When Song Xing and his group returned, Li Xian was explaining to everyone a timekeeping tool - Big Ben. Considering the current shallow industrial foundation, the only thing Li Xian could choose was Big Ben.
"It has two important components, the spring and the pendulum. The spring is used to store energy, and the pendulum is used to tell time." Li Xian was talking with a dry mouth, mainly because Li Xian only had a general idea about this thing. He knew nothing about the gear arrangement inside.
"How does a pendulum tell time?" Everyone was confused, even Xu Ren was confused. How can a pendulum that swings back and forth tell time
"I know, I know!" Little Xie An shouted, "Although the amplitude of the swing is different, the duration of each swing is the same! Therefore, as long as the length of the pendulum is calculated, the timing can be accurate, to the second."
"Hmm?" Xu Ren observed carefully for a long time and it was indeed true. "Xie An, how did you know this?"
"Big Brother, Master, won't let me say it."
Li Xian: …
"Haha..." Everyone burst into laughter.
Liu Bin also laughed for a long time before he recovered: "Sir, the principle of this thing is very simple, but if you want to get the timing right, you need to measure it repeatedly. It is expected that the finished product will be ready within a month, before the New Year."
"Okay, I'll wait for your good news."
Seeing that yet another item had been solved, Li Xian finally smiled, feeling such a great sense of accomplishment.
But after the good news came the bad news—not enough manpower! When Li Xian first came to Anyang, he had only about 300 people with him; the textile factory had already been short of manpower, and it was Aunt He Lin who went to Anyang and the surrounding villages to recruit some women, which temporarily solved the problem.
But now, with the proposal of the "Big Ben" plan and the increasing demand for textile machines in the textile branch, the machinery branch was the first to encounter the problem of staff shortage.
Unlike the textile branch, the machinery branch has research tasks and is a core department, so not just anyone can come. In terms of confidentiality, everyone in the factory attaches great importance to it.
In addition, the need for the Machinery Factory to increase production capacity put a huge pressure on the Metallurgical Branch—it was originally going to take on an order for 1 million kilograms of weapons from the Sea Clan, and Song Gang was so worried that his hair was about to fall off. Now that the Big Ben task had been assigned, many factory managers exploded.
What to do if there are not enough people? This is not something that can be done easily. At least the loyalty issue should be tested. Now it was Li Xian's turn to be scratching his head.
Only Xu Ren was confident, "Master, this is not difficult, just ask the eldest master for help!"
"Brother? Who does he have? More than 30,000 soldiers are complaining every day that they are not enough."
"Disabled soldiers!" Xu Ren seemed to have thought of something, and his tone was a little sad. "Every governor has a large number of disabled soldiers under his command. When I was with the governor of Songzhou, I saw tens of thousands of disabled soldiers. Their lives... are almost hopeless. Moreover, many governors and governors will secretly "deal with" some disabled soldiers to reduce their burden. Moreover, here, we can arrange for many disabled soldiers to work. Even if they can't work, they can be asked to guard the gate or warehouse. And the loyalty of these soldiers is unquestionable."