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Chapter 156 Industry

"One hundred and twenty cannons?" Detachment shuddered again. "One hundred and twenty cannons, he made them in a month? What about Dadu? Combined, how many doors can be built per month by several ordnance bureaus in Zhongshu Province? ”

"The Dadu Armament Bureau had a total of forty doors early last month. Five guns were destroyed during the test, and thirty-five remained. The other armament bureaus all add up, and they are almost about thirty. Li Si had already prepared and responded in a low voice like a few family treasures.

"Seventy! It's a little less, but at first, it's okay, the key is to figure out the gunpowder formula as soon as possible! Tokhtar listened and exhaled comfortingly. Then remembering that Huai'an could provide one hundred and twenty artillery pieces for Liu Futong alone, the eyes that had just become excited quickly dimmed again, "Is it made in a month over there in Huai'an?" With the addition of sesame Li and Bu Wangsan, they may be able to build 200 cannons in a month! ”

"Here's where they are terrible!" Li Si thought for a moment and responded solemnly, "According to the secret reports of several spies, last month, at least two hundred and fifty artillery pieces were sold out from Huai'an. Even if they had some inventory before, the number of cannons they could build every month was probably more than one hundred and fifty. That Zhu butcher is black, and he has to earn at least half of the profit for each cannon. With one hundred and fifty cannons, he can earn at least seventy-five thousand catties of copper, which is more than 20,000 yuan. In the long run, just by selling guns, he will become rich in the world! ”

The copper cannons sold by Zhu butchers to friendly troops were priced at 1,000 catties of red copper each, or the equivalent of grain and pig iron. This number has been known for a long time. On the Huai'an side, the weight of each cannon has dropped from the initial five hundred and seventy eighty catties to more than five hundred and thirty. This also means that every time Huai'an City sells a cannon, the materials earned are almost enough to build another one for itself. According to the estimate of 150 cannons per month, in a year, 12,300 cannons will be piled up at the head of Huai'an City. When the time comes, he will lead the army to attack the city, even the root of the city wall, I'm afraid no one will be able to get close!

It's not that I don't know, but I'm shocked. After roughly estimating the degree of Huai'an Army's exhibition, Totoku immediately understood Li Si's eagerness before. Gritted his teeth and said in a low voice, "What you say tonight, tomorrow the old man will truthfully relay it to His Majesty." is desperate to be impeached, and the old man must also persuade His Majesty to focus on the use of troops to Lianghuai! ”

"Your Excellency is wise!" Li Si finally got his wish, pulled a long voice, and slapped his fart.

"Wise bullshit, guarding the best craftsmen in the world, holding the most abundant materials in the world, he can't even make a single butcher!" Totobai glanced at him, and replied abruptly, "Can we go a little faster here?" Although the war may not rely entirely on artillery, but we have been compared by thieves with a city with the strength of the country, which always sounds uncomfortable! ”

"The main thing is that I don't know how to build it at the beginning, but slowly, I can also raise it!" Li Si didn't dare to answer this question immediately. Instead, he thought for a while before explaining in a low voice, "Over there in the Ordnance Bureau, the little one once went to watch it personally. The key is that the clay mold dries too slowly, and even if it is roasted over a simmer, it will take ten days or half a month to dare to use it. Otherwise, once the mud mold is not dry when the cannon is built, the water vapor will rush into the copper juice. The cannon made in this way cannot be used at all, and the first test of the cannon will explode! ”

"Oh! That's right! "I don't know much about the specifics of casting. But from Li Si's description, he can also understand the crux of the problem to some extent, "Can you make more clay molds at a time and dry them slowly in batches." This batch is used up, and the next batch will come up, and the degree will naturally catch up with Huai'an! ”

"Your Excellency is wise!" Li Si slapped another sycophant and nodded again and again, "Although my lord didn't see them build cannons with his own eyes, he was much smarter than those ordnance supervisors and ordnance gates, and he got to the point in one sentence." When his subordinates went to the Ordnance Bureau a few days ago, they also explained to them like this. They have already done so, and plan to put out thousands of clay fans in advance, and they can use them whenever they need them! ”

"Hmm!" He took off his hand and brushed his beard, and nodded in satisfaction again. However, soon, his mind jumped to the opponent's side again, "How long has Zhu Bayi taken Huai'an?" ”

"It's been almost three months!" If Li Si is put in the next generation, he will definitely be a secretary. Without thinking about it, the answer was given.

In other words, as soon as he settled down in Huai'an City, he immediately built hundreds or thousands of clay fans for backup. Then batches of cannons were made, and batches of mud fans were recreated, and they have been rotated! Tokh thought about it, hesitated to speculate.

"The small estimate is so. That Zhu eighty-one was born as a small butcher and has always known how to be careful in planning. In Huai'an City, there are many craftsmen who make ornaments and all kinds of wine vessels and ornaments. It just so happened that he was pulled into the army and went to cast artillery together! ”

"Well, that's how it should be!" Totoh nodded, agreeing with Li Si's inference. "The reason why he desperately went to attack Huai'an, I am afraid that in addition to taking a fancy to the salt tax in the city, he went to the craftsmen. However, no matter how many craftsmen there are in Huai'an City, no matter how skillful the craftsmanship is, I am afraid that it cannot be compared with the capital city. Tomorrow, you will take the old man's order and transfer all the iron craftsmen on the Huairou side to the Ordnance Bureau in the capital. And then just keep an eye on it for me. The old man didn't believe it, the old man couldn't make the same cannon with all the strength of the country! ”

"Yes!" Li Si immediately bowed down to receive the order.

Seeing his one-dimensional appearance, Totoku smiled and continued, "As for the direction of the next step of the imperial court, I will leave it to the old man to talk to the emperor." Our brothers are fighting for their lives, and they have to support the remnants of Dayuan! ”

"It's!" Li Si was stunned and nodded with red eyes. The four words of remnants of mountains and rivers can be used really inappropriately. However, when I saw that Tokhtar was only in his early forties, his head was already gray. endured and endured, and finally held back the words of the reminder back into his stomach.

Their master and servant are both first-class figures in the Mengyuan Empire. Seeing the power of artillery, he tried to imitate it, and firmly believed that the Great Yuan Dynasty could catch up with it by virtue of its dual advantages in numbers and materials. However, they don't know that the progress of industry and science and technology is not something that can be piled up by people. The advantage in numbers is only in the initial stage, which can form a certain scale effect. However, if there is no technological progress and the improvement of the level of production organization, the quantity and quality of products will increase in a reverse direction, which will surprise the production organizers.

As a half-engineering and technical nerd, Zhu Eighty-one actually doesn't know much about large-scale production management. However, the things he knew to grasp the scales may be common knowledge in later generations, but in this era, they are the secret books of the Book of Heaven. A little flexibility can have an explosive impact on the original industrial production of the Huai'an Army.

For example, a very simple streamlined operation, in Zhu Dapeng's era, any township processing enterprise with a scale of more than ten people must be naturally adopted. No one thinks it's anything unusual. After a little flexibility, it was brought to the Huai'an workshop, but the production efficiency was increased by three times. So much so that it only took half a month, Huang Lao Crooked forced all the foremen under his command to swear the lives of their whole families, and if there was a leak, they could be killed by the Huai'an Army, and they would never shout half a sentence of wrongdoing.

Another example is a shift of four hours and three shifts of production. For the craftsmen who are accustomed to working for seven to eight hours a day, it is simply a passive slack. However, when they were really organized and started working shifts. Only now that this way of working can more than double the output in a single day. Relatively speaking, working in shifts for four hours is much easier than staying up for seven to eight hours a day.

Another example is the outsourcing of non-key components, in Zhu Dapeng's era, it is an inevitable choice for almost all enterprises. But in Huai'an in this era, even a top master craftsman like Jiao Yu said that he couldn't accept it. However, when Zhu Eighty-one was stubborn and entrusted the wooden support of the musket, the wheel of the gun carriage, and the bits and pieces of plate armor and cuirass to the handicraft workshop in the city, everyone appeared, and in doing so, it would allow the workshop itself to focus on the main components. Both yield and quality have been greatly improved.

There's a lot of stuff like that. In short, unconsciously, the frequency of incitement of butterfly wings has gradually accelerated. Those things in Zhu Bayi's stomach are changing the Huai'an Army and changing Huai'an City. And these seemingly small and messy changes are centered on Huai'an City, and continue to spread outward. It affects the entire Xuzhou Red Turban, the rebels of Henan and Jiangbei provinces, and the whole of China in this era.

Speaking from the heart, the barbaric rule of the Mengyuan Empire caused great damage to the humanistic spirit of China. But the Mengyuan Empire is different from the Braided Empire in a certain time and space, they do not reject the progress of technology. Instead, they will aggregate the techniques and techniques of the conquered regions and apply them to the military and city construction as much as possible.

The accumulation of many technical aspects has actually reached a critical state. As long as someone can gently pierce that layer of window paper, it can bring about a sea change. And this layer of window paper, if no one pierces it, is enough to continue to block the footsteps of human beings for hundreds of years.

Just like the black powder that the Huai'an Army relied on to become famous, from the Tang Dynasty to the Two Song Dynasty to the end of the Yuan Dynasty, it was used as a sharp weapon in the army for hundreds of years, and there were hundreds of various formulas. But without the appearance of Zhu Bayi, it would take more than ten years before it could be reduced to a mixture of sulfur, saltpeter and charcoal powder. and was summed up as the closest to the perfect proportion, and it would take a little more until the distant era of the Qi family army to finally settle down.

In the gentle agitation of the butterfly's wings, Zhu Eighty-one woke up.

With the gentle agitation of butterfly wings, Zhu Bayi walked to Huai'an.

Under the gentle instigation of butterfly wings, Zhu Ba Eighty began to show what he was best at, slowly pushing not a single huge handicraft workshop and countless tiny handicraft workshops into the industrial age.

An unprecedented eye of the storm was quietly born at the confluence of the Yellow River and the Huai River.