Unlike the normal historical production of steam engines, the process of producing steam engines at the First Machinery Factory of the Revival Society was not done entirely by hand.

Although the industrial production of steam engines was not possible in the late Ming Dynasty, because of Wang Shuhui's golden finger through time and space, the production of steam engines in the Fuxing Society was a regular industrialization model of "using steam engines to produce steam engines".

After five or six years of exploration and practice, all industrial enterprises of the Fuxing Association have roughly realized standardized, specialized, and assembly-line production. cast iron (cylinder blocks, machine bases, etc.), wrought iron and mild steel (crankshafts, connecting rods, etc.) produced by steel mills; medium carbon and above steel (piston pins or something), etc.; Bronze (crossheads, bearings) produced by metallurgical plants and other standard size steam engine parts produced by various factories are manufactured by steam-powered lathes and equipment.

Finally, these components are installed one by one on a standard assembly line and eventually become different types of steam engines for various plants. After being inspected by the inspection department, these steam engines are loaded into standard containers produced and used by the Fuxing Society, and transported by rail to various departments and units.

Beginning in 1624, the First Machine Factory of the Renaissance Society, which specialized in the production of steam engines, had begun to turn a profit and produce a large number of profits. On the one hand, the new economic accounting system within the Fuxing Association began to operate, and on the other hand, it was also because the multi-purpose and multi-model export-oriented pot camel machine produced by the First Machinery Factory of the Fuxing Association began to open up the market in the Jiangnan area.

It is also very interesting to say that the first real workers' movement in the history of the Ming Dynasty took place in the Jiangnan region under the impact of textile dumping by the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River merchant groups (Zhijiang Merchant League, Songzi Merchant League, Wuchang Merchant League, Qin Merchant League, etc.) under the leadership of the Fuxing Society.

Because of the large-scale dumping of low-quality and high-quality cotton cloth across the country in the past few years, the Fuxing Society and the merchant groups in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River have led to the bankruptcy of a large number of cotton weaving mills in the Jiangnan area, especially in the Songjiang area. From the beginning of 1624, due to the total failure of the market competition for cotton cloth in the Gangnam area, a large number of textile workshops in the Gangnam area began to enter a state of total bankruptcy starting from Songjiang Prefecture. A large number of Jiangnan handicraft workers who relied entirely on work for their livelihood in textile workshops lost their jobs in large numbers.

Interestingly, because the merchant groups in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River led by the Fuxing Society purchased a large amount of cotton, the cotton production in Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, Nanzhili and other places not only did not enter a state of contraction due to the bankruptcy of the cotton cloth workshops in the Jiangnan area, but increased on a large scale due to the continuous expansion of the production scale of the steam textile factories of the Fuxing Society and the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

Even the landlords in the Huguang region (Hunan and Hubei), which did not grow much cotton in the first place, began to grow cotton on their own land. (Mainly in the Hunan region, where cotton cultivation is basically realized by Fuxinghui farms.) Some of the farms of the Fuxing Society have grown a certain amount of high-quality long-staple cotton brought by Wang Shuhui from modern times on a large scale. ）

Macroscopically, due to the spread of the Fuxinghui's steam engine in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, agricultural cultivation in central and southern China has seen a decrease in grain production and an increase in cotton cultivation. Because of the large profits that can be obtained from cotton planting, on the one hand, the cotton planting area in the southern region has been further expanded, and on the other hand, because of the profitability of cotton cultivation, the land annexation in the Jiangnan region, which has a very high degree of land concentration, has begun to become more intense.

The expansion of cotton planting area, especially the promotion of cotton cultivation in Hunan and the policy of revival will severely restrict grain circulation ("Huguang is ripe and full of the world", the food supply of the Ming Dynasty mainly depends on the Jianghan Plain, and almost all of the Jianghan Plain is now the collective farm of the Fuxing Society), which has caused the grain prices of the Ming Dynasty, which have been rising due to the climate of the Xiaoice River, to further and rapidly rise.

On the one hand, because of the large number of unemployed handicraft workers created by the bankruptcy of enterprises, on the other hand, because of the large number of landless farmers due to the further concentration of land, and on the other hand, because of the food policy of the Renaissance Society and the Xiaoice climate and the expansion of cotton fields, food prices remained high. Under these circumstances, the situation in the Gangnam region became further intense. A large number of popular uprisings began to take place in the Jiangnan area.

From 1624 to 1625, there were many riots in Songjiang alone, in which the people robbed the grain stores and ate large households. Some of the more sober cotton cloth manufacturers had the foresight to steam their textile workshops, which also led to several incidents of unemployed workers storming new factories and smashing steam engines in the Songjiang area.

However, these popular uprisings and riots were easily suppressed by the gentry and armed forces in the Jiangnan area. (They are the beneficiaries of the expansion of cotton farming.) ）

Beginning in 1625, the professional steam engines and textile machines produced by the Fuxing Society began to be rapidly popularized and popularized in the Jiangnan area. The Huating Xu family (Xu Jie's descendants), which had already begun to decline, purchased 500 steam engines and 1,500 textile machines produced by the Fuxing Society with real money at one time. As a result, in 1625, the Xu family of Huating, who had planted nearly 100,000 acres of cotton fields, made a profit of more than 100,000 taels of silver, which not only recovered the cost at one time but also produced a large number of benefits.

It is precisely because of the leadership of the Huating Xu family that the cotton textile mills in the entire Jiangnan area began to fully introduce the steam engines and professional textile machines of the Fuxing Society for cotton cloth production. Although they are still unable to compete with the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River business groups with reasonable operation, strict management and good man-machine cooperation, because of the same steam power upgrade, the trend of equal strength between Jiangnan Cotton Spinning and the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River Cotton Spinning Group is still relatively obvious.

Revival would be more willing to see that. Because the more modern factories are built, it means that the market for the machinery products produced by Fuxing will continue to expand. And for Wang Shuhui, the emergence of the working class is definitely something he likes to see. Moreover, without the fact that the current situation of the workers under the exploitation of the cruel and vicious modern industrial capitalists was used as a negative teaching material, it would have been difficult for the workers under the Renaissance Society to understand the advanced and superior state-owned enterprises.

It is precisely for this reason that when Ye Feng led Zhang Zhaohuan's platoon to visit the No. 1 Machinery Manufacturing Factory of the Fuxing Society, what they saw was a scene of production in full swing.

Because of the loud noise in the factory, the explanations were carried out before the visit, so the young cadets who visited the factory in this row were all holding relevant introduction materials (Chinese pinyin annotation) in their hands to visit each production equipment and production procedure little by little.

In the process of visiting, because there is a lot of practice in ironmaking, Zhang Zhaohuan has a very intuitive and clear understanding of assembly line production. He has a very deep understanding of the advanced and efficient production of assembly lines.

Because of this deep understanding of assembly line production, Zhang Zhaohuan began to have a new understanding of the highly centralized and highly organized disciplined life in the Cadet Army.

In his opinion, without highly centralized and highly organized standardized training, it would be difficult for ordinary people to adapt to this kind of assembly line production in the Fuxing Society's factory. Space-Time Gate 1619

―――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――

Chapter 266 of the text is student Zhang Zhaohuan 6