Chapter Ninety-One: The potter's wheel is round, and the bellows are square
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I always wanted to go to the mine to see if it was convenient to mine ore, but the people sent from Xia Cheng had not yet arrived, and I couldn't leave for the time being.
Those young people who study are also stable, learning words and arithmetic in the morning, and in the afternoon Jian Chen has no time to care about them, so he asked the black-clothed guards to teach these children to ride horses and drive, which is very novel, and can always stop their hearts, so that they will not feel bored in the short term.
Every night there was a variety of food, and Chen Jian deliberately cultivated their sense of exchange, and in order to promote the currency, he gave them some pottery and copper shells.
Tell them anything they want, go to the market and buy it; If they want to eat, they can go to the small liquor store that was specially prepared for them, and write down how much they have spent, and their parents will pay it back when the time comes.
They also knew that what they wanted had to be exchanged, but they did not understand why what seemed to be a piece of pottery could be exchanged for more than the piece of pottery itself, which could not be exchanged for anything in their own city, because it had no use value, and was not as good as a broken pottery bowl.
The general equivalent of the Xia Cheng system is actually still food, but it is traded in the form of tokens, and young people like this light way of exchange, and they can be considered familiar with it within a few days.
The place to live is not very good, but new houses are being built, and they are all brick and stone, only the large frame of the roof is wooden.
It is said that there is no longer thatch on it, but a thing called a tile, and several people went to the brick kiln to see the so-called tile, but they did not know how this thing was not too big to not fall off the roof.
I was able to get in touch with something new every day, eat strange food every day, and have a lot of fun in the afternoon, such as fencing and horseback riding.
The only fly in the ointment is that their "husband" is not responsible, except for two lessons on the first day, he did not give them a lesson in person.
Chen Jian was so busy these days that he sent messengers back to Xia City to deliver messengers, led people to make the first batch of molds of Wadang, measured the height of the city's inland rivers, and measured the flow of small rivers to determine the drainage system of the inland rivers in the future.
In addition, the entire workshop system in Yucheng had to be reorganized, and the number of people in the brick kilns was decreasing every day, and they were constantly being transferred to other places.
The Yucheng system is similar to that of Xiacheng, but it is more centralized and planned, and does not directly apply Xiacheng's six-division system, but is headed by him, under the jurisdiction of a statistical planning department, and under the statistical planning department are nine workshop divisions, integrating the entire Yucheng into a skilled labor system.
The nine workshop divisions are: Reclamation Division, Construction Division, Dyeing and Spinning Division, Woodworking Division, Smelting Division, Supply and Marketing Division, Transportation Division, Education Division, and Medicine Division.
Except for the latter two, which are under his direct jurisdiction, the remaining seven are all planned by the planning and statistics department above, and the goal is reached at the next level, and the overall structure has not yet been completed, and it can only be built after the people dispatched by Xia Cheng arrive.
Each workshop department only does its own thing, completes the plan set by the planning and statistics department, and does not care about the rest, which is coordinated by Chen Jian.
For example, the carpentry division has to complete a certain number of wheels, furniture, hoe handles, and boats this year. These quantities can be completed within half a year after calculation, and some sudden tasks need to be completed in the vacated half a year.
In addition to the firing of bricks and tiles, the construction department is also responsible for the construction of houses.
In this way, there will be a crossover between the two workshops, for example, the workshop of the dyeing and spinning division has been built in the embryonic form, but there are no doors and windows, and there is no roof.
This requires the carpentry department to complete the beams, tiles, ladders, doors and windows, and after the planning and statistics department has placed a list after the deadline, they will set their own completion time, not only to complete the temporary tasks, but also to complete the plan for the year.
At the same time, the carpentry department also needs to count all the houses needed for the accommodation of free slaves and report them to the Planning and Statistics Department, which will then allocate them. The wheels produced by the carpentry division were transported to the rest of the cities by the transportation division.
In this way, it is meaningless for any department to stand alone, and under the conditions of insufficient development of the productive forces, such planned towns can develop rapidly, and for at least ten years there is no need to worry about market problems: Chen Jian solves it for them, and because of the technological monopoly, as long as it is produced, it can be sold. As for the subsequent bureaucratic style, procrastination, and lack of attention to product upgrades, etc., it is not the time to think about it - thinking about what to do if you don't have enough to eat is purely sick.
Nowadays, the biggest problem is the empty shelves, there are almost no suitable candidates, and it is impossible to empty all the summer cities, so we can only use old workshop workers with high counting, literacy and professional skills as management.
No one is born with it, just learn.
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While Jian Chen was eagerly looking forward to the arrival of those people from Xia City, those who came from Xia City were also eagerly looking forward to going to Yucheng.
On a boat on the big river, Acorn and the woman and child, as the first people to go to Yucheng, did not want to have half a percent of the extra corn, and he no longer had to worry about eating and drinking.
After Yu Qian'er returned to Xia City, Acorn was the first batch of people who automatically asked to go to Yu City, and one was that as a fellow clan, he wanted to support Chen Jian; the second is to swear with the small group of wolf skins, tanuki and others that they will never violate Chen Jian; The third is that he thinks about the pottery making technology of the cities of the Great River and wants to go there to see it.
In Xiacheng, the black pottery of Echeng has made the pottery industry in Xiacheng almost finished, and the people of Xiacheng now send down enough corn money to buy black pottery every year, even if there is control, but it can not stop the large number of black pottery from entering.
I thought I could show my skills in Yucheng, but I didn't want to meet the returning messenger when I was about to arrive in Yucheng, and directly told a news that made the acorn collapse - the pottery workshop was canceled, the black pottery control was relaxed, and even the lowest-end savage market was abandoned, and it was completely banned.
The first batch of people who came to Yucheng were all less qualified than Acorns, and many of them were children who had studied in the school for two years, and the children were full of expectations and could not understand the melancholy of Acorns at all.
By the time we arrived in Yucheng, it was already September, and just after we got off the boat, and before the banquet began, many people saw the acorns rushing into Chen Jian's house in a menacing manner, which was now called the Department of Planning and Statistics.
The noise could be heard from a long distance, and some people even heard the sound of falling pottery, and it was certain that it was the black pottery of Echeng or the white pottery of Yueyi. Because Xia Cheng's own pottery can't fall so crisply, it's not good to listen to.
No one knew what was going on inside, and when the straw curtain on the door was rolled up again, Acorn was no longer angry, and arranged a place for the woman and the child to live, and went to the banquet quietly.
Not long after the banquet, all the people who were in the pottery industry, the wood industry, the newly graduated school students, the smelting industry, and other related people in Xiacheng were called away by Chen Jian, and they were bored in a large room for an afternoon, not knowing what they were talking about, and then in the evening the group came to a small river in the southwest corner of Yucheng.
"From now on, you can only remember everything I say, and you are not allowed to pass it on or talk to others. I will let Ji Bai count the name in a while, and once the secret is leaked, you will also hear the discipline that was said in the house just now, and you know the consequences. ”
These people had been in the house for a long time before listening to Chen Jian talk about these things, and they also knew that it was about the entire city, if it was really leaked, they would be sent back to Xia City for public trial, and they didn't have to guess what the consequences would be if they affected the clansmen's property.
Chen Jian pointed to the foundation of the iron-smelting furnace that had been excavated in the distance and said: "The place here is very good, the ground is full of clay, and the water can't seep in. I'm going to build an iron-smelting furnace here, and you know that, which is why I'm canceling the pottery workshop. This thing has been done, black pottery and white pottery can't be compared. ”
"The day after tomorrow, I will go to inspect the mine, and Acorn will temporarily manage the smelting department, mainly to repair the road and dig the canal, and the rest will be talked about when I come back."
"Iron smelting, unlike copper smelting, requires more wind, and the kind of leather in Xia Cheng is no longer enough. People from the carpentry department, you have seen bellows in Xia Cheng, you have to prepare bellows these days, very large bellows, think of a way. ”
"The second thing is that this bellows is so big, it is not impossible to use oxen and horses, but it is too expensive, and there are not enough cows and horses now, so it is necessary to borrow the power of heaven and earth like the windmill of Xiacheng Mill. This time borrowed water. ”
"Then the most important question arises! The bellows move one after the other, and the waterwheel, like the potter's wheel and windmill, only rotates. ”
"How can you turn the strength of rotation into the strength of moving back and forth? How can you push the bellows with a water wheel? It's pushing, not turning. ”
"This matter is not just a matter for the Smelting Division. If you can make the rotation force change to front and back, left and right; Then the front and back, left and right, can also become the strength of rotation. For example, a spinning wheel that can be rotated by stepping up and down with your feet? For example, a sledgehammer driven by the rotation of a windmill can move up and down to smash ore? For example, when striking iron in the future, we can use wind and water to pick up a sledgehammer that we can't lift? ”
Chen Jian took out a small waterwheel that had been prepared by the carpentry department and placed it in the riverside stream, and with the help of the power of water, the waterwheel rotated, and the outer sleeve rotated with the waterwheel. Next to it is a small leather basket that can only move back and forth.
It was so intuitive that it made everyone ponder: how can you turn a rotating waterwheel into a force that moves backwards and forwards?
Chen Jian pointed to the small waterway: "If you can't think of it, then you need twenty or thirty cows to pull it." Twenty or thirty cows need to be raised by at least five people every year, and how much land can these twenty or thirty cows be cultivated in a year? And it's not a one-year thing, it may have to run for decades, how much can it save? ”
"Who would have thought that twenty cows, five slaves, and the whole family would be exempt from taxation for thirty years. In the future, it will be this rule, who has thought of any good way, what can be saved, these people who have been saved, things, all the savings within a year are yours, compiled into textbooks, and left a name for generations. Anything can be done without that. ”
"Think first, don't delay my share. I hope that when I come back, you will give me an answer. I'm going to get busy, so think about it. ”
Leaving a group of people who were still thinking there, constantly using their hands to compare the power of forward, backward and rotation, racking their brains. Material temptation is tempting, but being able to leave a name for eternity and really be written in a book is the real great temptation. (To be continued.) )