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"The son of the world has arrived!" As Geng Jingzhong stepped into the firearms workshop, the guards at the door shouted to remind everyone to greet him.

"See the Son!"

"See the Son!" Hu Jicai and the others immediately put down their work and walked towards the door, and at the same time saluted Geng Jingzhong.

"Excuse me, excuse me! It's my sudden visit that has interrupted your work. Let's get back to work! Geng Jingzhong waved his hand and asked everyone in the workshop to continue. Then look around the workshop yourself. Since the musket was finalized more than a month ago, Geng Jingzhong ordered the musket workshop to start large-scale production. Such a musket, which is ahead of the world, is the capital of one's own life, and it must be greatly reserved. As long as you can have 50,000 new troops, you can sweep the world; Now that we have a good start, we are not far from success.

"Old Hu, how is the production of this musket recently?" Geng Jingzhong asked Hu Jicai, who was following him.

"Hui Shizi, now the musket produces a qiēshun lì. With our manpower, we can produce an average of ten muskets a day, and according to your command, all of them are of the same standard when making muskets. ”

"Ten in a day, three hundred in a month; That is, less than 600 have been produced so far? Geng Jingzhong frowned and stopped.

Hu Jicai hurriedly stepped forward and replied: "Hui Shizi, so far, there are more than 500 new muskets in the warehouse, more than 2,000 boxes of bullets, and more than 100,000 rounds. Seeing that Geng Jingzhong's face was not good-looking, he knew that the prince was dissatisfied with their work efficiency, and he was a little worried!

"It's not good, it's too slow. If you want to prepare the army, you have to wait another year? Geng Jingzhong shook his head and expressed dissatisfaction. Geng Jingzhong took the lead in the workshop, looked like it was good for a while, and then pointed to the craftsmen in the workshop, seeing that each of them was doing something different, and asked Hu Jicai a little strangely. "What are they doing here? Why do they all do their own work, isn't it done by several people together? ”

"Back to the world, these masters are all making guns, and the younger ones next to them are basically apprentices, and the work of making guns is basically done by themselves. Like me, just now I happened to be building the barrel, and the rifling was already carved, and the next thing is to make the trigger and install the flint. Hu Jicai carefully explained in detail.

Geng Jingzhong understood now. It turned out to be a large firearms workshop, but in fact, it was still a small family-style workshop, from making the barrel, making the butt, to completing the whole gun, all the work was done by one person. Orions who live in the mountains and forests also build guns in this way, which is too inefficient.

"This won't work, Lao Hu, I need to be able to build at least 2,000 new muskets a month, otherwise it won't be enough for the soldiers. What's more, it is estimated that this new musket will have to be replaced in less than half a year, and production must be increased. ”

"But Shizi, we don't have so many skilled masters! The skills of these apprentices are far from home. Now 300 sticks a month is already the result of the best efforts of all the masters. When Hu Jicai heard that the prince asked for 2,000 per month, he suddenly felt bitter, this is really embarrassing!

"It's okay, I have a way to improve your work efficiency, you come with me." Geng Jingzhong took the lead to a workbench. The masters and apprentices on the side of the stage all stopped what they were doing and looked at what they wanted to do in this life!

"You see, the composition of this musket. The barrel, the rifling, the movement, the spring, the trigger, the stopper, the door, the crosshair, the wooden support, each of these parts had to be made separately. With so many tools on the table, you can only make yourself cluttered and time-consuming! I thought of it this way, all these parts were taken apart, and the craftsmen were also regrouped and arranged, and each group of people gathered together to be responsible for only one type of part, and the parts produced had to be strictly inspected, unified specifications, and finally assembled together. This will not only greatly increase the speed of production, but also ensure the quality of the musket! ”

Hu Jicai heard this, and with his decades of experience working in the workshop, he immediately realized that this should be an excellent method. "Wait a minute, I'll try it first." After speaking, he shouted loudly into the workshop: "The master of each table has taken two freshly made parts and handed them here, hurry up." ”

In less than two minutes, Geng Jingzhong and the table in front of them were divided into a large number of parts. From the barrel to the butt to all kinds of small parts, this happens to be the parts that dozens of groups of craftsmen have just built today, because everyone's work progress is different, so there are many and few parts handed here, but it is no problem to assemble into a gun. Hu Jicai quickly selected one of each of the placed parts and began to install it. The current musket is not up to the same as the rifles of later generations, and it can be used immediately when it is directly assembled, and it takes a lot of effort for the parts in Hu Jicai's hands to assemble into a musket. A circle of people gathered around him, watching him bang and knock, and after ten minutes of tinkling, all the parts were finally installed, and a new musket was formed.

"It's installed, Shizi! It works, but this musket won't work! "Hu Jicai's technique of building a musket has formed an instinct of its own, and assembling it is as simple as eating and drinking, but whether a gun is good or not, you can know it immediately when he moves in his hand." The movement and the spring are a little mismatched, the trigger is a little bigger, and the stopper is a little smaller. It looks like the gun is assembled, but it can't be used, and if you use it forcibly, you won't have to grab it twice and it will explode. ”

"You mean to say that the parts of this gun are different and not very matched, and if you force it to be loaded, it will be blown up by gunpowder?" Geng Jingzhong asked thoughtfully.

"Yes, Shizi, your method must be good, that's no problem. The parts created by the masters are very compatible with their own guns, and they are still a little worse when they are concentrated. It seems that the masters did not build according to the standards we originally set, what is going on? ”

The masters next to them actually knew in their hearts that there would definitely be a little problem when building it, but since the whole gun was built by themselves, they could make a small change to the gun. In this way, the difference is very small, and the guns created are also qualified, so I don't think about it so much. Now that Geng Jingzhong has come to such a show, they have discovered the danger brought by the nuances, such parts simply cannot be assembled into a gun! Sure enough, it's the details that determine success or failure!

Under Hu Jicai's inquiry, each master lowered his head in shame. This shows that he didn't handle the details well, and the technology is still a little unsatisfactory, but the key thing is that he was discovered in front of the world! People are ashamed, I really feel ashamed, and I'm sorry for the salary given by the son.

Geng Jingzhong saw that the venue was quiet for a while, so he stepped forward and said loudly: "Don't be discouraged, masters. Some of you may like to make a slight change to your liking when you build it, although the gun you make is just as easy to use, but it doesn't match other guns. You must know that my soldiers are on the battlefield, and weapons are their lives. If there is a broken part of the gun, it can be replaced with another one. Of course, this requires the parts to be the same size. However, if all the masters build according to their own set, then the consequences" Geng Jingzhong said Here he paused, looked around, and the people who had raised their heads to listen to him lowered their heads again.

"So now I'm going to announce it once in front of the big guys. Since the size and specification of each part have been set, please strictly follow the rules. From now on, I will ask the Hu steward to arrange for a special inspection, and the parts that do not match the specified size will be rebuilt. ”

"Just now I expressed my dissatisfaction with Steward Hu, not with him as a person, but with the production speed of our workshop. It takes up to 300 guns a month, which is too inefficient to meet the needs of the barracks! Therefore, I am ready to change your production methods, and in the future, you will no longer be a man-made gun, but will change to an assembly line operation! ”

"Assembly line work?"

"What is an assembly line job?"

Geng Jingzhong said this, and the surroundings began to talk in a whisper, they didn't understand what assembly line operation was? Does that have anything to do with making guns?

"From now on, the firearms workshop will redistribute the work of the masters. A master takes dozens of apprentices as a group and teaches the apprentices to build a part; It is then easier to build the parts within each group, which also avoids the difference in the size of the parts. Once the parts are built, they are all sent to one place, and then a group of masters and apprentices are responsible for assembling. In general, your work task is simple, you only need to create a part, according to the size of the build, the division of labor is clear, this is the assembly line operation! Of course, in the end, you still have to check that level, and the more you qualify, the more rewards you get. ”

"The son of the world has a great plan, so that the disciples will be much faster to specialize in the same. There are rules for everything, so that people have rules to follow, wonderful, wonderful! A master was full of praise when he heard this.

"Since you don't have any objections, let's start doing this every day. The masters here are in charge of teaching first, and when the apprentices in each group can build their own parts, they are specifically responsible for testing whether the parts are qualified. I told Steward Hu that I asked for 2,000 new muskets to be built every month in the future, do you have any confidence? ”

"Yes!" Most of the young apprentices replied loudly.

"I have no energy, and many people haven't eaten!"

"Is there any faith?"

"Yes!" This time the sound was so loud that it almost made the room tremble.

"Okay, it's definitely no problem to do it according to my method, and anyone who learns quickly and creates a high pass rate of parts will be rewarded. There are also rewards for completing tasks for one month. Steward, I'll leave this matter to you, and you will list the specific reward details and present them to me. ”

"Good son! I'll get to work right away! ”