The 20,000-stone hydro-steamer is not twice as large as the 10,000-stone Happiness in terms of volume, and is at most four or five percent larger, but it has strengthened a lot in terms of the propulsion power of the hydrowheel, thanks to the tougher steel materials and ball bearings made by Xingfu Village.

The new boat can sail at a certain speed at a deeper draft than before, and can sail against the current even if it is full of loads, and in the case of sailing with full sails and tailwind, it is not slower than a ship with 10,000 stones, because it adds a windmill device, which can allow the wind to push the roller of the water wheel and drive the propeller to rotate non-stop.

In other words, it does not need to use the ox to slowly pull the propeller bearings, which will give the boat a small improvement in its ability to continue sailing and carry space.

"If you want manpower, you should hurry up and recruit it! At present, there are 500,000 young and strong laborers at the Weinan construction site, and if they don't hurry up to recruit their own banners, when all the hundreds of factories are built, they will have to rely on grabbing. ”

In the later life, to do all kinds of business, before the place is opened, people must be recruited first, and when all your construction is completed, if you come to recruit people, it will delay things.

Yang Shunshui slapped his forehead when he heard Sun Xiangfu say this, secretly hating himself for being confused, other smelters know that they recruit new craftsmen for training first, why don't their own shipyards know that they recruit people for training first! I stupidly came to help others train workers.

But looking back, what if I had recruited so many workers and not so many ships to build for myself? Could it be that Sun Xiangfu, the owner, paid to subsidize the shipyard?

"Well, you better give the old man a recruitment standard! lest you recruit too much, and there will be no work to do when the time comes······"

"Don't worry! According to the full staff, in the next few years, there will be at least several hundred military reserve ships alone, and there will be countless merchant ships. ”

"Full? Recruit 50,000 people? Yang Shunshui said in disbelief.

Although the new shipyard is not as big as the smelter, it is also half the size of the original Weinan County, and all the production workshops are full, in addition to the 10,000 people in the old shipyard now, more than 50,000 people can be added.

"What? Think it's too much? In less than three years, maybe you will still feel less. Sun Xiangfu looked at Yang Shunshuidao, who was a little stunned, with a smile on his face.

With the current production of the old shipyard, 10,000 people are only organizing ten production lines, and the annual output is only about 100,000 stone ships, an increase of five times, but about 500 ships, and Sun Xiangfu's future economic expectations for Datang can not only increase by five times.

As the most labor-saving means of transportation in ancient times, the first choice for a large number of transportation, the manufacture of ships must keep up, otherwise you call the goods of hundreds of large factories to all parts of the country with oxen and horses?

However, Yang Shunshui, a shipbuilder, can't see that long-term, he was shocked by this number, and said a little worriedly, "Old man, I am struggling to manage 10,000 people now, and I want to manage 60,000 people, I, I'm worried that I can't manage it!" ”

This is indeed a problem, people who are good at making technology, but they may not be good at management, Yang Shunshui can keep the shipyard of 10,000 people from messing, it is already reluctant, if he wants to manage 50,000 or 60,000 people, I am afraid it will not work.

It's a pity that in this period, there is no set of knowledge dedicated to teaching people to manage, which is a big trouble, because Sun Xiangfu has foreseen that when hundreds of factories open together, how difficult it is to manage the production of dozens or millions of workers, and the lack of management personnel is probably the core problem that Weinan New City needs to solve the most.

Seeing that Sun Xiangfu was suddenly silent, whether it was Yang Laohan or Ma Zhou, who rushed over later, they didn't dare to disturb him.

After a long time, Sun Xiangfu's brows were slightly stretched, there was no management talent, so he had to train, this is not about to take the imperial examination, those with basic cultural knowledge, take more, concentrate on teaching, anyway, until the next quarter of next year, each factory will start, there is still more than half a year, when the time comes, send two internship secretaries to each factory, and then send two internship working committees, on behalf of the imperial court, to assist in the management of each factory, and if you perform well, you will be directly awarded the official position of the imperial court to stay.

After these interns have gained practical experience in management in the management positions of the factory, and then transfer them to other places, their level will be much higher, and this kind of good thing of using the resources of businessmen to help the imperial court temper officials should be agreed.

Sun Xiangfu told Ma Zhou about this idea, and was praised by Ma Zhou as a stroke of genius, as he was busy at the Weinan construction site all day long, how could he not know the embarrassment of the lack of management talents here! At that time, this matter will be implemented by Ma Zhoulai and Li Shimin.

Lunch on the construction site was very simple, so I ate an egg cake with hot tea, and it was over, although it was early October, the weather was already very cold, and before the workers could start work, tiny hail particles floated in the sky.

"Looking at the situation, I'm afraid there will be a few heavy snowfalls this winter."

Yang Shunshui sighed, but it made Sun Xiangfu and Ma Zhou's faces sink.

Heavy snow will slow down all the construction progress, even if the next step of the smelter is already indoors, it will be slow because of the cold weather, just this moment, Sun Xiangfu has seen the frostbite on the hands of many workers.

Moreover, once the heavy snow closes the road, the food, drink and Lasa of hundreds of thousands of people are not so easy to supply, because the boundary of Weinan County does not produce any output this year, and everything has to be transported here from outside.

"It is imperative for His Majesty to conquer Goguryeo next year, so as long as the industry involving armaments is involved in Weinan, work cannot be stopped, among which the smelter, timber factory, and tannery are the most, and we must find a way to let the workers overcome the difficulties and continue to work."

"The governor can rest assured that even if there are knives in the sky, the construction of these factories will never be stopped, and they will all be put into operation before the Spring Festival."

Ma Zhou knew the importance of the Eastern Expedition to Goguryeo, once Li Shimin also suffered defeat in Goguryeo, then, some of the fame he had accumulated before would be scrapped, and everyone would think that he and Yang Guang were all the way, so he had not used high-pressure policies on the construction site, and he was also psychologically prepared to use high-pressure policies.

"We want to help the workers solve the problem of production difficulties as much as possible from all aspects, I will go to Xingfu Village, let them step up the distribution of a batch of gloves and socks, for the garment workers to do, and then let the workers wear gloves and cotton socks to work, the situation will be much better."

In addition, in terms of food and accommodation, it is also necessary to strengthen it, and it is not afraid to spend more money, and the workers must not be allowed to freeze to death and frostbite, and then let the people who stay free and really want to stay to earn this hard-earned money, so that they can stay······"

After Sun Xiangfu successively said several plans that he thought of temporarily, he felt that whether everyone could face the difficulties or not, the main thing should be to give spiritual encouragement.

In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, weren't many major things accomplished under difficult conditions, and what did they rely on? Our party's ideological education! Then, I should also think of a way to give the workers some spiritual encouragement.

When Li Shimin inspected the Weinan construction site, it seemed to be a good way to hold a literary and artistic condolence performance to encourage everyone.

With this idea, Sun Xiangfu discussed and arranged it with Ma Zhou, anyway, there are many empty big houses in the smelter, and a platform can be set up in one of them for more than 10,000 people to watch at the same time, as for the show, of course, there is no need for any glamorous sound, those things, workers who don't know big characters can't understand it, just go directly to the vernacular folk songs, on the way home, Sun Xiangfu thought of a lot of songs suitable for the workers to sing.

Yao Hongxiu, Li Xiangdie, and even many musicians and singers in the Luoyang Wangjianglou branch will be summoned to the Wangjianglou actor training center by Sun Xiangfu in a letter, and after putting some of their improved songs here, a performance with the theme of praising the workers and cheering the workers will organize rehearsals here.

With Sun Xiangfu's current status, there is no need to personally guide these things, and the people under him can already master all aspects very comfortably, he only needs to say what he wants.

Early the next morning, Sun Xiangfu came to Xiao Yu's house early, today, is the day when Li Shimin returned to Chang'an, according to the distance, at noon, the car should be to Chang'an City Mingde Gate.

"Xiao Xiang, it's not for this imperial examination, the lower officials don't know that there are so many scholars in our Tang Dynasty, but they have gathered more than a thousand people, and early in the morning, they are guarding by the city gate, it seems that you need to drink some throat tea today!"

"Hehe, seeing that you are still in the mood to make fun of the old man, it means that the situation is not so bad, how did you go to Weinan yesterday?" Xiao Yu said with a relaxed expression.

It seems that he has thoroughly eaten all the defense drafts given to him by Sun Xiangfu, and he has a firm grasp of the possible situation.

Sun Xiangfu replied truthfully, "There are many problems, but fortunately, there is still room for solutions." ”

"It's good if it can be solved, after welcoming Your Majesty, the imperial examination will be officially opened, and we have to arrange this examination room."

The opening time announced by the imperial court is October 18, and today it is October 12, and the remaining time is only five days, but it must be arranged immediately.

"How many applicants have taken the exam so far?"

"More than three thousand two hundred, but the old man can't be sure of the number of people who really refer to it."

"Only more than 3,000 people?" Obviously, this number is a bit small, you know, Sun Xiangfu has expanded the scope of reference, workers, doctors, and businessmen are all newly added by Sun Xiangfu, according to these three industries, there should be many people to refer to.

"It's already a lot, if those students who make trouble really don't refer to it, I'm afraid that the actual number of people who refer to it is only half."

Xiao Yu is comparing this year's data with the past, while Sun Xiangfu is comparing this data with the actual demand, and the results obtained are of course different, not to mention that there are at least a few hundred officials in the north, and there are hundreds of people in Weinan New City alone. If more than 3,000 people refer to it, I am afraid that I will have to take more than half of it before I can use it.