At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 353, Standard Setting and Technology Diffusion

On August 10, the seventh year of the Han Dynasty, in Chang'an City, the Orbital Carriage Factory.

Xu Fan visits the carriage production line. The Chang'an Orbital Carriage Factory is huge, bigger than the largest palace in the Han Dynasty. It looks a bit like the steampunk movie "The Kingdom of Hope". Of course, it is still far behind technically, but it is already a good start.

Liu Jie, the chief craftsman, said excitedly: "According to His Majesty's request, after a year of hard work, I have been able to narrow the tolerance of all parts to one point. Parts of the same format can be interoperated."

Xu Fan picked up a vernier caliper, a magical time-travel artifact passed down from later generations, and measured the bearing parts on a carriage. He found that they were basically on the same scale. Although it was not as precise as later generations, but now Dahan's technology is extremely valuable to be able to do this.

Then he realized the tolerances of several other parts, basically all within one minute, which can be said to be extremely standard parts.

Xu Fan saw the emaciated Liu Jie and said, "You have worked really hard. I just talked, but you broke your legs."

Xu Fan drove screws in a later factory for two years, but unfortunately he was just a low-level worker doing heat treatment. He sweated and lost hundreds of pounds, but he didn't learn anything technical.

So he could only give general instructions to the people below to standardize parts, standardize production, and talk about more detailed things. Then Xu Fan could only apologize, because he didn't remember it at all.

He could only leave the actual work to Liu Jie, the top local craftsmen in the Han Dynasty. Even though Da Qin already has a relatively primitive parts standard system, you can only exchange some simple weapon parts.

But with tolerances limited to one point, even a very simple part can become extremely difficult to manufacture.

Liu Jie hesitated and said: "Your Majesty, you have gathered the best craftsmen in the world to barely have the current carriage factory. Other workshops do not have such conditions at all. How can I introduce this set of standards?"

Xu Fan spent so much money to build this carriage and horse factory not just to make some profits, but also to spread standardized parts throughout the Han Dynasty through this factory.

"Dahan Monthly" published an advertisement for franchisees, as long as they manufacture qualified parts according to their standards. The Chang'an horse racing yard was purchased at double the market price, and the quantity was more than tens of thousands, which caused a sensation throughout Guanzhong.

August 15th, the seventh year of Han Dynasty.

Xu Fan smiled and said: "Everyone is forced to do it step by step. Who would have thought that we could produce hundreds of standard parts and make tens of thousands of parts of the same specifications almost identical."

Lu Jia ran into his workshop with the "Dahan Monthly" and found the master craftsman Jia Yi, pointing to the data on the wheel above and asking: "Can we make this kind of wheel?"

Xu Fan said: "You should treat the carriage and horse factory as a general contracting factory, outsourcing all the hundreds of parts that make a carriage. The outside factories only need to manufacture one part and one standard. You also send your own master craftsmen to help them build Standardization system, will it decline?”

"If a group of backward carriage factories die, the market will come out." Xu Fan said calmly.

Moreover, this era does not talk about division of labor and cooperation, and it is not the self-sufficiency model in the small-scale peasant economic system.

Half a stick of incense is equivalent to half an hour in later generations. The Chang'an Carriage Factory works in two shifts and produces 8 hours a day. In other words, a production line can produce 32 carriages a day, and almost 1000 carriages a month. It can produce almost tens of thousands of carriages every year.

He originally wanted to force these workshops into the standardized system. In the words of this era, this is the general trend of the world. If you follow it, you will prosper, if you go against it, you will perish.

Liu Jie smiled proudly and said, "It's all for the prosperity of the Han Dynasty and the great unity of the world. No matter how hard you work, it's worth it."

Liu Jie continued to ask: "Who would be willing to do such a thankless thing? Even a standard part is very difficult to manufacture."

Really driving technological progress depends on other capitalists, and landlords and wealthy people will only exploit cattle and horses to their death.

You must know that there are countless small car-making workshops in Chang'an City, and there are also ten large horse-drawn carriage factories.

After his initial accumulation, he built a new workshop with half an acre of land at the Second Craftsman outside Chang'an City, hired more than a dozen apprentices, and recruited Jia Yi as a master craftsman, and began to develop from wheelbarrows to the production of 2000 An ox-cart worth 4000 yuan, and a two-wheeled carriage worth yuan.

It was two orders of magnitude more difficult to standardize a complex instrument like a carriage. Xu Fan gathered the best craftsmen in the entire Han Dynasty and spent more than a year to achieve this point.

Xu Fan said: "This set of standards is already extremely advanced. Your horse racing yard still has to shoulder the important task of promoting this set of standards to the entire Han Dynasty. If we cannot do this, our hard work for more than a year will be in vain."

In recent years, the Han industry has developed greatly, and the demand for various transportation vehicles has been extremely strong. Lu Jia's workshop has also become more and more prosperous. Now Lu Jia has become a wealthy generation with a fortune of millions.

When the Han Dynasty replaced the Qin Dynasty, all the cumbersome and restrictive rules of the Qin Dynasty were canceled by the Han Dynasty.

Even now, Dahan's industry is booming, and heavy cargo carriages are in great demand. But tens of thousands of them is still too exaggerated. It is equivalent to a heavy-duty carriage that is half the size of a large man produced by one of his production lines.

But this model is not what Xu Fan needs. He needs the entire world to have a set of production standards. Only in this way can the production costs of large industries drop sharply.

You must know that Xu Fan did not burn, kill, and loot like Xiang Yu. Therefore, the precious heritage of Da Qin was acquired by the Han.

"promise!"

The Shaofu of the Han Dynasty almost took over all the craftsmen of the Shaofu of the Qin Dynasty. The craftsmen of the Shaofu of the Qin Dynasty who were equivalent to the eighth-level craftsmen of later generations were almost all concentrated in this horse racing farm. With their superb craftsmanship, they completed this kind of transcending era. standardized factory. Other workshops in Han Dynasty did not have such conditions at all, so Liu Jie hesitated.

The small market was also the reason for the self-sufficiency of tools in the feudal era. It took 10 days and a half to build a carriage, and what standardized parts were required.

Xu Fan said: "The market is like survival of the fittest. If they want to survive, they must learn our standards. If they don't want to learn, they will die. Those who can open car parks are rich people. They will not starve to death." . As for craftsmen, as long as they have skills, they will find something to do soon.”

Lu Jia is an aborigine of Chang'an City. He used to be a craftsman, but he did not have advanced skills and could only make some simple furniture. Therefore, he was just an ordinary citizen in Chang'an City. He spent half of the year serving the imperial court. work to earn a living.

"Starting today, you will advertise to the Dahan Monthly, publish all your parts standards, and directly recruit suppliers from all over Guanzhong. The artifact has been built, so the world must see its power."

Lu Jia could do things freely without being restricted by the government, and he no longer had to worry about the court suddenly calling him into corvee service.

The last is the story of Apple and Tesla, which is so familiar that even an ordinary person like Xu Fan has heard of it, such as a general contractor and a whole industry chain.

Xu Fan said: "As long as there is enough profit, someone will be willing to do such a thing. If you set the price of the parts higher, someone will find a way to manufacture the parts you need."

Only a few big cities can manufacture carriages with tens of thousands of dollars like Chang'an City Carriage and Horse Factory.

Liu Jie asked again: "Will a big man need so many carriages?"

He used his own yard as a factory to imitate the wheelbarrows brought to Guanzhong by the Han Dynasty. The wheelbarrows were of high quality and low price, and could meet the people's needs for transporting goods. The market was very large. Lu Jia's business was an instant success, and his business became more and more prosperous.

Chang'an City, Second Craftsman Lane.

Xu Fan continued: "Reduce the price of the carriage by half, and you can buy one for 2 yuan. There will definitely be Chang'an's carriages on the roads throughout Guanzhong."

Liu Jie was surprised and said: "What about the other carriage workshops in Chang'an City? The imperial court doesn't care about their life or death?"

Although the Chang'an Carriage and Horse Factory formulated standardized production for later generations, they made parts one by one from raw materials such as wood. If the steel-making technology was not too difficult, it is impossible to say that there would be a small blast furnace here. All parts are made by ourselves from raw materials. This is the current production method of carriage and horse factories.

Because of the booming industry, almost every county in the Han Dynasty has its own carriage manufacturing workshop. After all, although it is technically difficult to make carriages, the raw materials for carriages are mainly wood, which is easy to obtain. It cannot be used to make expensive heavy carriages, but it can be used to make some wheelbarrows. , two-wheeled ox carts, and horse-drawn carriages are still available. It can even be said that this kind of ox-cart and horse-drawn carriage, which costs only a few thousand dollars, is the mainstream of the Han market.

But he is not without worries. A month ago, the Dahan government-run carriage and horse factory built some kind of production line. It boasted that it was a miracle, saying that it talked about standardized parts and standardized production steps. It said that half a stick of incense could produce a car. Carriage.

At that time, Lu Jia was dismissive of this rumor. He was just building a carriage. He didn't know how difficult it was to build a carriage. It would be extremely difficult to build a two-wheeled carriage in half an hour or half a month. matter.

At that time, Lu Jia thought that it was the steward of the official carriage factory who wanted to attract the emperor's attention, so he told such a big lie. After all, it was a government-run workshop, and it didn't matter whether it made money or not. Only by making the emperor happy and attracting the emperor's attention could he is the most important thing.

But what he never expected was that Chang'an Carriage Factory would actually invite them to visit.

And he saw a scene that stunned him. The bottom plate of a carriage moved slowly on the assembly line. Dozens of workers continued to assemble it. It took less than half a stick of incense to produce a heavy-duty carriage.

You must know that the transportation volume of heavy-duty carriages is 10 times that of ordinary carriages. Because of the high price, there is room for survival in small workshops like theirs. But now the official workshops of the Han Dynasty can produce dozens of carriages a day, so they still have a way to survive. !

This scene became his nightmare for a month. He always dreamed of countless loaded carriages rushing towards the Chang'an Carriage Factory, occupying the entire Chang'an, the entire Guanzhong, and even the world. No one bought the carriages he produced, the workshop closed down, and he fell into despair again. Every time he was awakened by this nightmare.

Lu Jia understood that if his small car-making workshop wanted to survive, it must make changes. Today he saw an advertisement from the "Dahan Monthly" that Chang'an Car and Horse Factory was looking for suppliers. He immediately decided to join if he couldn't beat him and became a supplier under Chang'an Horse Racing Farm.

The wheel looked at the dimensions mentioned above, and then frowned and said: "The wood used to make the wheel is cheap wood. It is not very difficult, but the difficulty is that they want almost identical wheels, and the tolerance cannot exceed a thread." point.

Shopkeeper, do you know what this amounts to? This is equivalent to the gap between each wheel, which cannot be larger than the thickness of a fingernail. This is simply forcing others to do something difficult. "

"Even if I were to make it myself and follow their mold, I still wouldn't be able to make a wheel like this in one day."

Lu Jia sighed, "I have been to Chang'an Carriage and Horse Factory many times in the past few days, and I have seen the wheels they produce. They can be made exactly the same, and the tolerance will not exceed one point."

Lu Jia looked at his grass-roots team and said helplessly: "Our workshop is too far behind. Other people's factories are as clean as restaurants, but our workshop is almost like a pigsty. If we want to ride a carriage here, we can only rely on chisels and planers. Do it bit by bit. The lathes, planers, and grinders in Chang'an Car and Horse Factory are dozens of times more efficient than ours.

If you look at the demand above, they need 4 wheels alone. This is equivalent to their desire to build tens of thousands of heavy-duty carriages. If we don't keep up, will we still have food to eat in the future? "

Jia Yi looked at the monthly report: "We definitely can't make such a wheel, but it also says it will provide technical support? Why don't you go over and ask, boss?"

Lu Jia said firmly: "Go and ask now."

The next day, Lu Jia excitedly brought a young man to his workshop and said, "Everyone, please stop what you are doing."

The man heard this and came to Lu Jia.

Lu Jia pointed at the young man and said: "This is Gong Shuyou, the great craftsman of Chang'an Carriage and Horse Factory. He is a descendant of Lu Ban, the ancestor of our craftsmen. Everyone applauds and welcomes him."

"Pa bang bang" all the craftsmen started to applaud.

But Gongshuyou stopped him and said: "In the next month, I will renovate your workshop and improve the production and management here. Only after you are qualified will you officially become the supplier of our Chang'an Carriage and Horse Factory. This is very important." You must be mentally prepared for the difficult transformation.

Then Gongshu You asked: "What's your current salary?"

So the craftsman looked at his employer.

Lu Jia said: "Whatever Master Gongshu asks, you should answer."

So the carpenters said: "My salary is 600 yuan."

"800 dollars, 500 dollars."

The master craftsman Jia Yi said: "5000 yuan."

Most of the craftsmen here are between 500 and yuan. There are only a few apprentices who look like they have just grown up. They only have yuan. Lujia does not have a salary that is too harsh for craftsmen, but it does not give too much preferential treatment. This basically belongs to the craftsmen of the Han Dynasty. Standard salary.

Gongshu Youdao: "To make standardized parts, craftsmen have to invest more energy and thinking, and the salary cannot be low. The minimum salary for apprentices will be increased by 800 yuan, and the salary of formal craftsmen will be increased by 1200 yuan. The salary of master craftsmen must be above 8000 yuan. "

This is also Xu Fan's request to Chang'an Chaoma Chang, which is to use the advantages of technology to regulate the entire market. Xu Fanji's Apple company even has to regulate the factory's minimum wage and workers' welfare benefits. This is truly a first-class enterprise setting standards.

On the contrary, those landlords and rich people always talk about the standards that first-class companies must have, but their standards are not. The workers' salaries should be delayed first, as long as they can. Even if they earn a few cents in interest while lying in the bank, they will be paid only when they can no longer be delayed.

Give full play to their role as leaders in the industry, make the store deceive customers, and cover the construction costs as much as possible. If you don't want to cover the cost, get out of here. There are even tricks like this that if you want to do business with me, you have to lend me a loan shark first.

Grass!
This is the standard of our great empire. The leader takes the lead to cripple an industry and drags the entire industry to hell.

But the people who take the lead are those from above. It can be said that the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked.

Xu Fan, a commoner at the bottom, knew that there must be something wrong with this, but the referee didn't care at all and instead took the lead in cheating.

Now of course Xu Fan has set good standards. He would not hope that these landowners and old wealthy people would have a conscience. He would only use the advantages of technology to force these people to improve. Limit their greed with laws. In our Han Dynasty, these workshop owners were the ones who were ruled, so naturally the difficult and tiring work was left to them.

All the craftsmen looked at their boss in surprise.

Lu Jia said fiercely: "Just follow what Master Gongsun said and get a salary increase starting from this month."

"Thank you, boss!" all the craftsmen cheered.

Gongshuyou walked around the workshop, found pen and paper and ordered a lot of equipment and said: "The efficiency of your equipment here is too low. All of them need to be replaced, the factory building needs to be cleaned, and the employees need to be retrained. The products are completely in accordance with ours." If you meet the requirements, you will be punished if the quality is not up to standard.”

Then Gong Shuyou looked at the craftsmen sternly and said: "Your salary has increased by more than 30% compared to ordinary craftsmen in Chang'an City. With more money, the requirements will be stricter. Craftsmen who cannot meet the standards will have to clear you out. The next month will be crucial for you."

Everyone was shocked, as expected the money offered was not that easy to get.

Gongshu You said to Lu Jia: "The total price of these equipment is 30 yuan. If you don't have enough funds, our Chang'an Carriage and Horse Factory can provide guarantee for a loan."

Lu Jia gritted his teeth and said, "I still have some savings, enough to buy these equipment."

Gongshu You said: "Okay, Lu Dong's family will buy equipment, and I will start training employees now."

"Everyone followed me to clean the entire workshop, leaving no cobwebs or dust behind."

"promise!"

Then, under the leadership of Gong Shuyou, everyone moved the equipment and raw materials to the open space, and then comprehensively cleaned the factory building.

Lu Jia purchased new equipment, and Gong Shuyou led them where to follow the equipment and trained craftsmen to use the new equipment.

Then he led them to start manufacturing wheels based on the technical requirements, quality standards and process drawings of Chang'an Carriage Factory parts.

Finally, it took them half a month to manufacture 400 standardized wheels, which were sent to Chang'an Carriage and Horse Factory for specification and quality testing.

September 5, the seventh year of Han Dynasty.

The craftsmen in Lujia Workshop were cleaning absentmindedly.

Whether their workshop is alive or dead depends on this inspection. If it passes the inspection, they can earn 30% more income than the average craftsman in Chang'an City.

But if they fail, I'm afraid they will go back to their original form, and may even find something to do again.

Although it is now easy to find things to do in Chang'an City, no one wants to adapt to a strange environment. They are still extremely enthusiastic about working in the current workshop.

When it was almost noon, Lu Jia said excitedly: "The wheels we made are qualified. Chang'an Horse Racing Farm ordered 200 wheels at a price of yuan each."

"Long live!" all the craftsmen said excitedly.

Not only did they keep their jobs, they would also be able to earn 30% more income in the future.

Lu Jia said excitedly: "We owe our current achievements to Master Gongsun's teachings. Everyone applauded and thanked Master Gongsun."

"Bah bang bang!" The applause was extremely enthusiastic.

Gongshuyou waited for them to stop and said: "I will stay here for three months to complete the supervision of your product quality assurance system.

Manufacturing hundreds of standardized products is different from tens of thousands. We still need to find problems and improve them. Only when you can truly provide qualified products in batches can your status as a supplier be considered stable. "

With tears in his eyes, Lu Jia said to his craftsmen: "Thank you for your hard work! Today we have been recognized by the Chang'an Carriage and Horse Factory. It is all the result of everyone's hard work. Our workshop can finally survive, but there is still a long way to go." It’s going to be a long time, and it’s still very hard, and it’s far from time to relax. We continue to work hard, and I, Lu Jia, promise you that as long as my workshop remains, you will have a bite to eat.”

There was another round of thunderous applause.

October 5, the seventh year of the Han Dynasty, Chang'an City, Yan Palace

Liu Jie reported the results to Xu Fan and said: "Your Majesty, after a month of hard work, thousands of factories have completed standardized transformation, and the parts of these factories can be fully interoperable. Even without our general contractor, these factories You can also piece together a qualified carriage.”

Xu Fan said happily: "Your contribution is no less than defeating a hundred thousand powerful enemies."

But Liu Jie was worried: "The production line industry is so big, what should I do if the vehicles cannot be sold?"

In the past few months, the Chang'an Carriage and Horse Factory has directly cut the price of heavy-duty carriages in half, completely breaking the market pattern. The small workshops that produce carriages in Chang'an City have fallen by less than half, and even the large carriage and horse factories are struggling.

Many merchants have sold heavy-loaded carriages as goods to other counties and counties, and now even carriage workshops outside Chang'an City have been affected.

Xu Fan said: "The imperial court orders 500 heavy-duty horse-drawn carriages from you every month to transform passenger cars and solve the problem of short-distance passenger transportation for the people of Chang'an. As long as you can produce horse-drawn carriages, you don't have to worry about not being able to sell them."

Creating a market is not easy. Simply put into the bus project, Chang'an has millions of permanent residents alone and a total floating population of more than 120 million. Tens of thousands of carriages running in Chang'an City are just a matter of sprinkling water. There are 50 counties and thousands of counties in the Han Dynasty. All these markets have been developed, and 10 heavy-duty carriages can easily be accommodated.

(End of this chapter)