"Master Yan, can you package the prefabricated parts to a local carpenter? This will also speed up the construction period. Xu Yuanzuo met with a few big foremen recommended by Luo Zhenquan.

These big foremen are quite detached, wandering outside the mainstream society, although there is no official protection, but they eat by their skills, and whoever sees them has to be polite. Especially in this era, people are full of reverence for nature, and there are sacrificial rituals for the groundbreaking and erection of beams and columns, which are quite mysterious, which further elevates their status.

Therefore, some big workers are very proud, even in front of Xu Yuanzuo, the young owner, they are not very respectful.

Xu Yuanzuo doesn't care about vanity, what he wants is actual control. After several contacts and meals, he finally chose the Master Yan in front of him.

Master Yan is a wooden person, and he is a typical person who works with a dull head. Although others boasted about themselves, as if Lu Ban was reincarnated, he always remained modest, and the work he took out was not bad at all. This made Xu Yuanzuo very agreeable, so he handed over the majority of the villa construction project to him.

Master Yan was also worried that the construction period was too tight, and tried his best to speed it up. However, in this era, there were no drawings, all of them were calculated in their minds, and then they commanded their craftsmen to work. Some unskilled people will build a full-scale model to calculate the material, but it is impossible to ask people to work according to the model.

Xu Yuanzuo didn't plan to ask Master Yan to draw drawings at the beginning - that was the basis for people to eat, how could he rashly take it out? It is destined to be passed on to apprentices before retirement. This was the case with his master back then, and so was his apprentice in the future, who could only leave the embroidered mandarin ducks, and it was impossible to share the stitches.

Even without drawings, subcontracting of prefabricated parts can greatly increase the progress of the project.

"Each carpenter is only assigned one component, and it is made in strict accordance with the size you give, and we will accept it if it is qualified. If you don't qualify, you will be redone. You are only responsible for taking the apprentice to install, not only do you not have to worry about the craft being stolen to learn, but you can be faster, why not? Xu Yuanzuo said.

Master Yan thought about it, but he thought it was feasible. Nowadays, high-end houses use mortise and tenon structures, and the trick lies in assembling and building, not in components. The reason why you have to make all the components yourself. It's all about cooperating. If there is a deviation in the size of the outer parts, it doesn't matter, it can still be corrected in your own team.

However, Xu Yuanzuo didn't think about the problem of allowable deviations, he said: "We can also make some general rules." ”

The pass gauge is a type of measuring tool. In the actual production, if a large number of products are taken with measuring tools, such as vernier calipers, dial gauges and other scaled measuring tools, it is very troublesome to measure them one by one. Therefore, it is possible to set a measurement range for qualified products, and all those in this range are qualified, so the general gauge and stop gauge were invented.

"If it can't be passed, it can't be stopped. So he asked the carpenter to redo it. Xu Yuanzuo said: "The money is paid to them to do a good job." ”

- This is to earn less wages.

Master Yan didn't spit out immediately, and he was still a little reluctant in his heart.

Xu Yuanzuo observed his words and knew that there must be an internal reason for his refusal to agree. The internal reason for this is nothing more than both technical and economic aspects, since there is no technical problem, it must be economic reasons.

"The sooner you finish, the more work you can take. Do you always calculate the bulk of your profits, are you making components or building houses? Xu Yuanzuo broke the way.

Doing components is a small job. Building houses is the big deal, and everyone knows it.

"Okay. Just listen to the young owner. Master Yan finally spat out.

Xu Yuanzuo nodded and said, "The components to be outsourced are all drawn, and the size is clearly marked, and it would be better if there was a model." The carpenters in Songjiang Mansion are also good, but if they can't do it, we can go to Suzhou to hire people. ”

Master Yan promised again and again. These component drawings are available in "Constructing the French Style", and it is not difficult to draw. It's just a little uneasy to hand it over to someone else.

It's an attempt.

Xu Yuanzuo is not worried about this. If it is cement and steel, then there is also the problem of marking and quality. Nowadays, all the wood used is natural, who can fake it as shoddy? If someone can use pine wood to pretend to be Nanmu, that's really a great talent.

And the materials are all prepared by the Xu family themselves, and the carpenter has to work on the construction site. No one can change it.

Xu Yuanzuo ran around the construction site all day, adjusted some small details, emphasized the importance of outsourcing, and asked Mei Chenggong to take colleagues from the marketing department to register nearby carpenters and prepare the deed.

At the end of the day, he found that the most scarce thing was labor.

Whether it is a high-level intellectual worker or a manual worker who is in greater demand, quantity is a problem.

The artisans themselves were few in number, and the peasants were unwilling or unable to leave the land. Even if you are a tenant farmer, you will have a constant income. Once you leave the land and become a craftsman, you lose the foundation of your life. This kind of traditional psychology is the same as the young couples in later generations who want to buy a house as a cow and a horse, and they can't change it when they are idle.

The atmosphere in the south of the Yangtze River has opened up a lot, and the number of farmers who come out to work during the slack season has gradually increased.

However, the number is still insufficient.

- Only when productivity goes up.

Xu Yuanzuo does not plan to invest in the research and development of steam engines now, although it is quite touching to think about it, it is a cross-era product, but the cost of recruiting people is far less than the research and development cost of steam engines, so the first choice is of course to choose to recruit people.

When capitalists promote the development of science and technology, it must be because the cost of labor is higher than the cost of machine research and development.

The current Ming Dynasty has not yet developed to that point, and manpower is still relatively cheap.

Xu Fan and Xu Cheng also went to the construction site a few times, and when they saw the hot scene, they were very relieved, and felt that Xu Yuanzuo was really a person who could do things. And I was very lucky, I only read the book for a few days, and I have successfully entered the school, and I am still the first of the two exams.

"You don't need to save money, you can use it when you need it." Xu Fan said casually: "Your second uncle is spending more over there." ”

Objectively speaking, the Xu family raised 3,000 weavers, with an annual income of 100,000 taels, which is more than half of the total income of the Xu family. The main reason is that Xu Jie is still there, so all this silver is public, and Xu Fan can use it as long as his father agrees, so naturally he will not save money. Even if Xu Kun felt uncomfortable in his heart, he didn't dare to say that he would split up when his father was alive, otherwise would he really think that "Da Ming Law" was fake?

"Do you know what he did with the third child in the days when I went out with your eldest father?" Xu Fan said as if he was at home.

Xu Yuanzuo knew that Xu Sheng had gone to Nanjing, but he didn't know what the specifics were.

Seeing Yizi shaking his head, Xu Fan said: "He and the third child sent someone to Nanjing to buy officials." ”

"Huh? Can this also be bought? Xu Yuanzuo was stunned. Except for the two eunuchs who are in power, you can buy officials, how to buy them at other times? At most, donate one prisoner, and you will be looked at coldly.

"I spent 30,000 gold to buy off a few imperial historians and idle officials to advocate for them and ask for Yin officials." Xu Fan said, his brows already furrowed.

Xu Yuanzuo was not surprised. In his memory, Xu Kun and Xu Ying had already shadowed Shang Baosi's official position. Shang Baosi was originally used to take care of the children of meritorious ministers, and with the help of Yushi, the imperial court generally would not refuse to give it, not to mention the former chief assistant like Xu Jie, and it was a matter of course for Duoyin's two sons.

"The officials of the high-tech Zheng Cabinet are only 30,000 gold, and they have lost a lot." Xu Yuanzuo said with a smile: "What's more, in order to appease people's hearts, Gao Xinzheng will give the two uncles an official even if he doesn't give money." It's the same as Liu Bang's first appreciation of Yongya. ”

Xu Fan's heart moved: his father said that this son has a genius, and it is true. I didn't even think of that!

Liu Bang first named the most hated Yongya as a marquis, just to tell others: Yongya, a villain who betrayed me, has been crowned a marquis, why are you panicking?

Now if Gao Gong stands up and approves of Yin Xu Jie's second son as an official, wouldn't he just say to the imperial history who once opposed him: I don't even hold a grudge against Xu Jie, let alone you officials?

"It's a pity that these 30,000 gold." Xu Yuanzuo shook his head slightly and said, "Father, since the second uncle has the heart to be an official, you might as well ask him to go to Beijing to be an official." ”

Shadow officials have positions and salaries, but they may not have errands. Officials who do not have errands also live idle when they arrive in Beijing.

As soon as Xu Kun leaves, the business of the family's cloth shop will return to Xu Fan's hands.

Xu Fan Yile: "Exactly, if you don't buy a real job with 30,000 gold, wouldn't it be a loss." ”

"And if we send a hostage in Gao Gong's hands, he can rest assured for two years." Xu Yuanzuo was quite proud of his delaying strategy.

Xu Fan no longer doubts Xu Yuanzuo's political vision and methods, but he just feels that this son is really not like a teenager with a scheming heart. (To be continued......)

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