The name of the engineer in Anlu County is "suitable", suitable, suitable, suitable for cutting.

His family was originally a leather craftsman in the Song Kingdom, and according to the old man in the family, he followed the Mo family into Chu more than a hundred years ago, but that didn't matter anymore. After entering Chu, their family made leather for the Ejun of Chu for generations, Jing Youyun Meng, rhino elk full of it, and it was very suitable to make armor leather.

After the Qin State seized Jianghan and established Nanjun, their family entered the Baigong nationality and ate in the official mansion. Because the Qin State also set up a reward and punishment system in the handicraft industry, the armor leather made by their family was excellent, and it was rated as the "most" for three consecutive years, so they were rewarded as dukes, and since then, they have a higher status than other craftsmen.

To this generation, the title has been passed down for three generations, and he has made many meritorious contributions, from the public to the non-change, and Shi also became a county engineer, although it is only a 200 stone officials, but it is also the limit that craftsmen can look at.

At his level, there is no need to cut fur and make nail leather by himself, but the daily work of the engineer has not been reduced at all, and the county engineer is equivalent to the county industrial and commercial bureau and the mineral bureau in later generations......

The first thing he has to manage is the various government-run workshops in Anlu County.

Anlu County is a large county, with tens of thousands of households for food, clothing, housing and transportation, and the need is very large, so there are many workshops.

There is his family's old profession of tapping skins, processing the animal skins transported around Yunmengze every day, or the livestock skins collected from various towns and villages. It should be known that even if the cattle in the stable die, the meat, skin, tendons, and horns of the cow should not be taken by themselves, but should all be handed over to the government, and the government will sell the meat publicly, and hand over the leather to the workshop, which will scrape it. Most of this leather was cut into pieces of armor and then woven into armor, which was continuously sent to arsenals for storage and later equipped on county officials in wartime......

In addition, there is also a place to make cars and boats; smelting and casting agricultural tools and weapons; and the manufacture of various types of large and small pottery and measuring vessels......

In addition to the ordinary craftsmen who worked in these government-run workshops, there were also many ministers and concubines, most of whom were punished as slaves for crimes and assigned to the workshops to do some hard work and dirty work such as mining and scraping.

Just after the first day of the lunar month, Anlu County was still shrouded in a thick white fog, and the engineer Shi Shi had already gotten up and went to inspect the workshop first to see if those craftsmen and subordinates had started construction on time.

I can't tolerate him not being concerned, because a few days ago, the county issued a new order from Xianyang, asking all counties in Nanjun to increase the production of armor, shields, and weapons this year, which is a full double production compared with previous years!

The people of the Engineering Department have speculated that with so many armor soldiers in the border county, the king is probably going to use troops against the Chu State, not this year, or next year!

It is a matter of armament, and the engineer is worried, and he can guarantee the output, but the key lies in the quality of the armor and the size of the weapon, and it is really difficult to meet the standard.

When Nanjun sent someone to inspect it last year, he was fined the second class because the weapons made by the workshop did not meet the standard size, and more than 8,000 yuan was gone. This year, the county's requirements are even more stringent, and the engineers have to urge the workshops to work overtime.

Therefore, when the engineer was on the inspection, he said to the craftsmen bitterly: "The law has a word, and those who are the same as the utensils must wait for their size, short length, and vastness!" Your weapons, especially weapons and vessels, must be of equal size. Each piece of utensils has the name of the craftsman, and then there is no care, let the county find out the size of the incompatible, the engineer must investigate to the end, and severely punish it! ”

The most suitable thing for the craftsmen is this regulation, the craftsmen of the Qin State must cast the utensils according to the fixed standards set by Xianyang.

For example, the local pottery used to measure rice, you have to follow the "Shang Martingale Fangsheng" in Xianyang, which has been passed down for more than 100 years, as a template, and set the volume of 16 and 1/5 cubic inch as one liter. When the officials from Nanjun inspected, Anlu's Fang Sheng, its error should not exceed 5%, otherwise it would be a violation.

This is especially true for weapons, when making crossbow machines, it is necessary to make the different hanging knives made by different craftsmen in Anlu County and Jingling County the same size, and they can be installed on the crossbows made in Jiangling County......

The engineer did not know that some people in later generations called this extremely strict process "standardized production", and he only knew that if there were unqualified soldiers for three consecutive years, he would be the engineer. Maybe the title will be cut, continue to do the family's old business, and grind the skin......

Therefore, when the engineer Shi Shi returned to the courtyard where the official office was located, and had not yet taken off his heavy winter coat, he was very impatient when he heard someone outside coming to offer the "Chung Gu Artifact".

"Another country craftsman came to offer treasures?"

The Qin State was strict in rewards and punishments, so those small craftsmen in the countryside often hoped that they would be rewarded for their offerings, such as being exempted from a change of service, or rewarding hundreds of dollars. However, people in the poor countryside often take a little thing as a treasure, in fact, it is mediocre, and the engineer has seen a lot, how can it be that everyone sends it is "He's Bi"?

The story of He's Bi is widely spread in Nanjun, it happened in Chu hundreds of years ago, Bian He, a native of Chu, offered Bi twice, both of which were considered fake, and he was tortured, and both feet were gone. It was not accepted until the third time, and thus there was the world's most precious treasure and clan......

But the state of Qin is not the king of Chu, as long as the person who comes to offer the utensils does not do something beyond his own duty, whether it is good or bad, he has to take it. Then tell them kindly, this thing is useless, and there is no reward, so you can stay where it is cool......

Therefore, even though the engineer Shi Shi didn't want to see him, he still asked people to bring the two treasure donors from Yunmeng Township up, which was nothing more than a waste of half a moment.

Not long after, two people carried a utensil into the courtyard of the engineer's office, which attracted the attention of all the officials in the courtyard.

Walking in front was a seven-and-a-half-foot young man, with a brown veil on his head and a soap-colored linen robe, evidently a gentleman. The man in the back was eight feet tall, and judging by his dress, he was probably a sergeant or a craftsman.

When he came to the front and back, he put the things in his hand down, and the public servant skillfully bowed to the engineer: "In the sunset of Yunmeng Township, the public man Heifu and the craftsman have seen the engineer!" “

The whirlpool on the side also learned to behave, and bowed clumsily.

"Hef?"

The engineer was familiar with this name, and the scribe next to him told him that this was the warrior who became famous for his efforts to capture three thieves in October.

"What a strong man!"

At that time, the people were heavy warriors, and the engineer Shi Shi could not fail to praise them, and his attitude towards the two of them was a little better, so he let them into the house, and after checking the inspection and passing of the two, he began to be patient, and listened to the black man introduce the utensils they brought to the county seat......

"The villain dares to speak up to the engineer, this thing is called stepping on the mill, and it is a ...... made by my sister by chance"

After listening to the introduction, the engineer couldn't help but wonder, from ancient times to the present, the rice is relying on a pair of hands, but the two people in front of them said that they can use the way of stepping on the wooden pole, which is faster and more labor-saving?

"Can this thing really make Chung Mi twice as effective with half the effort?"

"Engineer, please see, this is a record I made for my sister-in-law."

Heifu took out a piece of wooden slip and handed it over, and the engineer took a look, but saw that it was densely written with a record of stepping on rice every day for more than half a month. Every time, Heifu looked at the sun, licking for about half an hour, and the millet he got ranged from 5 to 7 buckets, and once even got 8 buckets!

The more the county engineer looked, the more surprised he became, firstly, at how well Hefu had recorded it, as if everything was in his plan. The second is to doubt, can this stepping on the mill really be able to scoop so much grain in half an hour?

The officials of the Qin State paid attention to practical results, and the county engineer did not ask too much, and as soon as the order was given, the two officials came up with a few workers.

"Carry it to the county warehouse! Whether it's true or not, try it and you'll know! ”

His engineer official office is not comparable to the exclusive official office of the county magistrate and the county lieutenant, only a small courtyard, a few rooms for office, and the county warehouse behind the courtyard.

There are not only ready-made stone mortars, mountains of millet and rice, but also nearly 100 concubines and slaves who serve the punishment of "Chung", who are responsible for Chunggu.

Heifu stood up again and made a suggestion: "Engineer, it's best to let two concubines with similar height and strength use the treading and pestle at the same time, so that the difference is more obvious." ”

"Makes sense."

Gong Shishi nodded, adopted his opinion, and said: "You and the two will also go to the county warehouse together to teach those concubines how to use it, everything will be known by themselves." ”

Heifu looked embarrassed: "I haven't told the engineer yet, Heifu is only accompanying my sister this time, I still have urgent matters, I have to go first......"

"Presumptuous!" The engineer Shi Shi was a little unhappy: "Since you have come here to offer utensils, since you should wait for the results to come out, what can you be so anxious about?" Could it be that you are in a hurry to become an official? He said this because today is the first day of December, and it is the day when the selection of officials at all levels begins.

Coincidentally, Heifu was really in a hurry to interview as an official.

Heifu nodded helplessly, pointed to the side of the wall and said, "Engineer, I'm not going far, it's in the government office next door." ”

The engineer was stunned: "The courtyard next door is the place where the county officials take care of things, don't you really want to ......?"

Heifu said with a smile: "Yes, I was recruited by the county and ordered to be assessed by the main officials to see if I can be qualified for the position of Huyang Pavilion Chief. The time is coming, I really have to go first! ”

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PS：

"The county, the capital officials, and the twelve counties are exempted from the officials, assistants, and official subordinates, and they are exempted from the first day of December until the end of March." - "Eighteen Kinds of Qin Laws. The Law of Placing Officials

"He who is the same thing as the instrument, its size, its length and shortness, and its vastness must also be the same." - "Eighteen Kinds of Qin Laws. Gonglu", well, this is the text basis of the "standardized production" of the Qin Dynasty on the Internet, as for whether it counts or not, readers judge for themselves.

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