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Chapter 446 The Problem

After Zhang Qianfan finished speaking, He Yingrui, Minister of Industry, explained: "The sail warship given by your Majesty involves many new shipbuilding technologies. The craftsmen need to understand these technologies thoroughly before they can start building the warship.

In addition, the Longjiang Shipyard has been building ships with hundreds of materials for many years. The sail warship required by His Majesty is at least more than 3,000 materials. The wood previously stored by the shipyard is not suitable for use. Sufficient wood must be accumulated again before construction can begin. Battleship. "

At this point, He Yingrui stopped.

He believed that with Liu Sheng's wisdom, he could understand that Longjiang Shipyard did not start building sail warships at present, not only for its reasons, but also for the right choice.

Liu Sheng frowned slightly.

He could indeed understand what He Yingrui said - perhaps because he didn't really understand shipbuilding and had previously underestimated the difficulty of replicating a sail warship based on the drawings.

If craftsmen start building warships without fully understanding the technology, once they make mistakes, it will cause a waste of labor and materials.

However, Longjiang Shipyard did not have the materials to build large-scale ships such as sail warships before, so it had to spend time stocking up.

Therefore, it is best to wait until the craftsmen have a thorough understanding of the technology and the materials are almost stocked before starting to build the warship.

Liu Sheng nodded and signaled Zhang Qianfan to continue moving forward.

Although he understood, Liu Sheng still asked: "When will the construction of the first sail warship start?"

He was originally promoted as deputy deputy of Longjiang Shipyard in Ming Dynasty - even though he was deputy, he had served in Longjiang Shipyard for more than ten years. Compared with many promotion officers who were transferred after working in the shipyard for two years, he had a real affection for the shipyard and knew some knowledge about shipbuilding.

In fact, the management and production of Longjiang Shipyard have changed a lot compared to the past.

Therefore, he was worried that Liu Sheng was also such a person.

After reading it, although Liu Sheng didn't know much about shipbuilding, he still felt that the workshop settings of Longjiang Shipyard were a bit backward, or not efficient enough. Therefore, he understood better why a year had passed since he gave the drawings, and the shipyard craftsmen had not yet fully understood the technology involved.

Seeing that the incident was over, Zhang Qianfan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

“In my opinion, although some things at Longjiang Shipyard have changed compared to the previous Ming Dynasty, the changes are obviously not enough and not thorough enough.

In the final analysis, it is because Longjiang Shipyard basically still produces according to the previous model.

So after the inspection, Liu Sheng, He Yingrui, Zhang Qianfan and others held a small meeting in the government office lobby.

Zhang Qianfan wiped his forehead and shouted, "Construction should start in October."

At the same time, having been a low-ranking official in the Ming Dynasty for so many years, he knew that many superior officials only cared about what they wanted, and did not care whether the request was reasonable or whether the shipyard could achieve it.

After today, Longjiang Shipyard can send a few capable officials to Ruyang Gun Factory and other official factories to observe and learn their management methods and production models..."

Fortunately, Liu Sheng was not—Liu Sheng was obviously a little angry just now, but after listening to his explanation to the Minister of Industry, he was able to calm down his anger immediately, which is very admirable.

Later, Zhang Qianfan led Liu Sheng and others to visit other workshops in the shipyard, such as the Peng Factory, Paint Workshop, Iron Workshop, Yau Ma Tei, etc.

The most basic ones, such as canceling craftsman status, increasing the salary of craftsmen, assessing and grading them, etc.

But these were only general changes in various government-run factories under Da'e's rule, and were not targeted. For example, the shipyard, paint shop, iron shop, etc. all existed before and still exist now, and they have not changed much.

In order to obtain paint, hemp rope, and tung oil, a piece of land was specially planted to grow linseed and tung trees. Although Liu Sheng was just a soldier before traveling through time, he also knew that this production model, in which a factory could be self-sufficient in everything, looked like a cowhide, but the actual production efficiency was low and it was a waste of labor and material resources.

It is better to look outside and outsource these unimportant production tasks. The shipyard is only responsible for the main production tasks of shipbuilding.

But Liu Sheng didn't know what the shipyard could change and what it couldn't, so he thought of asking Longjiang Shipyard to send people to the Ruyang Gun Factory to observe and learn.

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in the afternoon.

Liu Sheng asked his guards to summon Li Changwen and the main officials of the Ministry of Industry to the Wenhua Hall for discussion.

After everyone had arrived, Liu Sheng got straight to the point and asked: "I visited Longjiang Shipyard today. What do you think?"

After speaking, Liu Sheng looked at He Yingrui and motioned for him, the minister, to speak first.

He Yingrui thought about the small meeting Liu Sheng held in the shipyard office in the morning and said: "The shipyard officials are still a little slow in doing things and are not capable enough."

Cheng, the left minister of the Ministry of Industry, commented: "I think that officials from the Ministry of Industry may be sent to the shipyard to supervise the construction of warships."

Liu Sheng looked disappointed after hearing this.

What He Yingrui said had something to do with the main problems of the shipyard. What Cheng Zhu said went the same way as the Ming Dynasty - when the court needed it, it sent capable officials to supervise it; when it didn't, it just ignored it.

Is this a long-term solution?

Just when he was about to say something, he saw Liu Linchang, a member of the Ministry of Industry, and said: "Weichen thinks that the problems in the shipyard cannot be solved by sending one or two officials from the Ministry of Industry to supervise.

The shipyard was slow in doing things because there were too many officials in the Ming Dynasty, and even the craftsmen were too heavily influenced by the rules of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, I thought it would be a good idea to eliminate some of the existing officials at the Longjiang Shipyard, boldly promote new people, and then imitate the management style and production model of the Ruyang Gun Factory.

In this way, the shipyard's production efficiency may be relatively low in a short period of time, but over time, the efficiency will inevitably improve, making the ship look brand new inside and outside! "

Liu Linchang was originally a senator in southern Sichuan in the Ming Dynasty. Because he led many counties to change their banners and surrendered to Wei, and he had served in the Ministry of Industry in Beijing and Nanjing and had many political achievements, he was transferred to Nanjing by the Government Affairs Council to observe politics. After a period of time, he was appointed as a member of the Ministry of Industry.

There are several members of the Ministry of Industry, each performing his or her own duties.

It turned out that although Liu Sheng had an impression of Liu Linchang, he was not very impressed.

At this time, I was quite surprised to hear what he said.

He immediately praised: "That's right. Our goal is to boldly reform the decadent systems of the Ming Dynasty and liberate the power of craftsmen and other people in order to increase productivity.

If there were just another emperor on the throne and a group of nobles and ministers in the court, a hundred years later, I am afraid that our country would be no different from the previous Ming Dynasty, and it might even be even more decadent.

If that's the case, what's the point of us rebelling against the Ming Dynasty and revolutionizing the world? Didn’t those soldiers who sacrificed their lives for this shed their blood and sacrifice in vain? "

Compared with Liu Linchang's words, Liu Sheng's words shocked the ministers of the Ministry of Industry in Wenhua Hall even more.

They had no idea that Liu Sheng would view the change of dynasty in this way, and it was even the first time they were exposed to such an idea.

After all, in their previous consciousness, changing dynasties mainly meant changing the emperor's surname.

As for the nobles and ministers in the DPRK, maybe many of them were from the previous DPRK - isn't that the case with Da'Ei?

(End of this chapter)