Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 327 The Combination of Two Kinds of Geniuses
In addition to factories that make weapons, there are also factories that make daily necessities in Wubei City.

Because Taichang intends to gather all craftsmen related to the manufacture of weapons and equipment here, and once the folks lose the relevant craftsmen, they will lack a lot of daily necessities.

Such as hoes, kitchen knives, even combs, household utensils and so on.

In the past, it was not possible for the people to buy everything, and ordinary people had to find craftsmen to make many daily necessities.

For example, household items. In the past, folks wanted to lick household items. They prepared materials and invited a carpenter nearby to work for a few days, instead of directly paying for them. There was nothing to buy in the market.

Another example is hoes or kitchen knives. Ordinary people do not buy these two things directly, but go to blacksmith shops to find blacksmiths to order.

Non-governmental blacksmith shops are dedicated to making these things for ordinary people.

In other words, if there are no relevant craftsmen in the folk, no one will make related daily necessities.

Taichang naturally had to consider this.

Therefore, he ordered people to build a factory specializing in the manufacture of various daily necessities in Wubei City, uniformly manufacture all kinds of daily necessities, make them directly to wholesalers, and let them sell them everywhere.

In this way, the folks will not lack relevant daily necessities because of the absence of relevant craftsmen, and the military equipment city will also benefit from it.

The consumption of daily necessities in the entire Ming Dynasty is not ordinary. If this business is done well, the profits will be quite terrifying.

If the daily necessities produced here can be sold overseas, the profits will be even greater.

This is what he plans to do next.

As for the person in charge of the sale, it is Cheng Jiashuo, or in other words, Cheng Jiashuo will become the director or person in charge of the Daming Western Company, and will get amazing benefits as a result.

This factory that produces daily necessities is also a super large factory, and there are all kinds of things inside.

The abacus can barely be regarded as a daily necessities, and there are naturally abacus here.

However, doing abacus does not require a dedicated large workshop.

Because the abacus is basically only used by the accountant at the moment, and an abacus purchased by an accountant can basically be used for more than ten years or even decades, so the demand for abacus is not very large, at least not at the moment.

This kind of thing is not in great demand. It can be made with a few beds at will, and there is no need for a large workshop.

While listening to Du Linzheng's explanation, Taichang walked slowly in the huge workshop, and soon came to the machine tool for the abacus.

There are only four machine tools for this abacus.

One is a small lathe for turning beads, one is a small drilling machine for drilling holes, one is a small grinding machine for round rods, and the other is a small milling machine for frames and crossarms, all of which are less than the height of one person. small bed.

There are only five craftsmen who specialize in making abacus, except for the four who open the bed, and only one assembles and paints on the large table in the middle.

Seeing this, Taichang couldn't help but slightly frowned and said, "Why are there only so few beds and too few people?"

Du Linzheng quickly explained: "Your Majesty, these four beds and five craftsmen are already enough. They can make thirty or forty abacus a day, tens of thousands a year, and now Can't sell tens of thousands of them."

Uh, well, this guy doesn't know that he is going to promote the abacus calculation vigorously. If he does not care about the sales volume, it will not only waste materials but also cause a large backlog.

Well, this Du Linzheng is also very good. It is indeed right to let him be in charge of the daily production of the super factory.

Taichang nodded slightly, then walked to the table where the abacus was assembled, picked up a finished abacus and looked at it.

This abacus is still very well made, because it is processed by machine tools, whether it is the frame, the beads and the small round rod in the middle are quite regular, and it is even more round and smooth after being painted, with an excellent hand feel.

However, it still looks a bit out of date.

Moreover, the aspect ratio of the small abacus of the five rows of beads does not look very coordinated, and the overall look and feel is not very good.

He glanced at it for a while, then put down the abacus, took out the "Algorithm of Tongzong" in his arms, opened the selected abacus graphics, put it in front of the craftsman who assembled the abacus, and asked kindly: "Master, how do you get so good at it?" How about five rows, can this kind of thirteen rows be done?"

The old carpenter naturally knew that the emperor was coming.

Question, the emperor specifically issued an oral order, saying that they don't need to salute when they are working, and they can just continue to work.

Therefore, he could only sit there nervously and continue with the work in hand.

At this moment the emperor finally asked him something, he quickly stood up and bowed his hands and said: "Back to the emperor, this kind of thirteen rows can be made, but it is not used much, and it is usually used in the big yamen. , so, we don’t do it very often.”

Oh, it turned out to be because of the purpose.

Five rows can be counted to ninety-nine thousand and nine hundred and ninety-nine. Generally, several 10 taels of silver can be handled in a general accounting office, so five rows are basically enough.

Taichang nodded slightly and said: "Well, then you guys give me a look, don't paint it first, let me take a look first."

Hearing this, the old craftsman hurried to the craftsman who made the frame to confess a few words.

The craftsman who made the frame was also very quick. He directly picked up a few unprocessed long pieces of wood, and milled them on the clamping and milling machine.
After milling, he measured it with a wooden ruler and made a few marks, then ran to the small coffee table next to him, borrowed someone's sawing machine to saw a few times, and ran back.

The old craftsman took the sawn frame and cross arm, and went to the driller to explain a few more words.

The craftsman who drilled the hole quickly took over the frame and the cross arm, took out a wooden ruler with a small hole in the middle, touched it with a charcoal pencil for a while, and then quickly drilled the hole.

The cross arm is drilled through, and the frame is drilled. Soon, a cross arm and two frames are drilled.

The old craftsman ran back with the cross-arm and frame, quickly threaded thirteen small round poles on the cross-arm, then brought a basket of beads and threaded them up quickly, and then closed the upper and lower frames. I took the common frame on the left and right sides and moved it to both sides, and then grabbed a few small iron nails and clicked them. Soon, a thirteen-row abacus came out.

Cheng Jiashuo, who was watching this operation, was dumbfounded.

He also did calculations.

However, he used ordinary carpenter's tools, so the speed of processing round rods, beads, cross-arms and frames naturally couldn't compare with the machine tools here.

That's all, he also used a hammer and nails when assembling. The problem, it took him at least a quarter of an hour to assemble a thirteen-row abacus, but it took less than half a stick of incense for him to assemble it.

so amazing!

He couldn't help asking: "Master, what level of carpenter are you?"

The old craftsman stretched out three fingers, and said with a smile: "The little old man is a third-level carpenter, and he just took the exam a few years ago."

This guy, ask him to come over to see the style of the abacus, and his eyes are on those machine tools and other people's operations.

Taichang shook his head helplessly, then picked up the thirteen rows of abacus and looked carefully.

The thirteen-row abacus looks much more comfortable overall, but it is still not high-end and elegant enough.

What should be added to this abacus to look high-end enough?
By the way, you can replace the small round rod inside with copper.

The round rod in the middle of the plastic abacus of later generations is metal.

Also, you can add copper wrap corners.

Some wooden abacus in later generations also seem to have wrapped corners.

In this way, not only does it look more upscale, but the whole abacus is also more durable.

By the way, you can also engrave the word "Dabitan" on the cross-arm, and then smear some golden powder on it.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help asking: "Bozheng, is there such a thick copper wire here?"

Copper wire as thick as a round rod?

Du Linzheng thought about it, and then estimated: "The finished product is not so thick, because such a thick copper wire can't be bent. Generally, few people use it, but there should be places for drawing."

Where is the drawing?
To be honest, he had never seen how the copper wire was made.

Hearing this, Taichang couldn't help saying with great interest: "Come on, let's go to the drawing place."

Cheng Jiashuo also excitedly followed after hearing the words.

He also wanted to know how the copper wire was made.

So, how is this copper wire made?
The copper wires these days are drawn by force!
That is to say, the copper ingot is first melted and cast into a copper rod, and then the copper rod is forged into a small copper rod with a thickness of about one inch. Clamp it with the clip, pull it out hard, and when you pull it out, it is a half-inch thick copper wire!
Then hammer the front end of the copper wire through a thinner round hole, and then pull it out hard.

Therefore, Du Linzheng said that there should be copper wires as thick as the small round rod in the middle of the abacus.

Because the copper wire is continuously drawn thinner and smaller.

Sure enough, when they came to the copper wire drawing workshop and asked, the foreman inside quickly brought them to the copper wire that was as thick as a small round rod in the middle of a pile of abacus.

There are many copper wires of this kind, as long as they are no longer pulled thinly.

Cheng Jiashuo looked at the rows of turntables driven by steam engines, thought for a while, and then asked: "Master Du, was the copper wire pulled out by manpower before there was a steam engine? I remember that copper wire seems to be much more expensive than pure copper." .”

Du Linzheng couldn't help sighing: "Yes, before these steam engines, they were all pulled out by force. At that time, copper wire was expensive, and thin copper wire was several times more expensive than pure copper ingots. Now it's fine. , Pulling copper wire basically does not require any labor, we only sell copper wire at the price of copper plus [-]%, and there is still a gross profit of [-]% to [-]%."

really.

The profit brought by this steam engine instead of labor is really big!
In fact, there are still many things that can be done with steam engines instead of labor!

When Cheng Jiashuo heard this, his eyes glistened.

He is not only a mechanical genius, he is also a genius in business.

When these two geniuses are combined, it is unknown how dazzling the light will be in the future.

Of course, he was also lucky to meet Taichang, an emperor who both focused on technology and encouraged business.

Moreover, Taichang is also planning to give him a fortune.

If he meets other emperors, mechanical geniuses and business geniuses are nothing, even if he can make a lot of money, he doesn't know if he can keep it!

(End of this chapter)