Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 374 Daming Military Base (No.15)
The workshop of the Firearms Bureau is not smaller than that of the Iron and Steel Smelting Bureau, and it also covers an area of ​​over a thousand acres.

Zhu Youjian can only take the imperial chariot to inspect after walking for so long. He has already decreed that all common etiquette will be exempted, so as not to affect the progress of firearms production.

Looking around, Zhu Youjian saw that the entire workshop was two large parallel platforms, about three feet wide, but stretching nearly one kilometer in length. Various manufactured barrels, butts and firing devices were placed in batches. There are three three-inch-high grooves on the platform.

Workers take out the various parts from the grooves and assemble them. The unqualified ones are put aside for recycling. After assembling a gun, it is also placed in the box on the other side with colors to distinguish it.

These artisans who are responsible for assembly assemble very quickly, because their salary is calculated according to the amount of assembly, not according to the working hours. They can do more and more. If you want to work 24 hours a day, in this case, the income is not high. It is lower than the annual income of a Qipin county magistrate.

The retired sergeants were organized into a test group in the ordnance factory. They were responsible for inspecting the firearms. Those who failed the inspection would be returned and punished accordingly. Of course, there was also a reward system for when the pass rate reached certain standards.

For firearms that pass the inspection, there will be special craftsmen who will seal the firearms with wax.

Then there will be labor-intensive workers packing the boxes and then transporting them to the pier by large carriages for shipment to various war zones, or they will also be put directly into the warehouse first.

The same is true for the production of field artillery. The higher the upstream of the entire production line, the higher the requirements for craftsmen.

Although many of these craftsmen are apprentices, they already have the official status equivalent to a scholar in the scholastic circle, and the downstream skilled workers are also treated as raw workers. Of course, workers who are only responsible for packing and transporting can only get paid. But you can also apply to study in the Daming Industrial School attached to the Ordnance Institute.

After entering the verdant Fangshan Mountain, you can see tall rooms stretching for several kilometers, all of which are made of water-milled bricks, but the whole body has five or six floors. The top of the mountain gave Zhu Youjian the feeling that it was in the style of the Republic of China period.

This is where the Daming Industrial School is located.

Most of the students here are common people.

It was Zhu Youjian who used the dividends from the Korean Textile Company to open this school.

This school does not charge any fees and even provides subsidies. The reason is that many people from well-to-do families still pay more attention to imperial examinations and do not want their children to learn such strange skills. However, many people are considered to have no qualifications I will come here to study, because I will get a free subsidy for studying here, which is better than doing farm work at home.

But although these children are not good at career, it does not mean that they are not smart, because the industrial school uses a new type of education, with Chinese, mathematics, Gewu, foreign language, chemistry, biology, and geography as seven main subjects.

The most junior students only learn Chinese and mathematics, so many children who are talented in mathematics can be used here and will no longer be obscured by everyone.

The chalk has already been produced and is being held by a weak scholar to write various mathematical symbols on the blackboard.

Zhu Youjian was curious, so he walked to the window along a corridor between pines and cypresses, and listened carefully to the children's lark-like answers in the classroom, the teacher's knocking on the blackboard from time to time, and the noises on the ground. Chalk dust covered the podium like snow and sprinkled on the scholar's robe.

This is the time when a literati is most worthy of being respected, not when he is fighting in court.

"His name is Zhang Zhihe. He was originally a member of the First Class Infantry Battalion of the Third Guards Army. He was injured and had to change his job. Now he is in charge of mathematics education for the senior grades. He is responsible for Pythagorean and Geometry. As a professor, he edited the textbooks, and sometimes he had to help us design the drawings for the Firearms Bureau.”

Bi Maokang introduced from the side, and Zhu Youjian nodded, with a smile on his lips.

Connected to the Daming Industrial School is the Daming Institute of Engineering, which has more senior academicians and supervisors.

The reason why there are supervising students is that theoretically outstanding talents who graduated from Daming Industrial Academy will be selected and sent here according to the principle of voluntary application, and the supervising students will be born here to engage in theoretical and experimental research.

The Daming Institute of Engineering is also a large-scale site covering an area of ​​over a thousand acres. There are various experimental bases and countless experimental buildings, theoretical teaching buildings, and conference buildings built one after another.

Fire and explosion accidents are often prone to occur in experiments.

Therefore, Daming Institute of Engineering, like Daming Industrial School, is also dominated by brick buildings, and there are large windows on all sides, so that the facilities and scenes inside can be seen clearly.

Because the various bureaus under the Ordnance Institute, the Daming Industrial School and the current Daming Engineering Institute are all important parts of the Daming military base, and they have always been heavily guarded at the foot of Fangshan.

Therefore, although there are tens of thousands of people inside, due to strict management and difficulty for outsiders to enter, it is very quiet here, and Zhu Youjian can even directly hear the voices of these people in front of them.

The laboratory building of Nuo University has a lot of doors and windows, and the floor is not high, so that it is easy to escape and evacuate in case of an accident. Glassware, there are graduated cylinders and beakers and funnels and even column condensers.

"These were all provided by Wei Guogong Xu's family. When he came back from the West, he not only made glass but also improved the drawing technology. He even brought diamonds from overseas. Both cutting and blowing glass have mature technologies. Now let glass fly into the homes of ordinary people, let alone monopolize the glassware needed for experiments, and turn the profiteering glass into ordinary objects, and the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River along the coast hate me, and he also has his share of credit."

Zhu Youjian said something with a smile, and heard a bang. It was a prison student in white clothes who accidentally knocked over the bottle containing concentrated sulfuric acid. Lime was poured on it.

The steam engine and various new knives that were still in the laboratory were brought up to bore various metal materials, and the model of Chongzhen Type 21 flintlock gun placed in the laboratory made Zhu Youjian very excited at this time.

This is the advantage of the Ming Dynasty that the civil servants outside and the Manchus in Jiangbei will not be aware of, and it is also Zhu Youjian's greatest strength. He has made countless fortunes over the years. He did not build palaces or build imperial tombs in order to have a military base.

This is a military industrial base that integrates production, learning, and research. It has the most advanced mature industrial production technology and management system of this era, as well as experimental models that surpass this era. It is also the real driving force of Daming.

Zhu Youjian hopes that in his lifetime, he can see the first rifled breech gun, the first rifled breech gun, the first practical steam engine, the first chariot and even the Ming Dynasty. The first tanks and trains.

But just when he was imagining this, there was a sudden violent explosion, which made the ground tremble.

"Protect Your Majesty!"

　The archives are over, it's over, ask for a monthly ticket, I'm going to eat, I've been hungry all morning, and my stomach is rumbling; er, yes, another trick has been used, Zhang Zhihe, Zi Huanli, Daming Professor of the Industrial School (Da Ming has this teaching position), a demobilized officer of the Guards, a former Juren of a certain province, and his father is an official of the Qin Tianjian, so he is excellent in calendar and arithmetic.

　　ps: The game kits in the message area are almost used up, and they are in urgent need.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)