Iron Dynasty

The whistle of the steam engine sounded from time to time in the military workshop. Chen Qi came far away, but the sound was suppressed by the long beep.

Seeing this, Xiao Ming stopped and looked at Chen Qi. He didn't understand what he was talking about until he got closer and asked.

Really? Xiao Ming asked again.

Since he adopted the converter steelmaking technology, he is very confident in the quality of Qingzhou steel, and now the advanced production technology is enough to make Qingzhou's steel reach the level of the 19th century.

And this level is enough for him to promote the industrial revolution of the closed country, because the quality of steel has already met the manufacturing needs of most machinery.

Among them, the standard to distinguish the quality of this steel is to use the current steel to make artillery. If it can withstand the strength requirements of artillery, it is not a problem to transport it to other places.

His Royal Highness, half a year ago, the military workshop used the steel produced by the steel workshop to cast a cannon. We have been using this cannon for shooting for the past six months. This cannon is not a bronze cannon in all aspects. Chen Qi stated.

Xiao Ming nodded, this shows that the quality of the new type of steel has passed the test, and the strength standard can be used as gun steel, so he can save copper to make other things. After all, Da Yu is now a copper-poor country.

In that case, the production of this field gun should be able to increase. Xiao Ming asked.

Generally speaking, the number of artillery pieces in the army is still relatively small. All field artillery pieces add up to only about 200 pieces. These field artillery pieces are enough to be used in one war, but not enough for two wars, and now Xiao Ming There are colonies like the Three Mountains Kingdom overseas, and standard weapons are also required in the colonies.

Chen Qi smiled and said: His Royal Highness, this is what the subordinate wants to say. It is no longer a problem to use steel to cast field guns, so the workshop does not need to worry about copper, but now I don't know how much the army needs. A field gun.

Producing another 300 guns, bringing the number of field guns in the army to 500 guns should be enough for the time being. Xiao Ming pondered for a while and said.

For him, the field artillery is mainly aimed at the barbarians. After all, compared with the cumbersome artillery before, these artillery can be easily transported on the grasslands. China's ZTE, this hidden danger in the north must be resolved.

Yes, Your Highness, the next official will arrange for the craftsmen to continue production. Chen Qi said.

After the three people talked about this, they talked about some firearm production. According to Song Changping, he and Lin Wentao were trying to build an assembly line with a steam engine as the core.

This assembly line will integrate the manufacture of barrels, the standardized production of spare parts and the final assembly. The first two are realized by steam engine-driven lathes. Now some lathes in the lathe workshop have been transferred to the military workshop, drilling machines, Milling machines and grinding machines.

This matter is easy to say, but difficult to do. For this reason, you need to set up a craftsman to inspect the dimensions of spare parts. Xiao Ming hesitated and said.

At the time of Western industrialization, standardized and refined production was delivered to various factories, and the inspectors who were born with toolboxes to check the qualification rate of products were born.

Now Lin Wentao and Song Changping are preparing to make steam power flow in production, which is unavoidable.

Lin Wentao also said this. He has sent a batch of measuring tools to the military workshop. Song Changping said.

Xiao Ming looked at Chen Qi, Chen Qi also nodded, and then he sent someone to the workshop to take out the toolbox.

After a while, a craftsman appeared in front of the three of them. He opened the toolbox and spread it out on the ground. The measuring tools, long and short, appeared in front of Xiao Ming.

Your Highness, this was sent by Lin Wentao. Song Changping took out a caliper, and the value on it was exactly the millimeter, centimeter and other units drawn by Xiao Ming.

After he unified the measurement standards, the prefectures and counties in the country adopted this set of measurement units, as did Bowen College, where Lin Wentao also learned this.

He glanced at the wooden square box. There were rulers, compasses, protractors and other measuring instruments on the upper and lower layers of the box. Xiao Ming was relieved to see this.

As more and more students of Bowen College participated in the construction of Fengguo, they began to take the initiative to apply the knowledge they learned to various places.

good.

Xiao Ming smiled. For him, the industrialization of the feudal country will always be the foundation of his own foothold. If the current feudal country can reach the level of British industrialization, he will not care about the other vassal kings of the Great Yu Kingdom.

Only for a limited period of four years, the industry has stayed in the small circle of Qingzhou and has not extended to other states and counties in the closed country.

It's not that Xiao Ming doesn't care about the industrialization of the feudal country, but that for four years of continuous wars, he invested most of his financial income in the war.

Therefore, the workshops related to the military industry are very prosperous now, but it is not enough to extend to other industrial products.

The most important point is that businessmen profit from wars. They are more keen to invest their money in wars to make quick money. Although Xiao Ming is aware of this, he has no choice. After all, wars need money.

It is because of this that he realizes that it is extremely difficult to industrialize without a stable domestic environment, and because of this, he is eager to obtain a stable surrounding environment.

Wang Xuan's intelligence stated very bluntly that the King of Chu had already been in contact with the French. If the King of Chu finally cooperated with the French, it would be a threat to him, because the French would not only bring advanced knowledge to the King of Chu. Weapons also bring some different ideas.

And thinking is the most dangerous thing.

Taking all kinds of measuring tools and the two talked about the production of the assembly line, Xiao Ming will return to the palace. Now it is a good thing that this advanced industrial production method has appeared in the military workshop. According to Xiao Ming's experience, any technology is first used in Military convenience will be slowly transferred to civilian use.

If the production system of the military workshop is mature, it will also lead to changes in the private industry.

Returning to the palace, Xiao Ming began to prepare for the enthronement. Although he knew that the enthronement was only to rectify his own name, and could not change the decision of King Yan, King Zhao, and King Liang to fight Qi, it can be seen from Pang Yukun's performance. There will be a great shock to the country.

Because the soldiers of the feudal state will no longer fight for a vassal king, but for an emperor, the inspiration of this belief will make his army emit stronger will and strength than before.