From Chief to Ball

The nautical clock incident that year was also because of a huge reward. A self-taught craftsman started with 250 pounds sponsored by others and spent his whole life working out a whole set of precision making methods, including various precision craftsmen. Watch parts, crucible steel to minimize the effect of thermal expansion and contraction, rolling bearings...

In this regard, Chen Jian is convinced that his two brushes are too far behind today's craftsmen, so he can only rely on money to smash them.

The second thing is to let Hulin bring the money to one of the best smelting workshops in Mincheng, which can forge large pieces such as anchors and small leaf springs, and find the craftsmen there to make a Iron wheels.

This kind of wheel requires that it can be clipped into the convex groove of the wooden rail, and the size and specifications are clearly written one by one, and it does not need too good material, cast iron or wrought iron can be used.

The load capacity of human Ramallah will not be too large, and wooden ones are actually fine, so this problem should not be too big.

The third thing is to find craftsmen who produce crucibles—their main business targets are those craftsmen who hold pots. When craftsmen hold pots, they need to use crucibles to smelt molten iron.In addition to them, there are some craftsmen who can make crucibles, who may be more skilled, but they may be in the business of smelting lead, gold, silver and zinc, and it is difficult to find them for a while.

The craftsman didn't earn much, and he didn't spend much money. He spent some money to ask them to make a crucible out of clay, china clay and graphite.

Chen Jian couldn't do this by himself, but this kind of craftsman could do it within half a year, Chen Jian firmly believed in this.

The fourth thing is to build some furnaces, but these furnaces are not used for production, but for experimentation and accumulation of experience.

First, there is a melting furnace with a high chimney, which is used to try to melt part of the crucible steel after the graphite crucible is manufactured.

Once the crucible steel was available, a watchmaker would be hired at great expense to help him come up with a more reasonable flintlock action.

Today's flintlock firing device has some problems, so the fire rate is not very high and the steel is expensive, so mass production is not realistic.

To be precise, the current flintlock guns still follow the path of friction ignition, not the way of impact ignition, so the internal structure is still a bit worse than the hammer device that has been tested in practice in previous generations.

Now that there are no common parts, it is unrealistic to change matchlock guns to flintlock guns, and there are basically no foreign enemies. Chen Jian feels that unless his family owns an arsenal and is in collusion with the military figures above, it is unlikely to change gears.

He had to first produce a flintlock gun that uses crucible steel as a hammer device, and then find a way to produce a socket-type bayonet. Combine the two to find a new tactic for the front, even if it is used when he goes to sea in the future.

It was not the flintlock gun that eliminated the matchlock era, but the bayonet on the flintlock gun, which led to the integration of hand-to-hand soldiers and projectile soldiers.Chen Jian knew this very well, so it was even more urgent. This was the weapon that his desperado crew members must have before going to sea.

There is also a calcination furnace, which is to try the local method of burning cement. It doesn't need to be too good, just need to be able to repair a strong and waterproof road surface.

This problem is not too big, clay and lime are calcined together with coal powder, crushed and gypsum is added.

How to prepare ingredients, this is a question that needs to be tried. Try slowly and don’t be afraid of throwing money, you can always try it out.

The supporting hydraulic mill is also following up. This cement material is lumpy after being calcined and needs to be crushed before it can be used.

The last attempted closed furnace of cast iron and refractory brick was for retorting coal.

Dry distillation of coal can produce coal tar, coke oven gas, and crude ammonia water. Coal tar may be useful in the future and this can be kept. Chen Jian is afraid to use gas for fear of explosion for the time being, after all, the airtightness is not too good.

The most important thing is to get crude ammonia water and accumulate the technology of dry distillation coal.

There are only a few ways to produce ammonia. Using calcium carbide to produce calcium cyanide, and then using calcium cyanide and nitrogen to produce ammonia is too difficult—there is no hope in my lifetime.

As for synthetic ammonia, don’t even think about it. It will take almost 200 years to speed up and connect the world together. The small production capacity is too large, and no one can be spared.

After thinking about it, there is only one way to make ammonia, and it is the only feasible way under the current conditions.

For this reason, Chen Jian went to the place where he had cooperated with him to produce many weird glazed pottery, and ordered a batch of even weirder pottery pots.

The most important thing is a batch of jars used to hold ammonia water. The opening on the top is small and strong, and it can hold ammonia water.

This thing was very common in the countryside of some counties in the last century. The products of the five small factories, as one of the few sources of nitrogen fertilizer before the Fourth and Third Plans, almost guaranteed the increase in grain production for a certain period of time.

The gas after dry distillation of coal is condensed through pottery tubes to remove coal tar, and the crude ammonia water rich in various impurities is put into jars, and when it is used, find a way to purify it by heating or lime absorbing water and releasing heat.

This can be used to make a silver mirror, which is easy to explode, but the profit of a mirror is enough to pay for a human life, and it is connected with a glass workshop, which is another light industrial product with huge profits.

There is glass, there is tin, there is hydrochloric acid, and the sensitizer stannous chloride can always be found. It is always possible to think of a way. There is sulfuric acid and saltpeter to heat the nitric acid, although the output is low. It is enough to make a mirror. There is no glucose or maltose. After all, there are aldehydes base.

When doing these four things, it will not affect the normal production of the workshop, and it is experimental in nature, and the cost will not be too much.

Chapter 61 Exploration

While doing these four things, Chen Jian kept his eyes on Mincheng.This side is busy improving the workshop, bribery to build relationships, and Mincheng is also trying to maintain Hu Lin as much as possible.

After Hu Lin sent the thousand silver coins and the trustee to the capital for Chen Jian, he came to Nan'an's workshop. He was really worried about Chen Jian's side.

Although Chen Jian spoke calmly, he was still worried that he could easily see a little bit of hope for a meaningful cause being ruined.

When I came to the workshop in Nan'an, I saw vehicles transporting coal, ore, and lime coming in and out. There seemed to be some people who were busy with construction inside, and there was no sign of depression at all.

He breathed a sigh of relief, and went into the workshop to find Chen Jian who was reprimanding the apprentice whose skin was burned by ammonia water.

Chen Jian hurriedly greeted him and took him to his residence.

As soon as he entered the door, Hu Lin couldn't help asking: "Brother Chen, how is the glass production on your side?"

"Everything is normal, didn't I tell you? When I built the glass workshop, I built the chemical workshop by the way, and that was for a purpose."

"Chemical?"

"Hey... It's just turning salt into alkali, and the lines are like mountains, and it won't be clear for a while. Don't worry, three or four hundred catties a day is enough for us."

Hu Lin breathed a sigh of relief.

"That's good. I'm really worried we won't make it through."

"Of course we can get through it, and the light will come soon. Now it's not even the darkness before dawn. At most, there is a palm-sized cloud covering the sun. Just wait, I will make Mincheng a The place where the guild disintegrated most thoroughly."

Hu Lin clicked his tongue and said with a smile: "Your heart is so big, is this the crushing of productivity you said?"

"It's almost the same. It's a little far away, so it's okay to say so cheekily. How about Mincheng?"

"It's still the same. Tian Wenliang's people checked very strictly, and no one from those glass workshops came to me."

"Naturally, now they think they have a chance to win, so of course they won't come to you. I asked you to pretend to pay twice the price to buy alkali. How is it going?"

"It's about the same as what we guessed, no one sold. After all, how long have you been in the workshop? How long have you been cooperating with them? How can you offend those big buyers so easily? The news spread to the capital and bought another batch of Beijian Come on, it will take two months anyway, but those merchants know what's going on, who would foolishly resell Beijian here?"

"Where is the business officer?"

"The process has also gone. Shi Ming said that he was thinking of a way, but in fact he was evading. I am only a member of the small council in Min County. If thirty or fifty council members object to this matter, he must be in a hurry Do it, but it's no use for me alone. Waiting to see our joke."

"How to say?"

"Our charity company has jumped too high. The middle and low-level people like it very much, but the really rich don't like it, but they don't object to it, but they still hope that we will stumble."

"There is nothing to be afraid of. As long as we get through this time, the large glass industry in Mincheng will be ruined by me, and no one will fight with me. Now that both parties have put their strength together, it depends on who will fall first. They will lower the price." You can’t compare to me, so you have to use these crooked methods.”

"Yeah, this time Tian Wenliang used all the connections, contacts and money he could use. I'm still a bit famous. You have a father who is a school official. Some facts are too difficult to do. Otherwise, we would be over by now."

"He bought alkali and stopped production, so he probably won't last long. He can hold on himself, but the people in the guild can't hold on anymore. As long as there is something wrong, you just wait for them to Get messed up first."

Hu Lin laughed and said: "Brother Chen, tell me the truth, when those people really come to you, will you still agree to cooperate?"