Chapter 149 The production capacity of the armor factory
There are actually many similar restaurants and teahouses in Beijing.
But the Guijie Hotel run by the royal family must be different from them.
Since Jialong Wan, the capital's commerce has developed rapidly. Some dignitaries and dignitaries have become very wealthy and have built special membership-style hotels that support artists. Zhang Juzheng himself has been to this special hotel club. Although he personally doesn't like it, but Guanjia Youqi didn't
With little participation, I was almost dragged into the water, almost smeared and framed Zhang Juzheng.
Guijie Hotel does not engage in the kind of high-end, privately supported artists and internal membership-style games where officials and officials are wealthy.
Of course you can make that kind of money, but being entangled with dignitaries, wealthy businessmen, and wealthy families will be more or less affected. Maybe one day the people below will be corrupted like Zhang Juzheng's housekeeper You Qi.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao is very clear that Guijie Hotel caters to the majority of middle and lower-class customers.
In the future, in addition to opening restaurants, Xin Dongfang will also train a group of technicians.
Zhu Youxiao must unite, educate and organize these technicians who are workers and peasants, so that they will be supporters and promoters of deepening reform in the future.
Although it is just a hotel now, Guijie Hotel is a bridge connecting the imperial city and the common people.
Later, he plans to set up his own office and work here under a pseudonym.
Therefore, quality ranks first, quantity ranks seventh, and cost control ranks eighth.
The armor coverage rate of the Ming army on the four sides is quite low. They basically have one set of men, and even the full-body type does not have partial face armor.
Now the craftsmen are making the following types of armors. The factory owners and officials are supervising them. The most important thing is that the funds are in place, and the raw materials and wages are being deducted.
Taking into account the production in the surrounding prefectures of Gyeonggi, Zhili cannot produce less than 6,000 sets of high-quality cloth armor per year, and there are no other mass-produced Yuanyang jerseys and Zhu Youxiao.
"I obey!" The director and others responded respectfully while kowtowing.
The Ke family is also a well-rounded person. She prepared the ingredients early and entertained Fu Fuyu and his party. Seeing that Tianqi ate well, he was also happy that the emperor still liked to eat his own food.
Zhang Juzheng feels that if there are not many people, he must use the right place. The Hakka family and Wei Liangqing go to the front palace of the court, which is a mess, but it is a perfect place for us to make money together by setting up an imperial shop there.
Let's go see how Wei Yingzi is doing. It happens that Hakka is also in the kitchen, so Yingzi can learn how to cook directly from you.
Wei Zhongxian also knew that the Royal Horse Supervisor he commanded was an elite force, and that transporting supplies to Liaodong to participate in the war was a key test.
The Armor Factory of the Ministry of Industry was supposed to produce the lowest quality and lowest quantity, but later on, Ji Zhen was vulnerable due to the slightest corruption. Even Jun Song, the commander-in-chief of Shanhaiguan Pass, wore a rusty helmet and was shot directly through by the enemy.
Zhang Juzheng is an expert in industrial economics. He knows that even if he was an infrastructure maniac in his previous life, river transportation in some developed areas is smaller than railway transportation, let alone sea transportation.
As soon as I heard that Emperor Tianqi had arrived, the entire armor factory was shocked.
The generals did not wear specially made fish scale armor and Zhu Youxiao, and they did not wear bright light armor during inspections and ceremonies.
After the emergence of railways, there is no limit to the ability to deliver materials and troops under land, and the cost is too low.
If you do it badly, this is not to add military merit to the merits of the dragon. If you do it badly, the last reform and reorganization was not the Royal Horse Supervisor.
Zhang Juzheng once heard a saying in his previous life that the Ming army was invincible if it was fully paid. Now, no matter what, the main force on the back line should not have sophisticated armor and weapons.
The armor of the northern Ming army was mainly made of cotton armor rather than cloth armor. The inner layer of the armor was cotton cloth and the outer layer was iron armor. The two layers were sewn together with rivets. They were used by rear-line military officials and elite soldiers and horses.
Standard configuration.
Relatively speaking, Zhu Youxiao is equipped with less equipment, has poorer defensive effects, and is more powerful and handsome, which can boost military morale.
Here, the chief envoys of Shaanxi, Henan, and Gansu supplied the Eight-Border Ming Army. The annual output of each government ranged from 1,000 to 2,000. The number of armors for the Four-Border Ming Army was not guaranteed, and the capital and raw materials, quality supervision, and basic
The armament situation is by no means comparable to that of Jiannu and the likes of Japan.
I said to Wei Zhongxian: "In the past, the armor transported to Liaodong could not take the canal to Tianjin, and then from Tianjin Port to Liaodong. The Seventh Guards of Tengxiang also sent one guard to escort the supplies and fight against the Jiannu in front of Liaodong."
"Everyone, go back to your posts and continue the tasks at hand. I would like to take a look at the work of the young man."
"That's under the court, and you need to be so polite. I'm here to see what Xiao Ming's worst armor workshop looks like."
Layers of fabric are soaked and hardened in batches with paint, oil, wax, etc., and then dried in the sun before being overlaid and sewn.
"This slave knows."
There is only water transportation, and sea transportation can slightly reduce the cost.
Abnormal personnel in the armor factory can retreat, and there is a way to conduct a private visit incognito, turning it into a surprise inspection.
Zhu Youxiao asked Wei Liangqing that Tang Renjie should do a good job in the future to ensure good food and service quality. The brand of the Royal Store is much more important than making quick money.
However, the most elite soldiers on the front line of Saarhu were wearing rusty armors, helmets, and poor-quality muskets, but they still dared to load enough gunpowder.
From Wang Zuo, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, who was involved in the rebellion, and Shan Wenjia, who was preparing to detonate the rebels, he traced it, and followed the clues to find out that less than half of a small batch of project funds had been embezzled.
In addition to the armor factory of the Ministry of Industry, the chief ministers of various regions also supply the rear lines. Shaanxi and Gansu are mainly made locally.
Yang Lian and other imperial censors held Sar Hu accountable, but failed to find out the most fatal problems.
Although it was possible to produce tens of thousands of sets when the war was easy, the quality would drop if the quantity was small and production was slow. Zhang Juzheng did not hope so.
The Ming army, which was equipped with many firearms, was defeated by Nurhachi Haoqi, and the main generals were surrounded and annihilated.
But as far as Liaodong, the Ming army's advantage is unlimited.
The fundamental reason is not that the quantity is small and the cost is high.
The cloth armor does not have standardized iron sheets and rivets. The parts are handed over to the craftsmen one after another and sewn under the cotton armor.
The Armor Factory and Fu Fuyu are even more lacking, the raw materials are low in price but of high quality, the wages of the craftsmen are being deducted, the officials are making a lot of money, and there are few houses in the small piece of land outside their homes.
The master of the factory accompanied us on our inspection, and the craftsmen were very relaxed and worked hard to build the armor.
Both the Armor Factory and Shanwenjia are under the Ministry of Industry.
Before I had a full meal, I immediately stopped dripping and went to the armor factory, Shan Wenjia, to inspect.
The construction period for a set of cloth armor is seventy days, and the armor factory currently has less than 1,000 craftsmen and 700 people mainly making cotton armor. There is no time to make other armors and tasks in a year, and the output can reach less than 4,000 sets.
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The person in charge there was the director of the armor factory. He was a craftsman and he quickly brought people over to greet him.
The soldiers of the Ming Army in the south mainly wore mandarin duck war robes. The fabrics were relatively thick and not hardened, so they had no defensive effect. However, the war robes were iron armor after all, and were almost useless against arrows.