Zhu Cijing talked a lot for the past half a day and felt his throat felt a little uncomfortable. He could no longer suppress the astringency just by drinking tea. He decided to use a different way to guide Bi Maokang and others.

He cleared his throat and guided him: "Have you noticed that the people in the shipyard work very quickly and seriously today? I'm thinking, if they keep this state every day, then we don't have to do anything, this output can increase by 20% or 30%, don't you think?"

When Bi Maokang heard this, his old face turned red again. This was not something he scared from the Minister of Works. These people usually work so hard.

Seeing Bi Maokang in embarrassment, Zhu Cijiu turned his gaze to Sun Yuanhua again, his eyes full of encouragement, and seemed to want Sun Yuanhua to say a few words.

Seeing the emperor's look, Sun Yuanhua had to bite the bullet and said, "They were just taking the majesty of Lord Bi and did not dare to be lazy. It is almost impossible for them to work like this in normal times."

Zhu Cijiong asked indifferently: "Is it really impossible?"

At this time, he turned his gaze to Wang Zheng again, and Wang Zheng had to speak obediently and said, "Why would you like to ask more managers to stare at them in their work?"

Zhu Cijing shook his head and said, "It's not possible to force them like this. They are all experts. You can't see that you work with you at all. Forced them to work will backfire."

After saying that, he looked at Bi Maokang again. Bi Maokang had no choice but to bite the bullet and said, "Why would you like to increase your salary?"

Zhu Cijiong nodded and encouraged: "Yes, I'm at the edge of the point. Think about how to increase in specific ways to make them work hard."

When Bi Maokang heard this, his eyes lit up and he answered actively: "For those who work diligently, the others will not rise, so that he will know that he has to work hard to make more money."

Zhu Cijiong said with relief: "Yeah, it's already very close, but what is this standard of diligence? If the subordinates want to be promiscuous and fraud, they will only give their confidants a rise, and no one else will rise. Isn't that the opposite of that?"

Bi Maokang was stunned when he heard this. Yes, if the people below do not set a standard and the random actions of the people below will cause dissatisfaction to most people. The salary is better than not. However, what standard can this diligence have? It is not up to the person in charge to see it. If you don’t see it, how can you know whether this person is diligent or not!

Seeing that everyone was frowning and thinking hard, Zhu Cijiu seemed to be unable to think of any solution, so he had to directly remind him: "Use working hours as a standard. For example, digging a pit in front of you is not difficult to dig a pit in two hours. An adult can easily complete it. If it is stipulated that one or two taels of silver will they still be fine, or do they still need ten people? As long as you dig hard, can five people not dig ten pits in two hours?"

When Bi Maokang heard this, he suddenly realized: "What the emperor means is to calculate the wages for them based on working hours, and how much work they do?"

This is actually the piece-based wage system in later generations. Of course, piece-based wages are not a general way to pay as much as you do. Zhu Cijing recalled and explained: "There is a standard for calculating wages based on working hours. So, just take 100 working hours per month as the standard. If you complete 100 working hours per month, you will find that the salary in a month. If you can complete 200 working hours per month, you will double the current salary. The specific amount of one working hours is equivalent to, you can calculate it according to this standard."

When Bi Maokang heard this, he couldn't help but praise him sincerely: "The emperor is wise and the Weichen knows how to do it. In this way, the output will probably increase by more than two or three percent."

Zhu Cijiong asked with a smile: "You are confident that you will produce 200 super battleships a year?"

Bi Maokang nodded involuntarily and said, "Yes."

Zhu Cijing then said lightly: "In fact, there are some small methods that can also increase production."

Bi Maokang couldn't help but say in longingly: "Please teach the emperor."

Zhu Cijing nodded and smiled and said, "For example, the processing of squares and sheets can only be cut and sawed by human power?"

When Bi Maokang heard this, his eyes lit up again and he replied: "Weichen understands that he can use a steam piston instead of manpower. If he installs a steam piston on both sides of the saw, there is no need for people to tug the saw."

Zhu Cijing was still smiling and nodding when he heard the first half of the sentence, but when he heard the second half of the sentence, he immediately rolled his eyes and said angrily: "That's not just a round-trip saw, how fast can it be?"

When Bi Maokang heard this, he bowed awkwardly: "Please teach the emperor."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Cijiu pulled a piece of paper from Sun Yuanhua, took a brush, drew a circle on the paper, and then drew a circle of saws around the circle, pushed them to Bi Maokang, and explained: "Meng Hou, the saw does not have to be long strips, it is also round. If you use high-carbon steel to make such a thin circular saw wheel and then make it rotate rapidly, isn't it much faster than the round and round tug-of-warp tug-of-warp?"

Bi Maokang looked at it and reminded carefully: "Master, if you want this saw wheel to rotate rapidly, you must be connected to the gear, so the saw wheel cannot move. How can you see the wood?"

Zhu Cijiu patted his forehead and pointed to the conference table and said, "As well as a shelf similar to a conference table, open a seam in the middle, and expose the saw wheel. In this way, just push the wood over the saw wheel and you will see it open. You can also nail the wood square on one side of the saw wheel to fix the size. As long as you push it next to the fixed wooden square, the width of the set is and the width of the saw wheel is as wide as the saw wheel."

Bi Maokang and others looked at the conference table and imagined the scene of sawing the saw wheel and sawing wood in their minds. They all showed surprise expressions. In this way, the speed was more than doubled. In the past, two skilled craftsmen had to pull the long saw back and forth for a long time when sawing a wooden board. With this kind of saw wheel, it would be possible to push the wooden board with a fixed size and not take a stick of incense to see a wooden board. In half a day, at least hundreds of pieces could be sawed!

Seeing that everyone's surprise expression turned into admiration, and there was a trend of flattery, Zhu Cijiong hurriedly raised his hand and said, "This is just an example of using new technology for production. You can also think about whether steam power can be used in other places. I will not analyze this step by step. Next, let me tell you how to apply new materials to production and improve production efficiency."

When everyone heard this, they immediately picked up their pens and listened attentively, fearing that they would miss the key points.

It was getting late, so Zhu Cijing simply taught directly: "For example, fixing square corners, there are many square corners on the battleship, like the square corners between the deck of the cabin and the wooden wall. There are many. I looked carefully. Now, most of them are made of about one inch of wood square, embedded in the square corner, and then nailing about one and a half inches of iron nails horizontally and vertically to fix the connection. Think about it, how much effort does it take to nail this inch and a half iron nail into it, and the real force is less than half inch. If it were replaced with a thick iron plate, it would be absolutely stronger than one inch of wood square in terms of hardness?"

Speaking of this, Zhu Cijiu directly pulled a piece of white paper from Sun Yuanhua, folded it into the size of a palm, and then folded it in half to a right angle and placed it on the table. Then, he used a brush to dot three equilateral triangles on two right angle surfaces, and explained while pointing: "Use a punch to process a piece of iron plate into this shape, and then drill three small holes in two right angle surfaces that can be passed through the iron nails. Isn't it much easier to connect and fix it with this connecting piece? Just use a half-inch long nail, and the force is almost half-inch, but has the force required for this nail nail reduced by more than twice?"

When Bi Maokang and others heard this, they kept nodding, and the more they had to respect the expression, the more they were.

Speaking of this, Zhu Cijiu felt that he had almost finished everything he could think of, and it was almost time for Xu. He waved his hand and said, "Okay, let's get to this day. Menghou, first ask the Dongda Shipbuilding Shipyard to make the fifty Spanish super battleships as soon as possible, and strive to go to sea in June. During this period, you organize relevant personnel to complete the work hours, numbers, and personnel replenishment, and prepare the production plan. From now on, you will use half a year as a cycle to produce 100 super battleships every six months. No problem."

Bi Maokang nodded confidently and said, "No problem, please rest assured that Dongda Shipbuilding Factory will definitely produce 100 super battleships in the second half of this year."
Chapter completed!