After all, Jiang Yugang had not actually participated in the large-scale production of ancient firearms such as bird guns or fire guns, and there were still problems with the possible production estimates.

With his understanding of bird gun production, Lu Chong's dozens of people can make 200 pieces in three months.

I didn't realize that in fact, with the help of relatively advanced design drawings and future generations of engineering management methods, the actual production efficiency has been doubled by simulating the production management method of the assembly line in different links.

There are two problems with Jiang Yu's estimation, the first is that when he estimated the production time of the bird, he referred to some later descriptions of the production process of the bird's gun in the Jiajing period, and the process in it was not the best, and the production method developed by Lu Chong was faster.

The second is that he underestimated the effect of the assembly line production management method, which first linked the relatively independent craftsmen in the original manual production process, forming the standard of collective production, discipline and improving efficiency.

Secondly, through the process arrangement of assembly lines, or even multiple assembly lines, coupled with the cooperation and docking with the smelting department, all craftsmen can fully participate in the production of firearms during working hours.

Coupled with the propaganda of the Mang Castle and the Alchemy Academy day and night about the importance of these birds, it seems that if one less is made, everyone will be slaughtered by the Luchuan army, so almost everyone is riveting to make firearms.

The strength is as precious as if every firearm is their life. All of these firearms, especially the power of the birds, had been tested in the finished product, and none of the craftsmen would question the usefulness of the firearms they had made in future wars.

"So much! Lu Chong, don't talk big, you must ensure the quality of the bird's gun, and there must be no casual explosion. When Jiang Yufu heard the news, he couldn't help but be overjoyed for a while, completely unaware that Lu Chong had actually concealed the output.

"Trust me, Brother Yu." Lu Chong is naturally full of confidence in Jiang Yugang's request, since he can make so many bird guns, it is completely possible to supply the best of the best to the troops, without worrying about the quality at all, and using the closest words to make Jiang Yugang feel at ease.

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After the two separated, Jiang Yuyan returned to his camp, which is now the headquarters of the Ministry of Intelligence.

In order to ensure the safety of the Chinese part of the intelligence department, he specially recruited several reliable people from the army who knew the roots to serve as guards, and took turns guarding them day and night.

As soon as she walked in, Ah Tian was checking the latest news and information submitted by the intelligence officer, and the crooked handwriting and messy pictures made her frown slightly, but this was already one of the highest cultural standards of Mang Castle.

Her posture was a little overdone casually, lying on Jiang Yu's bed, looking up at the documents, looking relaxed physically and mentally.

"Hey, are you so tired, lying down and watching?" Jiang Yugang walked in, and when he saw Ah Tian's appearance, he couldn't help but smile.

"You?" Ah Tian quickly sat up, stuck out his tongue embarrassedly, and complained coquettishly: "It's really tiring, it's taken a lot of effort to teach them to read and write these days." ”

"How's it going?" Jiang Yufu took the opportunity to ask about the situation of literacy education.

"Everyone in the Intelligence Department has studied quite seriously, after all, they have all seen that Yu Shi went directly to be the deputy company commander, and Zhang Xi and Liu Yuan went to do the platoon commander, and they knew that they could easily become officers after making meritorious contributions in the Intelligence Department." Ah Tian began to introduce.

"The first batch of students in the small building built by that knife master has a total of fifty-three people, including thirty-two members of the intelligence department, eleven ordinary soldiers, five craftsmen including Lu Chong, and the rest are ordinary villagers, that is, the ———— logistics personnel you mentioned."

"After a few days of learning, Chinese pinyin has basically been mastered, and began to learn simplified characters, such as Premier Chen, who was originally literate, learned naturally very quickly, and now should know all the simplified characters, and other people who were originally illiterate, now have at most hundreds of commonly used words." Ah Tian said, with a faint look of pride on his face: "What do you think everyone has learned?" ”

Jiang Yuyan picked up the new information handed over by the intelligence officer in Ah Tian's hand, and looked at the simplified characters that were ugly but clearly structured, and the best they wrote below, their names, and couldn't help but smile: "It's really good to learn." ”

"Hehe, I'm amazing." Seeing Jiang Yu's satisfied expression, Ah Tian couldn't help laughing. This time, she did the task given to her by Jiang Yugang alone, and she was still very excited.

"Still, we have to keep up the good work." Jiang Yu touched Ah Tian's head, although it was not very small compared to the age of young women in ancient times, she was still a girl less than twenty years old after all: "Let everyone learn these 2,500 common words, and only then can the first period of literacy end." ”

Ah Tian heard Jiang Yu's arrangement, and opened his mouth wide in surprise: "This... It may take a long time. ”

"I've given you three months, it's mid-March right now, and by mid-June, I need to get a list of people who have completed literacy." Jiang Yu thought for a while, and then said: "You can ask Chen Ziyu to help you, just as many people do their best, the more people the better." ”

"Well, I'll try." Ah Tian nodded and subconsciously clenched his fists.

"Hey, don't get into a conflict with the students because you're too tough, I can't be there to protect you at all times." Jiang Yuyan looked at Ah Tian with a determined face, and reminded carefully.

Ah Tian smiled: "Brother Yu, don't worry, I know that literacy is not in a hurry———— besides, can you do me a favor?" ”

"What's the busy?" Jiang Yu asked.

"Buy a batch of books from Meng Yangcheng, at least fifty-three books, let everyone have one copy, if there are more, it would be great." Ah Tian pleaded: "It's too monotonous to just memorize every word, and it would be much better if you could learn it from the book accordingly." ”

"Also, I can arrange for them to change the characters to simplified Chinese and re-transcribe them, so that I can write down many more words."

When Jiang Yuyan heard this request, he admired Ah Tian's cleverness, and while he could think of a good way to eradicate illiteracy, he also secretly had a headache about where to get books.

Mengyangcheng, as the former residence of the Mengyang Military and Civilian Propaganda Division of the Ming Dynasty, should indeed have a collection of some Chinese characters, but this may need to negotiate with many local villages.

He finally came up with a fairly good solution: "Let Chen Ziyu take fifty taels of silver, find an executive officer, bring a clever intelligence officer to do this, and then secretly arrange two intelligence officers separately to secretly supervise their movements." ”

Jiang Yugang's personal belongings were mainly silver, and the main source was actually from the Luchuan army and the bandits from the entire Manggu Mountain.

Whether it is his personal income or the soldiers' military rations, these are some things that have no surplus, and Jiang Yugang will not do anything to deduct here, but often take out his own belongings to make some subsidies.

After all, the expansion of Mang Castle is too fast, and although Meng Yangcheng has spare supply due to the heavy casualty rate, it often cannot keep up with the expansion speed of Mang Castle.

In addition, there is also the income from the output of the craftsmen and the trade in the Mengyang area. Of these proceeds, about 50 percent were distributed to the intelligence department and craftsmen, and the remaining 50 percent was managed by Jiang Yugan.

All the property, the total amount of zero and zero is about 6,000 taels of silver, which is a considerable part of the wealth in Mengyang's area, which has been looted by the Luchuan army, and finally came to Jiang Yu's hands.

But Jiang Yuyan really kept only two thousand taels of them. The rest of the money was divided equally between Lu Chong and Zhang Dake, who were in charge of the craftsmen, Li Xian, who was once the only Xiaoqi officer in charge of the first tough battle, and Chen Ziyu and Ah Tian, who were in charge of intelligence.

These people did not have the power to use these silver coins directly, but they could use them after Jiang Yu's permission.

Jiang Yugang originally wanted to train Ah Tian as a single person to manage property, but at the moment, there is too little manpower, so he can only use this decentralized management method to reduce risks.

"Fifty-three books is too many, you can find ten books, and then organize everyone to copy one more book." Jiang Yu thought about it for a while, and then added.

Ah Tian looked at the handwriting of the intelligence officers in his hand, and was a little embarrassed: "Baihu, if you rely on these students to copy books, it may not be too expensive, and the number of straw paper and ink is limited." ”

"Then go and make straw paper, make ink, and make better alternatives." Jiang Yu replied simply: "Actually, I was originally going to talk to you about this matter. ”

Ah Tian's eyes widened: "Grass paper and ink? And alternatives? ”

"Straw paper and ink are not difficult to make, and we now have so many people in Mang Castle that we can find more people to be craftsmen, and if there is any surplus, we will send people to sell them to Ava and Manmo." "As for the alternative, it's a pencil, which can write without using ink, and it's easier to use than a brush," Jiang said. ”

"Pencil?" It's the first time Ah Tian has heard this term.

"It's not so much a pencil as a graphite pen, but it's also something you haven't heard of." Jiang Yu wanted to explain, but he was trapped in the incomprehension of this thing.

Ah Tian shook his head: "Forget it, it's good that you know..." So how do you go about it? Will it be handed over to Lu Chong? I heard that they are now working day and night to produce birds, and they have to light candles and work late at night. ”

"Don't hand it over to Lu Chong, but let Zhang Dake be responsible." Jiang Yugang said: "I have already talked to Lu Chong and divided the current Alchemy Academy into three. ”

"Lu Chong's Alchemy Academy, which retains the most skilled skilled weapon craftsmen and smelters, continues to be responsible for the production of weapons."

"In addition, some craftsmen who are not very proficient in weapon craftsmanship and most of the novice craftsmen who are more skilled in weapons are under the management of Zhang Dake, who is responsible for the production of various daily objects, and this department I will name: Creation Academy." Jiang Yuyan introduced to Ah Tian.

"I plan to entrust the task of training and selecting new craftsmen to Dake, so that I can continue to select skilled people to join the Alchemy Academy."

"In the end, all the construction craftsmen were under the command of Dao Yunyue Dao Master, who was responsible for the construction of Mang Castle and the construction of all subsequent buildings, this department was called: Tiangong Academy." Jiang Yugang said: "Heavenly creation and alchemy, the three departments together constitute the industrial foundation of our Mang Castle. ”

Ah Tian repeated the word "industry" in her mouth, although Jiang Yuyan didn't say it specifically, but she probably guessed that the "work" in it was the "work" of the craftsman, and the industry was the "industry" of "industry".

For her, an "ancient" who lived in the middle of the 15th century during the orthodox period of the Ming Dynasty, "industry" was a completely unfamiliar concept, but she could also vaguely feel the infinite power hidden in this concept.

From the most basic metal smelting, to the later repair of cloth armor, to the gradual production of long knives, spears, helmets, and all kinds of new agricultural and hunting weapons, and finally to the elaborate new types of firearms, fixed ammunition, and bird guns, this is probably the power of "industry". Ah Tian thought so.