Chapter 165: The Crazy Expansion of the Ordnance Industry

In fact, there are some things that are very easy to get into madness.

It's like in real life, if someone puts 100 million yuan in cash in front of you, and then tells you that as long as you can take the money, all the cash will be yours.

But the problem is that you don't even have a small bag in your hand, think about how much you can take with this money!

The heart is more than enough, but the strength is insufficient.

The situation that Wen Jiming is facing now is exactly the same as this situation.

When the Ming Empire sold 375,000 rifles to the Liujin Kingdom, it asked for 80 million gold talons.

And now the order in front of Wen Jiming is more than 10 million rifles, how many 80 million is this!

Wen Jiming roughly estimated that this is an order worth more than 2.4 billion gold taluns, but according to the current estimate of the Ming Emperor's production capacity, the Ming Empire can only produce more than one million rifles a month.

This is still the total amount of the output of the new factory added after a rough estimate, so Wen Jiming is almost crazy now!

He decided to fight!

So he ate this breakfast in the shortest meal time of his life, and then went straight out and drove to the Cabinet office building.

When he arrived at the Cabinet Government Building, Wen Jiming walked to the government service front desk in the lobby on the first floor and said to the security supervisor on duty.

"Inform all cabinet members to immediately come to the small conference room for a meeting!"

Ten minutes later, all the cabinet members arrived, Wen Jiming put the thick stack of rifle orders on the table, and then said to everyone.

"Here are the arms orders for a full 12,730,080 rifles, all of which were received before nine o'clock this morning!"

As soon as Wen Jiming's words fell, the entire conference room immediately became lively.

All the cabinet members are now almost like Wen Jiming, almost crazy in the face of such a huge order.

Just kidding, this is a contract worth 2.4 billion gold dollars, as long as the Ming Empire wins these orders, from now on, the entire empire will be completely rich!

Therefore, before Wen Jiming mobilized, these cabinet members were already shouting.

"Your Majesty, even if you are playing with your life, you must complete these orders as soon as possible!"

"Your Majesty, tell me what you need, the army will absolutely support all the next actions!"

"Yes, Your Majesty. We will also do our best to support all upcoming actions! ”

Wen Jiming saw that everyone was enthusiastic, and he knew that there was no need to incite himself, so he said to everyone present.

"First of all, we need to recruit a large number of workers and immediately arrange them for training in the arsenal in preparation for the start of the new arsenal that will be put into construction."

"Second, I need all the arsenals to implement a three-shift system from today to ensure that the factories are in production 24 hours a day. Give those workers who are willing to work overtime, open the overtime pay of one and a half times the usual salary, so that more workers can voluntarily work overtime in the factory! ”

"Third, the Ministry of Industry immediately went to the eastern suburbs to select a site for the new arsenal, this time we will invest in the construction plan of fourteen new arsenals at one time, and our goal is that the monthly output of rifles in the Ming Empire will reach more than 10 million in the future!"

When Wen Jiming finished speaking the third article, the cabinet members in the conference room became excited again, if 10 million rifles could be sold every month, it would mean that the Ming Empire could have an income of more than 200 million gold yuan per month in terms of guns alone!

If this is the case all year round, it will exceed more than 20 billion gold yuan for the whole year, which is almost 100 times the total output value of Daming last year!

What a temptation this number is for these natives of another world!

It is no wonder that these cabinet members are short-sighted, and it is impossible for them to imagine how the economy of modern society would be in the era of the surrounding world, when the world was still backward on Earth.

However, for Wen Jiming, he was numb by the trillions of annual incomes of various countries in his previous life, so he really couldn't look down on the annual output value of tens of billions.

After Wen Jiming stopped everyone's discussion with his hand, he continued to arrange the work.

"Fourth, the military department must mobilize all the forces now to support the construction of the new arsenal, and be responsible for the security of the construction site, and all the senior magicians must be gathered to help the construction team carry out terrain transformation and construction projects."

"All large transport vehicles must be dispatched to the construction site of the arsenal, and the criminal department notifies the police station to go to various intersections and arrange for the police to be responsible for the traffic command work on the road. The Ministry of Officials is responsible for all government deployment and logistical food support. ”

"In addition, except for transportation, all other large-scale construction will be stopped first, and all the large-scale construction machinery will be concentrated and added to the construction of the arsenal, and I will see all fourteen arsenals completed within a month!"

After arranging these specific tasks, Wen Jiming pressed his two hands on the conference table, stared at everyone with blazing eyes, and solemnly admonished.

"Gentlemen, this matter is very important to our Ming Empire, don't just see the business of more than 10 million rifles, after all, this is just the order we just got this morning, I have a strong hunch, this is just the beginning, we will definitely get more orders in the future!"

"So, that's why I'm asking you to complete the construction of all the factories in one month, and think about what kind of awkward situation we would be in if we had three more high-volume orders of this size in this month, so this time we had to give it our all!"

Wen Jiming's words immediately woke up all the cabinet members present!

Yes, if there are a few more orders of such a large volume this month, it will be the business of tens of millions of rifles, and if the current production speed of the Ming Empire is followed, it will take several years to complete these orders!

No wonder His Majesty strictly ordered that the construction of all factories should be completed within a month, and only in this way will it be able to cope with an arms order of this scale!

So Shang Shu Wenli stood up first and assured Wen Jiming.

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will personally sit on the construction site this month, coordinate the contact between all departments, and ensure that the project will not be delayed due to improper work of the officials!"

After seeing that the head of the six departments, Shangshu, was the first to stand up and reassure His Majesty the Emperor, they also began to make an oath to Wen Jiming, promising that they would not delay the progress of the entire project because of their own department.

The meeting ended with the heads of all the departments personally issuing military orders.

After the meeting, all the cabinet members hurried back to their departments and began to hold a meeting in their department for full mobilization.

From this day on, the entire Ming Dynasty was mobilizing for the same thing.

First of all, job advertisements appeared all over the country for the future arsenal, and a large number of young people went to the recruitment offices in various places to register after seeing the highly attractive salary figures.

At the same time, all the infrastructure projects in the country, except for the transportation works, were stopped, and all the large construction vehicles were loaded onto special special trains and transported to the large, large-scale arsenal construction site on the eastern outskirts of the Magic New City.

All the existing arsenals were officially opened at this time, and the skilled workers were divided into three shifts, so that these factories could run 24 hours a day, and at the same time, there were also a large number of newly recruited workers who went to the various factories for on-site practical training, and these new workers were trained in a very short time.

This time, the military department dispatched two new recruit corps to the construction site to help with the construction, so on the construction site, you can see soldiers in military uniforms everywhere, as well as a large number of senior magicians busy in the construction site.

All the intersections from the new city of magic to the eastern suburbs are all under traffic control by the police station, all civilian vehicles are prohibited from passing without documents and passes, and the police station has arranged police at all intersections, and directs traffic in shifts 24 hours a day.

It can be said that throughout this month, all departments of the entire Ming government have been busy with this project.

Things were just as Wen Jiming was worried about, by the end of February, the Ming Empire had received a total of 431 orders for rifles, and the total demand for rifles had reached 51 million!

Wen Jiming has been going out early and returning late every day in this month.

In order to solve the problem of employment in the new factory, he also went to Aristock and asked him if he could make an industrial puppet like an industrial robot.

This question is not a big difficulty for Aristock, after all, the puppet technology of the other world has been quite developed, not to mention anything else, just looking at Wen Jiming's magic speeder, you can understand what kind of level the puppet technology of the other world has reached!

What Wen Jiming didn't expect was that in the near future, it was precisely because of his question that the artificial intelligence technology of the other world would directly surpass the level of the earth at once, reaching a level that he couldn't even imagine!

February flies by!

On March 3 of the fourth year of the Ming Dynasty, the 14 newly built arsenals were all completed on the same day, and the military industry of the Ming Empire was about to take off!