Chapter 374: Daming Military Industrial Base (Fifteenth Update)

The workshop of the Firearms Bureau is not as small as the Iron and Steel Smelting Bureau, and it also covers an area of 1,000 acres. Please search (product # book ¥ net) to see the most complete! The fastest update!

Zhu Youzhen has been away for so long and can only take the imperial chariot to inspect, and he has already decreed that all customs and etiquette are exempted, in order not to affect the progress of firearms production.

Zhu Youzhen looked around, and saw that the entire workshop was two parallel large platforms, the platform was about three feet wide, but the length stretched to nearly one kilometer, and all kinds of manufactured barrels, butts and firing devices were placed in batches in three three-inch-high grooves on the platform.

Workers take out the parts from the grooves and assemble them, and the unqualified ones are put aside for recycling, and after assembling a gun, they are also placed in the box on the other side with colors to distinguish them.

These craftsmen in charge of assembly are very fast, because their pay is calculated according to the amount of assembly, not according to the hours worked, and they can work twenty-four hours a day if you wish, so that the income is not less than the income of a seven-pin county order in a year.

Retired non-commissioned officers are trained in the ordnance station into an experimental group, and they are responsible for the inspection of firearms, and those who fail to pass will be returned and punished accordingly, and of course, there is also a reward system for the corresponding pass rate when the standard is reached.

For firearms that pass the inspection, there will be special craftsmen to seal the firearms with wax.

Then there are labor-only workers who pack the boxes, which are then transported by large horse-drawn wagons to the docks for loading and transporting to the various war zones, or they are also put directly into the warehouses first.

The same is true for field artillery production, the more the entire production line travels, the higher the requirements for craftsmen.

Although many of these craftsmen are apprentices, they actually have the official status equivalent to Shilin's lifters, and the downstream skilled workers also have the treatment of raw workers, of course, the laborers who are only responsible for packing and handling can only get paid, but they can also apply to enter the Daming Industrial School affiliated to the Ordnance Institute to study.

After entering the verdant Fangshan Mountain, you can see the tall rooms that stretch for several kilometers, and they are all made of terrazzo bricks, but the whole body is five or six layers, the body is quite Western-style, and the top floor is the top of the traditional heavy eaves of the country, giving Zhu Youzhen the feeling that it is the style of the Republic of China period.

This is the location of the Daming Industrial School.

Most of the students here are children of ordinary people.

It was Zhu Youqian who used the dividends from the Korean textile company to open this school.

The school does not charge any fees and even has subsidies, the reason is that many people from well-to-do families still attach more importance to the imperial examination and do not want their children to learn such skills, but many people who are considered to have little qualifications in the profession will come here to study, because if they come here to study, they will get a subsidy for doing farm work at home.

However, although these children are not good at their careers, it does not mean that they are not smart, because the industrial school is a new type of education, with seven main subjects of teaching: Chinese, arithmetic, physics, foreign language, chemistry, biology, and geography.

And the most elementary students only learn the state and arithmetic, so many children who are talented in arithmetic are displayed here, and they are no longer unknown to the public.

Chalk had been made, but it was being pinched in the hand of a weak scholar, writing various mathematical symbols on the blackboard.

Zhu Youzhen also walked to the window along a corridor sandwiched between pines and cypresses, and only listened carefully to the neat lark-like answers of the children in the classroom, the sound of the teacher knocking on the blackboard from time to time, and the chalk flying in that place covered the podium like snow and sprinkled on the scholar's robes.

This is the time when a person is most worthy of respect, not when there is intrigue in the court.

"His name is Zhang Zhihe, he was originally a hundred households of the first class A infantry battalion of the Third Army of the Guards, and then he was injured and had to change places, and now he is responsible for the arithmetic education of the senior grades, Pythagorean and geometry are taught by him, and the teaching materials are also compiled by him, and sometimes he has to help us design drawings for the Gun Bureau."

Bi Maokang introduced it from the side, and Zhu Youzhen nodded, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but smile.

Connected to the Daming Industrial School is the Daming Institute of Engineering, which has more senior academicians and supervisors.

The reason why there are supervisors is because the theoretical talents who graduated from the Daming Industrial School will be selected here according to the principle of voluntary application to give the supervisors their background and engage in theoretical and experimental research.

The Daming Institute of Engineering is also a large-scale site covering an area of 1,000 acres, where various experimental bases and countless experimental buildings, theoretical teaching buildings and conference buildings have been built one after another.

Due to the experiment, fire and explosion accidents are often susceptible.

Therefore, the Daming Engineering Institute and the Daming Industrial School are mainly brick buildings, and they are all open on all sides, and the facilities and scenes inside can be seen clearly.

Because from the various bureaus under the Ordnance Institute to the Daming Industrial School and the current Daming Engineering Institute are all important parts of the Daming military base, they have always been heavily guarded at the foot of Fangshan Mountain.

So although there are hundreds of thousands of people inside, because of the strict management and the difficulty for outsiders to enter, it is very quiet here, and Zhu Youzhen can even directly hear the voices of these people in front of them.

There are many doors and windows in the laboratory building of Nuoda, and the floors are not high, in order to facilitate escape and evacuation in the event of an accident, which is also convenient for Zhu Youjian to see that the laboratory of Nuoda is full of all kinds of glassware, including measuring cylinders and beakers, funnels and even chromatography column condensers.

"These are all provided by the Xu family of Wei Guogong, a trip back from the West, not only made glass but also improved the drawing technology, and even brought diamonds from overseas, whether it is cutting and blowing glass, there is a mature technology, and now let the glass fly into the homes of ordinary people, not to mention the glassware that is needed for experiments, and the profiteering glass has become an ordinary object, and the gentry in the coastal Jiangnan also have his share of credit."

Zhu Youzhen said with a smile, and when he heard a bang, it was actually a prisoner in a white cloth shirt who accidentally knocked over a bottle containing concentrated sulfuric acid, but fortunately, the prisoner was also very calm, diluted with water and shoveled lime and watered it.

The steam engine that was still in the laboratory and all kinds of new knives were used to boring various metal materials, as well as the model of the Chongzhen 21-type flintlock pistol placed in the laboratory, which made Zhu Youzhen feel very excited at this time.

This is the advantage of the Ming Dynasty that the officials outside and the Manchus in Jiangbei will not realize, and it is also Zhu Youzhen's biggest reliance, he has accumulated countless fortunes over the years, one does not build a palace, and the other does not repair the imperial mausoleum in order to have a military base.

This is a military industrial base integrating production, learning and research, with the most advanced mature industrial production technology and management system in this era, as well as experimental models beyond this era, which is also the real driving force of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youzhen hopes that after seeing it in his lifetime, he can get out of the first breech-loading rifled robbery, the first rear-loading rifled gun, the first practical steam engine, the first chariot and even the first tank and train.

But just as he was so fantastic, there was a sudden loud explosion that shook the earth.

"Protect Your Majesty!"

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