It has been more than two years since the establishment of the University of Mechanical Engineering, and the third batch of students has been enrolled for more than half a year.
It can be said that every year's entrance examination is a process of expansion of the University of Mechanical Engineering. The current area of the school is more than 10 times larger than that of the past.
The entire Mechanical University has more than tens of thousands of students, teachers and support staff. According to the standards of Dahan, this is already a large county. Even by the standards of Daqian, it is still a prosperous small city.
In the past three years, Xu Wei has devoted his main energy to the University of Mechanical Engineering. Every year, many new school buildings have been built, libraries have been expanded, basketball courts, football fields, gardens, and even opera houses. Xu Wei has tried his best to provide him with facilities that will be available in later universities. Going up there, it can be said that the Mechanical University is the place with the best infrastructure in the entire Jidu.
And Xu Wei's investment in the past three years has not been in vain. With the help and promotion of nearly 10,000 students, he has developed various standards for industrialization, material standards, material standards, measurement standards, and factory systems. They were all established during this period. The formulation of these standards was the process of Da Qian's exploration of the entire world.
It can be said that the University of Mechanical Engineering has become the most dazzling pearl in the entire Jidu, and can even be called the torch of civilization in the entire world.
Zhuge Liang is considered one of the best students at the University of Mechanical Engineering.
He has become one of Xu Wei's important assistants. Under Xu Wei's guidance, Zhuge Liang formulated a series of universal parts standards for machinery, which are the screws and nuts we often see in our daily lives. Only these standards formulated mechanical Only the parts can be interchanged, which greatly saves social resources.
A series of mechanical parts such as steam engines and trains are manufactured according to universal parts, which has greatly improved the productivity development of the entire Jidu, allowing ordinary small machinery factories to manufacture various steam series machines such as steam engines and steam trains. Processed out, accelerated the popularization of steam engines.
Zhuge Liang was not only academically successful, but he was also a billionaire who was the envy of the entire Daqian people.
Standard parts and general parts have been Zhuge Liang's main homework in the past three years, and the first target of his experiment was his own sewing machine factory.
Sewing machine parts are simple and not difficult to manufacture, and the most important thing is that it is very suitable for the living habits of men farming and women weaving. After women's spinning was replaced by textile factories, the emergence of sewing machines perfectly replaced the loom's role in women's hearts. status.
Nowadays, when a woman gets married, her husband must prepare a sewing machine. It can be said that the sewing machine has become one of the three major items 2000 years in advance.
There are nearly ten million households in Daqian, and there are hundreds of thousands of households starting families every year. In addition, existing families want to buy sewing machines, which means that the market for sewing machines is in the millions every year.
As for Zhuge Liang's small sewing machine factory, even with Xu Wei's investment, it was impossible to fully satisfy such a huge market.
At this time, Zhuge Liang thought of using standardized parts to experiment in his sewing machine factory. He believed that letting the entire Daqian machinery factory produce sewing machine parts should be able to meet the people's needs for sewing machines.
So Zhuge Liang made dozens of parts on the sewing machine into the most standardized parts, and then scattered and packaged all these parts for production in other factories. His own sewing machine factory was transformed into a general assembly factory, and he set up inspection parts inside. Vernier caliper, try to keep the tolerance of these parts to no more than a millimeter.
In this way, Zhuge Liang built the world's first assembly plant, and this set of facilities allowed Zhuge Liang's sewing machine factory's production capacity to skyrocket dozens of times.
Although it still cannot fully meet the requirements of the huge market, it is much better than before.
At the same time, he also handed over this method of developing the industrial chain to his relatives in Jingzhou. Many of the Jingzhou clans who came to Jidu had not been admitted to the mechanical university, and they had not found any profitable business in business. It was obvious to everyone. The family was about to decline, so Zhuge Liang gave them a hand.
License the sewing machine patent to them and guide them on how to establish a complete industrial chain system and general assembly plant.
After they learned this technology, these people were dispersed among other states and counties in Daqian, allowing them to set up a general assembly plant in each state of Daqian.
It was only after the Jingzhou noble clan invested in a sewing machine factory according to Zhuge Liang's plan that they discovered that building a factory was really fun. The output value of just one sewing machine factory was higher than the income from their tens of thousands of acres of land. Under the leadership of Zhuge Liang, the wealthy clan in Jingzhou Quickly transformed from feudal landowners to capitalists in the industrial age.
The entire sewing machine market is completely monopolized by Jingzhou's wealthy aristocrats. With the continuous efforts of these Jingzhou aristocratic families, the number of sewing machines in Daqian is now increasing by hundreds of thousands every year.
Although women in Daqian have lost the ability to weave, they can rely on sewing machines to help their sons and husbands sew clothes. At the same time, tailor shops are popping up everywhere in cities large and small in Jidu, and most of these tailors are Women are in charge, and the emergence of sewing machines has allowed women to find another job industry. It can be said that in the next few decades, the sewing machine industry will be a golden industry for development, which can greatly promote the development of Daqian light industry.
Even Xu Wei was impressed by what Zhuge Liang did. He felt that he was a bit like Steve Jobs. He actually created an industry chain with hundreds of thousands of people in a few years.
Although the success of the sewing machine made Zhuge Liang earn a lot of money, his focus in recent years has still been on trains. He believed that trains are the machines that can change the world, but the popularity of trains is limited by the steel in this world.
Even under Xu Wei's cheating, the world's steel production is close to that of the 19th century. If compared horizontally with the Han Dynasty, Daqian's steel production has exceeded the Han Dynasty by hundreds of times. However, the consumer market has increased several times. Hundred times, so the entire industry is still in a state of short supply.
The best way to solve this problem is of course to build a large number of steel plants, but building the steel industry is a heavy industrial investment. The cost of building a steel plant is extremely huge, which is difficult to support financially, and private businessmen look down on it. Invest in the steel industry with high profits and low profits. (In order to build large-scale infrastructure, the price of steel has not been set very high, so the profits are not as good as those in light industry.)
The largest consumer of steel in Daqian is the railway track. Every year, 70% of the steel produced in Daqian is consumed by the railway track.