Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1668, Ming's shipbuilding industry

The Songhu Shipyard is located at the confluence of the Huangpu River and the Yangtze River. The entire large area is full of large and small shipyards.

Songhu Shipyard, Sangong Shipyard, Zhang’s Shipyard, Captain Four Seas, Jiangnan Shipyard, etc., there are hundreds of shipyards located in Songhu, and almost all of them are in the area where the Huangpu River and the Yangtze River meet. .

This is the most prosperous and busiest shipbuilding industrial area in Songhu, and it is also the area with the highest income in Songhu.

Shipbuilding is a technical job, and a qualified shipbuilder or master needs a long time of training, and they are people who absolutely rely on craftsmanship and ability to make a living.

Since Liu Jin founded the Tianjin Shipyard, all craftsmen were graded and given preferential treatment. Even ten years ago, the wages of Tianjin Shipyard workers were very high, reaching several taels of silver a month. As for shipbuilding Master, at that time there were already six or seven taels of silver a month.

Up to now, their salaries and benefits are even higher. The annual income of any worker is more than one hundred taels of silver, which is twice as high as that of ordinary workers outside.

As for the masters and technicians in the shipyard, their income is even higher, and they can generally reach an annual salary of several hundred taels of silver, which can be said to be a proper high-paying class.

The reason why such a high salary can be given is also because the ocean trade, ocean fishing and other industries in Daming are developing extremely rapidly, and the demand for ships is very large. No matter how many ships are sold, the orders of every shipyard have been filled. It's off the charts. For a large shipyard like Songhu Shipyard, the order has been dispatched for several years.

Daming's own orders, orders from overseas, and a large number of overseas warship orders stimulated Ming's shipbuilding industry.

Tianjin, Songhu, Ryukyu, Nanyang Crescent City, and Qiongzhou have formed the five most important shipbuilding centers of the Ming Dynasty.

The most powerful are Tianjin and Songhu. There are hundreds of large and small shipyards in Tianjin, and hundreds in Songhu, and they are all large and powerful shipyards.

Like the Songhu Shipyard in front of you, it is a branch of Tianjin Shipyard.

Well, naturally it is also an industry under Liu Jin's command.

Songhu Shipyard covers a huge area, has more than 2 workers, shipbuilders and technicians, has hundreds of large and small workshops, and can start construction of more than [-] ocean-going ships at the same time.

Moreover, Songhu Shipyard and Tianjin Shipyard are the only two shipyards in Ming Dynasty that can manufacture large steam ships. The orders accepted by these two shipyards are all orders, and all of them are large ships.

For example, all the ships of the Ming Dynasty Navy were built by these two shipyards, and foreign military warship orders were also built by these two shipyards.

It has the largest scale, the strongest technology, and the strongest shipbuilding capability, and the two shipyards have established their own professional shipbuilding colleges to systematically and standardizedly cultivate shipbuilding talents and study new shipbuilding technologies and ship types.

Inside the shipyard, Liu Jin was strolling around very casually, and Chen Jie, the director of Songhu Shipyard, followed along with many managers of the shipyard.

Liu Jin is their owner, and at the same time, Liu Jin's identity is also placed here. The cabinet minister of the Ming Dynasty, the celebrity around the emperor, holds power. Since the establishment of the Songhu Shipyard, Liu Jin has come here for the first time. Get them excited.

"How many ships are currently under construction in the factory?"

Liu Jin looked at the shipbuilding docks in front of him, the docks were busy all the time.

The shipyard implements a team system. A shipyard is a team with supporting shipbuilders, technicians and workers. A team is responsible for the construction of a ship.

So look at the shipbuilding capacity of a shipyard, and you can know how many ships are under construction in its dock.

"A total of 121 ships are currently under construction~"

"Among them, there are 120 traditional big treasure ships and galleons, and the remaining 11 are large steam ships."

Chen Jie quickly replied: "Our ships are all built in a standardized way."

"In addition to the shipyard in front of us, we also have a large number of parts processing workshops. We require all parts to be processed to a standard and implement an assembly line production method."

"So our shipbuilding efficiency is very high. A shipyard can build a ship in about a month."

"We can launch about 10 ships a year in a single dock, and the entire shipyard can launch more than 1000 large ships a year."

"The annual output value exceeds 1 million taels of silver!"

When it came to the end, Chen Jie's voice became much louder.

Being able to manage a huge shipyard with an annual output value of more than 2 million taels of silver, with more than [-] employees under his command, is obviously something to be proud of.

"Not bad!"

Liu Jin also nodded in satisfaction after hearing this. Just a shipyard in front of him can build thousands of large ships a year. With such a strong shipbuilding capacity, it is definitely one of the most powerful shipyards now.

This single shipyard alone can blow up all the shipyards in a European country, which is why Daming can easily form fleets one by one.

Because Daming has a strong enough shipbuilding industry as a support, the number of new ships launched every year is calculated at tens of thousands. Although the shipbuilding industries of European countries are also good, they are far from being able to compare with Daming. They can launch hundreds of ships a year. Even a ship is pretty good.

"What's the current situation of the shipbuilding industry in our entire Ming Dynasty?"

Liu Jin thought about it and asked again.

"At present, the shipbuilding industry in our Ming Dynasty is developing extremely rapidly. There are many new shipyards, not just in Songhu. Our Daming has a vast coastline and countless excellent ports. Many places are suitable for the development of the shipbuilding industry."

"Now the main shipbuilding centers are Tianjin, Songhu, Liuqiu, Crescent City, and Qiongzhou. These five shipbuilding centers have many shipyards, and their scale and technology are relatively mature."

"In addition, there are many shipyards in Penglai City, Qianhe City, Liaodong, Dalian, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Quanzhou, etc., but the scale is small, and they can only build some small fishing boats, and cannot build large ocean-going ships. Ships and warships."

"In our Ming Dynasty, more than [-] large ships are newly launched every year, and most of them are orders from our local Ming Dynasty."

"However, there are also many orders from Europe, Persia, North Korea, Japan, Egypt and other countries and regions. Most of these orders are orders for warships, with high prices and high profits. Of course, relatively speaking, the requirements will be higher."

After thinking for a while, Chen Jie quickly replied that he was very familiar with the entire shipbuilding industry of Ming Dynasty, and had relevant statistics every year, and would report to Liu Jin at the end of the year.

In addition, Liu Jin also has a special audit team to audit the operation of the industry under his command to see if there are any things that have enriched his own pockets, used public equipment for private use, or gnawed away at Liu Jin's industry, etc.

Although Liu Jin has always been in charge of the industries under his command, only giving general directions and delegating power to the management under his command, it does not mean that Liu Jin absolutely believes in them.

Liu Jinyou has set up a special audit team to conduct regular audits on various industries under his command.

Compared with people's hearts, Liu Jin is more willing to believe in a standardized and reasonable management system. Like Chen Jie, he is the director of the shipyard. He can make decisions in the factory, but the finances in the factory are independent and directly report to the general manager. The person in charge of the shipyard, the main person in charge in the factory, also needs to be transferred on a regular basis.

The system adopted is also the standard management system of later generations. On the one hand, it ensures the healthy and orderly development of the industry, and on the other hand, it also controls internal corruption.

But the good news is that so far there have been no major problems or issues.

The people of Ming Dynasty in this period are still very particular about their own reputation, they pay attention to the word of loyalty, loyalty to the emperor, and loyalty to the emperor. This is almost the creed of the vast majority of Ming people.

After eating the meal of the boss, then work hard for the boss.

If you do a good job, the boss has rewards and dividends. If you dare to corrupt, harm the public and benefit yourself, once the matter is exposed, there is almost no way to mess around in the future. No one will do things with a person who is not loyal.

There are many industries under his command, and there are countless managers, big and small. Most of them are trustworthy and reliable, and Liu Jin is very relieved to do things.

"Shipbuilding has always been a technical activity, and we cannot stick to the current shipbuilding technology and ship type."

"It is necessary to continue to develop and innovate, to research new shipbuilding technologies, to develop new ship types, and to create larger and stronger ships."

Liu Jin listened carefully and got a general idea of ​​Daming's current shipbuilding situation, and then he gave instructions again.

This has always been Liu Jin's requirements for his own industries, to keep innovating, to attach importance to machinery and technology, to boldly use various machinery, and to boldly use new technologies and new methods.

Therefore, the major industries under its command are definitely world leaders in terms of mechanization and technology.

"Yes, we understand, and we have been working hard."

Chen Jie nodded quickly and said.

Liu Jin nodded slightly, and then looked at the entire shipyard. He could see a large number of new types of machinery being used. Punching machines, milling machines, drilling machines, etc. driven by steam power could be seen everywhere.

The workers here are also able to use these machines proficiently. Looking at their faces, they are basically young. They are all graduates of new schools. The factory continued to study and study here, and finally became a shipbuilder and master.

"It's time to go back to the capital, another year has passed, and it will be Hongzhi's twenty-fifth year soon, time flies so fast!"

Looking at the young face, Liu Jin sighed that time flies, and it will be twenty-five years in Hongzhi soon.

(End of this chapter)