Chapter 64: Preparation
Once the future development plan has been determined, it is necessary to prepare manpower in advance. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
As far as the situation of the Yucheng workshop system is concerned, the stupid big black coarse is basically the basic characteristics of various products in the future of the Xiacheng system. It is the aim to make the most of the things that can be mass-produced with the least number of people, and all the delicate labor that can be passed down to posterity and be praised as the treasure of the race cannot be produced for at least ten years.
After the compromise, he will have at least three years of recuperation and recuperation, and Chen Jian will be responsible for the most important things to do, and he will no longer be concerned about the things that have been slightly system-scale before.
The improvement of gunpowder, tubular firearms, papermaking, and movable type printing were the top priorities.
These four things required at least two thousand light and strong laborers to train a new group of craftsmen and prepare for the formation of a scale in the future, plus two hundred skilled workers in various workshops and two hundred young people in Xia Cheng who had completed their enlightenment education.
It seems that compared to the 30,000 people in the Yucheng system, 2,4500 people are not much. But if you do the math, these two thousand five hundred must be young men of the age, and the literal thirty thousand are not all men, let alone the strongest male laborers.
This is equivalent to a quarter of the young and strong labor in the Yucheng system, which was suddenly transferred by Chen Jian, which had a great impact on the normal development of the city.
But fortunately, he is now in high prestige, and no one opposes him at the internal meetings of the high-level, and everyone does not know what he is going to do, but they still support him unconditionally.
It was impossible for the 10,000 people in the city to triple its production capacity in three years just because there were 20,000 more people.
According to the fact that a man, a woman, an ox and a ploughshare can cultivate 100 acres of land, it takes 10,000 people to ensure food supply and agricultural and sideline products, which is 10,000 people less.
As the population increases, so does the amount of coal and timber needed. The three thousand miners brought back from Dongyi also had to devote themselves to the mining they were most familiar with, which was another three thousand.
In order to ensure that all kinds of equipment needed for agricultural production in Yucheng are not counted for export and only responsible for internal sales, and about 1,000 more people must be fully prepared for domestic demand.
In order to ensure the transportation of basic survival, another two thousand will be added.
After the reform of the military system, about 3,000 people will be removed from industrial and agricultural production.
Counting the more than 2,000 people that Chen Jian planned to go, removing the 6,000 people who could maintain normal operation in the previous system, and then getting rid of some old and young, the actual population that could be called up was only 35,000, and at most it would increase the production capacity of about half of the original workshop.
Under this helpless reality, mass production without the pursuit of fineness has become the only choice.
Taking papermaking as an example, a piece of yellow and ugly paper and a piece of paper with excellent white and toughness consume about three or four times more manpower, and the process is also a few steps shorter.
But what Chen Jian asked for was only the minimum use value of the paper, which could be used to write, and could be dyed with ink or blue-black dyes of Nirvana.
Similar clothes, furs, shoes, and food will all be in this pattern, only considering the minimum survival needs and use value, and completely abandoning the added value such as aesthetics.
In order to save manpower, vegetable oil makes a burnt smell; Clothes are the same in order to save manpower; The house is exactly the same in order to save manpower......
In this regard, Chen Jian gave an explanation and speech at a city meeting in early November, and put forward the slogan of the five-year plan, which is to let the people of the country endure this monotonous life of bricks and tiles in the first five years of the city.
He promised that something would change in five years, and asked the people of the country to give him a five-year trust.
This is not unbearable for those who are mostly exposed to life in Xia City. In their opinion, soybean oil does have a mushy taste, but they haven't eaten it before; It's true that the clothes are the same, but the ones I wore before were worse than that; The house is made of bricks, and it is much better than the previous adobe house.
This is not intolerable for the upper echelons of the system. The system of knighthood does not allow them to get some special offerings, but the supply and marketing department can raise the price of some scarce goods, and achieve inequality in the ability to pay for money in the form of nominal equality. Including the people who made special items for the relatives and nobles of the other city leaders, there were about 1,000 people, and the domestic prices of these items were not low, which could be regarded as ensuring the support of the high-level people in the system for Chen Jian.
This is an unhealthy mechanism, but it is the most effective mechanism when surrounded by external enemies.
At the same time, due to the technological advantages brought by Chen Jian's smuggling, this horizontal comparison completely reflects the superiority of the Xia Cheng system, at least ideologically, there is no need to worry about the collective dissatisfaction caused by the comparison of the rest of the cities - Ji Yun's speech about the ninety-nine people and one person has a far-reaching impact, at least this generation is convinced that they belong to the part of the ninety-nine people, and they are convinced that once the Xia City system is reformed, it will be difficult for them to live a life of one in a hundred other cities, and it is still very good to compare the remaining ninety-nine in other cities.
As for the next generation, that's too far away to be considered for the time being.
Moreover, they believe in Jian Chen's promise of change five years later. There is confidence in their leader, or the acting leader, or the person in charge who is given carte blanche by the real leader.
In this slogan of "everything for five years later", Chen Jian once again praised a group of outstanding laborers who had performed well during the expedition to Dongyi, awarded them various spiritual and material rewards, and vigorously promoted the slogan of everyone for me and everyone for everyone.
The propaganda machine took advantage of the half month before the expedition again, and under the leadership of Chen Jian, it was in full swing.
The spearmen who had followed Chen Jian on the expedition to Dongyi all returned to the workshop to work, leaving behind dozens of meritorious and professional soldiers, and then recruited the second batch of spearmen.
The second group of spearmen were mainly mines and farms.
There is nothing to work on the farm in winter, and the upper echelons of Summer City do not have too luxurious life, so there is no need for people to dig ice for next summer, and there is no need to use winter to catch all kinds of wild beasts.
On the whole, the first to integrate into the Yucheng system were the 3,000 mine slaves brought back from the jade mines near Mucheng, all of whom were sent to the mines, and easily accepted a new life, and under the propaganda of Yu and others, they believed that everything they did now was for themselves.
In both places, the remaining male light and strong parts were called up, and the farms were to return before the spring ploughing in March, and the latter only needed to leave a part of the backbone.
Most of the remaining people were temporarily arranged to work in the workshops in Yucheng, and they were acquainted with the life of Xia Cheng in a way that alternated between the old and the new.
It seems that there are a lot more people all of a sudden, but the overall labor efficiency has not been greatly improved, and many people are not accustomed to this mechanical reciprocating lifestyle, but they have to accept it under the pressure of the two minimum survival needs of food and heating.
Most of them can't get used to this completely different way of life, and the biggest problem is that they have to learn all kinds of rules after working every day, which is completely different from the casual and free life in the past.
Yucheng is like a melting pot, forcing everyone in the system to become a model of discipline and rules.
From eating to dressing, almost everyone is the same.
When many people first start living in Yucheng, they often go to the wrong room after work at night or after night school, and every room is the same.
Nowadays, only the people above the public have a separate house, and the rest of the people are a few people or even a dozen people living in a room, even if they want to do something, they need men and women to go to some common huts where they can do something.
After thirty-five and a half years of conquest, there was little time to build new houses, and under the strict control system, everyone had no time to build their own huts.
The plan for next year has been set, and only about 3,000 people can have new, separate, husband-and-wife houses, and the rest will still have to wait in line according to knighthood, merit, etc., which can be solved in about three years, which is not intolerable.
For the basic matters of people's livelihood, Chen Jian only made a rough plan, and threw the rest into the hands of the people below.
For next year's new workshops and new weapons, Chen Jian has selected a group of about 200 skilled craftsmen from various workshops, and then transferred about 2,000 new light and strong laborers as candidates for next year's firearms plan.
The skilled workers of the workshops and the talented people of the various professions do not know their fate for the next year, and they still have to work in the workshops before the spring comes, and bring the newcomers to the church.
But the newly elected workforce of more than 2,000 will start to get busy this winter.
Chen Jian's task for the 500 of them was to cut down a large number of wild vines and vines such as schisandra chinensis in the nearby mountains and forests in winter, and also to cut down some finer willow trees by the river.
The charcoal from wild vines and schisandra vines can be ground very finely, followed by fine willow trees, and this special charcoal makes gunpowder that ignites quickly and can be used as a primer for arquebuses or low-level artillery. Using normal gunpowder as the primer ignition rate is too low, which will prolong the time for the gunpowder to ignite and increase the difficulty of control.
Fortunately, the amount of gunpowder needed to prime the charge is not much, and its function is only to ignite the particle gunpowder in the barrel after being ignited by the fire rope, and the consumption is not too large.
These 500 people didn't know what was the use of letting them go to the mountains to cut down wild vines, but now they had to rely on Yucheng for food, drink, clothing, and shelter, and there was no other way but to accept it. In their eyes, it may be like digging ice and hunting for clan chiefs and nobles in the winter when they were in the city.
The remaining 1,000 or so had to take advantage of the winter to cut down branches, reeds, bark, and other raw materials for making paper, to transport large quantities of straw accumulated from various farms to the cities, to dig new lime mines for papermaking, to burn lime, and so on.
More than 2,000 people will be under the direct jurisdiction of Chen Jian next year, and some of them may become special military factory craftsmen, Chen Jian has already discussed with the management of the city, and the distribution of these 2,000 people will be his own responsibility, and no one needs to interfere, this is one of the special rights of the chief.
In addition to preparing for next year's new gunpowder this winter, those who stay in Yucheng and do not return to Xia City with Chen Jian also have to prepare for other matters. Blacksmith's hammers, anvils, etc., which could be mass-produced, also disrupted the normal plan of the smelting division, which, unlike the rest of the workshops, determined the daily smelting capacity of the smelting furnace to determine the upper limit of their labor, but Chen Jian used the special authority of the leader to carry it out.
It took more than half a month to roughly determine the pattern for the next three years, which is the general direction.
But the immediate priority now is the internal strife and unification of the Xia City system, Chen Jian will not let go of military power, and this matter must be done by himself to heal the alienation between the two cities.