The late Ming Dynasty in the living room

Chapter 56: This time travel is somewhat cheating
According to the thinking of later generations, if we want to significantly increase the production of matchlock guns, we will naturally need to use machines and assembly lines.

But how is that possible now?
Even if a steam engine blueprint is placed in front of them, by the time they produce a few practical steam engines, the Ming Dynasty will be dead long ago.

Moreover, steam engines are still needed to deal with the scum of the medieval era such as bandits and slaves. Don’t steam engines cost face?

Therefore, Fang Yu came up with two methods: division of labor and waterwheel.

The division of labor system is easy to understand: let Lao Liu first build a "standard version of the matchlock gun", and then split the gun into various "standard parts".

Such as match rope, gunpowder pool, gun machine, front sight, gun butt...

These items are then subcontracted to various small workshops in the county.

In this case, Lao Liu only needs to do the barrel and final assembly, which can save a lot of time.

Fang Yu said to Lao Liu: "Lao Liu, don't be busy forging the new pipe now. You just need to concentrate on finishing this gun."

When Lao Liu heard this, his face suddenly turned pale.

He thought his employer was not satisfied with his work and wanted to drive them back.

They had only had enough food for a few days, and it was a time when they were extremely happy. If they were to take the whole family back to suffer... to be honest, it would be better to just plunge into the stove and die.

Fang Yu saw something wrong with Lao Liu's face and knew that he had gone astray.

Then she held his hand and said, "I have more important things to give to you. Relax, you are ours when you come here. No one can take you away."

Old Liu breathed a huge sigh of relief and was very touched by his boss's statement.

Then Fang Yu explained the division of labor to him in detail.

Although there are only a few serious blacksmiths and carpenters in Laishui County, they have already been filled with orders from Fang Yu.

But there are many family workshops in the small streets and alleys. They may be two fathers and sons, or three or four neighbors forming a workshop.

As long as Lao Liu gives them the drawings and strictly stipulates the dimensions (providing a standard ruler), then let them slowly knock it out at home.

Um...you want to say that more and more matchlock guns will be needed in the future, and Laishui County is just a small town. What should we do if there are not so many workshops?
Aren’t there Dingxing, Xincheng, and Heyang nearby?

Even if it is subcontracted to Qingyuan and Zhuozhou, what's wrong with it?

You know, during the Second World War, the Japanese were blocked by the Americans at all levels, and the sky was bombed indiscriminately every day. They relied on this family workshop system that was broken into parts, and they managed to survive for several years.

Otherwise, how could they have such a good life to get such an expensive atomic bomb?

After hearing Fang Yu's method, Lao Liu was so surprised that he couldn't even close his mouth.

Old Liu, who has been a craftsman all his life, never thought that such an operation could exist.

According to the owner's plan, the matchlock of that matchlock gun may be from Laishui County, the gunpowder pool may be from Zhuozhou, and the butt of the gun may be from Jinghai...

This is the entire Baoding Prefecture, Shuntian Prefecture, Hejian Prefecture and even half of the northern Ming Dynasty building a gun.

Fang Yu concluded: "So, Lao Liu, you only need to check the goods they send in the future and send back the unqualified ones. Those who fail multiple times can be disqualified.

Just keep the parts that meet the standards and assemble them with the barrel. "

After talking about the division of labor, it’s time to go to the waterwheel.

Of course, the water wheel is used to drill the gun barrel and polish the inner wall of the gun barrel. The processing level of those family workshops cannot be standardized in gun boring.

So this most troublesome thing, the barrel, has to be made by yourself.

Fang Yu had already drawn the shape of the waterwheel, and now he took it out to show Lao Liu.At this time in the Ming Dynasty, there were actually various processing waterwheels and lathes, but their functions were very limited.

It was at Lao Liu's place that Fang Yu saw a pedal lathe. He then thought of the industrial waterwheels and windmills of later generations. He thought about it for two days and finally drew the drawings.

Old Liu was also knowledgeable, and he was amazed by the waterwheel.

I couldn't help but sigh: "My boss, the idea of ​​this waterwheel is really exquisite. If you have a good steel drill bit, you can drill a blunderbuss tube in two days, saving even the time of polishing!"

Lao Liu thought it was a miracle to drill a blunderbuss tube in two days, but Fang Yu knew that it would not take two days.

Isn’t it okay to line up a dozen water trucks at a time?Isn’t it okay to have two more drill bits for a water tanker?

The drill bit issue is easy to solve. Just ask Teacher Pan to throw in a few good steel nails and process them into drill bits. (No matter how hard it is, it can’t be processed)

The key is... you have to have water for the water tanker, right?

Old Liu also thought about it, and he worried: "There are no big rivers in Laishui County. The water flow of the Juma River is not enough to drive a large waterwheel. Moreover, there is a drought every year, and the water level in the river is getting lower and lower. The owner's The plan is just to..."

To maximize the effect of this waterwheel, and to drive more than a dozen or even dozens of them at a time, not only does the water flow need to be abundant, but the water flow needs to be fast, and preferably there should be a gap upstream.

At this time of severe drought in the world, let alone the Juma River, even the famous Luoshui River is now "extremely dry, and the Luoshui River is not enough to fill a foot."

But natural disasters are not a problem, even if the Juma River dries up, it is not a problem. After all, Teacher Pan is here.

As long as Teacher Pan takes an embroidery needle and draws it into the Juma River a few times, the river will become deeper.

As long as Teacher Pan hangs a plastic bag in the living room, fills it with tap water, and then pokes a needle at the location of the Juma River.

This spray is different from the last time. Immediately, "the water from the Juma River comes up from the sky and flows down three thousand feet."

At that time, the water in the Juma River became fast and urgent. Not to mention driving a few small waterwheels, if you have the ability, you can build a power station...

Fang Yu thought about this scene carefully and felt that he had cheated somewhat during this time travel.

Others who traveled through time were either struggling to farm, or revealing their identities, and some had their own systems desperately trying to upgrade.

But Fang Yu is almost like a god...

Thinking about it this way, it seems that I am really the Son of God, Fang Yu thought about it himself.

Fang Yu didn't explain to Lao Liu, he just said that he would have a solution when the time came.

He also entrusted him to be the chief engineer and went to the county to recruit carpenters to make waterwheels.

Of course, at the same time, he also had to complete the "standard version of the matchlock gun" in his hand as soon as possible, and then it was his responsibility to divide the work among the small workshops in the county.

After you have eaten enough and put on good clothes, you have to work hard.

Well, even though Old Liu had to take on three jobs at once, he still had five masters and helpers here to help him.

Yan Xiucai really does three jobs by himself.

Fang Shenzi has no free rice here!
Laishui County.

Sun Chuanting, the right minister of the Ministry of War and the governor of the three sides of the Ming Dynasty, was sitting in the county government office. His heart was beating wildly and sweat was pouring down his forehead.

Really, he never thought that there really were gods in Laishui County!
Before arriving in Laishui County, he always thought that what Min Wen Gong wrote in the memorial was an outsider.

(End of this chapter)