stjorthotic Chapter 352: Zhu Yuanzhang: Spend Money? The Mine Belongs To Our Old Zhu Family, So Why Do We Need T
Chapter 352: Zhu Yuanzhang: Spend Money? The Mine Belongs To Our Old Zhu Family, So Why Do We Need T
Below, after hearing Yan Changqing's quotation, Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Fang, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, immediately began to calculate the cost in their hearts.
[Blackboard, ordinary people just find a piece of wood and cut it into a rectangular shape, grind and polish it, and then apply a layer of black paint?!!]
【Oh, that means the blackboard is free!!!】
However, a thought came to mind, and Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, had all decided that the blackboard would not cost money.
Well, for them, there is really no need to spend money. They only need to issue a government order and let the carpenters in the county, township, town, village, and village spend a day or two on whittling a piece of wood.
Then it is sanded, polished, and finally coated with black paint, and it can be used as a blackboard for teaching.
In this process, the wood board is sourced and made by the carpenters themselves, and the black paint is also sourced and mixed by the carpenters themselves.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the imperial court’s financial expenditure is completely zero!!!
The only possible expense is the carpenter's labor costs.
But it is a pity that in this era, the court did not need to pay labor fees when requisitioning carpenters. There is another name for this requisition method, and that is - corvee!!!
If making blackboards can allow carpenters to offset ten and a half days of corvee, or even exempt them from one year of corvee, basically all carpenters would be willing to take the initiative to work in the fields.
[The limestone and gypsum stone purchased at a cost of one thousand taels, not counting the manual transportation costs and labor costs of the workshop, were used to produce millions of pieces of chalk like the one in Mr. Yan’s hand?!!]
[One thousand taels is one million Wenqian. The limestone and gypsum stone purchased with one million Wenqian can produce millions of pieces of chalk. In other words, on average, the cost of one piece of chalk is one Wen. money?!!】
[Wait a minute, Mr. Yan needs to spend money to buy limestone and gypsum stone. That’s because neither the limestone nor gypsum stone belongs to him, so he needs to spend money to buy it. 】
[However, for us, the limestone and gypsum stone within the territory of the Ming Dynasty belong to the Ming Dynasty and are all ours!!!]
[So that means, for us, creating fans doesn’t actually cost money?!!]
Thinking of this, the eyes of Zhu Yuanzhang, Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes became brighter and brighter, and the expressions on their faces became more and more excited.
After thinking about it, they found that chalk actually cost nothing for them!!!
Spend money on gypsum stone vs limestone?!!
What a shit to buy!!!
The entire Ming Dynasty belongs to their old Zhu family!
Everything on the territory of the Ming Dynasty also belongs to their old Zhu family!!
When Lao Zhu’s family uses some of their own gypsum stone and limestone, do they still need to spend money to buy it?!!
Whoever dares to let the old Zhu family spend money, Zhu Yuanzhang will have to show off his butcher knife and let the other party have a try to see if it is good or not!!!
As for the cost of manual excavation and transportation, sorry, there is no such cost in Daming.
Because things like requisitioning people for manual excavation and transportation work, in this era, are the same as carpenters in the past, and they are all ten types of corvee!!!
In this era, the corvées and the people requisitioned by the court were free of charge. At most, food and accommodation were included. In addition, the court would not spend any additional money.
As for the cost of food and shelter, Zhu Yuanzhang and the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes thought about the manpower Yan Changqing might mobilize to make the one million pieces of chalk.
As soon as this idea came up, the cost of food and accommodation for this part of the manpower was ignored by Zhu Yuanzhang and the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes.
Because with Yan Changqing's qualifications, without affecting the current Agricultural College, he can mobilize at most three to five thousand people. And the food and accommodation of three to five thousand people as corvees, is it a problem for the Ming Dynasty?!!
Not at all!!!
As for the labor costs in the workshop, this should be paid to a certain extent.
But if the staff in other workshops in the imperial court are transferred to the new chalk workshop, then the expenses of this part of the workshop staff can continue to be paid according to the original expenses.
In other words, it means no additional expenditure is required!!!
In this case, as long as they School Disciple investigate where there is limestone and gypsum stone.
Then a new chalk workshop, or chalk factory, was built on the spot, and a group of workshops were allocated to make chalk because they were overstaffed.
At the same time, he ordered carpenters all over the world to make relevant blackboards as required.
So except for the initial investment in the construction of the chalk factory, there is no need to spend money at all else!!!
This is completely affordable for Ming Dynasty’s current annual revenue!!!
As long as it has no impact on the Ming Dynasty's current annual revenue and finance, then in the eyes of Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Fang, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, it is already possible to implement it.
[The name of one emperor through the ages, the Ming Dynasty’s prosperous era of enlightenment, and the future of the national imperial examination, except for one-third!!!]
Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes all had the same thought in their minds.
"If the scale of the chalk workshop can be further expanded to a chalk factory, larger batches and larger scale production can be carried out."
"Then it should be possible to further reduce today's costs to the point where we can use one thousand taels of raw materials to produce two million pieces of chalk."
"If I want to further reduce costs, I will need a craftsman to further optimize my existing chalk production process."
“Otherwise, based on the current level of technology, scale, and production capabilities, the maximum cost would be reduced to these ten steps.
Yan Changqing said with a touch of regret.
The production of chalk is a very unskilled matter for him.
The main raw materials for making chalk in previous lives were calcium carbonate (limestone) and calcined gypsum. If calcium carbonate (limestone) was not available, simply calcined gypsum would work.
It's just that chalk made from calcined gypsum and water without adding calcium carbonate (limestone) is easier to break.
There are several recipes for making chalk [Yan Changqing alone has the impression that there are three:
The first is: four parts of calcium carbonate (limestone), eight parts (or six parts) of calcined gypsum, and ten parts of water.
The chalk produced through this ratio of raw materials is quite satisfactory and relatively normal.
The second one is: two parts of pure gypsum powder, two parts of gypsum, and two and a half parts of water.
The chalk produced through this ratio of raw materials has just the right hard and soft texture.
The third type is: two parts of pure gypsum powder, one part of stone powder, plus one part of talcum powder, and two and a half parts of water.
The chalk produced through this ratio of raw materials is of extremely high quality.
The first method used by Yan Changqing is to mix calcium carbonate (limestone) and calcined gypsum, add water and mix thoroughly to form a thin slurry.
Then quickly pour it into each hole of the metal model pre-coated with oil (usually olive oil or kerosene). After about ten minutes or half an hour, it will all solidify. You can disassemble the model and take it out to dry.
Of course, if you want to make it more perfect, you can leave it for another three, five days or a week to allow the water vapor inside the chalk to evaporate naturally.
This way, the powder becomes easier to write on and use.
The entire chalk making process is so simple.
In addition to the fact that the mold for making chalk is a bit difficult for children to find, Yan Changqing believes that a five-year-old child can complete the other steps independently.
But even for such a simple thing, in his opinion, no matter how to expand the scale, no matter how to spread the cost.
At best, 830 can barely reduce the cost of raw materials for making chalk to the point where one penny in the Hongwu era can produce two pieces of chalk.
Nowadays, one penny in the Hongwu period of the early Ming Dynasty is equivalent to about two cents in later generations.
This means that the cost for him to make a piece of chalk is about a dime in later generations.
In later generations, the cost of raw materials for making a hundred pieces of chalk can be reduced to less than a dime!!!
The hundred-fold difference between making a hundred pieces of chalk with a dime and making one piece of chalk with a dime is the gap between industrialization in the previous life and agriculturalization today.
It can be said that the reason why the national literacy campaign was able to be carried out in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China in the previous life was also closely related to the low cost of making chalk and blackboards.
After all, if the cost of teaching were as high as the Four Treasures of the Study in the early Ming Dynasty, it would have been impossible for the weak forces in the previous life to support Quankang compulsory education at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Only when the production cost was so low that it could even be ignored, was it possible to mass-produce and promote its use at that time.
Below, Zhu Yuanzhang and the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes heard Yan Changqing say that the raw material production cost of chalk can be further reduced to one million yuan to make two million pieces of chalk.
Although their expressions were excited, they were not very excited either.
After all, the cost of making chalk has been equated with free and free in their minds.
And since it is free and does not cost money, then further compression of the cost will be equivalent to zero times two for them, and there will be no substantial change.
At most, it is the manpower originally allocated to the chalk factory, and maybe half of it can be saved?!
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