Volume 1 Into the Tang Chapter 30 The Birth of the Fan

Several carpenters carefully inquired about the details, and tried to completely restore the drawings, Li Chengyang was not too troublesome, explaining the role of each component one by one, and it didn't take long for a carpenter to bring the materials over.

Looking at the wood brought, it doesn't look like a good wood, wave your hand to let people change, you have to use golden silk nanmu, the carpenter grinds and grinds, or Wu Li spoke: "My lord, you can do this object without golden silk nanmu, and the intact golden silk nanmu in the Ministry of Industry is worth a lot of money."

"Who told you to use good wood? The scraps you usually cut off are not become, you don't need much wood, you must be golden silk nan, nothing else, nothing else can be sold at a high price" to take out the fan is to make money, how can you show style with a bunch of ordinary wood, how can a fan without style be sold at a high price.

Wu Li was overjoyed when he heard this, the scraps are more than enough to make a fan, the whole wood is valuable, and the corners and corners are cut off and piled together at will.

I have to say that the craftsmen who can come to the Ministry of Industry do have two brushes in their hands, and the things they make are exactly the same, and they don't use any foreign objects, and they make fans with a few pieces of wood.

As soon as a few carpenters started, Li Chengyang felt wrong, several people did their own thing, without the slightest cooperation, originally just wanted to make a sample, but several people had no intention of cooperating at all, and they showed their own unique skills, until the sky was dark, and the four carpenters completed the finished product in their hands.

Looking at the four fans that were almost identical, the corners of Li Chengyang's mouth twitched: "Why don't you work together to make a fan, wouldn't it be much faster?" ”。

The carpenters thought that it had been done for a long time, which caused King Qin to be unhappy, and they explained it clearly in a trembling voice: the fans that look the same are not exactly the same, and there are some small differences in size, which is still the reason why the size of the three views are all carefully marked, otherwise the gap is even greater, and it is simply difficult to cooperate with several people, either your size is too large, or the accessories made by another person are too small.

A little dizzy, the knowledge of the assembly line in modern times, even a child knows, the efficiency of focusing on the production of an accessory is far from the efficiency of one person independently producing a finished product, there is no comparison at all.

I just walked around the Ministry of Industry and didn't see any problems, mainly because everyone is doing different work, and there are few unified production of an item, so this problem has not been too obvious, and now the problem has arisen.

"Lord Wu, doesn't the Ministry of Industry unify internal weights and measures?" I asked curiously.

"Oh, my lord, alas, the Ministry of Industry has prescribed weights and measures from the moment it was established, but the craftsmen all work according to their own skills and feelings, and they will be ridiculed for their poor craftsmanship when they use that thing, and each person will work for three months a year, and it will be useless to learn the weights and measures when he goes back, so no one will use that thing" Wu Li complained again and again, there were things, and no one was willing to use them, which was not something that he, the actual head of the Ministry of Labor, could decide.

So it is, there was no concept of assembly line operation in ancient times, and almost everyone in the Ministry of Industry had some unique skills in their hands. Not to mention that it is better not to bother to change the habits and learn weights and measures once the service is over, it is useless.

After understanding the inside story, Li Chengyang sighed: "You make several identical planks according to the interface and size of each component, and then make the parts according to the length and size of the plank, each person is responsible for a part, and finally assemble the parts together, don't tell me no, this is what King Qin ordered you to do."

According to the current speed, it takes more than half a day for a person to complete a finished product, and it is already the top of the day for a person to do three a day, and all the carpenters in the Ministry of Industry add up to only more than 200 a day, and the people who need fans, just in Chang'an, a medium-sized family in the master, wife, concubine, child, and some housekeepers and the like, how to say that it also takes about 20 units, and the large family may be ten times more than the medium-sized family, It is not available at all with the current production.

Soft means may have been used, but the result is that the workers do not listen, in order to ensure that the output can keep up, it is also to bring more financial resources to the Ministry of Industry, so they can only come hard and use the identity of the King of Qin to forcibly suppress these people.

The identity of King Qin is really useful, and everyone responds to the words, and the organic spirit has already determined what length of wooden strips to build according to the size on the drawing.

Naming the wooden strip a ruler, well, it can be regarded as a little thought, Li Chengyang ordered someone to call Li Shi and Li Gu, who were guarding outside the engineering department, to bring back the fans they had made before to the palace, and seeing that it was dinner time, he didn't say much, so he said to Wu Li and went back to the palace.

I tried the fan in the car, and the manpower shook it not very wasted, the wind was not small, and I was satisfied, and it didn't take long to arrive at the gate of the palace, and the guards put people in after a symbolic inspection.

When he came to the East Palace, he instructed Li Shi to go back to the side courtyard and let Xiao'er prepare the food, there was no food at noon in the Ministry of Industry, only some rich and noble families paid attention to three meals a day, most people had one meal in the morning and one meal in the evening, and Li Chengyang was already hungry.

and Li Gu stepped into the main hall with a fan, Li Shimin was still busy on the bookcase at this time, and the thick folds were piled up half a meter high, just blocking Li Shimin who was sitting behind the folds, and the two little eunuchs behind him were slowly fanning the wind with a large group, but a trace of wind was useless to Li Shimin, who was still wearing court clothes, and with his head down, beads of sweat kept sliding down his cheeks.

"Dad, why don't you use ice, it's not a precious thing now, why are you working so hard" Li Chengyang hurriedly came up to show his concern.

When Li Shimin heard someone talking, he looked up, and when he found Li Chengyang coming, he asked, "How is it, what are the difficulties in the Ministry of Industry today?" ”。

Li Chengyang said in his heart, you cut off all my back roads, so you gave me a name for the Ministry of Works, and I was embarrassed to ask me what difficulties I had, all of them were difficulties, not simple at all.

But he didn't say what was in his heart: "Hey, Dad, don't say it, the people in the Ministry of Industry live really well, people are unpretentious, all of them are hardworking and capable, get up early and go to bed late, and they don't eat much, where do you say you can find such a good person."

Li Shimin smiled, pretending not to understand the meaning of Li Chengyang's words, to put it bluntly, isn't it that he works from morning to night but can't even eat, he also knows this, he has also been a secretary of the Ministry of Industry for a period of time, and he is clear about the situation in the Ministry of Industry.

"Since there are so many good ministers in the Ministry of Industry, then you have to treat them well, do a good job of you, the left waiter of the Ministry of Industry, so that they can have a good treatment" Li Shimin had this kind of thought at the beginning, he wanted to see if Li Chengyang was suitable for officialdom, and he came up to give a left waiter is to let him have the right to speak in the Ministry of Industry, anyway, the Ministry of Industry is already bad and can no longer be bad, just how Li Chengyang tosses it will not have a worse situation, but it is a good place to test Li Chengyang's ability.

He originally meant that Li Chengyang could contact and negotiate with the Ministry of Household and Military Affairs as the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Industry, and strive for better treatment for the Ministry of Industry, after all, the life of a Ministry of Industry is not as good as that of Chang'an County, it is indeed a little unsuitable, and how much benefit Li Chengyang can strive for for the Ministry of Industry determines how much value Li Shimin can give Li Chengyang.

"Dad, this is what you said, let me be responsible for the treatment of the Ministry of Industry, you have to support me" Li Chengyang's eyes lit up, he came to see Li Shimin without eating, it was Li Shimin's support, the fan is there, but the Ministry of Industry does not have a serious precedent for selling goods to the outside as a similar workshop, and it is beyond the scope of the Ministry of Industry to earn some expenses from taking a job from the outside, but it is not easy for the bigwigs to see the Ministry of Industry, so they simply turn a blind eye, if they really start selling fans in the future, Maybe that's where the resistance comes.

Li Shimin looked at Li Chengyang's shining eyes and was a little surprised, he felt that Li Chengyang was now like a wild dog that saw, and he was about to flow out, for fear that this kid would do something angry and resentful, and the Ministry of Industry would say that if the matter was brought to the court, what would happen at that time would not be solved by a simple reprimand, it would be better

"You can do whatever you want in your Ice Control Division, you still need to report to me about the affairs of the Ministry of Industry" Set up a range for Li Chengyang first, the newborn Ice Control Division is completely an excuse for Li Shimin to send Li Chengyang to the surface on a whim, with him or not, it will not have much effect on making ice, at best, it just meets the needs of Chang'an City, this kind of thing can be done by finding someone at will, in case Li Chengyang tosses too much, he can also ban the Ice Control Division in one bite, and change someone to continue to do it, without delaying things at all.

Li Chengyang breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Li Shimin's promise, the goal has been achieved, it is enough to be able to dominate an ice control department, just transfer the fan to the ice control department tomorrow.

"Dad, look, ice, definitely can't do so much, after all, we have a lot of resources in the Tang Dynasty, but my son found another thing today, which can completely replace the role of ice, and now my son has added him to the Ice Control Division, can you try it?" Li Chengyang

Picked up the fan he brought and gestured like Li Shimin.