The daily life of the science master's book-wearing group

Chapter 100 Setting up a factory is not easy

For the rest of the year, Song Qingyue didn't spend much time in the capital. One was to avoid Li Zhao as much as possible, and she didn't want to see him. The other was to be busy building an animal husbandry near the Great Wall, so she needed to see it for herself.

Because of the long-term war, such a large area of ​​land has turned into no man's land. Song Qingyue led a large number of guards and rode to watch.Of course, she didn't want to be the one who was robbed by the nomads in the north, so every time she circled a piece of land, she used bricks and concrete to build a blockhouse that was easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Naturally, the defensive weapons had to go to the government to cross Ming Road. Because of her status as the concubine of King Su in the future, Song Qingyue could easily get the support of the local garrison generals.She only needs five people to defend each blockhouse, and each village is about [-] acres, so she only needs to build three blockhouses, only fifteen people, and arrows, crossbows, knives and guns for fifteen people. This requirement is really not worth it Mention.

In addition, it is necessary to dig wells, dig ice cellars and build cisterns.

The northern and northwestern regions are not rich in water resources, so it is necessary to prepare for the drought in advance. In winter, store more ice and snow. In summer, if there is enough water, you can sell ice to earn some feed money. Turned into drinking water for cattle and sheep.

She tried to buy sheep from inside the pass, but there were too many goats in the pass to kill for meat, and the number of sheep was not enough. Song Qingyue wrote to ask Li Zhao for help to write to the imperial court to see if they could use the grain to go outside the pass to exchange a batch of sheep. In order to be able to sell the captives captured by the frontier garrison to herself, it happened that her village was short of people, and the farmers in the Central Plains had no experience in animal husbandry, and they were unwilling to take the risk of going to the border to do the work of raising cattle and sheep.

The problem of captives was easy to solve, but the matter of exchanging grain for sheep outside the pass aroused some discussion in the court.

On the other hand, Song Qingyue also had to go to the major blacksmith shops in the capital to order wool shears. Because the quantity was a bit large and it was iron, she had to report to the imperial court. In addition, she had to recruit workers and train shearers. Practice with goats.

In the court, Li Zhao worked hard to exchange grain with the Tartars for sheep. Song Qingyue didn't know how he persuaded the emperor in the end.All she knew was that everything she asked for his help was done smoothly.

In August, Song Qingyue returned to Xianyue Village in Baoding with [-] catties of wool. At this time, a well-formed woolen workshop had been established.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the autumn harvest in the north is basically over. It is easy to recruit workers, but it takes a lot of effort to train them.

There are people who are willing to work diligently to make money to subsidize their families, and there are also many people who just think about eating, drinking and not working. Don’t reprimand them. It’s fueling this unhealthy trend. Spoiled and rolled and smashed machines in the factory building.

The spinning machines are all made of wood and bamboo, which are very fragile and will break if smashed.

It really caused Song Qingyue and the stewards a headache.

Afterwards, we have to train everyone how to knit sweaters. Song Qingyue called all the maids and women who could be dispatched by the family for her own use. Fortunately, everyone was willing to support her at home. The servants came to help, many of the maids had already learned how to knit sweaters from their own girls.

In short, from August to October, for two whole months, Song Qingyue lived in Xianyue Manor and trained the maids sent by her family how to knit sweaters, and then these maids taught the recruited female workers.

"This won't work, look, here, just pull it and it will fall!"

Song Qingyue frowned looking at the finished products sent by the people below, and frightened them: "We are making this for the army, if we don't do it well, we will be beheaded!"

"Ah? Then what should I do, girl, these people are too difficult to manage! Yesterday I caught several people stealing wool!" Mo Fan said anxiously.

Song Qingyue supported her head and thought for a while, then said: "In this way, we ask them to sew a label on each finished product, write their own names on the label, and take the unqualified ones back for redoing. We will make them according to the finished products in the future. You will be paid for the number of pieces, and you will be paid if you pass the inspection!"

It was the first time to set up a factory by myself without borrowing the help of a few aunts' families, and it turned out to be noisy and messy. Song Qingyue thought very immorally: why don't I let my father accept a daughter of a local tycoon in the north as a concubine? ?Doing business and management by yourself is really difficult and troublesome!Beep!

At the end of a busy day, when Mo Yun showed the statistics to Song Qingyue at night, Song Qingyue felt like vomiting blood: "Isn't the rework rate too high?"

Mo Xiang on the side said: "Girl, many people come here to make money for us, and they don't want to work at all. According to the quotation you gave to His Royal Highness, we will definitely lose money this year."

In fact, Song Qingyue originally had a very good idea, to engage in assembly line production, the person who weaves the sleeves is only responsible for weaving the sleeves, and the person who weaves the front and rear panels is only responsible for weaving the front and rear panels, and finally stitched by a special person, which is highly efficient.

She also didn't want to be an evil capitalist who exploited workers, so she wanted to pack two meals for everyone, but she didn't expect that there were so many people who went to work to fish for water.

For a while, Song Qingyue also said with a little dejection: "Why don't we sell wool? Now that we have learned it, let them take it home and weave it. We will come to collect the goods when the time comes, and we won't accept unqualified ones. How about it?"

"That's a good idea!" Mo Yun was the first to agree.

"I also think it's good, and it's convenient for them to go home and bring their children." Mo Xiang and Mo Fan also raised their hands in agreement.

Song Qingyue covered her head and waved her hands, telling them to go down.

After tossing for a long time, isn't this returning to the small peasant economic model?This is far from her ideal centralized production!

Originally, she was still thinking about giving women an additional source of income and gradually improving their status in the family. If the family couldn't take care of the children, she also wanted to spend money to set up a free nursery to teach the children how to read and write. .

The ideal is full, but the reality is very skinny!

(End of this chapter)