There is a large factory area on the riverside, with red brick walls and high beams, which look much taller than ordinary Chinese-style houses, and are also square and clumsy.

There are some children fishing with nets downstream, or swimming in the water, laughing and laughing.

When Xu Zixian waited for more than 20 horsemen to rush over, it did not cause a sensation, Nan'an Hou inspected all parties endlessly, and his posture could be seen almost every day, and no one was surprised if he saw more.

It's just that children don't know how to be polite, and if an adult sees it, no matter how many times a day they meet, they must bow with their hands crossed to show respect.

Xu Zi first entered through the main gate of a factory, and Lin Shaozong and others rode their horses to guard outside, and only two guards followed with swords.

From Xu Zixian's point of view, the building in front of him is still low, but there is no way. Whether it is the Great Wei Dynasty or the Han and Tang Dynasties, China's architectural style and tradition are based on mortise and tenon wooden structures, which are built layer upon layer to be high and broad. The main hall and pavilion building, there are few interior wide and high, only stacked bed frame houses, the palace is full of beams and columns, and the internal space is not wide.

As early as the Han and Tang dynasties, the buildings of the Westerners, especially the church buildings, were mostly made of stone, and they were built with the arch bucket system, which was the operation of geometric mechanics in architecture, and in China, until the end of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the lack of this piece has not been made up. Fu Qian and Lin Jiusi, Zhang Zhong, Zhang Xin, Zhang Yi and others came down together, this construction site is quite important, so the craftsman is here almost every day.

Xu Zixian looked a little tired, and said slowly: "I just came back from a long march, so I came here directly." I haven't been here for a while, how are your looms installed? ”

Fu Qian came over and smiled: "It's been a long time, but I haven't been here for half a month." The loom has been preliminarily installed, waiting for you to check and accept. ”

"Made?" Xu Zixian's eyes lit up, and he strode towards the big machine that Fu Qian pointed to, as for the previous sentence, he had already automatically filtered it.

Xu Zixian took a closer look at the machine, which was quite large, and below it was a transmission rod connected to a water wheel as a source of power. The transmission rod is connected to the gear, which drives up to 300 spindles neatly arranged in the upper part. In order to improve the durability of the machine, all the rotating shafts are connected by old-fashioned roller bearings, and the gears and connecting rods are all made of iron-clad wooden components, which looks very good.

"Have you tried it?" Xu Zixian asked.

Fu Qian replied: "I have tested it before, and the effect is very good, it can drive 300 spindles to run at the same time, and it does not require manpower. Only two people are responsible for changing the spindle and refilling the cotton, and 1,000 catties of spindle can be spun every day. ”

"Not bad, not bad." Xu Zixian nodded with satisfaction: "It seems that we are going to open a spinning mill by the river." ”

Xu Zixian's face was pleasant, and he said to everyone: "The craftsman department is from the official down, and there must be rewards." ”

Everyone cheered loudly, why did they come here for such a long time, naturally it was to reward money, and there may be people who really want to do more for the Eastern Domain, regardless of returns, but how many people are like this? And with Xu Zixian's concept, he does not promote or encourage those who are dedicated to his heart.

The role of the law is to limit the selfish desires of individuals from harming others, while the role of morality is to encourage the good of personal selfish virtues and benefit others, rather than private virtues to benefit the state.

Desires should be limited, such as being beautiful, and the law should stipulate that men cannot force women, cannot coerce and humiliate, and cannot take wives and concubines without restrictions, which is a concept that Xu Zixian agrees with.

But desires should also be moderately satisfied, through hard work to achieve success, a good house and a beautiful wife, everyone likes, like these, there is no negative, face, evaluation at the moral level.

The craftsmen and officials in front of them are all normal men, and they are rewarded to give back to their families, which is what they want to do, and it is also what they should do.

Coming out of the water-powered textile factory, the next step is to look at the carriage factory.

Xu Zixian's idea is to set up a team of baggage troops under the government army, responsible for logistics, which is equivalent to the box army of the Great Wei, but the name is determined, not like the box army to bear too much labor, resulting in no training, professional and imprecision, which seems to be trouble-free, but in fact it is more troublesome.

Raising an army of more than one million is like waste, isn't it even more a waste of money?

On the convoy, carrying food, medicinal herbs, long guns, horizontal knives and other weapons, also carry bows, crossbows, arrows and other military supplies.

The medics were subordinate to the healers, but they needed to carry stretchers, rescue the seriously wounded when arrows flew on the battlefield, build field hospitals, and carry utensils and medicinal materials.

Engineers, when encountering rivers to build pontoon bridges, in case of damage to the road, they rush to repair the road, because they have to undertake digging trenches before the battle, cloth rejection horses, antlers, and are responsible for building arrow towers, digging tunnels and other tasks during the siege, the treatment of the engineers is one level higher than that of the baggage, which is considered to be within the sequence of soldiers.

The firefighters are responsible for cooking, and when they are in battle, and even in the battle array, they must carry the burden into the battle, so as not to make the soldiers hungry and thirsty.

If you go to the mainland to fight in the future, you will also have to set up a box army to garrison cities, estuaries, river esturies, coastal ports, key passes, official roads, ferries and other important places, and garrison them on a daily basis, regardless of transportation and construction, nor responsible for daily security, but only responsible for defense and garrison.

In this way, a relatively complete army, from the field soldiers to the garrison, to the transportation, construction, treatment, and food, the entire army is clearly hierarchical, rather than a mixture of field troops and garrison troops, engineering, transportation, food, and medical treatment, there is no complete system, it is completely in the early Wei Dynasty when Taizu established the framework of the country, and the system has not been clarified, and now it is time to get rid of chaos and counter governance, and determine the new military system.

The most important thing for the army is the cart.

When Taizu was in the south and north, he relied most on four-wheeled vehicles.

When it comes to the big car, it is also the lack of Huaxia, the load-bearing is thick and flat wheels, there is no reed shock absorption, and there is no steering shaft, so the Chinese car is mainly two-wheeled, the steering is difficult, the carrying capacity is relatively much weaker, the body is smaller, the goods shipped are limited, and the conditions of the road are higher.

In addition, China has never lacked manpower, and wheelbarrows can meet considerable military needs. If 10,000 people are not enough, then 100,000, and 100,000 people are not enough, then millions.

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty conquered Goguryeo and mobilized millions of people, but hundreds of thousands of people died on the way to death due to many reasons such as water and soil inadaptation, excessive labor, and epidemic diseases.

Including the military and government soldiers, tens of thousands of people may have died in battle, and hundreds of thousands of people died due to disease and many other reasons.

When the Central Plains Dynasty was in its prime, it had a population of tens of millions, and the emperor didn't mind dying hundreds of thousands, and with such disregard for the people, a large number of people died in the ditch, and the consequence was that the dynasty changed.

Even so, there is no other way to solve the large-scale war and the transfer of transportation capacity, one relies on manpower, and the other relies on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal dug in the Sui period.

The northerners mostly use mules and horses, and the southerners take the advantage of boats, boats are definitely stronger than those two-wheeled carriages and wheelbarrows, so after the Tang Dynasty, the economic center and cultural center gradually moved south, and the overdevelopment of Guanzhong was quite obvious in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and Emperor Wen of Sui was forced to bring hundreds of thousands of Guanzhong soldiers and civilians to Luoyang to eat, and Luoyang or Kaifeng is just a canal capacity supply, food and materials, still from the south.

But even if the boat transportation is effective, the south is not everywhere to pass ships, always have to go ashore, hundreds, hundreds of miles without water, or no fleet to accompany it is a very normal thing, there is really a big war, still rely on gathering a large number of strong men to do non-professional things.

Then a large number of innocent people were killed and wounded, and it took ten times as much effort to do things that did not achieve the expected goals.

In that case, wouldn't it be better to prepare in advance?

The four-wheeled carriage is very simple in comparison, and the technology of Taizu in the early years has been reached, but the system of the forbidden army and the box army has not been sorted out clearly, and in the following two hundred years, which emperor or official has the foresight to build a large number of carriages, buy livestock and horses, and complete the goal of providing military supplies?

Xu Zixian sometimes has a feeling that China's affairs are bad in the customs of conformism, the so-called respect for heaven and law, after a generation of heroes established the foundation, it is difficult for future generations to completely overhaul the system that has been in place for many years, and start again.

As for the core of Confucianism, it lacks logic, lacks the support of mathematics and geometry, and many things, which are mentioned as great inventions and creations in later generations, are actually technical things, and there is no complete set of theories to take a shot.

In this regard, the inheritance of the Westerners is much stronger than that of China, and the beacon of civilization has also been lit on both sides, but the road of China has gradually gone astray.

The car in front of me is a newly made four-wheeled vehicle, Xu Zi shilling Fu Qian's drawings are drawn according to his own memory, the body is longer, the guard plate is high in front and low in the back, the front guard plate is inlaid with a wooden nailed seat, there are legs below, two layers of plates made of the coachman's seat, under the coachman's seat is the front wheel, there is a long rod and two sides of the handguard to connect the front wheel, this is the connecting rod, the two front wheels are not fixed on the wooden frame like the previous carriage, but with the middle roller and the connecting rod are connected, and the long connecting rod is fixed on the disc type front axle, The part of the connection between the wheel and the body is combined with the front wheel suspension, so that the front wheel suspension is also turned as a whole when the mule and horse turn.

When Xu Zixian observed the carriage, the craftsman Li Changfu and a group of craftsmen in the carriage group all looked nervous, and Li Changfu's hands trembled slightly.

Unlike Lin Jiusi, his manufacturing process is almost all Xu Zixian's mention, and his contribution lies in his craftsmanship, if this is not done well, he feels that he has a negative trust, and he is almost not qualified to stay here.

When I think of this, the craftsmen of each carriage group are sweating, they are tantamount to heaven here, and if they are fired, they might as well die.

"Well done, very good."

After watching it for a while, Xu Zixian finally showed a satisfied look on his face.

At this moment, all the members of the carriage group breathed a sigh of relief, and this time they sighed for a long time, and the sound was so loud that it almost formed a wave of qi.

"This carriage is covered with a belt for horses, and the belt should be short and strong, so that the frame will not directly hit the horse when turning and stopping, and there is a cushioning force, so that the mule and horse will not be injured."

"Yes, Prince." Li Changfu said respectfully: "We will try to make it according to what the prince said in a while, and use cowhide to make it." ”

"What kind of skin is not tight, it should be short and strong, and it should be put on the mule and horse and there is a force buffer between the vehicle."

The car in front of Xu Zixian is preliminarily formed, and the most important thing is the wheel axle, the original Chinese-style carriage is fixed on the frame on two wheels, which is difficult to steer, and clumsy and easy to break.

The use of bearings to connect to the frame, coupled with the front steering axle, the body is stronger and able to bear weight, and the steering is more convenient, which is already considered a preliminary success.

Xu Zixian smiled at Fu Qian and said, "These cars are doing well, Mu Zhi, you can reward the relevant craftsmen when you go back." ”

Fu Qian said: "Now the technology is qualified, the craftsmen are also the most important, and there are many appropriations, but now the production of carriages and related weapons is still insufficient, there are many machine parts that have to be made by hand, which is time-consuming, and because the standards of each craftsman are different, there are many parts that are not compatible......

Xu Zixian looked at a carriage in front of him pulling the parts of the whole vehicle, and said thoughtfully: "With so many maintenance parts, the main reason is that the spare parts are not standard, right?" ”

Fu Qian nodded and said, "What the prince said is true, that's it." ”

"It's time for the factory to do standardized management." Xu Zixian said: "Now that the scale has expanded, in the past, Lin Jiusi and them were just a few people, brought out by a master, and the things they typed out were not much different from standardization. A veteran looks at it a few times, and what comes out is almost a standard part. Now that there are more people, we really should pay attention to this matter. Muzhi, after you go back, all the tools are marked, each craftsman uses a unified tool of standardization, and selects excellent parts, and then builds according to the standard, even if the standard is different, even if it is good, it is not qualified, and then it is grouped, for example, someone is very good at making steering shafts, take this person as a standard and craftsman, select a group of competent all the steering shafts, pay by piece, the master takes the apprentice, and the success of the one will give the relevant heavy reward, so that they do not hide their secrets, and do not make any more set of teaching apprentices to starve the master...... I haven't thought about it yet, you have to think about it yourself, and you have to help me share my worries in this matter. ”

Standardization, assembly line, division of labor and piecework, these are the experience of industrial production developed in the past few hundred years.

These things are too simple to say in later generations, and smart people can think of the key points when they think about it, but in fact, they are gradually explored and summarized by later generations, and finally small-scale experiments, and then promoted to practice, and finally popularized and become the benchmark of the industry.

For example, assembly line operation is fast and convenient, and each production line can concentrate good hands to produce industrial manufactured products in the fastest, most time-saving, and cost-effective way.

Now there are water-powered textile factories on the island, and soon there will be water-powered oil extraction, as well as a large number of water-powered mills, plus water-powered hammering, but also to set up weapons, bows and arrows, armor and other institutions, boring machines, lathes, kits that can be used for standardized production, and assembly lines are also used to produce various tools and ordnance.

Fu Qian is a first-class smart person, and when he heard it, he quite understood what Xu Zixian meant, thought about it for a while, and said with great joy: "Junhou's proposal is very good, it is simply a stroke of genius. ”

"It's easy to say," Xu Zixian warned Fu Qian: "It's not so simple to do, you have to try one by one, so that the craftsmen of the craftsman division generally meet the standards, and then you can carry out the division of labor and assembly line operations." ”

"Yes," Fu Qian clenched his fists and said, "Please rest assured." ”