"Then I wondered if it would change if the piston cylinders were made smaller."

Chen Qu took the measured number and showed Zhu Shun that the size of this semi-finished piston cylinder was actually reduced.

"Sure enough, if the piston cylinder is reduced to 30.12 centimeters, the amount of water lifted will increase, increasing to 100 catties."

Zhu Shun looked at Chen Qu, who was talking calmly, but he didn't expect that he had really picked up an engineer.

In Zhu Shun's plan, the Beiping Machinery Bureau will have a craftsman workshop in the future, which will be responsible for building a steam workshop for steam engines and textile workshops for spinning machines and looms.

A fitter is a front-line craftsman, and the engineer who manages these craftsmen, that is, the person in charge of the entire workshop, must have the ability to improve and improve the machinery.

Engineers are also divided into three levels, junior, intermediate, and senior, and at the level of intermediate engineer and senior engineer, they must not only be able to improve and improve, but also invent independently.

Zhu Shun didn't expect that he was so lucky, and the Beiping Machinery Bureau tapped a talent with engineer potential in the initial stage.

Zhu Shun thought for a while and asked, "Are you literate?" ”

Speaking of this, Chen Quzhen blushed a little, and was a little speechless: "I have studied some by myself, but I don't know much, about more than a hundred." ”

Zhu Shun nodded, but he didn't expect this kid to surprise him more and more: "It's okay, if you really want to learn words, you can learn from Mr. Zhang in the future, and I'll say hello to him when I turn around." ”

When Chen Qu heard that he could learn to read and write with Zhang Tao, his face finally appeared that young people should be energetic, and he was surprised: "Really? ”

Zhu Shun patted him on the shoulder and asked him to continue working hard, but suddenly remembered one more thing, turned around and asked, "You haven't received the junior engineer's monthly salary yet, and the monthly salary will be received according to the junior engineer in the future." ”

Chen Qu was obviously shocked by this news, and when Zhu Shun walked out of the craftsman workshop, he reacted and saluted respectfully, crying and laughing on his face: "The junior engineer has two taels of silver a month, and a year is twenty-four taels of silver." ”

"As long as I am frugal, I can save enough money for my second brother to marry a wife in two years at most."

Chen Qu wiped his face, and began to build steam engine parts again with great energy.

What he didn't know was that in order to reward him for improving the piston cylinder, at the end of the year, he was rewarded with a huge sum of twenty taels of silver in public.

It only took a year to save enough money for the second brother to marry a wife, and it also stimulated all the other fitters to work harder.

Zhu Shun took a turn in the craftsman workshop, and the senior fitters hurriedly ran to the craftsman workshop under the reminder of their fitters, and happened to bump into Zhu Shun.

Zhu Shun didn't say anything, there was indeed a time to eat and rest at noon, that is, the hour of half a pillar of incense, and they didn't violate the rules.

Just stop them, size the improved piston cylinders on their drawings, and let them go.

Zhu Shun walked into the main hall facing south, sat on the carved official hat chair, and thought about how to use the Beiping Machinery Bureau to make money.

There are ways to make money, and Jenny spinning machines can be divided into two models, hand-cranked and water-powered, and sold as commodities.

However, if it is to be changed to a weakened version, both must be changed to fifty ingots, and it is estimated that even fifty ingots can make the bureaucrats and squires and businessmen snatch their heads.

It's just that it is sold, but it has not been thought about for the time being, and there is a textile system that should be established as soon as possible.

The first industrial revolution in England, the rise of the Japanese in modern times, the Civil War in the United States, and the 1978 reform in China were all key to the cotton textile industry.

Why?

Compared with other heavy industries, the cotton textile industry is relatively simple to form a scale, which can recover the cost of research in a short period of time and create huge wealth for the country.

There are three main processes in cotton weaving, the first is the production of cotton, the second is the production of yarn, and the third is the production of cotton cloth.

In the second process of yarn production, the Jenny spinning machine, which spins 100 spindles at a time, has been invented, which can be regarded as a preliminary industrialization.

The third process of cotton cloth production, with the shuttle loom, can be regarded as a preliminary industrialization.

There is still the first process of cotton production, and the production of cotton determines the price of cotton.

Only when the price of cotton has fallen, coupled with the initial industrialization of the Jenny spinning machine and the flying shuttle loom, and the mass production that has been achieved, can the ambition of cheapness be completed.

As for how to achieve the initial industrialization of cotton production and reduce the price of cotton, Zhu Shun has long planned in his heart.

Cotton purifier.

The main cost of cotton is labor cost, that is, for the impurities mixed in the cotton, combing.

This process is very cumbersome and requires a lot of manpower and time to sort out impurities.

With the invention of the cotton purification machine, you can use the steam engine with the machinery to comb the cotton clean, save the labor cost, the price of cotton will naturally drop, and the people can sell the cotton at a higher price.

In this way, the modern textile system was initially established, and the cotton textile industry of the Ming Dynasty achieved initial industrialization.

The next step is to use cement and build infrastructure.

The biggest cost that determines the price of a commodity is not the value of the commodity itself, but the logistics cost.

Sun Tzu once had a quantitative calculation in the Art of War, to transport one catty of grain to a place of 1,000 miles, and the consumption on the way reached an astonishing ten catties.

The logistics cost is 1:10, that is to say, a pound of grain, transported to a thousand miles away, the price will rise to eleven times, which is only a thousand miles.

Zhu Shun has already planned a series of strategic plans in his heart, and how to take each step has been calculated clearly, so the cement of this Zhu's cement plant must be studied as soon as possible.

That is, there is no money now, if the silver is enough, Zhu Shun will immediately build ten round kilns.

Even if we burn 2,000 taels of silver every month and more than 20,000 taels of silver a year, we must develop cement as soon as possible.

Steam trains and rails are not to be thought about for the time being, the first generation of steam engines has not been completely perfected, not to mention the third generation of steam engines high-pressure steam engines, let alone steam trains.

Now we can only rely on simple and fast cement to build infrastructure in Daming, and build a complete road system in Daming.

If there is no complete road system in the Ming Dynasty, even if Zhu Shun realizes the initial industrialization of the cotton textile in the Ming Dynasty, the scope of coverage is normally only Shuntianfu, beyond Shuntianfu, the price of cotton cloth will rise again.

North Naoli is the limit.

This has nothing to do with any intelligence, planning, or calculation, and is a limitation of the times.

So the current priority is to make money, research cotton purifiers, and research cement.

Secondly, it was time to set up a security system, after all, the Jenny loom of the Zhu spinning mill and the steam engine of the Peiping Machinery Bureau were rare treasures in the eyes of the bureaucratic squire.

In the past, when there was no steam engine, Zhu Shun didn't think about this matter for the time being, but now that he has a steam engine that can turn ore veins into treasure, this matter must be put on the agenda.

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