While walking and watching in Ye’s workshop, Min Yue said in surprise: “I haven’t been here for only two years, but I’ve completely changed.”

Ye’s Workshop covers an extremely wide area. The surrounding plantations block the noise of the workshop and also block people from outside from peeping at Ye’s Workshop. At first glance, the entire workshop is more like a warehouse area. Two rows of tall and spacious houses occupy the vast majority, leaving only a relatively empty flat ground covered with bluestone slabs. After a little walk, you can see a walkway between each two factories, with a well and a few benches inside. It is thought that apprentices and students can rest and use it after work. Such density of water wells also ensure the maximum fire safety in this era where wooden buildings are the main ones. These factories are already very

Pay attention to fire protection. All the walls of the factory are made of refractory bricks, and wooden beams and columns are wrapped in the walls. Due to the technical level of this time and space, the roof has to be framed with wood. However, the roof frame used here is solid and stable in traditional palace buildings, but is relatively lightweight, avoiding the problem of wasting the load-bearing capacity of the wooden structure. In places higher than the height of a person, the walls are rectangular windows, ensuring lighting and ventilation. From the perspective of the princess, it is not difficult to see that if glass windows are installed on these windows and the roof is replaced with a steel frame structure, it will look like a modern factory.

On the side close to the water flow, there is another huge factory building with a sign "Hydraulic Workshop" hanging at the door. There is a row of huge water trucks placed in the water flow. Although the Yongming Channel was dug by hand, the water flow is quite considerable. It is no problem to promote some simple hydraulic machinery.

At the entrances of other factories, different signs are hung to indicate the purpose of the factory. It seems that Ye’s workshop has partially realized assembly line production.

"What is the house over there for?" Peng Detian asked, pointing to a much smaller factory building. What is eye-catching is the two tall chimneys.

"That's the forging room. The tools used in the entire workshop are made there, and they are usually maintained by the forging room repair and maintenance. The marching chess piece of brass pieces is also taken out of the mold in the forging room before the apprentice of the minor metalworker can be repaired and polished by hand." Ye Tao explained.

"What about those parts when repairing ordnance?" Min Yue asked.

"Sir, the repair of ordnance is carried out in a special factory. They are the most reliable personnel of Ye's workshop. After all, the ordnance in Dongping has always been something spies in various countries want to get, so it is not easy for too many people to take over. Because the workshop only cares about repairing and not responsible for manufacturing, the number of parts is not large, and setting up a small furnace in the ordnance factory is basically enough." Ye Tao added, "The repair of ordnance is not always available. The ordnance factory is usually locked, and the people inside are usually working in their own factories. They get together after they have a job."

Min Yue nodded and exclaimed: "You Ye's workshop is so big, with so many people, and the business is better than I expected."

Ye Tao smiled bitterly and said, "Where is the best place? How can we use so many people to play furniture or marching chess? I'm rushing Mr. Qi's house recently. The whole set of things I'm doing is the one I'm doing, so the amount is so large. I forced me to recall some apprentices who had not passed the student work assessment to start, so I could barely catch up with the progress."

The princess didn't say anything and followed the crowd to take a look, but she felt more. Ye's workshop has not fully implemented assembly line operations, not because it was impossible, but because Ye's workshop was originally a place to combine training apprentices and producing various equipment. The clothes worn by those apprentices were different from those worn by students. Basically, a student took two or three apprentices to form a group, thinking about work together, and studying while working. The factory buildings were also divided into relatively independent areas within the interior according to this need. Each group could place tools according to their own habits without interfering with each other. In this way, it was not as mechanical and stereotyped as the current factories, nor as casual as traditional workshops. It seemed that it was quite suitable for the characteristics of this era.

Seeing such a large group of people coming in, the workers whispered for a while at the beginning. A middle-aged man came up and bowed deeply to Min Yue and Peng Detian, saying, "Mr. Min, Mr. Peng, I don't know that the arrival of the great master will be a farewell to welcome you." This person is Ye Tao's senior brother, Ye Laogeng's first disciple Guan Haitian. Although the teacher-education relationship of craftsmen is not as rigid as the martial arts sects in the martial arts world, he also has his own rules. Generally speaking, after the master's master is full, he makes a living by himself. If many craftsmen's apprentices are not their own children, most of them will open shops to make a living by themselves. However, the Ye family's brothers are all employed by the Ye family workshop. Now Guan Haitian is mainly responsible for the supervision of garden construction. When the yard of the old man of Qi's family finally ended, he ran around the workshop and the construction site almost every day.

"Xiao Ye, why don't you say hello if you come here today? It's so busy here... Look at it's so messy." Guan Haitian looked at the shavings on the ground, feeling very rude.

Ye Tao curled his lips and said, "All acquaintances are all acquaintances, no matter how many of them, please see whatever you like. Senior brother, if you have time, would you please take the two adults to the ordnance workshop to have a look?"

Guan Haitian nodded and said, "Okay. We are waiting for the work of Xiao Lu and Xiao Han. It's okay now. Please come here, sirs."

The princess didn't want to follow in and see the ordnance. She grabbed Ye Tao and said, "Young Master Ye, take a look at the hydraulic workshop?"

Using hydraulic power to activate power machinery is the place that shows the current technical level of Ye’s workshop. Ye Tao agreed understandably: “Okay, please come here.”

The hydraulic workshop is divided into two parts: carpenters and potters. Although the pottery embryo made by the hydraulic powered pottery wheels is eye-catching, the more interesting thing is a semi-automatic production line.

"Is the cutting control of this thing accurate?" Everyone was very curious when they looked at the entire hydraulic production line, pouring water and mud into the hopper at one end. After several consecutive processes, the flower pot that had become an embryo on the other end came out. After a firing process, the product could be finished. Everyone was very curious. The princess asked technical questions very well.

"Actually, this is not accurate. The ratio of mud and water still depends on people to adjust it. However, the flower pots made by this machine are originally used by ordinary people to raise some valuable small flowers and grass. Although it will have some quality problems if the amount of the cut is not accurate, almost every batch of things is different, but they are enough. Everyone wants to be cheap and don't care much. Anyway, this thing is too cheap." Ye Tao said truthfully. This kind of pottery that is not made with a pottery wheel but with a mold was just a semi-automated production. It is already very good to have such results now. There is no large amount of steel, and it is purely made of wood, but it has ruined him.

But the row of hydraulic lathes that are not far away are completely different. The sawing, milling, grinding and other processes are orderly and have good efficiency. Although it seems that they can only process wood for the time being, looking at the mature and stable design division of these machine tools, it is probably a problem of raw materials.

"What can these guys do now?" asked the princess.

"It's nothing. Now I can only cut wood, which means reducing the tolerance of all crossbows and arrows to one-fifth. I really want to make metal machines, but the national salt and iron specialty can neither get enough steel nor enough ore to test it myself." Ye Tao laughed at himself, "Ye took over the work of repairing and installing weapons, which means he has the ability to make weapons. Now he wants to smuggle some steel. If he wants to make some illegal weapons, he really can't afford it."

The princess thought about it carefully before he understood how much tolerance one-fifth is. But Liu Yong on one side was moved. The tolerance of one-fifth of arrow shaft is more than twice as accurate as several ordnance workshops near the capital. Looking at the effortless processing of these hydraulic lathes, the production capacity is probably still potential. After all, the Ye Family Workshop is probably at most that the arrow shafts are suitable for Yicheng City Defense training and combat backup, and it is only processing some for the navy.

"Do you do the experiment? Do you have a way to make steel?" the princess asked with a smile, "Otherwise, you can't use ore to make these things. You can't use cooked iron, right?"

The princess just followed Ye Tao's words, but Liu Yong was surprised that the princess could see through the principles of these machine tools at a glance.

Ye Tao smiled faintly and said, "It's not difficult to get basic qualified materials."

The princess nodded and said, "Do you dare to issue a military order? I'll give you six months. If you can make steel of the same quality as the workshop of the Ministry of Works, or it's slightly worse but with higher output. As long as you dare, I'll send you all the ore from an iron ore in Liyang here."

"Dare? Why don't you?" Ye Tao naturally understood that the princess was creating opportunities for herself. "But what if I refined it?"

"It's simple. Min Yue must have introduced me. You know I'm quite rich, right? I invested in Liyang and 22 iron ores and 7 coal mines in other places. How about I jointly run a large workshop with you?" The princess smiled and said, "It's not a loss, right?"

This proposal made Ye Tao very moved. "I am willing to give it a try." Ye Tao said implicitly.

"Uncle Liu, let's do this after you go back." The princess said to Liu Yong. Liu Yong bowed slightly to show that he knew.

Originally, the princess was not very early to get up in the morning, and she spent a lot of time listening to a story by Ye Tao in Xunfeng Pavilion. After a brief walk in the workshop, it was already noon. As the bell for lunch sounded in the workshop, the workers put down their work and rubbed their hands to eat.

When Liu Yong reminded the princess to have a meal, Ye Tao hurriedly said, "Miss Xin'er, why not just be here? The workshop is so messy and there is nothing good to look at. How about we go to Linjiang Tower to have lunch together?"

The princess glared at Ye Tao and said, "I haven't seen anything fun yet. You just want to send me away? No. What should you eat for lunch in the cafeteria here? Just make some light ones for me."

Ye Tao said with a bitter face: "I don't know either, so come with me. You'll know after you go and see."

Before she could reach the entrance of the canteen, a strange and familiar fragrance came over. The princess accelerated and walked into the canteen with the abortion.

The building of the canteen is the same as those factories, except at the end there is an extremely huge kitchen, and most of the space is filled with tables and chairs. Whether it is apprenticeships or Ye Tao's brothers in casual clothes instead of work clothes, they all line up with basins and move forward step by step. Some people took the plates and walked out of the canteen, returned to the workshop to eat or sat in the aisle between the workshops, but most people still chatted and had lunch in the canteen. The workshops and military camps are the places where the yang and the yin are weak. The masters of hundreds of people sit together to eat without any attention. The sound of snoring in the Siri can destroy people's nerves.

Looking at the contents of the plate held by a worker, the princess smiled a little, as if it was such a delicious thing. When she rushed to the dining window, the princess saw a scene she hadn't seen for many years: a burly man pressed a wooden pot lid with one hand and used iron tongs to clamp the edge of the huge frying pan with iron pliers in the other hand, then he lifted the lid, poured some water on it, closed it, and then opened it evenly sprinkled a handful of sesame seeds and chopped green onions, then closed the lid and slowly turned it. When he finally lifted the lid and shouted loudly, "Okay!", the whole room was full of fragrance.

This is a good thing that the princess hasn't touched in 14 years - Shengjian buns.

The princess stretched her neck and looked forward to her look so cute. An old chef with slightly bearded hair was interesting. She took out a plate from the cabinet behind her, filled it with Shengjian and handed it to the princess, and said kindly: "Girl, be hungry, eat first, don't wait with a bunch of big men."

What was even more surprising was that the princess actually took the basin with both hands and said with a smile: "Thank you, uncle." She looked at the workers waiting in line with a little embarrassedly. Although she knew that the lady was noble, the group of people had no scruples in the cafeteria and made a commendation. The princess smiled and held the basin and sat down. She pulled out the chopsticks from the chopstick bucket on the table, picked up a fried one and put it on her mouth and bit it gently. After sucking the strong and hot soup into her mouth, she began to bite it in small bites. The movements were elegant and skillful, and it was obvious that it was the style of an old-fashioned diner.

Liu Yong was not surprised by the childish expression and behavior that the princess occasionally had, but couldn't figure out why the princess seemed to have known how to eat fried buns for a long time. Sisi and Qiaoer were completely stunned. When the princess finished eating a fried bun, they suddenly realized that the chopsticks that were washed clean enough from the princess, and took out the chopsticks, small bowls and exquisite food plates from the package she carried, and the princess happily let them do it.

She looked at Ye Tao and said generously: "It seems that you have a good idea to make things, it's really delicious... Well, let's start a shop with you first to do this? I've thought of the name, so I'll call it Fengyu Shengjian."

Ye Tao rolled his eyes: "You should obey your order..." He couldn't help but complain: I'm right to pirated IKEA, why did you bring Fengyu Shengjian?

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