In the streets and alleys of Guangzhou Prefecture, businessmen returning from Xiangshan County discussed the wonders they saw in the South China Sea and Xiangshan this time.

Nanhai County, Guangzhou Prefecture is the largest furnace household residence in Guangzhou, as early as a long time ago was the iron smelting distribution center, with Foshan Town as the center, the prosperity of iron smelting, textiles, ceramics made the local unprecedented prosperity, became the leading commercial town in the south of Wuling, one of the four major gatherings.

Now this area has to add Xiangshan and Xinhui, and the millions of catties of iron and copper ore imported into the mainland every year in Nanyang cannot stimulate the subway industry enough, but the influx of iron ore mining in Qiongzhou ordered by the Yamen of the Governor of Liangguang has brought greater changes to the iron industry in Guangzhou.

What is surprising is the steam engine, something that should not have been in this era.

If it weren't for the government's strong implementation, there might not be anyone using the steam engine for another 200 years, for no other reason, manpower has always been enough, and there is no shortage of manpower.

The government can control the people who devote themselves to the maritime affairs, but it cannot restrain the iron stove households, they were born to do this, and future generations will also do this, Foshan alone has tens of thousands of iron stove households, every household has a family heirloom iron furnace, and the iron class of the 15th tax of the Guangdong Provincial Government Department alone can collect more than 300,000 catties of iron converted into silver a year, how much demand is there to make the local production mode change?

It doesn't exist, and the cantons are sold to the north, and the capacity is still overcapacity.

But it is different with the strong implementation of the government, the institution that manages the iron households and taxes in Guangdong is called the iron factory, although the tax collection is not much, but it has absolute power over the iron households of the furnace households, and it is precisely because of the existence of this institution that Chen Mu can control the iron households of the entire Guangdong Province with a letter.

In fact, he didn't do anything, but introduced the technology of Suzhou Iron and Steel, and agreed on a price to issue the demand for steel from the Nanyang Ordnance Bureau, so that the furnace households were not only obsessed with ironmaking, but also obsessed with latte to make steel, and used steam engines on a large scale in steel forging.

Sugang has simplified and improved the production of steel filling, which is certainly not the best steel in the industrial era, but it is the best mass production steel in Chen Mu's era.

Like a father who sells his son, he wishes that the whole of Guangdong should be full of steam engines, but in fact the merchants who have to use steam engines because of their power are not so happy with this thing.

Is the steam engine magical? Magical!

But can the steam engine play a role that corresponds to its magic? Suspend!

Obviously, employing hundreds of workers can have the same effect, and even whether it is weaving or blacksmithing, a skilled craftsman is better than a bulky and stupid steam engine, and the things made are better, and the government has to hire twenty more workers for the domestic steam engine, and the steam engine can eat another twenty workers a day.

And sometimes a large steam engine in those big factories is not enough, one for weaving, one for jacquard, and there is a worker in front of the loom.

Originally, only a weaver, weaving and jacquard could be done by a loom, but the clumsy steamer would work.

At first, the government also asked people to buy steamers, but later found that they couldn't sell it and simply pushed it forcibly, which made people have to pinch their noses and admit it.

Of course, there are also benefits of steamers, but people are not used to it.

After a forced implementation, the steam engine rumbling everywhere in the Xiangshan Textile Factory is now there, and the output has increased, but more noise and trouble are also continuous.

But in the various ironworks and stonemasons, the steam engine is much more popular, and when it comes to powering the new machine tools, the cutting hammer forging has become effortless, just like when Chen Mu first used the hydraulic forging hammer.

The prosperity of machine tools made it easy to cut stones, and people mixed diamond and iron to make circular saw blades, and small objects were effortlessly conveyed with transmission belts, all of which were powered by steam engines.

Businessmen and scholars believe that the steam engine will bring more possibilities to the world in the future.

This possibility became a reality in the Nanyang Arms Bureau.

The last time Chen Mu returned to the Nanyang Ordnance Bureau was last year, and this year's return was to motivate the craftsmen and prepare to transfer smelting craftsmen to Minduluo Island to open an iron kiln.

"The smelting process of various countries is too poor, and the best ore is unusable to smelt iron, and the ore can only be shipped by ship in the past, which is not a long-term solution, so that each ship is less than 30%."

Chen Mu walked into Nanyangwei, looked at the factory building of the Ordnance Bureau in the distance, and said to Guan Zunban: "I want to select a few capable blacksmiths to go to Nanyang, and by the way, come over to see how the Ordnance Bureau is doing now." ”

After all, Guan Yuangu is old, and the Ordnance Bureau is not a good place to provide for the elderly, after the cement was built last year, he was sent by Chen Mu to the research room of the Navy Lecture Hall, and led the lecture on the Wutang Five-Grade Martial Arts Pavilion, and the Ordnance Bureau then supported another three-grade Martial Arts for the elderly, and now the Ordnance Bureau is taken over by Guan Zunban, Chen Mu is not very relieved.

"Yes!"

Guan Zun class stands behind the commander Huang Dexiang, Lao Bai has stepped down as the commander of the envoy, and all the former elite soldiers and strong generals have been transferred to Nanyang, and only Huang Dexiang of the past thousand households can be the commander in the qualifications, and he has made some military exploits against pirates, and he has been pushed to the position of commander.

Nanyang Wei, what the donkey prince said should let others be the commander, not to mention the commander, even the commander is Huang Zhenqing of the Huang Dexiang clan.

They were followed by the pen officials of the Ordnance Bureau, and quickly wrote down Chen Mu's requirements, Guan Zunban said: "Now Xiangshan has moved into Nanyangwei except for the shipyard, and there is a craftsman school affiliated to the Navy Martial Arts Hall in the Ordnance Bureau. ”

"The subordinate Ironmaking Division, Steelmaking Division, Gunpowder Division, Bird Gun Division, Sword Division, Armor Division, Artillery Casting Division, and Inspection Division each perform their duties."

Guan Zunban introduced to Chen Mu: "The production of weapons must be supervised by the three divisions, the self-inspection of the ironmaking division, the self-inspection of the iron division, and the self-inspection of the inspection division. ”

"A piece of iron into the steel filling division, engraved with the name of the inspector of the ironmaking division, trained into the steel into the bird division, engraved with the name of the inspector of the steel filling division, made into the bird gun into the inspection division, engraved with the name of the inspector of the bird gun, to leave the factory, the gun has a certain section of the bird gun, a certain section of the inspection department and the date and number of the factory inscription."

Speaking of this, Guan Zunban was very proud and said: "Anyone who blows up or destroys the chamber can be held accountable and punished!" ”

"Each division has a reform department, specializing in the technical improvement of each division, and the handsome man also said that this is not a day's work, but as long as you do it, there will always be results."

Chen Mu nodded, passed through the fort and wall that the flag army strictly defended, and entered the Ordnance Bureau, which was like a military town, and there was a hole behind the stone wall.

The roaring steam engine was deafening, there were two conveyor belts connected to the wall of the ironmaking division and the steel filling division, a steam engine specially provided power for this conveyor belt, and a steady stream of small iron ingots were transported from this and fell into the stacking box of pig iron and wrought iron, and the steel filling division made the steel, and the steam forging hammer forged the unevenly distributed solid-liquid iron-steel mixture into steel, and then transported the bird and armor division.

On the other side of the Ironmaking Division, facing the Cannon Casting Division, iron is fed into the Casting Division, and various specifications of artillery are then made.

"How is the production of guns today?"

"Last month, the Ordnance Bureau inspected the bird guns, and made 2,170 flint guns, 700 heavy guns, and 29 artillery pieces of more than 5 catties. Because last month we used a new gun mold, there were fewer guns, and this month there will be more, but this is the case now, more than 90 shots a day. ”

Weigang, a small boat from Haojing boarded two Xiangshan flag soldiers, trotted all the way into the guard, whispered a few words to the commander Huang Dexiang, so that the commander who was shot in the Battle of Chen Lai changed his face greatly, and said to Chen Mu: "Chen Shuai, I have arrested another Yishang who sold my people in Haojing, and went to Haojing to kill him!" ”

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