There is a large factory area by the river, with walls made of red bricks and sorghum. It looks much taller than ordinary Chinese-style houses, and is also square and clumsy.

The water continues to flow, and some children use nets to fish downstream, or play in the water, laughing and laughing.

When Xu Zixian waited for more than 20 cavalry to come, it did not cause a sensation. Nan'an Hou inspected all parties and could see his agile posture almost every day. After seeing it for too many times, no one was surprised.

But children don’t know how kindness is. If an adult meets him, no matter how many times he sees him a day, he must cross his hands to show respect.

Xu Zi first entered from the main entrance of a factory, and Lin Shaozong and others rode their horses outside on guard, with only two guards holding their swords to follow.

From Xu Zixian's perspective, the buildings in front of him are still relatively low, but there is no way to do this. Whether it is the Great Wei, Han and Tang Dynasties, Chinese architectural style and tradition are mainly mortise and tenon wooden structures, and they are built layer by layer to make them tall and wide. However, there are few large and wide buildings in the main halls and pavilions, with only stacked beds and houses, and the halls and pavilions are filled with beams and pillars, and the internal space is not wide.

As early as the Han and Tang Dynasties, Western architecture, especially church buildings, were mostly made of stone and built with arch and dou system. This was the operation of geometric mechanics in architecture. In China, until the end of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the shortcomings in this area were not made up. Fu Qian, Lin Jiusi, Zhang Zhong, Xin and Zhang Yi and others welcomed it together. This construction site is very important, so the craftsmanship department is here almost every day.

Xu Zixian looked a little tired and said slowly: "I just came back from a long march and came here directly. I haven't been here for a while. How is your loom installed?"

Fu Qian came over and said with a smile: "It's not a long time, but I haven't come for half a month. The loom has been initially installed, waiting for you to check and accept it."

"Made it?" Xu Zixian's eyes lit up and he strode towards the big machine that Fu Qian pointed to. As for the previous sentence, he had automatically filtered it.

Xu Zixian carefully observed the machine. Its size is quite large. Below it is a transmission rod connected to the water wheel, which is used as a source of power. The transmission rod is connected to the gear, driving up to 300 spindles neatly arranged on the upper part. In order to improve the durability of the machinery, all rotating shafts are connected with old-fashioned roller bearings, and the gears and connecting rods are also made of iron-packed wooden components, which looks very good.

"Have you tried it?" Xu Zixian asked.

Fu Qian replied: "I have tried it before, and the effect is very good. It can drive 300 spindles at the same time, and it does not require manpower. Just two people are responsible for replacing the spindles and replacing the cotton, and one thousand kilograms of spindles can be spinned every day."

"Not bad." Xu Zixian nodded with satisfaction: "It seems we are going to open a spinning mill by the river."

Xu Zixian looked happy and said to everyone: "The Craftsmanship and Craftsmanship Department should be rewarded by everyone."

Everyone was cheering and thunderous. Why did the hard work for so long come about? Naturally, it was for the reward of money. Some people might really want to do more for the Dongfan, regardless of reward, but how many such people are there? With Xu Zixian's philosophy, they will not promote or encourage those who devote themselves to their dedication.

People have selfish desires. The role of the law is to limit individual selfish desires and not harm others. The role of morality is to encourage the beauty of individual personal virtues and benefit others, rather than private virtues that benefit the country.

Desire should be limited, such as being beautiful, and the law stipulates that men cannot force women, cannot threaten and humiliate, and cannot marry and take concubines without restrictions. This is the concept that Xu Zixian agreed with.

But desires should also be moderately satisfied. To achieve success through hard work, everyone likes them. Those who like them will have no negative or negative comments on the moral level.

The craftsmen and officials in front of us are all normal men. They receive generous rewards and give back to their families. This is what they want to do and what they should do.

From the hydraulic textile factory, the next step is to watch the carriage factory.

Since the long-distance training, the logistics convoy was included in the formal production process at the request of the Logistics Department. Xu Zixian's idea was to form a logistics convoy under the government army and be responsible for logistics, which was equivalent to the wing army of the Great Wei Dynasty. However, the name was determined, and it was not like the wing army that took too much labor, resulting in no training and lack of professionalism. This seemed to be troublesome, but it was actually even more troublesome.

Raising a wing army of more than one million is like a waste, wouldn’t it waste even more money?

The baggage troops are responsible for transportation and do not care about anything else. They carry weapons such as grain, medicinal materials, long scepters, and horizontal knives, as well as bows, crossbows, arrows and other military supplies.

Medical soldiers are subordinate to the doctors, but they need to carry stretchers and rescue seriously injured people when arrows fly over the battlefield, build field hospitals, carry equipment and medicinal materials.

Engineers, when encountering rivers, build pontoon bridges, and when encountering damaged roads, they will repair roads. Because they have to dig trenches in front of the formation, blocking horses, and antlers, and are responsible for building arrow towers and digging tunnels when siege, the treatment of engineers is one level higher than that of the baggage soldiers, which is considered to be within the combat soldiers' sequence.

Fire soldiers are responsible for cooking. When they are in battle, they must carry the burden into the formation, and they must not worry about hunger and thirst.

If the war comes to the mainland in the future, the Xiang army will be formed to guard the city, river estuary, river estuary, coastal port, important passes, official roads, ferries and other important places. The Xiang army will be stationed daily, and will not be responsible for transportation and construction, and will not be responsible for daily public security, but will only serve as defense and garrison.

This is a relatively complete army. From field soldiers to garrison, to transportation, construction, treatment, and meals, the entire army has a clear level, rather than a mixture of field troops and garrison troops. Engineering, transportation, meals, and treatment, there is no complete system. It is a framework that was laid out when Taizu founded the country in the early Wei Dynasty, and the system has not been clarified. Now it is time to rectify the chaos and retaliate and determine the new military system.

The most important thing for the baggage army is the big chariot.

When Taizu was invading the north from the south, the four-wheeled cart was the most important one.

When it comes to the big cart, it is also a lack of China. The load-bearing is made of thick and flat wheels, without reed shock absorption, and no steering shaft. Therefore, Chinese-style cars are mainly two-wheeled, with difficult steering, relatively weak load-bearing capacity, smaller body, limited cargo, and higher requirements for road conditions.

In addition, China has always been without manpower, and a unicycle can solve a considerable military demand. If 10,000 people are not enough, it will be 100,000 people are not enough, then one million.

Emperor Yang of Sui conquered Goguryeo and mobilized millions of people to the fortified people. Due to many reasons such as unacceptable conditions, excessive labor, and epidemics, hundreds of thousands of people died on the way.

Including military soldiers, there may be tens of thousands of people killed in battle, and hundreds of thousands of people died of illness and other causes.

When the Central Plains dynasty was prosperous, the emperor did not mind dying hundreds of thousands. However, if he did not care about the people's strength, a large number of people died in ditches, the consequence was that the dynasty would change.

Even so, there is no other way to solve large-scale wars and capacity transfers, one depends on manpower and the other rely on the Grand Canal dug during the Sui Dynasty.

The northerners mostly use mules, horses and carts, while the southerners use boats and boats to benefit. Boats and boats are definitely stronger than those two-wheeled carts and unicycles. Therefore, after the Tang Dynasty, the economic center and cultural center gradually moved south. The excessive development of Guanzhong was quite obvious during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. During the Sui Dynasty, they were forced to bring hundreds of thousands of Guanzhong soldiers and civilians to Luoyang to eat. Luoyang or Kaifeng was just a canal transport capacity to replenish food, and food and supplies, which still came from the south.

But even if the boats and ships are transported well, there are not ships everywhere in the south. They always have to go ashore, hundreds of miles, hundreds of miles without water, or there is no fleet to accompany them. If there is a war, it is still a matter of non-professional matters by summoning a large number of strong men.

Then a large number of innocent people were killed and injured, and ten times more effort was spent, but what they did could not achieve the expected goals.

That being the case, wouldn’t it be better to make some preparations in advance?

Compared with the four-wheeled carriage, the technology of Taizu was achieved in the early years, but the systems of the imperial guards and the wing army were not clearly sorted out. In the next two hundred years, which emperor or official had the foresight and had a large number of carriages, bought animals and raised horses, and completed the goal of providing military supplies?

Xu Zixian sometimes felt that there were many bad things in China, including the customs of following the rules and regulations. The so-called respect for heaven and law of ancestors. After a generation of heroes founded their foundation, it was difficult for future generations to completely promote the system that had been in operation for many years and start a new foundation.

As for the core of Confucianism, it lacks logic and lacks support from mathematics and geometry. Many things, mentioned in later generations, were great inventions, but in fact they were technical things, and there was no complete set of theories that could be taken advantage of.

In this regard, the inheritance of Westerners is much stronger than that of China. Both sides also opened a beacon of civilization, but China's path gradually went astray.

The car in front of me is a newly made four-wheeled car. The drawings drawn by Xu Zixianling Fu Qian were drawn according to his own memory. The body was long, the guard plate was high in front and low in the back. The front guard plate was inlaid with wooden boards and nailed seats, and there were feet below. Two layers of boards made the coachman's seat. Under the coachman's seat is the front wheel. There is a long rod and two side guards to connect the front wheel. This is the connecting rod. The two front wheels were not fixed on the wooden frame like the previous carriage, but were connected with the connecting rod with the middle roller. The long connecting rod was fixed on the disc-type front axle. The part connecting the shaft and the body were combined with the front wheel suspension, so that the suspension of the front wheel would turn as a whole when the mule and horse turned.

When Xu Zixian observed the carriage, the craftsman Li Changfu and a group of craftsmen in the carriage group were both nervous, and Li Changfu's hands were trembling slightly.

Unlike Lin Jiusi, his manufacturing process is almost all Xu Zixian's point of view. His contribution lies in his craftsmanship. If this is not done well, he feels that he has a burden and is almost ineligible to stay here.

When I think of this, the craftsmen in every carriage group are sweating. They are like heaven here. If they are exiled, it is better to die.

“Good done, very good.”

After watching for a while, Xu Zixian finally showed a look of satisfaction on his face.

This time, all the members of the carriage group breathed a sigh of relief, and the sound was loud and almost formed a wave of air.

"This carriage uses a belt for horses. The belt should be short and strong, so that the frame will not directly hit the horse when turning and parking. With a buffering force, the mules and horses will not be injured."

"Yes, Junhou." Li Changfu said respectfully: "We will try it as Junhou said, and make it in cowhide."

"What kind of skin is not tight? It should be short and firm, just put it on the mule and horse and the vehicle to have a force buffer."

The car in front of Xu Zixian was initially formed, and the most important thing was the wheel axle. The original Chinese carriage had two wheels fixed on the frame, making it difficult to turn, and it was clumsy and easy to break.

With the bearing connected to the frame and the front steering shaft, the body is firmer and able to bear loads and steering is more convenient, which is a preliminary success.

Xu Zixian smiled at Fu Qian and said, "These cars are well made. Muzhi, you can reward the relevant craftsmen after you go back."

Fu Qian said: "Now the technical qualification is qualified. Junhou also attaches great importance to the craftsmen and allocates a lot of funds. But now the production of carriages and related weapons is still insufficient. Many machine parts need to be made by hand, which is labor-consuming, and because of the different standards of each craftsman's manufacturing, many parts are incompatible..."

Xu Zixian looked at a carriage in front of him pulling the parts of the entire vehicle and said thoughtfully: "The main reason is that the parts are not standard, right?"

Fu Qian nodded and said, "Junhou said, that's it."

"The factory should do standardized management." Xu Zixian said: "Now the scale has expanded. In the past, Lin Jiusi and the others only had those people. The ones brought by a master were not much different from the standardization. A veteran looked at it for a few times and almost all the standard parts were standard parts. Now that there are too many people, this matter should be taken seriously. Mu Zhi, after you go back, you label all the tools, and every craftsman uses standardized unified tools and selects excellent parts.

Then it is built according to the standards. Even if the different standards are good, it is considered unqualified. Then it is divided into groups. For example, someone is very good at making steering shafts, so he will use this person as the standard and the craftsman. Choose a group of all the steering shafts that are worthy of being favored. The master takes the apprentice and gives relevant rewards to them. So that they don’t hide their own personalities and don’t do anything that can teach their apprentices to starve the master to death… I haven’t thought about it all yet. Mu Zhi, you have to think more about it yourself, and you have to help me share my worries in this matter.”

Standardization, assembly lines, division of labor and piecework are all the experiences of industrial production developed in later generations over hundreds of years.

These things are too simple to say in later generations. Smart people can think of the key points after thinking about them. In fact, they are gradually explored, summarized, and finally conducted small-scale experiments, and then promoted and practiced, and finally promoted and became the benchmark of the industry.

For example, assembly line operations are fast and convenient, and can concentrate experts on each production line to produce industrial finished products with the fastest, most time-saving and most cost-effective methods.

There are hydraulic textile factories on the island now, and there will be hydraulic oil pressing soon, as well as a large number of hydraulic mills, plus hydraulic thrashing, and other institutions, boring machines, lathes, and standardized production kits, as well as assembly lines to produce various tools and ordnances.

Fu Qian is the first-class smart man. He understood Xu Zixian's meaning very well at the moment. He thought about it and said happily: "Junhou's proposal is very good, it is simply a stroke of magic."

"It's easy to say," Xu Zixian warned Fu Qian: "It's not that simple to do. You have to try one by one to make the craftsmen of the craftsmanship generally meet the standards, and then you can do the division of labor, piecework and assembly line operations."
Chapter completed!