After the car building really began, Mingyue found out when he inspected the workshop again that what he had seen before was just a daily petty fight. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Today's woodworking workshop is like a giant machine, running in full swing, with the sound of shouting, sawing, scraping of planers, hammers, and squeaks. And the six different types of work, such as wheel people, wheel people, and public servants, and even dozens of hundred craft families that have passed down their skills from generation to generation, are just small tenons (sǔn) in this big machine......

Mingyue saw it in her eyes, nodded secretly, fine division of labor, collective labor, and finally unified assembly of all parts that were done, which is similar to the assembly line operation of large factories in later generations, which is the advantage of the government-run handicraft industry.

Because of the support of the state and the abundance of funds, many high-level craftsmen were forcibly concentrated together, which created conditions for a fine division of labor and cooperation.

However, this kind of government-run handicraft industry also has many drawbacks, such as serious corruption, layers of exploitation, regardless of labor costs in production, and waste at any cost, resulting in low productivity, bureaucratic and yamen-style management, which is even more far-reaching, and the freedom of hundreds of workers is not high.

However, in this Warring States Period, when the national war continued, the government-run handicraft industry was still the only way for a country to build strategic equipment and materials. As far as Mingyue knows, the Qin State's strict management of craftsmen is better than that of Zhao State, which has the high efficiency of the Qin State Arsenal and the high degree of unity of weapon specifications......

If you want to catch up with or be on par with the Qin State in this regard, it is also a long way to go.

Mingyue can't take care of the light and envy Qin Guo, although his task as the right worker of the state is only to supervise the construction and put up a name, and the specific affairs are arranged by the engineer, but in the spirit of conscientiousness, Mingyue still watched every process of making the car, and took the trouble to ask the craftsmen and craftsmen for understanding.

He wanted to see if there was anything that could be improved in his later thinking, but this time, he didn't disrupt the familiar rhythm of the craftsmen anymore, but only listened to it without expressing his opinions, and only silently wrote down the points that needed to be improved.

Mingyue reflected on this incident: maybe it was because the pressure on him from the Qin State was too great, and he was still a little in a hurry, thinking that he had made a double wheel car before going to the Qi State, and after more than half a year of testing, it was enough to convince others, but who expected that it was still a little insufficient.

In addition to the jealousy and constraints of the officials of Zhao State on his identity, I am afraid that there is also the reason for entering the court for the first time, in the eyes of the old ministers, he is a hairy stunned young man, this time relying on Lin Xiangru, luckily succeeded, but next time?

I need to adapt to some unspoken rules of this era, change the means of acting, and I can't take risks every time.

In the process, he also understands that in addition to his extensive knowledge and general knowledge of the future development direction of science and technology, he is completely a layman in terms of details.

For example, he found that carpenters in this era rarely used copper and iron nails, but relied on mortise and tenon structures as the core of car making. The excess part of the wood is chiseled away, one convex and one concave, and the wood has a yin and yang mortise and tenon joint. Two pieces of wood, it seems that there is a thought, no nails, they can hug each other tightly, whether it is a two-wheeled single-wheel car or a two-wheeled double-wheel wheel, all need mortise and tenon technology, used in the production of frames, carriages, carports, and wheels.

The difference between the double wheel car and the single wheel car is only on the wheel, so the rest of the aspects do not need to be changed at all, the wheel man, is still to make the wheel after the slow test, first use the suspension line to check whether the corresponding spokes are straight, and then put the wheel flat on the flat disc of the same size as the wheel to check whether the two are close to each other, and finally put the wheel in the water to see if its rise and fall are consistent, in order to determine the balance of the parts of the wheel.

As for the core component of the vehicle, the axle, pay attention to the material, with acacia, jujube, sandalwood, elm as the top, with hard, wear-resistant, oily three elements, these trees Handan around the hilly forest has a lot, for a time near the workshop wood merchants gathered, hundreds of trees intersect. Mingyue also had a good understanding of the huge profits from buying wood, but he was not short of money, so he ordered him to buy the best materials and never make a mistake.

In the hustle and bustle, half a month is fleeting, because the bright moon comes to inspect almost every day, the engineers and hundreds of workers dare not be lazy, three hundred car parts are made, the old car man sacrificed a ghost god mountains and rivers, after praying for blessings, began to assemble, one after another completed cars, after dyeing the paint and covering the leather, smoothly delivered.

At this time, only more than ten days later, the project was completed ahead of schedule.

On the 20th of August, together with the 100 chariots "lent" by Mingyue to the Gongyin Administration, a full 400 carts full of grain and straw were parked on the open land north of Congtai.

Each cart can carry twenty-five stone of grain, a total of 10,000 stone, counting the loss along the way, this is almost half a month's ration for 10,000 soldiers......

"Therefore, in this war, there were four or five thousand wagons in the entire Zhao State to transport grain back and forth between the warehouses and the front line...... No wonder Sun Tzu said that the cost of internal and external, the use of guests, the material of glue paint, the dedication of car armor, and the daily cost of thousands of gold. Mingyue suddenly caught a glimpse of the tip of the iceberg of the entire country's war machine, and the battle was no longer a weapon fight in the three generations, but a precisely calculated action.

According to the agreement, Lin Xiangru divided the single-wheel car and the double-wheel car into two teams, and arranged several accountants who were good at calculation.

Mingyue also arranged a car, specially pulled a whole car of spirits distilled by the magician, seeing that the weather was getting colder, the generals on the front line might be able to use it, and he also wrote a letter for the emperor to carry, if he could see Zhao Kuo, he would hand it over to him.

According to the calculation of the itinerary, the grain truck had to walk a long road of 600 miles before it could reach the front line between Zhongshan and the river, which took about ten days, and the official rode back to report it in 20 days.

Mingyue also settled down during this time, didn't make any big news, and after resting for a few days, he began to inspect another workshop under his jurisdiction: the Lacquer Dyeing Workshop......

The time came to the beginning of September, the weather is getting colder, and on the day of the Double Ninth Festival in September, according to the rules, it is necessary to "prepare for the harvest of agricultural affairs, and give five kinds of things." The Tibetan emperor's book is collected in Shencang, only the respect must be given, the emperor, taste the sacrifice, and tell the king", today King Zhao wants to sacrifice the emperor and ancestors in the palace, in order to thank the emperor and the ancestors for their kindness.

As a close relative, Mingyue also had to enter the palace to accompany the sacrifice, but before he went out, he got a message from the Internal History Department.

"The clerk who escorted the grain cart has returned!"

Mingyue was overjoyed when she heard this, and hurriedly came to the Office of Internal History, just as Lin Xiangru, the old minister, was also going to enter the palace, dressed in court clothes, but did not go out, but held a brochure and frowned.

This made Mingyue feel shocked, although she was confident in that matter, she still couldn't help asking, "Lin Qing, how is it?" ”

"Thank you, Childe, this time I have saved a lot of money and food for the internal history."

Lin Xiangru smiled, handed the brochure to Mingyue to see, the above is a detailed record of the consumption of the two teams of single-wheel cars and double-wheel cars along the way, because the double-wheel car solves the problem that a single horse can not pull the car, and removes some unnecessary structures, and the efficiency of pulling the car is much higher. However, because it is not as good as a single cart can share the strength of two horses, the livestock eat more than usual, but more than usual, overall, there is not as predicted by Mingyue, a car can save six stones, a lotus, can only save less than five stones......

"Even so, this time it has also saved thousands of stones, and if it is extended, it will be expanded to the whole country, and it will not be a problem to save 100,000 stones every year!"

Mingyue's head, with a thin stream into the river and sea, this is the intuitive embodiment of scientific and technological progress, this is the first thing he did after returning to Zhao, as a result, Mingyue suddenly became more energetic, and he had more confidence in the new things that he decided to slowly implement in the workshop in the future.

"From the front line, someone asked the official to bring a letter back, but it was for Chang'anjun." Through this incident, Lin Xiangru also changed his indifferent attitude towards Mingyue, and with a smile, he took out a silk book from his sleeve and handed it to Mingyue.

"For me?" Mingyue opened it and saw that it was Zhao Kuo's reply.

"Chang'an Jun is above, Huishu has learned that due to busy military affairs, he did not apologize immediately......"

For a while, along with the words hurriedly written above, Zhao Kuo's journey of more than a month appeared in front of Mingyue's eyes......

PS: The second chapter is in the afternoon