Songhu Shipyard is located at the intersection of the Huangpu River and the Yangtze River. The entire large area is filled with shipyards of various sizes.
Songhu Shipyard, Sangong Shipyard, Zhang's Shipyard, Sihai Captain, Jiangnan Shipyard, etc., there are hundreds of shipyards located in Songhu, and almost all of them are in the area where the Huangpu River and the Yangtze River meet.
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This is the most prosperous and lively shipbuilding industrial area in Songhu, and it is also the area with the highest income in Songhu.
Shipbuilding is a technical job, and a qualified shipbuilding technician or master requires a long time of training. He is someone who absolutely relies on craftsmanship and ability to make a living.
Since Liu Jin founded the Tianjin Shipyard, all craftsmen have been graded and given preferential treatment. Even ten years ago, the wages of workers in the Tianjin Shipyard were very high, reaching several taels of silver a month. As for shipbuilding,
Master, I already had six or seven taels of silver a month at that time.
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Now, their remuneration is even higher. A casual worker's annual income is more than a hundred taels of silver, which is one or two times higher than the income of ordinary workers outside.
As for the masters and technicians in the shipyard, their income is even higher. They can generally earn an annual salary of several hundred taels. They can be said to be in the high-income class.
The reason why such a high salary can be given is because the Ming Dynasty's ocean trade, ocean fishing and other industries are developing extremely rapidly. The demand for ships is very large. No matter how many ships there are, they are not enough to sell. Every shipyard has already placed orders.
Surprisingly, for large shipyards like Songhu Shipyard, orders have already been dispatched several years later.
Ming Dynasty's own orders, orders from overseas, and a large number of overseas warship orders all stimulated Ming Dynasty's shipbuilding industry.
Tianjin, Songhu, Ryukyu, Nanyang Crescent City, and Qiongzhou have formed the five most important shipbuilding centers in the Ming Dynasty.
The strongest ones are Tianjin and Songhu. There are hundreds of large and small shipyards in Tianjin and hundreds of shipyards in Songhu, and they are all large and powerful shipyards.
Like the Songhu Shipyard in front of us, it is a branch of Tianjin Shipyard.
Well, naturally it is also an industry under Liu Jin's command.
Songhu Shipyard covers a huge area, has more than 20,000 workers, shipbuilders, and technicians, has hundreds of large and small workshops, and can start construction of more than a hundred ocean-going ships at the same time.
Moreover, Songhu Shipyard and Tianjin Shipyard are the only two shipyards in Ming Dynasty that can manufacture large steam ships. The orders accepted by these two shipyards are all orders, and all of them are large ships.
For example, all the ships of the Ming Dynasty were built by these two shipyards, and orders for foreign military warships were also built by these two shipyards.
It has the largest scale, the strongest technology, and the strongest shipbuilding capabilities. Both shipyards have also established professional shipbuilding academies to systematically and standardizedly cultivate shipbuilding talents and research new shipbuilding technologies and ship types.
In the shipyard, Liu Jin was walking around casually, and Chen Jie, the director of the Songhu Shipyard, and many other managers of the shipyard were also following him.
Liu Jin is their boss, and Liu Jin's identity is also displayed here. He is a cabinet minister of the Ming Dynasty and a celebrity around the emperor. He holds power. This is the first time Liu Jin has come here since the Songhu Shipyard was built.
Make them very excited.
"How many ships are under construction in the factory now?"
Liu Jin looked at the shipbuilding docks in front of him. The docks were very busy.
The shipyard implements a team system. A shipbuilding dock is a team, with supporting shipbuilders, technicians and workers. A team is responsible for the construction of a ship.
Therefore, to look at a shipyard’s shipbuilding capacity, you can know directly by looking at how many ships are under construction in its dockyard.
"There are now a total of 121 ships under construction~"
"There are 120 traditional treasure ships and sailing ships, and the remaining 11 are steam ships."
Chen Jie quickly replied: "All our ships adopt standardized construction methods."
"In addition to the shipbuilding dock in front of us, we also have a large number of parts processing workshops. We require all parts to be processed to a standard and implement an assembly line production method."
"So our shipbuilding efficiency is very high. A shipbuilding dock here can build a ship in about a month."
"We can launch about 10 ships in a single dock a year, and the entire shipyard can launch more than 1,000 large ships a year."
"The annual output value exceeds 100 million taels of silver!"
At the end of the sentence, Chen Jie's voice became much louder.
Being able to take charge of a huge shipyard with an annual output value of over 100 million taels of silver, with more than 20,000 employees under his command, is obviously something to be very proud of.
"Not bad!"
Liu Jin nodded with satisfaction after hearing this. Just a shipyard in front of him can build thousands of large ships a year. With such a powerful shipbuilding capability, it is definitely one of the most powerful shipyards now.
This shipyard alone can destroy all the shipyards in a European country. This is why the Ming Dynasty can form fleets one by one at will.
Because the Ming Dynasty has a strong enough shipbuilding industry to support it, the number of newly launched ships every year is calculated in tens of thousands. Although the shipbuilding industry in European countries is also good, it is far from being able to compare with the Ming Dynasty. They can launch hundreds of ships a year.
The ship is pretty good.
"What is the situation of our entire Ming Dynasty's shipbuilding industry now?"
Liu Jin thought for a while and asked again.
"Currently, the shipbuilding industry in our country is developing extremely rapidly. There are many new shipyards, not just in Songhu. Our country has a vast coastline, countless excellent ports, and many places are suitable for the development of the shipbuilding industry."
"The main shipbuilding centers now are Tianjin, Songhu, Liuqiu, Yueyacheng, and Qiongzhou. These five shipbuilding centers have many shipyards and are relatively mature in scale and technology."
"In addition, there are many shipyards in Penglai City and Qianhe City in Golden Continent, Dalian in Liaodong, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Quanzhou and other places. However, they are small in scale and can only build some small fishing boats and cannot build large ocean-going ships.
Ships and warships.”
"In our Ming Dynasty, the number of newly launched large ships every year exceeds 10,000, and most of them are orders from our own country."
"But there are also many orders from Europe, Persia, Korea, Japan, Egypt and other countries and regions. Most of these orders are warship orders, with high prices and high profits. Of course, the requirements are relatively higher."
Chen Jie thought about it and quickly replied. He was very familiar with the entire Ming Dynasty's shipbuilding industry. He had relevant statistics every year and had to report to Liu Jin at the end of the year.
In addition, Liu Jin also has a special audit team under his command, which specializes in auditing the industrial operations under his command to see if there is any personal enrichment, private use of public equipment, or other things that jeopardize Liu Jin's industry, etc.
Although Liu Jin has always been in charge of the industries under his command and only given general directions and delegated power to the managers under his command, it does not mean that Liu Jin absolutely trusts them.
Liu Jin has established a special audit team to conduct regular audits on various industries under his command.
Compared with people's hearts, Liu Jin is more willing to believe in a standardized and reasonable management system. Like Chen Jie, he is the director of the shipyard. He can make the decisions in the factory, but the finance in the factory is independent and directly reports to the general manager.
The person in charge at the shipyard, the main person in charge within the factory, needs to be transferred regularly.
The systems adopted are also standardized management systems of later generations. On the one hand, they ensure the healthy and orderly development of the industry, and on the other hand, they also control internal corruption.
But what is gratifying is that no major problems or incidents have arisen so far.
The people of the Ming Dynasty during this period still paid great attention to their own credibility and the two words of loyalty, eating the emperor's salary and being loyal to the emperor. This was almost the creed of the vast majority of the Ming Dynasty people.
If you eat your employer's food, then you should do things well for your employer.
If you do well, your employer will reward you and you will receive dividends. If you dare to be corrupt, harm the public and enrich your own interests, etc., once the matter is exposed, it will be almost impossible to survive in the future. No one will work with a person who has no loyalty.
There are many industries under his command, and there are countless managers, large and small. Most of them are trustworthy and reliable, which makes Liu Jin feel at ease when doing things.
"Shipbuilding has always been a technical activity, and we cannot stick to the current shipbuilding technology and ship types."
"We must continue to develop and innovate, develop new shipbuilding technologies, develop new ship types, and build larger and stronger ships."
Liu Jin listened carefully and got a general idea of the current shipbuilding situation in Ming Dynasty, and then he gave instructions again.
This has always been Liu Jin's requirement for the industries under his command, which is to constantly innovate, pay attention to machinery, pay attention to technology, boldly use a variety of machinery, and boldly use new technologies and new methods.
Therefore, the major industries under his command are definitely world leaders in terms of mechanization and technology.
"Yes, we understand and we have been working hard."
Chen Jie nodded quickly and said.
Liu Jin nodded slightly and then looked at the entire shipyard. He could see a large number of new machines being used. Punches, milling machines, drilling machines, etc. driven by steam power could be seen everywhere.
The workers here are also proficient in using these machines. Looking at their faces, they are basically young. They are all graduates of new schools. They were not admitted to colleges and universities. They finally entered the shipyard and then worked in shipbuilding.
He continued his studies at the factory and eventually became a shipbuilding technician and master.
"It's time to return to the capital. Another year has passed. It will soon be the twenty-fifth year of Hongzhi. Time flies so fast!"
Looking at the young face, Liu Jin lamented that time flies by and it will soon be the 25th year of Hongzhi.
