Zhu Hongsan looked around and asked, "Dali, are we still producing the cannons we sold to Zheng Zhilong?"

Liu Dali said: "It's no longer sold. One is because the Zheng family said it was too expensive, and each one costs 1,000 taels of silver. They bought thirty doors and stopped buying them. Second, our raw materials are really scarce. Mr. Ma Er stopped last month because it was not safe to buy firearms for others. Now this kind of cast iron mainly produces agricultural tools and knives."

Zhu Hongsan nodded and stopped. He would start fighting with the Qing Dynasty next year. Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. Such artillery will definitely fall into the hands of the Qing Dynasty. Now there are only thirty gates, and it still cannot be deterred.

Zhu Hongsan asked: "What is the largest single piece cast in your workshop?"

Liu Dali thought for a while and said, "Of course the heaviest one is the artillery, but the biggest one is to get the waterwheel gear last month."

It turned out that after Zhu Hongsan taught those people how to make gears, they had fully developed the gears in the past six months. Last month, when the wooden bearings of a water truck were broken, the boys studied whether they could use gears to replace wooden bearings. Unexpectedly, they really made them. After they modified the water truck, the power transmission immediately rose to a step. Now the power output of a water truck has caught up with the previous three.

Of course, they also encountered trouble when making gears. They had never had the experience of casting large pieces. Thinking that Liu Dali must have experience in casting artillery, he came to ask Liu Dali for advice.

Liu Dali was also in a difficult position at the beginning, and he had never done this thing. He failed several times at the beginning because the gear members were too large and the diameter was more than ten meters. In addition, the gear requirements were too high. The hot molten iron cooled and condensed before it was left in the place. Later, a boy invented the multi-point casting method to solve this problem.

Zhu Hongsan listened to Liu Dali's explanation and thought to himself: "The progress of a society cannot be promoted by one or two great men. It is precisely with such small people that can create brilliant history."

Zhu Hongsan said: "Dali, that little guy gave him 100 taels of silver. In the future, those who have made outstanding contributions must be rewarded, and those who have made outstanding contributions must also be given priority in the promotion of positions."

Liu Dali nodded quickly and said he had remembered it.

Zhu Hongsan continued, "Dali, you saw it just now. Yan Qingshan is the one I found to establish the navy. He went to find someone and we wanted to build a boat. The most important thing for a boat is the keel. You can see if the keel of the boat can be successfully casted."

This is the first time you have heard of using iron to build a ship. Liu Dali thought for a while and asked, "I wonder how long is the keel that Master wants to cast?"

Zhu Hongsan thought about it and didn't build a sea boat that was too big. Two hundred materials were about one hundred tons, and the length was about fifteen meters.

After thinking about it, Zhu Hongsan said, "How about fifteen meters?"

Liu Dali said: "I haven't worked it for fifteen meters, but the boat keel should be a big guy, I can try it out."

Zhu Hongsan said, "Okay, experiment first. In a while, you will go to Yan Qingshan to ask for the keel diagram of the sea ship with 200 materials and 400 materials and 800 materials. Let's try it."

Zhu Hongsan turned his head and said to Tie Niu: "You must cooperate with Liu Dali and Yan Qingshan with all your might and strive to build our first seaship within a month."

Tieniu quickly agreed.

It was noon at this time and it was about to have a meal. Zhu Hongsan was going to go to the canteen in the factory to check it out.

When we arrived at the entrance of the canteen, Tieniu introduced: "Now our factory area is divided into three shifts, and we basically change people and keep machinery. So the canteen has five meals a day."

Tie Niu led everyone into the canteen. This canteen built a straw shed by the wall, where hundreds of people were already having dinner, and some were queuing up to get dinner.

Tieniu said: "This canteen can serve 1,000 people to eat together. There are five such canteens here, seven of Lao Liu's steelmaking factory, and one of the gunpowder factory."

Zhu Hongsan nodded and walked up to look at the food. It was pretty good. The staple food was sorghum rice and rice, the dish was stewed with potatoes, and a cabbage soup. Zhu Hongsan used a spoon to fish it, and the soup was made of pork bones.

Tieniu said: "In the past, there was no meat in the dishes, but I found that workers would not have the energy to work without enough food, and their productivity dropped a lot. After adding meat to their dishes, the productivity immediately increased. Now they eat better than some local small landlords in Guangdong."

Of course, Zhu Hongsan knew how physical energy was consumed by the assembly line. It was not for nothing to give them such a high salary. Zhu Hongsan asked, "Is this what happened all day?"

Tieniu said: "Yes, the entire factory area needs to use 200 pigs, 1,000 chickens, and 50 vegetables for a day. Now there are special people outside the factory area starting to raise pigs and chickens, and they are supplied to the cafeteria every day."

Zhu Hongsan said: "This is great. Don't let us make money by ourselves. If you have money, you will make money together."

Zhu Hongsan continued: "I ate here at noon today. Iron bull, please come and have someone go and make some meals."

After a while, the food was brought. Zhu Hongsan has been in this era for twenty years. I dare not say anything else, and he has never treated himself badly in terms of food. Although his family was poor in the past, I also tried different ways to make delicious food for him. Today, Zhu Hongsan had no way to eat this big pot rice in order to show that he was having fun with the people.

The pork stewed potatoes are very suitable for workers' appetite. Each person has a large fat slice of meat, a large bowl of mashed potatoes, a large bowl of two rice, and a bowl of cabbage soup.

Zhu Hongsan tasted it all, and the mashed potatoes were good and the cabbage soup was delicious. This second rice was a bit irritating. Zhu Hongsan asked, "Did we grow this potato ourselves?"

Tie Niu nodded and said, "This is called sweet potato in Guangdong. Mr. Ma Er said it was the prince who asked you to plant it. He also said that you changed the name to potato. Rich people don't like to eat this thing. They used to feed pigs. I heard that I have collected several million kilograms this year, so Mr. Ma Er couldn't send some to the factory. Let us help digest it."

When Zhu Hongsan heard that the potatoes had been harvested several million kilograms, he couldn't help but be happy and said, "In a few months, a large number of refugees will arrive, so it's just right for them to eat."

Zhu Hongsan looked at the fat slices in the bowl. He couldn't eat them. He picked them up with chopsticks and stuffed them to Ma Shaoguang, and said, "Let's eat them for you."

Ma Shao is a guy who never tires out the food and fine stew. He had eaten this kind of food that was like pig food in his eyes and said, "Lord, I..."

Zhu Hongsan said, "You are you? You have eaten. This is an order. If you don't eat, go home. Don't be your secretary in the future."

Ma Jiyuan told Ma Shaoguang at home that he would do this job well and that if he didn't work, he wouldn't go home.

Ma Shaoguang was forced to squeeze his nose and ate two pieces of fat meat, which made him feel disgusted.

Zhu Hongsan was happy to see Ma Shaoguang's death and said, "Boyu, I have eaten everything else. We have to go to the gunpowder factory in the afternoon, and there are still twenty miles to go."

Ma Shaoguang couldn't eat all his food.

Seeing the torture of Ma Shaoguang, Zhu Hongsan was very happy and finished his meal with mashed potatoes and cabbage soup. To be honest, the food in the cafeteria was OK, but it was a bit salty. Zhu Hongsan had a meal that was even worse than this when he led the team to Henan.

At this time, some workers knew that the boss had arrived, so they stood up and looked at Zhu Hongsan.

Seeing everyone staring at him, Zhu Hongsan stood up and said, "Hello everyone, let's sit down and have a meal."

At this time, some people knelt down and shouted, "Thank you for your life." These are refugees, and it would be difficult for them to survive without Zhu Hongsan's intake.

Zhu Hongsan said: "You are working hard to repay me."

Seeing that more and more people, Zhu Hongsan and Tieniu and others ran out of the back door.

The meal was finished, and the next step was to go to Liu Dali’s steelmaking workshop.

The steelmaking workshop is the center of Zhu Hongsan's factory area, which means that this place will be shut down in other places. Zhu Hongsan took a walk around this place. This place is no different from the small steelmaking plants in later generations, and there is coal black everywhere.

Zhu Hongsan saw a bunch of people pushing a ox cart on the road in the middle of the factory.

Zhu Hongsan said: "Do you use ox carts to transport?"
Chapter completed!