< br >Chapter 737 < br >Li Chen did not refuse Su Zhenting's request. < br >making muskets, at first it was just Li Chen who wanted to add sense of security to himself. < br >but now that the first musket has been successfully released, the next step is to get a batch of sharpshooters to raise a few sharpshooters, even if they are of little use on the battlefield, they are magic weapons that can be used to protect themselves. < br >Li Chen, who is once again + 1 on sense of security, said with a smile: "No problem. You send an official letter to the Ministry of Industry in the name of the Governor's Office of the five Armed Forces. The Ministry of Industry produces according to the order, but you can't think of more quantity. Song Yingxing, how long will it take to make such a musket?" < br >Song Yingxing calculated for a while and replied, "it will take at least 20 days." < br >"20 days is 20 days!" < br >Su Zhenting gritted his teeth and said, "I want a hundred first." < br >Su Zhenting's lion opened his mouth to embarrass Guan Zhiwei, but he dared not refuse Su Zhenting face-to-face, so he could only say carefully: "General Su, this thing takes time to make, and the money and silver consumed is extremely exaggerated. The cost of each piece of material alone is close to 52 silver, not counting the cost of bullets. Bullets are consumables and scrapped at one time." < br >52. < br >Su Zhenting twitched at the corners of his mouth. < br >ordinary people in the Daqin Empire can live comfortably for a long time for five taels of silver. These fifty taels of guns are really beyond the affordability of ordinary people. < br >but Su Zhenting also understood the truth that children could not be tied up with wolves. He gritted his teeth and said, "this sum of money will be given to the governor's house of the five armed forces. One hundred will be 5200, and another 2200 will be given to you for the purchase of bullets and gunpowder." < br >Li Chen looked at Su Zhenting in surprise and did not expect that his future father-in-law was quite bold. < br >(adsbygoogle = indo.adsbygoogle | | []). Ush ({ }); < br >now that the imperial treasury is empty, even with Li Chen's face, the household ministry does not allocate much money to the governor's mansion of the five armed forces. I do not know how long Su Zhenting will have to live frugally. < br >but now that Su Zhenting has made up his mind, Li Chen did not stop him. < br >anyway, this thing will be popular sooner or later, so it would be nice to let Su Zhenting try the water on a small scale first. < br >in the final analysis, which group of sharpshooters have been trained, are they still for their own use? < br >after thinking about this, Li Chen was pleasing to the eye of Song Yingxing. < br >"I promised that you would be rewarded as long as you fulfilled my request." < br >Li Chen said to Song Yingxing, "from now on, you will be the head of the Ministry of works, with six grades, and all salaries and salaries will be paid according to rank." < br >ignoring Song Yingxing's grateful Thanksgiving, Li Chen turned to Guan Zhiwei and said, "later, you will also draw up a chapter to submit and set up a workshop department under the Ministry of Industry. As long as all the craftsmen with sufficient ability and contribution are transferred to the department, they will be paid salaries according to the specifications of the seven grades, and will be compiled by the Ministry of work." < br >"there is no upper limit for the establishment of the company, and anyone who has contributed can enter it, and then be promoted according to meritorious service." < br >Li Chen has just two words, but it involves huge interests. < br >A new department directly under the Ministry of Industry has not yet drawn up an upper limit on the number of people, and the entry starts from the seventh grade, which can be described as a gift of grace. < br >Li Chen also knew that there would be huge benefits. He said to Guan Zhiwei, who was pleasantly surprised, "I leave this job to you, and then I want to talk to you if something goes wrong." If you let me know that you engage in nepotism in private, arbitrarily shove people up, cronyism, or even buy and sell, pay for nothing, I will not tolerate it. " < br >< br/ >< br >

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