In the first year of the Tianqi period, the Spring Festival is very lively.

The eunuchs and palace maids in the palace all started various celebrations, including banquets and other banquets, and all the staff in the palace could attend the banquet, which was very lively for a while.

This is an event that is annual.

This year is particularly lively, with eunuchs and palace maids all having real smiles on their faces. Zhu Youxiao was in the palace and was too lazy to entertain the ministers.

Those Donglin Party have any good banquets, and they are upset when they see them.

"Your Majesty, the craftsmen you summoned from various provinces have arrived." Li Jinzhong reported to Zhu Youxiao, who asked, "How many people have come?"

"There are 500 people in total." Li Jinzhong replied.

"It's the New Year." Zhu Youxiao immediately ordered: "Arrang them to the dormitory of the military factory, and then send each person a red envelope, and give 3 taels of silver!"

"Yes, the emperor." Li Jinzhong hurriedly went to do it.

During this period, Li Jinzhong has been responsible for supervising the construction of the military factory. He circled a large piece of land outside Beijing and built factories and dormitories on it.

At this time, the craftsmen also arrived. Zhu Youxiao left the palace on the sixth day of the first lunar month and went to inspect the military factory outside the city. This time, Zhu Youxiao left the palace with the emperor's ceremonial guard.

As a result, when he arrived at the city gate, he was stopped by a group of Donglin Party ministers.

"Your Majesty, where are you going?" Yang Lian asked out of the line, and Zhu Youxiao said, "I went out of the city to patrol the military factory. You stopped me here. Wouldn't you allow me to leave the city?"

"How dare you? It's just that you must give us a decree before you leave the city, otherwise the ministers will not be relieved. After all, the country cannot be without a king for a day." Yang Lian said calmly without any fear on his face.

"I'll go back when I go, don't worry." Zhu Youxiao waved his hand, "You can't make way out."

"I obey the order." Yang Lian and others asked aside, and the emperor was able to leave the city. However, a group of ministers followed behind, like followers.

Zhu Youxiao looked back and just ignored them.

When I arrived outside, I saw an area surrounded by walls. There was a sign hanging at the entrance with the words "Royal Military Factory".

There were several Jinyiwei standing at the door. The emperor went in directly. The ministers behind him didn't know what the emperor was doing, and wanted to go in and take a look, but were stopped by Jinyiwei.

"Idle people stop, this is a military important place and cannot enter." An Jinyiwei pulled out half of the embroidered spring sword, and the noses of a group of ministers were pissed.

Yang Lian stepped forward and said angrily: "We are ministers in the court. If you have the ability, you will cut me down."

The Jinyiwei was a little at a loss for a moment.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way." Yang Lian stretched out his hand and pushed the Jinyiwei aside. The name of the Saint Seiya of the Donglin Party was not a waste of time. The Jinyiwei was helpless in the face of the Donglin Party's tantrum. While trying his best to block it, he hurried in to report to the emperor.

"Let them come in! How can you be so stubborn as a minister in the court?" Zhu Youxiao said in a joke tone. The military factory was just ready and there was nothing good to look at.

Soon a group of ministers came in and looked around for a while. I saw that many sheds had been built in the military factory, and many craftsmen were beating and making various military weapons.

At the same time, there are still many factories under construction, and the entire military factory is in full swing.

Zhu Youxiao was inspecting the production of craftsmen, and soon Zhu Youxiao discovered some improvements. These craftsmen often made a piece of armor or weapon alone, and the technical requirements required were relatively comprehensive.

"Prince, if the military factory wants to produce 6,000 armored armor and 6,000 sets of vests, Su Gang still needs to purchase a batch." Yang Qianshan, who is in charge of the military factory management, is the eunuch in charge of the military war bureau, and is only in his early twenties this year.

"Then buy it again!" Zhu Youxiao had no choice but to have the official steel plant closed down long ago. Now the steel used to manufacture military weapons in the Ming Dynasty is completely reliant on buying, and there is no steel produced by the imperial court itself.

This situation is really helpless. Zhu Youxiao also realized that he had to set up a steel factory. Otherwise, he would not even have the foundation of the military industry system.

"It is a bit troublesome to manufacture military weapons in military factories like this. They can be divided into various processes. Each craftsman is only responsible for one process and finally assembled. In this way, the requirements for craftsmen will not be so high." Zhu Youxiao then said to Yang Qianshan, who replied: "The slaves are already trying, and more than a dozen craftsmen are trying to divide the work and make military weapons."

Zhu Youxiao looked at Yang Qianshan in surprise, and then led by Yang Qianshan to a shed. The dozen craftsmen inside were indeed dividing their labor and creating armor.

The armor was a relatively popular armor in the Ming Dynasty. It was made of small iron pieces repeatedly forged and woven, and it has a very good defense ability against cold weapons.

Zhu Youxiao asked carefully and realized that this method of production was already quite common in workshops in the Ming Dynasty.

This production method is not a production line, but is called "division of labor and parallel". The production line requires steam engines and electric shock transmission.

The parallel division of labor also has a certain effect on improving efficiency. After all, practice makes perfect, and repeating a process continuously will make the speed faster. However, this efficiency improvement is not too great. The real benefit is to reduce the training time of craftsmen. Some simple processes can be mastered by ordinary workers in a few days of training.

"Not bad, not bad." Zhu Youxiao was extremely satisfied after reading it and said to Yang Qianshan: "Popularize the production methods of parallel division of labor as soon as possible. In addition, standardize the measuring scales and do not create different lengths and specifications."

"Yes, the emperor." Yang Qianshan was immediately excited when he saw the emperor showing a satisfied look. Now he showed his face.

Zhu Youxiao inspected the management of the military factory again, but he was very satisfied. Yang Qianshan basically implemented the management system he formulated.

The military factory changed the past official workshops, and the rough management method of craftsmen taking official orders, became the model of the official supply of raw materials, and the official formulated production plans, and the craftsmen were only responsible for the manufacturing. The craftsmen were treated as 1 tael of silver per month, plus one stone of grain.

In the Ming Dynasty, one stone of grain was about 92 to 94 kilograms, which was basically enough for craftsmen to support their families. If they were a family of six, one stone of grain was basically enough to eat. After all, the main food consumption was the young and strong labor force. When working, the military factory provided food. Plus 1 tael of silver, it was enough to buy daily necessities.

In the future, the military factory will arrange housing for craftsmen. After entering the military factory, you can have no worries about food and clothing. What ordinary people in this era most hope is to get such a stable job.

If craftsmen are lazy, they will be deducted wages. If there is an injury, the royal family will be responsible for it. If they are sick, they can also take leave, and the royal family will also be given a medical expenses.

In order to prevent managers from squeezing craftsmen and excessively deducting wages, Zhu Youzhao also set up a complaint box when formulating the management system.

If craftsmen are dissatisfied with management or find that management is corruption and affecting their military equipment, they can write complaint letters. Zhu Youzhai will check these complaint letters regularly.

In this way, a system of mutual supervision between craftsmen and management has been formed.

A group of ministers looked around and found that this was an ordinary arsenal. Zhou Jiamo asked Zhu Youxiao: "Emperor, since there is already a military battle in the palace, why should we continue to set up this military factory outside the city?"

"The military weapons made by the military battle are not qualified, and it is too noisy to put them in the imperial city. It is better to move them out of the city." Zhu Youxiao said casually. Naturally, he would not tell these Donglin Party because the land in the imperial city was not enough.

Zhu Youxiao wanted to train the army, and not only the four guards of Tengxiang, but also the 300,000 troops to be rectified. In the future, a huge military factory will inevitably be needed to meet it.

The land in the city is not big enough, so it is surrounded outside the city.

"Just leave such trivial matters to the Insider to handle. Why do you need the Emperor to inspect them personally? It is better for the Emperor to devote his energy to government affairs." Yang Lian advised at this time.

"Haha! Just let the government affairs be handled by the ministers. I believe that with the integrity of the ministers, I will definitely be able to handle government affairs well. I am idle and I can go out for a walk." Zhu Youxiao laughed and looked very happy.

"What the emperor said is that now the traitors in the court are retreating, which is a sign of great prosperity in the world. I will devote all my efforts to serve the court." Yang Lian and others immediately began to brag, as if I was a loyal minister.
Chapter completed!