Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 302
Hearing Tang Long's words, Zeng made a strange face: "You are all capable blacksmiths. Wouldn't it be more comfortable to go out to do business by yourself than relying on others?"

But Tang Long's apprentice shook his head when he heard the words, "Our business here will never be able to be done outside."

Zeng Nong didn't understand at first, but when he saw the scene of mass production in the blacksmith workshop, his eyes widened instantly.

Living in the agricultural era, he originally thought that the textile factory in Zengtou City was the most complicated industrial scene he had ever seen. He had never seen dozens of people processing gun barrels on an assembly line in a large high-ceilinged workshop.

Seeing the flames splashing and steam flying in the workshop, a group of robust industrial workers wearing leather aprons were rapidly processing the red barrels with hydraulic hammers and animal-powered machinery.

Seeing this scene, Zeng was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth, and he also fully understood what apprentice Tang Long said: The skills learned by the blacksmiths here are useless if they leave this blacksmith workshop in Sunjiazhuang. I'm afraid there won't be another place where firearms are produced on such a large scale!
I once imagined that what Shi Wengong said was true, the cause that Sun Xin has done is much bigger than what I imagined!

In the following days, Zeng Nong took a closer look at the various workshops in Sunjiazhuang. In the past, he only had a rough understanding of Sunjiazhuang. Everything is completely different from what I imagined.

In addition to the spinning mill on Sunjiazhuang, I can understand it, the large-scale pharmaceutical workshop, the neat fields, and the uniform management model of the supervisory committee.They all made him feel very fresh, but as for the acid workshop and alkali workshop in Sunjiazhuang, Zeng Nong couldn't understand it at all. When he walked in, he was dazzled by the complicated pipelines and reactors.

Zeng Saihua found out that her father had only had a meal with her at the beginning when she came to Sunjiazhuang, and then she was running around outside for several days. Workshops watch people do things.

Finally, on this day, she went to her father's yard. Zeng Saihua heard from her farmer that her father was in the house, so she hurried in.

As soon as she entered the room, she saw her father sitting in front of a case, frowning and thinking, Zeng Saihua naturally knew what her father was thinking, walked up to him and said with a smile: "Isn't this Sun Family Village different from what Dad imagined?"

Zeng Nong raised his head and realized that it was Zeng Saihua who came in. He let his daughter sit down and nodded: "Sun Xin is really not an ordinary person. We are afraid that the forces in Zengtou City will eventually overwhelm us when we set up a hemp yarn factory with him. without him."

"Daddy, what do you have to persuade him to do?"

Zeng Saihua was a little unhappy. Now that she followed Sun Xin, she hoped that Sun Xin and his father would be well. She even felt that Zeng Tou City and Sun Xin had a vague subordinate relationship like Li Jiazhuang. Take it easy, in her mind, her father really can't beat Sun Xin.

Zeng Nong shook his head when he heard the words, but he didn't want to tell his daughter what he was thinking, so he raised his eyes and asked her: "It's true that you are not buried with Sun Xin. It's good to treat you, what dissatisfaction do you have in your heart?"

Zeng Saihua blushed a little when the topic of "Father" turned to herself, and said shyly, "He treated me very well, that's..."

"What is it?" Zeng Nong asked.

Zeng Saihua blushed and said: "Daughter is thinking about giving him a child too. Now he has an eldest son who was born by Hu Sanniang. I will not make people afraid if I give him another child."

Zeng pondered, then nodded and said: "You should be born, he has such power now, if you can have a child, you will have a better relationship with him, and you will have some status in his estate in the future. "

One yard counts for one yard, Zeng Nong himself was afraid of Sun Xin, but it would be a good thing for his daughter to have some status in Sun Family Village, Zeng Nong saw this very clearly.

His blunt words made Zeng Saihua's face even redder. Zeng Saihua didn't think of too many power struggles in her heart. When she was in Liao Kingdom, she needed to be alone, and she was under a lot of psychological pressure. Now that she returned to Dengzhou, she just wanted to do it. The little girl next to Sun Xin, she really felt that her position in Sun Family Village was a bit awkward, if she could have a child with Sun Xin, she would be considered a bit famous.

Sun Xin has been busy with school affairs for the past few days, and he finally got some clues, and he will soon enter the enrollment stage.

In the evening, Sun Xin and Zeng Nong Lehe and others made an appointment to have wine together in the flower hall. After three glasses of light wine, Sun Xin seemed to say to Zeng Nong unintentionally: "Now the business of our Sun Family Village is getting bigger and bigger. No matter if it is a property in the village or a joint venture in other places, there is no way to send important people everywhere. In the summer, the old owner's hemp yarn factory will have to send new people, and the number of people sent is not enough. I wonder if the owner of the village can recommend a few talented young people in the village to come to our new school in Sunjiazhuang for training?"

He had heard about Sun Xin's school many days earlier, and had studied it carefully, but the people in the Sun Family Village didn't make it too clear.

Although I don't quite understand the meaning of the four major departments that Sun Xin divided into, Zeng Nong subconsciously felt that this thing must have something famous.

He said without hesitation: "Okay, I will pick a few good people and send them over when I go back."

After eating, Zeng got a little drunk and was escorted away. Le He waited for him to leave before he said to Sun Xin worriedly: "This Zeng is too independent. The people he sent were trained to listen to us. It's better to listen to him, I really don't know."

Sun Xin nodded, he also had the same worries, but there is really a shortage of capable people in the Sun Family Village.

Fortunately, the most common technical workers can be trained for a few days in a short training class, and then sent to the factory to learn as they go. But the training of management personnel is really a problem. It will take two or three years to train, and they can't train while doing it. In the past, their political workers have always been selected from the backbone of Sunjiazhuang, but now as the business grows bigger and bigger, these backbones are sent to There is no way to separate from each opening, and it would be too hurt to draw the backbone out.

"This is the only way to get enough management talents in a short period of time. I will inform the landlords in Dulonggang and our Dengzhou in the future, and let them not hide the promising young people in their families. Tuck it in, and send it to the school in our village, and we will be responsible for teaching him well."

Sun Xindao: "As for what will happen to the church in this way, let's send it for another look. Anyway, the right to decide is in our hands."

Le He nodded when he heard the words, and immediately got up to do it, regardless of the strength of the wine.

Just when things in the school were on the right track, news came from Dengzhou Port that the first batch of sailboats that Meng Kang built according to Sun Xin's design had also been completed.

Mengkang had made a batch of small test sailboats in Dengzhou before, which could only accommodate two or three people. Now, the verified hulls are scaled up to make large ships with common drafts in the Song Dynasty, and many problems have been encountered. , were resolved by Meng Kang as much as possible, and the ship planned to sail from Dengzhou to Korea with the fleet to test its practicality.

Dengzhou was originally an important seaport and a shipbuilding base in ancient times. How could Sun Xin not make a fuss about this?After his power expands, the shipbuilding industry here, as a part of the industry, will definitely flourish.

Meng Kang originally planned to have a small celebration, but Sun Xin was overjoyed when he heard the news, and decided to pull all the famous people in Sun's family village to Dengzhou Port to see the ribbon-cutting of the arrow sailing boat.

Sun Xin's shipbuilding workshop is not in the main port of Dengzhou Port, but in a small seaport with a relatively deep draft in the east of Dengzhou City. Sun Xin had already circled this place for the people of Sunjiazhuang. Came here to build a small dock.

Sun Xin's eyes also brightened when he saw the completed sailboat.

He hadn't seen any large ships in his previous life, and this ship, which was the average size of the Song Dynasty at this time, was already a colossus in his eyes.

Meng Kang introduced the difficulties encountered in the manufacture of this ship to everyone. The shipbuilding skills he said were already technologies that could be included in the intangible cultural heritage even for the shipbuilding industry in Xiao's previous life. I was confused, but I can roughly know that the biggest problem Meng Kang is building this sailboat is that there is not such a big keel. In the end, he and Tao Zongwang worked together for a long time before using the method of splicing to make the keel of the big ship. from.

Yubangan Mengkang said that because different woods have different degrees of water absorption and deformation, even two pieces of the same wood in different ages will deform to different degrees after absorbing water. A slight deformation of the keel of a built ship may cause the entire ship The structure of the hull is squeezed and broken, and the keels that are put together have to be soaked in seawater for a long time, which is a very strong test for carpentry skills.

In the end, Meng Kang said that he and Tao Zongwang had solved this problem, and now the sailboat in front of them can sail smoothly for decades without any problem.

Sun Xin doesn't understand these things at all, so he wholeheartedly believes in those who understand, and in short, just experiment boldly.

When the big ship was launched, Sun Xin did not mention such things as throwing wine jars on the bow like later generations.Sailing has been a narrow escape since ancient times. People at sea are extremely serious about their beliefs. Sun Xin knew that if he proposed a new ceremony rashly, it would not be taboo for prisoners. Anyway, it is a ritual activity for sailors. Just respect the meaning of the sailors.

Shen Yun and Meng Kang were officiates, invited the Dragon King once on the boat, burned incense and fired cannons before sending the big boat into the sea.

The huge hull was sent into the sea by rolling logs, and instantly tilted due to inertia, and the heartbeats of the people who watched it slowed down a beat. Fortunately, after the moment of tilting, the whole ship gradually straightened due to gravity, and finally the ship came to a steady stop. On the water, Meng Kang hurried up to get a basin of water to test the balance of the boat.

The accuracy of a large hand-built ship is very difficult to grasp even in later generations. After testing for a long time, Meng Kang nodded and said that the ship was stable and stable on the sea, and the centerline and keel were on the same line. Go down to the cabin to see if there is a leak.

It was already afternoon when the last inspection was completed, and Shen Yun took a few sailors who had practiced sailing skills on the small experimental ship for a while to sail the ship away from the port with the help of the sea breeze.

(End of this chapter)