Chapter 298

West of Nanyang city.

After more than two hundred thousand single men's painstaking construction for more than two months, the factories and farms of the logistics department have been completed.

On the original wilderness, there were hundreds of large and small brick houses, which were divided into more than a dozen pieces by walls.

Not counting the farm in the north, this building alone is bigger than a county. Such a huge building complex has stood up in just two months, which has attracted the attention of countless people.

Although there are great reasons for the monotony of architecture, it was definitely a miracle in the late Ming Dynasty.

Looking at the industrial zone in front of him, Qin Huan was also filled with emotion. As a descendant, he was not filled with emotion that the construction speed was too fast, but that the ordinary people in China were too hard-working and simple.

The requirements are too low.

The 200000 single men didn't pay a penny. They just ate and lived. They promised that if they performed well, they could marry their daughter-in-law and divide the land in two years.

But it is such a short cake that 200000 people sweat like rain every day. Instead of complaining and laziness, they are full of energy and don't need to supervise the work at all.

"Met the king!"

At the gate of the Ordnance Department, several ladies with more than a dozen old craftsmen were nervous at the sudden arrival of King Qin.

"Well, get up!"

Qin Huan Xu raised his hand and said kindly to the lady in front of him, "madam, don't be nervous. I just walk around today and ask everyone to continue working. Please tell me the general situation of the Ordnance Department."

"Yes, your majesty."

The lady was obviously the director of the Ordnance Department, which relaxed a lot. As she walked, she introduced: "king, the Ordnance Department has more than 10000 craftsmen and hundreds of other personnel. At present, she can make 500 knives and guns and 600 sets of armor every day, including 50 sets of mingguangkai and 200 sets of short swords."

"Yes!"

Qin Huan nodded. He saw the sound of iron banging in front of his ears. But it was much hotter near the door than outside. He couldn't help saying, "it's hard for you to stay here every day in such an environment."

"It's my blessing to be able to work for the king and have the opportunity to repay the king's kindness." The woman said hurriedly, with gratitude on her face.

The other women looked the same.

"Hey!"

Qin Huan had to sigh and continued to walk forward. There was no way. Most craftsmen didn't know one in big words. This large-scale factory is not like a small blacksmith shop, and it adopts division of labor and cooperation. There is no one who knows words and words and has arithmetic and management experience to be the factory director. It has to be a pot of porridge.

While talking, they came to a large brick house in the ordnance factory. It looked like a hundred square meters, which was similar to the workshop of the previous life, but there was a row of brick columns in the middle and wooden windows on both sides. The ventilation was very good.

More than 200 blacksmiths are busy inside, including those pulling bellows, forging, quenching and transporting with wooden wheelbarrows.

"Your Majesty, it's too hot inside. You'd better watch it outside!"

"Yes, your majesty, it's too dangerous inside."

Seeing Qin Huan raising his feet to go in, the director of the Ordnance Department and the supervisor of the ordnance factory hurriedly advised him.

"Is this the workshop for making gun heads?"

Qin Huan saw the sparks splashing inside and the heat wave coming to his face. He was afraid that it would affect them, so he stopped and asked.

"Yes, your majesty, most of the A-shaped workshops responsible for making gun heads here are craftsmen with less skills. They will hammer the iron blocks repeatedly and then send them to the B-shaped workshop next door, which will be carefully built by the old craftsmen, and then sent to the next C-shaped workshop for polishing. Finally, they will be sent to the T-shaped workshop to install the handle of the gun before they can be put into storage." The chief manager of the ordnance factory quickly explained.

"Yes, yes, it seems that madam has really worked hard. She even made four processes of a, B, C and D."

Qin Huan smiled and nodded. At that time, he only said to divide work and cooperate, not to fight each other. Who thought they understood so thoroughly.

"Your Majesty, I dare not take credit. Master Liu proposed the distribution of these four processes. In fact, Master Liu is responsible for these four workshops. I just distribute iron materials to them every day and register the finished products."

Da Guan is also a woman in her thirties. She is a little ashamed when she hears the speech.

The master Liu hurriedly walked forward and saluted: "little old man Liu San, meet the king."

"Well, Master Liu, can someone carefully check the gun head?" Qin Huan stared at him and asked.

"Back to the king, the bad ones will be picked out and recast when grinding."

"What is the proportion of defective products?" Qin Huan also knew that it was unrealistic to operate in a completely modern factory mode.

"This... Back to the king, not much. Seven or eight handles were broken in one day."

The old man was obviously illiterate. He couldn't even figure out how many handles were defective, so he could only answer like this.

"You go and be busy, ladies. Take me to some other workshops."

Qin Huan waved his hand and went to the "B" workshop.

"Yes, your majesty." They hurried to follow up. Because the environment of the machinery department was too poor, almost all women wore men's clothes.

There are almost 500 people in the four workshops. After visiting, they are still very satisfied with the attitude of the craftsmen. There is almost no laziness. The only dissatisfaction is that the efficiency is too low. Even if the division of labor and cooperation, pure handiwork is still not much faster.

The head of a gun needs to be polished for half an hour.

Then Qin Huan visited the workshop to make long knives and short swords. The two weapons were also divided into several processes, which were in the charge of two old craftsmen.

Finally, I went to the armor factory and helmet factory for a round trip. Among the three factories, the most people are not the weapons factory, but the armor factory.

There are hundreds of workshops, big and small, with a total of nearly 5000 people, accounting for half of the manpower of the Ordnance Department, but the daily output is more than 600 pairs of armor.

Among them, 50 pairs of bright light armor need 2000 people to make, and 40 people work together to make one in a day.

These bright light armor were made of leather armor and iron sheet goggles, not helmets. It was very cumbersome to make one set. Qin Huan had a headache.

Most of these bright light armor will be assigned to cavalry and officers above the colonel. Although officers do not need to rush into battle, their lives are much more valuable than soldiers, so there is no waste. In the future, the Colonel will no longer need to tie cloth strips around his neck to distinguish military ranks.

Because in addition to a goggle on the major's chest, there will be another copper nail on one side. There are two more middle school lieutenants, three upper school lieutenants, four upper, lower, left and right Senior Colonel lieutenants, and the general's armor style is different.

As for the cotton armor of ordinary soldiers, veterans and elite soldiers are inlaid with a piece of goggles on their chest to distinguish them by size. Recruits and soldiers do not have this treatment. They are still distinguished by tying cloth towels on their chest.

"Madam, how many armor have been made in the warehouse?"

Qin Huan looked at a pair of armor hanging in the warehouse and asked as he stroked it.

He plans to have a formal ceremony of becoming an army and conferring titles after he has laid down the whole Yunyang mansion. At that time, the whole army will have to wear new uniforms and armor. After all, there will be a new atmosphere in the new dynasty.

Moreover, after several wars, the soldiers' cotton armor has become invisible and must be recycled and redone.

"Back to the king, there are more than 12000 sets of armor in the warehouse, including 1000 sets of Mingguang armor."

Qin Huan frowned, but he knew it was efficient. Then he asked, "by the way, is leather armor and cotton enough?"

Although a large number of leather armours were seized in Shandong, most of them were used to make leather shoes, belts and bullet boxes.

"Back to the king, there is no shortage of leather armour, cotton and cotton cloth for the time being, but I'm afraid there is not enough iron material. Most of them have been allocated to the firearms department, and only a small part has been allocated to our Ordnance Department."

"Iron material, I'll find a way. You don't have to worry."

Qin Huan waved his hand, and then left the warehouse. He was ready to go to the firearm office next door and inspect with the Quartermaster's office, and then hold a meeting to make a good plan.