Chapter 84 Cooking Nitrate Pharmaceutical

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After dealing with some chores, Xiao Tianjian concentrated on the design of the drilling machine and the water truck. The water truck was not too anxious, so he concentrated on designing the drilling machine for drilling.

In this era, in addition to hydropower, only animal power and human power can be used, and the drilling machine is definitely not the same as that of later generations. Before the hydraulic solution, Xiao Tianjian can only use human or animal power.

So this kind of drilling machine will be a little troublesome to design, which involves the carpenter and the blacksmith to cooperate with his design.

After thinking about it carefully, he finally decided to adopt the manual design of this kind of drilling machine, and it can only be designed as a horizontal drilling machine.

For this reason, he drew a set of drawings, recruited several carpenters, and first made a small drilling machine model according to his drawings.

The drilling machine is actually not too difficult to say, but it is not easy to do in practice. That is, through the promotion of manpower and with the help of gear transmission, the drill bit rotates at a high speed, and the built-made pipe is stuck at the other end of the drilling machine. The drill bit rotates and moves slowly towards the pipe through a chute, step by step. It is required that the drill bit must shake very little, otherwise the pipe will be scrapped.

Under the busy schedule of several craftsmen, the model was quickly made. Xiao Tianjian personally commanded them and did some experiments, but the results were not ideal, the error was still too large, and it was not labor-saving to operate.

After the experiment, Xiao Tianjian smashed the model on the spot in anger, overturned the original design, summarized the reasons for the failure, and then carried out a new design, and then handed it over to the craftsmen to make the model again and test it again.

After repeated three times like this, the model made for the third time met Xiao Tianjian's requirements. The craftsmen couldn't help but be surprised around this drilling machine. Although they had heard a lot about Xiao Tianjian, they didn't expect that Xiao Tianjian would still do this kind of thing and design this kind of manpower drilling machine. , which improves the efficiency of drilling more than ten times, and this kind of drilling machine only needs two people to operate, which is very stable, so these craftsmen who helped Xiao Tianjian are completely convinced.

After passing the experiment, Xiao Tianjian was finally much more satisfied. Standing in front of this model, he smiled. After personally trying to operate it again, he clapped his hands and said, "It's not easy! Ha ha! Thank you for your help! It seems that there should be no problem this time! Next, you can follow this model, enlarge the size as it is, make one, send it to Tiezuo, and let Yang Changshou try it out to see if there are any problems! Unfortunately, there are no ball bearings now. Once there are ball bearings, the efficiency of this drilling machine will improve a lot! This is the only step we can do now!"

Several craftsmen quickly nodded and agreed. They did not dare to neglect it. They immediately began to prepare materials, enlarged according to this model, and began to make a formed drilling machine.

Xiao Tianjian couldn't plug in, so he turned to design his new waterwheel. The original wheeled water truck did not use enough power of water flow, so what he wanted to do was the kind of water wheel similar to the later water wheel generator. The water flowed through the water wheel blades through the pipeline to rotate and generate power. In this way, it could be more The effective use of the power generated by water flow has actually appeared in ancient times, but it is mostly used in the south, and it is not popular enough. Xiao Tianjian is definitely not an invention, but uses the knowledge of later generations to make a little transformation, so it is not troublesome to do it. It took only took a day to draw a copy. As for the general structure diagram, he doesn't have to care about the detailed design. After all, the design of these details can completely let the craftsmen use their imagination to improve it. Sometimes they just need to provide them with an idea.

And this picture was quickly sent to the craftsman in charge of making the waterwheel. After looking at it, these craftsmen felt that it was not difficult, so they began to grope for the test by themselves. The first water truck could not be used. Only after the second dam was completed, Experimental input takes a process and a certain amount of time to complete. Even if Xiao Tianjian is in a hurry, he can only wait.

Taking advantage of his spare time, Xiao Tianjian went to Gaocheng in the back mountain to inspect it again. The earth and saltpeter was piled up everywhere, and Gao Cheng took a group of men to boil the earth and made it into fire. Now he has boiled out hundreds of kilograms of fire salt, only waiting to be configured with sulfur and charcoal into fire. The medicine.

After Xiao Tianjian took a look, he also had an intuitive understanding of Gao Cheng's method of boiling saltpeter. The method used by Gao Cheng is actually very mature, and there is no room for him to interrupt at all. Moreover, Gao Cheng is very down-to-earth and serious, and the process of boiling saltpeter is also very strict. After two filters and boiling, It can be regarded as a product, so the nitrate is already very pure. In this way, once the gunpowder is prepared in a strict proportion, the power is fully guaranteed.

But Gao Cheng also encountered some problems. The key is the problem of tools when crushing saltpetre and when configuring gunpowder.

Because when crushing saltpeter and making gunpowder, you can't have a little Mars. Once it is made with iron or stone tools, it is easy to generate Mars. For them, a little bit of Mars may cause a big explosion, at least a fire. For here, it is definitely a disaster. Difficult.

Therefore, the tools used are preferably utensils made of silver, which can avoid the creation of Mars and reduce the risk of explosion.

After Xiao Tianjian asked about the situation, he did not hesitate to order to take 3,000 taels of silver from Lianhua Village, melt it directly, and cast it into the tools needed by Gaocheng for Gaocheng and other craftsmen.

Gao Cheng didn't expect Xiao Tianjian to be so generous that he was willing to take out so much money and let them use it, so he became more energetic. According to him, as long as the sulfur can keep up and the earth and nitrification can keep up in the future, they will not worry about the use of gunpowder in the future.

Moreover, Xiao Tianjian also communicated with him about the production method of granular gunpowder. Gao Cheng also humbly accepted Xiao Tianjian's suggestion, changed to glutinous rice juice, and finally made the granular gunpowder they needed through spraying, screening, drying and other processes.

In this way, the problem of gunpowder is basically solved. As long as the Fan family brings the sulfur, even if they can't buy saltpeter in the future, there will be no threat of gunpowder in the army! And it can also ensure the quality of gunpowder, which has increased the power of Xing Tianjun's firearms ever since.

This is the advantage of the base. It turns out that they can only solve the problem by plundering. At present, it can basically be solved by self-reliance, and the quality of the various weapons produced has improved by leaps and bounds compared with the past. The most important thing is that they have initially begun to change towards unified equipment, for punishment The improvement of the combat effectiveness of the Heavenly Army has played a key role.