Zhu Hongsan came out of Ma Xiaofang's house and came to the front yard office. Ma Shaoguang had already arrived. When he saw Zhu Hongsan enter the house, he quickly poured tea.

Zhu Hongsan took a sip of tea and asked, "Boyu, yesterday asked you to notify the three foremen of the factory to come today. Have you notified me?"

Ma Shaoguang said: "I have already notified yesterday, and they should be here later."

As they were talking, someone outside reported that the three foremen were asking for a meeting outside.

Zhu Hongsan asked them to come in, and Tieniu, Liu Dali, and Lao Duan Tou came in.

Now each of these three people is under tens of thousands of workers and apprentices, and the power in their hands is greater than that of a county magistrate in a lower county. If you haven't seen these three people for more than half a year, they have the demeanor of a superior figure.

But the more powerful these three people are, the more they feel that Zhu Hongsan is terrifying. They are not like those stinky old Jiu who talk big, who can comment on the heroes of the world by sitting in the house.

Tienniu and the other three saw a musket and a cannon produced with their own eyes. They were very clear that the power of these firearms was hundreds or ten times stronger than the weapons of the official army.

The three of them came into the house and respectfully gave Zhu Hongsanshen a respectful gift, saying, "The boss is back."

Ma Shaoguang said on the side: "Bold, now the lord has been enthroned as King of Chu by the court. Don't you kneel down and kowtow?"

Zhu Hongsan hated Ma Shaoguang's spirit of relying on his power. Seeing that the three of them were about to kneel down and kowtow, Zhu Hongsan hurriedly said, "Forgive, you three will follow me from Wuchang. In the future, you don't have to kowtow when you see me, just stand and talk."

Tieniu and the other two quickly stood up to thank him.

Zhu Hongsan asked them to come today to understand the production situation. After seeing them get up, he said, "How is the production now?"

Tie Niu said first, he was the leader of the three. Tie Niu said: "Prince, after you leave, you ordered us to continue to produce muskets and cannons. Now we have produced 10,000 muskets and 300 cannons. After the muskets were cited by the prince's method of production line teaching us, we can now reach 100 cannons a day. It is still not possible, we can produce two cannons a day."

Zhu Hongsan heard that he produced 100 muskets every day, and this one was OK, and the cannons were a little slow, so he asked, "Is there any difficulty?"

Tieniu said: "The main steel mills have insufficient production."

Liu Dali said beside him: "Your Majesty, now 80% of the pig iron in Guangdong have been taken in by us, and there is really no source of goods. Most pig iron produces ductile iron. This thing is the same hardness as steel, and the knives and agricultural tools produced are very easy to sell. Mr. Ma Er ordered 70% of our pig iron to produce ductile iron, so the supply of steel on the musket and cannons is a bit tight."

Zhu Hongsan looked a little bit, it seemed that it was still the bottleneck of raw materials. Zhu Hongsan thought for a while and said, "There is no good way to do the raw materials, so I can only wait. I have already asked someone to mine iron ore, but I will have to wait for half a year."

Zhu Hongsan then asked, "Master Duan, how about the gunpowder factory?"

The gunpowder factory employs the least number of people, and now there are only more than 5,000 people. For safety, Zhu Hongsan built the gunpowder factory in a mountain far away from the industrial area, twenty miles away from Zhujiazhuang.

Lao Duan Tou said: "Now the gunpowder factory produces everything normally, which can meet the daily use of muskets and cannons. We also experimented with the gunpowder particles being polished and selected particles of the same size, so that the power can be 30% greater than before."

Zhu Hongsan didn't expect that they would make a polishing procedure themselves. It seems that the working people in ancient times should not be underestimated.

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "Okay, go back and reward each of the meritorious personnel with one hundred taels of silver."

Lao Duan nodded and wrote down.

Next, Zhu Hongsan has to go to the spot to see it. After all, they only heard that industrial things are not reliable and they are not as safe as they have seen with their own eyes.

When Ma Shaoguang heard that Zhu Hongsan was going to the factory, he looked unhappy. He thought that such a place was not a place where intellectuals should go.

Zhu Hongsan looked at Ma Shaoguang's reluctance and said in his heart: "People nowadays are really ungrateful. Do you know how many gifts I would give to my leader as a secretary at that time? I'm still reluctant to let him do this job now."

Zhu Hongsan didn't care about that, and took Ma Shaoguang and Tie Niu out to the factory area. When he arrived at the entrance of the village, he happened to see Yan Qingshan. Zhu Hongsan wanted to take them with him and let them see if they could produce ships.

After saying that, he said to Yan Qingshan: "Father-in-law, what are you doing?"

Yan Qingshan saw Zhu Hongsan and said, "It's nothing, take them to the village."

Zhu Hongsan said: "Father-in-law, let your shipbuilder head go with me to see if you can build a sea boat."

Yan Qingshan was stunned and said, "We are going to build a sea boat now? The keels of sea boats cannot be made in a year or two, and it will take half a year to dry them."

Zhu Hongsan smiled and said, "Go and have a look."

Yan Qingshan called a few people and said, "I'll go with you too and see what you can do."

Zhu Hongsan didn't care about him and drove to the factory area two miles away.

Tieniu introduced as he walked. It turned out that there were more than 50,000 workers in the factory area. The steel mill employs the most, more than 28,000 people. The manufacturing plant has more than 21,000 people. The other 5,000 people are in the gunpowder factory.

There are some shanty towns outside the factory that do short-term workers, with about 30,000 people living here, and more than 50,000 families in total. In this way, there will be 70,000 to 80,000 people in the factory area.

Zhu Hongsan instructed Tieniu to manage it well and pay attention to fire prevention and hygiene. It is easy for 70,000 to 80,000 people to gather together to easily cause infectious diseases.

Tieniu said: "Now there is a special security team in the factory area, managed by Li Fugui Li of the county town, and people patrol every day. At the same time, Li Putou has also set up a sanitation picket team to check the sanitation of the shanty town every ten days, and those who fail to meet the requirements will be fired from the factory. You should know that each of our regular workers is five taels of silver, and a short-term worker is three taels of taels per month. It is enough for these people to live for two months, so they are afraid of losing their jobs, so they are very careful to clean their homes."

Zhu Hongsan looked at the shanty towns, the roads were quite narrow, but the hygiene was pretty good. At least there was no feces on the road.

Zhu Hongsan asked: "Where do formal workers live?"

Tieniu replied: "First workers all have houses in the farm. Now the houses in the farm are rising sharply. A small courtyard with three houses costs 100 taels of silver. It has increased three times compared to half a year ago."

Zhu Hongsan asked: "How was it like when I asked Tong Yangjia to build a house a few years ago? Have you sent it all out?"

Tie Niu nodded and said, "I sent it to the foreman in every workshop, and they are very grateful to the prince for his kindness."

Zhu Hongsan thought to himself: "It seems that it is still effective to take over large caps from state-owned enterprises in later generations. At least it is very useful to gather popularity. As for the rigidity of state-owned enterprises, let's talk about it later."

When you enter the factory, you will see a large road along the river. There are factory buildings on both sides of the road. There are rows of water trucks by the river. Now the water trucks are the main driving force of Zhu Hongsan's factory.

Zhu Hongsan casually entered a factory, which was a woodworking workshop that produced wooden handles for muskets. There were more than 100 workers in the entire workshop and were busy producing.

The workshop director was a middle-aged man in his thirties. When he saw Tie Niu coming, he hurriedly stepped forward to greet him: "Master Tie is here."

Tieniu nodded and said to Zhu Hongsan: "This is the Lu Foreman in the carpentry workshop. He was originally a carpenter in Dongguan County and had good skills."

Zhu Hongsan said, "You are busy with yours, I'll take a look."

When the foreman saw that the usually awesome boss Tie was following Zhu Hongsan carefully, he naturally knew that this was a big shot. He hurriedly said, "It's okay, what do noble people want to see? I'll introduce it to you."

Zhu Hongsan saw that the entire workshop was water conservancy, powered by two large water trucks, and the woodworking was quickly processed. A gun handle could be made into a rough shape in a few minutes, and then the next process was finished.

It seems that Tieniu also referenced the assembly line here. This is very good. Zhu Hongsan said: "Tieniu, it's great for you to do this. You should open your eyes, not be obsessed with the past, listen to the opinions of craftsmen, and correct production errors in time. What we want is production efficiency. As long as it can improve production, you can do it with confidence and boldness."

The iron cow nodded repeatedly on the side.

Zhu Hongsan then asked: "What are the woodworking workshops produced?"
Chapter completed!