Chapter 278: Stepping down Everyone discussed until daybreak, then went back to rest with full enthusiasm.
Immediately, they started working in full swing according to the agreed upon strategy.
Among all departments, the busiest one, apart from the government offices in the three big cities of Yangzhou, Huai'an and Gaoyou, is undoubtedly the Work Bureau in charge of Huang Laowai.
According to the latest division of responsibilities of the subordinate departments of the General Administration, the Engineering Academy that Jiao Yu is responsible for, also known as the Grand Craftsman Academy, is only responsible for the research and development of new weapons and new products, while the specific manufacturing and construction of related factories and workshops are completely left to the The Work Bureau will be responsible.
Referring to the system since the Tang and Song Dynasties, building roads and cities, farming and controlling floods, and mining and textiles all fell under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry.
Huang Lao Wai is so worried that he can't straighten his waist.
He seems to be carrying a mountain of Five Elements every day.
His face is pale and he walks unsteadily.
"Don't be in a hurry.
No matter how many things you do, you have to do it little by little.
If you do one thing, you will lose one thing.
When this imperial examination is over, I will send you another helper."
Zhu Chongjiu saw this and of course he couldn't ignore it.
I found an opportunity to bring Lu Zeng and Jiao Yu to the Work Bureau to help Huang Lao Wai solve his problems.
"Yes, Governor."
Huang Lao tilted his head and gritted his teeth.
He knew what level he was at and wanted Zhu Chongjiu to hire someone else.
But I really couldn't bear to give it to someone else for the position I had paid for with my life.
After being furious for a long time, I finally squeezed out a sentence through my teeth, "You are a villain, I have a humble position, I, I, I must do my best.
I would rather die of exhaustion than embarrass the governor."
"I don't want you to work to death."
Zhu Chongjiu smiled, putting himself in Huang Laowai's shoes and thinking of ideas for him, "You are an official now, so you can't do everything yourself.
Some things can be left to the three government offices.
Their There is a corresponding workshop nearby, and they should obey your command.
In addition, you can send your subordinates to do some things.
As long as you set the standards for them in advance, if they fail to meet the standards, they will be punished to do it again. , there is no need to do everything personally.”
When he mentioned the word "standard", he suddenly remembered something, patted his head, and asked in a low voice: "Has the rulers used in making firearms in your work bureau unified now?
Why do you use the fire guns produced in the workshop?"
, it’s hard to find two that are exactly the same thickness.”
"Already, we have tried our best to unify it."
Upon hearing this, Huang Laowai felt sweat rolling down his forehead.
Blushing, he responded loudly, "It's just that every craftsman now uses a hand drill and a small hammer in the last step of processing the barrel.
The strength is different, so the thickness of the barrel is also different.
Also, still Now the Grand Craftsman Academy wants to use a heavenly ruler, but everyone is used to using an official ruler, so sometimes they get screwed up and there are differences."
This involved coordination between the two departments, as well as daily management within the workshop.
Zhu Chongjiu had to personally decide, "What is the official ruler of the sky ruler?
What is the difference between the two?"
"The heavenly ruler is short and the official ruler is long.
When people used to make knives and farm household items, they usually used the official ruler, and few people used the heavenly ruler.
However, Master Jiao recently, for some unknown reason, insisted on changing all the official rulers.
A whole day's ruler won't work."
Huang Laowai thought for a while and responded with a blushing face.
"The celestial ruler is used to measure the sun's shadow.
It is far more accurate than the official ruler."
Although Jiao Yu was a technology geek, he refused to let Huang Laowai complain.
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Come over immediately and explain loudly.
"Measure the sun shadow" Zhu Chongjiu was confused and repeated with a frown.
"It is used for calendar calculation and stargazing.
Since the Song Dynasty, the celestial ruler has almost remained unchanged."
Lu Zeng listened and explained for Jiao Yu with a smile.
"In order to rebuild the Daming Calendar, Guo Shoujing set up more than 20 observatories across the country.
There are countless standard watches.
The heavenly rulers assigned to each standard watch are based on the same mother ruler.
Each standard ruler is engraved with The length of the heavenly ruler is the same."
Note 1 "Isn't this the standard weights and measures?"
Zhu Chongjiu was ecstatic when he heard this, and he blurted out the words with emotion, "I was just thinking about how to do it.
Just take it and use it, Master Jiao, Lao Huang, we don't need to distinguish between heaven and earth in the future. , all rulers, They are all made by the Engineering Academy, and the length is directly compared to the sky ruler.
First, a master ruler is made of fine steel, and other rulers are sent out in batches regularly, and the previous batch is recycled to each place in Huaiyang. , all based on the ruler issued by the Academy of Engineering.”
If you want to promote the industrialization process, standardization of weights and measures is a step that must be completed.
With Zhu Chongjiu's current ability and level, it is obviously impossible to adopt another international standard unit of time and space.
But based on the existing weights and measures, it is easy to choose the one that requires the least change as the standard.
The difficulty lies only in the intensity of promotion and the degree of acceptance among the people.
With the monopoly operation of government-run workshops and Huaiyang trading houses, this problem has been easily solved.
As long as the items produced by large monopolistic state-owned enterprises, that is, government-run workshops and Huaiyang merchant houses, will all use Tianchi.
Calibration is carried out every six months and is carried out by the Engineering Academy.
The deviated ruler was taken back and replaced with a new one made of all steel.
Other small traders and hawkers will have to follow suit.
Otherwise, they will not be able to integrate into the system and get a piece of the pie.
Money is the most evil thing.
Using it as a driving force often results in twice the result with half the effort.
It is found that only by following the standards of large monopolistic state-owned enterprises can we make better money.
The length standards in private transactions will naturally change accordingly, without the need for forceful push by the government.
After having a standard ruler, the following inches, minutes, centimeters, and millimeters can be subdivided using decimal systems.
Above the chi, according to convention, it is zhang, yin, and li.
As long as the most basic unit of length, the chi, is determined first, it can be calculated smoothly.
Of course, from the perspective of the 21st century in another time and space, this standard still seems very crude.
But it is enough to meet the current manufacturing needs.
At least, after a period of forced implementation, the products of all monopoly workshops will reach a relatively consistent level.
Most parts of each firecracker will basically meet the requirements of interchangeability.
Instead of like now, almost every gun is independent and has no connection with anyone.
After unifying the units of length, the next natural step is weight.
This standard selection is much simpler.
Due to the careful manufacturing, many Kaiyuan Tongbao from the early Tang Dynasty can be found on the market.
Each piece is one coin, ten pieces is one tael, and one hundred and sixty pieces is one pound.
On the afternoon of the second day after Zhu Chongjiu enforced a unified length standard, he sent people to collect tens of thousands of Kaiyuan Tongbao.
He took it to the Engineering Academy, cleaned it carefully with Jiao Yu and others, and divided it into several piles in groups of 160 pieces.
Then the weight of each pile of copper coins was measured in turn, summed up and then averaged.
Naturally, the difference between the standard pound and the currently popular weight unit was obtained.
"Take thirty-two thousand Kaiyuan Tongbao and divide it into groups, and calculate it repeatedly in the same way as before.
Then, every three hundred and twenty coins, which is the original two catties, is one catty, and each large catty is divided into one thousand parts.
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Zhu Chongjiu declared savagely to give full play to his advantage as a big warlord and to act arbitrarily in his territory for one gram.
"Repeat the measurement several times.
Refer to the balance measurement method I just taught you.
Within ten days, you must get me the standard weights of one hundred grams, ten grams and grams.
Then the weapons workshop, Just use big catty, hundred grams, ten grams and grams as the standard, and the minimum accuracy is grams.
As for outside, we will continue to use catty, liang and money.
When we start to mint money ourselves, we will slowly find a way to unify it."
Rough, very rough.
According to his calculation, every standard Yangzhou kilogram in the future is actually equivalent to 1,024 grams in another time and space, which is a full 2.4 percentage points more.
However, in order to make the new unit more acceptable to this time and space, he could only ignore the extra twenty-four grams first, and then slowly find a way to calibrate it later.
"Yes."
The replies from Jiao Yu, Huang Laowai and others immediately brought a bit of ecstasy.
In this era, the profit from making money was very high.
The two of them had proposed many times to request the Huaiyang Grand Manager to make money themselves.
The use of hydraulic rollers, hydraulic forging hammers and molds can save at least half of the energy consumption compared to the government's casting method.
And once Yangzhou's minted money can be circulated in the market, there will be more tricks inside.
If the proportion of copper and lead is reduced casually, the money profit can be increased by half a percent without outsiders being able to see it.
"Don't always think about getting rich.
The money you make will go to Huaiyang Company first and will not fall into the hands of you two."
With one sentence, Zhu Chongjiu completely shattered their dreams of getting rich.
"Yeah."
The two looked at each other and agreed sadly.
However, everyone has the same decision in mind.
If there is an opportunity in the future, we must promote the business of water-power money making.
However, Zhu Chongba didn't care what the two of them had in mind, so he just went all out and forced the two of them and the only few master craftsmen to work with him to divide the standard temperature units.
With glass and mercury, we can barely get it out using the boiling water measurement method.
It's just that it took a lot of effort to divide it, reworked it more than 20 times, and made corrections more than 100 times.
Of all the standard units, the easiest is time.
The sundials adopted in this era have divided time very finely.
Every day is divided into twelve hours and ninety-six quarters.
Each hour is equivalent to two hours in Zhu Dapeng's time and space, and each quarter is fifteen minutes.
Each half-quarter is one word, which is almost seven and a half minutes.
"No words, use minutes and breaths."
Zhu Chongjiu once again showed his true nature as a warlord, savagely abolishing the "words" and forcibly dividing each moment into fifteen equal parts, and then using auxiliary items such as hourglasses and water clocks to divide one minute into Ten copies were made, each of which was temporarily named one breath.
To be more precise would be beyond our capabilities.
No hourglass, water clock or sundial can meet higher requirements.
But for now, it's enough.
Even the work of building cannons and forging plate armor, which require the most control of time, only needs to be accurate to half a minute, that is, five breaths is enough.
No matter how precise it is, it is already superfluous.
Time flies so fast in the busyness.
When Zhu Chongjiu determined the standard time unit information and walked out of the Engineering Academy again, it was already mid-March.
In more than half a month, Shen Wansan's fleet has delivered the first batch of 100,000 shi of grain, and at the ratio of 10,000 shi of grain per artillery, which is equivalent to 10,000 guan of copper coins, it has hauled away ten six-pound cannons. gun.
Jiangwanchu, facing Shazhou Island, has already turned into a huge construction site.
Tens of thousands of people are busy here every day, sweating profusely for a new life.
The first batch of large water trucks moved to the Jiangwan area, driven by the water of the Yangtze River, also began to rotate strongly and powerfully, pulling out the simple rifling of copper-tired steel-core cannons one after another, and then One by one, they were mounted on two-wheeled artillery carts that could be fixed in place at any time, and rolled out from the factory Note 2 Note 1: Ground ruler, the measurement standard used on the silhouette platform created by Guo Shoujing.
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Each foot is equivalent to 245 centimeters today.
The scales on standard watches all over the world are uniform and very accurate.
Astronomical measurements in the Ming Dynasty also adopted the same standard.
Until Manqing enters the customs.
Quoted from the history of ancient Chinese metrology Note 2: In this time and space, after Zhu Yuanzhang unified the world, he also revised weights and measures and forcibly promoted them.
Neither officials nor civilians are allowed to use measuring tools other than those specified by the imperial court.
This made ancient Chinese measurement standards further precise
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