As soon as Zong Ze approached the boiler room, a wave of heat came to him.

Two boilermakers, standing in front of the flames that were flying out, shoveled coal into the hot furnace. They are all wearing their upper bodies, the black soot stains the skin so that the primary color cannot be seen, and the sweat that keeps flowing down washes out white marks on the gray and black background.

Smoke billowed from the chimney on the roof, and the smell of smoke and fire could not be concealed even by a layer of masks.

The sound of the steam engine running was even more deafening. Boom boom, like the drum beat in front of the formation, constantly repeating the monotonous rhythm.

In fact, Zong Ze can endure this qiē, but there is still one thing that makes Zong Ze afraid of this house filled with iron and fire.

Whether it is the flying and rotating iron wheel, or the connecting rod that constantly bends and extends, it makes Zong Ze a little timid. It's just that what he understands is that just because of the mechanical failure that caused the parts to fly out, there have been no less than ten bloody cases in the past two years.

One was killed by one blow, some lingered on the hospital bed for many days and finally died, and another was shattered in the skull, but miraculously survived. When the man took off the iron helmet, he was going to be stripped of his bones, so that the sunken Heavenly Spirit Cover was exposed, and Zong Ze, who boasted of being bold and had never been afraid in the past, woke up in a layer of cold sweat the next day.

But what scares Zong Ze the most is the boiler full of boiling water. The strong pressure in the boiler turns the boiler into a bomb filled with gunpowder, and the resulting casualties are no less than those in the gunpowder workshop. Moreover, in order to be able to create a larger steam engine with power - the new word is still proposed by Han Gang - the pressure in the boiler is also increasing, the steam engine with two atmospheres is already ready to be manufactured on a large scale, the first real engine at three atmospheres has been built, and the steam engine with five atmospheres has just begun to be designed, but in the future, there will be eight or ten atmosphere steam engines.

Just one atmosphere of pressure has already made the two hemispheres that are pumped into a vacuum inside, and even eight healthy horses can't pull them apart -- this real yàn five years ago has shown the world what air pressure is and the power of air pressure.

Two atmospheres has already caused hundreds of casualties. So, what are the consequences of three, five, or even eight or ten atmospheres?

Zong Ze heard Han Gang say that increasing the pressure by one atmosphere is equivalent to diving thirty feet underwater, and adding ten atmospheres is the pressure of more than three hundred feet below the surface of the water, which is about the weight of more than two zhang thick mercury or four zhang thick iron plate on the body - enough to crush human bones into powder.

If the boiler with ten atmospheres burst open, Zong Ze didn't dare to imagine such a picture.

Spitting fire and smoke, roaring like thunder, and devouring human life, this is simply the beast of the story.

If the environment in the factories was similar, it would be no wonder that the Mingjiao thieves only instigated a little, and the workers of the silk factory began to rebel.

Of course, now the steam engine has not yet been put into use at the factory. But the production conditions were already very bad, and after adding the steam engine, it was even worse. Who can stand it?!

Zong Ze has always supported Han Gang's series of governance strategies, and also believes that the most basic thing in governing the country is to keep the people fed and clothed. Only when food and clothing are reached can people's hearts be stable. Only when people's hearts are stable can they achieve political communication and harmony.

But if today's changes are more and more beyond the limits of his imagination, what will the world become?

A journey of a thousand miles, three days to return. A thousand stones can be carried in one car. These are all things that no one could have predicted until more than ten years ago, and they were only predicted in "Travels in the Nine Domains".

However, in "Travels in the Nine Domains", there is no chapter on the burning of factories and the hardship of workers, but is full of descriptions of the rich and stable lives of workers. Zong Ze has never been to Liangzhejiang, but among his relatives and friends, some people have personally visited the factory several times. In the letter, the working environment in the silk factory has far exceeded the lower limit expected by Zong Ze.

Perhaps the change of the Liangzhejiang Silk Factory is just the result of the crooked mouth monk reciting the crooked scriptures, and the cotton spinning factory under the leadership of Han Gang is just like the one described in his book, and the families are full of food and clothing.

But the bigger problem is the size of the factory.

If someone said that as long as there was a need, the imperial court would pull out an army of three or five thousand people from the Kaifeng Iron Field, Zong Ze would not be surprised at all. Because the more than 5,000 workers in the Kaifeng Iron Yard are basically healthy adult men, for the safety of production, there are rules and regulations in their actions, and they can easily adapt to the discipline of the army.

Although it is not as good as Kaifeng Iron Yard, there are hundreds of people in an ordinary factory, and if there are 100 factories, it is tens of thousands. These workers were disciplined and ten times easier to train than the loose peasants. Once there is chaos, how can the peasants be compared? It is true that there will be riots when the tenant farmers make a tenant, but it is never possible to reach the scale of a factory.

It's not that Zong Ze can't understand Han Gang's statecraft, it's because he understands it too well that he has a fear for the future. The future is like the computer room in front of him, which makes him look away for a while.

But just when Zong Ze hesitated and slowed down, Han Gang had already walked into the computer room briskly. Motioning to the two boiler workers to continue shoveling coal, regardless of the flying dust, they happily looked at the machine, which had been running steadily for nine and a half days.

These days, Han Gang's mood is obviously good.

After the Liangzhejiang incident, when he heard about the casualties, his mood was indeed a little heavy. Being able to blame Mingjiao was certainly what Han Gang was happy to see, but it was not his original wish that the people of Dantu County suffered such heavy casualties. At that time, when arranging a Jingying forbidden army to go south, I didn't expect things to deteriorate so quickly and explode so suddenly.

I know that there will only be more similar things in the future, but I always don't control myself. Even if it can be so restrained that others can't see it at all, I always understand.

However, Han Gang was also very pleased to be able to solve the case of arson in the factory and the rebellion of the Mingjiao sect so simply.

Although the whole of Runzhou failed to prevent the birth of the matter, it was timely to strangle it in infancy. If Weikang is given a little room to grow, it may be a big chaos that will affect a state or even all the way.

Han Gang still remembers how Fang La arose in Jiangnan a few decades later, and the scale of the peasant uprising that can enter the textbook is definitely not too small.

Even if the harm caused by the rise of the silk factory to the people of Jiangnan is far inferior to the Huashigang of the painter emperor who was not born in this world, the contradictions accumulated over the past hundred years since the founding of the country burst out, and they can still turn Jiangnan upside down. ，

This time, the scope of the rebels' rampant rampant was only a county under the rule of Runzhou, which was really a blessing in misfortune. Otherwise, Han Gang would inevitably be a little passive.

It's just relief and rejoicing, but it still can't withstand the heavy casualties of the people at first sight.

It wasn't until the steam engine was slightly improved, and the technical indicators improved again when it was realized, that Han Gang's mood improved.

The improved steam engine now has a maximum running time of nearly ten days. And the average normal operation time, the most recent real Yàn models, can also be maintained for more than a day. The vast majority of failures that are down can be fixed within an hour and then restarted.

In the case that most factories do not have night shifts, the longest running time of the steam engine as a power source is only 11 or 2 hours. If the existing steam engine can still ensure the current quality level after mass production, then textile mills and steel mills can send hydraulic engines to the garbage dump.

"Congratulations."

Han Gang glanced back when he heard the sound, it was Zong Ze who came in.

He had only noticed Zong Ze's hesitation, but he seemed to have overcome his fear and walked in. Standing in front of this kind of unstable ground machine will indeed add a little fear to people's hearts. Zong Ze's reaction was very normal.

Han Gang turned back to look at the steam engine, "No, it's not enough. ”

"Isn't it okay to get in the car?" Zong Ze asked.

"There was some hope when I got on the bus, but I don't know what year or month it will be when I get on the boat. The steam engine needs to be constantly added with water, and the ship is traveling at sea, where does the clean water come from? ”

What Hangang wanted was a steam engine that could support a thousand-ton ship across the Pacific Ocean. However, the structure of the existing steam engine is completely unable to adapt to the conditions on the sea, and a new architecture must be used to design a new type of steam engine.

"But the most important thing is to be able to drive spinning machines, looms, hammers, so that the factory is no longer limited by water power."

“…… But Xianggong," Zong Ze said after hesitating for a while, "the number of factories increases, and it is inevitable that there will be another rebellion in Runzhou in the future." ”

Han Gang nodded, "Of course I know about this. ”

The thieves of the South are almost a joke, but the power of the working class is anything but a joke. Sooner or later, the wrath of the workers will once again ignite the factory, even sweeping the ground. But at that time, no one dared to say, "Now, let's just shut down the factory." Hangang's protection only needs to be maintained until the day when the industrial exhibition grows.

"In many places now, miners often go on strike, but the solution to the problem is to sit down and talk slowly. Unless the asking price is too high, unless the miners destroy the tools, no official will use force lightly. And the miners are not the same, and they will refrain from it. Because both sides know what happens when things are done. They have learned too much. ”

Zong Ze had heard something like that from Han Gang, just before he went south.

"Xianggong means that the owners and workers of the Southern Silk Mill have too little experience in sitting down and negotiating?"

"Of course. As you told Ru Lin before, the purpose of setting up a factory is to produce and make money, and the use of the two Zhejiang's squeezing methods is far less than the benefits obtained by treating workers well. I remember that at that time, I also gave the example of a cotton textile factory. ”

The factory owners of the cotton textile factory are all members of the Yongqin Chamber of Commerce. These factory owners of the Yongqin Chamber of Commerce have an agreement with each other to advance and retreat together, and the wages of the workers are not lower than a certain limit, and of course they cannot be set at a predetermined upper limit.

In addition to determining the wage scale according to the quantity and quality of the product, the seniority of the workers, as well as the level of skill, can determine the level of some wages. If the profit is higher than expected, there will be a part of the dividend.

If the workers had any problems with production and compensation, the factory managers would sit down with them and talk to them slowly. No culpability will be imposed.

Only a worker who dares to take the lead in making trouble and violating the rules of the factory will be fired without mercy, and no factory will hire him again.

The income of cotton textile workers is much higher than that of farm work, the income is high, and the treatment is good, so the atmosphere in the factory is also very good, the workers are also motivated, and the factory owners naturally benefit more.

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