Chapter 354: Make Useless Things, Who Will Pay For It?
Sewing machines are serious linkage machines. The mature technology has a huge role in promoting the progress of the entire industrial system and industrial thinking, and will drive a series of parts processing technologies to mature!
The cost of copper machinery is indeed a bit high, but Zhu Youjian feels that the price has to be spent. He has already thought about how to make this thing work properly. After a generally mature sewing machine is made, he will first purchase four to five hundred units to set up a sewing machine.
Military uniforms and official uniforms manufacturing factories. Only when technology and products are applied on a large scale can rapid iteration and progress occur. Things made behind closed doors will never become popular.
The cost of new things is definitely high. Only large-scale applications can reduce costs and improve operating efficiency. Ancient China did not produce many epoch-making industrial products. The main reason is that labor costs are relatively low, and new things are in various aspects.
They are not perfect, and the overall efficiency may not be better than the previous methods. Then many technologies are strangled in the cradle in their infancy. Therefore, when they are just starting out, administrative means must be used to help bring the technology out of its infancy.
Independently respond to a fully competitive environment.
When steam trains first appeared in Europe, they were not as efficient as horse-drawn carriages. It took decades of technological accumulation and improvement to mature. The people of the Ming Dynasty did not have this incubation atmosphere, and they could only rely on the will of policymakers to break it.
This fate.
"The Tiangong Bureau's next work has several key contents. First, it will conduct centralized public relations for the sewing machine project. It is necessary to make a sewing machine suitable for production within half a year to a year, and produce more than two hundred finished products.
The second is to concentrate on imitating Western clocks. It is necessary to imitate more than two hundred clocks with the same performance as Western clocks within a year. The third is to concentrate on making boilers and heating systems that can burn steam for heating. This year, the Royal Garden will be
All the heating systems have been replaced with boiler water heating! For these three projects, the palace will fully guarantee the human, financial and material resources. Whatever the Tiangong Bureau lacks, it will be requested from Manager Wang. If these three tasks cannot be completed this year, all craftsmen and women involved in the project will be
Officials will be demoted and used."
After inspecting the Tiangong Bureau, Zhu Youjian summoned the craftsmen of the Tiangong Bureau in Meishan and announced to them the main tasks for this year. The three current tasks were determined by him after careful consideration.
On the one hand, the sewing machine project can improve the overall machinery manufacturing capacity. On the other hand, it can also solve the actual production demand problem. The annual demand for military uniforms and official uniforms is more than 100,000 sets. Using sewing machines for production can relatively improve production efficiency and reduce production costs.
Clocks and watches are the cornerstone of the precision instrument manufacturing industry. Now, the watch industry around the world is still in its infancy, and the gap in technical levels is not insurmountable. At this time, hard work can quickly catch up with the standards of other countries. If it takes a long time,
There is a risk of not being able to keep up with the pace. There is no generation gap between the Ming Dynasty and the world's highest level in precision manufacturing. Some craftsmen even have higher technical standards than them. We must cherish the current conditions. If we delay it for another few decades, I am afraid it will really happen.
The opportunity has been missed. If there is a problem with precision manufacturing, the impact will be all-round. Why can Europe in later generations continue to lead the world's high-end manufacturing industry? It is because they have accumulated enough technology for several generations after hundreds of years of accumulation.
Once the first-mover advantage is established, it will be very difficult to catch up.
Boiler water heating is to accumulate technology for steam engines. Through the development of heating technology, people will understand and become familiar with steam performance, and it can also make some related equipment and concepts mature, such as the formation and measurement of the concept of steam pressure, and other examples.
Maturity of steam pipeline connection and sealing technology.
It is not difficult to make a simple steam boiler. Just get a sealed copper steamer, burn the water into steam, flow it along the pipe to the radiator, and then return it to the cooling pool through pressure. The connection of the entire system,
At the beginning, most of them may require copper components, and the cost will be quite high. If it was just for his own enjoyment, Zhu Youjian would definitely not do it. But in order to explore the technical path of boiler heating, money still has to be spent.
When the technology matures, many parts will be replaced by iron parts. Including sewing machines, only when the main components are replaced from copper to steel can the conditions be met for social promotion.
After leaving the Tiangong Bureau and returning to the palace, Zhu Youjian found Wang Chengen. He felt that it was not enough to rely solely on the Tiangong Bureau to improve the overall industrial technology level. In addition, the Tiangong Bureau was an administrative institution, and the changes it made were
It involves commercialization and industrial management. There must be a relatively harmonious institutional framework between the two so that they do not restrict each other but do not mix together and become one big pot.
"My lord, I have not paid enough attention to the affairs of the palace in the past two years, so that some of the previously determined directions for restructuring have not been continued. Now there is just some time for the restructuring of the palace to continue to be advanced. In the future, the affairs of the harem will be officially divided into
Three departments, the Department of Internal Affairs Management, the Department of Palace Property Industrial Operations and the Department of Royal Financial Industry Operations, will be completely independent in the future. The Minister of Internal Affairs, the Prime Minister of General Affairs and the three ministers will jointly form a new palace affairs department.
The Management Bureau will become the new highest management agency of the inner palace. You can communicate with the people involved in these two days and delineate the three industries first, and then we will have a meeting to discuss it."
"Your Majesty, what does the Royal Financial Industry Management Department involve?"
"It's the Royal Bank, the Mint, and their newly established investment bureau controlled by the Prince Consort and Xin Lehou." Co-author Wang Chengen didn't understand what the financial industry was.
"Old slave, I understand."
"Let Liu Dachang be the director of the Industrial Operations Department, and leave the position of deputy director for Yu Liancheng. After the establishment of the Industrial Operations Department, a technical research department will be set up. The structure of the research department will be modeled after the Tiangong Bureau. Future research
The company will conduct business docking with the Tiangong Bureau. The new objects produced by the Tiangong Bureau that are related to people's livelihood will be taken over and followed up by the Research Department. Then the Industrial Operations Department will determine the production method according to the actual situation and organize the production. The products produced will be profitable and get a
Half of it will be given to the Research Department, and the Research Department will give half to the Tiangong Bureau as a bonus, and the other 10 percent will be used as self-research funds. At the same time, the Research Department will bear the material costs of the Tiangong Bureau's research on people's livelihood products! Of course, the Research Department can also completely do it on its own.
research and develop products, so that all the money is at their own disposal."
"Your Majesty, will all the materials consumed by the Tiangong Bureau be borne by the Research Department?"
"Any project that the Research Department takes over will be undertaken by the Research Department. For projects that the Research Department has not taken over, if it is arranged by me or the Military Command Hall, the palace and the Military Command Hall will take the account, and it has nothing to do with the Research Department. Tiangong Bureau
If no one takes over the project that I have done, the cost will be borne by them internally. I will allocate a special fund every year to help them make the effort themselves and share some of the costs that they have not figured out."
Is there such a good thing in the world? Wang Chengen's eyes widened when he heard that the emperor finally said that he would allocate funds for them to mess around. It is unprecedented for people to pay for useless things.