Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 158 Be Careful
Quite a serious accident.

The craftsman operating the hydraulic lathe found that a shaft had a tendency to break and tried to repair it. Unexpectedly, the lathe base itself was also implicitly loose, causing the entire workshop to collapse towards the Yongjiang River during the repair process.

The hydraulic lathe is the result of several redesigns.

Among them, the biggest change is that the size of the water wheel in contact with the river has been greatly increased. The diameter of the entire water wheel has reached five feet, which is equivalent to the height of a five-story building later.

This is mainly because the water flow of the Yongjiang River is not fast enough.

Shushui was also considered at the beginning, but with the width of the Yongjiang River at the level of [-] feet, the project volume was too large, and it might affect the river transportation, so Zhu Yuan rejected it.

Increasing the diameter of the water wheel can ensure that even if the water flow is very slow, the thrust is not strong enough, and the turning tool speed transmitted to the terminal will be fast enough.

Or leverage.

A very simple common sense of physics.

It is conceivable what kind of movement will be caused when the big five-story building collapses together with the base.

What's more serious is that there were still ships moored on the river at that time.

In order to facilitate the transportation between the north and south banks, there are more than one pontoon bridges on the Yongjiang River, the kind made of boats and wooden boards, and the upstream one is just southeast of the shipyard outside Xicheng.The pontoon bridge is connected most of the time, and it is open for an hour every afternoon to allow boats to pass through. Therefore, there are boats berthing and waiting near the upstream and downstream at any time.

According to the rules, ordinary civilian ships are not allowed to approach the factory on the north shore, especially after Zhu Yuan was assassinated, the rules became stricter, but this time it happened to be a group of public ships transported by the company's own company, which were queuing up to the factory. Unloading here.

Originally, it was not close to the water wheel, after all, it was an accident.

The problem is still that the water wheel is too big, and the workshop itself, when it fell towards the river, the tip just hit the stern of a stone ship, and the force of the collapse was so strong that it shattered in one blow.

When Zhu Yuan arrived, everyone who could be saved had already been saved.

Not to mention the injuries, there were six deaths, and three people were still not found after falling into the water, and there was a high probability that they would not survive.

Zhu Yuan watched the collapsed workshop from a distance under the obstruction of people around him, ignored Yao Feng's objection, and directly asked all kinds of hydraulic workshops along the river to stop working for maintenance, and called craftsmen to review the cause of the accident.

At the end of the day, there is one thing: durability.

Zhu Yuan has already planned to gradually popularize this term as a professional term to form a concept in order to formulate standards and promote technological progress.

This is something.

At the moment, speaking of it, the entire Marine Corps, such as the most fundamental and widely used sea-going ships, is facing this problem.

Let's say grain ships.

Ships in this era are used for high-intensity grain transportation, and a batch of them will be scrapped in three to five years. Compared with iron ships that can be repaired and repaired in later generations and can last for three to fifty years, there are two concepts of durability.However, in the short term, it is not realistic to build iron ships.

This is a problem that has to be paid attention to.

There is another ship proposed by Zhu Yuan to build a ship with higher operating efficiency. The reason why similar ships have appeared long ago but have not been popularized is also because of the mechanical structure of wooden materials. The durability is too poor, far inferior to the relatively simple wooden paddle boat. sail.

The hydraulic workshops along the Yongjiang River, whether they are lathes or sawing tables, are the same.

Because of the use of bearings, the friction loss in the process of kinetic energy transmission is reduced, and the utilization efficiency of water power in various workshops is greatly improved. However, because most of the components of the corresponding workshops are also made of wood, even the base is not too strong. Over time, problems are inevitable.

Therefore, as a result of Zhu Yuan's reflection, in order to change this situation, a fundamental change from materials to technology is needed.

In the short term, it is still unrealistic.

At the moment, Zhu Yuan can only ask the person in charge of each workshop to inspect and repair frequently, and must not ignore safety risks in order to rush to work.

When this happened when he was about to leave, Zhu Yuan couldn’t feel better. After the review meeting was over, he personally asked about the aftermath and compensation for the victims. Looking at the time, he couldn’t do much when he went back, so he continued to work in various places. Take a walk around the factory.

Shipbuilding factory, repair factory, bearing workshop, canvas workshop, clothing workshop and so on.

It can be said that outside the west city of Dinghai, on the north bank of the Yongjiang River, it is already equivalent to a small industrial zone.In fact, Zhu Yuan also considered this matter and planned the entire Dinghai into a large industrial zone.However, this concept is too advanced, and it is only advancing silently for the time being.

Moreover, counting the fish-baking workshops, brick and tile factories, etc. on the south bank, although it is not stated explicitly, to a large extent, the industrial zone already exists as a fact.

In the final analysis, back in this era, Zhu Yuan maintained a relatively conservative state in many matters.

Because I am afraid that the steps are too big.

It was also because, even though he had greeted Lao Zhu before coming to Mingzhou, he was still worried that too much deviant behavior would attract criticism, and even affect Lao Zhu's own perception of himself.

Another reason is that the future is long.

There is still a lot of time.

Even, to the extreme, even if he is gone, after all, this body is too weak, but he has instilled enough ideas in Lao Zhu, and I believe that with Lao Zhu's strong execution ability, even if certain situations happen, he will still be able to take care of him. Many things are progressing gradually.

Go deeper.

Reform is never easy.

For thousands of years, the difficulty of reform has always been much, much greater than that of revolution.

Care must be taken.

Zhu Yuan didn't want to be Shang Yang at all.

When we returned to the city, it was already dark.

Outside the sedan chair were three layers of guards inside and outside the sedan chair, but the inside of the sedan chair was very quiet.

A certain sack followed as usual, kneeling at Zhu Yuan's feet, holding a small glass lantern in his hand, with only one candle, but it could illuminate the sedan chair very brightly.

Zhu Yuan was looking through a shipbuilding factory's apprentice recruitment plan, which was also recently proposed.

For one simple reason, craftsmen, especially professional and skilled craftsmen, are becoming less and less sufficient, and apprentices must be recruited in large numbers.

The plan drawn up by Yao Feng, combined with many opinions given by Zhu Yuan, is almost finalized now.

Generally speaking, next, the craftsmen in each process of the shipbuilding factory must first conduct a grade assessment, which of course was proposed by Zhu Yuan.According to different grades, the salary package will be adjusted to a certain extent.Furthermore, the official will arrange craftsmen who have reached a certain level to lead apprentices.

Also according to different grades, or different types of workmanship, each person has three to five apprentices, and it is required to be a teacher for up to three years.

This is also in consideration of the general self-preservation of the current craftsmen.

For up to three years, if the apprentice still fails the assessment, the craftsman himself will be downgraded. On the contrary, if enough good apprentices are brought out, the level will be raised.

In addition, personnel training will also be linked with Mingzhou Maritime Academy.

Literacy is a very important indicator.

Next, even the best shipwrights, if illiterate, will make compulsory literacy courses.

If craftsmen can go one step further and learn to draw, it will be a qualification.

These will be closely related to the rating and treatment of the craftsman himself.

In the final analysis, it is still the same sentence, scale is very important.To achieve industrialization, the number of various professionals is also a necessary prerequisite.

After reading this document, Zhu Yuan took the pen that the sack handed over naturally, made some annotations on the document backing board, and then closed the manuscript.Looking in front of her again, under the bright reflected light, the girl at her feet still has white skin and bright eyes.

It seems at first.

However, it's not back to the beginning.

This girl was originally a bit shorter than Zhu Yuan, but it may be because girls are indeed growing faster than boys. It has only been more than half a year, and she is already taller than herself.

Reaching out to touch the girl's head, Zhu Yuan smiled and asked, "I'm going back, do you expect it?"

Lin Xiaoyu nodded slightly while holding the lantern.

The corners of the mouth are still slightly raised.

According to Sister Liu Bai, the petty officials can rest when they return to Jinling.

This Dinghai is too tiring.

The little official is so nice, why should he be so tired?
The sack girl is also very distressed to follow and watch like this from time to time on weekdays.

Back home, Xieyi and the others waited at the door of the inner house again.

Zhu Yuan had no appetite for a while, so he took a shower first, and then went back to the main room, almost going to sleep straight away. After being persuaded carefully by Xie Yi, he ate something.

No duck neck.

At noon, I just had a hasty lunch at the shipyard, and forgot what I thought about in the morning.

With a full stomach and some energy, I insisted on completing today's diary.

Dictate again.

In addition, there was a bunch of thoughts that arose in the morning because of a little duck pooping. I also leaned on the bed to dictate, and asked Xieyi and the others to organize them into a document. Since I will send it to Lao Zhu tomorrow, I will try my best to finish today's work.

It was He Xuan who came to remind him, only to realize that it was already late at night before he knew it, and finally took a rest.

Woke up a little late the next day.

The eighth day of September.

Tomorrow is Chongyang.

There is no thought of climbing high and composing poems. The various activities in this era are really not fun, so I just remembered a poem, and I will wait until autumn comes on September [-]th.

Ok.

It is said that Lao Zhu even imitated and wrote a poem, which is far worse than Huang Chao.

However, Huang Chao is a loser, and Lao Zhu is a winner. In such a comparison, the rebellion of a scholar is really impossible, not to mention that he is still a failed scholar.

After eating breakfast, Xieyi talked about some preparations for leaving.

The main reason is that yesterday it was arranged to clean up the five-thousand-material ship that Zhu Yuan was on when he came.

When Listening to Xieyi mentioned this, Zhu Yuan wanted to refuse, but after thinking about it, he decided to give up.

After returning to Jinling, send the ship back to Mingzhou.

Because there are already arrangements.

During the summer flood season, I sent that sea boat out to sea and harvested more than 8000 tans of fish just from sea fishing, which was much higher than the target of 5000 tans given by Zhu Yuan, which made people around me think it was already high.

Zhu Yuan felt that this was the correct usage of the ship.

In the following winter flood season with hairtail, sea fishing will also be attached great importance.

This is the result obtained after summing up the current experience of various hairtail fishing by Yinghai Division recently.

To put it simply, during the hairtail flood season, the deeper the water, the larger the hairtail. On the contrary, the hairtail in shallow water areas is generally small.

Zhu Yuan pondered the truth, maybe it has something to do with plankton?

I don't understand at the moment.

Anyway, if you want to catch large hairtails that are as mature as possible, on the one hand, you need to improve your fishing nets to ensure that the fishing nets can enter deep water.On the other hand, sea fishing is easier to control.Moreover, it has been tested during the summer flood season, and the fishing efficiency of sea fishing is not low.

Then there is the 5000-material big ship, which can be used as a flagship of the sea fishing fleet, and can also load more manpower equipment for sea fishing.

When I thought about going back for a while, I stopped thinking about it.

tired.

Anyway, there are Xieyi and them, and anyway, there is no need to clean up too well, even if they pull something down, it will only be a word when they arrive in Jinling.

It is still necessary to arrange the things that need to be arranged quickly.

After breakfast, the first meeting was held again, this time only Zhu Yuan and Liu Lian were the main persons in charge of the sea division.

Zhu Yuan had previously thought about his personnel arrangements after he left. The premise of his thinking at that time was that he would step down as the battalion envoy. Of course, he also expected in his heart that Lao Zhu would probably let him continue to hold this position concurrently.

At the moment, since it is determined that there will be a part-time job, the original idea also needs to be adjusted.

In fact, it has been weighing.

Or because of the impeachment against him, one of Zhu Yuan's introspections is that he considers the personnel arrangement of Yinghai Division, which is somewhat presumptuous. This should be Lao Zhu's business.

Lao Zhu still handed it over to him.

However, Zhu Yuan didn't intend to follow his previous thinking. As a result, Liu Lian, Yao Feng and Fang Li stayed here for the time being.

Liu Lian should coordinate the household registration of fishermen and other relevant people in the states and counties in eastern Zhejiang, and coordinate the migration matters.

After confirming the naturalization of Yinghai Division, Zhu Yuan hopes that the relevant personnel in eastern Zhejiang will gather more in Mingzhou, so that Yinghai Division can carry out fishery production more conveniently.

Around the Zhoushan fishing ground, in addition to Dinghai, Zhoushan, Daishan and other islands in the outer sea will also start to build residential communities and various factories.

This is still to start production nearby.

In addition to personnel matters, Liu Lian will also take care of the finances of the entire Ying Hai Division, and even some internal supervision work.This is no longer limited to eastern Zhejiang, but also Fujian, Guangzhou, and even Shandong in the north.

In short, all the money, food, and accounts related to the entire Ying Hai Division will be handled by Liu Lian.

Zhu Yuan was absolutely assured of Liu Lian in this regard.

From this point of view, at least in the short term, Liu Lian is obviously inseparable.

Not to mention what Yao Feng has to do, all the manufacturing affairs in Dinghai, including the navy, need him to coordinate.

Finally, Fang Li.

Fang Li will be the main person in charge of the next winter flood sea fishing, just like the summer flood.

After the winter floods came the spring floods, and after that came the summer floods.

Ok……

endless.

However, compared to Liu Lian and Yao Feng, it is relatively easier for Zhu Yuan to transfer Fang Li away after the Ying Hai Division's manpower is gradually cultivated.

After the affairs of the Yinghai Division have been explained, there is also the Yinghaiwei, and even the Navy Governor's Mansion.

So I met with the responsible persons of all parties in a continuous manner.

When he first arrived, Zhu Yuan had a lot of ideas about building the Ming Dynasty Navy, but the reality is that in recent years, the Ming Dynasty Navy basically only needs to do one thing, transporting food.

Everything else should step aside.

The corresponding idea can't be implemented for the time being, but it can't be delayed forever.

It should be done or it should be done.

Seeing that he was about to leave, Zhu Yuan only proposed one for the time being, and gradually worked out a set of naval long-range warfare tactics that the current conditions allowed. In simple terms, he should kill the opponent as much as possible before connecting with the enemy.

In the early water battles, it was usually jumping from side to side.

By now, whether it is the rapid development of new firearms, or the continuous improvement of bed crossbows or trebuchets, long-range strikes can be carried out.

Zhu Yuan hopes that the Navy will improve this point.

As for the shortcomings, such as the current production of gunpowder is far from enough. To solve it, on the one hand, it needs to supplement traditional weapons. On the other hand, when he returns to Jinling, Zhu Yuan will also pay attention to this matter himself.

Outside the two major yamen, the last thing to take away.

The coin minters sent by Lao Zhu before, the team of the Medical Equipment Bureau of Taiyuan Hospital, and of course the glass manufacturing team, etc., all need to be packed and taken back.

Zhu Yuan was worried about staying here.

So busy, and in the blink of an eye, another day passed.

(End of this chapter)