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Chapter 230 Formulation of Industrial Development Plans
Chapter 230 Formulation of Industrial Development Plans
Today's Great Song Foundry Bureau seems to be the most heavily guarded place in Great Song Dynasty.
The Great Song Foundry Bureau, which occupies a very large area, is surrounded by military camps, and inside the military camps are various production workshops.
The most dangerous gunpowder workshop was placed alone in a sparsely populated place, and the perimeter was heavily guarded. Even the distance between workshops was more than ten feet apart according to Xiao Qi's order.
Xiao Qi is very aware of the danger of storing gunpowder with the current technological means. The gunpowder storage warehouses are all built very tall, and the walls and roofs are double-layered to prevent the gunpowder from spontaneously igniting and exploding due to the daily high temperature.
Each warehouse is well ventilated, and the distance between them is more than a hundred feet.
Of course, nothing is built in the one hundred feet of space. Some are started to be built ten feet away, such as iron product warehouses and other warehouses for items that are not easily damaged.
Xiao Qi probably made a tour here, and was very satisfied with the strict implementation of the security and defense measures he had formulated.
Arriving at the core office area of the Foundry Bureau, Xiao Qi ordered people to find the person in charge of the Changsheng Camp here, as well as all the top craftsmen of the Foundry Bureau.
When all these people arrived, Xiao Qi asked them to sign a new and stricter confidentiality agreement.
Of course, this agreement is signed voluntarily.
However, none of these people is unwilling to sign. They already know in their hearts that although they signed the confidentiality agreement, their personal freedom will be affected to some extent.
But once the non-disclosure agreement is signed, their treatment will be improved accordingly. The stricter the non-disclosure agreement, the better the treatment they will receive.
So when these people heard Xiao Qi say that they were asked to sign a stricter confidentiality agreement, they signed the agreement without thinking at all.
These high-level craftsmen are not stupid. They used to have low status. Since they were selected into the Great Song Foundry Bureau, their social status has soared. As for those restrictions, they are nothing!
Isn't it just not allowed to reveal it!
Originally, they would not spread the word about their cooking skills, but they were not allowed to leave without permission and run hundreds of miles away from the casting bureau.
The treatment here is so good, whoever has lost his mind and ran out of here to go to other places, and become a low-level craftsman with a low status like a beggar.
In addition, they can apply to visit distant relatives once a year, and if they are approved, more than ten soldiers from the Changsheng Battalion will follow.
These craftsmen don't think that the soldiers of the Changsheng Battalion are watching them, and they don't plan to escape. The soldiers of the Changsheng Battalion are properly protecting them!
The time to travel is definitely better than a seventh-rank official. The seventh-rank official has the most people around you to arrest and send you to the official. The soldiers of the Changsheng Battalion around you will directly draw their knives and chop people!
These senior craftsmen of the Great Song Foundry Bureau are very satisfied with such treatment.
Not to mention the high wages, as long as they don't intentionally commit suicide, they will live a more comfortable life than the county magistrate. Now outside, they only need to say that they are craftsmen from the Song Dynasty Foundry Bureau, not to mention those small ruffians, even those with official positions Don't dare to provoke them easily.
Sure enough, after they all signed a stricter confidentiality agreement, Xiao Qi announced that they would increase their wages, and gave them new drawings, and explained what they needed to do.
Finally, tell them that as long as they make this thing, King Zhenbei will report to the court to ask for credit for everyone, so that they will all get better court salaries and treatment.
Next, Xiao Qi also ordered that the Changsheng Battalion send three soldiers to protect each of these senior craftsmen who signed the confidentiality agreement to ensure their daily safety.
These craftsmen saw that King Zhenbei attached so much importance to this thing, and they immediately understood that although they didn't know what this thing was for, if something went wrong, it would definitely not be as simple as losing his head.
They all carefully remembered the confidentiality requirements in the non-disclosure agreement, and vowed that they would never leak it out due to negligence, and their family would be ruined.
Xiao Qi went to the Great Song Foundry Bureau for three days in a row, explaining to these craftsmen how to cast the items on the drawings, as well as the casting dimensions and various standards, before letting them start to develop.
After returning to the palace, Xiao Qi felt that the illiteracy of most of these craftsmen was a big problem.
After the steam engine is successfully developed in the future, productivity will make a big leap, and the requirements for craftsmen will be very high.
So Xiao Qi came to the palace again, and discussed with Zhao Shen and Zhao Gou to establish a school specializing in training craftsmen.
Zhao Shen and Zhao Gou were very embarrassed about this matter.
Because all the original theories from ancient times to the present have been swept away by Confucianism, and now Confucianism is the only one, and other theories are considered heresy by Confucianism.
If it were said in the court that the court planned to establish a new school, those ministers would have to lift the roof of the main hall!
Zhao Shen didn't hide anything from his son-in-law, he directly told Xiao Qi about it, and advised Xiao Qi not to set up such a ruined school, otherwise it would be just those Confucian scholars from all over the place that would make Song a mess.
Xiao Qi felt that what his father-in-law said was right. This Confucianism had indeed made great contributions in helping the various dynasties govern the people, but it also hindered the development of social productivity.
If Xiao Qi dislikes Confucianism, that's fine, but he is resolutely unwilling to see what he is about to do being blocked by those who use the banner of Confucianism to exclude dissidents.
Xiao Qi told his old father-in-law that he should not run schools in various states, but set up a literacy class in the Changsheng Camp under the guise of teaching the children of the Changsheng Camp, and then taught some craftsmen and the children of the Changsheng Camp soldiers to learn these things.
Zhao Shen is quite satisfied with Xiao Qi's proposal. The literacy class is only an elementary teaching, and it will not have any impact on the Confucianism's control of the way to become an official. It should not receive any strong backlash.
Zhao Gou was still a little worried, and said: "If those Confucianists feel that your theory poses a threat to them in the future, what should we do if we want to make trouble?"
Xiao Qi sneered: "Then we have to see if those greedy fellows of his Confucianism are fast-talking, or my Changshengying's knives are fast!"
Zhao Shen and Zhao Gou were taken aback, neither of them thought that Xiao Qi would split life and death with Confucianism for this matter.
They were not worried about the Changsheng Camp, they were worried that Xiao Qi would wipe out all the Confucianists in a fit of anger, and then they would have no one to govern the country.
The father and son quickly persuaded Xiao Qi not to be too murderous.
Xiao Qi said with a smile: "You two saints, don't worry, Xiao has no ill feeling towards Confucianism, he will only get rid of those who take the opportunity to make trouble.
Those who can tolerate my new learning and are willing to coexist, Xiao will naturally not kill them all! "
Zhao Shenxin said: If you really want to do something, those Confucianists who won't be killed by you will be scattered all over the field!
Quickly persuade Xiao Qi not to be violent, it is best to get the consent of Confucianism.
Xiao Qi asked the second emperor to rest assured: "Now that this new study is not done, father and grandfather don't have to worry, and those Confucianists may not necessarily have to fight to the death with this new study!"
Zhao Gou and Zhao Shen, who are emperors, know better than anyone that Confucianism belongs to any dynasty and is a giant, and every dynasty cannot do without the assistance of Confucianism.
Tell Xiao Qi that the royal family must rely heavily on Confucianism.
Xiao Qi had no choice but to tell the Second Emperor: "It's not that the Confucians don't know how to be flexible, as long as they use the right method, they will still be flexible."
Seeing that the second emperor was a little confused, Xiao Qi talked about every time the court changed, and said that every time the dynasty changed, which one of those Confucianists opposed the new dynasty at the beginning, what happened later?
In the end, didn't they all cry and go to the new dynasty to become officials?
So these Confucian slogans are shouted loudly, as long as you are strong, they will be flexible.
And what I want to do now is to make my Da Song stronger. All those who hinder my Da Song from becoming stronger must not be kept. When the knife is hung on their heads, naturally these guys will be flexible. .
Zhao Shen and Zhao Gou were speechless for a moment, what Xiao Qi said was right, but they didn't want Da Song to mess up.
Xiao Qi also knew what the Second Emperor was worried about, and comforted the Second Emperor: "Don't worry, the two saints, the Great Song Dynasty has the Changsheng Camp, and there will be absolutely no chaos.
Those Confucians only need to follow their official careers steadily and govern the country. This new learning does not compete for the official paths they control.
They also don't want to interfere with the new learning, so that the two have nothing to do with each other. "
Zhao Shen and Zhao Gou were very worried that the two sides would quarrel, and wanted to use their status as elders to suppress Xiao Qi.
But Xiao Qi's pretentiousness is all for the sake of making Da Song stronger. It can be said that everything Xiao Qi has done so far has been beneficial to Da Song.
It's really not good for the father and son to suppress Xiao Qi so hard.
In the end, the two looked at each other, thinking that the Confucianism had made enough trouble for our old Zhao family over the years, and it would be better if Xiao Qi could deal with them, anyway, this son-in-law has a strong army in his hands, and the people support him.
No matter how hard those Confucians tried, they couldn't do anything to the son-in-law of their old Zhao family, so they stopped persuading Xiao Qi, but told him to be careful not to be too reckless, and sent Xiao Qi home.
After returning home from the palace, Xiao Qi was alerted by the worry of the Second Emperor. This Confucianism can be said to be a colossus in any dynasty.
It has to be said that because of the existence of Confucianism, there have been prosperous times in all dynasties, but it is also because Confucianism does not tolerate the hegemony of other theories, which makes industries such as industry and commerce oppressed and seriously affects the development of productivity.
Even in Xiao Qi's previous life, it was popular: everything is inferior, only reading is high.
Everyone wants to get into a good university, and dreams of sitting in an office with air-conditioning. Those blue-collar skilled workers are generally looked down upon. Every year when recruiting, hundreds of white-collar workers can apply for a vacancy.
Skilled workers are severely scarce.
Because of social discrimination, no one is willing to learn to do those jobs. Even if some college graduates want to understand that if they don’t find a job, they will starve to death. Kind of weird thing.
Fortunately, the country discovered this sign in the few years before Xiao Qi crossed, and began to improve the treatment of skilled workers.
Otherwise, those who sit in the office with air conditioners and do jobs that elementary school students can do will get higher wages than hard-working skilled workers, and those skilled workers will have to run away.
Xiao Qi took out the blueprint and secretly made up his mind to slowly reverse this unreasonable situation from now on.
It is absolutely impossible to let that kind of top talent design a good thing, and all the people below are drinking tea and blowing the air conditioner, and those who know how to work? A thing that doesn't exist will appear in the future!
Apart from eating and sleeping, Xiao Qi locked himself in the study again, and spent five days working out a training plan for technical talents.
This plan is an advance preparation for the future explosion of industrial productivity.
Xiao Qi made a plan for the children of Changsheng Camp and craftsmen to enter the literacy class of Changsheng Camp for free, and then set reasonable wages for various skilled workers.
Although this literacy class focuses on literacy, the main task of those children is literacy. They don't need to be able to memorize various articles, as long as they can understand and understand the meaning.
After these children are literate, let them learn various weights and measures, as well as some simple drawing.
Among these people with excellent grades, after the assessment, they will enter the more advanced artisan class of the Great Song Foundry Bureau, allowing them to learn more advanced knowledge of geometry, physics, and chemistry.
Of course, this knowledge was compiled by Xiao Qi trying to recall his knowledge from elementary school, junior high school, and high school, although most of it was returned to the teacher.
Fortunately, he was still a student when he traveled, and he still had a lot left over, which is enough to teach anyone in this era.
Xiao Qi also ordered people to make a lot of notebooks, and he took them with him and recorded them when he remembered them, so that he could organize them into new textbooks and teach them to those children.
Xiao Qi compiled those knowledge in elementary school very quickly, this stuff is very simple, just in time for good times, Tang Poetry and Song Ci.
For the language category, you only need to use those Tang poems, add the Song Ci of the great Confucians of the Song Dynasty that have appeared, and add some songs and prose.
Mathematics is even simpler, and arithmetic is easy to do. Basic addition and subtraction are enough for these children to learn for a few years.
In the future, I will learn a multiplication formula and learn addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. I will definitely be a senior talent in this era.
Of course, learning these things only belongs to the scope of literacy classes. As for how much better the students from these literacy classes are than the children from private schools, Xiao Qi said that it is none of my business.
The next thing is to find the teacher.
Xiao Qi is still very clear-headed on this point. The first batch of teachers must be his own people, and it is enough to teach the first-level students as long as they can read, although the teaching effect is not good even if the level is not high.
Xiao Qi still didn't dare to invite those so-called old scholars to teach, because that would undoubtedly hand the sword to those Confucianists who like to make trouble at the beginning.
The teacher who taught arithmetic was the most troublesome thing for Xiao Qi. Fortunately, Xiao Qi had set up many literacy classes in the Changsheng Camp before, teaching those soldiers to read, and roughly compiled arithmetic textbooks.
Xiao Qi was cruel, and selected a lot of good arithmetic from the teachers and students in the military camp, summoned them to Lin'an, and gave them a special two-month training.
Now those soldiers who were singled out have no complaints at all. Although they left their favorite Changsheng Camp, they are now the disciples of Marshal Xiao.
While Xiao Qi was making these preparations, the development of the steam engine over there had also begun step by step.
(End of this chapter)