The Zhuangzi that Yang Laizhen said is located in Liangxiang County, southwest of Beijing. The area of the whole Zhuangzi is very large, roughly estimated, two or three thousand acres. But as Yang Laizhen himself said, this Zhuangzi is not worth much at all, because the area of cultivated land is only 100 mu, and it is extremely barren, and the rest is gravel land on the hillside and river beach, which cannot be cultivated at all, and even has no value in clearing wasteland.

Yang Laizhen originally circled this Zhuangzi, mainly to raise some hares, sika deer, etc., for hunting in his spare time. But as a merchant, he had very little time to hunt and play, so this Zhuangzi has been deserted, and there is no one to keep it. Hearing that Su Hao wanted to build a factory on a site, Yang Laizhen simply gave it to Su Hao for nothing, and for him, he may not have the idea of throwing off a burden.

Su Hao took the title deed sent by Yang Laizhen, and took Hao Qing, Ma Yu and others to Yangjia Zhuangzi according to the map, of course, it should be renamed Sujia Zhuangzi now. Everyone stood on a high place and looked at each other, only to see that the vast expanse was full of withered yellow weeds, and the wind blew the grass low, and they could also see a few wild beasts standing in the distance and watching them vigilantly at this group of uninvited guests.

"It's so barren, I can't meet a few people for more than ten miles around." Ma Yu sighed.

"It's a good idea to build a factory." Su Hao said. In later generations, when those industrial parks first began to enclose land, they were like this, and within a few years, they would become full of factories and people. Su Hao has every reason to believe that this wasteland will also become a busy industrial park in the future.

Hao Qing asked puzzledly: "Master Su, we are steelmaking and glassmaking, can we use such a large space?" In such a deserted place, if you want to build a house, I am afraid that it will cost a lot. With this money, if you rent a small village on the edge of the city, it will be enough to build a few workshops. ”

Su Hao waved his hand and said, "Brother Hao, from now on, you have to change your concept." What we want to build is a factory. Not a workshop. ”

"What is a factory?" Hao Qing asked, he had heard Su Hao say this word many times, and he really couldn't think of the difference between a factory and a workshop.

Su Hao thought for a while and said, "To put it simply, the workshop produces a single product. And the factory is a place for mass production. In the factory. Thousands of workers divide labor according to the technological process, and each person only completes one step of the work, through the division of labor and cooperation. Finally, the production of a product is completed. Because of the division of labor, everyone's work becomes simpler, and the efficiency can be greatly improved, and ultimately the production efficiency of the entire factory is also improved.

For example, a workshop can produce 10 knives a month. A factory can produce 1,000 units a month, and that's the difference between the two. ”

"Division of labor and cooperation......" Hao Qing muttered the concept of Su Hao in his mouth, imagining the scene of a group of people dividing labor and doing things. In fact, the method of division of labor and cooperation already existed in many workshops in the Ming Dynasty, but the scale did not reach the level that Su Hao said. Thinking of the spectacular scene of thousands of people doing things together, Hao Qing couldn't help but feel a little excited.

"We're going to build a number of factories in this area." Su Hao squatted down and took a stone and scratched it on the ground:

"First of all, there must be a steel mill. Specializing in the smelting of special steels, currently mainly high-manganese steel. A glass factory that supplies clear glass. Matching these two factories, there needs to be a metal products factory, a glassware factory. High manganese steel products and glass products are made separately. ”

"These factories, villains can be wrapped. However, both steelmaking and glass making require crucibles. If you want to go on a large scale, the crucible should also be very large. It's a lot of money. Hao Qing said.

Su Hao said: "I can't bear the child to catch the wolf, Dong and Yang have already said, how many waist knives and vanity mirrors we can produce, they can sell them, a waist knife is 500 taels, enough for you to make how many crucibles?"

Hao Qing grinned, compared with the high profits of these products, the investment is indeed negligible.

Su Hao continued: "Then, we will build a sulfuric acid plant, which is green alum. I have already drawn the drawings of the cylinder tower method of green alum, Brother Songsheng, you can urge Brother Hao to build it for you quickly. Sulfuric acid is the mother of chemicals, and many things need to use sulfuric acid as a raw material. ”

Su Hao's brother Songsheng is Luo Yuqing, a student of Fengcheng Longguang Academy, and his family runs a dyeing workshop, so he has a learning foundation since he was a child. Last time, Su Hao asked Chen Guanyu to make sulfuric acid, and then made concentrated nitric acid with concentrated sulfuric acid, and regenerated nitroglycerin, this set of technology was finally inherited by Luo Yuqing, and Luo Yuqing also used nitroglycerin as raw material to make yellow explosives under the guidance of Su Hao.

Su Hao realized the value of yellow explosives from his personal experience in Banzhou. The army needs this kind of explosives, and the mining also needs such explosives, Su Hao decided to take precautions and build a sulfuric acid plant and explosives first, which can be regarded as the Daming chemical industry.

Luo Yuqing also entered Beijing with Lu Xiu'er and others this time, and when he heard Su Hao's explanation, he nodded solemnly and said, "Brother Chang, please rest assured, the younger brother will live up to his brother's trust."

"Finally, it's the machine factory. The lathes, drilling machines, boring machines, etc., that I am talking about, must be developed in this machinery factory. Brother Zixian, your task is very difficult. Su Hao set his eyes on Xu Guangqi.

Xu Guangqi's face was a little confident, he nodded and said, "Brother Gai has already explained the truth so thoroughly, wouldn't it be too embarrassing if Guangqi couldn't build this noise?"

"I have full confidence in Brother Zixian." Su Hao said.

If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools. Since Su Hao thought of developing industry in the Ming Dynasty, the first thing to bear the brunt of was to develop industrial machine tools. Su Hao roughly understands the principles of various machine tools, such as the most traditional lathe, which is nothing more than a spindle that can rotate at high speed and a tool that can be fed horizontally. As for more details, Su Hao has not learned them, but he believes that with the wisdom of the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty, he must be able to figure it out.

In these days, Su Hao made an introduction to Xu Guangqi about all the mechanical principles that he could think of, such as crankshafts, cams, hydraulics, etc., which made Xu Guangqi intoxicated. Xu Guangqi was born with a great spatial imagination, Su Hao roughly said a thought, and Xu Guangqi was able to simulate the relevant shape in his mind. After a few days of communication, Su Hao finally decided to hand over the work of establishing the machinery factory to Xu Guangqi to complete.

Of course, Su Hao knows that it is not easy to develop various machinery, and it may be difficult to make any profits in a few years. But he also understands that these things always need someone to do, once this noise is developed, the entire industrial processing level of the Ming Dynasty will jump to a higher level, which will lead to the birth of many other machinery, including the steam engine that Su Hao told Wang Xijue and others.

What kind of scenario would it be if the steam engine had appeared and the Industrial Revolution had followed?

The task is clear, and then the leveling of the site, the construction of the factory, and the hiring of craftsmen are followed. All of these require money, but these investments are nothing to Su Hao.

In the past year, Su's firm has made tens of thousands of taels of silver in profits by building telescopes for the military, mining coal, and selling lime and phosphate fertilizers. Among them, the telescope alone earned 20,000 taels, although Su Hao took out part of it for the training of the survey camp, but the rest was still the big head. In addition, considering the huge profits that may be brought by cooperating with Su Hao, Dong Tianzhang and Yang Laizhen also took out a part of the silver taels, claiming that they were lent to Su Hao for start-up.

This industrial park in Liangxiang carries Su Hao's industrial dream, and in order to realize this dream, he does not hesitate to invest money in it.

At that time, there were many farmers doing odd jobs everywhere, so Su Hao hired a large number of migrant workers and began the construction of the industrial park. In order to manage these migrant workers, Su Hao found more than a dozen more active soldiers from the survey camp, plus a few men borrowed from Dong Tianzhang and Yang Laizhen, to form a supervision team responsible for supervising the work of the migrant workers. And the leader of the entire supervision team is Lu Xiu'er, the big shopkeeper of Su's Commercial Bank.

The recruitment of craftsmen is also in full swing. The status of craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty was not high, and their income was also pitiful. Su Hao offered generous conditions to recruit blacksmiths, goldsmiths, glazers, carpenters, masons, etc. These recruited craftsmen are divided into several levels according to their respective levels. Senior craftsmen act as technicians in the factory, doing some delicate work; Low-level craftsmen are arranged on the assembly line to do the work of a criminal order.

In order to avoid the leakage of technology, Su Hao discussed with Hao Qing and others repeatedly, and also came up with a salary method. For example, the recipe is strictly controlled in the hands of one's own people, and some production links are separated and handed over to different craftsmen, so that none of them can master the whole process.

In addition, according to the advice of Dong and Yang, Su Hao also signed a life and death agreement with the craftsmen, stipulating that if the craftsmen stole the technology in the factory, they would bear the most serious consequences. The craftsmen were convinced of Su Hao's threat, and they knew that it was too easy for a person with a background like Su Hao to clean up a craftsman.

The seeds of industry have been sown, and it will take a long time to reap the fruits, and Su Hao is fully psychologically prepared for this. He wrote down all the work ideas he could think of into words and handed them over to Xu Guangqi, Luo Yuqing and others to implement, and as for himself, he packed up his luggage, took the survey camp, and was ready to embark on a new journey.

It turned out that Wang Xijue, unable to get the support of the cabinet, discussed a compromise plan with Wanli and found a place for Su Hao to display his talents, and this place was called Huai'an Mansion. (To be continued.) You are welcome to come to the starting point to vote for recommendation votes and monthly passes. For mobile phone users, please go to read