Chapter 278: Stepping (II)

Everyone discussed until dawn, and then went back to rest with enthusiasm, and then they went to work in full swing according to the discussed strategy.

According to the latest division of responsibilities of the General Governor's Office for the subordinate departments, Jiao Yu's engineering institute, that is, the Great Craftsman Academy, is only responsible for the research and development of new weapons and new products, while the specific manufacturing and the construction of related factories and workshops are completely entrusted to the Industrial Bureau, and referring to the system since the Tang and Song dynasties, road construction, water control in Tuntian, and mining and textile are all under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry. The old man Huang was so sad that he couldn't straighten his waist, and every day he seemed to be carrying a Five Elements Mountain, his face was pale, and he walked staggeringly.

"Don't worry, no matter how many things are, you have to do one thing little by little, and if you do the same, you will have to do the same, and when this imperial examination is over, I will send you another helper." Zhu Chongjiu saw it in his eyes, of course he couldn't ignore it, and found an opportunity to bring Lu Luzeng and Jiao Yu to the Industrial Bureau to help Huang Lao solve problems together.

"Yes, Governor." Huang Lao tilted his head and gritted his teeth, he knew what level he was, and he wanted Zhu Chongjiu to invite another master, but he was reluctant to hand it over to others in exchange for his life, and he was ruthless for a long time, and finally squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth, "Villain, lowly position, subordinates, subordinates should do their best, they would rather die of exhaustion than embarrass the governor." ”

"I don't want you to die of exhaustion." Zhu Chongjiu smiled, put himself in Huang Lao's shoes and thought of an idea, "You are an official now, you can't do everything by yourself, some things can be handed over to the three government offices, they have corresponding workshops there, they should listen to your command, in addition, there are some things, you can send your subordinates to do it, as long as you set the standards for them in advance, if you can't meet the standards at that time, you will punish him for redoing it, and you must do it yourself if you don't have to." ”

Speaking of the two words standard, he suddenly remembered something, patted his head, and asked in a low voice: "Has the ruler of your bureau of making firearms been unified, why is it difficult to find two firearms with exactly the same thickness from the firearms in the workshop?" ”

"Already, as much as possible." When Huang Lao heard this, he immediately sweated on his forehead, blushed, and responded loudly, "It's just that at the moment, every craftsman uses a hand drill and a small hammer in the last step of processing the barrel, and the strength is different, so there is a difference in the thickness of the barrel. ”

This involves the coordination between the two departments, as well as the daily management within the workshop, Zhu Chongjiu had to personally decide, "What is the heavenly ruler, what is the official ruler, what is the difference between the two." ”

"The ruler is short, the official ruler is long, everyone used to play knives and farm, usually all are official rulers, and few people use the ruler, but Jiao Dajiang doesn't know why recently, so he has to change all the official rulers to the rulers." Huang Lao thought about it crookedly and responded with a red face.

"The heavenly ruler is used to measure the shadow of the sun, which is far more accurate than the official ruler!" Although Jiao Yu was a technical freak, he refused to let Huang Lao sue crookedly, and immediately walked over and explained loudly.

"Measuring the Shadow of the Sun." Zhu Chongjiu was confused when he heard this, and repeated with a frown.

"It is used to calculate the calendar and stargazing, and since the Great Song Dynasty, the heavenly ruler has hardly changed." Lu Lu listened to it on the side, and explained for Jiao Yu with a smile, "Guo Shoujing set up more than 20 observatory platforms across the country in order to rebuild the Ming calendar, and countless Gui watches. (Note 1)

"Isn't this a standard weights and measures?" Zhu Chongjiu was ecstatic when he heard it, and blurted out the words with emotion, "I'm still thinking about how to get it, just take it and use it, Jiao Dajiang, Lao Huang, we don't need to divide the ruler in the future, all the rulers are built by the Engineering Institute, the length is directly compared with the ruler, first use stainless steel to make a mother ruler, and the other rulers are compared to the mother ruler, and the next batch will be recycled on a regular basis. ”

If you want to promote the process of industrialization, the standardization of weights and measures is a step that must be completed, with Zhu Chongjiu's current ability and level, it is obviously impossible to adopt the international standard unit of another time and space, but according to the existing weights and measures, it is easy to choose the one that needs to be changed the least as the standard, and the difficulty is only in the promotion and the acceptance of the people, and with the monopoly of the government-run workshops and Huaiyang firms, this difficulty is also solved.

As long as the monopoly large enterprises, that is, the items produced by the government-run workshops and Huaiyang firms, all use the heavenly ruler, calibrate once every six months, and the engineering institute is responsible for implementation.

And money is the most evil thing, with it as the driving force, but often twice the result with half the effort, now according to the monopoly of the standards of large enterprises can make better money, the length of the standard in private transactions, will naturally change, there is no need for the government to push at all.

After having a standard ruler, the following inches, minutes, centimeters, and millimeters can be subdivided in decimal system, and above the ruler, according to the convention, it is zhang, citation, and li, as long as the most basic length unit is set down first, and it can be calculated along the lì.

Of course, from the perspective of the 21st century in another time and space, this standard still seems very coarse, but it is enough to meet the current manufacturing needs, at least, after a period of mandatory implementation, all the products in the monopoly workshop will reach a relatively consistent level, and most of the parts of each firearm will basically meet the interchangeable requirements, rather than as now, almost every firearm is independent, and no one is related to each other.

After unifying the length unit, the next thing is naturally the weight, this standard choice is much simpler, due to the relationship between manufacturing intentions, you can find many Kaiyuan Tongbao in the early Tang Dynasty on the market, each one is a penny, ten pieces are one tael, and one hundred and sixty pieces are one catty.

On the afternoon of the second day after the forcible unification of the length standard, Zhu Chongjiu sent people to collect tens of thousands of Kaiyuan Tongbao, took them to the Engineering Institute, and carefully cleaned them with Jiao Yu and others, divided them into several piles with a group of 160 pieces, and then measured the weight of each pile of copper coins in turn, summed them up and then took the average value, and naturally got the difference between the standard one pound and the current popular weight unit.

"Take 32,000 Kaiyuan Tongbao and group them, and calculate them repeatedly in the way just now, and then, every 320 coins, that is, the original two catties, is one catty, and each catty is divided into 1,000 parts, and each part is one gram." Wasting his advantage as a big warlord and acting arbitrarily within the territory, Zhu Chongjiu savagely declared.

"Repeat the measurement several times, refer to the balance measurement method I just taught you, within ten days, you must give me the standard weights of 100 grams, 10 grams and grams, and then the weapon workshop, use the pound, 100 grams, 10 grams and grams as the standard, the lowest accurate to the gram, as for the outside, we will continue to use catties, two and money, and so on in the future we will start to mint money ourselves, and then slowly find a way to unify."

Coarse, very coarse, according to his algorithm, in the future, each standard Yangzhou kilogram is actually equivalent to another time and space of one thousand and twenty-four grams, a full 2.4 percentage points more, however, in order to make the new unit more acceptable to this time and space, he can only ignore the extra twenty-four grams first, and then slowly find a way to calibrate.

"Yes." Jiao Yu, Huang Lao Crooked and others' answers, immediately with a bit of ecstasy, this era, the profit of coinage is very high, the two of them have repeatedly mentioned yì, asking the Huaiyang Governor's Mansion to cast money by themselves, the use of hydraulic mills, hydraulic forging hammers and molds, than the government's casting method, at least half of the fire consumption, and once Yangzhou's coinage can be circulated in the market, there are more cats in it, the ratio of copper and lead can be reduced a little, in the case that outsiders can't see it at all, you can increase the money and profit by half.

"Don't keep thinking about money, the money you earn will go to Huaiyang Business first, and it won't fall into the hands of the two of you." Zhu Chongjiu's words completely shattered the financial dreams of the two.

"Hmm." The two glanced at each other and agreed, but in everyone's hearts, they unanimously made up their minds that if there is an opportunity in the future, they must promote the cause of water power to make money.

Zhu Chongba didn't care about what the two of them had in their hearts, so he simply made a big move, and forced the two of them and the only few master craftsmen to divide the standard temperature unit with him, with glass and mercury, using the boiling water measurement method, he could barely get it, but it took a lot of effort to divide, reworked more than 20 times, and corrected more than 100 times.

Among all the standard units, the easiest is time, and the sundial of this era has divided time very finely, and each day is divided into twelve hours, ninety-six quarters, each hour is equivalent to two hours of Zhu Dapeng's time and space, each quarter is fifteen minutes, and every half quarter is one word, almost seven and a half minutes.

"No words, no minutes." Zhu Chongjiu once again waved his true warlord nature, savagely abolished the "character", forcibly divided each moment into fifteen equal parts, and then passed through guò hourglasses, water clocks and other auxiliary items, and divided one minute into ten parts, each of which was temporarily named one breath.

More accurate, it can't be reached, whether it's an hourglass, a water clock or a sundial, it can't meet higher requirements, but at the moment, it's enough, even if the most need to control the time of cannon building and forging plate armor work, it only needs to be accurate to half a minute, that is, five breaths are enough, no matter how fine, it is already a snake to add to the painting.

Time flies in the busy, when Zhu Chongjiu finished determining the standard time unit of rest, and walked out of the engineering institute again, it was already mid-March, in this half month, Shen Wansan's fleet has sent the first batch of 100,000 stone grain, and with 10,000 stone grain per artillery, that is, the proportion of 10,000 copper coins, pulled away ten six-pound cannons, facing Jiangwan Chu on Shazhou Island, it has already become a huge construction site, and tens of thousands of people are busy here every day, sweating like rain for the new life. The first batch of large waterwheels relocated to the Jiangwan area, under the impetus of the Yangtze River, also began to rotate vigorously and powerfully, pulling out a simple rifling of one copper tire steel core cannon after another, and then loading them one after another on two-wheeled gun carts that could be fixed in situ at any time, and pushing them out of the factory, (Note 2)

Note 1: The ruler, the measurement standard used on the silhouette table made by Guo Shoujing, each foot is equivalent to the current 24.5 centimeters, the scale on the table is unified throughout the world, very accurate, the astronomical measurement of the Ming Dynasty, also used the same standard, until the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, (quoted from the history of ancient Chinese measurement)

Note 2: In this time and space, after Zhu Yuanzhang ruled the world, he also revised the weights and measures, and forcibly promoted that no matter the government or the people, they were not allowed to use measuring tools that were not stipulated by the imperial court, so that the ancient Chinese measurement standards were further accurate.

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