The emperor Li Ye's illness in the Tai Chi Palace in Chang'an was just a trivial matter in today's Tang Dynasty. If it were placed at a time when the world was at peace, it would be a huge event. But here
In the years of war and chaos, it seemed inconspicuous. The vassals and towns in the world were still doing whatever they should do. You join your soldiers, and I cultivate my fields. The strong ones painstakingly planned to seize a larger territory, and the weak ones were full of thoughts to consolidate their own territory.
strength.
Li Sishao and Zhou Dewei led the Hedong Army and Ge Congzhou in Xing and Ming repeatedly fought and threatened the Xuanwu Army's flanks, trying to rescue Liu Rengong in Lulong and prevent Hebei from completely falling into the hands of the Xuanwu Army; Liu Rengong retreated to Lao Ya Di and further retreated.
Defense, trying their best to maintain the crumbling defense line, trying to prevent the last vassal in the three towns of Hebei from surrendering to the Xuanwu Army. Li Chengzhong, who is far away in Yingzhou, is stabilizing and operating the territory he has conquered with his own hands, trying to make the strength in his hands more powerful
Be stronger.
Natural disasters and disasters do not always go hand in hand. At least Li Chengzhong is very grateful to God in this era. In this era of wars between feudal lords and towns, in this land of East Asia where disasters are frequent, the weather is good every year. It really goes against him.
In his impression, the Song Dynasty did not know, but at least the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty and even the Qing Dynasty, weren't wars accompanied by great disasters? But in the past few years since he traveled through time, as long as you work hard, you will always be able to succeed.
It is a wonderful thing to have the joy of a good harvest.
Of course, Li Chengzhong did not know that the era he lived in was the third warm period in East Asia, which would take another two hundred years. With the end of the warm period and the arrival of the cold period, the Hu people on the northern grasslands, such as the Jurchens,
, Mongolia will not be able to withstand the increasingly severe cold in the north. It will begin to move south on a large scale, and the Central Plains will usher in another era of ravages by barbarians.
As far as Yingzhou occupied by Li Chengzhong was concerned, it also achieved a bumper harvest of grain. However, because there was not much arable land and the wasteland outside the newly occupied Songling Mountains had not yet been reclaimed, the warehouses were not enough to meet the needs. But it does not matter.
, Pingzhou is the granary of Lulong, where the grain is piled up like a mountain. Li Chengzhong can completely exchange it for cattle and sheep - because the weather is good and the pastures are very lush, the livestock industry in Yingzhou is in good condition, and the cattle and sheep are fat.
The reason why he planned to exchange cattle and sheep was mainly because Li Chengzhong had too much gold, silver and copper coins. If they all flowed to Pingzhou and Lulong Prefectures, it would cause a huge depreciation in the price of money, which was very uneconomical, so he was exchanging grain and copper coins.
When buying farm tools, the half-payment method of cattle, sheep and copper coins ensured that Yingzhou did not suffer too much loss in the trade.
After a long conversation with Feng Dao all night long, Li Chengzhong and Feng Dao reached a consensus to completely stop the production of daily necessities. The required items are met through foreign trade procurement, and Yingzhou only focuses on the production of military industry. At the same time, Li Chengzhong and Feng Dao also
It took a month to adjust the production structure. Because of the existence of Iron Mountain, Liucheng focused on the production of weapons and equipment that required iron. Yan County, because it was backed by the vast grassland in the east of Yiwulu Mountain, focused on the production of military uniforms and leather armor.
Mainly, this kind of adjustment is more conducive to the "assembly line" production method founded by Li Chengzhong, and due to the specialization of the industry, it is easier to produce high-quality products and new products.
It must be said that although Feng Dao is not very old, he is very adaptable. After more than a year of getting along day and night, the cooperation between him and Li Chengzhong has become closer and closer. He does not have the stubborn persistence of ordinary scholars - of course
, this is also the commonality of most Confucian scholars in this era. They have accepted the rules of survival in the troubled times of this era. Although they still yearn for the prosperity of the Taiping era, they know how to make efforts bit by bit under the existing conditions.
, and at the same time adjust his own political policies according to the wishes of the vassal commanders and military leaders he serves.
Feng Dao has a strong receptive ability and is becoming more and more adaptable to Li Chengzhong's ideas. When he received Li Chengzhong's order to adjust the production layout of Yingzhou workshop, he vaguely understood what the other party meant by "efficiency of scale". But
He did not follow the "mandatory administrative enforcement" of the government on workshops and shops in this era, but used "policy levers" to achieve this major adjustment. The reason for such a change in thinking is based on what Li Chengzhong once mentioned
The "profit-driven" theory.
At that time, Li Chengzhong had just occupied Liucheng, and before going to Youzhou to attend the military conference, the two had a conversation. In order to gain the support of the wealthy military leaders in Youzhou, Feng Dao specially prepared a dozen small boxes full of gold and silver.
Jewelry. Although Li Chengzhong accepted these small boxes that were to be given as gifts, he actually did not think that this would be able to convince those wealthy military leaders. Feng Dao also knew that it would be difficult, but he could not think of a better way.
Feng Dao remembered that Li Chengzhong said before leaving that these small profits are not enough and can only be used as a stepping stone to meet. If you want to truly impress these military leaders, you must be driven by interests and tie them to your battlefield with bright prospects.
In the car, as the saying goes, "It is better to let people go by themselves than to drive people away."
This sentence was deeply imprinted in Feng Dao's mind. He believed it deeply and began to use it consciously. For example, in this adjustment, he used the "policy lever". Feng Dao simply formulated a policy and
Let the layout adjustment of the workshop be realized, that is, let the Commerce and Trade Department issue a new procurement method, announcing that starting from September, Changshi Mansion’s material procurement will be divided into two places. Liucheng will only purchase weapons and combat equipment, and Yan County will purchase armor and military uniforms.
. It was such a simple adjustment, and the workshop owners and merchants in the two cities immediately calculated the cost. For example, the armor workshop in Liucheng originally produced leather armor, but after it was completed, it had to spend manpower and labor.
Vehicles pulled the leather armor to Yanjun and sold it to Changshi Mansion. In this era of inconvenient transportation, the transportation cost was much higher than in later generations. If this workshop still insisted on opening in Liucheng, it would also mean their profits
It is at least 30% cheaper than the workshops in Yan County.
This is an open account that the owners and shopkeepers of the workshops can clearly calculate, but there are hidden accounts that they cannot calculate clearly or even see. When the workshop production in a region reaches a large scale, it will subsequently drive the development of related industries.
, which has even greater benefits. Taking armor as an example again, when more than a dozen or even dozens of leather armor production workshops are gathered in Yan County, it will inevitably lead to the prosperity of upstream and downstream industries such as animal husbandry, fur, clothing, handicrafts, and markets.
, its raw material procurement and sales costs will of course plummet, and the resources spent on the proficiency and training of the hired craftsmen will also be reduced a lot. Exchanges among peers will also be expanded in the competition, further promoting the production technology of our workshop
and craftsmanship.
With the completion of the adjustment of the workshop production layout in the two cities, the assembly line production method advocated by Li Chengzhong has officially entered a new level. Assembly line production is not so easy to achieve. For a workshop, when the output cannot increase
, carrying out assembly line production is not worth the gain. If you want to expand production, you must expand the scale of production, and if you want to expand the scale, you must meet two conditions: a large number of skilled workers and production equipment, a mature raw material supply chain and a complete upstream and downstream
Production links. The adjustment of the layout of workshop production means that Liucheng and Yanjun are gradually moving closer to these two conditions, and the true assembly line production method can be promoted.
The assembly line production method attaches first importance to standards. The concept of standardization is implemented in all aspects of production, including measurement standards, process standards, and acceptance standards. Changshifu Industrial Department is currently the busiest department in Yingzhou. In order to promote the assembly line production method, they need to start from
Three aspects are taken to achieve standardized production, namely formulating weights and measures, training workshop managers, and streamlining the production links in the workshop.
Since the unification of weights and measures in the Qin Dynasty, China has formed a de facto unification of production standards. However, this unification is not fixed. The measurements of each dynasty and each generation are different and only applicable to that time. In other words, as a ruler, you
You can determine the measurement standards according to your own ideas and preferences. This is your prerogative. As the master of Yingzhou, Li Chengzhong has to set his own measurement standards, and the entire Yingzhou has to revolve around him. The so-called "one person's preference"
Determining the preferences of the world refers to the privileges of ancient feudal monarchs. Li Chengzhong could not determine the preferences of the world, but he could determine the preferences of Yingzhou. The first step was to change the measurement.
His quantitative method was to talk about himself. Although it was incredible to later generations, in this era, it was very consistent with the habits of officials and common people. He asked craftsmen from the Industrial Department to measure his height, and then told the craftsmen
, his height was one foot, eight feet and five centimeters. At the same time, he asked the craftsmen to use the base ten system to equalize the scales of feet, feet and centimeters to make standard molds. He also personally stood on the large scale and weighed
Iron blocks of the same weight were measured, and then marked as one hundred and sixty kilograms, and the craftsmen were asked to calculate new kilograms, liang, money, and grams. Of course, this weight can only be approximate, and will not be related to future generations.
standards are slightly different.
A month later, the new measuring molds made from hundreds of steel-making were sealed in the warehouse of the Industrial Department. They were measuring tools, ruler tools, centimeter tools, jin thallium, liang thallium, money thallium, and gram thallium. After that
, replicas of the measurement molds were copied in large quantities by the Industrial Department and distributed to all workshops, requiring the workshops to use this as a measurement for production, and when purchasing products, they also strictly used this measurement for acceptance.
In order to promote the assembly line production method, the Commerce and Trade Department added many semi-finished products to the purchase list when purchasing. For example, a long gun. In addition to purchasing the finished products, the Commerce and Trade Department also attached a list and purchased the gun handle, gun head, and paint.
Even felled and planed elm wood was included in the purchase list. Many small workshops did not have the ability to produce finished lances, so they took this opportunity to produce specialized parts, or specially felled and planed wood, or specially made gun heads, etc.
As these small workshops gradually matured, the large workshops that could produce finished products suddenly discovered that it was an excellent way to purchase semi-finished components directly from these small workshops, saving both process and manpower. Why not? Therefore, Liu Chenghe
There are more and more small workshops in Yan County, and the large workshops have also begun to transform and gradually develop in the direction of overall supporting assembly. As a result, assembly line production has begun to get on the right track. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!