Chapter 461

And Wang Yang came to preside over the work of the Jiafang Department, and the first thing he did was to carefully sort out the work process of the entire Jiafang Department.

Silently recorded all the things he felt needed to be improved, and spent two whole days thinking about how to improve the efficiency of the entire Jiafang Department.

The location of the Ordnance Supervisor is excellent, located on a branch of the Bianhe River outside Bianliang City, with plenty of water, and importantly, it happens to be surrounded by two mounds.

On the banks of the river alone, more than fifty waterwheels have been erected to aid in smelting and forging. But these waterwheels are all pure wood of the past, and there is almost no metal waterwheel structure.

Therefore, wear and tear can easily cause these pure wooden waterwheels to strike, and as for those smelting furnaces, in the past, they could only smelt pig iron, and then use pig iron to carry out the iron frying process to obtain wrought iron.

On the third day, under Wang Yang's instructions, one-third of the craftsmen in the Jiafang Department stopped their work, extinguished the stove around them, and turned off the hair dryer.

Because Wang Dacai wants to carry out a comprehensive reform and transformation of the entire Jiafang Department. The reason why only one-third of the craftsmen stopped their work was mainly because the previous armor making had not yet been completed and needed to be finished.

And these one-third of the craftsmen, there are more than 3,500 people, and a group of more than 500 experienced and strong learning ability have been selected from them

He also sent more than 100 craftsmen to Wu's smelting workshop to learn the Yuanyou steel-making technique, Yuanyou smelting coke technique and the production process of Yuanyou armor invented and pioneered by Wang Yang. It is to improve or transform the waterwheel, smelting furnace, and smelting tools.

Let the more than 3,000 craftsmen who have become idle in an instant start the construction work in full swing.

Although many of the craftsmen did not quite understand Wang Yang's approach, the problem was that in the face of this dignified official appointed by the court, their objections had no effect at all.

The original more than ten iron-smelting furnaces did not move, but next to them, nearly twenty more smelting furnaces were erected, and the previous set of smelting tools in the Wu smelting workshop was not only copied in its entirety, but Wang Yang also carefully divided the work of these more than 3,000 craftsmen.

In the past, almost all the craftsmen of the Jiafang Department were forging iron armor, but now, Wang Yang asked the Zhang Signing Order to distinguish the craftsmen in the Jiafang Bureau, one-fifth is responsible for the future coal preparation and coking work, and one-fifth is responsible for the iron ore crushing and beneficiation work.

One-fifth is responsible for the smelting of pig iron and tongs, mainly for the production of suitable forged nails and the production of wire drawing products.

One fifth is responsible for the forging and post-heat treatment process of the steel armor, and the other fifth is responsible for the chain mail process production of the steel wire and the assembly of the iron armor.

In addition, Wang Yang specially inquired about the forbidden army, and then went to find the old generals who are now squatting on the court to retire, and after careful questioning, he found several representative soldiers, measured their figures, and then trimmed the universality and flexibility of the armor to a certain extent.

In this way, the Great Song Yuan Youjia will be divided into two models, large and medium, and each model can meet the needs of soldiers with a height difference of 20 centimeters.

In other words, the large armor can meet the needs of soldiers from 19 to 1.7 meters, while the medium armor can fully meet the needs of 1.8 to 1.6 meters. Because of the requirements of the Great Song Dynasty for soldiers, the minimum height is more than 1.6 meters.

And even if there are soldiers who are really more than two meters tall, they can still obtain satisfactory and strong armor by increasing or decreasing the chain armor ring.

The power of the state, which is obviously not comparable to that of individuals and collective enterprises, took less than five days to produce twenty blast furnaces for steelmaking.

The coking chamber has also been completed, and after experimental production, it is expected that the 30 large coking chambers will be able to supply more than 60,000 catties of coking coal per day in three batches of coking in turn.

The waterwheel on the side of the iron ore is renovated, and if you work overtime every day, you can provide more than 100,000 catties of iron powder.

The size and shape of the newly built blast furnace is almost the same as that of the Wu smelting workshop, and it is estimated that a blast furnace can produce 3,000 catties of tongs and pot steel per day without any problems at all.

However, compared to the fifteen to twenty craftsmen at that time, it took ten days to produce two pairs of Great Song and Yuan Youjia armor, Wang Yang was not satisfied.

Because at that time, he just thought of something, and then he started to prepare, and then he did it, but now, what Wang Yang needs is to be able to produce the most high-quality and low-cost Great Song Yuan Youjia at the fastest speed.

Therefore, Wang Yang decided to adopt the most common and classic method in later generations: assembly line production.

For example, the craftsmen who produce forged nails will be divided into several groups, one group will be responsible for forging and forming the nails, another group will be responsible for cutting the pieces, the next team will be responsible for quenching the pieces, another team will be responsible for grinding the pieces, and another team will be responsible for drilling the polished pieces.

The forging group has the help of a water hammer forging press, the cutting group has a hydraulic cutting machine to help, the length of carburizing time of each piece of nail in the quenching group has clear regulations, and the grinding team uses a hydraulic grinding machine to polish the nail piece.

The nail drilling machine is the kind of manual machine tool similar to the sewing machine that Wang Yang made before. With the help of these various machines, it takes no more than one and a half hours from the first team to the last team to drill the polished nails.

Then it was handed over to the next work workshop, that is, the assembly workshop, and there were not many processes in the assembly workshop, that is, the chain armor taken from another chain armor workshop was assembled with this iron armor piece. It takes about two craftsmen about three and a half hours to assemble a whole armor, that is, two craftsmen can assemble a pair of Great Song Yuan Yu armor every day.

"From the beginning of the production of tongs and pot steel, once the division of labor is carried out in the process of nail pieces and chain mail, it continues to the assembly of the Great Song and Yuan Dynasty armors.

In fact, it only takes eleven hours to take time, and in this kind of large-scale assembly line operation, only 20 people are needed to produce tongs and pot steel, and you can produce 3,000 catties of tongs and pot steel per day......"

Listening to Wang Yang's eloquence there, Lu Jianqing, the ordnance supervisor, looked at the account book in his hand with some confusion, or rather the report.

The labor, materials, and time required for each process are outrageously detailed.

"This report is really detailed, don't ......" Although it is very detailed, it also made the erudite and well-informed Lu Jianqing dizzy, and after putting down this thick report stupidly, Lu Jianqing's eyes fell on Wang Yang again.

"But what makes this official even more curious is that how long did it take for you to say a pair of Great Song Yuan Youjia just now?"