I am still not used to getting up early, especially when I drank a lot of wine the day before, so Sun Xiangfu slept all the way from the carriage to Weinan, his carriage was luxurious enough, and all the roads along the way were cement roads, but he was particularly energetic after sleeping for two or three hours.

"Governor, it's time to get there."

Zhang Ke lifted the curtain, and a cold wind with the smell of earth blew in his face.

Sun Xiangfu wiped his face with a hot towel, rinsed his mouth with tea, and then left the carriage, and at this time, Ma Zhou, who had been notified and came to greet him, had already arrived in front of the carriage.

"I'm tired of running away."

"King Bin doesn't need to see outside, it's the first time I've been here, you can start from the beginning!"

After the autumn harvest, nearly 500,000 young and strong laborers have gathered here, accounting for almost half of the young and strong men in the entire Guanzhong area.

Moreover, it was not the imperial court that forcibly requisitioned them, but they came themselves, and if it was in the previous dynasty, such a huge construction site would have sounded from time to time the sound of the leather whips urged by the officers and soldiers, and the wails of the people being beaten, but now, there is only the sound of the workers working together.

People who come to Weinan to participate in the construction will not only get a good salary, but also get a set of thick cotton clothes and cotton pants as overalls, in addition, they can also eat two real meals of fried vegetables with lard and white rice in the morning and evening, every two days, there will be a meal of meat and vegetables to eat, even if there is no meat to eat on the day, there are boiled eggs and other food nourishment, at noon, when resting, each person also has a flatbread with eggs or green vegetables and meat foam to supplement their physical strength, which is why they voluntarily come here to work.

"Governor, please see, the two largest buildings on the Wei River have been completed, the smelter and the coal plant, and now the craftsmen are perfecting the internal production line building, and in a month they can start production.

In addition to the smelter and coal factory, there is also a long row of factories along the Weishui building, except for the shipyard is slightly larger, the rest, every square, is a large factory, bricks, cement, paper, printing, ink pellets, dyes, ceramics, glaze, etc.

In the direction of Chang'an, there are various food factories, canning, winemaking, weaving, garment, furniture, leather goods, gold, silver and copper ······"

Ma Zhou said an industry, not necessarily just a factory, Weinan Industrial New City in addition to the happy village involved in the industry will settle in, does not limit the industry of any other investors to settle in, just food, brewing industry, there are several large factories, the rest of the various industries, there are no exclusive operations, just these dozens of industries, there are enough hundreds of factories, and these factories, has taken up more than half of the land in the entire Weinan County.

"Well, let me start with a few planning issues! The factory is too dense, and then there will be factories to settle in, and to arrange farther, to open up enough living space in the middle of the factory, when the time comes, the workers who come to work in these factories may reach as many as one million, you can't let them commute to work, run dozens of miles!

Every five miles or so, a hospital must be set aside, and when the population is dense and there are many sick people, it is necessary to ensure that they can receive timely treatment.

As for the living quarters, let's build buildings when the time comes! It can save a lot of land, anyway, the people who work here don't need farming tools, don't need to raise livestock, just live, can imitate inns, build halls and rooms.

And you have to set up a market for selling vegetables and rice noodles in advance, and there must be one every three miles, and you must also set aside the location of the store that sells daily necessities and snacks, and the domestic water source facilities such as pressing wells should also spread throughout the city. ”

The ancients actually had their own plan for urban buildings, such as drainage, if you let a person on the grassland be responsible for building a city, they will not take it into account, but the Central Plains people have thousands of years of experience in building cities, they will definitely take it into account.

Ma Zhou is a person who has a deep study of the construction of Shanyang, he knows that industry and commerce are not separated, and he has designed many plans in advance, but he did not predict that the population of the city will eventually reach the level of millions, and Sun Xiangfu has raised the basic living conditions of the people to a new level.

However, now many factories are only doing infrastructure construction, or even not starting construction, and after he negotiated with others, it is still urgent to make a slight adjustment.

"It's really a wise move to ask the governor to come and inspect it, let's go to the smelter first!"

After a general look at the main plan, Sun Xiangfu put forward so many suggestions, which benefited Ma Zhou a lot, and the critical department that really guaranteed military supplies was the smelter.

Previously, following Sun Xiangfu's advice, Ma Zhou had already summoned many skilled craftsmen to work in the smelter, and the newly recruited workers also began to train, after entering the gate of the smelter, Sun Xiangfu saw an acquaintance, the old shipwright Yang Shunshui, who was lecturing to many people, Sun Xiangfu did not interrupt him, but took a closer look at the built-in smelting workshop.

First of all, the overall feeling is that there is one word, 'big'.

The first smelting workshop entered from the gate is almost as big as half a square in Chang'an, and there are eight similar smelting workshops, as for the forging workshops that need more space, there are as many as sixteen, and there are more than ten very huge ore warehouses and finished product equipment warehouses, but the scale of this smelter is as big as the previous Weinan County.

But at present, it is just the size of the house, and there is no configuration inside.

After walking inside and out, Sun Xiangfu's face became darker and darker, and Ma Zhou knew that there might be a lot of problems.

"O King Bin! Fortunately, I came to see it today, otherwise, I am afraid that this smelter alone will have a lot of trouble in production. ”

"Please also ask the governor to point out that the lower officials should rectify it as soon as possible." Ma Zhou asked for advice with a weak heart.

Sun Xiangfu can't ask the ancients from the perspective of a later generation, so even if the previous planning of the smelter is not too scientific, there is nothing to be angry about, after getting out of the open space outside the plant, Sun Xiangfu pointed to the eight super large smelting workshops lined up at the gate, "We are building a factory, not a palace, we don't need to arrange all the production workshops so good-looking, but to pay attention to a reasonable plan."

It is unreasonable for you to put the smelting workshop at the very door, but put the coal warehouse and iron ore warehouse at the back.

I know that the iron ore warehouse and the coal warehouse are also a big road, and there is a back door for entry and exit, and it is very convenient to enter and exit when ore and fuel are transported over. But have you ever thought about how much manpower is wasted when the workers have to take coal and iron ore from the warehouse a few miles away to the smelting workshop when the smelting workshop is producing?

Others, all of them are similar situations, I won't say more, you have to use the larger pattern to consider some small problems in production, this is not the small workshop in Happy Village, you want to use coal, you want to use mines, turn around and take it, do a good job, it won't be too much, turn around and find a vacant place to put it.

The things produced here are very numerous, miscellaneous, and mass-produced, and the distance between coal, ore, and furnace is shortened, and when it is produced, hundreds of workers may be saved.

Therefore, the correct planning mode should be that the place where the raw materials enter the back door should be the warehouse of coal and mine, next to each other, that is, the smelting workshop, so that the coal and the mine can enter the furnace with the shortest distance, and after the smelting workshop, it is the forging workshop, and the smelted materials reach the hands of the forging workers in the shortest time and distance, and the finished products made by the forging workshop are the shortest distance, put into the warehouse at the gate, and the carriage and horse to pick up the goods can be directly loaded and pulled away directly at the gate of the smelter. The whole process, without taking a little unjust road, is convenient to enter and exit. ”

When Ma Zhou heard Sun Xiangfu's words, he was only ashamed, why didn't he think of these things before!

Fortunately, both the warehouse and the workshop are relatively large long row houses, and there is room for adjustment before the various workshops are on the production line, otherwise, the governor will have done a big mistake in building it.

"After the governor's guidance, the lower officials felt that the mouth was suddenly opened, and they were afraid that the plans of several other workshops also needed to be adjusted."

"Tell them to stop construction and start adjusting! These main design concepts, wait for Ma Lin Zhang Quan, Wang Fu Wang Gui and they come, and then slowly pick it up with you, once the number of people exceeds 10,000, eating, drinking, going to the toilet, it is not a trivial matter, it has to be taken into account. ”

Although Ma Zhou looked like he had made a mistake, Sun Xiangfu did not blame him, and if he changed someone, he might not be better than him, his talent was actually in politics, let him cross the border to manage production, in fact, it was a little difficult for him, at present, there are a few disciples who specialize in simple and reasonable research in the agricultural gate, and they can get started quickly with these things, and when Sun Xiangfu seconded them to Ma Zhou, the matter here will be easier to deal with.

When Ma Zhou suddenly announced the suspension of work, there was some commotion among the more than 10,000 workers on the smelter's side, so he told the workers about some adjustment and improvement plans, telling them that after the noon break, they would redistribute their work, and at this time, Yang Shunshui, who was lecturing to the new apprentices, also stopped lecturing and came to meet Sun Xiangfu.

"The old man has given the governor a salute."

"Your own people, you don't need to be polite, how can you always do things besides building ships, smelting and forging?" Sun Xiangfu helped Yang Shunshui, who bent down to worship, and said with a smile.

Now, he is the chief engineer of the shipyard under the name of Sun Xiangfu, even if he goes to Xingfu Village, the children of farmers who are qualified to wear agricultural clothes see him, and they are very respectful, because his ship is really good, and it has played a great role in the development and construction of Xingfu Village.

The original shipyard on the edge of the Yuhe River in Lantian County has always been smaller, and it is a bit impossible to build a 20,000-stone ship, not to mention the 30,000-stone or even 50,000-stone super ship that may need to be built in the future, which must be tested on a wide river like Weishui.

Therefore, the entire shipyard will be moved to Weinan in the future, but now in the process of building the new shipyard, the old shipyard has not been stopped.

"Hehe, the old man just came to see how many specifications of parts the smelter can provide to our shipyard in the future, and he was caught by Lord Ma Zhou, and now, every day, tell them about the use of pulley cranes and the like, so that they can save effort when they work, today, I just happened to bump into you."

"The shipyard side, the original scale is not small, from the production, you should also have figured out how to reasonably plan the production workshop, when will the new shipyard start production? How much can be produced? ”

"As soon as next summer! After it is completed, it will depend on the manpower, if I transfer 20,000 people, there will be no problem with hundreds of 20,000 stone large water ships that will leave the factory a year. ”