From the beginning, Chen Xi did not simply engage in agricultural machinery to improve production efficiency, but to free up more people. Only by liberating people from heavy agricultural labor can they have more time for industrial labor.
Therefore, not to mention that it was only more than 20 times more expensive, even the previous iron curved shaft plows that cost tens of thousands of dollars were still issued by Chen Xi in batches.
Without enough unemployed people, everything is nonsense. The upper limit of social population in the early third century is here. If you don't think of ways to create more unemployed people, everything is just a dream. So spend some money and improve efficiency. Chen Xi not only feels that It’s worth it and I think it’s very meaningful.
"Put the agricultural machinery on the production line and roll it out tomorrow. Chang'an Bank will allocate funds and decentralize them to each village according to the calculated efficiency. Just register and decentralize. The money will be advanced by the state first." Chen Xi quickly finished it. Plan, he doesn't care about those messy things. He should first improve production efficiency and increase productivity. The rest is nonsense.
"Ah?" Xiangliqin was immediately stunned. Although agricultural machinery is indeed on the production line, but if you consider the number of people in the country, how can they possibly produce it with how many people there are in Xiangli, let alone the primary production line? , even if it is an assembly line, it will take a lot of time to produce tens of millions of these things.
"Transfer the technical drawings and professionals to other production companies. You should have completed the relevant technology and production debugging. What you need to do now is to expand production. There are still some machinery and equipment manufacturing plants from Hanoi to Jizhou. ." Chen Xi saw Xiangliqin's expression and could understand what he was thinking.
However, from the beginning, Chen Xike came here with the idea of mass production. Xianglishi and Nanyang Zhangshi were more of the first-generation models. They mainly completed the design and threw the entire process onto the production line to complete the process from top to bottom. The overall assembly below.
As for production, it would be a waste of time to rely on Xiang Lishi and Nanyang Zhang Shi. These two companies are strong in design structure and research. It would be a waste to let them engage in production. Even during the Da Qin Dynasty, it was Xiangli Shi who simplified the equipment to the point where it can be used. Let the monkey use the level, and then recruit the civilian husband to produce it.
Otherwise, if a family like the Xiangli family, with a total of only a hundred people in total, is allowed to engage in production, it will not be a loss. Therefore, since the imperial court assigned the research and design work to the Xiangli family last year, Chen Xi has been in Hanoi And Jizhou began to renovate the production line.
From that time on, Chen Xi was waiting for Xiang Lishi to complete the mechanical equipment. After the design drawings and assembly line reconstruction drawings were released, he asked Xiang Lishi's boss to directly parachute into several agricultural machinery equipment factories as technical engineers to quickly transform the agricultural machinery factories. equipment and then onto the production line.
Anyway, people don't have much farm work in winter. At this time, farmers from Hanoi and Jizhou are captured in factories to produce agricultural machinery. While producing, they are trained on how to use it. Although there is almost no training, Xianglishi knows it with his feet. He will definitely use it. Even a monkey can use it, but the replacement of some wearing parts and simple maintenance will naturally be learned in the process of going to the production line.
After these factories have been working hard for a winter, the first batch of agricultural machinery will come out, and in spring they can be used for large-scale promotion, freeing up more manpower, recruiting more new people into the factory, and improving overall productivity.
So Chen Xi had prepared for large-scale production early in the morning and was waiting for the drawings and technical engineers. Now that Xiang Lishi has said that the drawings and engineers have arrived, there is nothing else to say. The agricultural machinery has been transformed since the sixth year of Yuanfeng. The factory starts up.
Jobs that take care of food, food, housing, and money are very attractive these days. You can even pay less. As long as you take care of food, food, housing, and transportation, there will be enough people who are stuck in the winter to be willing to come to work. , especially since the snow seems to be a bit excessive this year, people are more willing to go to work.
"In other words, you are actually ready for large-scale production?" A little panicked.
"Yes, since I gave you the research and development order, I have started large-scale transformation here." Chen Xi nodded and said, "After all, this is still very important, but you should also be ready for the version upgrade. Already?"
Xiangliqin's expression was a little complicated. It was true that he was taking the money improperly, but it didn't matter. It was the donor's money anyway, not mine. Just spend it happily.
"There is no problem in upgrading. In fact, the current agricultural machinery is equivalent to the downgraded version. We have reserved the filling space for the etching device. We will first use manpower, animal power, etc. to drive it. When we finish researching the etching device, we will Just put the power machine in it." Xiangliqin quickly explained.
Obviously, it will take a lot of time for the Xiangli family to complete the etching, but it is obvious that this family is very confident that they can definitely do it. Chen Xi didn't say anything about this. He is also somewhat confident in the Xiangli family. The fighting power of this family There are still some.
Chen Xi expressed satisfaction with the reserved filling positions for the etching device. With the agricultural machinery produced in this way, after the etching device is completed, the etching device can be directly issued to technicians for upgrades, so there is no need to re-manufacture the agricultural machinery.
Although in Chen Xi's opinion, it is not unacceptable to replace this kind of thing again, which is already cheap to several thousand yuan, but it is better to save some money.
After all, if you think about it carefully, the demand for this thing is probably more than 10 million units. That is to say, each household needs one. After all, it is not a large combine harvester, one that can carry thousands of people. If this kind of A hundred thousand artifacts would be enough.
It's a pity that Xiangli made a small push-type thing. One unit can be used in a household without any problem, so he got more than 10 million units.
Even for Chen Xi, this scale is a bit high. Even if the materials required for manufacturing, the raw materials required for the materials, and the manpower required for raw material mining are all in Chen Xi's industrial chain, such a quantity is still very terrible.
"Very good, now you go directly to the Political Yuan and ask Yuan Zhubo to hand over the relevant decrees to Dr. Lu. He will complete the relevant transfer orders and the allocation of materials. You, Xiang Lishi, will send people to those large agricultural machinery manufacturers as soon as possible. , provide production guidance." Chen Xi was very satisfied and had accomplished another major event.
Xiang Liqin took the seal written by Chen Xi on the spot and headed to the Political Yuan from the Yangtze Palace. Ruan Gong bowed to the two of them and left.
"Chen Pushe, we have to have a good chat." After Xiang Liqin left, Liu Tong knocked on the table with his knuckles, and Si Niang found the Siberian gold gradient and silver gradient from nowhere. Just put it on the table and caress it.
"What's wrong? What's wrong?" Chen Xi was confused. What's going on? Why did Liu Tong look like his wallet was shocked? Also, don't you normally call me Chen Hou? What does Chen Pushe mean? Is this a matter of business?
"Chen Pushe, let's not mention threshers and hullers, but let's talk about the most commonly used hand-pushed harvesters, which are used to replace sickles. How many units do you need to make?" Liu Tong smiled kindly, Chen Xi In silence, he discovered the problem.
Liu Tong just told Liu Tong that he had no money. The situation this year was very bad and the losses were heavy. After a wave of changes in the sky, the etching of the essence of heaven and earth collapsed directly, causing a series of problems. So this year, I was afraid of losing money, but I turned around and looked back. After Li Qin arrived, Chen Xi began to allocate funds on a large scale.
"Ten million units. Not counting the needs of the state-owned farms, the people themselves probably need ten million units." However, Chen Xi was not afraid of it. He just had no money, so he asked for supplies, money and food for ten million units. The expenses have been prepared in advance.
"Ah, I remember that a sickle is worth one hundred and ten cents." Liu Tong thought for a while and said.
There is a problem with this price. Steel in ancient times was very expensive, so the price of iron sickles was ridiculously expensive. But when Chen Xi started to use blast furnaces to make steel, the steel for making sickles was no longer a problem. In fact, people's sickles were half-sold. Half free, basically no money required.
"Ah, I remember that I half sold the sickle and half gave it away. It didn't cost much money at the end, and the same goes for the iron pot, so even if it's more than twenty times more expensive, it's still free if it's free." Chen Xi deceived Liu Tong without any moral integrity. , just make it clear that if you ask for money, you will definitely not have money.
"Do you believe it?" Liu Tong looked at Chen Xi and asked.
"The problem is that this is a fact. I have distributed a lot of sickles over the years. Many messy factories give out sickles at work." Chen Xi said matter-of-factly, do you want to prove that sickles are worth so much money? Ah, maybe it is indeed worth it, but I didn’t get the money!
Chen Xi's words took Liu Tong into consideration, and he started to really think about it. Thinking about it carefully, it seemed that Chen Xi really didn't spend any money. Although the sickle cost more than a hundred yuan, most people didn't seem to buy the sickle. of.
Let the common people buy sickles these days. It's okay in the past few years, but a few years ago it was a life-threatening situation. Even if it is more than 100 yuan after a serious price reduction, it is still unaffordable. Therefore, when sickles were produced in the early stage, It all depends on Chen Xi half selling and half giving away.
This is also the reason why the steel produced by Bingzhou Smelting Department and Donglai far exceeds the demand for equipment, but it is not shown. More than half of it is used to make farm tools such as sickles and hoes, as well as kitchen knives, iron and steel. Pot or something.
These are actually the big ones, and if all of them are charged according to the theoretical steel price, the people in the Central Plains will definitely not be able to afford them.
From the beginning, Chen Xi has been half-selling and half-free. He often relies on this to trick people into coming to work in various processing factories. They work hard, have food and housing included, and then give them iron pots...
