"My plan is to standardize the parts of the harmony wheel first, and then implement this standardization system through orders." Shi Jiantao said, "The indigenous people in Guangdong will definitely not meet our requirements at the beginning, but they have a demand for profit, as long as we come up with a quantifiable standard and help them meet this standard, they will be able to produce according to our requirements after a while." ”

Before the 80s, Chinese companies also did a relatively poor job of controlling tolerances. In the relatively sophisticated field of the aviation industry, it is not yet possible to completely achieve the interchangeable use of aircraft parts of the same model. In the 20th century, after 30 years of industrialization, China could not do it, let alone the Ming shipbuilding industry, which was completely in a state of handicraft production.

Wude expressed great doubts about this. As far as their experience is concerned, the handicraft workshops of this time and space, if they are not directly under the management and operation of the patriarchs, are far from the requirements of industrialization in terms of product quality and production efficiency.

"To be honest, I'm not very optimistic about your idea. It's a long process, and I'm afraid it won't happen overnight. "There's so much training and modification to do to improve the craftsmanship of the indigenous shipyards." ”

Shipbuilders are often illiterate, and the size and shape of the parts depend on memory. To pass on the skills by word of mouth, to set standards for the parts and components of such a group of craftsmen, so that they can produce according to certain specifications, Wu De thought that the investment was too great.

Rather than bothering to train them in this way, it is better to simply annex the indigenous shipbuilding workshops, merge all their manpower, and retrain the craftsmen according to the new model.

"To be honest, I'm not very optimistic about your idea." "I've seen a lot of indigenous craftsmen, and they're very skillful and have clever brains, but it's hard for them to understand weights and measures, the meaning of modern weights and measures, and not with their own hands or earthen measuring tools," said Oude. This retraining alone consumes a lot of manpower and time. Do you think we can wait? Naturalized craftsmen are under our direct management, and we can always urge corrections. You're now going to dictate to the independent workshops to follow a system they don't understand - I'm worried about how it works. ”

"You're right." Shi Jiantao knew that what Wu De said was very reasonable, and it was difficult for him to refute, "But I think I can give it a try." Even a 1% success rate would greatly reduce the pressure on our production. Give them some widgets to make and try it, even if it fails, it won't have a big impact. ”

Wu De considered repeatedly agreeing to his jihua - but restricting him to a smaller scope.

Thanks to Shi Jiantao's efforts, the Planning Institute finally issued an order to the Hong Kong shipyard for the construction of 24 H-800s, all of which are standard types. According to the requirements, Shi Jiantao was to complete at least two-thirds of the orders by the end of 1631.

Wu De issued an approval of the list of materials and permission for the use of shipbuilding funds.

In the 1631 budget at the beginning of the year, the Planning Institute received a sum of money for the purchase of ships or ships, which was specially used to purchase a fleet of transport ships. A portion of this money was successively allocated to the Lingao shipyard for the construction of 901 tugboats and several offshore barges. The remainder has not been used for the time being due to the limited production capacity of the shipyard.

Originally, Wu De planned to exchange part of the money for foreign exchange and buy ready-made large-tonnage Canton ships or fortune ships from Guangdong, but because the Senate's current "foreign exchange" -- silver reserves -- were too tight, it was not done for a while.

The money was counted in negotiable bills, but Shi Jiantao was located in Hong Kong, and according to his assumptions, many raw materials had to be purchased from Guangdong -- the circulation scope of negotiable bills in Guangdong was very small, and basically did not leave the city of Guangzhou. The circulation of negotiable bills in a small area in Guangzhou is largely due to the prestige and financial resources of Zizihao.

As soon as they leave the city gates, the negotiable vouchers have no purchasing power. Therefore, Wu De reminded Shi Jiantao to apply for a certain amount of "foreign exchange" from Delong Bank to pay for raw materials imported from Guangdong.

"Now that there are more foreign trade exchanges, it is really inconvenient to use grain circulation coupons." "I don't know what the people in the financial department are going to do. They just thought of ways to save money, but there were many things that had to be spent on money. ”

"I'll make a revolution with savings."

"I handed over the order to you, you must complete it on time." Wu De said, "You know, I originally planned to buy some large Canton ships and Fu ships directly from Guangdong to participate in the Dengzhou and Zhejiang operations. If you mess up, it's going to be hard to end, you know? ”

"Yes, I understand. I promise to complete the task. Shi Jiantao said loudly.

"Guarantees don't make sense to me. Deliver the ship on time. "If you can't do that, I'll have to ask the Executive Committee to mobilize all our ships in wartime, which will seriously affect the import and export and the supply of the outlying stations." ”

Shi Jiantao wants to engage in outsourcing production, so from the beginning of the industrialization construction of Lingao, it has been repeatedly emphasized by the executive committee members and veterans countless times, and the preparation and management of industrial standardization has become an urgent problem to be solved.

The preparation and management of industrial standardization is not only required by the shipbuilding industry or industrial enterprises. When the Planning Institute and the General Staff Department prepared the action plans for Dengzhou and Zhejiang, they had already encountered difficulties in the mobilization, transportation, storage, and distribution of a large number of materials.

In the development of Sanya, the Planning Institute and the army have already encountered various inconveniences in transporting supplies. Although the industrial and agricultural system of Lingao can produce the variety and specifications of products, according to the standards of the old time and space, it is not as good as a hypermarket. But the complexity of the organization's supply far exceeded the expectations of the patriarchs.

If it weren't for the fact that they had a Hong Huangnan, who had at least a considerable theoretical foundation in logistics, was responsible for compiling the supply table and formulating the supply procedures, the development of Sanya's supply work would have turned into a disaster.

Even with professionals in command, various mistakes occurred from time to time in the process of replenishment: urgently needed materials were not shipped, while materials with a large inventory in Sanya were transported in batches; The goods that were supposed to be shipped to Sanya were transported to Leizhou, while the goods destined for Hong Kong were delivered to Sanya. There have even been oolong incidents where the waybill and the unpacked goods do not match. There was also a "drifting" incident of cargo during this period. During the inventory of the Planning Institute, it was found that the whereabouts of some goods were unknown. And a few months later, these goods that were declared to be "not in Jihua's location" mysteriously appeared in a location that no one had ever thought of during the inventory.

In the Dengzhou and Zhejiang operations, the logistical supply was even more onerous, not only to provide food rations to more than 100,000 refugees, but also to provide clothing, medicine, covering materials, cups for drinking water, and chopsticks for eating. The organization of long-distance transportation of ships also requires the opening of rest and supply points along the way, which require construction materials and supplies for staff and garrisons; Ships need to be refurbished and supplemented in shipping......

Not only is the quantity and variety of supplies supplied, but also to multiple nodes: according to Jihua, multiple rest stations should be opened along the route from Dengzhou to Lingao for turnover. These rest stops are supplied with supplies based on the number of refugees left in custody, arriving and shipping each day.

In order to ensure an orderly and accurate supply of supplies, a joint meeting of various departments was held in the conference room of the Executive Committee compound, and the topic of the meeting was to develop a standardized code system.

The meeting was led by the Planning Institute, but the proposal to use standardized codes was put forward by Skede and Hong Huangnan.

Hong Huangnan's idea is very simple, he wants to supply supplies for the ever-expanding army and overseas stations, and urgently needs to establish a standard code system to support logistics, otherwise he and his pitiful dozen logistics personnel will not be able to cope with large-scale logistics work. Hong Huangnan often said that in the military departments of Lingao, the logistics command is an organ with no sense of existence. Not only does it have no commanders, it doesn't even have a single guard.

Skade's idea was much more complex, and he suggested that the system should be implemented in all areas. This is an important part of the "standardization construction" promoted by the Senate.

At the meeting, Skade took out a lot of information and distributed it to everyone: this is a military code system standard that seems to be impossible to beat the US military.

"This is an important reference for us. U.S. military standardized code: NSN -- that is, the national inventory code, when the U.S. military decides to adopt any kind of thing, it will give an inventory code, and in the future, the U.S. military and NATO will use this code as a license number for this kind of thing...... "Skade said.

"Something that means, for example—" continued Skade in the face of the skeptical patriarchs, "for example...... My Kajibu M65, L type, this is one, whether it is made in Taiwan or Mexico, as long as it is certified, it is the same thing, but if it is an M size, or a desert sè, it is another thing, because the Americans do not want to send the desert sè military uniform to the troops in Alaska.

"Now we can give every part of the shipyard a code, and this code is followed by a set of files, including all drawings, energy, data and quality standards, fault and supply records, a list of qualified suppliers and a blacklist of unqualified suppliers. It doesn't matter if it's a screw or a mast, when someone wants to use the same thing in the future, they can find it by searching the archives