It snows in August, and in September of the lunar calendar, the weather in Daning has turned cold and even snowed! Li Yuting's thin body, wrapped in a woolen coat, inspected the Daning copper smelting workshop. He is now
The person in charge of the copper smelting workshop of the mining institute set up by the palace in Daning.
It is rare in the world to be in charge of such a large workshop at such a young age, with three to four hundred craftsmen under his command.
Letting him be the person in charge of the copper smelting workshop, the leadership team of the mining office felt that it was very inappropriate at first, but then they had to do it because no one was available. There were more than ten people in the leadership team, each of whom had a different role.
The main errands really can't spare the most capable manpower to do this. After all, Li Yuting is a member of the management, so what should I do if I don't just make do with it? Let Li Yuting be in charge of the copper smelting workshop. The reason is quite funny. They think that the copper smelting workshop is the easiest and easiest job.
, the people inside are also the most elegant! It would be a bit unbearable to put a child like Li Yuting in a vulgar mining factory or other places.
The method used to smelt copper in the copper smelting workshop is hydrometallurgical copper smelting, which is to mix copper ore with sulfuric acid solution to form a vitriol solution, and then put iron bars in to replace the copper powder. Hydrometallurgical copper smelting began to be popular in the Song Dynasty
It has been applied on a large scale, and the technology is relatively mature. But now there is a more mature method of processing sulfuric acid solution, which greatly improves the efficiency of copper smelting. This method of copper smelting is indeed higher than the high-temperature baking in other workshops of the mining office.
Or using explosives to mine mines seems much easier and cleaner, and also quite quiet.
Not to mention, placing Li Yuting in the copper smelting workshop was indeed a good use of the people. Because he was careful, literate, and clever, he basically mastered the production essentials of the copper smelting plant after a few days of exposure. From the capital
The technicians who were transferred were a little disdainful of such a child with no hair at first, but after a while they no longer dared to underestimate him. How much copper can be made from how many materials, how to prepare sulfuric acid solution,
How to standardize production and so on are all under the control of Li Yuting, and a system has been formed. The copper output of the copper smelting plant has hit new highs one after another, but the cost has been tightly controlled. Calculated based on the unit copper output rate, the cost is getting higher and higher.
The lower.
"Director, it's getting colder and colder. I'm afraid our factory needs to install a stove." Cheng Xuyang, the deputy director, saw Li Yuting wandering around in the factory and hurriedly ran over to talk to him and asked him to stop wandering around so as not to worry about it again.
Whenever I think of something to rectify, I give it a try. Factory Manager Xiao Li is good at everything, except for one thing: he loves tidiness and rectification too much.
"It's time to install a stove. I'm calculating how many stoves are suitable for our factory to install and see what kind of stove is the most suitable. Our factory is not good at this. Other factories will use stoves, but usually they don't.
They are specially used for heating, but we can’t do that. We still have to bear the cost of heating. Daning has a long winter every year, and it will cost a lot of coal money in one winter.”
"This... you must get something if you give it up, right? Our factory makes more money than other factories. Look at the gold mine, which is said to be the place where gold is produced, but after careful calculation, it is not as much as our copper factory.
"Cheng Xuyang was really depressed when he met a calculating factory director. A copper factory that makes so much money still wants to save money on heating bills. When will this savings end?
"Making money is making money, and you have to save money when you should think about it. Wouldn't it be better to use the money saved to give bonuses to the brothers below? In the spring of next year, I am also thinking about building several tons of dormitories for our factory.
, let the brothers live a better life and no longer live in a den."
"Build a dormitory building? Director, do those thieves have a building where they can live? The bonuses we give them now are enough, but we still need to build a building for them?" In addition to technicians, the Daning Mining Works employs more than 100 workers.
They were all assigned from the coolie camp, and in theory they could only take care of the food. However, due to the special nature of the work in the mining factory, Zhu Youjian's final solution was to use the bonus system to pay part of the money so that they could work more efficiently.
initiative and prepare for subsequent release after serving sentence.
"Old Cheng! We have to look at the problem in the long run. It is true that most of the workers are prisoners now, but in one or two years, most of them will be released after serving their sentences. What will happen to them after they are released? My thoughts
We try our best to keep these people in our factory. As you can see, the situation in our factory is that the more skilled the people are, the higher the efficiency of work. With a batch of novices, even if they are not paid a basic salary, the benefits created will be very small.
There are fewer workers than experienced workers who are paid basic wages. In addition, once the dormitory building is built, it will always be an asset of our factory. When the workers leave, they cannot take it with them!"
"The factory director has thought carefully about the problem, and it is indeed a good thing to build the dormitory building." Cheng Xuyang realized that he no longer had a quarrel with Li Yuting. Although he looked down on others, he was actually his chief officer. In terms of rank, he was higher than himself.
In the third grade of high school, he worked part-time as the director of the copper smelting plant as a member of the mining office team.
"These days, there have been a lot fewer production accidents in our factory, and there have been no cases of workers being burned by acid. This shows that the workers are much more alert and careful. But we must not take it lightly. We must always organize workers to learn protection knowledge, and we must not be careless.
Careless." Li Yuting became a leader at a young age, but he adapted to his status very quickly. Now he orders his subordinates and colleagues to work, and his leadership style is very impressive.
After continuing to wander around the factory for a while, Li Yuting ended his inspection work, walked out of the workshop door, braved the snowflakes in the sky, and returned to the office to draft a note for purchasing coal stoves and related materials. He picked up a pen and wrote the document for a while.
Finally, Li Yuting looked at the snowflakes falling outside the window, and couldn't help but think of Jingcheng, Jingcheng's mother, Liu Dazhuang and the others, and didn't know what they were doing now.
Li Yuting was not the only one in Daning looking at the flying snowflakes and thinking. In Weiyuan Military City, Cao Ruohai, the top commander of the Ming Dynasty in Daning, was also thinking about his own affairs. Unlike Li Yuting, Cao Ruohai was not thinking about his own private affairs.
, but Daning’s defense issues after winter entered so early.
The imperial court has already negotiated peace with the Manchus, and both sides have issued a truce announcement, and the Military Command Hall has sent documents, asking him to prepare to withdraw one division and two security brigades by October. The imperial court is likely to withdraw this winter.
They will use troops in the Guihua area. But the question is, do the Manchus have credibility? What if they use troops in the Daning area in the cold winter? Can they cope with a possible Manchu counterattack with a little more than two divisions?
?Also, can Liu Yuanbin's regiment in southern Liaoning provide effective containment for himself? He also has more than two divisions left.
If the two armies can effectively cooperate, with fifty or sixty thousand soldiers and horses, they can actually pull the Qing army in Shenyang, thereby firmly nailing the Qing army to the front line in Shenyang. The problem is that there is a large gap between the two armies.
In areas controlled by the Qing army, it was quite difficult to communicate.