In the early morning of August 10, the fourth year of Tianxuan, before dawn, Qu Mao couldn't wait to get up. After a simple wash, he didn't even bother to eat breakfast, so he picked up a war horse from the backyard of the lord's cabin and called 30 people.

The fifth-level palace guards rushed towards Jidao New Arms Factory.

He didn't care about the horse's power along the way, and let the horse run wildly on the purple path. Even the army soldiers who saw Qu Mao and his party were surprised.

When Qu Mao and 30 fifth-level palace guards, led by Jidao garrison soldiers, found Kong Ming's newly built arsenal on Jidao, Kong Ming had just gotten up and was brushing his teeth.

The moment he saw Qu Mao, Kong Ming was stunned. 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: "Sir, why are you here so early? You haven't had breakfast yet.

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Qu Mao said impatiently: "Kong Ming, stop making silly things. I don't really want to eat breakfast. Take your time and take me to visit the workshop."

Kong Ming smiled bitterly, asked the logistics staff of the new military factory to get some steamed buns, gave two to Qu Mao, and said, "Sir, let's watch while you eat."

While leading Qu Mao towards the workshop, Kong Ming also ate a steamed bun in several bites regardless of his image.

The two quickly arrived near the so-called workshop of the new military factory. After all, the new factory in Kongming is not too big at the moment, with a length and width of 100 meters at most.

The so-called workshops are nothing more than four large straw sheds. There are four lathes in the straw shed on the left, and a group of people are gathering around to assemble a brand new lathe. There are currently no workers operating the four installed lathes, but

The people installing the new machine tools obviously worked all night, and there were still smoking torches on the pillars of the workshop.

In the greenhouse on the right, there are more than a dozen blacksmiths banging arrows. Kong Ming's new military factory has 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 middle workshop, there are only one or two workers who started work relatively early. They are assembling the made arrow shafts and arrowheads together. The finished ship-borne ballistae arrows are missing. It is obvious that they have not yet reached the point to start work.

Therefore, there are not many people, and everyone works slowly and slowly.

There is a straw shed behind the middle workshop. There are currently no workers there, but looking at the bundles of finished products piled up on the edge of the straw shed, it is obvious that this is either a packaging workshop or a finished product warehouse.

Kong Ming said: "Sir, this new military factory is mainly a production plant for ship-borne crossbows. The four straw shed workshops are the practice of division of labor and cooperation to improve efficiency that my subordinates have realized. In Xuande Military Factory,

The whole process of workers making ship-borne crossbow arrows is divided into four steps. The first is to turn the arrow shaft, the second is to forge the iron arrow, the third is to assemble the arrow, and the fourth is to pack the finished arrow.

Not to mention other things, the efficiency has been improved a lot, and my subordinates even feel that the efficiency of Mr. Xuande's traditional military factory, even without lathes, can be increased by 1-2 times just through division of labor and collaboration."

Qu Mao nodded while eating the steamed buns.

Kong Ming continued: "Sir, in this new military factory, four lathes have been installed and put into production. The quality of the arrow shafts produced by the lathes is becoming more and more stable, and my subordinates are still ensuring that one lathe is added every two days to install new equipment.

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According to the production data recorded by my subordinates in the past few days, it was found that the production efficiency is very high, far more than twice the efficiency of Xuande's traditional arsenal.

Of course, for the lathe itself, my subordinates are currently only recording and observing, and have not yet carried out technical transformation or upgrade of the lathe. They have only added an adjustable-spacing connecting shaft between the two turning tools. In the future, the distance between the turning tools can be adjusted, thus transforming the lathe.

And produce arrow shafts for archers and crossbow shafts."

Qu Mao finished the steamed bun in a few mouthfuls, nodded and said: "This improvement is very timely and meaningful, but the speed at which you have added a lathe in the past two days does not seem to be slow individually, but in your new factory

, the speed may be slower.

Judging from the size of your workshop, I'm afraid it can accommodate 50 lathes. It would take you three months to install them all.

In three months, Sylvia Ocean’s harassment campaign will be over.”

Kong Ming said: "Sir, the number of lathes planned by my subordinates is also 50. In the end, the lathe workshop of this new military factory will have 150 workers, the arrow workshop will have 200 workers, the assembly workshop will have 40 workers, and the packaging workshop will have 40 workers.

The scale is 10 workers, including 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 crossbows and arrows at full production working 12 hours a day, which is better than the traditional military factory currently managed by Xuande, which has a scale of about 500 people and can produce 600 ship-borne crossbows and crossbows in the same time.

Up, production efficiency increased nearly 8 times.

Taking into account the small number of people in the new military factory and the low skill requirements for workers, it is not an exaggeration at all to say that production efficiency has increased tenfold."

Qu Mao nodded and said: "Xuande's military factory should also quickly lay down lathes and rhythmically change the traditional production method to division of labor and collaboration in different processes. In fact, the newly built military factories in the four southern islands can be promoted first."

Kong Ming nodded and said: "Indeed, sir, I will discuss this with Lord Xuande later. After all, the four southern islands are the industrial foundation of our Yicheng territory."

Qu Mao raised his head and glanced at the roof of the straw shed in the workshop, and said: "Kong Ming, I am quite satisfied with the new military factory, but with these four workshop sheds, I think you are a little sloppy.

In terms of building sheds in the entire Yicheng territory, I should be the most expert.

I think these four workshops should be surrounded by walls to avoid the impact of extreme weather on production. The four walls of the workshops can also be replaced with straw mats.

In addition, I suggest that outstanding teachers from the five universities on Zhidao be selected to visit the new military factory in Jidao. After the visit, they can write the equipment and innovations of the new military factory into teaching materials for teaching students in the universities.

If you are interested in universities on other islands, you can also invite them 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 Yicheng territory.

In addition, the managers on all the islands in the Holy Land should make up a plan to visit the new military factory one by one. Especially the managers of the factories and handicraft workshops on the four southern islands should learn from the new military factory and transfer the production of the new military factory as soon as possible.

The pattern spread throughout the Holy Land.

Also, the laying of lathes needs to be accelerated, and a special lathe manufacturing plant needs to be established. I suggest Kong Ming build a lathe factory in Qiandao or Liandao.

I estimate that after the visit, some factories may also have a need for lathes."

Kong Ming nodded and said: "Yes, sir! This is exactly what I mean."
Chapter completed!