The liveliness of the gun is not worse than that of the gun, and the noise is much more than that of the gun, the shed here is also built of wooden trusses, the internal height is more than five meters, and there are large windows on all sides to improve the ventilation and lighting in the shed.

Even though it's only early spring and the weather is still a little chilly, it's still very hot in the shed.

There are dozens of furnaces lined up in the shed, and next to each furnace there is an anvil and an iron workbench, and next to the workbench, there are shelves of different styles for placing raw materials and finished products.

And on each workbench, there are special fixtures or molds, and next to each furnace, there is also a craftsman and two apprentices, who are busy banging and beating.

The gun work now completely adopts the method of standardized assembly line operation, and is divided into several areas, the first area is responsible for processing large pieces of iron into coarse materials of different sizes and shapes, according to the general shape of the parts created by the next craftsman, and then distributed to the next work area for the next craftsman to use directly.

And the craftsmen in this area are mostly craftsmen who are not very good at craft, or simply use apprentices, anyway, they just turn the big materials into all kinds of small materials, and they don't need too high skills.

The next work area is the area where the parts are processed, and the craftsmen start to build the parts according to their respective division of labor with the materials they receive on their respective workbenches, but they do not need to completely make the materials into products, they only need to basically make the parts and hand them over to the craftsmen in the next process for modification, polishing or drilling.

The latter work area is responsible for the finished parts, they put the rough parts created in the previous process on a special fixture for detailed repair grinding or drilling, for which they have standardized parts fixtures and molds in their hands, which can ensure that the refurbished parts meet the requirements of the most refurbished assembly, and control the tolerances in the best state that can be achieved.

The last work area is the work area where the finished products are produced, and the parts that have been inspected and qualified are sent to this work area, and the craftsmen here begin to assemble various parts, and finally make finished products, which are sent for verification, and the qualified products are only sealed in the warehouse, waiting for the council hall to allocate equipment to various places.

Of course, the gun is also indispensable and the same as the gun, it is necessary to attach a carpentry workshop, which is responsible for making wooden butts for the guns, and the carpentry workshop on the gunning side is responsible for making various gun carriages and gun carriages for the artillery.

In addition, the production quantity of some vulnerable parts should exceed the production quantity of other parts, especially the barrel, according to a certain proportion, enter the finished product warehouse for storage, and allocate to various places for backup, once the gun parts are damaged, they can be repaired with parts as soon as possible.

Behind each work area, there is a full-time inspector who is responsible for the inspection of the parts created by the craftsmen in this process, and the number of the parts is smashed, so that in case of quality problems in the future, it can be directly traced to the craftsman in charge of production, which is a kind of responsibility check system.

And now, with the progress of the sea wolf literacy activities, many sea wolf people, especially craftsmen, have learned practical and commonly used characters, and also learned Arabic numerals, so that the inscriptions on the parts of this gun are all Arabic numerals.

The production of seawolf guns does not belong to the work of a craftsman, but the wisdom and efforts of many craftsmen to form a product, and does not pursue gorgeous decoration, only the pursuit of practicality and simple production, and improve production efficiency, so the guns produced by the sea wolf gun are simple and unpretentious on the surface, but the quality is quite good, far more than the birds made by the craftsmen on the land of the Ming Dynasty in this era.

And the gun attaches great importance to standardized production, specially carefully built a variety of fixtures and molds, inspection and special molds for card parts, only need to put the parts into the mold, you can immediately see whether the parts have reached the required tolerance, completely abandon the method of visual inspection, so that the product quality is better and guaranteed.

In addition, in order to improve the efficiency and processing accuracy of parts, the gun also attaches great importance to the development of some special machinery to assist production, instead of manual production, although these machines are human machinery, very simple and simple, but it is still faster than the original pure manual, parts processing is also more accurate.

Now for example, in the production of gun barrels, manual drilling machine tools and boring machine tools have been used, so that in the past, a craftsman could only build three or four barrels a month, and now each barrel craftsman, a month, can build one almost every day, and then a special person is responsible for drilling and boring the barrel, the production efficiency is several times or even ten times the previous output, and the quality is guaranteed, the scrap rate is gradually reduced, and now the finished product rate of the barrel has reached more than sixty percent, The best craftsmen can increase the yield of the barrel to about 80%, which not only saves a lot of labor, but also reduces the waste of raw materials.

Therefore, the current freshwater gun, compared with the gun of Nanri Island, is more reasonable in layout and has higher production efficiency.

It's a pity that the number of skilled craftsmen who make gun barrels is still a little smaller, which makes the output of guns form a bottleneck, and the output of guns in the two places every month has always temporarily hovered around the production of 120 short rifles for sailors, 100 standard flintlock rifles for war camps, and 200 double-barreled short guns, which cannot be exceeded for the time being.

If this group of apprentices can leave the school as soon as possible, then the next step of the Seawolf's musket production will be a greater breakthrough, if the output can reach 500 in a month, then Yu Xiaotian will no longer have to worry about his subordinates not being able to equip muskets in large quantities.

In addition to inspecting production in various workshops every day, he also has to extract guns from finished products for inspection every day, and he also has to think about the development of new fixtures, tooling, molds and manual simple machinery without any trouble.

It can be said that the blacksmith is busy on all fours, and basically lives in the gun work at night, but fortunately, this guy is a workaholic, and he doesn't care about it, but he is happy with it, and he is happy with this kind of life now.

Although the products of muskets are relatively not as many as those on the cannon side, but there is a lot of work that can be improved, and now Zhang Blacksmith's interest is shifting, he used to focus more on developing new guns, but now when more and more manual machinery is used in the workshop, he began to transfer his interest to the development of some new manual machinery, and every day his mind is full of thinking, how to create some machinery, and replace some manual production that is not easy to control accuracy with the use of simple machinery for production.

This can be said to be the credit of Yu Xiaotian, who completely brought Blacksmith Zhang into a new realm and became a fanatical mechanical fan.

When Yu Xiaotian came over this time, Blacksmith Zhang was taking some apprentices to tinker with a new manual machine for drilling, which was more convenient and faster than the previous machine, and he wanted to make it more convenient and faster, so that he could drill the chamber well.

Machinery was still in its infancy, all kinds of lathes had not yet been invented, and even if they were, they were all in their most primitive state, and power was limited to water and animal power and manpower, and prime mover such as steam engines, internal combustion engines, or electric motors had not yet been invented.

And a lot of work basically has to rely on craftsmen to make it by hand, such as an iron nail, a screw, all of which have to be made by manpower.

Even if there is a lathe now, it is not necessarily all right, these lathes can produce other machinery, but if they are used to specialize in the production of some small things, it is not necessarily much more efficient than manual work, the lathe can make screws, but to use the lathe to produce screws, it is too costly, and the efficiency is low and hand-built is not much worse!

When the later generations produced screws or sewing needles, iron nails and other items, all the special machinery was used, rather than ordinary lathes, so the later generations would have the concept of standard parts, and special factories would use professional mechanical lathes in accordance with the standards to produce a variety of standard parts that could be used in general, and provide various tools for use.

In fact, the mechanized production of later generations only subdivided industrial production, and the development of society was the result of the gradual and more detailed social division of labor, far exceeding the ancient social division of labor.

Now Yu Xiaotian wants to expand his industrial production capacity, so he has to gradually refine the division of labor among the people under his jurisdiction, and a workshop like Gun Zuo is the product of this kind of thinking, and in the next step, this method will be more and more used in other factories to promote it.

"How? Isn't it more convenient for you to change this drill machine? Yu Xiaotian didn't let people inform Blacksmith Zhang, who was busy with his work, and walked directly behind Blacksmith Zhang.

Blacksmith Zhang was so engrossed in the matter at hand that he didn't hear Yu Xiaotian's voice, and said impatiently: "Don't bother me, you guys are busy with your work!" I'm busy with mine, don't delay my business! ”

"Bold! Lao Zhang, don't look at who is coming! How dare you ...... like this" Liu Wang, who followed Yu Xiaotian, immediately stared at Blacksmith Zhang and yelled, but before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Yu Xiaotian and glared at him, so he swallowed the rest of the words back.