After more than ten days, the first factory using a steam engine was established in the Great Song Dynasty.

More than ten days were spent building the plant, and only the last day was to build the equipment. Qin Mu personally assembled and debugged it and passed it at one time.

Why so fast? Because except for the core equipment in the factory, other places are just a place that is hastily circled, which is considered a factory area, and there is not a single pillar. Otherwise, how could a factory be built in more than ten days in the Great Song Dynasty.

The factory was named "Great Light".

According to the meaning of Ren Yuanwai, it is better to call it "Renjia Match Shop", but Qin Mu said that it is safer for this factory not to carry the Ren family's logo, so it is called "Daguang".

Daguang Match Factory began trial operation.

It's been a bit of a stumbling trip. Except for Qin Mu, the Great Song Dynasty did not have a special industrial worker, and had no concept of the factory in later generations.

Qin Mu has never been in the factory, and all of his part-time work has been spent in the office building, but fortunately, he is from the later generations, and the office building is also a worker, but the collar is just white spots. The basic concept he does not lack.

The biggest problem facing the factory is the lack of manpower.

There are about 2,000 people in Wujiazhuang, and those who can be counted as laborers are about 13,400 over 12 years old and under 60 years old. According to Qin Mu's calculations, the number of employees needed by the Daguang Match Factory is one hundred and thirty-four, which refers to those who work purely in the factory, not counting peripheral personnel.

Compared with the labor force of more than 1,000, it seems that more than 100 people are nothing, but the countryside is not the city, and the peasants are not citizens.

Every year, the labor in the fields consumes a lot of labor, and only before dawn and after dark do there be rich laborers, and this is still the most capable young man, who has done a day's farm work and still has the spirit to come out and work hard.

Or you'll have to wait for winter. In winter, the farm is slack, and you can come out to work during the day every day.

Of course, he couldn't wait, and he couldn't wait for this factory to work 24 hours a day, but because there was no lighting at night, he had to endure 10 hours a day.

Now that even ten hours a day can't be guaranteed, Ren Yuan has to think about whether Ren Xiaoxiao should be more ruthless, and use some means when collecting rent, so as to turn these crops into idle men without land as soon as possible. In this way, there will be enough workers in their own factories.

Capitalists are all the same, and there is no difference between ancient and modern China and foreign countries.

Qin Mu decisively stopped the off-the-job moves. Is this to carry out the "sheep eating people" movement in the Great Song Dynasty?

But he stopped the crooked ways outside the staff, and he couldn't do anything better. Qin Mu is not Sun Wukong, a single hair can conjure a little monkey. He can't be a human either.

The work of a match factory is quite boring, and the work of the workers varies depending on the individual workstations. But there is also a lot of mechanized movement.

For example, the flaker at the beginning of the assembly line requires workers to place the treated logs horizontally on the feed port.

All the workers have to do is to keep bending down to pick up the wood, and then put it on the machine, and make it for a long time.

Farming in the field is also hard, but at least one thing about farming is better than work, that is, you can choose your own time. When the weather is hot, go early and come back before noon to hide from the sun.

In the afternoon, go to the field later, and you can sleep in the afternoon.

But the factory is different, how can you do it when you want, the machine does not wait for you.

And every worker is just a part of the production line, you don't finish this link, you go to take a nap, and the following process can't go.

The brewing medicine, the boxing, all fine, just waiting.

After the initial freshness, some of the dozens of workers recruited could not stand it and resolutely quit.

The clerk scratched his head in a hurry.

The factory that Qin Mu built for himself is really good, the wood goes in and the matches come out, it's amazing. But seeing that such a good production line could not run at full capacity - this word was also taught to him by Qin Mu, and he could only produce tens of thousands of matches per day.

A box of forty matches, a thousand boxes is counted as one, about 40,000 matches.

A match happened to be in a box where the family carried fruits. Only one box of matches was produced on this day, and in any case it could not satisfy the staff. It's too slow, and it's a crime not to make money – especially after he has paid so much gold.

Ren gave Qin Mu so much gold, but the watch he exchanged for was snatched away by Wang Qiao, but fortunately he wanted to open it, so he used it as a gold match factory.

The machines, in the eyes of the outsiders, are all made of gold.

Seeing that the factory was running like it was not enough, the employees were really anxious.

He could ask Ren Xiaoxiao to send the tenant long-term worker in the Wu family's compound to do things, but the name was not right.

This factory has nothing to do with Ren Xiaoxiao, it belongs to him and Qin Mu. Qin Musan, the seventh member of the staff. Qin Mushao asked for some shares, which was regarded as compensation for the outside of the staff.

Pulling some of the fresh fruit from the hands of the people who handle the fresh fruits at home is also an emergency that cannot fundamentally solve the problem.

Qin Mu told him that this kind of factory is different from the workshop of the Great Song Dynasty, it must operate very regularly, working from 9 to 5, eight hours a day, although it doesn't seem to be a long time, but a minute is a minute, it can't be like farming, tired and sleepy.

Outside the staff, I think so. He is knowledgeable, and it is clear from the operation of the assembly line that what Qin Mu said makes sense.

He didn't need the peasants to carry a flat burden like they had done in the past, and then they would carry a flat burden and leave. What he needs is a worker, an industrial worker.

I don't want you to resist the flat burden, I don't want you to bring any production tools, but I want you to be firmly nailed to the job for twelve hours a day - Qin Mu said that he naturally disagreed with the eight-hour appointment, and decisively let it go to twelve hours. In this way, he was still not satisfied, if it weren't for Qin Mu's desperate request to strictly prohibit fire in the factory, he would have wanted to let the workers rotate twenty-four hours a day - light the lantern and do it!

Unfortunately, I can only work for ten hours now.

O industrial workers! The staff outside is scratching their heads at this new problem.

Or just buy slaves.

The Great Song Dynasty actually had a slave trade. A small number of slaves were bankrupt farmers, such as Wu Qiang, who was almost sold as a slave, so he killed Wu Zhuang and ran away.

Most of the slaves came from prisoners of war. Don't look at the Great Song Dynasty's fight against Liao, but it still often wins against Western Xia and Tubo. A large number of captives would be sold to the mainland, and the women would either work as slaves or enter the Qinglou, and the men, except for a few lucky ones who could have a better place to go, most of them would go to the mines and work until they died.

Dig coal! Black coal kilns are not uncommon in any era. The most dangerous and heaviest physical work naturally has to be forced to be done.

It's just that if your own factory uses slaves, it seems to have a bad reputation. Da Song's point is quite interesting. Everyone cares a lot about fame.

After being entangled between fame and fortune for a long time, Ren Wai finally gave up his plan to use slaves.

It's not purely for the sake of fame, but more importantly, slaves are not easy to manage.

Going down to the coal kiln is completely different from doing things in the factory.

The coal kiln is basically a prison, and no one can run if they go in, and no matter how they run, they will die.

However, the Great Bright Match Factory is leaking everywhere, and it is better to hire a group of overseers for a group of slaves than to hire people at a high price.

As a result, the staff introduced an unprecedentedly high salary, and finally hired fifty specialized workers. If there is not enough left, hire odd jobs. The main thing is the boxing part, which does not need to be so rigorous.

However, the wages are so high, and the price of matches will naturally increase.

He originally planned to earn ten yuan per box, but now he decisively mentioned thirty yuan.

The cost of a box of matches was very low, because the production line output given to him by Qin Mu was too high. In the period of great industrialization, the higher the output, the lower the cost, not counting labor, the cost of a box of matches is almost less than two cents.

In Bianliang City, ordinary citizens can earn more than 100 wen a day, more than 200 if they are a little more diligent, and even more if they are more diligent.

Ren Wai set the wholesale price at 30 Wen - can you make less money, big customers.

The retail price is 35 wen.

It's basically all about profit!

After a few days, the Daguang Match Factory finally produced ten matches, loaded them on Ren's cargo ship, and sailed all the way to Bianliang City.

Qin Mu and Jia Hongxian Fang Haoyin were also on the boat, and their small boat hung on the back of the big boat.

Ren Xiaoxiao has been angry lately. Because Brother Qin gave Jia Hongxian so many Chinese cosmetics, what lipstick, eye shadow, eyebrow pencil and lipstick, he didn't have anything.

It's no wonder that Qin Mu is no wonder. She treats Qin Mu as a spare tire, and Qin Mu treats her as a friend. How can a friend just give cosmetics? Besides, the cabinet was too full.

Director Jiang has already made full use of every cubic centimeter, and Qin Mu has also made a lot of effort to stuff the cosmetics box in, and he can't stuff the second box anymore.

Therefore, Ren Xiaoxiao was very unhappy, so she did not go to Beijing with the boat to watch the excitement.

In fact, this is only one of the reasons, and more importantly, she wants to collect rent from big buckets and small buckets. The taxes of the imperial court and the rent of her Wu family, she is the daughter-in-law of the Wu family, and she has to worry about it.

This time, he accepted the secret instruction of Ren Wai to give full play to his subjective initiative - this word is also taught by Qin Mu, as much as possible to bankrupt as many peasants as possible, and come to work in his factory, naturally it is inseparable from Wujiazhuang.

Ren's cargo ship is very large, not only can it carry goods, but also has several cabins that can accommodate people.

Fang Haoyin and Jia Hongxian stayed in the cabin, her body was more than half better, she had no problem walking at all, and she could use five or six percent of her kung fu. At least it's no longer a drag.

These days, Fang Haoyin's worldview has completely collapsed.

Is Wujiazhuang in the Great Song Dynasty still the territory of the Great Song Dynasty? I'm afraid this is another world.

The use of matches is very simple, Fang Haoyin will do it - of course, if you don't even know how to use matches, it will be a fool.

The Great Song Dynasty also has a thing that ignites fire, called "sending candles". Fang Haoyin naturally used it. However, the candle itself will not catch fire, and it needs to borrow the fire in the hearth.

Matches are different, as long as they are struck on the skin of the match, they catch fire. You can't do anything else about it. How did Young Master Qin come up with such a safe, convenient, and especially easy-to-use thing?

What shocked her was not the matches, but the production line with the steam engine as the core.

It took thousands of matchsticks sprayed out like a waterfall on the production line to make Fang Haoyin unable to close his mouth.

In her world, in this Great Song Dynasty, what thing was not made by craftsmen one by one? Where there is such a thing as a sudden appearance of a whole bunch of exactly the same thing.

The matchstick seems to be a shrunken arrow shaft, but the arrow shafts of the Great Song Dynasty are also made one by one, and they do not appear like thousands of rivers at once.

If you ask the craftsmen of the Great Song Dynasty to make 10,000 matchsticks, I'm afraid you will have to work for more than half a year? It is not as uniform in size and length as this.

This is where Huaguo is great.

Thinking of Qin Mu, he looked at Jia Hongxian. Sister Hongxian was playing with her mobile phone, which made Fang Haoyin's eyes hot again.

She has been with Jia Hongxian day and night these days and learned to use a mobile phone. Of course, she doesn't delete photos, only selfies. And she doesn't know how to unlock it, she can only use it if Jia Hongxian lights up the screen, and she is supervised by Jia Hongxian when she uses it.

Of course, Jia Hongxian can't do without his mobile phone.

With the cosmetics of later generations, and then compared with the makeup of the beauties in the mobile phone, Jia Hongxian became a makeup expert without a teacher.

It may be thick or light, elegant or bewitching.

Qin Mu was busy building the factory, and she was not idle, and she perfectly mastered the makeup techniques of later generations.

Today's Jia Hongxian is more charming, and she can be as beautiful as she wants.

She was facing the window, taking advantage of the sunlight to take a selfie. Fang Haoyin, who only looked at it, was red-eyed.

Fortunately, Qin Mu brought a few batteries last time, otherwise she wouldn't have been able to play with her mobile phone day and night like this.

"Sister Red Line, the slave wants to go south with you."

"Don't ask me about this, what my cousin says is what it is."

Qin Mu left Wujiazhuang this time and did not come back for the time being. He wanted to walk the Bianhe River from the capital to find Jingyang Wuzun Pan.