The Ming Dynasty’s Prodigal Son - Chapter 1812

[1812. Chapter 1724 Talent]

Zhang Yanling collapsed emotionally.

Along the way, watching people in various work sections eating and drinking wildly, and then thinking about how he slept in the open, eating porridge and steamed cakes all day long, he felt that the world was deeply malicious to his two brothers.

The more he thought about this, the angrier he became, so he grabbed Wu Xiong’s shirt.

Staring at him fiercely and gnashing his teeth, he looked like sworn enemies.

Wu Xiong was stunned.

“Are you here to build the railway, or are you here to feast and drink? Tell me!”

“I…build the road…”

“Build the road! Then why did you eat the apple?”

“I…the villain was wrong. “Wu Xiong replied helplessly.

“Wrong? For such a big thing, do you just say that you are wrong and just want to forget it? I will kill you, if you say it is wrong again, is it okay?”

Wu Xiong was trembling, his lips trembled: “This… this… “

You must have a guilty conscience, you piece of shit! You only know how to eat and eat, how can you focus on building the railway?”

Wu Xiong: “…”

He couldn’t explain it anymore.

Zhang Yanling glared at him bitterly, picked up the apple on the document, put it in his mouth and took two bites. It was so sweet that he was reluctant to swallow it in one gulp. He just put it in his mouth and chewed it carefully, just like an old lady eating it. Then he wiped it

like millet porridge

and extended the apple to Zhang Heling.

Zhang Heling frowned, his eyes still staring at the drawings, and two words popped out of his mouth: “Go away!”

“Oh.” Zhang Yanling hurriedly took the apple back, chewing it, and stared at Zhang Heling meticulously.

Zhang Heling suddenly laid the engineering drawings on the document: “Go find the pen and ink.”

“Brother, the pen and ink are on the document.”

Zhang Heling picked up the pen and immediately began to write a calculation formula. He seemed to feel something was wrong. He shook his head and said, He muttered: “Bring that book.”

“Which one?”

“Introduction to Algebra, I want the Xishan Academy edition.”

Zhang Yanling hurriedly went back and rummaged through his bag and took out an old, yellowed book.

The book had been torn through for a long time. Zhang Heling quickly found a certain page, frowned again, started writing some calculations, and suddenly said: “Bring me the topographic survey map of Xi’an.”

Zhang Yanling turned over again. try to find.

After Zhang Heling saw it, he said: “No, no, the cost… find the cost as well.”

Zhang Heling took Wu Xiong’s position without ceremony.

He sometimes frowned, sometimes lowered his head to think, and occasionally wrote and drew. It lasted more than an hour. He suddenly said: “I understand, I understand, the problem lies here. There is clearly a problem with the budget of the Luoyang section.”

Wu. Xiong was startled: “The question…what…what problem.”

“How many workshops have you built for the Luoyang section?”

“One iron workshop and one wood workshop.”

“That’s right.” Zhang Heling then When he came back to his senses, he saw that Zhang Yanling still had an apple in his hand. He raised his hand and slapped Zhang Heling: “Where did it come from?”

“Brother.” Zhang Yanling said aggrievedly: “I wanted to give it to you just now, but you didn’t eat it yourself. “

Zhang Heling took it. He felt hungry and ate a few voraciously. Then he said: “The problem lies in this workshop. When you built the workshop, didn’t you calculate that the output of this workshop is limited? , seems to save money, but in fact, it increases the construction time. The more the construction time increases, the greater the waste. The existing workshop cannot meet the schedule at all, and one needs to be built. On the surface, , building another one is a loss, but in fact, it speeds up the construction period. Have you calculated the labor cost in Luoyang?”

Wu Xiong: “…”

Zhang Heling gritted his teeth and said: “The labor force in Luoyang is less than 30% of that in Beijing. Do you understand what I mean? The cost is so low, why not recruit more and speed up the construction period? The ironworks need to expand production immediately and recruit manpower from the Xi’an section. The waste of manpower is the most serious in this Xi’an section. I will leave in a few days. Pack them up.”

Wu Xiong said: “I understand, I understand…”

Zhang Heling then said: “Bring the wood.”

“Oh.” Zhang Yanling then took a small piece of wood from the bag.

Zhang Heling angrily threw the wood to the ground: “This is a sample I found in the sleeper workshop in my secret workshop early in the morning. Look at it… shit, the wood has not yet been dehydrated, so it is processed and produced in a hurry. If When there is a heavy rain, it will soak and rot. What a waste this will cause. Are any of you idiots willing to take it seriously? Tell them to abide by the rules and don’t make mistakes when the time comes. It needs to be reworked. And the cost of this project…don’t fool us brothers with this. The cost of the project is floating. The current budget is just the maximum value. Now there is a terrible phenomenon in many places. Before the budget was spent, they hurriedly looked for opportunities to spend it together. There were also a bunch of idiots who ignored the budget and asked for money from Jianye. Does Xishan Jianye produce money? Not yet… not yet…”

At this point, Zhang Heling was heartbroken and clutched his heart: “It’s not the people’s wealth. Do you know that the people… are reluctant to drink the porridge?”

Wu Xiong said in surprise: ” Two uncles, the people’s lives are better now than before, and they are still willing to drink porridge…not as good as before…”

“How dare you talk back!” Zhang Heling was furious: “Don’t think that I don’t know how cunning you guys on the construction site are. This is only what I saw. There are many more that I didn’t see. What? The tasks assigned today must be done immediately, and the construction period must be accelerated. If it is not completed in one day, how much will it cost to use so much manpower?”

Wu Xiong thought for a while, but he didn’t have time to calculate. After all, cost was not something he was good at.

“I have read the construction drawings, and there is probably nothing wrong with them.” Zhang Heling chewed the kernels of the apple, bit them into pieces, and swallowed them into his stomach.

Zhang Yanling stretched his neck and looked at his brother’s final swallowing action. He couldn’t help but show disappointment on his face. He thought his brother would leave some kernels for him.

“In the past two days, I will be walking around. To put it bluntly, both the cost and the engineering design are empty. What matters is management. If management keeps up, everyone performs their duties, that is the greatest diligence. If there is no Keeping up and holding each other back is waste.”

“Yes, yes, yes.” Wu Xiong wiped his sweat.

Immediately, Zhang Heling sat down again and asked Wu Xiong to find the exploration map of the construction section and look at it carefully.

At noon, Wu Xiong ordered the kitchen to make food. The people in the kitchen knew that the big shot was coming, and hurriedly said: “Do you need to buy some chickens, ducks, and drinks…”

Wu Xiong broke into a sweat in shock, shook his head and said: “No, let’s have porridge for lunch, oh, add three taels… no, one tael of pickles.”

The man in the kitchen was shocked: “This… this…”

He thought he heard wrongly.

Wu Xiong couldn’t explain it, so he said with certainty: “You heard me right, that’s it, no more, I’m going to pour a glass of water for Mr. Hou, go quickly!”

“Oh.”

…

At noon, I drank porridge with pickles.

Zhang Heling started to get busy.

He came to this place with a clear purpose, but there were still many things that he didn’t understand clearly, so the two brothers went to the construction site and walked around a few times, so as not to feel sad again.

Turning his head… he returned to the work shed, and before he had time to rest for a while, he took out the book directly from his bag.

What they carry most now are books. There is nothing they don’t read, from engineering, to accounting, to machinery manufacturing. It can be said that they are worried about this railway.

At the beginning, the book felt awkward to read, but fortunately there were many professionals around me. When they asked, no one dared not answer.

And when others read books, they read them with a learning attitude.

But the two brothers were different, especially Zhang Heling. He looked at it with a questioning attitude.

It seems that in his eyes, there is always a group of dogs who want to fool money behind the books.

Therefore…he would never believe everything in the book.

Zhang Heling can also draw and even understand the structure of a steam locomotive.

From boilers to transmissions to iron wheels, there was nothing he didn’t know.

Sometimes he would close his eyes and think… suddenly he would take out a notebook he was carrying.

The book is densely packed with drawings, which he drew himself.

Inside are the structures of countless steam locomotives.

Even…through the French painter, he has begun to use a lot of perspective methods.

At this time, he began to think blindly again, pondered for a long time, and suddenly said: “The principle of this steam is very simple. It is actually boiling water. The process of boiling water consumes coal and produces power. Therefore, this Process, one is cost, which means waste and waste, and the other is efficiency, which is the output, which is effectiveness. This is easy to say, but difficult to do. First, it is difficult to do. , is to use the least amount of coal to boil water. Secondly, how can we use the steam produced by boiling water as much as possible without wasting it? “Do you understand what I mean?”

“Brother, you said it? “

More than thirty times.” Zhang Yanling said weakly.

Zhang Heling glared at him: “Have you drawn the boiler I asked you to improve last time?”

Under Zhang Heling’s unkind gaze, Zhang Yanling quickly found the drawings he drew and sent them to Zhang Heling.

Zhang Heling read it carefully and picked up his pen: “No, yours is too complicated. There is nothing wrong with complexity. The more complicated it is, the more unnecessary losses can be reduced, but… what about the manufacturing cost… wrong…”

Zhang Heling’s The voice stopped, and he squinted and looked at the drawings carefully.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he pressed his fingertips on every fine line drawn by the charcoal, searching step by step, and then… staring at the data in every place, he suddenly said: “It’s a bit interesting, it’s a bit interesting. , But… there are still some shortcomings, yes, oh, our Zhang family has no talent. “

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