Chapter 179 Regain the old business

Xiao Tianjian made all kinds of drawing tools by himself, and immediately became busy in the palace. Over the years, he almost lost the major he had studied before. Fortunately, in the past few years, he realized the existence of this danger and always tried his best to take some time to take some notes and take some notes. Some professional knowledge is recorded through memories. Even in the march and war, he always squeezes out some time to do these things. Now more than a dozen of these notes have been sorted out. When he uses them, he opens and looks at them, and many things can be recalled immediately.

Xiao Tianjian spares no effort to promote the industrialization of China and North Korea. He knows that the progress of military science can greatly drive the development of civil science and technology. For example, the steam engine is finally invented, which has nothing to do with cannons.

It is precisely because in order to make a better cannon, someone invented a bowling machine to process the smooth interior of the cannon, which also ensures the cylinder that makes the steam engine, and finally the practical steam engine is invented.

Therefore, if you want to develop industrialization, machinery is the most basic guarantee. As soon as Xiao Tianjian took the time to think about it, he decided that the first machine to be designed was the tooling machine.

For him, a college graduate majoring in mechanics, it is not difficult to design a simple tooling machine, and as long as the tooling machine is made, the first thing to benefit is the military. The arsenals of China and North Korea can use the tooling machine to provide better quality cannons for the army, so that the Chinese army In the future, no matter facing any enemy on the battlefield, you can gain considerable technical advantages.

So Xiao Tianjian immediately poured his enthusiasm into his mechanization dream, but it is not difficult to design a simple tool. It is difficult to make it, but it is not easy. This involves the problem of materials. At present, China's metallurgical level is not high, and there is no problem with cast iron parts. However, the knives needed for the tooling machine are not easy to solve at this time. Later generations are all high-hardness alloy steel. In this era, there is no need to think about alloy steel. Now it can't be manufactured at all, so only high-carbon steel can be used, which requires craftsmen to find a way to try it out, and only solve the problem until the high-carbon steel is produced. Question.

Another is the power problem. There is no possibility of electricity or internal combustion engines or steam engines to provide power. In this era, the only power available is human, animal power and hydraulic power. Although wind power can also provide power, it is necessary to choose a place with more wind resources, so it is greatly limited, and The power that human power can provide is too small, and animal power cannot provide stable power. The only option is hydraulic power.

So Xiao Tianjian designed the first baler as a power source, which is not too difficult for him at present. Most of the resources he has mastered, whether in terms of human or material resources, have no obstacles, so he simply ordered the Ministry of Industry, outside Nanjing, He set up a machine manufacturing factory as a site for his trial production of the first generation of machine tools.

This machine manufacturing factory is nominally under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry. In fact, it is temporarily directly managed by Xiao Tianjian. Niu Jinxing, a minister of the Ministry of Industry, has mobilized dozens of smart craftsmen from all over the country at the same time as Xiao Tianjian's helpers for Xiao Tianjian.

With people and a venue, Xiao Tianjian immediately began to send a drawing to the craftsman. Although China has not yet formed a systematic drawing at this time, it is difficult for Xiao Tianjian. He personally recruited the craftsmen to the palace for them. Explaining how to understand the drawings he drew, these craftsmen never thought that they would have the opportunity to enter the palace to meet the emperor. After entering the palace, they looked trembling and knelt on the ground and did not dare to look up at Xiao Tianjian.

Xiao Tianjian wanted to let them get up and listen to his explanation, but these craftsmen were still scared one by one, so Xiao Tianjian had no choice but to get a blackboard, write and draw on the blackboard with temporary substitute chalk, explain these drawing knowledge to them, and let these craftsmen understand the drawings he drew first. Hands, then let them collect the drawings and go down to start trial production.

For those craftsmen who can do things under the emperor, these craftsmen undoubtedly think that it is a matter of honoring their ancestors, and His Majesty also told them that as long as they do things well according to his requirements, there is absolutely no problem with the reward. What makes them happier is that they were transferred to Nanjing to work this time. The court also gave each of them a quite generous salary, which was enough for them to support their families. Even His Majesty asked people to build houses for them in the machine factory outside the city, and even allowed them to take their families to Nanjing for resettlement. Such a treatment that they had never dared to think of.

So when they were ordered, these craftsmen did not dare to slack off at all. When they learned some knowledge about mechanical drawing from Xiao Tianjian, they could quickly understand the drawings sent to them by Xiao Tianjian, so after returning to the newly built factory, they immediately worked hard.

As soon as Xiao Tianjian was free, he went out of the city and ran to the machine manufacturing factory to watch the work of these craftsmen in person. Although the first generation of the denting machine he designed has simplified the process as much as possible, it is inevitable that there will be many parts that are not easy to make, but this is not too difficult for these craftsmen. With the drawings drawn by Xiao Tianjian, although they do not have machines that can be used to make these parts, these craftsmen give full play to their skills. Many accessories are first cast with cast with cast iron, and then be refined little by little by hand. Although this is very inefficient, this is also the current In this era, there is no way.

It is a thick and even primitive-looking britling machine. With the efforts of these craftsmen, after two months, the parts were finally assembled one by one under the personal command of Xiao Tianjian.

Although the burr looks very rough, when the hydraulic drive is connected, as soon as the sluice is opened, the burr immediately works.

Xiao Tianjian commanded the craftsmen to cast a new cannon. After the six-pound gun, which had not yet been polished, was fixed with a fixture on the rig, he personally presided over the operation of the kening machine. Watching the knives of the knucking machine slowly enter the ch, Xiao Tianjian's mouth was completely crooked.

Although this simple boring machine is not perfect, after trial, the inner hoopy of the six-pound gun is quickly turned very smooth, and the medium and medium-down gun casting process adopts the iron casting method. Originally, the gun body and the ward are already quite smooth, so the tool consumption of the boring machine is not large, a pair The temporary trial knife can completely process a gun barrel, and it is much more convenient than the previous manual polishing gun barrel. The efficiency is not comparable to manual or semi-mechanical polishing gun barrel at all, and the quality is also much higher than the previous level of polishing gun barrel, which makes the minister of the Ministry of Industry who came to watch. Xing and the officials of the Ministry of Industry and the craftsmen from the military factory were all surprised.

The personnel of the Ministry of Industry immediately realized the importance of this kind of tooling machine to them. Immediately, Niu Jinxing flattered Xiao Tianjian. Please order the machine manufacturing factory to immediately build more such more such bore machines and transport them to the arsenals of the Ministry of Industry in all over the country. In this way, the speed and quality of the cannon can be improved a lot. Xiao Tianjian also immediately approved his request and ordered to build 20 mortar machines in the machine factory and deliver them to arsenals in various places.

Unfortunately, because it is handmade, the accuracy of many parts is still rough, so although the tooling machine can be used, the accuracy is far from the requirements of later generations. Other parts are obviously not strong enough, and there is a failure after using it once, but this is nothing for Xiao Tianjian. Because he is very clear that no matter how smart these craftsmen are, it is impossible for such a production method to reduce the error of the parts made to future generations, and in terms of materials, only raw iron is used to make machinery and the quality of parts before steel is produced in large quantities. It is definitely not as good as later generations. It will take quite a long time to gradually improve this aspect. Now it is a very celebratory thing for him to build this barrel bunker, so he is not disappointed.

The successful trial production of the boring machine greatly increased Xiao Tianjian's confidence. Then he immediately began to design other general-purpose machine tools. Although these machine tools have been greatly simplified by him, the complexity of the parts has been reduced as much as possible, and the accuracy has been relaxed as much as possible, he is very clear that when these machines are gradually After being manufactured, these original machine tools can be used to continue to produce machine tools. Through the continuous use of machines to make machines, the regenerated machine tools will become more and more accurate in the future, and the components that can eventually be produced will become more and more complex, until they gradually reach or approach future machine tools.

For Xiao Tianjian's sudden focus on fiddling with these strange machines, the cabinet ministers expressed their concerns one after another, because for them, the Great China and North Korea have just started, but Xiao Tianjian is busy fiddling with these wonderful things, which is likely to affect his interest in government affairs, and There was a lesson from the past in the Ming Dynasty. The most recent is the example of Zhu Youxiao, the Tianqi Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. When Emperor Xizong of the Ming Dynasty was the emperor, he was not interested in governing the country and the world. The government was under the control of Wei Zhongxian, but he was only addicted to carpenter work all day long. As a result, he tossed the Ming Dynasty.

So Lu Xiangsheng, the prime minister, couldn't sit still and hurried into the palace to find Xiao Tianjian. Xiao Tianjian is now the king of a country. He should not be addicted to these so-called "things" that make machines, nor can he often mix with those vulgar craftsmen all day long. This is really hurtful. Instead, we should focus more on government affairs.

After hearing this, Xiao Tianjian immediately laughed and asked Lu Xiangsheng, "Lu Aiqing! I understand your worries! Although I have often visited the machine factory recently, Lu Aiqing, have you ever found that I have delayed the play that has been handed over to me?

After thinking about it, Lu Xiangsheng found that this was not. During this period, they submitted some of the things they submitted to Xiao Tianjian that needed him, the emperor, to make a final case. Xiao Tianjian did not delay, and soon approved it, and there was no delay at all, so Xiao Tianjian Being addicted to playing with machines did not affect Xiao Tianjian's handling of government affairs.

"Lu Aiqing, I'm glad that you cabinet ministers care so much about me, but I also ask you to rest assured that I will never lose my mind when doing these things, but these machines are too important for us in China. You can't understand the importance of these machines yet, but I can tell you. With these machines, China will be invincible in the world and become the most powerful country in the world in the next few hundred years!

These machines will become the foundation of the country and can create a lot of wealth! Do you remember that when you just returned to Nanjing, the pocket watch I gave you had a self-ringing bell? You should know that these things now represent the highest achievements of Westerners. With only one thing, they can exchange hundreds or even thousands of taels of silver in China outside China. However, these things I have recently played with can make them only look up to our China for decades or even hundreds of years!

Among other things, let's talk about the first tool I designed and manufactured! Lu Aiqing didn't know that with this bore, we can do a lot of things. The most basic thing is that the cannon we have built, whether in quality, range and power, will far exceed the Hongyi cannon made by Westerners. With this machine, we will have it on land or at sea in the future. There is a great advantage. Only in this way will we China no longer be bullied by outsiders!

In addition, these machines can also create a lot of things that you can't think of. In the future, they can enrich the country and strengthen the people. Can I be regarded as a plaything and lose spirit?

The reason why I reorganize my cabinet is that I hope that you, the pillars of the country, can take more responsibility for me and let me take some time to do more for us Chinese people. In just a few decades of life, I can't focus all my energy on dealing with government affairs. I still have a lot of things to do. I hope Lu Aiqing, you can Remember my words!

If Lu Aiqing finds that one day I really fall into the situation of losing my ambition because of doing these things, and waste government affairs for this reason, then I still remember that the whip that was given to Lu Aiqing, Lu Aiqing can come to the palace with a whip to wake me up!

But as long as I don't lose my ambition as you said, please share more for me!"

After listening to Xiao Tianjian's words, although Lu Xiangsheng and other ministers still can't figure out how these wonderful things can be so important to the Great China and North Korea as Xiao Tianjian said, but looking at Xiao Tianjian's true words, and thinking about Xiao Tianjian over the years, they often make something interesting Unexpectedly, and he didn't look like a loser, so Lu Xiangsheng and others had to bow to the ground, and Shane then withdrew from the palace.

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