Just a few thousand people...

After hearing Li Yunrui's heroic words, Lao Luan and others were a little shocked. They knew the situation in Jiangxin Island. Most of the 500 people sent by the Ministry of War had become installation and debugging personnel of the coal chemical project. For example, Liu Fu led dozens of

People went to Taiyuan Prefecture to guide the construction of the Taiyuan Prefecture Steel Plant and debug the open-hearth furnaces and coal chemical equipment for steelmaking.

There are now more than 200 people left on the island. They need to manufacture new coal chemical equipment and develop prototypes of various lathes. There is a bit of manpower shortage. Recruiting another 180 people will be enough. Even if Li Yunrui

To build lathes on a large scale, a few thousand people is really a lot...

But in Li Yunrui's view, there are only a few thousand industrial workers, which is too few.

Steam engines have already taken shape, and prototypes of various machine tools are also available. After the combination of the two, Ming Dynasty's industrial development will usher in a new stage - the era of steam power.

Li Yunrui can make electricity, but it is currently uncontrollable. Because there are no rubber trees in the Ming Dynasty, Li Yunrui has not yet developed a method for chemically synthesizing plastics. It is simply a dream to directly enter the era of electric power!

With steam as power, many things can be made, such as spinning machines, looms, ships, and even trains and tractors. This requires a large number of industrial workers. Li Yunrui has many, many ideas and needs people to help him realize them.

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Don't think that these craftsmen cannot make equipment without education. Many things are just a layer of window paper. There is no trick to pierce it. The wisdom of working people is infinite.

Multi-spindle water-powered spinning machines already existed in the Yuan Dynasty, and the spinning speed was dozens of times that of individual spinning. Now the craftsmen of Jiangxin Island are trying to use steel to make multi-spindle water-powered spinning machines. If steam power is used again

Replacing water power, the spinning line speed of so many spindles will increase geometrically...

Once the equipment is available and the textile industry develops, a large number of women will join the workforce. The textile industry will also need a large amount of cotton and linen raw materials, and farmers can engage in cash crops and increase their income.

Sometimes, Li Yunrui had many good ideas, but he had to give up or shelve them because he had no equipment or skilled workers.

Therefore, he is not afraid of too many workers!

After all, coal chemical equipment brought him tens of millions of dollars in income, and it was easy to support thousands of people.

Lao Luan and others did not know Li Yunrui's plan, so they could only obey his orders and ran to tell the craftsmen of the Ministry of War the news.

When the craftsmen in the Ministry of War heard that Li Yunrui was willing to pay three to five taels of silver to hire them, everyone became interested.

Should I go? Or should I go? Or should I go?

Soon, the test results of the seamless steel pipe came out. The performance was far better than the blunderbuss tube made by the Ministry of War, and it was easy to carry.

Jin Zhong sent someone to call Li Yunrui to the Ministry of War. After discussion, the Ministry of War ordered the first batch of 7,200 steel pipes at a price of 30 guan each, for a total of 216,000 guan.

According to Zhu Di's idea, the Shenji Battalion has a total force of 5,000, of which 3,600 are infantry, equipped with muskets; 1,000 cavalry are used for baggage transportation and battlefield pursuit; 400 artillery are used for heavy firepower output.

Responsible for long-range strikes, this is a cannon. It is not an artillery piece, but a stone cannon. It uses gunpowder to launch lead bullets and kill the enemy.

Seven thousand two hundred sticks can make two blunderbuss for each person. After all, these things are easy to explode.

Thirty guan is equivalent to more than two taels of silver, which is slightly higher than the manufacturing cost of the Ministry of War craftsmen. The reason why Jin Zhong accepted this price was because Li Yunrui agreed that the money would be directly deducted from the profit of the Ministry of War this year without paying cash.

People always have a feeling that when they don't use cash to buy things, they will feel that they are very cheap. This is the case for Jin Zhong. He felt that he didn't pay a penny, so he got a steel pipe equipped with two Shenji Camp bird guns, and occupied the

Big bargain.

Li Yunrui took the payment receipt stamped with the seal of the Minister of War and walked out of Jin Zhong's official office with a proud smile on his face. He made another 200,000 yuan in vain. It felt so good to cheat the imperial court...

The cost of more than 7,000 seamless steel pipes, including labor, is less than 6,000 pipes.

When people are happy, they will get carried away, and when they get carried away, something will happen.

When Li Yunrui returned to Xuanmiao Temple with the payment receipt, he was blocked by Lao Suntou. There was something wrong with the glass greenhouse. Li Yunrui hurriedly followed Lao Suntou to the greenhouse base.

Li Yunrui went to Taiyuan Prefecture for a month and a half. When he came back, only two-thirds of the glass greenhouse was built. The glass manufacturing speed was very fast, and the civil construction speed was already completed. All processes were stuck in the carpentry.

These days, there is no PVC, aluminum-plastic steel, and glass can only be installed on wood. The glass greenhouse is made of wooden windows spliced ​​together, but making windows all relies on carpentry, including planing, chiseling, sawing, and cutting. There are many processes, so it is very fast.

Slowly, two-thirds were made by carpenters working overtime.

Li Yunrui was also anxious, but there was nothing he could do if he was anxious.

Various vegetables and Yongle potatoes have been planted in more than 600 greenhouses. If something goes wrong now and the number of seeds promised to Zhu Gaochi is not fulfilled next year, Zhu Gaochi will probably go crazy. After all, this is when Zhu Gaochi ascends to the throne of the prince.

The first large-scale political achievement project I took over.

Before entering the greenhouse, Li Yunrui smelled a pungent smell of ammonia, which almost knocked Li Yunrui to the ground.

"Old Suntou, how much ammonia did you use?" Standing at the door, Li Yunrui frowned.

"According to the instructions of the young master, deep ditches should be dug on both sides of the crops, three inches into the ground, and one acre of land will weigh thirty to fifty kilograms!" Lao Suntou hurriedly replied.

After hearing this, Li Yunrui nodded and said nothing more.

Taking a deep breath, Li Yunrui entered the greenhouse holding his breath and saw neat rows of Yongle potato seedlings that had been planted.

After looking at it for a long time, Li Yunrui couldn't see anything wrong, so he asked, "Old Suntou, you said something big happened. What happened?"

"Young Master, look, the leaves of this Yongle sweet potato are starting to turn white..." Lao Suntou quickly pointed to the seedlings in the field and said.

After Li Yunrui heard this, he quickly squatted on the ground and looked carefully. Sure enough, the leaves of many seedlings began to turn white, and some places began to rot.

This stumped Li Yunrui. He had never farmed before and did not understand many of the problems encountered during crop planting.

"Have you met him before?" Li Yunrui walked out of the greenhouse, touched his chin and said.

"No, it has been two months since the first wave of planting. This is the first time I have encountered..." Lao Suntou shook his head and said.

"How many greenhouses have this problem in total?" Li Yunrui frowned and asked after hearing this.

"This situation occurs more or less in more than 120 sheds..." Lao Suntou has been growing crops for many years, and this is the first time he has encountered the leaves turning white.

When Li Yunrui heard this number, his head suddenly got big, and he quickly asked, "Have you recorded all the data I asked you to record?"

Before going to Taiyuan City, Li Yunrui was afraid that there would be problems with greenhouse planting, so he specially made some tables and asked Lao Suntou to record various data such as spacing, row spacing, fertilizer amount, watering date, etc. for research and use.

"Forget it, forget it!" Lao Suntou hurriedly sent someone to get what Li Yunrui wanted.

The recorded data was quickly brought over, and Li Yunrui took it and began to look through it, hoping to find out what these problematic greenhouses had in common through data comparison.

Li Yunrui soon discovered the problem from the data. In all the greenhouses with white leaves, the amount of ammonia was between 40 and 50 pounds.

In fact, Li Yunrui didn't know how much ammonia was used for one acre of land. He only vaguely remembered that when he was a child, when he was playing at his grandfather's house in the countryside, he heard from his neighbor that he had bought two hundred kilograms of ammonia to prepare for farming. The land in his grandfather's village was all

It is fixed, each person is divided into one mu and two points of land. The four people in my grandfather's neighbor's family are divided into four mu and eight points. He calculated that one mu is 40 kilograms. So Li Yunrui gave Lao Sun the head, the standard of thirty to fifty kilograms per mu.

"Could it be that too much ammonia was used?" Li Yunrui said to Old Sun while holding the form.

It was also the first time for Lao Suntou to grow a greenhouse and the first time to use ammonia. He had no experience at all. Hearing Li Yunrui say this, he didn’t know how to answer...
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