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"Then bombard me and fire at the Jinbing's fortifications." Zhu Youjian had also seen the defenders of the Jinbing on the city wall from a distance, and felt an inexplicable aggrieved feeling in his heart.

"This..." Zheng Chenggong was a little hesitant. You must know that this place is called Laolongtou, and the emperor is the incarnation of a dragon.If this is hit by a single shot, wouldn't it be a dragon beating a dragon?

"What are you afraid of? It's the enemy who is occupying the dragon now, and I don't want to kill the enemy for the sake of face." Zhu Youjian saw Zheng Chenggong's thoughts.

"Boom!" The battleship of the Ming army fired, and the first shot hit the city wall.A puff of smoke rose in the distance, and the flags of two golden soldiers were knocked down from the city.Immediately afterwards, Jin Bing's defenders also began to fight back, but because of the range of the cannons, several water jets rose in front of the Ming warships.

The two sides fought for about a stick of incense, and the sky began to rain heavily. For a while, Jin Bing's cannon was misfired due to gunpowder problems.Zhu Youjian stood in the rain and looked at Chenghai Tower. The four characters of "Haiyue Chaozong" were blurred and could not be seen clearly.

"Come closer." Zhu Youjian touched the rainwater, and then walked to the gun cabin in person.Charge, standard, ignition, and a full set of actions are combined in one go.

"boom!"

As the cannon rang, Emperor Ming hurried to the window to watch the results of the battle with a telescope like a child.

"Your Majesty, you hit it." Ji Biao danced and pointed his finger at the city wall of the old dragon head. The nearest cannon had been overturned to the base of the city wall.

"Heavy rain falls on swallows, white waves roar to the sky, and the old dragon beats traitors outside. The vast ocean is gone, who knows where? The past has passed for thousands of years, Wei Wu swung his whip, and there is a posthumous chapter on Jieshi in the east. The bleak autumn wind is here again, and the world has changed. After reading this poem, Zhu Youjian pointed in the direction of the old dragon head and said, "Ji Biao, I have a task for you. No matter what method you use today, you must put the flag of Ming Dynasty on the head of the old dragon head. You can do it." Are you there?"

Ji Biao was taken aback. He had followed the emperor for several years, but he had never seen such a poetic flourish.Not to mention anything else, it is worth risking your life just for this good poem.

"Guaranteed to complete the mission."

Chapter 492: Steel production beyond the times

The Peugeot of the first industrial revolution was the invention of the steam engine, but the premise of industrialization is the great development of the equipment manufacturing industry, which is the root of the country’s industrialization. Without equipment manufacturing, only the steam engine is the power source, and large-scale industrial production cannot be formed. .Industrial equipment manufacturing is supported by data on steel output and coal output.

In the early days of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in later generations, we often compared some common indicators with Western developed countries, such as annual steel production, coal production, power generation, etc.

Industrialized machinery one by one, whether it is light industry or heavy industry machinery, all rely on a large amount of steel to accumulate.China's steel production has always been at the forefront of the world. By the peak of the Ming Dynasty, the annual steel production was about 15 tons, which was higher than that of the British Empire during the Industrial Revolution.However, in the Qing Dynasty, steel production declined seriously, and it was not until the second half of the 19th century that it was beaten again.

The second-phase expansion project of Daming Laiwu Iron and Steel Company is the key project of Daming in the north this year. The first-phase project is a new technological transformation of the original traditional smelting workshop. The so-called second-phase project is the expansion on the original basis to reach the annual output Design requirements for 50 tons of steel.

The annual output of 50 tons of steel is the level of a small factory in later generations. The annual output of Laiwu Iron and Steel in later generations is 3000 to 50 million tons, which is incomparable.However, before the use of mechanization in raw ore mining, this [-] tons is already the limit of Laiwu's steel production in this era.

Zhu Youjian's plan is to let each steel base reach this production limit first. Whether it is Maanshan Iron and Steel or Laiwu Iron and Steel, in terms of labor utilization rate, it is at most this scale.It took 70 people to build the mausoleum of Qin Shihuang. After so many years of tossing, it is just a mound of earth. If it is a later generation, I am afraid that 2000 people can finish it in a year.

The second phase of Laiwu Iron and Steel has completely abandoned the technology of local blast furnaces and entered the era of small blast furnaces.Due to limited conditions, the furnace body here is only a pitiful ten cubic meters.Moreover, because there is no beneficiation equipment and the grade of the ore entering the furnace is not high, the temporary production level is a little higher than the highest level of this era, but because it can be produced in large quantities, everything is already very valuable.

This is the third time for Zhu Youjian to come to Laiwu. The place has changed a lot. The huge factory buildings have shown signs of industrialization. The orderly arrangement of production areas and living areas shows that this place is already a decent enterprise.

The temperature in the production workshop is very high. Although Zhu Youjian is still far away, the heat wave is still coming.Song Yingxing stood in the workshop, opened his dry eyes to look at the color of the molten iron.His eyes have become very small, with a faint bloodshot red in them, except that some moisture can be seen inside the eyeballs, and the areas around the eyes are almost dry and cracked.

"Old Song, can you give the work to the students and take a rest for a month?" Zhu Youjian looked at Song Yingxing worriedly. He was very afraid that the old man would leave Daming all at once. You Jian felt that he was using him a bit harshly.

"Your Majesty, this method of steelmaking is the skill that Ming needs most, and I can't relax for a moment. When I am too old to do it, I will ask the emperor to reward me with a small courtyard, so I can go back to Jiangxi to retire?" Song Yingxing grinned. got small.

"The development of steel technology requires long-term investment. I can't spend so much money for continuous research. In the future, steel companies will need to invest in the research and development of steelmaking technology.

However, the supporting large-scale manufacturing equipment needs to be included in the research project, such as steel rolling equipment, wire drawing equipment, rail transportation for transporting ore raw materials, etc..."

Zhu Youjian listed the names of more than a dozen large-scale equipment in one breath, and Song Yingxing was taken aback when he heard them. "Tiangong Kaiwu" itself is a book with construction methods, and Song Yingxing is actually no stranger to mechanical manufacturing.

If it wasn't for the lack of suitable people on hand, and for the purpose of cultivating young people, Zhu Youjian would not have given the steam engine and some basic mechanical design projects to young people.

To be honest, the steam engine is really not a difficult thing under the guidance of schematic drawings, but steelmaking needs to be studied step by step.Now that the basic steel products have come out, of course it is necessary to establish a project for heavy industry.

The development of heavy industry is the product of teamwork, and one or several people cannot do it. Zhu Youjian intends to transfer Song Yingxing out of the dangerous position of steelmaking, and let him step into the high-level management of the R&D team.

"Your Majesty, what kind of machine do you need?" Because of his age, Song Yingxing was actually the slowest in accepting Zhu Youjian's new culture. Just some new machines.

"Three large bridges need to be erected on the official road from Nanjing to Songjiang, but the engineering team has been unable to solve the bridge design work. I plan to build three iron bridges to solve this problem." Zhu Youjian said.

"What? An iron bridge, how much iron does it need?" Song Yingxing was surprised, the ancients could not imagine the concept of a bridge made entirely of iron.

Zhu Youjian took out a pen and paper, and then drew the general appearance of an iron bridge.

"That's it. This kind of bridge is definitely not a big piece of iron bars. It is completed by combining many standardized parts. What I need is a kind of mechanical energy to create such standard parts. For example: triangular angle steel, I-shaped I-beam, channel steel, channel steel, c-beam, square steel, fish plate..."

What Zhu Youjian said was spitting and eloquent, until he explained the function of the entire profile.Song Yingxing is no human being. After he understood the meaning of the emperor, he immediately understood that this thing, like nuts and nuts, is a standard item that can be equipped in large quantities.As long as a certain standard is formed, many mechanical manufacturing can be used in general in the future.Daming has almost no uniform standards for this kind of thing, and there is no national standard in this era, etc. Everything is in a state of slowly groping.

"This matter can't be done by a few students of the minister, it will require a lot of people." Song Yingxing fully imagined how big a project this is, even if the corresponding standards are not formulated for the time being, just researching the machinery for making these profiles is not enough. A lot of manpower is required.

"It doesn't matter. The first batch of outstanding junior college students is up to Song Qing to choose, how about I give you a quota of [-] people?" Zhu Youjian is a big deal for [-] junior college students who graduated from Nanjing at once.You must know that this group of students has studied for two years, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are junior college students. In terms of the quality of the students of Ming Dynasty, they are definitely better than the technical school students who graduated from some third-rate junior colleges in the later generations.

"Excuse me, Your Majesty, what is the name of this department?" Song Yingxing asked.

"The First Design and Research Institute is located in the western suburbs of Fengyang, the central capital." Zhu Youjian blurted out that if Daming wanted to develop industry, he would naturally establish a Ministry of Industry in the future, so there must be more than one Design and Research Institute under the Ministry of Industry, and people like Song Yingxing People are actually not suitable for education positions. The most suitable for him is to designate an independent research institute, so that he can easily do his own academic research.

(Bengbu is the location of the First Design and Research Institute of Machinery Industry.)

The successful development of a material does not mean that it can be put into use on a large scale immediately. It must be able to adapt to large-scale production, and then turn it into a real commodity through secondary processing in order to meet the requirements of industrialization.In the same way, after the secondary processing of various materials, they are combined with power to form new machinery to serve more commodity production.The chickens are finally able to lay eggs, which in turn hatch more chicks.

Chapter 493: The Crown Prince Trapped in Xinyang Prefecture

In the hinterland of the Central Plains, Xinyang Prefecture is a yellow scene in autumn.In the fields in the northeast, small shoots of winter wheat have already emerged, and the ground is still mainly khaki.It's not too cold in early October, but every morning there is always a chill in the air that makes people want to stay under the covers and not get up.

At this time, most young people from other families will find a reason to be tender with their new daughter-in-law for a while, but in this small bungalow, the young man is still habitually sitting up and groping around at dawn. Get dressed and get up.

"Master, will you sleep again?" A very gentle and pleasant female voice came from the other side of the bed.

"Today I'm going to check the winter fodder warehouse at Queshan Horse Farm. It's a long way, so I have to start soon." The young man was already dressed while speaking, but his movements and words were very soft, for fear of disturbing the people in the room.

"Then I'll get up and make you something to eat, so you can stay and eat on the way." The woman got out of bed as she spoke, and beside her lay a two-year-old child, who was sleeping very soundly.

This is a young couple in their early twenties, both of whom are beautiful, but their family background can only be considered middle-of-the-road in Xinyang Prefecture.There are three bungalows with a front yard, one is the main room, the other is for the maid and the nanny, and the other is for the master and his wife; there are also two small wing rooms, one is the kitchen, and the other is for a servant.

In the outermost corner of the courtyard there was a stable with two lame old horses parked inside.Judging from the shape of the horses, the two horses look like war horses that have been on the battlefield, but because the two horses have been injured, they can only be reduced to ordinary animal power for people to drive.

The master's action obviously alarmed the servants outside. Before he went out to the yard, an old servant was already busy carrying water, sweeping the floor and doing some chores.

"Master, when are you leaving, so I can set up a car for you." The old servant is actually not very old, but he can grow a beard to look very old, but his eyes are very sharp, and he is not a character to be messed with at first glance. .

"Let's eat at home before leaving today. There will be frost in the morning, and a quilt will be put on the horse's back." The young man ordered.

"Hey." The old servant replied.

The eaves are covered with yellow and orange corn cobs. In the middle of the small courtyard, a newly promoted corn manual thresher machine is placed in the yamen, like a small scene specially used to cover up the guests.Next to the machine, there was a large pile of scattered parts lined up in a row. The young man walked to the side of the parts and began to assemble an unfinished machine while he still had some time.

Before the incense burned, someone knocked on the door of the small courtyard, and there were some noisy sounds outside the door.

"Zhang Cong, go and open the door." The young man continued his work and ordered by the way.

With a creak, the door of the small courtyard was opened, and a large group of poorly dressed men stood timidly at the door and looked into the small courtyard. They seemed a little nervous and did not dare to enter the door.

"Fifth Brother Liu, come in quickly. Why did you come so early? Did you drive in the middle of the night?" The young man turned his head to look at the door and immediately greeted him enthusiastically.

"Zhang Cong, get them stools quickly, and the lady will serve hot tea to the guests." The young man was very easy-going, and his enthusiastic attitude was very natural, without being pretentious at all.