Apricot garden.

Liu Jun was holding a piece of soap in his hand, and a faint scent of jasmine flowers floated out from it, which was refreshing.

"Your Highness, according to the method you taught, it is indeed easy to make soap. Now the officials have assigned some craftsmen to be responsible for the production of soap."

Liu Xuan squatted on the ground, holding a bar of soap in his hand.

The familiar smoothness in the palm of his palm felt, and Liu Jun nodded slightly.

"Well, this soap is good." Liu Jun looked at the ceramic molds all over the floor, and the soap was dried inside.

Like bath fluid, once you have sufficient materials.

With the current workshop scale, large amounts of soap can be mass-produced in a short time.

"Hehe." Liu Xuan scratched his head when he was praised by Liu Jun. When he thought of something, he hesitated: "Your Highness, there seems to be no difference between this bath solution and soap."

Liu Jun naturally thought of this problem, so he said: "Indeed, both shower lotion and soap can remove dirt, but shower lotion is more comfortable to use for bathing, and soap is more suitable for washing hands."

Liu Xuan nodded when he thought that Fugui had to cleanse his hands before and after dinner.

Compared to just washing with clean water, he felt that it was more elegant and cleaner to wash with soap.

If you understand this way, soap has its own characteristics.

I watched the production of soap in the workshop.

Liu Jun and Liu Xuan came to the road between the house and the workshop.

At this time, the craftsmen in the workshop are often very busy.

However, there were different cloth strips tied to the arms of these craftsmen, and the cloth strips also had words written on them.

This is the confidentiality mechanism of the workshop, in order to immediately distinguish which craftsman belongs to which workshop.

In this way, the craftsmen from other workshops could not take advantage of the situation and rushed to other workshops.

Moreover, this move can also distinguish between Xinghua Garden and the people outside, which is equivalent to a contemporary company's industrial brand.

"There is no shortage of manpower now, right?"

While walking on the bluestone road and patrolling the workshop, Liu Jun asked casually.

"There is no shortage, and the accompanying staff has sent a lot of young and strong people." Liu Xuan smiled and said, "Now, as long as the raw materials are sufficient, the workshop can supply goods from within the Rong Dynasty or foreign countries."

"That's good." Liu Jun felt relieved.

Because he is doing monopoly transactions, he does not have to worry about not being able to sell goods, but is afraid that the goods cannot be supplied.

According to his preliminary calculations, if the goods can be supplied, the current goods can bring at least 80 million taels of silver to Jingzhou every year.

If goods can be added in the future, the income will continue to increase.

As far as he knows, Rongchao's annual tax revenue was only 120 million taels.

Compared with Rong Chao, his business income is quite amazing.

But for him, it was not possible to compete with Rongchao, because Rongchao was still a pure agricultural country.

According to historical records, in 1840, Britain's annual fiscal revenue reached 360 million taels of silver.

In comparison, the area of ​​Jingzhou is not much different from that of contemporary Britain.

It can be seen that the true power of commerce after industrialization.

Therefore, the income of 80 million taels cannot satisfy him.

Furthermore, there are many civilizations in this world and many wealthy countries.

Do you have to trade to get rid of them? Are you worthy of your hard work?

Thinking of this, he felt more and more that it was necessary to build a top navy.

After a walk around the southern workshop, Liu Jun asked Liu Xuan to go back and work, while he came to the northern workshop area.

Unlike the south, the northern workshop area is strictly guarded.

Because the workshops here are all directly under the Craftsmanship Department, the person in charge is not Liu Xuan, but Gong Ming.

"Your Highness."

When Gong Ming learned that Liu Jun was coming, he came out of the Craftsmanship Office to greet him.

"No gift."

Liu Jun's eyes were first attracted by smoke columns.

He was very familiar with the Yanzhu because it was blast furnaces.

"Have all the utensils in the craftsmanship department been moved here?" Liu Jun asked.

"Go back to Your Highness, you've moved here." Gong Ming was energetic, "This place is really spacious compared to the craftsmanship department."

"Well, have the ammunition, artillery, and flintlock rifle arranged different workshops?" Liu Jun asked.

His original intention of establishing the Apricot Garden was to standardize it.

Of course I don’t want the craftsmanship to be as messy as before.

"Your Highness, please come with the official." Gong Ming decided to take Liu Jun to see it with his own eyes.

Following Gong Ming, Liu Jun first came to the house with the smoke pillars.

This house is about 300 meters long and fifty meters wide.

There are six such houses used as houses for steel houses.

"Your Highness, after expansion, there are now 12,000 craftsmen in the steel workshop, which can produce 800 tons of iron, 600 tons of iron and 200 tons of steel every day." Gong Ming said.

Hearing this number, Liu Jun calculated it.

In the early nineteenth century, the steel production in every country was not high.

It is said that the annual steel production is only 160,000 tons.

His steel workshop has 200 tons per day, 600 tons per month, and 72,000 tons per year.

It is already very good that the power of a state can produce such a large amount, and it can fully meet military needs.

"It's okay. I will maintain this output for the time being, but I need to train more backbone craftsmen so that they can go to the future production expansion," said Liu Jun.

After following Liu Jun for a long time, Gong Ming could already understand many fresh words in Liu Jun's mouth.

After all, Liu Jun has been teaching him, such as the tons he just used.

The two continued to walk north and then came to the Flintlock Spear Workshop.

"Currently, the flintlock rifle workshop is divided into three workshops, one forged gun barrels, one forged accessories, and one forged.

Gong Ming took Liu Jun to look at it one by one. Since he was scolded when forging a combroach, he has been studying the concept of division of labor for a long time and has now been used in production.

"This is OK, I didn't disappoint me."

Among the three workshops, the barrel and accessories forging workshop are on both sides, and the assembly workshop is in the middle.

It can be seen that Gong Ming has spent some time.

Because of this, the barrel and accessories can be concentrated in the middle assembled as possible.

Gong Ming smiled, and this time he was finally praised by Liu Jun.

"How many flintlock guns can be produced every day?"

"Like the Iron and Steel House, after the Dafang House, the Xiaguan also expanded his personnel. There were 2,000 people in the accessories and gun barrel workshops, and 1,000 equipped with 1,000 guns. Currently, 500 guns are built every day, and 15,000 flintlock guns can be produced in a month."

Liu Jun nodded when he heard this.

If so, in four months, all the troops in Jingzhou can change into flintlock rifles.

The next few months will meet the needs of newly recruited soldiers.

In the future, the production capacity will be overcapacity.

"It seems that I'm going to find a way to sell arms." Liu Jun murmured to himself.

It is a waste to put such a large production capacity in this way.

Moreover, if you don’t produce for a long time, the craftsman’s craftsmanship will also decline.
Chapter completed!