The Red Mansions Across the Four Seas

Chapter 198
Li Chengbin was put in a cage, but Princess Chang'an talked to Jia Min about it.Furiously complaining about Jia Min's lack of conscience, he used her to get permission from the Ministry of War, and then crossed the river and demolished the bridge.

Jia Min didn't argue with her either, and let her say whatever she wanted.

He knew that it was useless to argue with her.There is a difference of hundreds of years in the values ​​and understanding of the rules between the two sides, which cannot be explained in a short while.

It wasn't until Dai Zhi came that Princess Chang'an left angrily.

Dai Zhi was accompanied by Hu Yidao and Fang Xiucai.

In fact, Dai Zhi arrived yesterday.It's just that after arriving, I didn't come directly to Yeduju.Instead, he arrived at Fang Xiucai's house first.

Because he and Fang Xiucai are cousins, and Liujiazhuang is relatively close to Yeduju, so he thought of Fang Xiucai's place to get to know Jia Min.Unexpectedly, Fang Xiucai was very familiar with Jia Min.

Fang Xiucai naturally praised Jia Min greatly, which dispelled Dai Zhi's doubts.

Jia Min was overjoyed, and immediately asked Ping'er to arrange a noon banquet to welcome Dai Zhi.

After setting out the meal and drinking tea for a while, Jia Min, Dai Zhi, Fang Xiucai, Liu Cheng, Liu Tieshan, Hu Yidao, Jiao Li and a group of seven came to Xiawazi.

The land in Xiawazi was obtained by Jia Min from Shuntian Mansion by means of a bus and carriage project.Now, the more than 1000 mu of land here belongs to him.

Although this is a depression, the area of ​​dry land still accounts for the vast majority.It's just that there is no development and no human habitation, so this place looks a little desolate.

In fact, as long as the land is sorted out, a large amount of cultivated land can still be reclaimed here.Most places are also suitable for human habitation.As for setting up a firearms workshop here, there is no problem at all.

The seven or eight families who used to live here have moved away.Their house was bought by Jia Min.These houses add up to more than 40, of which about 20 are connected together, just as a firearms workshop.

There is plenty of land here. If you want to expand the production scale in the future, you can add houses at any time.

Jia Min set this place as the workshop location, mainly because of its relatively remote location.There is no one who is conducive to confidentiality.The noise, smell, and smoke generated by the workshop will not have any impact on nearby residents.In terms of neighborhood relations, there is basically no trouble.

Although a firearms workshop is going to be built here, the future products will not only be firearms.

According to Jia Min's plan, the future production business will basically consist of three major parts.

The first piece is the development and production of firearms hosted by Dai Zhi.

This part is mainly used to equip his own army regiment.It is a high-tech weapon.

While equipping your own government corps, research and develop some new firearms, and reserve technology and production capacity at the same time, preparing for large-scale manufacturing in the future.

Jia Min had a premonition that the scale of the Fubing Corps would expand after they entered the battlefield in the future and achieved good results.Whether it is new recruits, or the incorporation of other armies, future military expansion is inevitable.

Therefore, he must have a strategic vision, and from now on, prepare for technology, craftsmanship and even production equipment.In the future, once the situation requires it, it can be mass-produced and quickly equipped with the army.

The second one, also presided over by Dai Zhi, produced some conventional military products currently equipped by the Dade Dynasty army.

These military products include conventional cold weapons such as bows and arrows, crossbows, knives, and guns.He uses some of these weapons himself, and the rest are mainly for the military market, and are exclusively purchased by the Ministry of War.

The current military product market can be said to be mixed and chaotic.Some conventional cold weapons not only have a single variety and their styles have not changed for hundreds of years, but also have many problems in terms of quality.

Due to being monopolized by a few big aristocratic families, the price is still high, basically a situation of inferior quality and high price.

It can be said that this level of equipment is far from meeting the needs of the times.If there is no large-scale war, the current military supply can be barely maintained.Once there is a large-scale war, neither technical reserves, craft products, nor production capacity can meet the demand.

For more than 100 years since the founding of the Dade Dynasty, the world has been peaceful for a long time.Except for a small number of border wars, there have been no large-scale wars for decades.

A direct result of this situation is the backwardness of military doctrine.The current military doctrine is still maintained at the level when the country was founded more than 100 years ago.

The Ministry of War is dominated by a number of civil servants and conservative military attachés.Their common feature is that they have not experienced large-scale wars.Even the military officers don't have much actual combat experience.

In terms of the level of equipment and training of the army, even some of the relatively powerful tribal armies in the surrounding areas have surpassed the regular army of the Dade Dynasty.

Some local armies, especially those controlled by San Francisco, even refused to purchase military products formulated by the Ministry of War, preferring to manufacture them themselves.

This formed a unique phenomenon in the military industry system of the Daedeok Dynasty: the military industry system of the imperial court was in a state of immortality.However, the military industrial system of local powers like quasi-warlords like San Francisco is booming.

Not only in terms of production scale, but also in terms of technical level, it has exceeded the official level.

In peacetime, the disadvantages of this pattern are not too obvious.Once a large-scale war breaks out, not to mention other aspects of war mobilization capabilities, just the supply of military products cannot meet the demand.

Another purpose of Jia Min's production of these conventional cold weapons is to cover up his own sensitivity in developing and producing cutting-edge firearms.

The reason still comes from the defense against the conservative forces of the Ministry of War.

It is precisely because of the conservativeness of the Ministry of War and the monopoly of several major families on military products that the imperial court not only does not support the innovation and progress of military product production, but often suppresses and rejects them.Dai Zhi's demotion is a living example.

Jia Min's purpose is to use conventional cold weapon production to cover up the impact of the sensitivity of his own firearms production on conservative forces.Prevent their strong suppression and counterattack.

Even for the production of conventional military products, Jia Min is prepared to control the scale.Do not cause a strong impact on the existing market structure, and do not directly challenge the core interests of several major monopoly families.

In short, in terms of military products, Jia Min's current strategic goal is not to occupy much market on a large scale except for the equipment of his own military regiment.

What he has to do now is mainly to reserve power.

Such reserves include technology reserves, production equipment reserves, skilled labor reserves and reserves of major strategic raw materials.

In the future, once the war requires it, it can be put into mass production in the shortest possible time.

This line of thinking is undoubtedly correct.However, a problem then arises, that is, the profit of the workshop is limited.Only relying on this kind of thinking to carry out production must be the result of making ends meet.

In order to maintain this reserve, therefore, there must be new sources of profit.

This new source of profit is the third business that will be launched in Xiawazi - the production of civilian products.

The production of civilian products is not sensitive, and there is no suppression by monopoly forces or official restrictions, and the market is huge and the profit margins are also considerable.

This is Jia Min's strategy of supporting the army with the people.

There are two main markets for civilian products, one is farm tools and the other is household appliances.

The Dade Dynasty was an agricultural society, and the agricultural production method was still a traditional small-scale peasant economy. There was no concept of large-scale agriculture at all.

Even some larger landowners adopted the mode of production of small-scale peasant economy.Although there is a lot of land, it is nothing more than the superposition of multiple smallholder production methods.

In this regard, Jia Min has already selected the product.There are several products currently identified.

One is the seeder, which can plan, plant, and bury pits by one person.Turn the work completed by three people into one person at one time.It not only saves manpower and reduces labor intensity, but the production efficiency is still three or four times the original.

The second product is corn thresher.

The original corn threshing is completely manual, and the corn kernels are peeled off the cob with both hands.Although this kind of thresher is also manual, it is semi-mechanized, the efficiency is greatly improved, and the cost is still very low, even a small farming family can afford it.One only costs 500 Wen, which is equivalent to the price of 2 catties of pork.

In addition, there are rice threshers and popcorn machines.

Household utensils are mainly kitchen utensils and agricultural tools, such as shovels, picks, sickles, hoes, hooks, shovels, shovels, pots, etc.

These utensils were originally made by small blacksmith shops in urban and rural areas, with low production efficiency and poor quality.

After Jia Min adopts specialized large-scale division of labor to produce, not only the quality can be improved, but also the production efficiency can be greatly improved. Therefore, it has a huge advantage in terms of cost, so the market prospect is still very broad.

With the profit support of the production of civilian products, it is enough to support the technical reserves and production of its military products.

Here, the most critical thing is to maintain a large team of technicians.This team can immediately realize transformation in the future large-scale military production.Whether in terms of production capacity or technology inheritance, continuity can be maintained.

In a large sense, war capability is economic capability and logistical capability.With a similar level of training, whoever has the best logistics is the winner.

This principle is exactly the same as Jia Min's ability to project firepower to the front and logistics to the rear in his previous life.

These words were said by Jia Min and Dai Zhi alone.

Since Dai Zhi was invited from all the way, Jia Min felt that it was necessary for him to tell him his true thoughts.

This is not only to show his trust in Dai Zhi, but also to let Dai Zhi understand that he is actually engaged in a very important mission, not just a craftsman.

It's just that this mission is still relatively sensitive, and some means are needed to cover it up.

From the first time he met Dai Zhi, Jia Min knew that he was a very talented and proud person.

Most of these people are very straightforward.As long as you provide him with a platform to display his talents and trust him, he will tell you a story.

This story is: a scholar dies for his confidant.

(End of this chapter)