Yunyang has developed steadily since Chenghua, but it still has a limited population and very little development.
There is gold, silver, and copper here. None of these three good things have been found at this time~
Wang Hongyu came to Yunyang and didn't want the gold and silver here to go into other people's pockets.
But these three mines are not that easy to discover, so we will wait until the construction of the military settlement begins to take shape before exploring these most precious minerals.
Qin Minping did a very good job here. During this period, he took care of both military training and farming. It can be said that he had both war and civil affairs skills.
After some exchanges, I found out that the saying "Children from poor families will become masters early" is true to me~
The conditions in Shizhu Tusi are far more difficult than those in ordinary counties. Qin Minping, Qin Ling and others all need to be able to fight and understand life, so that they can live better in poor places.
Qin Liangyu and others taught well and set an example.
Therefore, Qin Ling is not only good at fighting, but also good at herbal medicine, intelligence and business. Qin Minping, on the other hand, is knowledgeable about rivers and mountains besides fighting.
Although he is not as good as his second brother Zhang Shenwu or Zhang Mingshi, who is an expert in guns and guns, he is still able to play an outstanding role in all aspects.
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The first stage of water transportation and mineral production in the field began to bear fruit, and road construction and farming were now carried out in an orderly manner because seeds, tools and livestock were in place.
The Hunhe Army built an ordnance factory covering several hundred acres of land on a relatively flat riverbank saline-alkali land on the south bank of the Han River. The reason why they chose this place was because all the good land near the riverbank was cultivated, and the saline-alkali land could be used by the Hunhe Army for free.
Allocated by Yang Mansion.
Another advantage is that it is close to the Han River. In the future, Wang Zheng will be planning to design water turbine hammers, hydraulic presses, and hydraulic steel rolling mills. However, now we can only use manual hammering.
The skilled workers were mainly Li Tiezhu's men who made armor and weapons when he was in Liaodong. When Li Tiezhu went to Zhushan County, he only took away some of the blacksmiths who made farm tools, leaving behind all the masters who made weapons.
Based on these people and recruiting some blacksmiths and helpers from the local area, the ordnance factory can be supported.
Wang Hongyu and Li Tiezhu's assistants personally checked and recruited 180 people from the refugees, including 40 blacksmiths, 20 carpenters, 20 cobblers, and 100 apprentices; 20 blacksmiths were recruited from the local area.
The briquette and sauce factories have adopted division of labor and cooperation, breaking through the anti-traditional master-apprentice approach.
But ordnance is different, and specific issues need to be analyzed in detail.
Similar to blacksmithing, forging, and making mass-produced swords, spears, and arrows, a high degree of division of labor and cooperation is required, which is close to an assembly line-style factory handicraft industry.
But for armor, muskets and cannons, you definitely need a master to lead an apprentice, and you can't take too big a step.
However, the name is not called master or apprentice, so as to prevent the technology from being monopolized in the hands of the "master"
To do these things, use the craftsmen brought from the War Bureau as technicians, each with a helper, and then recruit a newbie after the helper can find a clue. There is no such thing as a master and an apprentice here, only technicians and skilled workers
, three types of work for strong workers.
Technical workers are divided into eight levels, and each level has strict assessment standards. For each level, the salary increases by one level. Level eight workers are treated as technicians and are at the same level as engineers.
Technicians are divided into three levels: first-level technicians, second-level technicians, and third-level technicians; above the technicians are great craftsmen, also divided into three levels; above the great craftsmen are academicians, who enjoy the treatment of scholar-bureaucrats.
For example, Wang Zheng now enjoys the treatment of a first-class master craftsman, which is on the same level as a Jinshi; for example, Xu Guangqi, if he joins the Hunhe Army, he will enjoy the treatment of a second-class master craftsman.
However, Xu Guangqi was still essentially a literati official, and craftsmanship and technology were at most his side jobs.
Wang Zheng has not yet achieved Jinshi status, and is relatively more interested in inventions and creations.
The system of literati and landowners will also have levels of students, scholars, scholars, Jinshi, bachelors, and bachelors in the future. In the future, these will all be diplomas.
However, it is not possible to implement it now. After all, the literati landlords are still fighting against Wang Hongyu in a united front, and there is still a long way to go before joining.
On the contrary, engineering, agriculture, business, medicine and other encyclopedias will all have corresponding diplomas in the future, and it is estimated that they will be developed ahead of scholars.
Of course, the craftsmen brought from the Military War Bureau felt that their treatment was better than that in the Military War Bureau. Although the place was a bit out of the way, being able to save money and be respected by others was much better than being scolded and insulted by civil servants and eunuchs.
The armory mainly produces armor, swords and spears, as well as some agricultural tools. After the finished products are finished, the blacksmith must put a steel seal on the equipment, and the acceptance unit must also put a steel seal on it, so that the responsibility is assigned to the person.
This is the old rule of Ming Dynasty, everyone accepts it and it works well.
In addition, there are wages, and the craftsmen have a voice and participate in management, the enthusiasm is even higher.
Salary consists of two parts, basic salary and special contribution award.
There are also rewards for inventions. If they can be converted into use, they can obtain status improvements in addition to rewards.
Security guards are set up in the ordnance yard, and there are exclusive patrol guards at night; employees after get off work are required to list and remove their tags in the communication room; they are required to wear special work clothes at work.
There is a drinking room, a medical office, and a lunch room in the venue; there are materials warehouses and finished product warehouses in the east and west wings of the venue; there are rest rooms and reception rooms in the south; there are several blacksmithing yards in the north, and there are workshops all around.
The ordnance yard has special workers' dormitories and workers' canteens. The dormitories are equipped with wooden beds, floors, wall flues, warm walls, and outdoor stoves. There are dedicated fire-burning personnel to light fires appropriately according to the hot and cold weather.
For those who are willing to bring their family members to live in the factory, the factory provides row houses. Each row is equipped with a well, a public toilet, and a garbage dump. There are dedicated personnel responsible for management and cleaning.
Families can cook for themselves, or go to the staff canteen to order or buy meals; staff children of school age can study at the nearby factory primary school with free tuition and free lunch.
The location of the gun and artillery workshop is a lot of trouble. The workshop does not need to be very large. It needs to be kept secret and has convenient transportation. Because in the future, when building a large general, one door will weigh several thousand kilograms. Even without convenient transportation conditions, it can be built. It can't be shipped out.
Moreover, the barrels of the French cannon and the tiger crouching cannon are suitable for pressing with a hydraulic press. It must be suitable in a place with water. The water surface must be able to allow medium-sized ships to enter and exit, so that it will be convenient to transport the cannon out in the future.
Various gun barrels must also be pressed by hydraulic presses before they can be mass-produced, and large hydraulic presses must be manufactured after the emergence of small hydraulic presses.
Because only seamless steel pipes can withstand water pressure, they can only be solved step by step by Li Tiezhu and Wang Zheng. At present, the drilling method is still used to make the gun barrel, and the gun barrel needs to be cast.
However, the site selection must be done at once. For this reason, as soon as he arrived in Yunyang, Wang Hongyu sent Zhao Hannian to lead a dozen veterans and asked Zhou Dunji's relatives from Zhushan County to act as guides to block the tributaries of the Han River to find a quiet river fork that could allow medium-sized ships to enter and exit. Or tributary, underground river.
I heard from Zhou Zhaoan that there are hundreds of bends in the river. There is heavy fog all day long, all year round. It is really a good place to hide steelmaking, ironmaking, and smelting other metals. It is not far away from coal mines, iron mines, and copper mines.
It's not far away, and transportation by water is very convenient.
Various types of ordnance have begun production and will be of great use soon.