Chapter 16 Second Terra Industry Association and Experimental Primary School

Infrastructure construction requires money, and Ryan was just about to set his sights on the local tycoons and make a big deal when the stone factory in Second Terra got a big order.

The lord took the lead in planning the construction of aqueducts from the Bailey River and the Agate River to the main city of Turin. After the nobles experienced the comfort and comfort of running water, they became very dissatisfied with the original life experience. How could facilities that make life convenient alone? What if only ordinary people can enjoy it?

Therefore, they did not hesitate to build these canals, purchase supporting water valve facilities, etc.

Ryan only had two requirements, payment in advance and construction according to the work system he wrote.

Otherwise, the stone factory will only give priority to providing materials to those areas that are willing to comply with the requirements.

Ryan's purpose of doing this is also very simple. Those nobles seem to be gentle and considerate, but they are not that peaceful when facing the civilians. They might even ask for day and night construction to advance the progress, so that people can move forward as soon as possible. Construction completed. By carrying out construction according to their own work system, at least people can get enough rest.

The two aristocratic territories closer to Second Terra are those of Earl Gower and Earl Omant. Both of them are earls and have a lower status than those marquises. However, they also participated in the launching ceremony of the aqueduct.

Although the Mandala Principality is wooing nobles to target the Will family, it will not take the lead in wooing these two families who have little effect.

The Goyle and Ormant families decided to extend the construction directly from the aqueduct built in Second Terra, which would be able to meet the water needs of their territory.

The only problem is that the main water valve is controlled by the second Terra. If there is a problem, the second Terra can limit their water use.

However, these two families did not seem to have thought about how important this would be in the future. They just thought that without the water supply from the canals, they would have to maintain their previous lives at worst.

After getting the money, Ryan took no time to start the construction of the second Terra.

Bryce brought over the population reports of the four main towns of Second Terra and more than thirty surrounding villages, and muttered: "Sir, do you really need to fill in this form? Every time If the survey type is changed, the engraver will have to engrave it again and print it again.”

Ryan's eyes widened and he said quickly: "I forgot to tell you this. You can leave out the type above, or cut the corresponding position of the engraving plate to make several different types of inlay blocks. Then use Just install whichever one you want.”

Bryce wrote this down in his notebook and then reported:

"Sir, there are more than 20,000 people in Second Terra. Among them, there are more than 7,200 male farmers between the ages of 15 and 40, including those without land. Even if the water conservancy system is improved, we still need 4,000 people. For farming, the population that can be used for city construction is only about 3,000. As for the craftsmen you need, they are all on this table.”

Ryan took the document and examined it carefully. He said:

"All blacksmiths, including apprentices, need to take the school's basic courses and pass the exam. Bryce, help me find the most skilled masters. I want to talk to them."

Bryce's eyes flashed and he asked tentatively: "Sir, are you trying to convince them to teach their skills to all blacksmiths? This may be a bit difficult. The skills of many craftsmen are their ability to eat. Since ancient times, They are all inherited from the family, or they only have one or two apprentices, and they never dare to spread too much. "

Bryce himself comes from a blacksmith family, so he naturally knows the difficulties involved.

Ryan tapped his fingers on the table, thought for a moment, and then said: "We can set up an industry association. All blacksmiths and even all craftsmen who meet certain technical conditions can obtain certificates from the industry association. At the same time, those who want to learn Apprentices in these crafts need to learn from industry associations and pay certain tuition fees regularly. Municipal departments can assign tasks, pay commissions, and maintain the development of the association by coordinating order needs with other territories.”

Bryce was a little uneasy and said: "Sir, I have never heard of this model. Besides, the market for blacksmiths is actually not big. Apart from farm tools and weapons and armor provided to nobles, we don't have many needs in life. Objects made of metal.

Ryan smiled and said: "It will be available soon. The production capacity demand for muskets alone is enough to meet all the smelting needs of Second Terra for two to three years. Not to mention there are many things you haven't seen before, Metal materials can completely crush stone and wood in many aspects. Why do you think I asked the lord to investigate metal minerals? You should not be worried about market demand, but should be worried about whether we can keep up with the speed of training new blacksmiths in the future. But it doesn’t matter. When I find metal that can be used as a smelting machine, there won’t be so many blacksmiths, or they can be called steel workers instead.”

Bryce didn't understand many of the new concepts mentioned by Ryan, but he had the advantage of being obedient and keeping these things in mind.

He said: "My lord, I think we need to have a meeting to discuss the rules established by the industry association."

Ryan slapped his forehead, "It's broken. I remembered that I still have a lot of drawings to complete. The first class of school will be in a few days. I have to go back and prepare well."

Just kidding, he hates meetings.

Even if he popularized the idea of ​​holding meetings in the Second Terra, the purpose was to optimize people's work processes. As long as these people brainstormed and didn't fight, they could still come up with some reasonable rules and regulations.

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Forget about letting him go to the meeting by himself.

It is said that when some new departments hold meetings, they will reserve a seat for him, which represents respect for Ryan Will, the administrator of the Second Terra.

This tradition has been preserved since then.

However, Ryan was still brought to the relevant meetings of the industry association by Bryce. Many changes in industry concepts require a strong iron-fisted approach to complete, and Ryan is the best candidate for this role.

Everything is difficult at the beginning. Many concepts that are very common in Ryan's mind are like fairy tales to people here, and Ryan needs to explain them clearly.

In Ryan's framework design, no matter what kind of craftsman, they are divided into five levels: apprentice, assistant engineer, engineer, R&D engineer and chief engineer.

Because many of them will soon transition to the stage of machine production, simply calling them by their original occupations is a bit outdated, and their concepts need to be changed in advance.

Among them, apprentices need to attend school education every semester. After the popularization of basic education, most apprentices can only be recruited from schools, so that the foundation of the entire industry can be improved from the basics, and more knowledge can be accumulated generation after generation.

Starting from assistant engineers, the industry association will issue basic wages and corresponding performance bonuses, and the early finances will be directly managed by the municipal department.

As soon as the meeting was over, the financial department came to cry poor. The workers who paved the town had to pay wages, and the construction of schools and printing textbooks had to spend money, not to mention the sanitation construction that Ryan was most concerned about, and they had to find all kinds of materials they had never heard of, which cost more money.

The money from the stone factory orders sold will be spent soon.

Ryan had to look at the two earls, Gore and Omant, who were closest to them. Anyway, the expansion of the second Terra will start from you, so let's cut some meat from you first.

Since the water channels are all connected from the Second Terra, it is reasonable to charge some water fees.

We need to find a way to get the water meter right now, otherwise the other party will easily cheat.

After the industry association started construction, Ryan locked himself up and reviewed all the textbooks he had written. These things are related to the future of the Second Terra, and they are all top priority and must not be wrong.

At the same time, it is also to avoid those people from the Ministry of Finance who come to ask for money from blocking his door all day and complaining, as if they had broken their steamed buns.

On the sixth day after the population census was completed, the Second Terra First Experimental Primary School opened.

The school building was requisitioned by Ryan from the original town official residence. There are three floors in total, each floor has a teacher's office and six classrooms.

Each classroom can accommodate 30 students for teaching, and can only be divided into three grades at present.

The blackboard used for teaching is a flat wooden board cut and glued by a mold, covered with a layer of black paint. Ryan can't get the dark green protective paint now, so he can only use this instead.

As for chalk, it can only be used by grinding natural limestone into corresponding shapes. The dust is very large. When the gypsum dust can be bonded more tightly in the future, the problem of dust diffusion can be greatly improved. Now we can only let the teachers teach.

The school only offers three subjects: physics, arithmetic and writing.

Two-thirds of the first batch of students were children who were certified as apprentices after the establishment of the industry association. Among them were blacksmiths, tailors and even plasterers.

Some assistant engineers and craftsmen in the position of engineers were also very curious about what the school would teach and why their apprentices should learn school knowledge first and then learn their skills.

In their opinion, as long as they follow themselves more and work more, they will naturally have their own skills.

As for the school, isn’t that a place for professors who specialize in learning various literary plots or theological classics?

The first class was taught by Ryan, in physics. The location was the square in front of the college building, which could accommodate more than 400 people.

There were even more people standing in the gaps between seats, or squeezing in the corners, or even lying outside the wall with their heads out, waiting for the first class to begin.

When Ryan walked onto the stage, people quieted down. Regardless of whether they were confused, looked down upon, or expected and awed by this so-called school, the people of Second Terra had great respect for Ryan himself.

At least the tap water that every household could use greatly improved their life experience. They had never thought that a water pipe laid in their own home could bring such great convenience to their original lives.

Then the other things that Master Ryan was going to do must have benefits that they could not expect.

Ryan looked at the eyes of these people with satisfaction, at least with some curiosity and desire, rather than indifference.

He asked Bryce to push up a cart with a wooden box on it, and a metal double-headed eagle logo the size of half a thumb hanging on the outside, which was also the logo of Second Terra.

To prevent any Space Marine regiment from crashing here in the future and treating the people of Second Terra as heretics as soon as they met.

Ryan's thoughts were a little confused, and he coughed a few times to try to concentrate.

He said, "How long do you think it takes to make such a small metal object?"

People looked puzzled, and the blacksmith's apprentices whispered. After a while, one apprentice raised his hand and said nervously, "With a mold, we can make 20 to 30 a day. If there are enough workers pouring iron slurry, we should be able to make about 50. But the most important thing is the mold. My master said that those gold and silver ornaments can't even use molds, they have to be hand-carved. In that case, it will be even slower."

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Ryan nodded and said, "But there is a way to cool hundreds of such ornaments in an hour."

"This is impossible!"

The blacksmiths shouted in disbelief in the distance. If someone can make so many products in such a short time, doesn't it mean that they will be unemployed?

Ryan opened the box, which contained 400 metal ornaments of the same precision double-headed eagle.

People stared with wide eyes, and the blacksmiths were eager to communicate with each other:

"We haven't received this task in the past few days."

"Did you make these things alone in the west of the city?"

"How is it possible? Our main production capacity is used for metal water valves and those special metal pipes. There is not enough time and furnace to do these."

The blacksmiths had to look at Ryan, saying that they couldn't understand how Ryan did it. If it was with the help of Ryan's magician ability, then this ability was not of a nature that could be promoted.

Ryan smiled slightly, turned around and drew two things on the blackboard behind him.

One is a mold in a group of 100 pieces. As long as enough iron slurry is flowed and covered at one time, it will be 100 ornaments after cooling.

The other is the corresponding cover plate with the flow hole dug out, which fits the hole position of the mold perfectly. After the cover plate covers the mold, you only need to pour the iron slurry from the upper hole position and then pull off the partition of the hole position. Even if too much iron slurry is poured, it will not affect the formation of the iron slurry that has been poured into the mold.

In this way, only ten rounds are needed to make a thousand ornaments, and only the metal residue left after each operation needs to be scraped off.

People finally understood this form of batch operation, but they still expressed doubts and asked:

"Master Ryan, the bottom mold can stay in place, but the upper cover plate is too heavy to be lifted by manpower. You are a magician who can teleport, but when we lift these cover plates, we have to have several people to work together, and it may cause the holes to be misaligned. This still takes a lot of time."

Ryan explained: "But at least it is much faster than the previous casting one by one. And the purpose of this physics class is to explain to you how to let one or two people control the upper cover plate."

As soon as Ryan finished speaking, he clapped his hands, and behind the crowd, the smelting mold was pushed over.

What surprised people was that a set of iron chains were hung behind the cover plate above the mold, which was fixed to a disc above.

The vertical disc is fixed on two pairs of crossed cantilevers, which are staggered on four pillars extending from both sides of the mold.

The iron chain extends from the disc and passes through two small discs. It will not fall directly on the cover plate, but will fall outside the mold along one of the pillars. It is wrapped with a layer of heat insulation cloth, which seems to be pulled by hand.

People soon realized the significance of this extended iron chain. Can a person standing outside pull this iron chain and lift the entire cover plate?