Chapter 28: I understand the truth, but ...

Yes indeed!
Edgar froze and looked down at Tang En: "Master, do you want to place an order?"
"What order ... Oh, let's consider it an order, but it is not a weapon."
Tang En said: "I inspected the farmland today ..."
I like the word "inspection"!
Tang En felt inexplicably satisfied, and continued: "I found that the agricultural tools used by everyone are still wooden, so I want to give you some agricultural subsidies in the name of the lord, so that everyone can replace iron agricultural tools."
"really?"
Edgar counted the number of Ellington peasant households in his heart, and he was very pleased that although the price of agricultural tools was not comparable to weapons and equipment, but he could make a lot of money when the number went up.
"Of course it's true, and I have something for you to help build, but I'll fix it before I say it."
"It's good to say, everyone knows that iron farm tools must be easy to use, but the iron is too expensive and everyone can't afford it, so they have been using wood, what the Lord Lord sent ..."
"Agricultural subsidies."
"Yes! Farm subsidies-then, what do farm subsidies mean?"
Edgar then remembered that he didn't understand what Tang En meant.
You do n’t understand what excitement!
Tang En forced the roaring impulse and explained it patiently, and then Edgar understood it. In short, the agricultural subsidy is that the Lord Lord spends money to change things for everyone!
If Fiona were present, she would have been even more shocked and amazed-shocked by his intriguing skills, and marveled at his defeat!
"This is a great thing!"
Edgar was excited: "The Lord Lord is indeed sent by the gods to save us Ellington! If everyone knows this, you will be very grateful for the Lord Lord!"
"This matter will be kept secret for the time being, and will be announced when the farm tools are ready."
"Okay! I swear in the name of the gods, I will keep this a secret!"
Hearing that he swore in the name of the gods, Tang En subconsciously paid attention to the movement outside, but did not hear the thunderous sound.
Is it a coincidence in the morning?
In an instant, Tang En left the thought behind.
"Wait, wait! Big brother!"
Brian quit at this moment, angrily with a moustache and stared: "You called me just to let me build farm tools !? Aren't you kidding me !?"
"Of course not kidding!"
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
Brian leaped wildly: "Brian of my forge hammer family, but you let me stay to help you build agricultural tools !? The forge of the hammer family will cry! Really cry!"
"Oh?"
Tang En said lightly: "Even if these farm tools will be replaced in the future, you are not willing to use new alloys?"
"No ... of course!"
Brian suddenly changed his face, and Dayi said suddenly, "Forging weapons and equipment is even more powerful, but it is only a weapon for killing. Only forging agricultural tools is the choice for the benefit of all beings! I like to build agricultural tools, and no one should rob me. ! Otherwise I'm in a hurry with him! "
Tang En pouted, little, fight with me? You're still tender!
Brian despises Tang En in his heart and fights me? You have a thin skin!
"I see, Lord Lord, so these farm tools can be built in the previous proportions, right?"
Edgar's face was difficult, and he roughly estimated it in his heart. Although the iron ore was a bit nervous, the savings were probably enough.
Tang En sensitively noticed Edgar's anomaly: "What's wrong? Difficult?"
"No problem! Guaranteed to complete the task!"
"Yeah," Tang En nodded. "Yes, although it is an iron farm tool, it is not necessary to use all iron. As long as the key parts of the farm tool are replaced with iron tools, iron tools are used for the hoes, rakes, plows, and sickle blades. Only wood is needed. All iron is not only wasted, it's too heavy, and there is no way to cultivate. "
"That's the case, I didn't expect it!"
Edgar suddenly realized, but with that calculation, the iron ore had a surplus again, and he was quite happy.
Tang En signaled him to start the calculation: "You can roughly calculate, see how many pieces you need to make, and then give me a quote."
Edgar hastily calculated and said, "Master Lord, as far as I know, there are 1,232 peasant households in Ellington. If they are all replaced, at least 1,232 will be required. Considering the damage and replacement, I would like to build more than 1,500, but the iron is used in the key places, the cost is reduced a lot, one sickle and rake are ten silver coins, the hoes and plows are slightly more expensive, and one fifteen silver coins It's all cost. "
Edgar's quotation to Tang En is not daunting, saying that the cost price does not contain a trace of moisture.
"Well, in each case I allow you to make a profit of one silver coin. The selling price is set at eleven silver coins and sixteen silver coins."
Tang En doesn't even have to count, even if everyone buys everything, he subsidizes one gold coin, which is only 1,232 gold coins. Compared with the improved agricultural efficiency, this money is really not worth it. Count more.
"Master Lord is wise."
"Don't slap me, how long can these things be done? Is a month enough?"
"A month or a month !?"
Both Edgar and Brian jumped up, and Brian yelled, "Big brother, what are you kidding! From now on, even the two of us will have to work hard for half a year to get it out, even without sleep!"
Tang En was stunned: "more than half a year !? Not so much, just order something ..."
"A layman is a layman!"
Brian hummed. "Edgar! Don't talk nonsense to him! Just half a year! At least half a year!"
"This ... Lord Lord?"
"It's too slow!"
Tang En frowned. For half a year, the harvest time of the harvest month was delayed.
"Slow? Who dares to speak slowly!"
Brian was furious: "It would have been even longer without my master!"
"That makes sense."
Edgar took it for granted: "Master Lord, to build ironware requires smelting, repeatedly molding, and then cutting and hardening, every step is sloppy."
"This is just an agricultural tool, not a weapon on the battlefield, so careless ..."
"You are insulting us!"
Brian's beard glared and stared: "Forging is a sacred skill, and what we hit in our hands must be a boutique!"
"This……"
Tang En had nothing to say, he only reacted now, and he made another empirical mistake.
On the earth, due to the highly developed industry, everything is manufactured in batches on an assembly line. Every day, the assembly line does not produce 10,000 items and is embarrassed to start. But Plantar is different. There is no assembly line factory and no machinery. All handmade!
For example, the things here are like watches manufactured in batches and Patek Philippe made by hand. Although the functions are the same, the added value is different!
But what Tang En wants now is efficiency, and what he wants is mass production.
"Not enough to recruit apprentices?"
"No, no, apprentices also need to understand perceptions and skills. After a few years of study, they can't build things independently."
Brian and Edgar shook their heads and discussed how to improve efficiency, but no matter how they discussed, they could not avoid an important issue.
Too few manpower available.
Tang En's frowns were too tight, his efficiency was too low and he had to improve.
"That being the case, let's put aside the discussion just now, and now we are going to discuss an important issue."
Tang En lowered his hands, motioned them to be quiet, and then said, "That's how to improve efficiency."
"Brother, what can you do?"
"Will you use molds to improve efficiency?"
"Of course, which blacksmith doesn't use molds? But that doesn't solve the fundamental problem."
"It's good to use molds. Well, I think it's time for Plandal to be innovated."
"innovation?"
"Yes."
Tang En smiled brightly: "The assembly line operation and lathe manufacturing technology ... There should be applause."
"Hmm ..."
With a dull face, Edgar and Brian clapped their hands stupidly, and the next moment Brian stunned: "Big brother! I understand every word you say, but I don't understand at all!"
Apparently, Edgar and Brian were confused by Down.
"What is assembly line operation? What is also called lathe manufacturing technology?"
The two in front of them may be witnesses to the industrial revolution of Prandall, so Tang En must patiently explain to them so that the next step can get started.
"The assembly line operation is very simple. The principle is to use a large number of workers to replace one person's various repetitive tasks. Each person completes a step and then hands it to the next person. This way, the work efficiency can be greatly improved without a break.
Brian couldn't help asking: "I understand the truth, but why does efficiency improve?"
Tang En almost thought he would ask "why the pigeons are so big", so he continued to patiently explain to them what is called work efficiency, how to improve the overall work efficiency, and how to improve the overall production efficiency by improving the efficiency per unit time ...
After listening to Down's explanation, Edgar and Bryan suddenly realized, and then marveled.
"Oh my God! I didn't expect that ordinary people could do this besides using magic!"
"So simple, why didn't we think of it!"
Edgar and Brian suddenly felt like they were stupid, obviously it was a simple thing, but why didn't anyone think of it before?
"But big brother, this is back to the old problem, we don't have so many blacksmiths available!"
That's right, whether it is forging for yourself or assembly line operations, there are not so many skilled blacksmiths available, which is the biggest problem facing now.
And Tang En's solution to this problem is very simple and rude.
That is to move the lathes and punches to Plantar!
"This involves the second point I mentioned, the lathe manufacturing technology."
Tang En said, "Since we can't improve the overall work efficiency, we have to improve the efficiency per unit time. As long as you two can produce more products per unit time, the efficiency will naturally increase."
Edgar and Brian looked at Down's eyes as if they were looking at a fool: wasn't this topic just discussed? Obviously not feasible!
What Tang En wants to tell them is that this method is not only feasible, but also greatly feasible!
Lathe technology will change the whole of Ellington-no, it will change the entire industry of Plantar!