Gu Haotian, the football sport of the Guards, only introduced them to the door, and let them play by themselves, and he returned to his original life trajectory, reading books and writing essays every day, occasionally teasing his Lian'er, and living a good life.

On this day, Gu Haotian was making a trial plan, and suddenly saw a servant coming to report, and Du Qian and Tang Long asked to see him. It suddenly occurred to him that it must be the finished product of the weapons workshop, and he had been studying in retreat recently, but he had never visited the workshop, so he put down what he was doing and went to the front yard.

Du Qian and Tang Long were already sitting in the living room drinking tea, and there were several weapons wrapped in cloth on the next few cases.

"But there's a finished product in the workshop?" Gu Haotian asked excitedly as soon as he entered the door.

"Exactly, it has been brought now, please take a look at it." The two of them got up and replied.

As he spoke, Tang Long opened a cloth bag on several cases and took out a knife. Gu Haotian took a look and found that the style was basically similar to the knife he got in Crouching Tiger Village before, but it was obviously finer than it, and the shape was similar to the ghost head knife of the Eighth Route Army in later generations, the knife was about one meter long, the blade was wide and sharp, and the handle of the knife had a gauntlet to prevent damage from being injured by enemy weapons, and it was a ring-headed knife with a ring on the handle of the knife. He picked it up and waved it, feeling that it would be a little heavier for ordinary soldiers to use.

"Yes, what's the name of this knife?" Gu Haotian asked.

"This is the knife commonly used in the military today, called 'hand knife'." Tang Long replied.

"It's just a little heavier, if you can make it lighter, it will be easier to use."

"Petty officials don't know that this kind of quality is already the first class in the current military ranks, and if it takes time to temper, it will be more time-consuming and material-intensive."

Tang Long thought that this knife was the best weapon for soldiers at the moment, and he didn't want the petty officials to be dissatisfied.

"Oh, how many man-hours does it take to get such a knife?" To be honest, I don't know anything about these Gu Hao's naivety.

"Regardless of the materials, it will take five or six days for such a good craftsman to make a good knife."

"It's so time-consuming!"

Gu Haotian calculated silently in his heart, so he took one knife in five days as the standard, and there were more than ten mature craftsmen in his workshop, so he could make more than sixty knives at most a month, if he wanted large-scale equipment, it would have to wait for the Year of the Ox and the month of the horse, and there were still urgently needed supplies such as armor to be made, thinking of this, he was a little anxious.

"Take me to the workshop."

After the establishment of the workshop, he had not been to the field to see it, and today he took the opportunity to take a look.

The ordnance workshop is built on the northeast side of the mountainside by a stream, built here one is convenient for water, the other is the exhaust gas discharged, no matter winter or summer, it will not cause pollution to the mountain, the other point is that Gu Haotian is conducive to the idea of using water to strike iron, and has specially explained.

In a "clanging" noise, Tang Long led Gu Haotian around the workshop, Gu Haotian felt that there was no big difference with the folk blacksmith shop that he later learned from various channels, the most intuitive feeling is two, one is that the bellows do not seem to be piston type, the other is that the fuel is not coal but charcoal, the calorific value of coal is larger and cheaper than the calorific value of charcoal, is there no coal in this era, and its image of the original Northern Song Dynasty coal should be widely used.

"Why charcoal instead of coal?" Gu Haotian asked suspiciously.

"Or coal?" Tang Long looked at Gu Haotian puzzled.

"It's coal." Gu Haotian suddenly thought that coal in this era was called carbon.

"The petty officials don't know that although the firepower of charcoal is much stronger than charcoal, the iron smelted is very brittle, and it cannot be used to make weapons and armor, otherwise who would use expensive charcoal." Tang Long is a family of ironsmiths, and he knows it more clearly.

At this time, Gu Haotian suddenly remembered that he had read an article on the Internet in later generations, the sulfur content of coal is very high, and the sulfur content of ironmaking with coal will be too high, and sulfur will cause heat and brittleness, so the steel smelted cannot be forged. However, he also saw in this article that the solution was to make coal into coke, and the coking method introduced there seemed to be simple, but it would pollute the air, but in the Great Zhou Dynasty, which was still an agricultural civilization, this pollution He believed that nature could still deal with it.

After staying in the armory workshop for a while, Gu Haotian left, although he didn't understand the art of striking iron, but he had a basic idea of how to improve the efficiency of the workshop.

On the same day, Gu Haotian wrote out the coking method in detail, drew a sketch of the piston bellows, thought about it for a while, and wrote a few management methods.

In the conference room of Zhonghua Hall that night, Gu Haotian invited Wen Huanzhang to gather relevant personnel from the Logistics Department, the Infrastructure Construction Department, the Civil Affairs Office, and the Commerce Department to discuss the transformation and management of the ordnance workshop. At the meeting, Gu Haotian introduced the coking method and the piston bellows to everyone, everyone was amazed, the role of coke is not yet known, but the sketch of the piston bellows is simple and clear, everyone knows at a glance that this thing is much better than the current "wooden fan", Tang Long and Sha Copper eyes are about to fall out.

"Brother Zongwang's infrastructure department has the most craftsmen, and this bellows can be made?" Tang Long stared at Tao Zongwang and asked anxiously.

"Judging by this picture, it shouldn't be that difficult."

"Then hurry up and help me make a few, brother, thank you here." When Tang Long heard that it could be made, he was even more eager.

"Director Tang Long doesn't need to be anxious, this bellows has a pattern, it is not difficult, but the coking thing is related to the long-term of the workshop, according to the method of the petty officials, it should be successful if you try a few more times, but it will discharge a lot of exhaust gases, it seems inappropriate to put it on the mountain, you have to find a safe place." Wen Huanzhang naturally saw which was more important.

"If this coke can be refined, it is a rare thing in the world, and its kiln site must be placed in a place that we can take care of in Liangshan, and it must be easy to transport, I think Lijia Daokou and Shijie Village are the most suitable."

The location of the two kiln sites proposed by Xiao Rang is not bad, Shijie Village is a little farther away, but it is the hometown of the Ruan brothers, and many sailors come from there, so it can be said that Liangshan is the base; The Lijia Daokou is close to each other, and Zhu Fu's hotel is open there, and that land will inevitably become Liangshan's sphere of influence in the future.

"I mean built at the Lijia crossing, listen to the petty officials, the burning of this coke is similar to the burning of bricks and porcelain, and there are also people who are good at this line in the infrastructure team, but the firing process must have some twists and turns, if it is at the Lijia crossing, it is more convenient to go back and forth to check if there are many problems." Tao Zongwang suggested choosing Lijia Daokou.

"What I mean is also to choose at the Lijia crossing, whether it is to buy charcoal, or to use it successfully in the future, it is much more convenient to transport the Lijia crossing." Honka also suggested that it should be built at the Lijia Road crossing.

"So it is scheduled to be at the Lijia Road Crossing, the Civil Affairs Department and the Infrastructure Construction Department will go to the village together, choose a suitable place, and immediately buy the kiln, the Commercial Office will immediately purchase a batch of charcoal for backup, and the Infrastructure Construction Department will select a group of reliable people who are familiar with burning bricks and porcelain, and study the firing method of coke first, and the Logistics Department and the training camp will select and train a group of people, who will be stationed at the Lijia Road Crossing in the future and be responsible for guarding."

Gu Haotian saw that everyone was optimistic about the Li family crossing, so he also made a decision.

Subsequently, Gu Haotian made arrangements on how to improve the production efficiency of the ordnance workshop: First, to improve the process, the infrastructure construction department was required to select skilled craftsmen to form a technical team to be stationed in the ordnance workshop, and cooperate with the craftsmen of the workshop to be responsible for the innovation of various production tools in the workshop, such as bellows, blast furnaces, and so on. The second is to make full use of water energy, not only to use water energy to drive the bellows, but also to develop forging equipment driven by water energy to reduce manual forging. The third is to carry out assembly line production, change the practice of a craftsman to complete a product from beginning to end, all craftsmen are classified according to their skill level and expertise, respectively, to complete the various processes of the product, the process is set up from easy to difficult, the craftsman is promoted and downgraded according to the performance, and a product inspector is set up in each process to be responsible for product quality inspection. Fourth, the establishment of an innovation reward system, all personnel who have made innovations in production and equipment, can be used in the production of weapons, according to the size of the role, set up different levels of bonuses, if the contribution is particularly large, can also be awarded different levels of positions, in addition to enjoy the salary. Fifth, performance management for each position, income and performance linked, do well every month, quarterly, year-end bonuses, and can be given priority to promotion, do not do well to deduct fines, accumulate a certain number of times to be reduced until dismissal, each process set up a foreman, who is jointly and severally responsible for the performance of the process.

What Gu Haotian thinks about during the day is actually referring to the performance management methods of later generations and the production process of modern factories, so for this era, this management method is absolutely advanced and novel.

After listening to Gu Haotian's speech, everyone didn't say a word for a while, and all of them sat there quietly thinking and digesting.

"This assembly line production is really good, usually a knife is made to the critical point, and more than ten people are working, but others can't get involved, so there will be no such problems." After a while, Tang Long said with deep feelings.

"It's just those craftsmen who are willing to teach outsiders the skills of housekeeping?"

In this era, the craftsmanship is passed down from family to family, and the general craftsmen regard it as a treasure and are reluctant to pass it on, so Du Qian said this.

"Humph! Could it be that the Du Qian brothers didn't hear about the reward system and joint and several liability? If I am a craftsman, I will be the first to take out the skills, not to mention the rewards, not to mention that I can also get a decent identity, and after the implementation of this rule, all craftsmen will inevitably compete to study various skills, just afraid that after some time, a little skill that is reluctant to come out in the stomach is worthless, and it is too late to regret it. Besides, there is also that joint and several responsibility, if there is a person with skills, he will not be willing to be subordinate, and as a manager, why do you do a good job, it is better to teach everyone, and you can be promoted if you are famous, why not. ”

I have to say that Xiao Rang's words were analyzed very thoroughly. Everyone also felt that it made sense, especially Sha Tong, he felt that this was specially said and listened to by him, and his heart was suddenly clarified, and he secretly thought that he had to call that group of old guys together to talk about it well, otherwise he would suffer a big loss if he was confused.

"The law of performance management is really the artifact of the rule of officials, if the court uses this method, how can the mediocre officials be lazy, I think that not only the weapons workshop implements this system, but also all parts of the mountain must be implemented according to this, and the civil affairs department should follow what the petty officials said, sort out a strategy, and implement it everywhere."

Wen Huanzhang's overall view is always higher than ordinary people, and he immediately keenly perceived the superiority of this system, so he asked the District Affairs Department to promote it.

The performance appraisal was originally proposed for the ordnance workshop, but later its greatest effect was reflected in the management system of Dangliangshan, which is the so-called unintentional willow and willow shady.