Chapter 23

Chen Wenlong and all the craftsmen are looking at Xiao Ming.

After the briquette furnace and lathe, Xiao Ming once again put forward the shocking skills.

The craftsmen, in particular, have been good at this all their lives, and the skills handed down from their ancestors have never changed. Now Xiao Ming completely subverts their cognition.

"Yes, the technology of pouring steel is very mature, but this kind of steel needs to be forged repeatedly to improve the strength of steel, which is a waste of time." Xiao Ming said, "the blast furnace ironmaking that I'm going to teach you now will build two, and the two will be connected. One of them will produce pig iron, and the pig iron will be purified into cooked iron when it enters the other blast furnace. In this way, ironmaking will form a scale."

Chen Wenlong asked the craftsmen to stop what they were doing and sit on the ground. He listened to Xiao Ming carefully again. Now this kind of knowledge teaching is common in the equipment department, and Chen Wenlong and the craftsmen are familiar with it.

Xiao Ming is holding a stone pen that Chen Wenlong is asked to prepare. It's similar to a kind of stone that can draw white handwriting with chalk. In front of him is a black stone slab. He usually talks about it and draws out the structure of the blast furnace.

The craftsmen look serious. Every time Xiao Ming teaches skills, they have a sense of epiphany. They will soon master these strange skills.

Now the boring machines, drilling machines, milling machines and grinding machines made by the Department of equipment are all made according to the drawings drawn by Xiao Ming and the images they remember. After the initial trial, these lathes are basically successful.

For example, one of the drilling machine, which is a kind of lathe for drilling accessories, they succeeded in drilling the iron sheet of the gas stove.

Another example is boring machine. This kind of lathe can bore holes drilled by drilling machine. In Xiao Ming's words, these two kinds of lathes can process a solid steel into a steel pipe.

Because the drilling machine can drill the solid steel, and the boring machine can boring the hole into pipe.

Although they didn't understand what Xiao Ming called steel pipe, they always thought it was a very powerful thing.

Suddenly an hour passed, and Xiao Ming was a little thirsty. He had finished talking about the skills of blast furnace ironmaking.

"Your Highness, how can we control the temperature of coke refining?" Then a craftsman suddenly asked.

This is a very young craftsman. Every time Xiao Ming teaches, this young craftsman is always the most serious. He seems to be very keen on these skills.

However, perhaps because he was afraid of Xiao Ming, the craftsman never asked questions. This time, Xiao Ming gave coke a brush, and he couldn't help asking.

"What's your name?" Xiao Ming is very interested in young craftsmen of his own age. In his opinion, only with a heart of seeking knowledge can one be keen on his own career.

And this young craftsman is obviously enthusiastic about the equipment department.

At this time, Chen Wenlong, looking embarrassed, said to Xiao Ming, "Your Highness, he is Chen Qi, the dog of the lower official. He doesn't know etiquette. I hope your highness won't blame him."

With that, he roared to the young craftsman, "step back, when is your turn to talk here?"

Chen Qi frowned and said, "Dad, I just want to know the temperature of the coke. If I'm confused, if the coke is burned, how much damage will it cause to the equipment department."

Chen Wenlong still wants to scold him. Xiao Ming suddenly stops him. He looks at Chen Qi with satisfaction and says, "Chen Qi is right. This skill must be true. It is said that Chen Qi led other craftsmen to make this lathe?"

"That's true, your highness." Chen Longwen shakes his head. Chen Qi doesn't like reading all the time, but is interested in these strange things.

Xiao Ming waved to Chen Qi, "yes, my head is very flexible. Would you like to be the head of the equipment department?"

When Chen Qi hears the speech, she just looks anxiously at Chen Wenlong.

Without waiting for Chen Wenlong to say that Chen Qi is young and so on, Xiao Ming said directly, "then it's settled. I'll give you one or two silver coins a month. You'll take charge of what I'll tell you in the future."

"Yes, your highness." Chen Qi says excitedly, this craftsman head rises one step again can be soldier Cao.

In the past, his father Chen Wenlong didn't like him to study this way. Now he was so appreciated by the king of Qi that he suddenly became upright.

But before the question was asked, he said, "Your Highness, you haven't said what kind of heat is needed to smolder coke."

"It's 30% lower than that of ironmaking." Xiao Ming said that ironmaking needs about 1400 degrees, while coke needs about 1000 degrees. "If you have a bold test, it's OK to burn it."

Chen Qilang said: "yes, your highness."

He hoped that Qian Dafu would bring back the good news of graphite at that time.

In this way, he can make iron from blast furnace and steel from crucible into a production line.

Next, Xiao Ming went to check the lathes. These lathes are all his antique lathes of the 17th century, powered by hand.

Moreover, the drill bits of the lathe are steel tools forged by craftsmen. It is enough for these tools to process some rough parts.Looking at the various lathes in front of him, Xiao Ming felt more comfortable. With these lathes, he could produce some small parts, which could be assembled into one of the oldest simple machines clock.

In his view, the foundation of industry in his time began with watchmakers, because from this time on, all kinds of precision accessories entered the stage of history.

As for guns, Xiao Ming thought about it, but he knew that it was impractical in a few years.

As the saying goes, once a cannon is fired, there will be ten thousand taels of gold. Not to say that the current fiefdom is destitute, it's just a long cycle of manufacturing a gun by hand. Now Xiao Ming can't afford it either. Basically speaking, it's almost a joke to do it before the steam engine appeared.

So now Xiao Ming's plan is that everything is for production. When his fiefdom is rich and he has a preliminary large-scale factory and industrial system, these things can be built with a commensurate economic size.

Because in Xiao Ming's view, war is about money and resources. Otherwise, once we run out of ammunition and food, everything will be bullshit. It's unrealistic to abandon production and exhaust material resources.

Therefore, for the sake of today's plan, it is still important to build fiefdoms. Of course, the army should also be strengthened. One is to defend the grassland barbarians, and the other is to prevent banditry in winter.

According to past experience, every winter, when food is hard to find, it is a time when thieves are swarming.

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