After passing several rows of similar tall houses, Yan Shu and others became more and more shocked. Most of these houses were doing the same thing as the place just now. How many machines and people were there? They could see that almost all the machine tools were made of steel. How much steel was used to make these? In order to consume the produced steel, the Iron Supervision almost used steel to build the house.

I don’t know how long I walked, but finally arrived in front of a large room. Du Zhongxiao said, “Dear Masters, the parts made in front are all installed here as steam engines. Let’s go in and take a look and you will know how the machine was made.”

After saying that, he took a few people into this room that was obviously taller than other buildings.

Unlike other places, there is a track in the middle, with a machine placed at a distance on it. There is a row of workers standing on both sides of the track, and behind the workers, there is a track with shelves on it and various parts are placed.

From the place where you enter, you can't see the shadow of the steam engine. I saw a huge base made of pig iron, and the workers next to me were busy loading various parts on it. Two people, one left and one right, were holding a notebook in their hands, patrolling back and forth. After they were installed here, they shouted and pushed it to the back. As they walked along the way, they were almost the same. Except for the different parts installed in each station, the arrangement was almost the same.

As he walked along the way, Yan Shu and others slowly understood what they were doing in the places they had seen before. It was the place where parts were produced, and they would finally be shipped here, put them on the base one by one, and finally become a complete machine.

This is the assembly line, which stretches for nearly a mile. At the end, the complete steam engine is coming out from there.

Du Zhongxiao didn't want to do assembly lines at the beginning. At least common sense, although assembly lines are highly productive and save manpower, they have huge investments. The product models produced are single and only suitable for products with huge output. The steam engine is not mature now, and there will be many subsequent modifications. Now building assembly lines will inevitably lead to huge waste. But another reality is that the mechanical equipment required for assembly lines is a much simpler structure due to the single function and simple structure. The mechanical production of the Iron Supervision now is based on production tools with a single function and a simple structure. The assembly lines are a last resort.

If it was normal, it was far from so lively here, most workers were taken to do other things. Because the four magistrates came, the Iron Supervisor saved up some parts and produced them at full capacity and showed them a look. Now it is not the steam engine used for trains, but the models used for small Iron Supervisors. The steam engine used for trains is much more complicated, and it takes so many days to get enough parts.

As he was about to reach the end, looking at the rows of machines on the rails, Yan Shu asked: "Fortune judgment, how many units can be produced in a year like this?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "If you go back to your husband, if you keep going, you can leave twenty units in five hours a day."

Liu Zhi asked strangely: "Why only do it for five hours? I see, workers can rotate day and night."

Du Zhongxiao said: "My husband, as long as there are people, it is natural to do it, but at night, there is no light."

In the factory, the brightness of the oil lamp is not enough and the work must be stopped at night. Du Zhongxiao also remembers several types of lamps with particularly high brightness, such as gas lamps, calcium carbide lamps, and acetylene lamps. Unfortunately, a lot of energy wasted, and none of them were made.

Ouyang Xiu said: "Twenty units a day are already a lot, and they only cost six or seven hundred units a year. How many cars can I take with iron paved roads!"

After hearing this, Du Zhongxiao said embarrassedly: "My husband, these machines are not used on trains, but are used by the Iron Supervisor. If you pull the front of the train, one one a day is a bit of a problem, and you can only make one or two hundred a year."

After hearing this, Ouyang Xiu asked, "Is this difficult? I see that you have many people and machines doing this. If there are only one or two hundred units a year, how much does that one unit cost?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "If it is a train, it will cost about 100,000 guan. The others will be cheap, ranging from 300,000 guan to 20,000 guan."

The four magistrates looked at each other and stopped talking for a while. They walked around the Iron Prison and knew that this thing would be unfair, but they did not expect it to be so expensive. In terms of trains, one or two hundred units a year, only one or two million guan. How much tax does the imperial court pay per year? The land tax and commercial tax are counted in every few tens of millions of guan. This is only part of the products of the Iron Prison. How much does all the products make in a year?

After seeing the expressions of everyone, Du Zhongxiao smiled and said, "This is calculated based on the goods produced. Where is the actual possibility? Now, the goods produced by the Iron Supervision have sold less than one ten, and the money earned is built except for the capital. In the past year, except for the construction of steel smelting and producing these machines, it can be said that there is no money to make."

Yan Shuzhengrong said: "Fortune judgment, as long as you build this place and make good things, you will naturally sell them. If you don't make money now, it doesn't mean you won't make money in the future. In two or three years, the Iron Supervisor may really make tens of millions of chunks of money here."

Of course, Du Zhongxiao knew that in a few years, the products of the Iron Supervision Company could be sold, not to mention tens of millions or 20 million yuan, or nearly 100 million yuan might be able to make it. But how much money is in the world? It is impossible for the whole world to come here. If you want to develop normally, the economic system of the whole world will be reorganized. The greatest value of the Iron Supervision Company is to provide a heavy industry foundation. Other easy-to-sell consumer goods provide cash flow to allow the Iron Supervision Company to operate.

Is it expensive to have 100,000 guan? It is not expensive in fact. A train can transport capacity of 6,000 shi, with the length of the Bian River and the rest on the road, which is more than one night. A one-way transportation capacity of 90,000 shi per month can transport more than one million shi a year. Now, 6 million shi a year can transport six million shi a year is just six trains. For the transportation of these 6 million shi, there are many transit warehouses along the route, as well as specialized transport envoys from the Jianghuai River, and many consignment ships are much higher. Trains are much faster than water transportation, and transit warehouses are not needed, and many links can be reduced. Is this price still expensive?

After all, trains can facilitate the circulation of goods, facilitate communication, form a larger market, and greatly promote economic development. The more mature the market develops, the greater the value of the train, and the production capacity of the Iron Supervision can be exerted. The market has not been formed, and this is a big toy. Now it is a false statement that it is worth.

The difficulty facing the Iron Supervision now is that the external market has not been opened, and these spectacular factories are more of self-entertainment. If you can't make money, the workers working here do not know their value. The Iron Supervision provides them with a house and pays a little higher wage than odd jobs outside, and everyone is satisfied. Even those skilled workers don't have much money a month, and they rack their brains every day and night to be happy day and night. When it develops, you can see that such treatment cannot be retained at all.

With such great potential, what rank Su Song of the Zhiguan is? He is just the lowest level among the Beijing officials. When you really earn tens of millions of yuan a year, it is impossible to be this extreme. If you are not an official with two systems or above, you will be embarrassed to come here.

Du Zhongxiao had a blueprint for the future of the Iron Supervision in his heart, but now he would only make people laugh, so he simply didn't say it. By the time the railway was used next year to connect Xiangzhou and Kaifeng Prefecture, no matter how you say it yourself, everyone would realize the value here.

The four magistrates were just shocked by the railway factory, but they had no idea about the value of the railway. Du Zhongxiao said that they could not sell it, and the few people sighed for a while and then did it. This was not a matter of one day or one night, and they couldn't come even if they were anxious.

Watching the workers push the installed steam engine along the track, Du Zhongxiao said: "This is the most valuable place in the Iron Supervision Bureau now, but it is also the hardest place to sell the goods produced. My husband, it will be less boring if we go to see other things produced in the Iron Supervision Bureau."
Chapter completed!