Pan Guochen did not get to the point as Jiang Wentao expected. I saw him bow his head and take out a small note, and respectfully present it to Jiang Wentao like an artifact.

"Please take a look at this first."

Jiang Wentao took the note and glanced at it with annoyance, frowned between his eyebrows, and said lightly: "Since it is the emperor's edict, then I will listen to it." ”

Pan Guochen sat back, put his hands on his knees, and said with a smile: "Don't dare to be, the emperor has always respected the Marquis of Zhirui, but it is a matter of confidentiality, so I have to make this decision, and I hope Your Excellency will forgive me." ”

Jiang Wentao didn't seem to appreciate it, and leaned back slightly: "I'm just a trickster, I can't get used to hearing crepe things, Commissioner Pan still has something to say." ”

Pan Guochen continued to maintain his mask-like expression without being surprised: "It is much more difficult to produce weapons of the same quality in large quantities, even weapons with slightly lower performance, than to produce high-performance weapons in small quantities, but at the same time, it is much more effective—you must have your own unique insight into this truth, right?" ”

"The convergence of large-scale assembly line production characterized by the use of combined machine tools, scientific management methods marked by the Taylor system, and sufficient labor force at relatively low cost is the royal road for the backward industrial countries to catch up."

Jiang Wentao, who was sitting firmly in the Diaoyutai platform, couldn't help but pull up the text.

"What you have said is very true."

Pan Guochen lowered his eyebrows and asked for advice.

Seeing this, Jiang Wentao also relaxed a little. Xiang Lu turned sideways to the right, and raised Erlang's legs on the other.

"Before the Russo-Asian War, most of our machine tools relied on imports, not to mention the high price, and the technical specifications based on the importing country are very different, the cost of comprehensive use is very high, and the efficiency is low, so that we can only tap the potential from the two aspects of management and labor costs."

When Pan Guochen heard this, he put on a look of arrogance: "My knowledge of these aspects is too shallow, and I hope Your Excellency will give me advice." ”

Jiang Wentao seemed to be quite satisfied with Pan Guochen's attitude, so he opened the conversation and talked eloquently: "After the Asian-Russian War, we began to vigorously develop the machine tool manufacturing industry, but the development progress of the high-precision machine tool at the top of the machine tool manufacturing industry, which is commonly known as the 'working machine', is not ideal. Until the start of the war, the domestic machine tool manufacturing industry mainly relied on imported machine tools, which were originally strictly restricted in the export of advanced industrial countries, and all we could buy were outdated things. The precision of these machine tools made by these outdated machine tools in foreign countries is naturally inferior to that of foreign machines, and it is even better to directly purchase foreign machines. ”

"People who don't understand the manufacturing industry often take it for granted that with a computer, they can improve the accuracy of machine tools, but this is not the case. The precision of the products manufactured by machinery is definitely lower than the accuracy of the machinery used, because there is a loss of precision in the middle, and the real accuracy comes from the hands of people, and only the hands of people can maximize the accuracy. ”

"For example, the most important thing about the accuracy of a machine is the guide rails of the machine. The guide rail of the low-precision machine tool can be produced with the medium-precision machine tool, and the medium-precision can be produced with the high-precision one. You may not believe it, but it's actually cut out by hand. ”

"Of course, if you and I want to sharpen like this, we can only toss out a pile of scrap iron if we have a broken hand, and we must have the most experienced and talented top technicians, the kind of masters who have studied in the front line for more than ten years or even decades, so that it is possible to make the highest precision parts. Moreover, such a master may be best at making only one or two parts, and it often takes dozens or hundreds of masters to assemble a highest-precision 'working machine'. ”

"To cultivate and maintain such a team of top technicians, first, the scale of the country's machine tool manufacturing industry should be large enough, the larger the scale, the larger the base of relevant technicians, the higher the possibility of selecting top talents, and the higher the cost performance of the machine tool. The former is easier to understand, the latter is not easy to understand, in fact, you can think of it this way: the larger the scale of the machine tool manufacturing industry. The more sub-machine tools manufactured by a single machine tool, the greater the demand for the same specification of the machine tool, and the same number of top technicians may manufacture more parts of the same specification, which improves production efficiency, reduces production and application costs, and the cost performance does not go up. Our machine tool manufacturing industry is subject to the work machine, the scale is relatively limited, and the cost performance is naturally not high. ”

"Second, this industry must have a long enough history, skilled workers not only have to practice by hand, but also need to be taught by the master's words and deeds, three years and five years are still considered apprentices, ten years and eight years are not advanced, no fifteen or sixteen years who will call you "master"? But at the beginning, we didn't have any masters, 'I Daqing' was almost blank in this regard, there were few top ones, and half a bucket of water was considered a national treasure. I can only invite from foreign countries first, but the top foreign masters are also treasures, and I only have half a bucket of water - we don't have the one-sided assistance of the Soviet Union in the 1950s in that time and space, just a bunch of half-barrels of water Chinese apprentices brought out by these half-barrel water masters, and then continue to bring more half-barrel water apprentices - that's right, now our machine tool manufacturing industry is relying on this group of half-barrels of water to tinker. There was no way, so I had to pull up the heights in the short, and the whole country selected a group of elites in half a bucket of water, gathered them and poured a theory, and then got them to the factory with the best equipment to eat and drink for them, and finally made do with the copycat mother machine with an accuracy not lower than the previous imported goods before the war, otherwise, hum. War, war, war, and fart war. ”

"Third, there should be appropriate incentives for the industry. In the advanced industrial countries of Europe and the United States, the income and status of senior technicians are very high, and they have a considerable say in product design and production processes, and in some respects are second only to engineers from colleges and universities, so they can often insist on studying in the front line for decades. However, China's official standard tradition has a long history, and bureaucrats in all walks of life and everything must intervene, and those who are a little capable have to become officials. Especially in the monopoly of the machine tool manufacturing industry in the government-run enterprises, the wind of drilling and dumping prevails, and there are very few people who can study their own industry with peace of mind, in the final analysis, the bureaucrats at all levels have too much power, and the workers have no status, of course, this has a lot to do with the old concept of "Shinong Industry and Commerce" that is deeply rooted in society. ”

"Fourth ......"

It wasn't until the door was knocked on by the uniformed female secretary who brought coffee that Jiang Wentao finally ended his tirade and asked Pan Guochen instead: "Having said so much, now you can tell me what the emperor wants me to do, right?" ”

Pan Guochen instantly turned his gaze on the tight black pantyhose of the female secretary who had just entered the α, and nodded deeply to Jiang Wentao: "Can I understand it this way, in view of the various problems that currently exist in the machine tool manufacturing industry, is it too reluctant to use combined machine tools for large-scale assembly line production in this war?" And the potential in terms of management and labor costs is tapped. And not enough to compensate for the loss of efficiency in this regard? ”

Jiang Wentao took the coffee handed by the female secretary with his right hand, patted the armrest with his left palm, shook his head happily and said: "It's not to that point, the combination machine tool can't be built, it costs a little more silver, and the organizational design of the assembly line production is also a ready-made thing, but as mentioned earlier, the accuracy of the machine tool is not good, and the manufactured things have a large tolerance and unstable quality." The actual performance is also discounted. In this way, the military leaders are not satisfied, you must know that they are eager to use World War II equipment to fight this war, and the performance is cut to death, then we can't help it, no matter how good the drawings are, what's the use of the machine? I have to use manual labor as much as possible to make up for it, and the proportion of labor goes up, the production efficiency will come down, and the assembly line production will be more difficult. ”

"Also, the combined machine tool designed for a set of assembly line can only manufacture the same model of product, at most it can only be fine-tuned for the improved model with similar specifications, and if the product is updated, the equipment of this assembly line will be scrapped, so the cost of using this method when frequently updating the weapon model is so high that you vomit blood. Like now, the aircraft and combat vehicles are changed every year, how can it be easy to open the assembly line? Even if the US imperialists are as rich as they are, they don't have such a toss, they have to learn from the Soviet Union in World War II, the T34 was built from beginning to end, what you want is quantity, and if you can't kill you, you will drown. ”

"As for management, the scientific management method of industrial enterprises was originally invented by the Americans, and the Taylor system formed at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century is still popular in sweatshops in developing countries in the 21st century.

"Labor cost, we still have a great advantage, everything is expensive, only people are cheap, can be done by people as much as possible without machines, the base of 400 million people is there, which is also one of the 'precious legacies' left by the previous dynasty. In recent years, however, it has gradually stopped, and the land reform and agricultural reform have been carried out vigorously, and the peasants have also started to farm, and the large-scale development of the northeast and northwest has absorbed millions of peasants who have reclaimed land, and several times they have been recruited to work in the famine. The average wage has gone up, there is still relief for the unemployed, and contract labor is no longer in vogue. This has come and gone, and the advantage of labor cost has been discounted several times......"

Jiang Wentao stretched out his hands, turned his head and glanced at the female secretary who was standing with her hands down and a confused face, and squinted her eyes unhappily: "Xiao Song, you go back first, I will call you again if there is something." ”

Seeing Xiao Song bowing his head and turning around, he walked out of the room with his round and evenly curled buttocks under the beige skirt, and closed the door with a "click", Pan Guochen took the opportunity to speak: "I understand, in fact, what the emperor means is that in view of the many domestic problems, he focuses on ending the war as soon as possible and dignity, so as to accelerate the promotion of domestic reform, rather than gambling on the national fortune to solve the problem in the first war......"

Jiang Wentao, who was bringing the coffee cup to his mouth, suddenly tilted his head and interrupted him: "This war can't solve any problems, more than that, it will only add more troublesome problems." ”

Pan Guochen lowered his head and smiled: "Maybe, it is both trouble and luck, this is not a computer game, you can't adjust the speed, and there is no script that can be cracked, you can't witness it until it really happens." ”

He Xin, who had been a furnishing for a while, couldn't help but interject: "Since it has already begun, I have to come to cover the water with soldiers, and the problem is for people to solve." Although I have always agreed with the expansion concept of the military department, I, like Brother Wen Tao, are engaged in technical skills, and I know what is conceivable and what can be done, and what if I can't see it after death? As long as you have worked hard and think that what you have done in your life, you will be able to make thousands of blessings be passed on to future generations, and it is enough to be at ease. ”

Jiang Wentao twisted his cup and smiled: "I see, I heard that Lao He has been obsessed with Buddhist books recently, and you must have been enlightened, so it's no wonder that you will be this guide." ”

He Xin just shook his head and sighed lightly: "A little obsession is not enough - Commissioner Pan, it's not too early, you can continue quickly." ”

Pan Guochen hurriedly straightened his body, and quickened his speech to get straight to the topic: "Yes, the emperor hopes that Your Excellency and Jin Ruihou will work together to set up a research team, sort out the new equipment in production, research and pre-research, and simply select the most suitable model for mass production. ”

"After selecting the equipment, according to the existing industrial conditions, formulate a specific plan for arranging the large-scale production of the assembly line, site selection, equipment procurement, total cost, total construction time, design output, unit cost and consumables, etc., all aspects of the details must be listed, and after completion, it will be directly submitted to the emperor for review through the designated channels, and then the next step will be carried out according to the emperor's instructions."

"The most important thing is that all this must be kept absolutely confidential, especially not to be perceived by the military department."

After hearing this, Jiang Wentao held the coffee cup in his hand, was stunned thoughtfully for a while, suddenly made up his mind, nodded violently, turned around and put the coffee cup on the workbench, lifted the tablecloth leg hanging from the workbench, took out the key on his waist to open a thick steel cabinet door, and rummaged through something.

After a while, Jiang Wentao closed the safe with a "Peng Tong" sound, got up and handed Pan Guochen a stack of documents.

"Now you go to see the emperor, this is what she wants, I will wait for you for a week, and if there is no specific instruction after a week, I will not do it."

Pan Guochen was so excited that he almost jumped up - this "design maniac" really didn't cover it.

A rough flip through the document revealed that the handwriting on the document was very sloppy and barely legible, apparently a hastily handwritten draft.

"No one else has seen these things, has it?"

Pan Guochen still asked as cautiously as possible.

"What do you say?"

Jiang Wentao asked with a smile.