Steam yamen is extremely strict in management of craftsmen. In this era, few people can withstand the work of three shifts, and people have no experience of not sleeping at night.

But in the face of a generous income and alternating holiday, people can learn and try to accept it.

The assembly of steam engines in nine factories has nothing to do with each other. The workers in the factory have no salary, but after a steam engine is sold, they will get a portion they deserve after deducting the cost, which gives them extremely high enthusiasm for work.

Zhou Sijing was not a technical craftsman. He was born in Macheng and was a Jinshi in the second year of Longqing. Even without a newly established department like the Steam Bureau, he might be able to reach the level of the Minister, and he might even be sent to other branches of the six departments with his talent.

It was just because the court had this department that he did a good job in several years, and when Wanli was in power, he was promoted and promoted, but he remained in the Steam Bureau.

Wanli trusts his people very much and is willing to entrust important tasks, but what is his people? Wanli may not have an answer himself.

At least for now, this range is extremely broad. He promoted or worked hard for him, and was his people.

Wanli has always been generous and trusted by his people.

Maybe it's because...he's never tried what it feels like to be betrayed.

The orthodox Jinshi's origin made Zhou Sijing pay great attention to the financial situation of the yamen, and this is actually the direct reason why Zhou Sijing urgently needs to develop a kind of thing that can be widely used in farmland or ordinary roads...They have not much silver reserves anymore.

In theory, the Steam Bureau is rich and powerful. Even if the steamer is needed for the government to allocate, there are many models of machines sold to private factories, and the prices range from 120 to 9,000 taels per unit. In the ninth year of Wanli, more than 90 rows of big green dragons were built for the court in the past two years, more than 40 military Xuanwu was used in the three major military weapons bureaus of the Beiyang and Nanyang Xuanfu, and twenty-six ships were used in red dragons.

The models of these more than 100 steam engines are different, but they are all large steam engines. In addition to civilians, each factory produces an average of eight units per year, which has extremely terrifying productivity... And the civil steam engine that was eliminated was forced to the court last year, and the internal treasury paid a total of 360,000 taels of silver, leaving 250,000 taels to maintain operation.

Common sense, the steam yamen should not be short of money.

But Zhou Sijing is a person who is prepared for danger in times of peace. From his recent contract analysis to private procurement of Xuanwu, the black bull craze is about to end. In other words, the demand tends to be saturated.

The places where the Ming Dynasty used steam engines were too concentrated, basically in Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Zhili, and Zhili, the north; there were not many industries that could use steam engines, and the three most affected industries were weaving, metallurgy, mining and smelting, and to a certain extent, this so-called "maximum impact" was just to make a certain extent that a person took charge of all the work and subdivided it internally.

For example, the extremely prosperous silk industry in Suzhou and Hangzhou was the first to gradually merge into large steam engine factories when the cotton weaving industry began to monopolize it, but hand-weaving silk households could compete with machine silk households.

The reason is that complex silk weaving means that while the original efficiency is low, the required skills threshold is high, and the practitioners have relatively higher skills, making it less likely to be eliminated by social changes, so they have the opportunity to join this change.

Nowadays, the silk weaving industry in Suzhou and Hangzhou has completed the active division of labor under the conditions of using Xiao Xuanwu. Some weaving households who used to weave half a piece of money in the countryside in the past cannot make money now, so they give up the loom to drive ox carts, mule carts wander around the villages and even go to Linxian, buy silk cocoons from the fields and sell them to their homes outside the city to earn some money.

Their previous family was also a weaver in the past. The difference was that in the past they were independent small producers, they cooked the purchased cocoons and purchased a Xiao Xuanwu connected to the original spinning machine, turning the cocoons into a roll of silk threads, and sold them directly to the previous family without continuing to weaving.

The previous family was a small workshop owner who used to hire weaving households to produce. They had a little wealth and had the capital to purchase several Xiao Xuanwu. They screened the collected threads twice, selected, completed the hooking and brushing processes, and weaved a piece of silk and sold them to the previous family.

The top family hired a large number of workers to boil the collected new silk in alkaline water, soak the pig pancreas, and clean the water. Because the newly woven silk is very hard and requires a lot of manpower to make it soft and comfortable. After completing this process, you can sell it to various tailor shops and big merchants selling overseas.

Interestingly, in this process, the best and best home do not require much technology. What the best home needs is a lot of manual labor and rural connections. This process does not involve the steam engine; the best home requires a lot of manual and sales network. They are often the largest silk workshop owners in the past. The only participatory process of the steam engine is to pound the wooden hammer after the water is cleaned.

The whole process is benign. After obtaining a certain amount of capital, the cocoon collector can open a factory to make silk threads; after obtaining a certain amount of capital, the spinning thread can also open a silk thread workshop; the spinning silk thread has capital and connections, and can hire a large number of workers to complete the final process for sale.

Zhou Sijing’s favorite industry is such a business, which means that his little Xuanwu will always be in short supply.

But this is not the case with the weaving industry where steam engines participate the most. Weaving is not as complicated as spinning and profits are not that high. It is an industry that is scattered and generally labored. The polarization of practitioners is extremely serious. Either the family has no spare money and the whole family has no income for three months. Or the large cloth sellers have a lot of property. Once the steam engine is involved in the small weaving household, there is no chance to participate in the process. In a county, two or three medium-sized Xuanwu are ordered by a merchant.

Most of the practitioners in the silk weaving industry are weaving households, and they are professionals; most of the practitioners in the weaving industry are farmers, and they are part-time jobs.

Next, the cotton and linen textiles in this county were monopolized. The huge increase in output made it difficult for other weaving households to have competition opportunities. The workshop owners who first used the steam engine soon had new funds to continue purchasing steamers and hiring weaving households. Others with extraordinary skills can do jacquards, but more people were eliminated before the competition started, and they didn't even have the opportunity to go to the countryside to harvest cotton, and directly degenerated to go home to grow cotton.

Although Zhou Sijing has been in charge of the machine factory for so long, he has long realized that everything can use steam engines. The imperial village of Wanli Ye Shuntian Mansion uses a horse-drawn steam engine to mount a sickle to harvest wheat. Who can control it?

But the common people in this world need to consider practicality and cost-effectiveness. Even if your steam engine is as cheap as thirty taels of silver, my family can still buy a few new clothes for a year. There are only a few acres of land that don’t need to move a cow home to provide for it, right?
Chapter completed!