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

Chapter 478
On the other side, Song Qingyue was busy with the establishment of a rural boys' and girls' school in Taiyuan Prefecture, and at the same time helped the factory to solve machine failures.

For now, the biggest problem with steam-powered ball mills that rely on rubber belt transmission is that when the machine is running for an hour, the rubber belt will become sticky due to heat, resulting in unnecessary consumption.

As far as the current situation is concerned, rubber belts are all priceless things, and they are all shipped all the way from the south. The output is only so much, and no one wants more.

A steam engine is different from an electric motor. It is not that you can stop at any time when the power is turned off when you want to stop. First, you have to wait for the coal in the coal stove to burn out. During this period, the boiler will continue to boil for a while. Now the factory's solution is to have a special person pour cold water on the transmission belt from time to time to cool down, but in this way, the rubber belt is easy to slip.

In addition to the disadvantage of rubber belt slipping, the iron parts of the machine will also rust in advance due to watering, which is another loss.

The vulcanization problem of smoked rubber gave Song Qingyue a headache again.

In fact, Song Qingyue sent a letter to the south early on, reminding them to focus on the vulcanization experiment of rubber, and the rubber factory in the south has also started the vulcanization experiment.

However, due to lack of experience, the amount and temperature of sulfur added are still being explored. No matter how finely the sulfur powder is ground, it is difficult to mix it evenly with the rubber liquid. In many cases, the rubber with sulfur added is not as good as the rubber without sulfur. good.

Song Qingyue did know a method to vulcanize the finished rubber: soak the rubber sheet in a carbon disulfide solution at room temperature for a period of time, and then take it out to dry to achieve the purpose of vulcanization.

However, the raw material carbon disulfide is poisonous and harmful, not to mention how to prepare it, but how to preserve it is a big problem.

Another method is to heat-process the banana slices in sulfur steam, but it takes much longer.

The other is to let them try to add finely ground carbon powder to the glue to see if they can make harder rubber.

This kind of hard rubber with carbon powder added can be used as the outer tire of the tire for trial use. The current smoked rubber is not wear-resistant at all, and it can barely be used as a shoe sole, but it must not be used as a tire.

Song Qingyue wrote all these in the letter, and asked someone to send it to the south urgently, looking forward to the new rubber sheets that will be delivered this autumn.

On the factory side, for the time being, the only choice is to use watering to cool down, but iron machines can solve the problem of rust by applying thick castor oil to dry.

In addition to castor oil, tung oil and lubricating oil separated from petroleum can also be used - this era has the most primitive petrochemical industry, and the oil of the Great Zhou Dynasty all came from the petroleum lake in Yanchang County, Shaanxi Province .

Song Qingyue was greedy for that oil lake for a long time back then, but the oil lake was a military supply and was strictly guarded by the imperial court. Even Li Zhao couldn't get petrochemical lubricants. Now some people send lubricants from Yan'an regularly, so it can be seen What are the benefits of being a powerful prince!
Apart from the factories, school buildings are still under construction everywhere.

In order to build those school buildings, Song Qingyue specially set up brick factories for cement concrete bricks in several places.

Compared with the traditional red bricks or blue bricks made of clay, this kind of cement concrete brick is slightly inferior in strength, but there is actually no need to build high-rise buildings these days. It is just a one-story school building. Cement concrete The strength of the bricks can fully meet the load-bearing requirements of the school building.

The brick factory recruitment also continued Song Qingyue's idea of ​​recruiting child labor. In addition to part-time work and part-study, she also added a special ratio of male to female this time, requiring the local responsible person to recruit child labor. The male to female ratio is the same.

Rural girl dolls who endure hardships and stand hard work are no worse than boy dolls in doing things.

The rule for paying wages is that each person has a minimum completion target, and only after completing this target can they get the basic salary, and above the target is calculated according to the number of finished products.

The managers came from Song Qingyue.

In Wufangzhai, there are already five or six classes of maidservants who have completed three years of literacy and numeracy education.

It can be said that the talent reserve is very abundant. Bai Nai posted a notice in the mansion to go to the brick factory below to be an accountant, supervisor, and husband, and soon many maids came to apply for the job.

Song Qingyue didn't engage in any recommendation system, and arranged a test directly, and those with the highest scores were hired.

Each factory is equipped with a factory manager, six accountants, six quality inspectors, and three teachers. In addition, a local person who understands Mandarin must be hired locally as a teaching assistant and communicator.

Because the factory school only has one hour of class every day, the teachers also have to work part-time as factory cooks.

The accountants, quality inspectors, and three teachers are all paid the same wages, each three taels of silver per month.The factory manager has more responsibilities, and needs to be responsible for coordinating the factory's accommodation, meals, raw material procurement, and communication with the palace, so it's probably two per month.

Although the factory manager doesn't seem to have much real power, Song Qingyue handed over the right to distribute the year-end bonus to the factory manager.

We are all human, and there are always those who have a positive attitude towards work and those who are not. There will always be people who make more mistakes in their work and others who make fewer mistakes. As the factory manager, he has the right to reward good work.

Song Qingyue also gave several factory managers the reference standard for how to distribute the year-end bonus in advance, and also informed them in advance that the year-end bonus for each factory is not equal.She will set a fixed amount of funds in advance as the fund pool for the year-end bonus. How much each factory can get depends on the profit of each factory that year.

Of course, these people were all maidservants in the palace, and anyone who was dissatisfied with the factory manager's assignment could come to Taiyuan Palace to file a complaint at any time.

For this reason, Song Qingyue set up a small internal court specially to manage the disputes of various trading companies under her.

And if the factory manager wants to fire an employee who is really outrageous, he also needs the consent of the inner court of the palace.

The candidates for this court are also not fixed, Song Qingyue confessed that Nanny Bai will choose five people who have no friendship or relationship with the factory manager and employees, and try her best to prevent the emergence of servants with exclusive power in the palace.

In addition to the brick factory, Song Qingyue built a dedicated crushing factory near several glutenite quarries.

In addition, Song Qingyue also asked the arsenal to produce a tubular blasting bomb specially used for quarrying for workers who collected sandy conglomerate and limestone.That is to say, when quarrying, a small hole is first made in the rock mass, and then the tubular blasting bomb is inserted into it, which is detonated from a distance, thus greatly increasing the quarrying efficiency.

For the safety of the workers, Li Zhao simply set up a quarry, organized the scattered quarry workers, equipped with specialized medical staff, and organized meals and accommodation in a unified manner.

There are also specialized technicians to teach you how to use blasting bombs safely.

However, the physical requirements of the gravel factory are much higher than those of the concrete brick factory, and the work risk factor is also high. Song Qingyue did not allow child labor.

However, a school was still set up in the factory to give these adult laborers a chance to read and write.

All are taught in simplified Chinese. Those who can write [-] characters have the opportunity to be the group leader. Those who can write [-] characters have the opportunity to be the monitor. Promoted to a manager in the factory, or even an accountant.

With these encouragements, nearly one-third of the workers went to the early morning literacy class every day, and another third went to the class for three days of fishing and two days of drying the net, and the remaining one-third never attended the class. Some of the workers are not in good health, and some are elderly, and Song Qingyue doesn't force it.

Following Song Qingyue, Li Zhao also organized a literacy class at the quarry.

This group of workers who work with stones are the most hard-working people, and among them, those who are willing to persist in learning after heavy work are mentally more resolute than ordinary people.

Such a person is definitely a good seed for a soldier!

Li Zhao is very willing to promote such a person to serve as a soldier in the new firearms battalion.

He had already figured it out. After a year, he would select soldiers from the Jinzhong Firearms Battalion from this group of workers and train them well. He would surely produce several outstanding officers.

After June of the fifth year of Tianqi, Zhaoyue girls' schools in more than 100 villages around Taiyuan Prefecture began to enroll students one after another.

The teachers of the girls' school are all selected from the maids of the palace. After they go to these rural schools, they need to take on several jobs, and they are all responsible for literacy, arithmetic, and daily hygiene.In order to encourage villagers to send their girls to school, the school will still provide a free lunch, so teachers are also responsible for the school's expenses and purchases.

Like Zhaoyue School in the county, Song Qingyue will hire a local who understands Mandarin to help the teachers adapt as soon as possible.

The accommodation is arranged early, and the teacher's dormitory is usually built behind the school building.

The conditions are definitely not as good as the Zhaoyue Primary School in the county and the prefecture, and the workload is also heavy. There is only one teacher in each school, and they need to take care of everything, so many maids are reluctant at first, so Song Qingyue gave them a monthly salary. The monthly money of six taels of silver lasts for six years. After they teach the first batch of students, they can choose students with good grades and let them come to Taiyuan to take the exam in the palace.As long as you pass the test, you can be hired by the palace as a new teacher in the school.

At that time, these maids can choose to stay in the original school, or they can apply to the palace to be transferred back to work in the palace.

In order to further encourage the villagers to send their children to class, Song Qingyue also assigned each principal the task of making cotton masks.

The current equipment is still very primitive, and the dust in the crushing plant and cement plant is very large. Even if the plant is regularly watered, the amount of dust in the plant is still very large. Working in these factories for a long time is likely to cause pneumoconiosis.

So Song Qingyue thought about putting masks on the workers.

These days, there are few family workshops or factories that can produce fabrics like cotton yarn, so Song Qingyue plans to purchase fine cotton thread, and the students will make the fine cotton thread into loose cotton yarn, and then make it into masks.

As for the fine cotton thread, she plans to purchase it from the Yuncheng Basin in the south of Shanxi.

The land near Taiyuan Prefecture is really not suitable for growing cotton.

Song Qingyue will also purchase the masks made by the school's students at a uniform price, which will also increase the income of these female students.

In the future, Song Qingyue plans to build more factories to provide more employment opportunities for these literate girls.

The economic foundation determines the status of the family.

Of course, Song Qingyue did not specifically tell her maids to instill in the female dolls the idea of ​​equality between men and women, because she believed that as long as they did not deliberately teach them the three obediences and four virtues, some ideas about equality and freedom would naturally come from their young age. Out of the mind.

But she told the maids who were the village principals that if the girls were wronged in their own homes, they could take care of them, especially if they suffered domestic violence, they could come to the palace to file a complaint.

Song Qingyue entrusted Feng Jiu with the heavy responsibility of being the president of the "Girl Doll Aid Association". Once someone asks for help, she will come to the door and use violence to solve the problem.

As a student of her Zhaoyue school, she is a person under the protection of the palace, and no one can bully her casually.

In addition, Du Erya, who was rescued from the river by Song Qingyue before, was sent by Song Qingyue to read and write.She asked Du Erya to learn to write [-] simplified characters and know [-] traditional characters before the end of this year.Starting next year, she will ask Erya to be the captain of the missionary team, responsible for going to various rural schools to give lectures to girls, and to talk about her miserable experience since she was a child. She will ask Du Erya to tell these girls, In any situation, women can also resist their elders and their fate.

She asked Du Erya to tell these girls where they could go for help.

For example, Zhaoyue Primary School in the village and in the county.

The concubine of the Jin Palace will make decisions for them.

As of the end of June, the total number of students enrolled in this group of rural primary schools was 870, which means that each school recruited less than ten students on average.

Song Qingyue smiled, and asked the chef of the palace to make a large batch of walnut zongzi candies, and asked a few maids around her to take candies and go down for a walk, expressing condolences to everyone, and telling everyone not to worry, there will be more in the future up.

As for the boys' school, Song Qingyue planned to select the top performers from various factories, focus on training them, and then send them to the countryside to set up schools.

She really didn't want to invite a group of young students or scholars who had been poisoned by the Confucianism of this era to be teachers, because she would not be able to "carry private goods" in this way.

(End of this chapter)