Daming: The most ruthless tyrant in history

Chapter 651 Breakthrough
"Yeah, yeah~"

"hurry up!"

"Squeak~"

In an area that occupies a large area, busy figures can be seen everywhere, and the most attractive thing is that there are many iron bars buried in the ground in this area, and they lead to everywhere in an orderly manner. On top of these iron bars, there are iron-wheeled flat cars filled with goods.

These iron-wheeled flat carts were pulled by donkeys, mules, horses, or horses, and were driven by some strong people to move towards different areas.

"Move one and a half meters east, be damn careful!"

"Pull the pulley!"

"Slow down for me!"

"Fix the iron hook!!"

In a corner of the area, hundreds of strong men were seen, all bare-chested, busy around iron moving platforms that were several people high. The crowd was shouting and shouting. Some of the surrounding iron moving platforms have large iron parts hanging on them.

Among the busy crowd, the swinging rattan hats are particularly attractive.

“This newly built manufacturing bureau in Xishan General Assembly Park is really incredible!”

Seeing the scene in front of him, Zhu Yujian couldn't help but exclaimed, "If outsiders saw this, they would exclaim what the hell is this!"

"Yes."

Zhu Youjian followed closely and said: "I never thought that on the ground made of concrete, it would be possible to realize the centralized transfer of heavy goods through pre-embedded railway tracks, thereby greatly improving the transfer efficiency and solving the problem that wooden trucks cannot be overloaded. "Song Shilang, these things were all supervised by your Military and Civil Affairs Department?"

When talking about this, Zhu Youjian turned his head in disbelief and looked at Song Yingxing who was accompanying the emperor.

"Yes, Your Highness."

Song Yingxing had a calm expression, facing the many gazes, and said, "This Xishan Assembly Park Manufacturing Bureau in front of us was built with a total allocation of 100 million taels of silver. It is mainly responsible for the assembly of Hongwu-style light and medium artillery, involving 17 types of artillery."

"The newly-established manufacturing bureau here mainly undertakes orders for light and medium-sized artillery from North Korea. It is currently working on the third batch of orders and needs to hand over a total of 500 Hongwu-type light and medium-sized artillery pieces."

"Currently, 390 units have been assembled and inspected. With the scheduled delivery of various parts and components, all assembly and inspection will be completed by early November at the latest."

Song Yingxing did not rush to answer Zhu Youjian's question, but instead introduced the main aspects of the newly built manufacturing park in front of him.

"Song Shilang, how did you come up with the idea of ​​burying special railway tracks into the ground, and also specially made a batch of iron-wheeled platform cars for transportation? This didn't exist before our Ming Dynasty, right?"

"His Royal Highness King Ji (Zhu Youdong), in fact, this kind of device does not exist in our Ming Dynasty, but when the Qin Dynasty built Chidao, there was a similar existence, but later generations know very little about it. One is because many were damaged due to war, and the other is It was influenced by the rule of the Qin Dynasty..."

"Qin Zhidao? Is it true or false? This is impossible."

"It seems that there are indeed records of this."

"What about these specially made transfers? They can't be from the Qin Dynasty, right?"

"No, this was originally a pulley block, but it was mostly used in large-scale construction projects to transport boulders, soil, etc. to speed up construction efficiency and thereby reduce labor costs."

"Oh my God, no wonder the young master wanted to submit a batch of special funds to the emperor to build a new batch of industrial park manufacturing bureaus. I was still suspicious when I was responsible for sorting out these."

The area became lively.

The group of people who followed Zhu Youxiao for a private visit all had complicated expressions. There were so many things here that they had never seen before and could not even imagine.

"Your Majesty, do you agree with the memorial regarding the "Development of Bicycle Rail Cars" submitted to the emperor?"

In such a lively scene, Jiao Xu, who was standing aside, looked around specifically, and then asked Zhu Youxiao in a low voice.

It had been several days since this memorial was submitted, but there was no news from the emperor, which inevitably made Jiao Xu and the others a little anxious. "Permission granted."

Zhu Youxiao smiled, glanced at Jiao Xu and said, "But the first batch of 100 million taels of silver has been allocated. We can't get out the internal funds yet. Let's temporarily allocate 50 silver dollars to form a team first."

"The minister obeys the order!"

Jiao Xu couldn't hide his excitement and said, "Although there is a gap between this and what they expected, it is good for them that the emperor can allow this."

This is intensive manual manufacturing.

Compared with Jiao Xu's excitement, Zhu Youxiao looked at everything in front of him with emotion and sigh in his heart. The advancement in the field of science and technology is inseparable from the continuous improvement of productivity.

If productivity is not improved, then no matter how much money is spent, it may not be possible to continue to explore the technological field.

Zhu Youxiao did not expect that by entrusting Song Yingxing and Jiao Xu with the specific responsibility of the Military, Military and Cleaning Department under the Shaofu, he would usher in big changes in the second year of Tianqi.

This is the final form of hand-made products.

If you want to increase productivity significantly on this basis, you must use steam. And the development of self-propelled rail cars mentioned by Jiao Xu just now involves the field of steam power!

The steam engine is an important symbol of primitive industrialization.

Zhu Youxiao knew how powerful the object was, but he didn't know the structure of the object. He knew that steam was converted into kinetic energy, which then drove the giant object to move.

Therefore, what Zhu Youxiao can do is to continuously invest gold and silver, so that professional talents such as Song Yingxing and Jiao Xu can explore and study while cultivating talents in the general direction he pointed out. Under the ever-increasing demand for improving productivity, , prompting them to explore and develop a steam engine.

But even Zhu Youxiao couldn't predict this time period.

Maybe ten years.

Maybe longer.

However, for the current Ming Dynasty, the demand for this aspect is not strong, and will not even be taken seriously. After all, the intensive handmade manufacturing industry has not yet been fully rolled out in the Ming Dynasty, and the production model of the previous period has not yet reached an extreme level. It’s worth it, just consider the production model in the next period. This is just thinking about running away before you even learn to walk. If you don’t stumble, who will?

Zhu Youxiao would not do such nonsense.

"How are the talent echelons for replicating this production model being selected now?" Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao looked at the excited Jiao Xu and asked.

"Your Majesty, everything has been sorted out."

Jiao Xu calmed down and said with a serious expression: "The teams sent to Shaanxi are under the jurisdiction of Hanzhong, Beizhili is under the jurisdiction of Tianjin and Baoding, Shandong is under the jurisdiction of Dengzhou and Laizhou, and Liaodong is under the jurisdiction of Jinzhou, Jinzhou, Liaoyang, Shenyang and other places. The teams have been clarified. , after the above personnel go to various places, they will explore the locations with the help of Yousi and build a manufacturing bureau for the gun assembly park. "

"Be reliable and stable."

Zhu Youxiao said calmly: "There cannot be any flaws in this production model. If we want to boost the military industry systems in various places and implement a large-scale replacement strategy, we must keep it strictly confidential."

"Right now, the center is facing many challenges. I don't want any accidents to happen in this matter, not to mention investing so much gold and silver. If the expected results are not achieved in the end, it will be a huge loss to the center."

"I understand!"

Jiao Xu immediately expressed his position: "Your Majesty, please rest assured that I will handle this matter well and there will definitely be no mistakes."

"Ah."

Zhu Youxiao nodded in response.

In fact, there is no need for Zhu Youxiao to emphasize anything. Song Yingxing, Jiao Xu and others also understand what the clearly determined batch of assembly park manufacturing bureaus will bring to the Ming Military Trade Union.

This is a gold-eating beast.

In the context of high demand for armaments, these general assembly park manufacturing bureaus will drive the development and improvement of upstream and downstream industries, earn gold and silver through orders, and treat each batch of orders with strict standards and requirements. , I wonder how many people will be attracted to enter the industry in these fields!
The first place for intensive handmade manufacturing to develop has never been in the field of people's livelihood, but must be related to the military industry. This is an inevitable trend brought about by demand! !
(End of this chapter)