Tang Ruowang was obviously confused when he heard about the assembly line production system and production standard system.
"What is the assembly line production system and production standard system?"
Bo Jue on the side was the first to ask questions, with a thoughtful look on his face. Lin Jing organized the words in his mind for a while, and then said: "The so-called assembly line production system refers to every step in the production process.
All links are separated. For example, to produce a musket, we need 37 processes. Then we can allocate manpower according to the different production difficulties of the process, and continuously pass through each production process according to the standard process route and unified production speed.
The session...just goes on and on like running water."
Hearing Lin Jing's explanation, Tang Ruowang suddenly understood and said: "In this way, everyone only needs to be responsible for his own part, and then he will become very skilled and will not be hindered in some link in the middle.
It can greatly speed up production time.”
"That's right."
Lin Jing nodded appreciatively and said: "Just like a craftsman who produces gun barrels, if he is asked to produce other parts of the gun, it will affect the speed at which he can make the barrel, and these things can be done by others. After all,
The number of skilled craftsmen who can produce gun barrels is limited."
Speaking of this, Lin Jing couldn't help feeling a little emotional. Since humans had the assembly line production process, the production efficiency of factories has been rapidly improved like a rocket, making large-scale batch production possible, and this single production method will also promote
Workers' skills are further specialized.
Everyone present was a smart person, and Bo Jue soon came to his senses and said: "If you want to produce it on an assembly line, then there must be no error in the size of each part of the gun, otherwise it will not be possible to assemble it. Is this what His Highness wants?"
Are you talking about the production standard system?”
"Yes, in fact, the crossbows and arrowheads produced during the Great Qin Dynasty all used this similar method, thus completing large-scale standardized production."
There was some emotion on Lin Jing's face. Among the terracotta warriors and horses that were later excavated, tens of thousands of crossbow arrowheads were found. The sizes were almost the same, and they were almost all made according to the same standards - you must know that a craftsman produces according to the same standard.
A few hundred pieces is still possible, but tens of thousands is a fantasy.
The only explanation is that weapons workshops across the Qin State were producing weapons according to a fixed set of production standards, and since all the weapons of the Qin State at that time needed to be engraved with the name of the craftsman, it was obvious that the Qin State had requirements for weapons production at that time.
It is extremely strict. For any small crossbow arrow, you can find the craftsman who produced it.
Therefore, when any arrow with quality problems is discovered, everyone who produced the arrow can be found through the arrow. Under a system where responsibility is assigned to people, naturally no one dares to be slippery.
After Lin Jing finished speaking, he continued: "We also need to establish this kind of system. Not only do we need to establish an assembly line production system, but we also need to further train craftsmen and formulate a set of standardized production processes. Any products that violate the standardized production process will
They are all defective products that do not meet the requirements, and all weapons produced need to leave the name of the craftsman."
"Yes, Your Highness."
Tang Ruowang said with a bit of excitement on his face: "If this is the case, then our weapons qualification rate will definitely increase a lot, but the output may decrease..."
"It doesn't matter. I will make suggestions with Your Majesty on this point to expand our weapons bureau's manpower and supplies, etc., to increase our production speed."
Lin Jing smiled slightly, continued to look at Tang Ruowang, and said: "If the firearms in the army are unified now, what kind of fire blunderbuss does Master Tang think is more suitable for our army's equipment?"
"Ikaruga Gun."
Tang Ruowang said a name without hesitation.
The so-called turtle dove gun, also known as the eagle beak gun, was originally a heavy matchlock gun from Portugal.
As early as the first year of Chongzhen, Chongzhen began to send people to Macau to purchase red cannons from the Portuguese. At that time, the Portuguese sent a group of mercenaries and a group of craftsmen, carrying three "big copper guns" and "big iron cannons".
Seven gates of "guns" and thirty gates of "hawksbills" entered the capital.
At that time, Xu Guangqi, the bachelor who was in charge of the Ming army's firearms, quickly took a fancy to the eagle-billed gun, because this kind of fire gun was very powerful and could penetrate iron armor. At that time, the Jin army was generally equipped with heavy armor, and ordinary bird-billed guns could not.
Penetration, so there is an urgent need for this large bird gun that can penetrate iron armor.
Later, Wang Zunde, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, also bought a lot of eagle-billed guns for coastal defense needs. With the help of the firearms production capacity of Guangdong and Guangxi, he began to imitate hawk-billed guns and named them turtle-dove guns.
Lin Jing had naturally heard of this kind of firecracker, but he didn't want to use it. Instead, he hoped to use a more advanced firearm instead - the mini gun that time travelers were often keen on.
The reason is very simple. Compared with the commonly used Chinese and Western firearms, the minigun is almost perfect in all aspects. It can be regarded as the last glory of the front-loading gun era. Until the breech-loading gun era came, people
This kind of musket has only been eliminated, but this cannot hide the power of the mini gun.
Lin Jing thought for a while and said: "Although the Turtle Dove Gun is a good choice now, it is not the best choice. I hope to design a brand new musket, and the technology of this musket will be comprehensive."
Subverting the current design will also change the form of war."
"Your Highness, what I have to say is that the advancement of weapons requires a lot of time to practice, and any choice to rush for perfection in this process will only bring the opposite result."
Tang Ruowang advised very tactfully that it was not that he did not hope that new firearms would appear, but precisely because he knew the difficulty of firearm design, he did not believe the new muskets Lin Jing was talking about.
What does it mean to completely subvert the current design?
What does it mean to change the form of war?
These words sound encouraging, but once put into practice, you will face many problems.
After all, in this era, the emergence of any new weapon that can change warfare will be accompanied by hundreds of years of changes. Even something like the hawk-bill gun did not look like this at the beginning.
In fact, from the earliest matchlock gun to the heavy matchlock gun, this process has almost gone through nearly two hundred years of evolution.
Lin Jing shook his head softly and said: "The reason why I say this is because I am planning to design a new type of flintlock rifled gun."
Flintlock rifle?
Tang Ruowang and Bo Jue looked at each other, and both of them could see the seriousness in each other's eyes. This chapter has been completed!