The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

Chapter 88 The Workshop's Bankruptcy

Perhaps it was Xu Ning's stimulation that made Wang Ben put all his eggs in one basket, no longer thinking about it, and submitted the charter the next day.

Zhu Gaochi waved his hand, yes.

Building a house is actually not slow. What is slow is the work in the early stage of the construction site and the detailed work, which is labor-intensive and time-consuming.

The engineering team has been working for several months, and it is a professional team. Whether it is a general worker or a handyman, they are all familiar with their work.

The preliminary work of the coke refinery has been completed, so when the kiln is started to be built, the speed is very fast.

"Let's tell you a story."

Zhu Gaochi said at the meeting.

"Yesterday we had to drink tea, wash the kettle, wash the teapot and cups, the fire of the briquette stove has been lit, and the tea leaves are also available. Zhang Quan's next tasks can be summarized into three types."

whiteboard.

Zhu Gaochi wrote three schematic diagrams with charcoal heads.

"Method A: Wash the kettle, fill it with cold water, and put it on the fire; while waiting for the water to boil, wash the teapot, wash the tea cups, and take the tea leaves; wait for the water to boil, make tea and drink."

"Method B: Do some preparatory work first, wash the kettle, wash the teapot and cups, and get the tea leaves; everything is ready, pour water to boil; sit and wait for the water to boil to make tea."

"Method C: Clean the kettle, fill it with cold water, put it on the fire, and wait for the water to boil; after the water boils, hurry to find tea, wash the teapot and cups, and make tea to drink."

"Which way saves time?"

The stewards all buried their heads in deep thought, no one was stupid, since the little nobleman raised it carefully, it must not be an easy matter.

Many smart people could see the truth at a glance, and said one after another: "A method is the best."

"Correct."

Zhu Gaochi patted the diagram on the whiteboard.

"All of us can see at a glance that the first method is good, and the latter two methods are useless. This is a trivial matter, but it is an introduction, a truth worthy of people's careful consideration."

"The steam engine factory has proved that the division of labor and cooperation is much better than working in a swarm, or doing their own work."

"Whether it is efficiency or the technical requirements for workers, it is the best method."

"The coke refinery should also work together."

"Divide all the processes and establish a shift for each, and then each kiln should not fire at the same time, but stagger the time."

"How to do it? According to this logic, we must not affect the production of the kiln, but also ensure that every shift has work."

The stewards suddenly realized.

Zhang Quan, who was outside, heard his name, looked inside, and heard the eldest son's follow-up words, he lowered his head and pondered.

Would he be so stupid in the eyes of the eldest son?

He's not a fool, of course he does things according to method A, and he has to talk to the young master later.

Coke refinery.

Under the guidance of Wang Ben, the new kiln also uses blue bricks and lime according to the technology of open flame pools.

It is 56 feet long, eight feet wide, and two feet high. There are sixteen doors on both sides and eight chimneys on the top of the furnace.

Because the preliminary work has been completed and the materials are complete, the construction of the kiln is very fast.

Drawing on the experience of the steam engine factory and Zhu Gaochi's requirements, the coke refinery is divided into major processes.

From silo shifts to coal picking shifts, coal washing shifts, coal mining shifts, pond loading shifts, pond enclosure shifts, fire watchers, pit pullers...

Finally arrived at the test furnace of the coke refinery.

According to the new method, each kiln can hold up to [-] jin of coal, and the coal required for burning each furnace is around [-] jin.

This is no longer something a small workshop can afford.

The workload of loading [-] catties of coal into the coal furnace has already exceeded the capacity of the small workshop.

Wait until the day it comes out.

Everyone panicked.

There were a few big blisters on the corners of Wang Ben's mouth, which made people feel terrified.

"Pull out the pool."

The foreman yelled.

More than a dozen workers rushed up to clean up the dirt on the stove top with shovels and set up the shelves. They looked very busy, but they didn't know what they were busy with.

The steam pump pumps the water up the river, and transports it through iron pipes to the pool next to the coal stove.

The water is continuously poured onto the top of the furnace and poured down.

……

"呲呲呲."

A continuous voice sounded.

The foreman personally used the pointed end of the slender bamboo stick to push aside or poke open the charred seam. If there was still a small fire, he asked people to continue to pour water.

Until there is no more sound.

After work.

The rest of the workers went up to help move the bricks, and put the blue bricks on the furnace wall, stacking them neatly.

At last.

The recovery rate of the kiln was as high as [-]%, and the workers cheered.

Yes.

A recovery rate of [-]% would definitely be extremely unqualified in later generations, but it was already a high yield in ancient times.

Moreover, it is still a large kiln, under the condition of tens of thousands of catties per furnace.

Wang Ben showed a gratified smile, and all the craftsmen came forward to congratulate Master Wang with a smile, and no one dared to argue in front of him again.

In this battle, Wang Ben completely won.

The new coke was quickly put on trial.

final conclusion.

Regardless of the evaluation of moisture, ash, strength, sulfur content, etc., it is better than outside workshops.

As soon as the coke refinery came out, all the workshops turned pale.

Whether it is output or procurement cost, the quality of the product crushes the coke in the workshop.

Especially procurement costs.

Because of the lower purchase cost and high yield, the coke from the coke refinery is twice as cheap as the coke outside, and the quality is better and the firepower is stronger.

Next, the people in the outer cabinet should work hard.

Zhu Gaochi specially organized the guys in the outer cabinet to study.

on the stage.

There are two Quyuan pears, one is made of wood, and the other is made of iron weighing more than ten kilograms.

"There are two pears here. The latter is obviously better than the former, but why do people still use the former so much?"

Zhu Gaochi sighed inwardly.

Unexpectedly, I would one day be a teacher, so I was short of holding a teaching stick in my hand.

"Because the latter is more expensive."

Compared with the stewards of the factory, the guys in the outer cabinet are more active and courageous, and everyone dares to speak.

Those who are eager to intimidate must make a good impression in front of the nobles.

Daming's coal production and iron production are astonishing every year.

However, after the industrial revolution, the output of coal and iron in western countries caught up and surpassed the output of China in the same period.

At the end of the nineteenth century, British iron production reached 600 million tons.

There are two reasons.

the first.

Coke technology has allowed coal to replace charcoal and become the fuel for the iron smelting industry, solving the problem of fuel scarcity.

Timber is not only a scarce resource in China, but also a scarce resource in the West.

If wood is still used as fuel, the demand for wood in the whole society will reach a suffocating level.

If this problem cannot be solved, it is impossible for the iron smelting industry to achieve a qualitative leap.

second.

Because coke is not only cheaper than charcoal, but also has a stable source of material, as much as you want, under the large factory model, the cost of iron smelting fuel has plummeted.

The reason why the British railway was born was because the iron ore piled up by coal mine owners could not be sold, so the use of waste indirectly discovered the benefits of railways.

It also proves that iron ore is worthless, and it has reached the point where coal mine owners treat it as waste.

Therefore, the biggest cost of the iron smelting industry is fuel, which has always been an unavoidable obstacle for the traditional iron smelting industry.

The change in fuel has brought huge demand for ironware in the market.

The same is true.

Now that there is coke in Peking, it will surely become the fuel for all the iron smelting workshops in Peking.

Zhu Gaochi has this confidence, but it does not mean that other people will have confidence, and many outsiders lack confidence.

Seeing this phenomenon, Zhu Gaochi wanted to tell the guys outside the cabinet.

Let them know how much energy this industry contains, so as to boost their morale and lead the industry quickly.

"The Quyuan pear of Quanmu is not easy to use at all, but it is better than nothing, so the common people use it."

"Similarly using oxen, the iron curved shaft plow turns the soil more smoothly, the people save effort, and the speed of plowing the land is faster, but because the iron curved shaft plow is expensive, it is abandoned."

"If the price of an iron curved plow is reduced enough to be acceptable to the common people, it will even be cheaper than a wooden curved plow."

"So everyone, what do you think will change?"

The guys all stared.

A Quyuan plow uses five to ten catties of iron, or even heavier, which is counted as ten catties, and 1000 million Quyuan plows are [-] catties. "

"The plow is just one of the many agricultural tools of the common people."

"Wood is burned into charcoal, and the price is three cents and five cents per hundred catties, while coal is burned into coke, and the price is three cents per hundred catties."

"Do you know the reason behind this?"

"Many coal mine owners are unwilling to smelt iron, and the iron ore cannot be sold. Some of you say that this dynasty is smelting too much iron."

"But in our opinion, it's because there are too many restrictions, private iron smelters can't buy a stable source of firewood, and the price is high, and they can't buy it even if they pay."

"Because of the high cost, the price of ironware is high. People would rather use labor-intensive wooden agricultural tools than iron agricultural tools that save time and effort."

"Our coke refinery can solve these disadvantages. In the future, not only will the price of ironware be lower and lower, but the common people will also use ironware in large quantities."

"Now our coke refinery has just started construction, and the scale is still small. Even Beiping has not stepped out, but you have to believe that the scale of expansion of the coke refinery must exceed all of you's imagination."

"In the future, there will not only be coke refineries, but also iron smelters, which will directly face the common people, and it will be up to you to win the business."

"Don't be afraid that the factory's production capacity will be insufficient. After a month, when you come back, you will find the factory turned upside down."

A brainwashing meeting, the guys outside the cabinet became more motivated.

Who doesn't want to be the second Xu Ning.

The guys in the outer cabinet are running around outside, have seen a lot of the world, are more active in their minds, dare to think and fight, and are completely different from the rest of the honest people who have never seen the world.

The price of coke is cheaper than charcoal, and the firepower is better than charcoal, and it is longer.

In addition, which family in Beiping Mansion does not give Yan Wang Mansion face?

The eldest son's Zhonghua Heavy Industry is well known in Beiping.

On the whole, it is very stable, and all families in Beiping Prefecture have begun to switch to coke.

(End of this chapter)