Chapter 34 Mao's Workshop
Fuguo Railway has suddenly become the busiest businessman in the past few days, thanks to the gift orders from County Magistrate Xu.
Speaking of which, Mr. Kang, who suddenly became famous, was also very busy, but he was traveling through the officialdom and the people, busy working for the firefighting of the County Magistrate Xu. Mr. Kang had a special identity. He was a Han Chinese, but married a woman from the Yao family. A legendary story was almost well-known in Xinhua after two versions of the interpretation. In the eyes of the people, Mr. Kang was definitely a man with affection, righteousness and responsibility. In addition, he was also portrayed in his talent, wisdom and wisdom, and suddenly became a god-level figure worshipped by the people.
Since Mr. Kang is now at its peak, Mr. Kang is a son-in-law of the Han family and a son-in-law of the Yao family. He can represent both the Han people and the Yao people. Now he has been authorized by County Magistrate Xu, and even the official representatives are also represented. Mr. Kang combines three representatives in his sixties. Although he is in his sixties, he still works hard to mediate the conflicts between Han and Yao. This sincerity is touching. Moreover, due to Mr. Kang's current famous god-level influence, all parties have bought it so far. Currently, Mr. Kang is negotiating a solution with all parties. It is said that he has considered the interests of all parties, as if all parties are also considering accepting it. If this is the case, a sensation will quietly disappear.
Mr. Kang was very busy! So, for the order for the gift from County Magistrate Xu, Mr. Kang naturally handed over to the Fuguo Railway, the most commercial talent of the Fuguo Railway. The Fuguo Railway lived up to expectations and indeed performed the duties of running errands and threading needles.
In the Song Dynasty, the production of wax paper engraving equipment can be regarded as a systematic project with all the hearts. It is really difficult for Fuguo Railway to arrange it in an orderly manner. Mao Geng felt that if this continues, the fat Fuguo Railway will have the potential to be a general manager.
The production of ink was distributed to the Dun Family. With Wen Yuan's guidance, the Dun Family's next business was not difficult. Together with tea oil removing color and smell, the Dun Family made great achievements in these two items, and naturally the biggest beneficiary besides supporting the family.
The blacksmith Li Song came to Baixi with empty hands. He relied on Fu's family to help buy some tools to find a blacksmith shop. After being bewitched by Fuguo Tie, this blacksmith shop became a business of Fu's family and Li Song's wealth. Li Song accounted for 80% and Fu's family accounted for only 20%. However, with this one, Li Song could not create engraving steel plates for other families.
Fujia also hired a carpenter to make a mimeograph according to Mao Geng's prototype. So far, the main links of the wax paper engraving industry chain have been firmly in Fujia's hands.
The Su family did not get nothing. The production of chalk was distributed to the Su family. This was a reward for the unconditional support of the Su family on that day. However, the remaining thirteen kilograms of cement in the west wing were mixed into gypsum, and the chalk produced was very limited, so they could only barely meet the needs of the magistrate of the county magistrate at all levels.
No matter what, it is only enough to deal with the gifts from County Magistrate Xu.
All of this was Mao Geng's suggestion, but it was arranged by Mr. Kang on the surface, and he passed the message through running errands, and everything was done by Fuguo Railway.
This arrangement fully reflects the principle of equalizing interests. In fact, the support of the family still accounts for the majority. With Mr. Kang's temperament, of course, he has to rely on Mao Geng.
Mao Geng felt that it is the most natural thing to bind the appropriate interests of these three families. There is no love for no reason in the world. It can only be said that these three families have a rare fate with them. The immediate advantage is that their safety can be more powerfully guaranteed. In the long run, if you need funds and manpower, the potential of these three families must be stimulated.
Speaking of carpenters, Fu Guoxi has a candidate, who is Fu Guoxi's wife and brother-in-law, Tan Xiuzhu's second brother. Nowadays, it is natural that relatives recommend each other. Mao Geng felt that Fu Guoxi's praise should not be too bad, so he naturally accepted it happily.
Mao Geng wanted to test-made an upgraded mimeograph and coking. Fu Guoxi was unable to implement it. Now that he had money, he decided to build a simple bamboo building nearby and build a workshop that he could fully arrange.
Fuguo Tie was quite willing to be a supporting role, and immediately left three subordinates to cooperate with Mao Geng's plan. He thought to himself that there was nothing wrong with reliance on Mao Geng. There were many young people, and it might also bring a huge profit to Fu family.
After taking a walk around, Mao Geng finally chose a place downstream of the stream, which is less than two miles away from Fu Guoxi's house. Standing in front of Fujia's house, you can pay attention to this place at any time, and you can echo each other when you have something to do. The stream next to Fujia gathered another stream in the middle, and when it flowed here, the water flow was much richer. Mao Geng chose the address of the new workshop in the section with the largest drop of the stream. In this era, water power is the best power, and there is no reason not to be used properly.
The bamboo house designed by Mao Geng adopts an overhead design, and there are no tourist attractions such as folk villages in later generations. The Dai bamboo house design is very distinctive, so I can learn from it. However, Mao Geng did not design the overhead layer so high, just sixty or seventy centimeters away from the ground, just to isolate the ground atmosphere. This way, it is not necessary to make the ground level and there is no need to use wood as the load-bearing component. First, use Danan bamboo as the main bearing component, build a frame, and then leave the doors, windows and aisles bit by bit like weaving bamboo rows, lay bamboo rows, and cover it with thatch. Five simple bamboo houses were built in three days.
When building these four bamboo houses, the carpenter Tan Chengzhu and his family made great efforts. In this era when there were few nails, especially when there was no nail shooting machine at all, carpenters could only use mortise and joints to fix bamboo and wood. Carpenters with superb skills could use mortise and joints to perfection.
According to Mao Geng, Tan Chengzhu had a special talent in this regard, but saw him peeling out a tenon and taking out a tenon from another bamboo. With a snap, the two bamboo tubes were connected together tightly. Tan Chengzhu's two sons were also very strong, one was strong and the other was skillful. The key was to be willing to endure hardships, and it seemed that they could inherit Nai's father's craftsmanship.
The Fu Guoxi family and Tan Xiuzhu family were mobilized to make wax paper. Mao Geng only demonstrated the method of making wax paper, and Tan Xiuzhu mastered the trick. Moreover, the wax paper made by Tan Xiuzhu afterwards was even better than Mao Geng made.
Mao Geng sighed that the Tan brothers are all amazing geniuses in terms of craftsmanship.
On the fourth day, Mao Geng added another blacksmith. The blacksmith was named Huang, and was the wife of Tan Chengzhu, and from Anhua. Mao Geng tried it. This man was average in his skills, but he was better than brute force and reliable. Blacksmiths are also scarce talents these days, so Mao Geng certainly had no reason to refuse. For Huang Blacksmith, Mao Geng's first task was to make a circular saw blade. Mao Geng's plan was to use a hydraulic circular saw machine and a hydraulic lathe. Of course, these two hydraulic machinery was limited to dealing with bamboo and wood, but this was Mao Geng's guarantee equipment to ensure that the mimeograph machine was made into high-quality guarantee equipment.
So, while Mao Geng began to try burning the charcoal, he began to try to make the second generation mimeograph.
Two days later, Fu Guogang, the fourth son of Fu family, brought two more people to help. According to Fu Guogang, more than 70 sets of wax paper engraving orders were added. Because the "Baixi Academy Journal" and the revised "New Chemistry Journal" were circulated, the deeds of Kang Lao and the magical wax paper engraving were also famous in these places. It is not up to be said about Anhua and Yiyang. Even Guiyang had a keen businessman who came to Xinhua and followed the map directly to find the original inventor Kang Lao who praised the academic journal for a long and long article, and wanted to buy this magical wax paper engraving equipment.
Mr. Kang was very busy and didn't care about these common things. Naturally, Fuguo Railway was receiving it again. When Fuguo Railway saw that someone came to buy, he had to start the price. This time it was not an official purchase, and 10% of the commercial tax was inevitable. Fuguo Railway was timid and raised the price to 12 guan. Unexpectedly, no buyer bargained, which made Fuguo Railway regret it. If he had known that it would be better to directly increase to 15 guan. He would have made two hundred guan less at once, and he couldn't help but feel very painful.
If this continues, I am afraid that the next order will never be short, so Fuguogang came to support Mao Geng. According to Fuguozhi, it is necessary to launch the second-generation high-end mimeograph as soon as possible. At that time, he can legitimately increase the price to fifteen kilns.
However, in Mao Geng's eyes, the good news about new orders and price increases this time was secondly. This time, Fu Geng also brought samples of gray-black luminescent stones and impenetrable black charcoal. It can basically be confirmed that the gray-black luminescent stones are antimony ore, and impenetrable black charcoal is graphite, especially graphite, which made Mao Geng overjoyed.
Mao Geng handed over the last 100 stakes to Fuguo Railway for 80 stakes, so that Fuguo Railway would pay attention to it. As long as you find these two things, you would buy them quietly. In addition, the message was sent to the Dun and Su families. If the two families found these two things, they must hoard them.
Two days later, the coke was burned, and Mao Geng sent people to start preparing for antimony and sintering pencil cores. Mao Geng himself focused on trial-making graphite crucibles, and in addition, he made a plan to ask Tan Chengzhu to make a hydraulic centrifugal wooden blower. Mao Geng decided to try the crucible steelmaking.
This time, Fu Guogang also brought two recent issues of "New Chemistry Journal". When Mao Geng saw that there was another one of the deeds of Mr. Kang on it, that was, he successfully mediated the conflict between Han and Yao. He originally asked Mr. Kang to try the mediation, but he didn't expect the effect to be so significant. In addition, Mr. Kang himself already had a strong halo, and the Su family, Fu family, and Dun family came forward. The government strongly promoted the village, and the Feng family also had to sing the same tune as the government. This matter was easy to deal with. At least the three Su, Fu and Dun families were effective in speaking on the Yao people's side. After all, the Han people were more inclined to reason. With Mr. Kang, a famous person today, mediated, the government took out some money to comfort him, and the incident was roughly calmed down.
At the same time, the "New Chemical Journal" published an article signed by Mr. Kang, claiming that there are gold or silver ores in Xinhua are purely misleading, but these two things are useful, and their value will not be lower than that of carbonite. They should be negotiated by the newly established mining guild, supervised by the government, and mined by buying puffs. This is a move to remove firewood from the bottom of the cauldron. Originally, after the mine veins were discovered, they should be restored to their true colors. Mao Geng thought that he had gone to the Song Dynasty to spread rumors and caused adverse consequences, so he felt a little fevered.
Mr. Kang is now publicly elected as the honorary head of the Xinhua Mining and Metallurgical Association, so this proposal is naturally easy to pass. Besides, without gold and silver mines, many people who are interested in it have become less concerned. However, the veins of both minerals have emerged. The Su family, the Dun family, and the Fu family are all trying to participate in buying pum. It is no problem to mine antimony ore and graphite ore, and the conflict between Han and Yao must be stopped in time.
The situation finally did not evolve into uncontrollable, but he could not return to Baixi for a while. It is said that someone was watching this matter. Mao Geng thought, was this a political fight or a framed rival? When he thought of it, he simply did not think about it and was just busy with his own technical work. By the way, he had endless things to do.
There are actually various new stories in "New Chemistry Journal". Mao Geng was busy and didn't pay attention.
The next day, Fuguo returned and brought a horse team to bring the things that Mao Geng wanted on the list. Unexpectedly, Su Zhiyan, who also came with him, and Su Zhiyan's cousin Su Zhidao also visited together. The simple Mao Family Workshop suddenly became bright and glorious.
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Chapter completed!