The Zhuangzi that Yang Laizhen was talking about is located in Liangxiang County, southwest of the capital. The entire Zhuangzi is very large, roughly estimated to be two to three thousand acres. But as Yang Laizhen himself said, this Zhuangzi is not worth much at all, because
Among them, the area of arable land is only a hundred acres, and it is extremely barren. The rest is gravel land on hillside and river beaches, which cannot be cultivated at all, and has no value even in reclaiming wasteland.
Yang Laizhen originally enclosed this village mainly to raise hares, sika deer, etc. for hunting in his spare time. However, as a businessman, he had very little time for hunting and recreation, so the village has been abandoned.
There wasn't even a person to keep it. Hearing that Su Hao wanted a site to build a factory, Yang Laizhen simply gave it to Su Hao for free. For him, it might not be that he didn't want to throw away a burden.
Su Hao took the land deed sent by Yang Laizhen, took Hao Qing, Ma Yu and others according to the map and came to Yangjiazhuangzi. Of course, it should be renamed Sujiazhuangzi now. Everyone stood on a high place and looked around, and saw
The vast expanse was covered with withered and yellow weeds, which were blown low by the wind, and a few wild beasts could be seen standing in the distance, warily watching their group of uninvited guests.
"It's so deserted. You can go out for more than ten miles without meeting a few people." Ma Yu sighed.
"It's quite suitable to build a factory." Su Hao said. Those industrial parks in later generations looked like this when they first started to enclose land. Within a few years, they would become densely populated with factories and crowded with people. Su Hao
Hao has every reason to believe that this piece of wasteland will also become a busy industrial park in the future.
Hao Qing asked in confusion: "Master Su, we are just making steel and glass, do we need such a big place? If we want to build a house in such a desolate place, it will cost a lot. With this money,
If we rent a small village on the edge of the city, it will be enough to build several workshops."
Su Hao waved his hand and said: "Brother Hao, from now on, you have to change your concept. What we want to build is a factory, not a workshop."
"What is a factory?" Hao Qing asked. He had heard this word said many times by Su Hao. He really couldn't think of the difference between a factory and a workshop.
Su Hao thought for a while and said: "To put it simply, the workshop produces a single product, while the factory is a place for mass production. In the factory, thousands of workers divide labor according to the technological process, and each person only
After completing one step of work, through division of labor and collaboration, the production of a product is finally completed. Because of the division of labor, everyone's work becomes very simple, and the efficiency can be greatly improved. In the end, the production efficiency of the entire factory is also improved.
For example, a workshop can produce 10 knives a month, and a factory can produce 1,000 knives a month. This is the difference between the two."
"Division of labor and cooperation..." Hao Qing muttered the concept mentioned by Su Hao, imagining the scene of a group of people dividing labor and doing things. In fact, this method of division of labor and cooperation already existed in many workshops in the Ming Dynasty, but the scale was still large.
Not to the extent that Su Hao said. Thinking of the spectacular scene of thousands of people working together, Hao Qing couldn't help but feel a little excited.
"We are going to build a number of factories in this area." Su Hao squatted down and scratched on the ground with a stone:
"First of all, there must be a steelmaking plant that specializes in smelting special steel, currently mainly high manganese steel. A glass factory is responsible for providing transparent glass. To support these two factories, a metal products factory and a glassware factory are needed.
, producing high manganese steel products and glass products respectively.”
"These factories can be taken over by a small person. However, steel-making and glass-making both require the use of crucibles. If they want to scale up, the crucibles will have to be very large, which will cost a lot of money," Hao Qing said.
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Su Hao said: "I don't want to let my child catch a wolf. Dong and Yang have already said that they can sell as many waist knives and vanity mirrors as we can produce. A waist knife costs 500 taels, which is enough for you to make as many crucibles."
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Hao Qing grinned. Compared with the high profits of these products, the investment is indeed negligible.
Su Hao continued: "Then, we are going to build a sulfuric acid plant, which is green vitriol. I have already drawn the blueprints for the green vitriol produced by the cylinder tower method. Brother Songsheng, just urge Brother Hao to build it for you.
.Sulfuric acid is the mother of chemicals, and many things require sulfuric acid as a raw material."
The Songsheng brother Su Hao was talking about was Luo Yuqing, a student at Longguang Academy in Fengcheng. His family ran a dyeing workshop, so he had some chemistry knowledge since he was a child. The last time Su Hao asked Chen Guanyu to make sulfuric acid, he also used concentrated sulfuric acid.
The technology of producing concentrated nitric acid and reproducing nitroglycerin was eventually inherited by Luo Yuqing. Under the guidance of Su Hao, Luo Yuqing also made yellow ** using nitroglycerin as raw material.
Su Hao realized the value of yellow ** from his personal experience in Bozhou. The army needed this kind of **, and mining also needed this kind of **. Su Hao decided to take precautions and build a sulfuric acid plant and a ** plant first.
This can be regarded as the enlightenment of Ming Dynasty's chemical industry.
Luo Yuqing also came to Beijing with Lu Xiuer and others this time. After hearing Su Hao's explanation, he solemnly nodded and said, "Brother Gai, please rest assured. I will definitely live up to my trust."
"Finally, there is the machinery factory. The lathes, drilling machines, boring machines, etc. I mentioned will all be developed in this machinery factory. Brother Zixian, your task is very difficult." Su Hao turned his attention to Xu Guangqi.
There was some confidence on Xu Guangqi's face. He nodded and said, "Brother Gai has explained the truth so thoroughly. Wouldn't it be too embarrassing if Guangqi still can't build these machines?"
"I have full confidence in Brother Zixian," Su Hao said.
If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools. Since Su Hao thought of developing industry in the Ming Dynasty, the first thing he needed to do was to develop industrial machine tools. Su Hao generally understood some of the principles of various machine tools, such as the most traditional
A lathe is nothing more than a spindle that can rotate at high speed, plus a tool that can feed horizontally. As for more details, Su Hao has never learned, but he believes that with the ingenuity of the Ming Dynasty craftsmen,
It must be possible to figure it out.
In these days, Su Hao introduced to Xu Guangqi all the mechanical principles that he could think of, such as crankshaft, cam, hydraulic pressure, etc. Xu Guangqi was fascinated by it. Xu Guangqi was born with great spatial imagination.
As a strong person, Su Hao could roughly describe an idea and Xu Guangqi could simulate the relevant shape in his mind. After several days of communication, Su Hao finally decided to leave the work of establishing the machinery factory to Xu Guangqi to complete.
Of course, Su Hao knew that developing various machines was not easy, and it might be difficult to make any profit within a few years. But he also understood that these things always needed someone to do them. Once these machines were developed, the entire Ming Dynasty would be affected.
The level of industrial processing will jump to a higher level, which will lead to the birth of many other machines, including the steam engine that Su Hao told Wang Xijue and others.
If the steam engine appeared and industrial revolution followed, what would that be like?
After the task was clarified, the next step was to level the site, build a factory, and hire craftsmen. All of these required money, but these investments were nothing to Su Hao.
In the past year, Su's Trading Company has earned tens of thousands of taels of profit through manufacturing telescopes for the military, mining coal, and selling lime and phosphate fertilizers. Among them, the telescope alone has earned 20,000 taels.
Although Su Hao used part of it for the training of the survey camp, the rest was still a large amount. In addition, considering the huge profits that might be brought by cooperation with Su Hao, Dong Tianzhang and Yang Laizhen also took part of the silver.
It was claimed that it was lent to Su Hao for startup.
This industrial park in Liangxiang carries Su Hao's industrial dream. In order to realize this dream, he does not hesitate to invest money in it.
It was a slack time, and there were many farmers doing odd jobs everywhere. Su Hao hired a large number of migrant workers and started the construction of the industrial park. In order to manage these migrant workers, Su Hao found a dozen more active soldiers from the survey camp.
Together with several clerks borrowed from Dong Tianzhang and Yang Laizhen, a supervisory team was formed to supervise the work of the migrant workers. The leader of the entire supervisory team was Lu Xiuer, the boss of Su's Trading Company.
The recruitment of craftsmen was also in full swing. The status of craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty was not high and their income was very pitiful. Su Hao offered generous conditions to recruit blacksmiths, gold and silversmiths, glaziers, carpenters, masons, etc. These recruited craftsmen, according to
Each level is divided into several levels. High-level craftsmen act as technicians in the factory and do some delicate work; low-level craftsmen are arranged on the assembly line and do some programmed work.
In order to avoid technology leakage, Su Hao discussed with Hao Qing and others repeatedly and came up with some methods. For example, strictly control the formula in the hands of his own people, split some production links and hand them over to different departments.
Craftsmen, making it impossible for any one of them to master the know-how of the entire process.
In addition, following the suggestions of Dong and Yang, Su Hao also signed a life and death agreement with the craftsmen, stipulating that if the craftsmen steal the technology from the factory, they will bear the most serious consequences. The craftsmen responded to Su Hao's behavior
They were convinced of this threat, and they knew that it would be too easy for a person with a background like Su Hao to deal with a craftsman.
The seeds of industry have been sown, and it will take a long time to reap the results. Su Hao is fully mentally prepared for this. He wrote down all the work ideas he could think of and handed them to Xu Guangqi, Luo Yuqing and others.
As for himself, he packed up his luggage, took the survey camp, and prepared to embark on a new journey.
It turned out that when Wang Xijue could not get the support of the cabinet, he negotiated a compromise plan with Wanli and found a place for Su Hao to display his talents. This place is called Huai'an Mansion. (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, novels