Bai Bingwen laughed, picked up the tea bowl, put it down again, stood up from behind the desk, paced two steps in the study, and said: "The matter of recruiting apprentices really doesn't matter, then Chen Er is just a clown who jumps off the beam, not enough to worry about, only the Yang family." ”

"I have also seen this Tang knife, it is indeed extraordinary, it is said that the master craftsman of Dongping Mansion has tasted it, this kind of treasure knife, in the past, only the master craftsman got it by chance, it needs to have high-quality iron, and it must be in time to be born, this Chen Er actually has a way to forge this kind of treasure knife in large quantities, it is really terrifying."

"Because of this, there are huge benefits hidden in this treasure knife, I heard that the nobles of the Jin Kingdom of Dongping Mansion are even willing to give twenty taels of real silver in order to ask for a Tang knife (at this time, the exchange ratio of silver and copper coins is about one tael of silver for more than three copper coins)!"

"This Yang Yongwu is a martial artist in the end, if this Chen Xian dedicates the treasure knife to my hands, I will immediately include this person in my Bai family's private property, and I will never make this treasure knife boiling, everyone knows it."

Zhao Qufei shook his head and said: "It's no wonder that Yang Yuanwai, a good knife, at best, is only thirty or forty times profitable, who would have thought that this Chen Xian could let a group of apprentices who don't know anything build a large number of treasure knives in just three months, it's really strange." ”

was refuted by the strategist, Bai Bingwen was not angry, he nodded thoughtfully: "That's right, this matter is really weird, if you can hold that Chen Xian, you must ask clearly." ”

Zhao Qufei shook his fan and said: "At this time, the reputation of Tang Dao has spread, Yang Yongwu will be afraid of my Bai family, and dare not use force against Chen Xian easily, it is better to promise Chen Xian to recruit apprentices among the children of the Bai family first, not to paralyze that Chen Er, but to paralyze that Yang Yuanwai, and then find an opportunity to take down that Chen Er." ”

Bai Bingwen nodded and agreed with the mastermind's opinion.

Zhao Qufei said again: "Even so, Yang Yongwu will definitely not completely relax his vigilance, he will definitely stare at the Bai family's military village and the horse team, the Baiyang family has lived together in a Zhuangzi for hundreds of years, you have me for a long time, we use Zhuang Ding or the horse team, it is difficult to hide from the Yang family, so to arrest Chen Xian, we can't use our own people, in order to surprise." ”

Bai Bingwen nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, that's right." ”

Zhao Qufei smiled slightly, shook his fan, stroked his long beard, and did not speak.

Bai Bingwen sat back at the desk and said loudly: "Someone! ”

A servant waiting at the door walked in, bowed his head and said, "Outside the staff." ”

"Go, call the second butler."

"Yes."

……

Chen Xian didn't know the mental journey of Yang Yuanwai and Steward Yang, nor did he know the clever plan of Bai Yuanwai and Zhao Qufei.

He just did what he thought was good for him, and as for the result, he didn't care.

Because Chen Xian understands one thing very well, no matter what he does, he can only delay time, and cannot solve the problem, the only way to solve his current predicament is only one, strength!

……

After asking Yang Xiaoyi to send the covering and quenching technology to the Yang family, Chen Xian once again devoted himself to the silent writing of the masterpiece "The Spirit of the Law".

In the next few days, Chen Xian spent most of his time devoting himself to the silent writing of "On the Spirit of the Law" and "On the Rich Country", he worked hard to restore the original work according to the notes he took, and if he really couldn't remember, he opened his mobile phone and took a quick look.

This practice of using brief notes to write the original work backwards is itself a process of learning and understanding, and Chen Xian has benefited a lot from this process.

In the interval between the two huge books, Chen Xian forged and polished several calipers used to measure the inner and outer diameters, and the measuring dimensions of these calipers were made and polished based on the bolts and nuts he got back.

On the third day after Chen Xian's return, Zhang Bai and Yang Xiaoyi found him and told him that the things he had asked for had been processed exactly according to the drawings he had drawn.

After listening to the reports of the two, Chen Xian suddenly seemed very happy, and he followed the two out of the study and came to the workshop behind the courtyard.

Walking into the workshop, looking at the orderly, noisy but orderly busy teenagers, Chen Xian suddenly had the feeling of walking into the factory workshop, looking at all this, a smug smile suddenly appeared on his face.

Yang Yuan was very surprised that he was able to bring out so many and such excellent apprentices so quickly, and maintain such a high output.

Chen Xian heard most of this news from Wu Liang's mouth, Wu Liang's sister used to be Yang Yuanwai's mother, the maid in Mrs. Yang's room, and her husband is now the most talkative steward in Yang's mansion, and he is quite a bit of a voice in the mansion.

Wu Maiden listened to the rumors, told them all underground, and persuaded her younger brother not to associate with Chen Xian anymore, but Wu Liang came to tell Chen Xian the news, which was also one of the reasons why Chen Xian had a sense of crisis.

Before, Chen Xian still didn't understand a little, what's so strange about this, a workshop of more than 30 people only makes 30 knives a month, and it is the result of streamlining the process, this is slow enough, why would anyone be surprised.

When he silently wrote "The Wealth of Nations", he suddenly understood Yang Yuanwai's accident.

The secret of this is nine words, "division of labor and cooperation" and "standardized production".

To tell the truth, when arranging the workshop production at the beginning, Chen Xian did not think of the division of labor and cooperation, but when he arranged the study and production, he naturally divided his apprentices into several different groups.

For example, the blacksmith group is divided into four groups.

The first group is called the material preparation group, which is responsible for folding and forging materials, and only learns the technology of folding and forging, and ignores everything else.

The second group is called the forming group, which is responsible for forging the shape of the katana with the iron produced by the preparation group, and the employees of this group are the best among the apprentices, such as Li Shi and Zhang Bai and Zhang Song.

The third group is called the shaping group, which is responsible for shaping and resurfaceing the overburned katana blank with a hammer and file before the katana is quenched.

The fourth group is called the fine grinding group, which uses a grinding stone to refine the quenched katana.

For a modern person, the division of labor and cooperation has almost become an instinct, and he will do it without even thinking about it.

But the ancients, who had not read the Wealth of Nations and had not been baptized by modern industry, did not understand the benefits of division of labor and cooperation.

In fact, most modern people who are accustomed to modern industry may not understand how much advantage the division of labor and cooperation has.

Adam Smith used the example of needle production in The Wealth of Nations to illustrate the great advantages of division of labor.

A traditional needle maker, even if he is very skilled, produces no more than one or twenty needles a day.

So, when the production of needles is divided into eighteen processes, and ten workers work together, what is its daily output? 48,000! An average of 4,800 pieces per person!

Of course, there is a role in this output, but the machines of the eighteenth century, in the eyes of modern people, are just some slightly more complex hand tools, and it is the meticulous division of labor that makes the production of machines necessary and possible.

This increase in efficiency is enough to illustrate the great advantages of division of labor and cooperation.