Chapter 11 Machinery Factory

The night's time passed quickly!

Bright sunlight pours into the room through the carved windows, illuminating the entire room.

Some of them opened their eyes in a daze, turned their heads to look at their side, and they were already empty. Thinking of the little girl's flushed face and embarrassed appearance last night, Huo Shan couldn't help but laugh dumbly. Although the two of them didn't do anything due to their age, they just lay on the same bed, but compared to the conservative concept of this era, it is still a bit out of line!

Seeing that it was already bright outside, he couldn't lie on the bed anymore, put on his clothes, and greeted the warm sunshine, Young Master Huo stretched his waist greatly, and his whole body felt refreshed, and his unprecedented motivation and confidence returned to his heart.

Because he still remembered many things in the factory, after hastily having breakfast with his mother, Huo Shan couldn't wait to take the drawings he had already drawn and rushed out of the house with Leizi.

Sitting on the bumpy carriage, Young Master Huo's brows furrowed tightly, from the twenty-first century, he is used to comfortable cars and trains, every time he takes the carriage, it is like going through a difficult journey, the feeling of falling apart is really uncomfortable, and the speed is terrible! However, fortunately, in the past two months, he has also gotten used to a lot.

The power of the current internal combustion engine is too low, not only is it too large, but the power is also very low, and it cannot meet the standard of automobile use at all! Huo Shan still remembers that the world's first automobile was only manufactured by Carl Benz in Germany in 1887, and the time is still far away!

Thinking of this, Young Master Huo couldn't help but let out a long sigh, and secretly said in his heart: "I still have to wait!"

After the bumpy carriage came out of the villa, it walked onto the avenue leading to the city of Taipei, but the carriage did not enter the city, but turned into a widening fork in the road halfway through. About half an hour later, Huo Shan and the others stopped in a small town called 'Taiping Town'.

Looking at the young man who got off the carriage, Hu Dezhong, who had been waiting for a long time, hurried up to greet him, and after more than a month of contact, his ability to manage the factory also won Huo Shan's trust, so after the vital machinery factory was established here, Huo Shan transferred him.

"Young master, you are here, Uncle Fu is busy debugging the machine in the factory now, arrange for me to pick up the young master!"

"Got it, Uncle Zhong!

"Leizi, take the suitcase in the car, let's go!"

At the beginning, considering that the scale of the factory may be expanded in the future, when planning the entire factory area, Huoshan set aside enough land, more than 100 acres. However, fortunately, the places where the factories were built were all barren rocky beaches, and if they couldn't grow crops, they wouldn't be worth much, so Fu Bo didn't say anything.

However, these hundreds of acres of land, up to now, have also established a production workshop, and the utilization rate of the land is not even one percent, but a lot has been built for the expansion of the plant in the future.

Due to the large area occupied, there is still a continuous distance from the gate of the factory to the production workshop.

At the beginning, in order not to affect the future production of the factory, Huoshan had already stipulated that except for the vehicles that pulled goods, the carriages of other factory managers were not allowed to enter the factory. The reason why this seemingly anachronistic regulation was enacted was also to ensure the efficiency of the factory, after all, horse-drawn carriages at this time were not as fast as the cars of later generations.

Although there are still hundreds of meters to go, fortunately, the road in the factory has been paved with cement long before, so Huo Shan and the others quickly walked to the door of the workshop, looking at the old man who was already waiting there with more than a dozen people, he couldn't help but speed up his pace.

"Fauber!"

"Hehehe, young master, we have debugged the machine, and the steel we ordered from foreign companies in various countries has also been shipped!

After listening to the old man's words, Huo Shan couldn't help frowning, feeling a little helpless in his heart, although his own steel plant has been established, but if he wants to start production, he may have to wait a few more months, and now he can only buy steel from the outside to ensure production!

"There is a long way to go for the rise of national industry!" Huo Shan sighed in his heart.

"By the way, how is Fubo's technical school?" Some time ago, in order to train the industrial workers needed by his factory, Huo Shan asked the old man to set up the technical school.

"According to the instructions of the young master, we have opened ten technical schools in Taipei and Keelung, each technical school has between 500 and 1,000 students, and the teachers are all technicians and senior technicians who we have dug from various foreign factories in the Qing court, because of the implementation of the new employment standards formulated by the young master, the students' learning attitude is very serious, and with the simplified Chinese characters and dictionaries compiled by the young master, their learning speed is also very fast, about three months we can train a junior technician, half a year to train an intermediate technician, but it may take a year to train a senior technician, or even longer！”

"Well, it is very good to be able to do this degree now, a senior technician not only needs to have a wealth of knowledge, but also has good hands-on ability, it is not a short time to be trained, but the production method of the industrial assembly line we use will greatly reduce our demand for senior workers, with the number of workers we have in reserve, we can also meet the needs of our factory at this stage!"

As he spoke, Huo Shan stopped in front of a boring machine, touched the cold steel, turned his head and said to a thin middle-aged man in his forties who followed him: "Senior technician, how about these machine tools?"

Forty-six-year-old Gao Youde, after the implementation of Huoshan's new employment standards, one of the only 24 people who were rated as technicians, he used to work in the Jiangnan Machinery Bureau for more than 20 years, and was also tempted by the high amount of 50 taels of silver in a month by Master Huo, and moved his family to Taiwan, and is now the person in charge of this production workshop.

Although the young master called him very strangely, Gao Youde quickly replied: "Back to the young master, although these machine tools are not new, they are all good!

After listening to his words, Huo Shan nodded clearly, turned around and took the suitcase that Lei Zi was carrying in his hand, put it on the machine and opened it, took out the drawings he had drawn and handed them to the middle-aged man behind him!

"How's that, are you sure?"

Gao Youde took the papers with suspicious hands, put them in his hands and quickly flipped through them, then lowered his head and thought for a while and said: "The bearings, gears, round rods, bushings, bearings, nuts and other mechanical parts drawn above by the young master are very standard, and the data is also very detailed, and they can be produced under our existing conditions, but the alloy steel used on it still needs the young master to find a way." ”

"Well, I see, if we start now, how long will it take to be able to produce these mechanical parts. Huo Shan then asked.

"It will take about half a month!" the middle-aged man replied affirmatively.

"Okay, I'll give you half a month, I want to see the results in half a month, if I can complete the task on time, then I won't be stingy with silver, five taels of silver per person, I will never break my word!" Huo Shan said loudly in front of all the workers.

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Listening to the roar of the machine behind him and the enthusiastic cheers of the workers, Young Master Huo walked out of the stuffy factory with satisfaction, took Fu Bo, and got into the carriage back to the villa!

"Fauber, how many workers do we have now?"

"Not counting apprentices, we have 12,578 junior technicians, 2,860 intermediate technicians, 198 senior technicians, and 24 technicians! Among them, less than 100 are foreign workers, and the rest are workers recruited from within the Qing Dynasty!"

After listening to the old man, Huo Shan nodded clearly, according to the status of the Qing Dynasty in the world at this time, unless it is in his own country, who will come, the impression of Europeans is full of opium and braids! I am afraid that these foreign technicians with less than 100 people are mainly junior technicians and intermediate technicians, and they are basically poor worms who have failed to pan for gold in the East and lost their money to go home! However, now his industrial scale is still very small, and now these workers, coupled with his own continuous training, are basically enough.

"When the thirteenth economic crisis arrives in two years, hehe, the young master will let them come over obediently!" Huo Shan secretly sneered in his heart.

"Now the workers who can be recruited by us within the Qing court have basically come to Taiwan in the past month or so, and the rest may take some effort!" Fu Bo looked at the thoughtful expression on the young master's face, and after a pause, he continued.

"Well, don't stop recruiting workers, as long as there are workers with real talents, just spend some money! This will save us time in considering! Don't worry about this matter!"

"Got it, young master!"

After saying that, the two of them thought about their own affairs, and the carriage became a little quiet for a while.

"Fu Bo, how is the industrial equipment we ordered for the second time?" Huo Shan's deep voice broke the silence in the carriage.

"Half a month ago, I already sent Huo Yu and Huo Zhou to Europe to keep an eye on it, and I will inform the young master as soon as there is news!"

"Fauber, we now have so many workers, even if all the machines ordered in the UK are installed, we still have a lot more workers, not to mention that after we use the new production method, we will need a lot fewer workers in a factory of the same size, and we spend so much silver, we can't support them in vain, so I want to buy some more machines!"

Although Young Master Huo is now in charge of the Huo family's finances, he is very respectful to the old man in front of him who is loyal to the family and has worked for the Huo family for most of his life. Moreover, he had just spent nearly 10 million taels of silver, and now he had to spend money in less than a month, even if Young Master Huo was confident, he was a little embarrassed for a while. After all, the Huo family's huge family business, and the old man also has a lot of credit!

Looking at the cautious look on the young master's face, the old man not only smiled dumbly, if it was a month ago, the young master said these words, he would definitely not allow this money to be spent, but now he doesn't care about it anymore.

Looking back at everything that had happened in the past few months, the old man felt like he had a dream! The child who was just six years old in front of him became more and more incomprehensible to him. Not to mention the deep industrial knowledge and those jīng sharp troops trained in the back mountains, just those simplified Chinese characters and dictionaries that others may not be able to invent in their lifetime, let him deeply understand that the young master is no longer the same.