That night, the instructor began to explain to the soldiers in each barracks the necessity of tidying up their housekeeping - as a soldier, you must standardize all aspects of your life, and make standardization a subconscious behavior.

Conscientiously carrying out the orders of the higher authorities to sort out internal affairs is the embodiment of discipline. If one day you go to the toilet, you will unconsciously stand in a neat row and untie your trouser belt in unison, even if you have achieved something. Only an army that is well-disciplined and acts in a standardized manner can defeat all opponents on the battlefield.

Of course, these words were written on the guidance tutorial written by Su Chengyu, and they just recited them.

In fact, most of the soldiers heard it in a fog, but the instructors were all people who had read the books of the sages, so what they said must be reasonable. Even if the soldiers didn't quite remember what the Instructor said, they were affected by a subtle influence.

The next day, the school field began to train in a queue with guns. Although it was a wooden training gun and the bayonet was only made of rough iron, the blades of the large brushed blades were still dazzling.

"Shoulder guns!"

"Gun down!"

Macedo and others dutifully taught the action of holding a gun. However, nearly half of the soldiers in the new army of Longwei had never touched the firearms, and they didn't even know where to hold their hands. The officers of each team had to patiently guide one by one.

Even the cavalry and artillery spent sixty percent of their day training in basic platoons with the infantry. After all, this is the basis for cultivating the discipline and normativity of military personnel.

For the time being, the specialized training of these two "technical" arms of the armed forces is still mainly based on theoretical study. Especially for artillerymen, although they all pick soldiers with more intelligent minds, it is extremely difficult to get them to understand concepts such as gun body angles and horizontal angles.

The cavalry was a little better, and had already begun to train on horseback, but it was still far from being able to march in a queue on horseback. In the past, most of the Ming army's chaotic swarm of swarm charges were expressly forbidden in the Dragon Guard.

Of course, the progress has also been very obvious, and with the gradual entry of training into the right track in recent days, the organization and discipline of the whole army have been greatly improved, and now a company of several dozen people can now maintain a neat queue and march forward in unison.

New queue actions are also constantly being added, and the entire Longwei New Army is becoming more and more like a modern army.

The number of people who came to join the army continued unabated, and the reception area for recruits of the Dragon Guard Army was almost overcrowded, and it had to expand the area of the reception office four times in two days, and increase the number of officers who selected new recruits.

Su Chengyu instructed the recruits to take a three-day holiday to deal with household chores after registration, and then they were uniformly assigned to the recruit camp. Recruits are trained individually for a month and then assessed, and those who pass the assessment can be integrated into combat units together with veterans.

As the foreign instructors' understanding of Su Chengyu's training program deepened, and the soldiers and instructors gradually adapted to each other, there was not much for Su Chengyu to worry about in the military camp for the time being.

The most important problem he faces at the moment is that the weapons and equipment of the troops have not yet been secured. The training wooden guns in the hands of the non-commissioned officers need to be replaced with real flintlock guns, and the weapons and armor of the cavalry must be done as soon as possible, not to mention the artillery, which does not even have training guns.

The heavy responsibility of manufacturing these equipment will fall on the Suji Iron Yard.

Recently, he has been busy with military training, and he hasn't paid attention to the iron field, which is his most important source of military spending, so he can also go and ask about the situation in the iron field.

Su Chengyu instructed Yu Xin to temporarily take care of the daily affairs of the military camp, and he took Qiao Qian and his own soldiers to Su Ji Iron Field.

The ironworks are still busy, and the number of craftsmen seems to have increased considerably. Su Chengyu hadn't taken a few steps before he saw Chanyi, dressed in men's clothes, with two stewards coming over excitedly, and when he got closer, he was about to kneel and salute, "Master, why are you here?" ”

"No red tape." Su Chengyu held her up, looked at the iron field, and said with a smile: "There are a lot more people, it seems that the situation has been quite good recently." ”

"Master, last time I sent some daggers out according to your orders, and the next day several groups of people came to buy knives. Recently, in the past half a month, I have earned nearly two thousand taels from steel knives and the like. Chan Yi immediately said excitedly, "The steel ingots are selling better, and they have sold more than 2,000 catties recently." Now there are orders for two or three hundred catties every day. ”

"Long Nan uses so much steel in an inch of land?" Su Chengyu was a little surprised, the sales volume of two or three hundred catties per day, that is to say, he can earn more than 10,000 taels just by selling steel ingots every month!

Chanyi said with a smug expression: "Not only in Longnan, I asked people to transport steel ingots to Ganzhou, and first sent some to a few ironsmiths, but I didn't expect them to immediately snap up the goods they brought." Now everyone knows that Longnan Steel is good, not only in Ganzhou, but also in Nan'an, Nanxiong Mansion and even Shaozhou Mansion's ironware workshops come to us to buy steel ingots. ”

Su Chengyu nodded, he really didn't expect Daming's demand for high-quality steel to be so strong, and even Cantonese people came to buy steel ingots. There is also Chanyi, a little girl, who is indeed very talented in business, not only waiting for customers to come to the door, but also knowing to go to Ganzhou Mansion to promote products.

Chan Yi suddenly remembered that the craftsman had just reported on the crucible, and hurriedly said, "Master, there is another important matter." If the crucible you brought last time is not ready, you need to make a new one as soon as possible. ”

As soon as she said this, Su Chengyu also remembered that the graphite crucible is a consumable product, and it won't take long to be eroded and peeled off. For the sake of technical secrecy, for the time being, only he knows the raw materials for making the crucible, and he thinks that this time he will make some more and keep it for backup.

He instructed Qiao Qian to buy graphite and other raw materials, and asked Chanyi: "How much steel ingot inventory is there now?" ”

"Hui Ye, although we have sold a lot recently, we still have more than 10,000 catties of steel ingots in our warehouse. However, there are 8,000 catties ordered by Macao maritime merchants. ”

"That's enough." Su Chengyu nodded, "The Dragon Guard Army needs a batch of equipment right now, so use these steels to build it." You will summon the craftsman who is in charge of forging the artifact. ”

After a short time, two craftsmen, one tall and one short, were brought to Su Chengyu.

The two of them saluted Chanyi first, "Shen shopkeeper." He was stunned for a moment, only then did he recognize that the young man next to him was the owner of the iron field, and he hurriedly bowed again, and shouted "I have seen the owner".

After Su Chengyu inquired, he learned that these two people were the foremen in charge of forging in the iron yard, the tall one was named Chu Di, and the short one was named Xiong Zhong.

He also asked people to take a pen and paper, and drew a sketch of a cavalry sword on the forging platform beside him, and then marked the dimensions: two feet and eight inches long, one inch and one minute at the widest part of the sword, two and six points thick, and three pounds and seven taels.

Chu Di on the side was immediately surprised: "Dongjia, this sword seems to be the usual style of the Yi people, is it going to be sold overseas?" ”

The craftsman named Xiong Zhong immediately came over to take a look, and sure enough, the sword on the picture was straight, wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, with a cage-shaped gauntlet at the hilt, and an iron buckle like a ring on the inside of the gauntlet.