Zhu Cijiong talked at length for a long time, feeling that his throat was a little uncomfortable, and he couldn't suppress this astringency just by drinking tea, so he decided to guide Bi Maokang and others in another way.

He cleared his throat and guided: "Have you noticed that the people in the shipyard are very quick and serious in their work today, I am thinking, if they keep this state every day, then we don't have to do anything, and this output can be increased by two or three percent, don't you say?" “

When Bi Maokang heard this, his old face turned red again, this is not because he was scared by the Ministry of Works, usually these people work so hard.

Seeing that Bi Maokang was embarrassed, Zhu Cijiong turned his gaze to Sun Yuanhua again, his eyes were full of encouragement, as if he wanted Sun Yuanhua to say a few words.

Seeing the emperor's eyes, Sun Yuanhua had to bite the bullet and say: "They are just taken by the majesty of Lord Bi, and they don't dare to be lazy, and it is almost impossible for them to work so hard in ordinary times." “

Zhu Cijiong asked lightly: "Is it really impossible?" “

At this time, he turned his gaze to Wang Zheng again, and Wang Zheng had to speak obediently: "Why don't you recruit more stewards to keep an eye on them to work?" “

Zhu Cijiong shook his head and said: "It's not okay to force them like this, they are all experts, and you can't see it at all when you grind foreign workers, forcing them to work will be counterproductive." “

After that, he looked at Bi Maokang again, and Bi Maokang had no choice, so he had to bite the bullet and say: "Do you want to give them a little more money?" “

Zhu Cijiong nodded and encouraged: "Well, it's on the edge of the point, you have to think about how to make them work hard." “

When Bi Maokang heard this, his eyes lit up, and he took the initiative to reply: "Give it to those who usually work hard, and everyone else will not rise, so that he knows that he has to work hard to make more money." “

Zhu Cijiong said with relief: "Well, it's very close, but what is the standard of diligence, if you want the following stewards to engage in favoritism, only increase it for your own cronies, and not for others, isn't that counterproductive?" “

Bi Maokang was stunned when he heard this, yes, if you don't set a standard, the people below will mess around, it will cause most people to be dissatisfied, this is better than not rising, but, what standard can this diligence have, it is not up to the person in charge to see, how to know if this person is diligent or not!

Zhu Cijiong saw that everyone frowned and thought hard, and it seemed that he couldn't think of any way, so he had to prompt directly: "Make a standard of labor hours, for example, digging a pit and planting trees in front, it is not difficult to dig a pit in two hours, and an adult can easily complete it, if it is stipulated that digging a pit is one or two silver, then will they still grind for two hours, or do they still need ten people, as long as they dig hard, five people can't dig ten pits in two hours?" “

When Bi Maokang heard this, he suddenly realized: "What does the emperor mean to calculate their wages according to their working hours, and how much work they do?" “

This is actually the piecework wage system of later generations, of course, piecework wage is not a general amount of work to do how much money to pay, Zhu Cijiong explained while recalling: "This according to the working hours of the wage should also have a standard, so let's take a hundred working hours a month as the standard, if a month to complete a hundred hours of work, let them find out in a month, if a month can complete two hundred hours of work, according to the current double of the salary, the specific amount of one working hour is equivalent to, you will calculate according to this standard." “

When Bi Maokang heard this, he couldn't help but praise from the bottom of his heart: "The emperor is wise, and Weichen knows how to do it, so I am afraid that the output will increase by more than two or three percent." “

Zhu Cijiong smiled and asked, "Now you have confidence in producing two hundred super battleships a year, right?" “

Bi Maokang nodded involuntarily and said, "Yes." “

Zhu Cijiong then said lightly: "In fact, there are some small methods that can also increase production." “

Bi Maokang couldn't help but say eagerly: "Please teach the emperor." “

Zhu Cijiong nodded and said with a smile: "For example, for the processing of square materials and sheets, can we only use manpower to chop and saw?" “

When Bi Maokang heard this, his eyes lit up again, and he took the initiative to reply: "Weichen understands that he can use a steam piston instead of manpower, and install a steam piston on both sides of the saw, so that no one needs to pull the saw." “

Zhu Cijiong was still smiling and nodding when he heard the first half of the sentence, but when he heard the second half of the sentence, he immediately rolled his eyes and said angrily: "That's not a back and forth saw, how fast can it be?" “

When Bi Maokang heard this, he arched his hand embarrassedly and said, "Please teach the emperor." “

When Zhu Cijiong heard this, he took a piece of paper from Sun Yuanhua, took a brush, drew a circle directly on the paper, and then drew a circle of sawteeth around the circle, pushed it to Bi Maokang, and explained: "Meng Hou, the saw doesn't have to be long, it's okay to be round, if you use high-carbon steel to make such a thin circular saw wheel, and then let it rotate rapidly, is it much faster than pulling the saw back and forth?" “

Bi Maokang looked at it and reminded carefully: "Your Majesty, if you want this saw wheel to rotate rapidly, it must be connected to the gear, then the saw wheel can't move, how to see wood?" “

Zhu Cijiong slapped his forehead, pointed to the conference table and said: "I also want to add a shelf similar to a conference table, cut a slit in the middle of the part, and expose the saw wheel, so that as long as the wood is pushed over from the saw wheel, it will be sawed open, and you can also nail the wood on one side of the saw wheel to fix the size, as long as you push it next to the fixed wooden side, how wide it is, and how wide it is sawed out." “

Bi Maokang and others looked at the conference table, imagining the scene of the saw wheel sawing wood in their minds, and showed a surprised expression, in this way, the speed is not only doubled, in the past, sawing a piece of wood to two skilled craftsmen back and forth to pull the long saw saw saw for half a day, with this kind of saw wheel, next to the fixed size of the wood to push over, sawing out a wooden board does not take a stick of incense time, half a day can be sawed at least hundreds!

Seeing that everyone's surprised expressions turned to admiration, and there was a trend of sycophancy, Zhu Cijiong hurriedly raised his hand and said: "This is just an example of the use of new technology in production, you can also think about whether steam power can be used in other places, I will not analyze this step by step, and then I will tell you how to apply new materials to production and improve production efficiency." “

When everyone heard this, they immediately picked up their pens and listened attentively, for fear of missing the main point.

The time was not early, Zhu Cijiong simply taught directly: "For example, fixed square corners, there are many square corners on the battleship, like the square corners between the deck of the cabin and the wooden wall, there are a lot, I took a closer look, now most of them are made of about one inch of wood, embedded in the square corners, and then the horizontal and longitudinal are full of iron nails of about one and a half inches to fix the connection." Think about it, how much effort it takes to drive this inch and a half of iron nails into it, and the real force is less than half an inch. If you change to a one-minute thick iron plate, it will definitely be stronger than an inch of wood in terms of hardness, right? “

Speaking of this, Zhu Cijiong directly pulled a piece of white paper from Sun Yuanhua, folded it into the size of a palm, and then folded it into a right angle and put it on the tabletop. Just use a half-inch long nail, and the force is almost half an inch, but is the force required to nail the nail more than doubled? “

When Bi Maokang and the others heard this, they couldn't stop nodding, and their expressions were as reverent as they were.

Speaking of this, Zhu Cijiong felt that he had almost finished everything he could think of, and the time was almost up, so he waved his hand directly: "Okay, let's stop here today, Meng Hou, you first let Dongda Construction Shipyard make the fifty super battleships in Spain as soon as possible, and strive to go to sea in June. “

Bi Maokang nodded confidently and said: "There is no problem, please rest assured that the Dongda Construction Shipyard will definitely be able to produce a hundred super battleships in the second half of this year." “