With 100,000 elite soldiers at the start, what should you call me?

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The three-step development plan: first, the steam age; second, the electrical age; and third, the information age.

Each of these steps is a magnificent feat that transcends time.

It would be difficult to accomplish this perfectly with just 100,000 people.

"The development of every era is inseparable from the development of basic industries, such as agriculture, transportation, and energy."

"And the development of each of these industries is inseparable from people."

Fei Hongyun looked at Li Tian, ​​his eyes seemingly filled with the future.

"Commander, we need to educate people who can adapt and keep up with the times."

"I know that, so I will organize a meeting, a meeting of 100,000 people in the new army." People are the carriers of the times, and Li Tian also needs to move on to the next step of his plan.

"Of course, it's impossible to gather everyone at this meeting. I will let everyone choose in a selection process."

"Since education is involved, I will use this era as a background and combine it with the educational perspective of future generations to create an education system."

"First, there was elementary education for children aged seven to twelve, regardless of gender. In this era, agriculture was the main industry, so the content of elementary education was mainly literacy and understanding the world. The rest of the time, they would go home early to help with farm work, which was similar to the rural areas where my parents' generation grew up."

Li Tian couldn't help but recall his childhood home, where he would get up at the crack of dawn to do farm work and go to bed early at night. Sometimes there would be power outages, so his family would always keep a lot of candles on hand.

"Next comes high school and university."

"The middle school entrance exam is at age sixteen. If you pass the exam, you can continue your studies for four years until you are twenty."

"If you graduate smoothly after the age of twenty, you can start working. If you want to become an official, you need to take the official examination, let's call it the official examination."

In ancient times, when people talked about examinations, they referred to the imperial examinations, and the reason why the imperial examinations were important was that they were related to becoming an official.

The opportunity to become an official brings wealth, power, and fame – these are the things that countless people covet.

Fei Hongyun had a smile on his face.

Li Tian was lost in his vision of the future. As the shadows of war and death dissipated, countless ideas for development flooded his mind.

He came to his senses and realized that he was in the engineering department, where he could personally oversee the construction of those ideas if they wanted to be realized.

"Minister Fei, I apologize. I was quite engrossed in your vision for the future. Regarding the future industrial development we just discussed, I will establish a Ministry of Construction specifically for the construction and development of infrastructure. In terms of education, I will establish a Ministry of Education to formally begin education."

"Let's continue discussing the mass production of weapons. Can we maximize the production capacity of these 60mm mortars? Make me 30 mortars first. I need to set up an artillery platoon. This will greatly help us expand our development space later."

"No problem, Commander. It's feasible to build 30 mortars at the moment. However, if we want to mass-produce them, we'll need to build a lot of equipment. As for the factory construction, I recommend two people."

Fei Hongyun pointed to the high-walled furnace and said, "The commander wants to establish a Ministry of Construction. I found two talented people in our army. One is named Cao Wencai, who has a master's degree in civil engineering and five years of experience working on construction sites. He is very good at management and applying architectural knowledge. He designed this high-walled furnace."

"There is another person named Cao Yang, who graduated from junior college. He has worked as a bricklayer on construction sites and as a foreman. He has ten years of experience working on construction sites and is very experienced in dealing with people and in construction. Cao Yang contributed a lot to the construction of this high-walled furnace so quickly."

Li Tian's eyes lit up. He hadn't expected that two talented people would emerge just as he was trying to set up a department.

When the furnace was being built, Li Tian simply ordered experienced assassins to participate.

Unexpectedly, he had a wealth of talented people under his command.

"Alright, then the Minister of Construction will be Huo Wencai, and the Deputy Minister will be Cao Yang. Let them lead the brothers with construction experience to build the Ministry of Construction."

Li Tian immediately appointed a leader for the Ministry of Construction.

"How's the counterfeiting of the Hanyang-made rifle going?"

After testing the mortar, Li Tian inquired about the progress of the Hanyang rifle's imitation.

He couldn't let outsiders have access to Hanyang rifles with unlimited ammunition; that would be too dangerous.

"The imitation of Hanyang-made warheads is progressing relatively smoothly."

The two arrived at the gun manufacturing factory, where there were a large number of disassembled parts and a newly built manual assembly line.

Two blindfolded mules turn gears to drive cloth tracks on the assembly line.

Fei Hongyun picked up a Hanyang rifle and continued;

"The technical department studied our Hanyang rifle. As long as our Hanyang rifle is disassembled and reassembled with replacement parts, it will lose its original unlimited ammunition and self-replication function. The limit is the number of parts that need to be replaced."

"Therefore, the difficulty of replicating the Hanyang rifle has been greatly reduced. We only plan to replace three parts: the wooden gun body, the rotating bolt, and the trigger."

"We'll retain the more complex parts like the barrel and firing pin; we'll just need to assemble them on this assembly line later."

Fei Hongyun pointed to the assembly line in front of him.

"So, as long as this production line is up and running, we can produce a large number of imitation Hanyang rifles in a short period of time?" Li Tian's eyes lit up.

The people in the tech department are fucking geniuses!

"You could say that it's not impossible to produce tens of thousands of guns a month, but our production capacity depends on the wooden stocks."

"Don't be fooled by the fact that this thing doesn't seem to require much technical skill. It needs to be crafted by a skilled craftsman. Even a skilled craftsman can only make a few a day. And the wood can't be the original walnut wood."

"As for the bolt and trigger, those two things can be directly machined."

Fei Hongyun has simplified the process and difficulty of replicating the Hanyang rifle to the bare minimum.

"If I want to mass-produce 3,000 replicas of Hanyang rifles per month, how many craftsmen would I need to make the gun barrels?" Li Tian asked.

Fei Hongyun stated the result directly: "To make it an assembly line model, at least twenty people are needed."

Li Tian thought to himself, "Improving the strength of the Longxiang Army is the most important thing right now. After all, the Longxiang Army will be the ones to fight all the battles in the future, so increasing production capacity is the most important thing."

"I will have someone select thirty nimble apprentices from the new army. Can we achieve the goal of producing 6,000 units a month?"

Li Tian spoke in a semi-commanding tone.

Fei Hongyun's gaze turned serious, and he immediately stood at attention and saluted; "I guarantee the mission will be accomplished."

"Very good. Whether our army can quickly improve its combat effectiveness depends entirely on your engineering department. Just tell me how many more people you need." Li Tian valued the engineering department highly.

Fei Hongyun laughed and said, "We do need a lot of people. A lot of basic work is done on an assembly line, and many brothers don't want to come. Commander, please allocate another two hundred people to me."

"Okay, I'll arrange it. But the name of your engineering department isn't quite right. Let's change it to the military industry department, which will specialize in producing military equipment."