Nie Mao walked on the road, looking at the withered yellow leaves on the trees on the side of the road, breathing in the moist and fresh air of the early morning, and feeling a little apprehensive in his heart. He is a native of Xijing Henan Prefecture, and his family has a shop and does some small business. Because there are many brothers, the family background is not good. After studying in a private school for a few years, I really felt that it was not the material for fame in poetry books, so I went back to the shop to help, and my life went by day by day.

On that day, when Nie Mao came back from collecting his debts, he was suddenly stopped by a friend and said to him: "There is an iron prison built in Ye County, and I don't know how many people will be used. Brother Tai can read and write, why not apply? ”

Nie Mao returned home and said that his parents, who were worried about his second son's marriage, inquired about the matter, and after going to see the list in person, they asked Nie Mao to apply. When he arrived at the place, a servant took a few books and took the reading and literacy test, and Nie Mao came here with a few fellow villagers.

I've been here for three days, I've seen my surroundings, and I've started classes today. Nie Mao didn't know what to teach, he was ignorant, and he was separated from his fellow villagers, so he was inevitably a little unstable in his heart.

I don't know what the people in the iron prison fancy about themselves, unlike the other people who came with him, Nie Mao went to this place alone to learn what kind of detection and map recognition. What does this do? Nie Mao didn't know. What will happen in the future? Nie Mao didn't know yet. Everyone else is learning to settle accounts, learn to manage people, and will at least be a foreman in the future, they are all in charge of people, what will they manage in the future?

Unknowingly, when he arrived at the place of study, he saw a young official standing outside the door, wearing an official uniform, and Nie Mao hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

Tao Qiqi looked Nie Mao up and down, flipped through the roster in his hand, asked his name, and said, "How many years have you been reading?" ”

Nie Mao said respectfully: "Back to the official, the little one has been reading for three years, and he can recognize all the commonly used words, and he can also memorize some poems. In the past few years, I have been working at home, keeping accounts and collecting accounts, and I can write and calculate. ”

Tao Qiqi nodded and said, "Come in and choose a seat to sit, everyone will come in a while, and we will give a lecture." ”

Nie Mao promised, hesitated, and still asked, "Official, I don't know what to teach?" What to do next? ”

Tao Seventeen said: "We are different from other places here, we teach how to measure, how to measure the things made in the workshop in front of us. Whether they do well or not depends on your measure in the future, and you will naturally know. ”

Nie Mao nodded, still ignorant. When I straightened the door and saw that there were tables and stools inside, I chose a place to sit against the wall. On the wall in front of the house was a blackboard, and I don't know how to do it, and it was flat and pitch black. On the table in front of me, there are no thick books piled up in the usual classroom, and it looks a little weird. If you don't have a bunch of books there, how can you look like you're doing scholarship?

Tao Qiqi stood at the door, watching a red sun slowly rise in the distance. It has been a few months since the iron supervisor recruited people, and two or three hundred people have come from Tang, Deng, Ru, Cai and other prefectures and Henan Prefecture. There are seven fallen Jinshi in it, most of them are from poor families, and they have passed the exam twice in Beijing, and they can't afford to toss anymore, which is similar to Du Xun's situation when they fell to the first. The others have been to private school for a few years and can read and write.

This area has developed commerce, many shops, and many literate people in the city, so it is impossible for them to do learning. It was all iron smelting, but the production and organization mode of the iron supervisor was different from the rest of the era, and everything had to be started from scratch. Tao Qiqi has been by Du Zhongxiao's side for many years, and he has learned a lot, so the heavy responsibility of training falls on his shoulders. How the hell is this done? In fact, Tao Seventeen didn't understand. Anyway, according to Du Zhongxiao's instructions, learn while doing, and learn in practice.

Large-scale production, which is different from small workshops, highlights the importance of testing. Only when the testing is done well can we get rid of the dependence on the personal experience of the craftsman, formulate appropriate production practices, and produce qualified products.

Tao Qiqi, together with the six people selected in the early stage, studied with Du Zhongxiao for some days, and roughly knew what was going on. But now there is neither experience, nor tools, nor systematic theoretical knowledge, and everything is being explored from scratch.

The easiest way to measure length, what is it? Du Zhongxiao's energy is effective, but he only guides the production of tape measures, rulers, and accurate vernier calipers, but there is only an impression, and he really can't do it. can only be handed over to Tao Seventeen, tell him a concept, let him in the process of teaching others, with the people who teach and learn, it is best to be able to make it.

Another example is to measure the diameter of a circle, there is neither a caliper nor a micrometer, how to measure it? Take a tape measure around it, measure the circumference and divide it by pi to calculate? Thanks to the ancient Chinese mathematicians, pi was accurate enough at this time, but it was not accurate.

As for the roundness, straightness, etc., which are indispensable for other machinery manufacturing, it is impossible to talk about it.

Thinking of this, Tao Qiqi felt a headache. He feels comfortable making things by himself, but he is actually not good at these theoretical things. It's just that Du Zhongxiao's subordinates have no one available, so they have to catch the ducks on the shelves.

In addition to the three booklets compiled when they were in Qingtai Town, the people who came here to study also compiled some booklets for each industry. It's just very crude and simple, but at the beginning, in the process of teaching, you should take students to study together and slowly supplement the content. Tao Seventeen sometimes wondered if it was useless to teach like this, and what results could be taught. Ten **, is it time to really use it, or I can't understand it, and I want people to explore it slowly.

Du Zhongxiao also has no choice, he is the transfer judge of Jingxi Road, not the governor of the iron prison, how much time can he stay here? You can only create a frame first, and let others slowly fill it in. In fact, it is not just a test, everything is the case with the iron prison now. Specific technical issues, you can study slowly with Su Song, the production and management of the iron supervisor, there is only a big concept, it depends on the practitioners themselves to learn.

At the beginning of everything, Du Zhongxiao was desperately borrowing, and he wanted to give such good conditions to the people who worked in the iron prison, why? It is just that we have no choice but to follow the mass line, mobilize all forces, learn in practice, and improve the iron supervision as soon as possible.

Not only the management and technical personnel, but also the front-line production personnel, this period of time is also learning every day. After the arrival of Dai Dujian, the manpower of the iron supervisor was sufficient, and now they are all engaged in infrastructure construction during the day and group study at night. Every three days, there is also a half-day of intensive study, and we will work together to find solutions to the problems encountered in learning. This is both a learning process and a training process.

In the yamen, Du Zhongxiao couldn't help frowning as he listened to Liu Zhuo report the final expenses. Now thousands of people spend their money every day like running water, just grain and grass is a big number, and the little money earned from farming can no longer sustain it.

After reporting the expenses, Liu Liang said: "Now there are thousands of people in the iron prison, and eating every day is a big number. The white noodles could no longer afford to eat, and the Transshipment Division refused to transfer grain from other prefectures and counties, so they could only urge a few places in Tangzhou to harvest the crops in the fields as soon as possible and transfer rice. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "It's autumn, and there aren't many days for new rice to come down, so you should be able to get it." You still have to ask other states and counties to see where there is a surplus. In a few days, the money from Jiangnan Road will be transported over, but don't have money to buy rice, so that the price of rice will rise. ”

Hearing this, Liu Zhuo's spirits perked up and said, "Speaking of the judgment, I just remembered that the money allocated by the imperial court is about to arrive." Yesterday, the official document said that the boat carrying the money had passed through Xiangzhou, went up the river, and soon arrived in Tangzhou. ”

When Du Zhongxiao heard this, he stood up excitedly and said, "With money, everything is easy to do!" 500,000 in hand, can be used for a long time. Now we have no shortage of manpower, and we can build it ourselves, and we don't have to fake outsiders, which can save a lot! ”

Liu Zhuo said with a bitter face: "However, the official document also said that the Raozhou Copper Supervisor used the wet method of copper smelting, and now that there is more copper, a lot of iron is used. When the ship that brought the copper money this time returned, it had to be loaded with iron and used to smelt copper. Now that the furnaces have not been built, where did we get the iron to transport them back? ”

Du Zhongxiao couldn't help but be stunned, and said after a while: "500,000 guan was allocated by the inner treasury to build the iron supervisor, if the iron is transported back, the copper supervisor will have to take the money in exchange." Otherwise, why do people give them the iron that is produced? ”

Liu Zhu said: "The copper supervisor has already thought of this matter, so he will transport an extra 10,000 yuan to change the iron and go back." ”

Du Zhongxiao secretly calculated in his heart that the copper coin has always weighed more than five catties, and 10,000 guan is about more than 50,000 catties of copper, and according to 20 wen and one catty of iron, he can buy 500,000 catties of iron. Iron and copper, about 10 to 1 price, as if you don't lose money.

However, the iron furnace has not yet been built, so I don't know if it will be in time.