Chapter 243: Cotton
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Qingzhou Machinery Department.
The issuance of the Anti-Spy Decree and the widespread education of the populace on espionage had caused all the hidden forces within Qingzhou to suddenly keep their heads down.
At the same time, to further safeguard Qingzhou’s technologies from theft, Xiao Ming was preparing to restructure and subdivide all technical crafts and industrial processes.
For example, in cannon production, processes such as steel refining, mold-making, casting, and ammunition manufacturing would be made completely independent. Each stage of the process would be handled by different specialists, with every craftsman only responsible for a small part of the workflow—isolated from the others.
This would drastically reduce the risk of core technologies being stolen.
On this day, Xiao Ming handed his meticulously designed production workflow over to Chen Wenlong, ordering him to reform the Machinery Department accordingly, taking preventive action before problems arose.
Holding the thick manual, Chen Wenlong felt even greater admiration for Xiao Ming. In recent weeks, books written by Prince Qi had steadily been distributed to the Machinery Department, the Military Workshop, and Bo Wen Academy. All of them were personally written, edited, and then published through the Qingzhou press.
In the Great Yu Empire, books had always been considered rare and precious, but in Qingzhou, thanks to reduced printing costs, that was no longer the case.
After passing along the production manual, Xiao Ming asked, “Is the Huang Daopo weaving machine ready for delivery?”
“Your Highness, it’s ready. I was just about to report that to you,” said Chen Wenlong as he led Xiao Ming to the rear courtyard of the Machinery Department, where one hundred looms had been neatly lined up.