Chapter nine hundred and eighty third: all kinds of gadgets
Taiping City has completely become a huge military factory, and even if the people living here are women and children, even if they are not large, they are engaged in things related to the production of military products.
There is only one iron rule for all workshops in Taiping City, that is efficiency and improvement.
By improving work efficiency, more products can be produced, and improving products will make their production more cost-effective and more useful. Of course, after they make such changes, they will bring them money and status accordingly. The Ming Dynasty has always been generous in rewards on this. They ask for money and officials.
Assembly-based operation is the most effective improvement, and what Qin Feng couldn't believe was that the one who made this process change was actually an aunt.
This aunt is a workshop worker with excellent needlework, and this workshop is specially designed to produce backpacks for soldiers. This backpack is now mainly supplied to a special army in the Ming Dynasty.
Hawk.
The Eagle Falcon was originally a special army trained by the Eagle Nest. The purpose of tracking, assassinating or carrying out some special tactics was to establish their original purpose. If you want to enter it, the standards are quite strict. First, you must have a certain foundation of martial arts cultivation, and then the experts in the Eagle Nest will conduct special training for them. Even a great expert like Qin Feng, after reading the training subjects and standards of the Eagle Falcon, said to Guo Jiuling with sigh: "Inhumanity."
After such inhumane training and elimination, the strength of the remaining falcon can be imagined.
Such a unit mainly performs some secret tasks, and this multi-functional backpack is one of their standard equipment. Except for some necessary items for living in the wild for a long time, the rest are all their various weapons and equipment, and these weapons and equipment are all mounted on this multi-functional backpack.
This kind of multi-functional bag is extremely complicated to sew, because in addition to the main body of the bag, the various types of mounted weapon bags or inserts on the outside are of various sizes, some are made of cloth, some are made of leather, etc.
At first, each of the workers in this workshop was responsible for completing a multi-function package from beginning to end. It would be good if one person could make one a day, and the efficiency was really low. Then, the aunt named Wu Xian came up with an assembly line-based homework method.
Each worker only completes one of the multi-functional packages. All the workers sit next to a long table and after completing their own process, they push it into the next worker's hands. This small improvement has become more and more efficient as time goes by. Because everyone only needs to master one process and repeat the same job every day, the time to become a skilled worker is getting shorter and shorter. After improving the process, the average number of multi-functional packages produced by each person every day has reached as many as five.
Because of its powerful efficiency, this assembly line operation procedure was immediately reported to the county magistrate's office. While the aunt named Wu Xian was promoted to the deputy director of the workshop, she was also rewarded with 1,000 taels of silver. Subsequently, this operation method became popular among various workshops in Taiping City.
This way of operation brings a great improvement in work efficiency. Especially for the most cutting-edge weapons production workshops, I was even more excited. Because their time to train a skilled craftsman will be greatly shortened, and because each person only masters one process, the possibility of leaking secrets is greatly reduced. A secret weapon, except for a very small number of people who know the entire operation process and data, no one else can get a glimpse of the whole leopard.
"This kind of multi-functional bag is now very popular in the army!" Qin Feng held a bag and smiled, "It's really good. While it is minimalist, it also contains all the complex things."
"Your Majesty, there are orders in the army now, but we really can't finish it." Jin Jingnan spread his hands and said. "Many generals are still angry about this. The most dangerous thing is to send their own personal soldiers to guard here to grab the goods."
"This thing allows soldiers to carry some necessary supplies themselves to reduce the pressure on the military's logistics and supplies. The generals naturally saw the benefits. Now the productivity is insufficient. Except for the full staff of the Eagle and Falcon, the other departments are only satisfied with the scouts. But this is also an extremely huge number." Qin Feng said. "Jin Jingnan, have you never thought about converting this thing into civilian use?"
"Ah?" Jin Jingnan was a little surprised, "Switch to civilians? Can ordinary people use such bags?"
"Why don't you need it?" Qin Feng smiled and said, "If these things are sold on the market, a person who goes out, with a bag like this, can put all the necessary items in the bag and carry them out. I think the market is very big!"
"There are some weapons and equipment on it." Jin Shengnan looked at the strange attachments outside the bag and said.
"It'll be better if you improve it a little." Qin Feng said: "Change these weapons into pockets of large and small sizes. Anyway, if you think you need something to go out, you can design it into a pocket for such things."
"This workshop is not enough to satisfy the army now!"
"You can go out and find businessmen to cooperate!" Qin Feng said with a smile: "Didn't you always say that Taiping City has nothing else to make money except military industry? It depends on whether you have a pair of eyes to find them! Find merchants and build workshops. If the cooperation is pleasant, you can even give them some military orders! You can lower the price of the order, so you will make more money!"
"Your Majesty is right!" Jin Jingnan nodded repeatedly: "If you have such a bag when you go out, it will be much more convenient. By the way, Your Majesty, after you say this, I think the tent we just developed can also do this."
"Tent?"
"Yes, Your Majesty. The big tent doctor in the army that lives more than a dozen or even dozens of people at one time is very difficult to build, so some craftsmen have developed a tent that is extremely convenient to build. However, this tent is not big, and can accommodate at most two or three people. However, it is more convenient and easy to store. Your Majesty, please go to the next workshop. I will let the workers there show you that at present, this tent is only for the Hawks and Falcons troops."
In front of Qin Feng's eyes, a worker took out a small rectangular cloth bag. Then, it was like a magic trick. The cloth bag was unfolded and supported. In the blink of an eye, a small tent was completed.
"Your Majesty, the poles that support this small tent can be folded, so you can save space as much as possible. This tent can be stuffed into a multi-purpose bag." Jin Jingnan introduced.
"It's really exquisitely designed." Qin Feng looked at the small tent and praised: "If you squeeze, you can stuff it in!"
"Your Majesty, if four people go in, they can only sit and can't sleep." Jin Jingnan smiled and said, "Your Majesty, can you make money if you say this thing is used in civilian use?"
"Why don't you make money?" Qin Feng said excitedly: "Of course, you will make money. You will use those brightly colored fabrics to replace them, and then sell them out. There are so many people who keep them. For example, in spring, aren't the ladies and wives who are in spring setting up such colorful tents? Hahaha! But these folding poles cannot be produced by ordinary people, right?"
"This is, in order to meet the requirements of the Hawk Falcon, several masters here gathered together to study for a while before they came up with this pole that could be folded out. There is no such technology outside." Jin Jingnan said proudly.
"If no one knows it, you can monopolize it and generate high profits. Jin Jingnan, you Taiping City has a lot of money-making things!" Qin Feng laughed, "As long as you manage it well, you can make a lot of money."
"We are still a little worried if these were originally military industry and were converted to civilian use."
"What are you worried about?" Qin Feng said disapprovingly: "This multi-functional bag does not have much technical content, but it is very practical and very beautiful. As long as you start using it, it will be seen by people. Then someone will find this business opportunity and start imitating it. However, this kind of tent is not easy to manufacture because this foldable iron rod is not easy to make, and it is not easy to imitate. But over time, people will always find the trick, right? Take the lead and make a big profit first!"
"Okay, with Your Majesty's words, I'm so brave. In fact, in our Taiping City, there are still many kinds of gadgets. I think there are many that can be converted to civilian use. The army needs less of those things, and if they are transferred to civilian use, they can make money." Jin Jingnan said with great enthusiasm.
"As long as it does not involve weapons, some other things can be completely released, and even let outside merchants contract to do it, so that you can save more manpower and create new high-end weapons. In this way, you save manpower and cost, and secondly, you will also make Taiping County's economy a step further. Think about it, if more workshops start working in Taiping County, it will attract more merchants, bring more business, and you will receive more taxes. Because of the development of business, Taiping County will also have more people. Isn't this the reason why Fengxian prospered in the past!"
"That's true!" Jin Jingnan nodded repeatedly.
Taiping City, the workshops on the periphery, the further the production of the Ming Dynasty's latest weapons, and the stricter the barriers, the higher the level of manufacturing weapons. The core area is where the masters of Taiping City are located. They do not directly participate in production. They are thinking about how to improve the performance and quality of current weapons or develop the latest weapons.
Chapter completed!