Bonuses are always something that attracts everyone's attention, and the previous rewards have made these blacksmiths who came early not surprised, but these newcomers to the Daimyo's Mansion are excited.

5000 guan bonus, they can't earn it, what about the rest?

Niu Dali's strength, they admired it quite a lot, and they also mastered this thermometer that was enough to change the entire blacksmith's production, but didn't they have the unique skills in their own hands?

If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, which seems simple, and these craftsmen understand it.

If you change to the foundry division, it is very difficult to do this.

Everyone's secret recipe is the capital of a life, although the foundry division is very large, but the resources are not very many, some of the top craftsmen, relying on craftsmanship, occupy a considerable share, their craftsmanship, if leaked out, their status is not guaranteed.

This point does not exist in the blacksmith workshop, the blacksmith workshop is an industrialized mass production, the secret of the individual, has no effect, the whole workshop will also promote, so that these crafts and secret recipes are open to everyone and improve all strength.

Although the same secret recipe is not so mastered to the same extent in the hands of different people, it is quite obvious for the overall improvement.

However, it is the in-depth study that these blacksmiths have also discovered the difference, these secret recipes, at first contact, the improvement is very obvious, but the in-depth study is also divided into different levels, and the details determine everything.

Their previous realm was very high, and it was not simple to be able to obtain an official status in the Daimyo's Mansion, even if it was a blacksmith in the forbidden army, there was a big gap with them, they just didn't go deep into it before, once they went in, they immediately found a different world.

First of all, the production efficiency of the masters has increased rapidly, which is not a little bit, but several times.

Although there were some masters in the blacksmith workshop before, there were not too many masters, and they were all over a certain age, and they were more put on the table, rarely involved in the front-line work, and occasionally only tried.

But these people from the Foundry Division are different, they are in the prime of life, when they are in the prime of life, and their joining soon shows the difference.

The first to make a breakthrough was Niu Dali, who created a terrible number, he led a team of 7 people, and completed a daily output of 2,800 catties.

That is to say, the average per person is 400 catties, per capita annual output of more than 70 tons, this data, even in the 21st century, is also terrible output, according to China's 1995 standards, per capita is only 33 tons, that is the reform and opening up has been carried out for 15 years of output, or the premise of a large steelmaking furnace.

Next, one by one, the masters have reached about 2,500 catties, and Niu Dali has gone one step further, breaking through 3,300 catties.

The working method of the blacksmith workshop is according to the output, and the per capita output has increased by three or four times, which also represents a lot of increase in their respective incomes, as the core blacksmith, first of all, Niu Dali, his monthly salary has exceeded the average monthly salary of the core blacksmith by about 50 yuan, reaching 150 yuan.

This is not as good as the previous bonus, it is a one-time, according to the current appearance of Niu Dali, there is still room for improvement, when the time comes, 200 yuan, which means that the annual income may reach about 2500 yuan.

This is the most terrifying, not to mention, he proposed a small technological innovation, although it is only for the details, the popularity is not too high, but it has also been rewarded with 300-500 times, this is the big head, it seems, there should be a lot of similar.

Niu Dali's level is only a minority, but others are not bad, those masters, how would they never have thought that they could earn more than 100 yuan a month salary, and some good ones even exceeded 150 yuan.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, this is not a small amount, 1.5 million guan can buy two cows, or when cattle are more expensive, you can buy 2,000 stone of rice, which means 100 tons.

The addition of a large number of masters, not only strengthened the production force, but also made the technical strength has been greatly improved, at this moment, the technical strength of the blacksmith workshop, now is not what it used to be, not only the synergy has reached a certain extent, but even the ability to digest the technology is also very high.

When the first batch of thermometers, which had been transformed by Zhao Xin and slightly processed, appeared, they were soon applied to all blacksmith workbenches.

The strength of these masters has led to the rapid expansion of the blacksmith workshop, and in addition to the outstanding personal ability of these blacksmiths from the Daimyo Mansion Foundry Division, the thermometer has shown a different effect from its actual use.

One of the most important aspects of a blacksmith's experience is the heat, and when you look at the burning stove and even the iron melts into liquid, it takes a lot of experience to judge, and it is not a short time, but the result of a combination of experience and talent.

Now, with this thermometer, as long as you are not a fool, you can calculate the approximate temperature through the judgment of color, and then according to the time to reach this temperature, you can almost sum up some experience, and this experience can still be fully promoted.

The heat of iron smelting does not have to rely on personal experience, after having clear instructions, the core ability of the blacksmith team is further lowered, this reduction simply refers to iron smelting itself, steelmaking can also be, but the finished product is not good.

It takes a lot of ability to build the finished product, but there is no problem in iron-smelting and steel-making.

Of the 800 official blacksmiths who were added from the Daimyo's Mansion, basically every one of them could become the core, and among the more than 4,000 apprentices and helpers, there were at least 2,000 seniors, who also had the ability to become the core after the thermometer and blacksmith lowered their standards. ，

That is to say, now, the expansion that Zhao Xin wants can also easily expand the blacksmith group from the current 3,000 groups to 8,000 groups, or even more, so that the production of iron can be expanded by 1.5 times.

1.5 times, it doesn't seem like much, but when you think of the highest output of the blacksmith workshop, the daily output of 4.5 million catties, an increase of 1.5 times, which means that 2.5 times, the daily output will exceed 11 million catties, that is, 5,500 tons.

With a daily output of 5,500 tons, this is nothing at all, which in later generations, not to mention a slightly larger steel plant, even if it is an excellent converter, the output of a day is almost like this, a larger steel mill, the converter is certainly not one, and there are even more than 2,000 tons or even 5,000 tons of open hearth, which will eventually produce terrible output.

In fact, after the 21st century, China has far exceeded the rest of the world in steel production, accounting for 52% of the world's steel production, that is, all countries in the world combined, are not as large as China's production capacity.

Not only the total amount, in the individual output, is also quite terrible, in later generations, when Wuhan Iron and Steel and Baosteel merged, China was born the world's third, China's first steel group, the annual output of crude steel even reached 62.5 million tons per year, some 30 million tons and a large number of more than 10 million tons of steel group.

Some ordinary provincial-level steel plants can easily reach an output of 3 million to 5 million tons.

That is in the 21st century, China's technology and manpower are concentrated to a certain extent, but the daily output of 5,500 tons, which means that the annual output is close to 1.8 million tons, which is already a terrifying output.

For example, before World War I, in 1913, the United States produced 31.8 million tons of steel, Germany 17.61 million tons, Britain 7.79 million tons, France 4.69 million tons, and Tsarist Russia 4.31 million tons.

That was to fight the world war, and the production capacity after the crazy expansion was also the production capacity after the industrialization of the hundred years.

It cannot be compared with the strongest United States and Germany, but compared with the lowest Russia, it means that if the expansion is completed, the steel output of the Northern Song Dynasty is equivalent to 4% of Tsarist Russia in the early 20th century, which is definitely an astronomical figure in the era of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Zhao Xin in the future, will expand, in order to change the Northern Song Dynasty, in order to enhance the Northern Song Dynasty and build a navy, one or two million tons a year, this is no problem at all, the consumption of iron in China in later generations, it will be more than 800 million, but in this era, it is absolutely shocking.

The most important thing is that the more things are produced, the better, especially in industry, what is produced must always be sold.

Wang Song has been completely attracted by the order of the Northern Song Dynasty government, and he almost came to Zhao Xin's front, with everything in and out of his words, whether to increase production capacity and expand the scale.

Looking at Wang Song from time to time, will it make them too comfortable, these craftsmen are almost uncles.

At present, it has been divided into 4 shifts, 4 shifts and 3 downs, so that the craftsmen are much easier, each craftsman works for less than 3 hours a day, which in his opinion, is a great waste.

The blacksmith platform is nothing, when Wang Song was preparing before, it was built, more than 1,000 in a short time, and now it is expanded, reaching 4,000-5,000, which is not a problem.

Of course, the blacksmiths also raised some questions, the main problem being that the working hours were too short.

The blacksmith workshop determines the wages according to the quantity, and the daily output determines their income, and sometimes, the reduction of working hours means that their output will be reduced, especially if the output is high.

The output of 3,300 catties created before, which was created under the premise of 8 hours, was reduced to 3 hours, and the output of a single hour increased, but the total output decreased, only about 1,400 catties.

This is also a legitimate request, however, the workshop uses more personnel and needs to be adjusted to suppress it.

This part of the people will have a big use in the future, among them, the personnel who will follow in Miaojiazhuang will be drawn out in the next period of time, and about 20,000 people will be withdrawn, they will follow Zhao Xin to go to the Dinghai Navy, and the rest, most of them are blacksmiths from the Daimyo Mansion, they stay here, and wait until the relationship with the Dinghai Navy is deep in the future, and then migrate, which is also a good idea.