Xu Shu also knew Zhuge Liang's power, so he did not dare to underestimate the other party's opinions just because he was seven or eight years old. He listened carefully to them.

Zhuge Liang was not polite, first of all, pointed out that Xu Shu had problems with the overall planning and layout of this "water truck industrial zone".

Zhuge Liang pointed to several water trucks on both sides of the river embankment with a relatively steep slope in the upstream water flow, and said, "Brother Yuanzhi, look, the parking lots that are the most turbulent and are most affected by the drop in the water level, you have arranged for the spinning water trucks.

The extra parking spaces out of the downstream are relatively flat and have a small impact, but they are less affected by the drop in the water level, so you leave them to the mill and forging hammer workshops. This is a waste of water power.

The thrust required for the water wheel to spin is not large, and the pursuit of stable output and long duration. In contrast, the grinding surface and wrought iron require a large output, but the processing volume required may not be large, but the idle season is also longer. How can you make full use of the water energy in your arrangement? While the spinning machine in the water wheel has not been installed, it is still time to change it."

When Xu Shu heard this, he had some truth, but he could still refute it only with this level of pointing out: "There are no iron ore ore ore found in this place of Xiliang, and there is not much demand for wrought iron.

As for the milling noodles, only the wheat produced in the Lanzhou River Valley will be transported to the mill, and there is not much weight. The other wheat produced in Huangzhong, Kuanghan, and Hexi are not enough. Of course, I have to give priority to the water trucks used for spinning. In the next three to five years, the number of spinning water trucks here will not be enough for the cotton production in the entire Huangzhong and Hexi."

Zhuge Liang shook his head: "I heard from the king that you should not do anything because of small good deeds. Even if there are fewer needs, it is not completely gone. When planning, you should separate the planning area based on whether the various industries need to be strong and short when they are short or long when they are small.

Let’s not say much about this, let’s talk about the only spinning waterwheels that have already started construction. Look, there are so many messy cotton goods piled up in the entire site, including lint and raw cotton, and there is also a factory with elastic cotton seed combing lint next to it. It is very messy. Once the output of the combing lint link is higher, the spinning link will be piled up with congestion..."

Xu Shu quickly defended: "This is a temporary confusion. Isn't this because of the past winter when the water wheel could not rotate and could not spin? But the cotton was collected in autumn and September again, so he had to postpone the acquisition and spin it when there is water here in spring.

However, there is no regularity in counties and private business travelers to collect cotton, so the piles are chaotic. When the water truck turns and runs for a few months, all the accumulated amount of winter idleness to be processed will be digested, and this will not be the case."

Not to mention, Xu Shu's extensive management model of "if I can't digest it, let the suppliers not supply me first", actually achieved "zero inventory" similar to the later "Toyota lean production" of "sixth inventory". Anyway, if I can't use it, don't give it to me.

But this "zero inventory" actually pushes more stagnant pressure and chaos in the logistics link to small producers who are less organized. From a global perspective, it is even more chaotic. Li Su and Zhuge Liang can see that there are already many cotton sellers in the nearby towns.

Of course, this cannot be blamed on Xu Shu. It can only be said that he has poor mathematical coordination skills. He has implemented such cumbersome civil affairs plans in the first year, and once he gets busy, it is easy for the authorities to be confused.

Zhuge Liang shook his head and continued, "I want to say that the government orders for collecting cotton should be unified. For example, telling the people of the surrounding counties that the official workshops here mainly collect raw cotton without combing. As for whether the process of cotton-fueled seeds should be completed by the people and cotton merchants, you can consider it yourself.

Then, we should build more warehouses here, don’t be afraid of inventory, and let the court allocate a sum of funds as an inventory deposit for overcollecting cotton. This land in Lanzhou is still in the wilderness and the land is not valuable. What is the cost of building more warehouses?

At worst, I would store cotton in stock for winter. After the cotton was harvested in batches from July to September every year, it would not matter even if it was in the dry season. In winter, let the people comb into lint in the official cotton combing workshop first, which would just hire the people to earn some extra money for cotton combing.

After the water volume in spring is abundant, the stock accumulated over the winter is spinning out. It is orderly and can only occupy a deposit, but it can facilitate the people. It also solves the problem of seasonal misalignment of idle time of machine and idle time of manpower. In Master Li's words, this is called "using the inefficiency of funds for high efficiency of people's power". It is not me that when it comes to organizational production resources, Brother Yuanzhi, your level is far worse than my second sister!"

People who don’t know how to do business may not understand all Zhuge Liang’s criticism, but no matter what, they can definitely see that Zhuge Liang’s mathematical coordination ability is very powerful.

In addition, although the interest rate of usury in ancient times seemed to be very high, and at least 50% of the interest rate was collected a year. In fact, the additional cost of large amounts of funds was not large. Because the money flow rate was very low, many landlords hid gold, silver and copper coins at home and were idle, and there were very few people who could find lending objects.

The reason why interest rates are high is that the risk of not being able to be collected is very high. Many farmers are desperate to borrow high-interest food to survive the famine. Many people still starve to death after borrowing, and many people die of illness. There are also many cases of disasters in recent years. How can they repay the death of people after they die?

Therefore, Zhuge Liang suggested that the government should use reserve funds to purchase goods and increase inventory and reduce the chaos in the supply chain, which is completely feasible.

When Xu Shu arrived at this point, he completely admired the other party in this regard. He really claimed to know some strategy, but he was just a qualitative analysis and did not have Zhuge Liang's habit of quantitative analysis and mathematical analysis.

After all, the math level of the two is more than one era, and the Zhuge family is already the third largest wealthy merchant family in the world.

Zhuge Liang's second sister's business is smaller than that of Mi Zhu and the Zhen family. She can already compete with the top wealthy merchants on Yuan Shao's territory. Perhaps it is not as good as Cao Cao's official seaship caravan, but it is a "central enterprise" that has been built by gathering all the financial support of a prince and cannot be compared with private enterprises.

Xu Shu humbly chatted with Zhuge Liang for a while, listened to several planning opinions given to him by Zhuge Liang, as well as some equipment improvements.

The two of them quickly discovered some planning problems caused by Xu Shu's poor mathematics, such as the lack of an estimate of the total cotton output in the private sector during the autumn harvest last year, which led to Xu Shu's heartlessness of whether the cotton is enough for these spinning wheel workshops this year's annual processing volume.

Last winter, due to the purchase and squeezing, and the inventory was not established in time, Xu Shu used most of the cotton that had no time to process and spin as fillings for cotton jackets, and directly made cotton jackets. Of course, the decision was not wrong, because a considerable number of cotton jackets were used by soldiers in front, and contributed to the time when Ma Chao rushed to Juyan Beach to chase Guo Si, which made many fewer elite cavalry that froze to death.

However, from the perspective of industrial planning and internal affairs, it is just a mistake. Logically speaking, accounts and capacity estimates should be established, and the ratio of filling cotton and spinning cotton should also be calculated.

Because I didn't do this last year, the temporary backlog of quilts was used as filling cotton. Zhuge Liang calculated the accounts a little and found that Xu Shu could still buy it later. The cotton that ordinary people had not had time to sell out after the autumn harvest last year was not enough to feed the spinning water trucks that had been built in Liujiaxia.

The lint may be spun around May this year, and the subsequent water truck will only be idle for two months. After the autumn harvest, this year's new cotton will come down. This is the disadvantage of not establishing a warehouse for at least one year of cotton spinning, and it is also the disadvantage of not estimating the total output of private cotton.

Xu Shu kept this in mind because it was not his final say. He had to go directly to the prefect of Lanzhou to report to Guan Yu, the governor of Liangzhou, and ask Guan Yu to start making up for the loss of the sheep this year. He ordered the county magistrates and county magistrates in Xiliang to report the data on "how much of the total cotton output is expected in their jurisdiction this year" from now on.

In order to develop the textile industry, this is to prepare all the prototypes of the work that the Statistics Bureau should do in advance.

Finally, Zhuge Liang did not forget to take out his improved hydraulic spinning machine and portable wood processing lathes, which were very helpful to Xu Shu's industrial construction.

Especially the lathe of the car wood, after Zhuge Liang improved it again, there were many more variant machines. Not only were there cars, but also rotating saw blades, but they were also driven by foot. The flat wood sawed is much faster than a hand-pulled large saw, which can greatly improve the working efficiency of batch processing of wood.

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Xu Shu wrote down all the opinions Zhuge Liang pointed out. After he was about to finish, he noticed that the junior sister was still next to him and seemed to have some experiences. Since Xu Shu's attitude has been minimized today, he doesn't care about it and asks Huang Yueying humbly.

Huang Yueying also helped him find out a few problems: "Senior brother, since you are in Lanzhou, you can't use water trucks for four months a year, so you should remove the water wheels for the whole winter. Otherwise, it will be exposed to wind and sand, and the autumn will be soaked in winter and then exposed to strong winds, which will age and damage too quickly.

Although I don’t know much, I have also seen a car accident in Jingzhou. I have made my own wooden structure. You don’t even have this common sense. When I store the water wheel in a special warehouse in winter, I remember to pile up some lime in the corner of the wall to collect the tide. Also, Brother Liang just taught the craftsmen to use their footsteps to pedal the circular saws. Why did they learn this?

Huang Yueying was young and had no scheming, and she was the age of just graduating from the sixth grade of elementary school and going to the first grade of junior high school. Of course, she would not save face for Xu Shu. Even if she only knew one point, she would pretend to understand two points and point fingers.

The little girl's temper is full of strength, competitive and teacher.

Fortunately, Xu Shu also knew about Huang Yueying's temper and chose to accept it completely and completely, just treat it as if it had it, and if it didn't, it would be encouraged.

Finally, even Li Su saw the young man not ethics and was too unwilling to save face for his senior brothers. He could not bear it. After Huang Yueying finished speaking, he helped Xu Shu to smooth things over:

"Okay, okay, what you said makes sense, but don't do anything like Yuan Zhi. In general, the results must be affirmed. Xiliang is bitter and cold, and it is not easy to stay here for a winter.

Insider affairs, especially those pioneering things that have not been done by our predecessors, do more mistakes and do not do good things. Where can we get the opportunity to make mistakes? So don’t be afraid of making mistakes, just rectify those small problems.”

Xu Shu was humble and unrestrained: "The right general doesn't have to hide it for me. Zhuge Lingshi and Junior Sister Huang's eyes are really vicious, and their experience is not what he deserves. It's really amazing. Xu is really convinced today."
Chapter completed!