Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 371 The Importance of Rational Planning

I'm still not used to getting up early, especially if I drank a lot of wine the day before, so Sun Xiangfu slept all the way from the carriage to Weinan. His carriage was luxurious enough, and the road along the way was all cement roads. After sleeping for two or three hours, he returned to the cage to sleep very energetically.

"Captain, we're here."

Zhang Ke opened the curtain of the car, and a gust of cold wind blew towards his face with an earthy smell.

Sun Xiangfu wiped his face with a hot towel, rinsed his mouth with tea, and then left the carriage. At this time, Ma Zhou, who was notified and came to greet him, had already arrived at the carriage.

"I'm sorry to trouble the governor to run."

"Prince Bin doesn't need to see outsiders, it's my first time here, so tell me from the beginning!"

After getting out of the carriage, Sun Xiangfu looked around and saw bustling crowds everywhere. After the autumn harvest, nearly 50 young and strong laborers have gathered here, accounting for almost half of the young and strong men in the entire Guanzhong area.

Moreover, they were not recruited by the imperial court, but they came voluntarily. If it was in the previous dynasty, such a huge construction site would definitely hear the sound of whips urged by officers and soldiers and the wailing of people being beaten, but Now, there is only the chant of the workers working together.

People who come to Weinan to participate in the construction will not only get a good salary, but also get a set of thick cotton-padded clothes and trousers as work clothes. In addition, they can eat two real meals of fried vegetables with lard in the morning and evening Add white rice, and every two days, there will be a meal of meat and vegetables. Even on days without meat, there are also foods such as boiled eggs to nourish. At noon, when resting, each person has a meal with eggs or vegetables The foamy pancakes replenish their energy, which is why they volunteered to work here.

"Please look, Commander, the two largest main buildings along the Weihe River have already been completed. They are the smelter and the coal plant. Now, the craftsmen are perfecting the construction of the internal production line, and it will start production in one month.

In addition to the smelter and coal plant, there is also a long row of factory buildings built along the Weishui River. Except for the slightly larger land for the shipyard, the rest, each square, is a large factory, with bricks, tiles, cement, paper, printing, Ink pills, dyes, ceramics, glass and so on.

In the direction of Chang'an, there are various food factories, canned food, wine making, cloth weaving, clothing making, furniture, leather goods, gold, silver and copper production..."

The industry that Ma Zhou mentioned is not necessarily just a factory. Weinan Industrial New City does not restrict the entry of any other industries except for the industries involved in Xingfu Village. In the food and wine industries alone, there are There are several large factories of different families, and the rest of the various industries are not exclusively operated. There are hundreds of factories in just these dozens of industries, and these factories have already overwhelmed the entire Weinan County. more than half of the land.

"Well, let me talk about a few planning issues first! The factory area is too densely arranged, and there will be factories moving in later, and the arrangement will be farther away. Enough living space must be opened up in the middle of the factory area. When the time comes, come these There may be as many as one million workers working in the factory area. You can't let them go to and from get off work, run for dozens of miles!
Every five miles or so, a hospital must be set aside. The population is dense and there are many sick people. At that time, it is necessary to ensure that they can receive timely treatment.

As for the living quarters, build buildings by then!It can save a lot of land. Anyway, people who work here don't need farming tools or raising livestock. They just live in it. They can imitate inns and build halls and rooms.

And you have to set up a market selling vegetables and rice noodles in advance. There must be one every three miles of land, and you must also reserve locations for shops selling daily necessities and snacks. Living water facilities such as press wells must also be spread throughout the city. By the way, the waterways for industrial drainage and civil drainage should be separated. "

The ancients actually had their own plans for urban architecture. If you asked a person on the grassland to be responsible for building a city, such as drainage, they would not consider it. However, people in the Central Plains have been building cities for thousands of years. experience will definitely be taken into consideration.

Ma Zhou is a person who has in-depth research on the construction of Shanyang. He knows that industry and commerce are not separated, and he has designed many plans in advance, but he did not predict that the population of this city will eventually reach a million. , Sun Xiangfu raised the basic living conditions of the people to another level.

But now many factories are only doing infrastructure construction, and have not even started construction. After negotiating with others, it is still urgent to make slight adjustments.

"It's really a wise move to ask the governor to come and inspect it. Let's go to the smelter first to have a look!"

After a general review of the main plan, Sun Xiangfu put forward so many suggestions, which benefited Ma Zhou a lot, and the most important department to guarantee military supplies is the smelter.

Previously, following Sun Xiangfu's suggestion, Ma Zhou had summoned many experienced craftsmen to work in the smelter, and the newly recruited workers had also begun training. After entering the gate of the smelter, Sun Xiangfu saw an acquaintance, the old man. Yang Shunshui, the boatman, was giving lectures to many people. Sun Xiangfu did not interrupt him, but took a closer look at the built-in smelting workshop.

First of all, the overall feeling is just one word 'big'.

The first smelting workshop entered through the gate is almost as big as half a square in Chang'an, and there are eight similar smelting workshops. As for the forging workshop that needs more space, there are as many as sixteen. There are more than a dozen very huge ore warehouses and finished equipment warehouses, but the scale of this smelter is as large as that of Weinan County in the past.

But at present, it is just a big house, and there is no preparation inside.

After walking inside and out, Sun Xiangfu's complexion became darker and darker. Ma Zhou knew that there might be many problems.

"Bin Wang! Fortunately, I came to see it today, otherwise, I am afraid that this smelter will have a lot of troubles in production in the future."

"I would also like to ask the governor to point out that the next official will make rectification as soon as possible." Ma Zhou asked for advice with a guilty conscience.

Sun Xiangfu could not ask the ancients from the perspective of a future generation, so even if the previous planning of the smelter was not very scientific, there was nothing to be angry about. There are eight super-large smelting workshops lined up at the entrance, "We are building a factory, not a palace. There is no need to arrange all the production workshops in such a beautiful way, but to pay attention to a reasonable plan.

You put the smelting workshop at the entrance, but put the coal warehouse and iron ore warehouse at the back, which is unreasonable.

I know that there is also a big road on the side of the iron ore warehouse and the coal warehouse, and there is a back door for entry and exit. When the ore and fuel are transported, it is very convenient to enter the warehouse.But, have you ever thought that when the smelting workshop is in production, the workers have to take coal and iron ore from the warehouse several miles away to the smelting workshop, how much manpower is wasted?

Others are all in similar situations, so I won’t go into details one by one. You have to use a bigger picture to consider some small problems in production. This is not the small workshop in Xingfu Village. Coal is used. If you want to use mines, just turn around and grab them, and there won't be too many finished things, just turn around and find an open space to put them away.

The things produced here are very numerous, miscellaneous, and in large quantities. Just by shortening the distance between adding coal and ore to the furnace, it may save the labor of hundreds of workers during production. .

Therefore, the correct planning model should be that the place where raw materials enter through the back door should be the warehouse of coal and mines, and next to it is the smelting workshop, so that coal and mines can enter the furnace with the shortest distance, and the smelting workshop After that, there is the forging workshop. The smelted materials reach the forging workers in the shortest time and distance, and the finished products produced in the forging workshop are put into the warehouse at the gate with the shortest distance. , directly at the gate of the smelter, you can directly load the goods and take them away. The whole process does not take a little bit of wrongdoing, and it is convenient to enter and exit. "

Hearing Sun Xiangfu's words, Ma Zhou was only ashamed, why didn't he think of this before!

Fortunately, both the warehouse and the workshop are built in relatively large long-row houses. Before the production lines of each workshop have been put into production, there is room for adjustment. Otherwise, the Governor who built him would have made a big mistake.

"After the governor's guidance, the subordinate officials felt that they were enlightened. I am afraid that the plans of several other workshops also need to be adjusted."

"Hurry up and tell them to stop the construction and start to adjust! These main design concepts, after Ma Lin Zhangquan, Wang Fu and Wang Gui come, I will slowly pick them up with you. Once the number of people exceeds [-], eat, Drinking water and going to the toilet are not trivial matters, they have to be taken into consideration.”

Although Ma Zhou looked like he had made a mistake, Sun Xiangfu did not mean to blame him. Another person may not be better than him. His talent is actually in politics. Let him take care of production across borders. In fact, it is a bit embarrassing for him. At present, there are only a few disciples of the Nongmen who specialize in simple and reasonable research, and they can quickly get started with these things. When Sun Xiangfu seconded them all to Ma Zhou, things here will be easier to deal with. up.

When Ma Zhou suddenly announced the stoppage of work, there was some commotion among the tens of thousands of workers in the smelter. He told the workers about some adjustment and improvement plans, and told them that after the noon break, they would start again. Assigning their work, at this time, Yang Shunshui, who was giving lectures to the new apprentices, also stopped his lectures and came to see Sun Xiangfu.

"The old man greeted the governor."

"Your fellow, you don't need to be polite. Why, besides building ships, you also know how to smelt and forge?" Sun Xiangfu helped Yang Shunshui, who bowed down, and laughed.

Now, he is the chief engineer of the shipyard under the name of Sun Xiangfu. Even if he goes to Xingfu Village, the peasant children who are qualified to wear agricultural uniforms respect him very much, because his boats are indeed well-built, and they are very good for Xingfu Village. The development of the construction has played a great help.

However, the original shipyard on the edge of the Yu River in Lantian County has always been relatively small in size. It is a bit difficult to build a large ship of [-] shi, not to mention the super large ship of [-] shi or even [-] shi that may be built in the future. It is necessary to go to a river as wide as Weishui to test it.

Therefore, the entire shipyard will be moved to Weinan in the future, but the old shipyard has not stopped working while the new shipyard is being built.

"Hehe, the old man was only here to see what specifications the smelter can provide to our shipyard, but he was arrested by Mr. Ma Zhou. Now, he tells them about the use of pulley cranes every day, so that they can The knowledge of how to save effort when doing work just happened to hit you today."

"The original scale of the shipyard is not small. From the production, you should have also figured out how to plan the production workshop reasonably. When will the new shipyard start production? How much output can it achieve?"

"Next summer at the earliest! After the completion, it will depend on the manpower. If I transfer 2 people, it will be no problem to ship hundreds of [-] stone large water ships a year."

(End of this chapter)