Prosperous Tang Dynasty

Chapter 186 Development and Assembly

Li Fei's next step is undoubtedly development.

The so-called development is mainly in the population, economy, and military development.

Population is more difficult, and any method cannot be effective in a short period of time, and Li Fei only has two years, so he mainly focuses on economic and military development.

With the economy, more people can be attracted to Anton, and with the military, the safety of Andong can be guaranteed.

Lu Xin was seriously injured for a month, but now he has basically recovered.

After a short discussion, Li Fei finally moved the Duhufu to Liaoyang. Of course, on the surface, Yi County is still the location of the Duhufu, but Li Fei transferred the entire Anton team and all the development focus to Liaoyang, the Liaodong Peninsula area. .

"Andong has always been bitterly cold, but the four towns of Anxi in the Western Regions are even more bitter than Andong, but their power and military prestige have all developed better than Anton. The countries in the Western Regions heard the name of the Great Tang Anxi's Protectorate, and they were extremely timid and surrendered. Why did I Anton couldn't do it."

"So, I intend to develop Anton, what do you guys think?" Li Fei asked the officials of the new Jiedu Mission in Liaoyang City.Among them were Lu Xin and other former Anton officials, as well as Du Fu, Wu Sheng, Zhang Shuo, Mao Youde and others who followed Li Fei from Chang'an City.

"Jiedushi's ambition is admirable, and Lu Xin believes that water conservancy can be built and people's livelihood should be the main focus." Lu Xin put forward his own suggestion.Having been in charge of Anton for several years, Lu Xin has a better understanding of Anton. It's not that he never thought about developing Anton before, but Anton's population is small and the cold is bitter. He really has no better way.

"There is a Liaohe Plain in Liaoyang, but there is not much arable land. It is inevitable to build water conservancy and increase arable land. Is there anything else?" Li Fei asked others.

"Master Jiedu, Anton has many special products, such as Changbai ginseng, deer antler, and mink fur, which are rare in the Central Plains. Whenever they appear in the Central Plains, they can be sold at high prices. They can be collected in large quantities and try to import them into the Central Plains." Youde thought for a while and said.

"It's economical, and it's a good way, is there anything else?" Li Fei continued to ask with a smile.

Although Li Fei has already made a plan, Anton can't do it all by himself. He has to give other people a chance to make suggestions and performances, otherwise, wouldn't the other people have no sense of existence, and it would be easy to develop everything. The habit of only obeying orders is not good for Anton's future.

After some discussion, adding other people's suggestions and Li Fei's own suggestions, a complete set of economic and people's livelihood development plans was finally determined.

The first step is to build a large workshop and mass produce cement on a large scale.

Although Li Fei had already presented the method of firing cement, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty also ordered that it be spread to all states to produce it by themselves for repairing bridges and dams, etc.Anton itself also has production, but what Li Fei offered was only the most primitive method. Not only is the output low, but the quality is also unstable, which is far from keeping up with the demand. The construction of water conservancy has no cement efficiency. I don’t know how much discount it will be.

In the past, it was purposefully donated, as long as the thing appeared in front of the world, it didn't care how it was burned, so what was donated was only the most primitive local method.

Now Li Fei wants to use it himself, and it is going to be used on a large scale. Of course, he has to use everything he knows to mass produce as much cement as possible.So he directly built a hydraulic rotary kiln.

A small river next to Liaoyang was dammed with the cement originally stored by Anton, and a large iron pipe was poured with molten iron, and then a kiln was built to start firing cement.

Rotary kiln firing cement not only greatly reduces the cost, but also stabilizes the quality, and the efficiency is doubled. Li Fei allocated funds and ordered the construction of ten rotary kilns in a row. It is estimated that the daily energy production capacity will exceed [-] tons of cement after the city is built.

Although this output, from the perspective of future generations, is still too low to be lower, ten rotary kilns are not as good as one-tenth of the output of one later generation, but compared with other places in the Tang Dynasty with the most primitive The output of the method of firing has also increased day by day.

While building the cement kiln, Li Fei also asked Zhao Ye to lead the Zhao family to build a porcelain kiln at the foot of the mountain east of Liaoyang, and prepare for mass production of porcelain.

Since it is necessary to mass-produce porcelain, it is of course impossible to rely on the Zhao family members brought by Zhao Ye. They can only take care of one porcelain kiln at most, and the output of a porcelain kiln is limited, and because it is a new kiln, the quality must be poor. It's not in line with Li Fei's purpose.

For real mass production, it is necessary to build more kilns and recruit a large number of people from outside. However, not everyone knows how to make porcelain, and it takes years of accumulation for beginners to become proficient. How can Li Fei have the time to do it? It is a waste to wait for those workers to become proficient for many years.

Moreover, it is not realistic for the Zhao family members to pass on the porcelain-making skills of their ancestors for many years to outsiders. Li Fei's forceful request will only chill the Zhao family members.

Therefore, Li Fei introduced the method of division of labor and assembly line work in the later generations. The Zhao family members who have a full set of skilled porcelain firing techniques are used as "masters" to disassemble the entire set of porcelain firing techniques and divide them into more than [-] from the beginning to the end. Each worker can only teach one process to form a production line. In this way, even one or two members of the Zhao family who have a full set of skilled porcelain firing techniques can manage a production line, and a production line can build a porcelain kiln. So he built twelve porcelain kilns.

In fact, Li Fei also uses this method to mass-produce cement. If he builds other workshops in the future, he will definitely use this method.After all, the extreme means that the capitalists of later generations came up with to squeeze labor prevailed in the modernization of capital. This kind of production efficiency is definitely the highest, and it is not afraid of technology leakage.

The construction of so many cement kilns and porcelain kilns at once is not only the amount of labor required by the kiln itself, but the amount of labor required by the entire two industrial chains.

And after the cement is fired, it has to be used immediately to build water conservancy and so on.Originally, the imperial court could use corvée to let the people do it for free, but Li Fei didn't want to do that. He still used the method of recruitment to pay wages so that the people could get something for their work.

After all, the most important thing for him to develop Anton is to make the people rich. Only when the people become rich can Anton become rich.If the people are only allowed to do things without paying them wages, how can the people get rich?
Li Fei doesn't know much about economics, and people in Datang don't even understand it.

They don't think about the people getting richer, so they can afford to buy more various commodities, and the demand will increase, which will inevitably stimulate production, while the imperial court only needs to seize the source of production and collect taxes according to the amount of production, the more demand there will be , the more production, the more finances, such a virtuous circle, the court itself benefits, and the people benefit, which is the real economic development.

The two industrial chains of cement and porcelain kilns, plus the construction of water conservancy, etc., require tens of thousands of manpower.As a result, there are dozens of miles around Liaoyang City, and there are notices for recruiting workers everywhere.

"Work for five hours a day, take a nap for an hour at noon, eat three meals a day, and have a salary of one thousand Wen a month, over 15 years old, under 45 years old, male or female!" How much, but there are always people who don’t know each other. No, a recruiting notice was urged by a literate person to read it out.

The common people were in an uproar immediately, three meals a day and a salary of [-] Wen were included, men and women were not limited, and the working hours were not too long. This treatment was simply too good.
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