Chapter 839 Visiting the New Military Factory
In the early morning of August 10th in the fourth year of Tianxuan, Qu Mao couldn't wait to get up before dawn. After a simple wash, he didn't even have time to eat breakfast, so he took a war horse from the backyard of the lord's hut, and called 30 people. The fifth-rank court guards rushed towards Jidao's new military factory.
Along the way, they didn't care about the horsepower of the horses. They let the horses run wildly on the Ziguang trail, and even the army soldiers who saw Qu Mao and his party were amazed.
When Qu Mao and 30 fifth-tier court guards, led by soldiers from the Jidao Guard Army, found Kong Ming’s newly built military factory on Jidao Island, Kong Ming just got up and was brushing his teeth.
The moment he saw Qu Mao, Kong Ming was stunned, and it took him a while to come back to his senses. He quickly rinsed his mouth a few times, put the things aside, and asked, "My lord, why are you here so early? You haven't had breakfast yet." Bar?"
Qu Mao said impatiently: "Kong Ming, don't make such foolish things. I don't really want breakfast. Hurry up and take me to visit the workshop."
Kong Ming smiled wryly, and asked the logistics staff of the new military factory to take a few steamed buns, stuffed two for Qu Mao, and said, "My lord, let's watch while eating."
While leading Qu Mao towards the workshop, Kong Ming also ate a few mouthfuls of a steamed bun regardless of his image.
The two soon came to the so-called workshop of the New Military Factory. After all, Kongming’s new factory is not too big at present, at most 100 meters in length and width.
The so-called workshop is nothing more than four large straw sheds. There are 4 lathes in the left straw shed, and a group of people are assembling brand new lathes around one place. There are no workers operating the 4 lathes yet, but The people who installed the new machine tools had apparently been working all night, and there were still smoking torches on the workshop pillars.
In the shed on the right, there are more than a dozen blacksmiths clanging arrows. Kong Ming’s new military factory is due to insufficient arrow production capacity, resulting in a large backlog of semi-finished arrow shafts. Therefore, it is reasonable for the employees in this workshop to work overtime.
In the workshop in the middle, there are currently only one or two workers who started work relatively early. They are assembling the built arrow shafts and arrowheads together to make the finished ship-mounted ballista arrows. Obviously, they have not yet reached the point of starting work. Therefore, there are not many people, and everyone works slowly.
There is a straw shed behind the middle workshop. There are currently no workers there, but looking at the bundles of finished arrows piled up on the edge of the grass shed, it is obvious that this is not a packing workshop, but a finished product warehouse.
Kong Mingdao: "My lord, this new military factory is mainly a production plant for the arrows of shipborne ballistas. The four thatched workshops are the practice of division of labor and cooperation to improve efficiency that the subordinates have realized. In the Xuande military factory, The whole process of making shipborne ballista arrows is divided into four steps. The first is to drive the arrow shaft, the second is to forge iron arrows, the third is to assemble the arrows, and the fourth is to pack the finished arrows.
Not to mention anything else, the efficiency has been improved a lot, and the subordinates even feel that the traditional military factory over there by Master Xuande, even if there is no lathe, but only the division of labor and cooperation, the efficiency can be increased by 1-2 times. "
Qu Mao nodded while eating steamed buns.
Kong Ming continued: "My lord, this new military factory has already laid and put into production 4 lathes. The quality of the arrow shafts produced by the lathes is becoming more and more stable, and the subordinates are still ensuring the speed of adding a lathe every two days to lay new equipment. .
According to the production data recorded by the subordinates in the past few days, it is found that the production efficiency is very high, far more than twice the efficiency of Xuande's traditional arsenal.
Qu Mao gnawed the steamed buns in a few mouthfuls, nodded and said: "This improvement is very timely and meaningful, but you have increased the speed of one lathe in the past two days. , the speed may be slower.
According to the size of your workshop, I'm afraid it can accommodate 50 lathes, and it will take you three months to install them all.
Three months later, Sylvia Oshen's raid and harassment operation will come to an end. "
Kong Ming said: "My lord, the number of lathes planned by my subordinates is also 50. In the end, the size of the lathe workshop of this new military factory is 150 workers, the size of the arrow workshop is 200 workers, the size of the assembly workshop is 40 workers, and the packaging workshop The scale is 10 workers, counting 20 logistics staff, a total of 420 workers.
After the equipment of the new military factory is in place, it should be able to produce 5,000 ship-borne ballista arrows by working 12 hours a day at full capacity. Compared with the traditional military factory currently managed by Xuande with about 500 people, it can produce 600 ship-borne ballista arrows in the same time. Together, the production efficiency has increased by nearly 8 times.
Combining the factors of the small number of new military factories and the low skill requirements of workers, it is not an exaggeration to say that the production efficiency has increased by ten times. "
Qu Mao nodded, and said: "Xuande's military factory should also quickly lay lathes, and rhythmically change the traditional production method to different process division and cooperation. In fact, the new military factories in the four southern islands can be promoted first."
Kong Ming nodded and said: "Indeed, my lord, I will discuss it with my lord Xuande later. After all, the four southern islands are the industrial foundation of our Yicheng territory."
Qu Mao looked up at the roof of the thatched shed in the workshop, and said: "Kong Ming, I am quite satisfied with the new military factory, but I think you are a little careless about the sheds of the four workshops.
I should be the most professional in terms of building a tent in the entire Yicheng territory.
I think the four workshops should be surrounded by walls to avoid the impact of extreme weather on production. The four walls of the workshop can also be replaced by straw mats.
In addition, I suggest selecting excellent teachers from the five universities in Zhidao to visit the new military factory in Jidao, and let them write the equipment and innovations of the new military factory into teaching materials after the visit, and use them to teach students in the university.
Universities on other islands, if interested, can also be invited to visit the new military factory. I think the new military factory provides a new and efficient production model for all factories and workshops in the Yicheng territory.
In addition, the management personnel on all the islands in the entire holy land should make up a plan and visit the new military factory one by one, especially the management personnel of the factories and handicraft workshops on the four southern islands. The pattern spread throughout the Holy Land.
Also, the laying of lathes should be accelerated, and a special lathe factory should also be established. I suggest that Kong Ming build a lathe factory in Gandao or Liandao.
I estimate that after the visit, some factories may also have the need for lathes. "
Kong Ming nodded and said: "Yes, my lord! This subordinate has exactly the intention."
(end of this chapter)