Chapter 199: Factory

Tan Weixin had proved himself to be a very good at secrecy with enough precedents in the past, and now, although Ye Tao was still very interested in the content of the conversation between Tan Weixin and Dai Yun in those few minutes that day, Ye Tao was not too enthusiastic about this kind of effort, which obviously would not bear fruit.

The stay in Suiyuan City was a few days longer than expected. The main reason is that the consolidation of various industries confiscated after Dai's cleaning of Yunzhou is a little more complicated than Wei Xin expected. Because it was wartime, the inventory of the raids was not carried out so carefully, especially some merchants, who may only have money dealings with those families who were confiscated, or just dividends every year, and the Dai family did not catch all of them. And some industries that are more prosperous, perhaps because the person in charge of Dai's inventory felt that it was a pity to have a simple and crude raid, and after some intimidation, they sent personnel to keep an eye on the operation of the industry, but they did not count, so it dragged on. Although some of these industries have declined due to the absence of key management personnel, many of them have maintained quite good business conditions, and some industries have even flourished due to various opportunities in Yunzhou after the war. In addition, there are some relatively scattered fields that are not suitable for inclusion in the Invalides' farms and pastures, as well as some workshop industries that are not very convenient to move due to their strong technology, among which Ye Tao and Tan Weixin find it particularly funny that there are actually two aphrodisiac workshops and a complete set of raw material planting bases...... It naturally takes quite a long time to take over all kinds of shops and workshops with completely different situations, and in these days in Suiyuan, Tan Weixin only gave some principled opinions on some of the more common situations.

There seems to be no unanimous opinion within the Dai family on which industries to hand over to the Yunzhou Jingluo Mansion for integration and diversion, and the two factions are more concentrated and opposed. On the one hand, the Dai family believed that they should wholeheartedly attach themselves to Dongping and the Tanjia land, and believed that all metal deposits, forges, and workshops related to ordnance should be handed over to the Tan family; While others clamored for the Dai family to reserve a little ability to reorganize their armaments, just in case.

But it seems that everyone underestimated Ye Tao's determination to integrate Yunzhou's various manufacturing resources and Tan Weixin's measurements.

Tan Weixin never wanted to receive all the workshops under the name of the Inner Government or hand them over to the military of Yunzhou, which was becoming more and more eastward. It would be unjustifiable to let the Inner Government take control, not to mention that the Inner Government would not allocate funds to take over these workshops that were lacking in technology and manpower. And in the case of Ye Tao, Qian Shun and other technical forces involved. Handing over the workshop to the Yunzhou military will still rely on Ye Tao's opinion, which would be completely superfluous.

In this situation, where it is necessary to focus on supporting the development of industry and commerce, and slightly inclined to the needs of the army in product production, Ye Tao and Tan Weixin discussed again and again, and finally decided to establish the first relatively first-class department under the Yunzhou Economic Strategy Mansion: Yunzhou Manufacturing Bureau. As Ye Tao and Tan Weixin discussed before, in order for Yunzhou to have a large number of unique products to drive economic development, Ye Tao needs to let Ye's Workshop take on the responsibility of rushing to the technology tree, and he doesn't want the Yunzhou branch of Ye's Workshop to fall into the dilemma of constantly expanding production and constantly dispersing energy in production management. There is such an investment of time and energy. It is better to develop more newer products. In Ye Tao's vision, Yip's Workshop will develop various products, and then obtain profits from the Yunzhou Manufacturing Bureau and other private workshops in the form of equity and dividends, and use these profits to continue to support Yip's Workshop's technology research and development. Naturally, Yip's Workshop still wants to produce, but it only limits production to the technologically advanced fields of this era.

So, who will be in charge of the Yunzhou Manufacturing Bureau? This question is not easy to answer. From the aspect of production management and planning, there is no doubt that Ye Tao has complete confidence in his senior brother Qian Shun, but Qian Shun himself is unwilling to leave Ye's Workshop to take on the position of Yunzhou Manufacturing Bureau at least the fourth grade. Qian Shun's reaction was. Purely in terms of yield and quality, it's too boring. So, Ye Tao had to look for a suitable candidate from other aspects, and finally decided to have an old member of the Dai family, Han Key, serve as the director.

While Ye Tao attached importance to Qian Shun's own choice, he did not give Han Jian much choice. When the appointment is announced. What a scene can be described as a noise. Han Jian is not a member of the Dai clan, not even any one of the huge in-law forces alliance involved by the seven aunts and eight aunts, he is just growing up step by step in the Dai clan's real estate industry, and now he is actually managing the Dai clan's many workshops in Suiyuan. Nominally, Dai's manufacturing industry is only the fourth-in-command. The appearance of this name in Ye Tao's field of vision was somewhat accidental.

Since Dai Shikui was inclined to hand over all of Dai's workshops, as soon as he arrived in Suiyuan, he asked Suiyuan to list the information of all Dai's workshops here for Ye Tao to see. And this work naturally fell to Han Key, who actually manages these industries and is most familiar with the situation. Han Key's list of workshop materials not only includes the location of each workshop, the number of craftsmen, and the types of items produced, but also many more useful contents. For example, in Suiyuan, Dai's has a total of five forging and smelting houses and more than 20 blacksmithing shops, which have always been scattered, but they have not had the time and energy to integrate. In the information of the forging and smelting room listed by Han Key. He does not have a quantitative standard for the quality of steel ingots, iron ingots or copper produced in each forging property, but he gives the relative quality of different materials based on the steel ingots produced in Liyang, the largest steel producing area in Dongping, the year before last. Although those blacksmith shops have not been integrated in terms of location, from the time Han Jian took over until now, each shop is responsible for one or several components and then assembles them, although the production process seems to be unreasonable in Ye Tao. But it has reached a fairly high level. When reading Han Key's report document. Ye Tao, Tan Weixin, Qian Shun and Dai Shikui and others effortlessly learned about the current situation of Dai's workshop, and suddenly. Qian Shun asked the author of this report, and only then did he implicate such an unknown person as Han Key.

For Han Key, appointing him as the director of the manufacturing bureau was something that he never expected, and he hurriedly wanted to resign, but was told that Ye Tao had gone to inspect the factory area of Ye's workshop. And Han Key, who was sent to the door, was stuffed into the carriage by the smiling Dai Shikui and asked him to go to the factory to find Ye Jingluo......

No doubt. Han Jian was a little frightened. In just a few days, he had heard all kinds of rumors, tormenting him all the time. Although Dai Shikui and others relieved him, it didn't really make him accept the appointment of the Yunzhou Manufacturing Bureau calmly. The most vicious and harsh attacks did not come from the Dai family, who had always been calm and peaceful, and attached great importance to true ability, but from those of the Dai family's in-laws and those domestic servants who were not far from Han Key's status...... Han Jian himself only thinks that he is a domestic servant with some status.

"Where is Lord Ye?" When the carriage passed through the three blockade lines outside the Yip's Workshop factory, it came to the completed workers' dormitory on the edge of the factory under construction, which is now regarded as the core of project management. He didn't care too much about his fatigue, but asked Ye Tao first.

"Mr. Han, you should rest first. Now Mr. Ye is supervising the hoisting of the beams of the factory on the construction site. It looks like we won't be able to come back until the evening when I get off work. One of the apprentices said very respectfully.

"Lifting beams?" Han Jian asked with a frown. He didn't think that with the reputation of Ye's workshop, Ye Tao had to take care of the beams of some factories himself.

"Hehe, Lord Ye thinks that our construction is too slow, and he has been helping us solve the problem for the past two days. The factory building is a two-story steel beam structure, which everyone has never done before, and it is relatively slow to be careful. The apprentice said with some embarrassment.

"Can you show me there?" Han Jian asked.

"Mr. Han, wait a minute. I'll ask Mr. Qian. "For Han Key's requirements, the apprentice seems to attach great importance to it. After a while, he ran back and said to Han Key, "Mr. Han, please come with me." ”

When he came to the construction site, Han Jian saw that the ground was a building style he had never seen before. Concrete columns and steel frames have been erected to complete the building framework. But the content of the frame is being filled. At the two rows of factories where the frame has been completed, hundreds of workers in the dark blue coarse cloth uniforms of Yip's Workshop are building walls between the frames to install the factory gates, which can be opened so large that they can be removed if necessary, and to erect horizontal steel frames between the inclined brackets on the roof. It is used to support the tiles that are then installed, and some of them are even installed in the middle of the unspeakably high building site, where the working layer can be walked. Not far away, at the gate of a factory that has already been built, a large number of workers are unloading a large number of parts from the wagon and pushing the factory for installation.

The factory still continues the layout of Ye's workshop combining work and rest, attaching importance to the beautification of the factory, and a large number of trees have been planted, and those small saplings will make the factory green everywhere after a few years or so. Maybe it's because it's a hassle to find stone. Because of the relatively high cost, Han Jian noticed that many tables and chairs were poured out of cement on the open space between the factories and factories, and the apprentices of Ye's workshop even poured out large cement blocks for sculptures......

If you go further, you can see the two rows of factories that are now under construction. The posture of the hoisting beams in the factory is very exaggerated, and on both sides of the plant, there is a strange machine with a very large size, as if two shafts are stacked together. The giant well is door-shaped. In the middle of the overhang, a steel factory beam hangs. Two giant shafts on both sides of the building were used to adjust the beams to the right place and place them on a vertical steel frame with cement columns that had already been erected. Then a group of apprentices climbed up and tightened the huge bolts. Then, this work is repeated over and over again. Han Jian knew at a glance that this method to install the beam must be much more efficient than the traditional method. But just the two giant shaft cranes took a lot of work.

"When did Lord Ye start getting those two big guys?" Han Keyhu asked suspiciously.

"It's the day before yesterday, the adults threw down the drawings, and then everyone split up and put the parts together, very fast. It was done in one afternoon. The apprentice said with a smile.

"One afternoon......" Han Jian was inexplicably surprised, this kind of efficiency is terrible. You can't go wrong with splitting the parts? ”

"We're Yip's Workshop! Not to mention that there are more apprentices than apprentices in Yunzhou. Even if you are an apprentice, as long as you follow the master carefully, you will not make this kind of mistake. Everyone is used to it. The apprentice seemed to be trying to show that he didn't care, but his voice was full of pride.

"Why is this factory built so high? Besides, using so much steel, what a waste of things. Han Jian sighed.

"The factory is tall and big enough, so that those big guys can be opened. Mr. Han, the thing you saw they were loading was a stamping machine. It turned out that the one in Danyang was too small to make a big one, so he rushed one armor at a time. Now this big guy can punch four pieces at a time, and with a bang, four cuirasses will be fine. …… Although everything is not so big now, since it can be made bigger, it should be made bigger, and if there are good things in the future, it is not necessarily necessary to tear down the house and rebuild it. The apprentice smiled and said, "Mr. Han, it's Master Ye on the edge of the table over there." ”

Ye Tao's dress is not much different from all the people around him who are working nervously, it is the same as the standard workwear of Ye's workshop. After all, the workshop is not an army, and it does not attach importance to this formal grade in the first place, and when it comes to working in its own workshop, it does not recognize people by their clothes. The biggest difference between Ye Tao and the people around him is that he is studying the layout of the factory and the construction progress of the workbench, there are quite a number of guards standing distinctly in armor, looking around vigilantly, once a stranger approaches, they will immediately come forward to inquire.

"Lord Ye!" After passing the guard's check, Han Jian came to Ye Tao's side.

"Mr. Han," Ye Tao gently put the pencil in his hand on the table, and the pencil refill made by Ye's workshop was still very brittle, so that Ye Tao couldn't throw it away, which was very unhappy. "I heard that you don't dare to be the head of the manufacturing bureau, do you?"

Ye Tao's straightforwardness made Han Jian a little cramped, he didn't want to give it a try if he had such an opportunity, but he was a domestic servant after all, if he was appointed as the head of the manufacturing bureau, he would inevitably be labeled as arrogant and contemptuous of the master's family.

"Lord Ye, this ......"

Ye Tao smiled and said, "I won't let my first appointment fail." His tone didn't make Han Tao feel oppressed, but it had fully demonstrated Ye Tao's determination. I've already told Uncle Dai Shikui about this, so you don't have to worry about other people's gossip. Integrate Dai's original workshops, and then let all kinds of workshops run according to the needs of Yunzhou and according to the orders of Jinglufu, you can do this. As for the rest, as your main family, Dai will clarify for you. And you, as an important subordinate official of Yunzhou Jingluo Mansion, if someone criticizes it, it will not be your business. Of course, if you really can't do it well, that's a different story. ”

Ye Tao didn't give Han Jian any chance to distinguish, but just gave Han Jian some guarantees. For an honest person like Han Key, that's pretty much it. At the same time, Ye Tao also gave Han Jian the first task, to integrate all the original Dai's metal smelting and weapon manufacturing workshops and concentrate them in Suiyuan. After the craftsmen were trained, production was quickly resumed. Ye Tao demanded that Han Jian must ensure the production of agricultural tools at the beginning of next spring, as well as the supply of basic weapons purchased by the Yunzhou tribe with quality and quantity. This is very heavy work, although the Yunzhou tribe will send a large number of elite warriors into Jingyun Cavalry to accept Tan Weiran's command, but the Yunzhou tribe's original style of integration of war and herding determines that they still have a considerable number of weapons in demand.

Han Jian gritted his teeth and said, "Then, my lord, Suiyuan also needs such a factory." It turned out that those shops and workshops were one east and one west, and it was a waste of time. ”

"I'll give you a group of people to help you build a factory, as for the rest, when you return to Suiyuan, I will send someone to help you put up the shelves of the manufacturing bureau, and I will give you a sum of money so that you can carry out the work." Don't let me down. Ye Tao replied simply.

"I will live up to the kindness of adults!" Han Jian bowed deeply.