Chapter 468: New Divine Book
Chapter 463 of "The Great Ming in the Box" kicks off with thrilling moments: Li Daoxuan withdrew the “empathy” from the Titanic Deity, just as the food delivery person... Read more!
Li Daoxuan withdrew the “empathy” from the Titanic Deity, just as the food delivery person arrived with his lunch, cumin-flavored hand-held spare ribs.With his left hand he grabbed the ribs, and with his right hand he clicked on the box, casually switching his vision, inspecting “his turf”.
The turf was growing larger and larger!
Xing Honglang’s ancient ferry dock continuously sold grain and bought salt outward, causing the Deity’s “blessings” to radiate continuously toward the surroundings, and the number of people saved increased. At the same time, Inspector Wu Shen was also desperately stuffing people toward Gaojia Village…
In recent days, the Rescue Index had been rising rapidly.
His vision extended tens of miles further into the surroundings.
Bai Shui County had almost completely entered his view, Dali County was also visible for more than half, and most of Huanglong Mountain in the north had entered his view.
The rapid expansion of his vision caused Li Daoxuan to issue several Decrees of the Deity to Thirty-Two, ordering him to start transporting grain and “Dao Xuan Deity’s Demon Elimination Tale” to Bai Shui County and Dali County, and begin promoting in those two places.
Daoist Ma and Third Lady also went out together, one to Bai Shui County and the other to Dali County, to spread their doctrine…
This busied the “civil officials” of Gaojia Village immensely. Thirty-Two and Tan Liwen were so busy they were spinning nonstop, constantly coordinating supplies. They not only needed to transport to the Yongzhu ancient ferry dock and Longmen Ferry, but also to Bai Shui County and Dali County, which undoubtedly put great pressure on Gaojia Village’s “logistics system”.
The Porters were moving grain all day long, almost without rest.
Gnawing on the ribs, Li Daoxuan glanced at the long grain convoy emerging from Gaojia Village and thought to himself: The number of Porters was clearly less than before.
That’s right!
The “coolies” in Gaojia Village were diminishing day by day.
A large number of common citizens began to transform into skilled workers, unwilling to do mindless carrying work anymore, which further battered Gaojia Village’s “logistics system”.
The pressure was enormous!
Just then, Li Daoxuan suddenly heard chaotic noises coming from the artisans’ well. Small people were arguing, the voices too faint and mingled, messy and indistinct. He quickly moved his “gaze” into the artisans’ well.
As soon as he shifted, he heard Li Da shouting angrily: “Could it be mistaken? Xu Dafu and I worked hard to develop the Sayze-Pot breech-loading rifles, but you’ve pulled all the blacksmiths away. Now there are few blacksmiths left to forge firearms. With such a setup, how can we replace everyone’s firearms with new ones quickly?”
Young Master Bai was also in the artisans’ well, looking displeased: “I need to build huge train engines and rails, requiring many blacksmiths. Where have all the blacksmiths been taken? I’m short on people here.”
Gao Yiyi said: “Don’t argue, don’t argue. I also don’t have enough blacksmiths here. We still need to make cannons, and forge kitchen knives, sickles, iron pots, hoes for the common citizens… iron arrowheads, spearheads… ahhh… I’m lacking people, alright?”
Li Da said: “I don’t care. My Sayze-Pot rifles are under the Decree of the Deity issued in Year Seven of Tianqi, demanding mass production. The Deity’s word is supreme. You must allocate blacksmiths to me first.”
Young Master Bai said: “My big train is also a Decree of the Deity, to traverse every city. You figure it out yourselves. It’s the Decree of the Deity, you know.”
Gao Yiyi said: “The cannon barrels for my cannons were bestowed by the Deity. How is that not the Decree of the Deity? Don’t think only yours are important.”
“The Deity is on my side!”
“The Deity clearly speaks for me.”
“Hey, this was made by the Deity himself.”
The group argued fiercely.
Li Daoxuan said: “…”
Damn it!
Lack of people, still lack of people!
This was not strange. Europe in the past also experienced a problem of insufficient manpower. And this problem was completely unsolvable for Europe, with its originally sparse population, unlike Gaojia Village which could still absorb refugees from other places.
To solve this problem, the Europeans provided an answer, which was to “improve manufacturing efficiency.”
In 1798, Americans applied the principle of interchangeability for mass production of musket parts in the weapons industry, greatly improving work efficiency.
This was something to learn from!
Li Daoxuan wasted no time. He directly found several articles explaining “standardization” and “mass production” online, converted them to traditional Chinese with one click, printed them out, and tossed them onto the roof of the Gaojia Village School.
Song Yingxing was there at the time, puzzling over a pile of chaotic equipment that didn’t make sense, when suddenly he saw a giant book fall from the sky, thick with many pages.
He knew the Deity was giving another divine book!
Divine books, of course, he had to look at immediately. He quickly climbed onto the giant book, used all his might, and opened the first page…
“Huh? So that’s it… By standardizing each part, making molds for uniform casting to mass produce, an firearm doesn’t need to be forged entirely by one blacksmith. One blacksmith can only make one component, and then one person assembles it. This way, speed would surely improve greatly… Can it be done like this?”
Song Yingxing was overjoyed: “This is amazing! A divine book truly is a divine book.”
Seeing Song Yingxing was fervently studying the divine book, Li Daoxuan temporarily didn’t need to worry about it. “Standardization” was simple to say but difficult to do. Song Yingxing definitely needed several more days before he could start trying to apply it.
Before that, there was another step that was extremely important.
That was the problem of “cultivating blacksmiths.”
The artisans’ well had always fostered new blacksmiths through the “master guiding apprentices” method. But with the progress of industrialization, this way of training new people was clearly ineffective, ineffective!
It was time to introduce another new way of cultivating talent.
For mastering excavator skills, go to Lan Xiang in Jinan, Shandong.
Previously, Gaojia Village only had a women’s vocational school, teaching things like weaving cloth and cooking. Now it was time to establish an industrial vocational school.
Oh, yes, and there was one more very important matter, he almost forgot it.
A military academy!
An image of a bald head flashed rapidly through Li Daoxuan’s mind. It couldn’t be helped; whenever he thought of a military academy, it was hard not to recall this bald head. He quickly shook his head to banish the image.
His thoughts returned to Gaojia Village.
Currently, the village lacked a suitable person to serve as head of the military academy. Gaojia Village’s limited genuine military officers, like Cheng Xu, Fang Wushang, and Old Nan Feng, were all too “junior.” Their former ranks were not high, and they themselves could not fight major battles. Systematically instructing others in knowledge of marches and warfare might be beyond their ability…
If they could get a man from a military family background, well-read in war manuals with rich battlefield knowledge to be the military academy principal, that would be the ideal way.
Sadly, where could they find such a person?