming out to receive the last time. After a few greetings, the two had already walked to the weapons workshop of the Machine Bureau, and Li Laoshi was already waiting.

"Sir, you are here."

"Yes, Master Li, let's take a look at the drawings I gave you last time, how did you do the experiment?"

"Sir, I have carefully studied the drawing. It should be a big problem to make it, but there are two problems. One is that some of the mechanical parts here cannot be processed by our current machinery and equipment, and it needs to be made by hand. It takes a lot of time to make a gun. In addition, the steel used in this barrel must be strong and durable, and must be made with special hard. We don't have much reserves of this kind of steel. If it is produced in large quantities, it must be purchased from foreigners."

Liu Shaoqing doesn't care about machines and steel. That's what the emperor should worry about. He only cares whether this gun can be made. "What do you mean, can this gun be made?"

Li honestly said: "Although this gun has been improved in many places and cannot be understood by villains, the basic craftsmanship has not changed much, so it should be fine to make it. But..."

Liu Shaoqing asked: "It's just what?"

Li said honestly: "It's just that I haven't seen such a small caliber gun before, I don't know if it's easy to use."

Liu Shaoqing was not worried about this, "Haha, don't worry about this. Having said that, since you can do it, then start doing it now. How many days can you do it?"

Li thought for a while: "Because there are many parts that need to be rebuilt by hand, especially the barrel, which is very troublesome. I have to work hard to make one shot in ten days."

‘One shot was only ten days’. This number really disappointed Liu Shaoqing. “Master, I heard what you meant just now, do you want to build this gun by yourself?”

"Yes, the foreign guns here are all responsible for one shot, mainly to clarify the responsibility in case of problems such as blow-offs or other problems." Hou Jiuman was the one who spoke.

Liu Shaoqing said in surprise: "Isn't it possible to realize machine production? Why do we still have to make guns manually? Isn't this much slower?"

Hou Jiuman replied: "Sir, the Machinery Bureau used to imitate British Xiali guns. The parts were indeed produced by machines. The craftsmen were divided into several shifts. Each part was processed from each machine by the craftsmen themselves, and then they took the machine parts they processed and then returned to the room to assemble them into a gun. Each gun was completed by one person alone, and the name of the craftsman was engraved on the gun. In this way, if there was a problem with the gun, the craftsman who made the gun could be directly tracked down."

Liu Shaoqing is almost crazy to hear this? What a stupid bureaucrat who can think of such an inefficient quality tracking system!

"How many craftsmen are there in our Machinery Bureau?" Liu Shaoqing asked.

"Sir, there are twenty-six skilled craftsmen, of which seven are very good at skill; there are seven of them half-master craftsmen and seventy-six apprentices."

Liu Shaoqing thought for a while and said, "In this way, you can draw five skilled and twenty-five skilled professionals for me."

Hou Jiuman asked, "What do you want these people to do?"

Liu Shaoqing said: "Call them here and I will tell you in detail."
Chapter completed!