Ji Yi glanced at Liang Zimei with a wry smile and sighed, "Scholar Liang, do you really think that our five capital academies and thirty-eight academies in Hebei can really make how many usable armor equipment?" ”

Excluding the arsenal under the direct jurisdiction of the Xuanfu Division of Hebei, the Hebei Fourth Road in the Northern Song Dynasty (not counting the Hailu Shuaisi, but including Cangzhou) has a total of five capital courtyards and thirty-eight courtyards, a total of forty-two arsenals!

The large number is a bit staggering, and there are forty-two arsenals on the North Song River Road, which is a little smaller than Hebei Province in later generations, which sounds really a bit ****. However, the scale of each of these forty-two arsenals is a bit ridiculous.

Among them, the largest Hebei Road Metropolitan Workshop (under the jurisdiction of the Hebei Road Transfer Envoy) has less than 500 military craftsman posts, which are posts, not craftsmen who really work in the workshops of the Metropolitan Courtyard located in Xiangzhou and Cizhou. Due to the lack of materials, no work to do, the occupation of officials and the fact that craftsmen went to work or start businesses in Jiehe Shang City, the number of military craftsmen who really remained in the workshops in Xiangzhou and Cizhou was less than 50, and they were all old and sick craftsmen who could not work.

Hebei Road is like this, and the rest of the smaller courtyards, not to mention.

If Ji Yi survives for the Hebei Road Capital Courtyard now, those high-level craftsmen who work and start businesses in Jiehe Commercial City will not come back, and the money they earn in Jiehe Commercial Market is at least ten times more than that given by Hebei Road Duzuoyuan. However, the officials in charge of the capital also had a way to make a difference, which was nothing more than spending money to hire temporary workers or simply asking the yamen in Xiangzhou and Cizhou to find some people from the peasant city to make up the numbers. What kind of craftsmanship this kind of person is, what kind of weapon can be created, you can figure it out with your ass.

However, Ji Yi is also a profiteer himself, of course he knows this unspoken rule.

In fact, the Jijia Shipyard he opened in Jingdong Shang City poached more than half of the warcraftsmen in the shipbuilding yard under the jurisdiction of the Southeast Sixth Road Dafa Embassy. As a result, the Sixth Road Shipyard could not build a ship, so it could only spend money to buy it from the shipyard in Jingdong Shang City.

Liang Zimei is also a capable official, so she naturally knows that the capital and the courtyard are unreliable. He sighed and said, "You don't need to use all the weapons of the courtyard and the courtyard, where else can you use the weapons produced?" Do you want to be transferred from the Ordnance Supervisor? It's not easy! ”

The ordnance supervisor is one of the five eunuchs, and it is a directly subordinate institution of the Northern Song Dynasty court, and the officials in charge of the ordnance supervisor generally have four or five grades, which may be a little older than Ji Yi. If the Hebei Metropolitan Transit Envoy asked the imperial court to transfer the weapons of the ordnance supervisor, then there would be no room for picking. Even if it is given to the corrupt and unusable guys, the Hebei Metropolitan Transit Envoy can only eat it.

As for the quality of the weapons produced by the Ordnance Supervisor, it is a little better than that of the local capitals and institutes. However, it is also limited, anyway, the newly built model new army is complaining about the weapons provided by the ordnance superintendent. Of course, you can only complain in private, and you don't dare to make it public.

Most of the heads of the ordnance supervisors are dignified four-grade civilian officials, how can they be offended by the martial artists of the model new army?

"How can we stand the guy of the armory?" Ji Yi shook his head slightly, "But we can't follow the old method and distribute the state's public funds to more than forty institutes." ”

"Don't give money?" Xu Jiang interjected and asked, "How can they buy materials and hire craftsmen without giving money?" ”

"It's not that you don't give money," Ji Yi said, "You have to have good things to take out before you can give money!" Can those institutes come up with good things now? I don't have high requirements, just like the Jiehe crossbow and the Qizi armor. ”

That's not too much to ask!?

Fortunately, the officials of the Lifting Capital were not here, otherwise they would have to vomit blood. In the eyes of experts in the Northern Song Dynasty weapons industry, the Jiehe crossbow and the Qizi armor are both artifacts!

Of course, it's not that the Ordnance Supervisor can't do it. To tell the truth, there are high-ranking people in the Weapons Prison, and if they are made with good materials, the Divine Arm Bow and Monkey Armor will be much better than those produced by Jiehe.

However, the Jiehe crossbow and the Yakuza armor produced by the boundary river are mass-produced! And the output is still very large, and the quality is very stable, which is amazing!

"Brother Chongdao," Ji Yi didn't explain to General Xu and Liang Zimei, but asked Wu Haogu directly, "Do you think that the capital of our transfer embassy can be compared with the armory room of your Xuanfu Division?" ”

Wu Haogu smiled and thought: How is it possible? His own armory room is actually an "assembly factory", and the parts used to assemble the Qizi Armor and the Jiehe Crossbow are all tendered and purchased from various merchants in the Jiehe Shang City and Jingdong Shang City.

In other words, behind the Xuanfu Division's armory room is the handicraft system of Jiehe Commercial City and Jingdong Commercial City!

The best iron factories, carpentry factories (including shipyards, vehicle factories, furniture factories, etc.), and leather goods factories will be mass-produced according to the samples of parts produced by the Xuanfu Division's armory. It is then sent to the assembly plant in Jiehe Shang City, where the craftsmen of the armory room are responsible for assembling.

In addition, there are very few product lines in the Xuanfu Division's armory room. There are only 10 types of products, including helmets, spears, mounted spears (not horses), crossbows, infantry bows, fan shields, straight knives, war horse equipment, burst rockets, and black powder. And there are no high-quality products, they are all big road goods.

As for military flags, military jackets, military boots, leather armor (including leather helmets), chain mail, eight-ox crossbows, stone tools, all kinds of vehicles, all kinds of non-standard swords, all kinds of blunt weapons, large wooden swords, javelins, rattan shields, all kinds of arrows and other non-standard weapons, or equipment with huge demand but relatively low profit margins, all of them are given drawings and samples by the craftsmen of the weapons room, and are made by other factories and workshops.

Without the support of the handicraft industry with a complete range of the two major commercial markets, the Xuanfu Division's armory room would not even be able to open.

This mode of splitting parts and processes, standardizing labor and strengthening the technical division of labor, as well as the division of labor and the division of labor between different types of factories and collaborative production, almost all have a little prototype of the large-scale production of the Taylor system and the Ford system in later generations.

Of course, it's just a little bit of a prototype. After all, it is not yet the era of large instrumental industry, and the only thing that can be related to the machine is the hydraulic hammer used to forge the blades of the carapace.

Ji Yi looked at Wu Haogu, but asked himself and answered: "If you want me to say, our hospitals and courtyards all over Hebei are not as good as the Xuanfu Division's weapons room, not even one-tenth!"

However, our capital and institute can learn from the Xuanfu Division's armory room. How to do the armory, let's draw the scoop according to the gourd. The armory room is huge in scale, so let's merge all the courtyards and all the courtyards and concentrate them all in the Daimyo's Mansion. The variety of weapons real estate is limited, so let's not mess around too much, I think it's enough to have eight. The armory room will buy parts from the outside, so we can buy them too...... Brother Chongdao, if most of the capitals of this famous mansion run by my brother want to take some scriptures from the armory room of the Xuanfu Division, you can give me advice! ”

Wu Haogu laughed: "Don't dare to teach, let's learn from each other!" There must be my teacher in the threesome, and I believe that there is also merit in this aspect of the courtyard.

However, this principle of shopping around still needs to be explained. When Brother Yi's capital is opened, we will have to compete in the procurement of weapons for the Hebei army and regimental training! What does Brother Memory think? ”

Ji Yi smiled and glanced at the four appeasements and one internal official sitting in the room, "Everyone, what do you think?" Do you want to merge all the palaces of the Zhulu Prefectures and the Prefectures to make it bigger? ”

This is to take away our power!

Xu Jiang, Liang Zimei, Ye Zuqia and Wang Yang's faces all darkened. Where do they still not understand, Ji Yi is the power to build weapons from the 38th Military Prefecture of Hebei Fourth Road, and all of them have been transferred to the envoys.

But it doesn't seem to work if you don't agree to this! At the level of the more than 40 institutes and capital institutes on the Fourth Road of Hebei, if the weapons they created were equipped with the new army and militia, it would be too dangerous. At least Liang Zimei, Ye Zuqia and Wang Yang, who were pushed in front, were very scared...... It's a matter of life!

……

"Brother Yizhi, thanks to your help this time, thank you so much!"

"Thank you? It's all for the official family, if you can keep Yelu Yanxi out of the country this time, the credit is not small! ”

"It just cost the official family 10,000 ......"

"It's worth it! When this money is spent, Hebei's military localities, as well as weapons production and material reserves, will be raised to a higher level. The situation of Jiehe Commercial Market can also rise by at least 50%, and it is possible for the population to exceed 300,000! With such a foundation, at most ten years, you will be able to raise troops to conquer Liao! What an immortal achievement! ”

"I hope the official family can still give this opportunity......"

While riding a horse, it was Wu Haogu and Ji Yi who were talking.

The meeting of the leaders of all parties in Hebei, which was later called the "Daimyo Conference", lasted for seven days. In addition to formulating several major policies such as "building castles, revitalizing group training, and cooperating with institutes", many specific details were also discussed.

Now that the "Daimyo Conference" has finally come to a successful conclusion, a bunch of joint concerts have been handed over. While waiting for Zhao Ji's approval, Wu Haogu and Ji Yi went to Xiangzhou near the Daimyo's Mansion together. They went to visit Han Zhongyan of the Han family in Xiangzhou, and wanted to ask Han Qi's eldest son to come forward and call for group practice.

This matter is actually not a good thing for the Xiangzhou Han family! A Hanmen patriarch who retired at home, as soon as he ascended to the heights, he was a little bit big!

But to organize a group exercise in Hebei, only Han Zhongyan of the Han family in Xiangzhou can come out to pick this head. And once the Hebei regimental training is established, if the Jin soldiers want to go south in the future, Hebei will not be able to go through.

In addition, the Hebei group training is somewhat of a constraint for Youzhou Haoqiang who will return to the Great Song Dynasty in the future, and at the same time it is also a support.