Chapter 32 Ordnance Production Contract Responsibility System
Some nonsense was able to get rid of the thunder caused by Chen Xinjia, but if you think about it carefully, it seems that it is not entirely a bad thing. At least I found an excuse to prepare for war in advance, and through this nonsense reason, the cabinet, the Ministry of War
He was also pulled onto his chariot.
How seriously do they take this matter seriously? It's hard to judge! But at least they will make some arrangements on the surface. Even if it is perfunctory, it is better than nothing.
It is said that it was arranged in advance, but in fact the current situation is that it is difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without straw, and the power she can use is very limited. No one can think of a clever trick to turn the situation around, and it is even difficult to be a tinker.
There was no need to worry about things that couldn't be done. Chongzhen felt that it was the right idea to put the main focus on Meishan.
The Craftsman Research Institute here in Meishan has produced some results. They have figured out the formula of new gunpowder and found the optimal ratio of white sugar and black gunpowder. At the same time, the development of hand grenades has also made breakthrough progress.
The basic style can be finalized.
The new gunpowder was loaded into the grenade, and then the fuse was put on. Chongzhen asked them to conduct a detonation experiment.
The results of the experiment were very ideal. The new gunpowder can completely explode the explosive part of a cast iron grenade, and the explosion's impact range can reach about ten steps. We found a few sheep and conducted live experiments. Three sheep within a radius of five steps were all blown up in the middle of the explosion.
Death, one of the sheep's body was torn apart, and all the sheep within ten steps were injured! From the experimental results, it is quite satisfactory.
Now it seemed that the grenade could be finalized for production, so Zhu Youjian quickly asked Wang Chengen to call several people in charge of the military warfare bureau to arrange production for them.
"What you have in front of you is the prototype of the grenade that will be produced soon. I am going to let the War Bureau produce a thousand grenades first. This production is different from the past. I will use the foreman responsibility system to produce it. The so-called foreman responsibility system is that you
The Bingzhan Bureau first found some suitable big craftsmen and asked them to estimate the quantity they wanted to produce. Then they received money from Premier Wang. After returning, the big craftsmen organized people to go to the workshops for production. No matter what method he used in the palace,
When the quota of finger shooting is produced, we only check whether the things he produces are qualified. My requirements are very simple. They must be exactly the same as the sample standards. If the caliber and thickness differ by less than one centimeter, they are qualified. If they are unqualified, he will give them whatever is missing.
The imperial court will reimburse the money at the original price. The task of your war bureau is to find these craftsmen, and then provide help for their production. After the production is completed, the palace will give you a 10% bonus based on the number of qualified products. Remember, you can only
If you take this 10% bonus and take more or blackmail the craftsmen to get kickbacks, I will remove all the officials from the Military War Bureau and investigate, and it will be easy for you to be killed."
What the Bingzhan Bureau people are asked to produce is the hardware part of the grenade. The ammunition filling and final assembly are planned to be completed by the Craftsman Research Institute in Meishan. Anyway, they are also responsible for the production and preparation of new gunpowder, and the labor of loading and assembling the grenade.
The intensity is not high, and it is more reassuring to leave it to them.
One thousand grenades are only the first batch of production. After these grenades are produced, they will be used for training of military cadets.
Through the production of these one thousand grenades, Zhu Youjian wanted to find a few truly responsible craftsmen, and in the future all the tasks of mass production of grenades would be contracted to them.
The production contracting system is the only way we can think of to mobilize the enthusiasm of craftsmen in production and ensure the quality of production. If floods continue like before, the money will be directly allocated to the war bureau and let them peel off the skin layer by layer, and finally flow into the hands of the craftsmen.
I don't think I have much money left.
Nowadays, the craftsmen of the Bingzhan Bureau are basically craftsmen. They have to figure out the tools, raw materials, etc. by themselves. If the money is not sent directly to them, the final result will be shoddy goods and poor quality.
Worrying! Support some craftsmen, let them get funds directly, organize production by themselves, and evaluate according to the passing rate. The more money the craftsman makes in the production process and the more people he has, the more power he has to speak, and he will be subject to
There will be less constraints from the military affairs department and the eunuchs in the palace.
The craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty should be the most miserable people in this era. Not only did they work for the palace as voluntary labor, but they also had to pay for raw materials. The real livelihood was the money they earned from doing private work. In theory, they
Working for the palace or the government is equivalent to paying taxes. The ancestors of the old Zhu family came up with this idea originally to allow craftsmen to focus on their own profession and at the same time reduce the government's financial expenditure. In the end,
You don’t know whether the money was saved or not, but the life of the craftsmen was greatly affected.
Lao Zhu always has a money-saving mentality in everything he does. If you can do it for free, you will definitely get it for free.
This is a cool operation. On the surface, this means less money is spent, and the government's expenditures are also reduced, but in fact, the government's control and fiscal revenue are also reduced. If you don't spend money, you have to provide policies!
In a sense, the cost of policies is greater than the money spent. The normal thinking is to never give policies if you can spend money. Lao Zhu did the opposite.
The most criticized thing about the Ming Dynasty is the tax exemption system for the gentry. To put it bluntly, this thing is also to save money. The money given is not enough to support the family, so they are allowed to farm their own land to subsidize it. Lao Zhu paid low wages to officials and hired too few officials.
, there were only more than 20,000 officially paid officials in the entire imperial court, and the annual salary budget was more than 1.4 million taels of silver. This calculation did save a lot of money, but the result was that the Ming Dynasty was the worst among the recent dynasties.
The fiscal revenue was the least, at best it was only about 30 million taels of silver. After Chongzhen came to power, he increased the three-rate tax, and the total amount of silver raised in a year was only about 20 million taels.
Is twenty million or two more than that? In other dynasties, this was absolutely pitiful! But it emptied the pockets of the people of the Ming Dynasty!
Back in the palace, Wang Chengen ran over to say something: "Your Majesty, there is not much money left in the palace. This year's taxes have not been paid yet, so I have to save some money."
The emperor opened his mouth and kept spending money, which made Wang Chengen frightened. If he continues to spend like this, when the tax money does not come back, there will be famine in the palace! Our emperor used to be a person who was very good at saving money. Recently,
I don’t know what’s going on during this time, but I just like to spend money randomly. It’s nonsense to ask the thieves and craftsmen of the Military War Bureau to make a thunderbolt and pay cash in cash.
"My dear friend, I know what I know! We make grenades to strengthen the army, and they must be used together. Besides, this thing doesn't cost much, not even half a tael of silver. You don't have to worry about money, I'm thinking about it.
What can I do?"
He said he was looking for a way, but in fact, Chongzhen was more anxious than anyone else at this time. He had not yet found a way to make money quickly. The financial hole was getting bigger and bigger! It was right to throw money out, but there was no way to collect it.