Xiao Tianjian did it himself, made a variety of drawing tools, and immediately got busy in the palace, so many years, he almost lost the major he had learned before, fortunately a few years ago he realized the existence of this danger, and always tried his best to spare some time, to record some notes, some of the professional knowledge he had learned before, through memories to record it, even in the march and war, he always squeezed out some time to do these things, and now these notes have been sorted out more than a dozen books, When he used it now, he opened it and looked at it, and many things were immediately recalled.

Xiao Tianjian spared no effort to promote the process of industrialization in China, China and North Korea, and he knew that the progress of military science could greatly promote the development of civilian science and technology, for example, the steam engine was finally invented, which was inseparable from artillery.

It is precisely because in order to make a better cannon, someone invented a boring machine to process the smooth bore of the cannon, which also made the cylinder for the manufacture of steam engines guaranteed, and finally made the practical steam engine invented.

Therefore, if you want to develop industrialization, machinery is the most basic guarantee, Xiao Tianjian took the time, just a little thinking, and decided that the first machine to be designed is the boring machine.

For him, a graduate of the mechanical major, it is not difficult to design a simple boring machine, and as long as the boring machine is manufactured, the first to get the benefits is the military, and the arsenal of the Great China and North Korea can use the boring machine to provide the army with better quality artillery, so that the Chinese army can achieve considerable technological advantages on the battlefield in the future, no matter what enemy it is facing.

So Xiao Tianjian immediately poured his enthusiasm into his mechanization dream, but it is not difficult to design a simple boring machine, the difficulty is to manufacture him, but it is not easy, which involves the problem of materials, at present, China's metallurgical level is not high, there is no problem with iron castings, but the tools required for boring machines, at this time it is not easy to solve, later generations are used with high-hardness alloy steel, this era of alloy steel is not to think, now it is not possible to manufacture at all, Therefore, only high-carbon steel can be used, which requires craftsmen to find a way to try to solve the problem until the usable high-carbon steel can be produced.

The other is the problem of power, there is no electricity or internal combustion engine or steam engine to provide power, in this era the available power is only manpower, animal power and water power, although wind power can also provide power, but must choose a place with more wind resources, so it is very limited, and the power that manpower can provide is too small, animal power can not provide stable power, the only option is only water power.

So Xiao Tianjian designed the first boring machine as a source of power, which is not too difficult for him at the moment, he has mastered most of China's resources, whether it is manpower or material resources, there is no obstacle, so he simply ordered the Ministry of Industry, outside Nanjing, to choose a place to establish a machine manufacturing plant, as his trial production of the first generation of machine tools.

This machine factory is nominally under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry, but in essence it is directly managed by Xiao Tianjian for the time being, and Niu Jinxing, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, in accordance with Xiao Tianjian's will, mobilized dozens of skilled craftsmen from all over the country at the same time to serve as Xiao Tianjian's helpers for Xiao Tianjian's use.

With people, after having the venue, Xiao Tianjian immediately began to work, and sent a piece of drawings to the hands of craftsmen, don't look at this time China has not yet formed a systematic mapping, but this is not difficult Xiao Tianjian, he personally recruited the craftsmen to the palace, for them to explain how to understand the drawings he drawn, these craftsmen never thought in their lives, they could actually have the opportunity to enter the palace to meet the emperor, one by one after entering the palace seemed to be trembling, kneeling on the ground did not dare to look up at Xiao Tianjian.

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

His Majesty the Emperor also told them that as long as they did things according to his requirements and do things well, then there would be absolutely no problem with the reward, and what made them even happier was that this time they were transferred to Nanjing to work, and the imperial court also gave each of them a fairly generous salary, which was enough for them to support their families, and even His Majesty the Emperor had a house built for them in a machine factory outside the city. They were even allowed to bring their families to Nanjing City for resettlement, a treatment they never dared to imagine.

So when they were ordered, these craftsmen did not dare to slack off, 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 factory that had just been built, they immediately started working in full swing.

As soon as Xiao Tianjian is free, he went out of the city to the machine factory to personally watch the work of these craftsmen, although the first generation of boring machine he designed has simplified the process as much as possible, but it is inevitable that there will be many parts that are not easy to manufacture, but this is not too difficult for these craftsmen, with the drawings drawn by Xiao Tianjian, although they do not have a machine to manufacture these parts, but these craftsmen have made full use of their skills, many accessories are cast with pig iron first, And then use the manual way to ponder little by little, although this is very inefficient, but this is also in this era, there is no way.

So a clumsy and even primitive boring machine, with the efforts of these craftsmen, after two months, finally assembled one by one under the personal command of Xiao Tianjian.

Although the boring machine looked very crude, it was immediately up and running as soon as the sluice gate was opened when the hydraulic drive was connected.

Xiao Tianjian commanded the craftsmen to cast a new cannon, and after the six-pound cannon that had not yet been polished was fixed on the boring machine with a clamp, he personally presided over the operation of the boring machine.

Although this simple boring machine can not be called perfect, but after the trial, the inner chamber of this six-pound gun is quickly turned very smooth, and the current casting process of the Great Middle and North Korea adopts the iron fan casting method, the gun body and the gun chamber are already quite smooth, so the tool consumption of the boring machine is not large, a temporary trial production of the tool, can completely process a gun chamber, and compared with the previous manual polishing of the gun chamber, it is much more convenient, and the efficiency is not at all comparable to manual or semi-mechanical polishing of the gun chamber, In terms of quality, it also greatly exceeded the level of polishing the barrel before, which made the officials of the Ministry of Industry and the craftsmen from the military factory who came to watch it all amazed.

The personnel of the Ministry of Industry immediately realized the importance of this kind of boring machine to them, and immediately Niu Jinxing flattered Xiao Tianjian, and asked the machine factory to immediately build more such boring machines and transport them to the Ministry of Industry in the arsenals all over the country for use, so that the speed and quality of the cannon can be improved a lot, Xiao Tianjian also immediately approved his request, and ordered the machine factory to use this boring machine as the mother base in the early stage to build 20 boring machines and deliver them to the arsenals around the country.

It's a pity that because it is made by hand, the accuracy of many parts is still too rough, so although the boring machine can be used, the accuracy is far from meeting the requirements of later generations, and the strength of some parts is obviously not enough, and there is a failure after just using it, but this is nothing for Xiao Tianjian, because he knows very well that even if these craftsmen are clever, it is impossible to reduce the error of the parts made to the extent of future generations. And in terms of materials, before the steel was produced in large quantities, only pig iron wrought iron was used to make machinery, and the quality of parts and components was certainly not as good as that of later generations, and it would take a long time to gradually improve this aspect.

The success of the trial production of the boring machine made Xiao Tianjian's confidence greatly increased, and then he immediately began to design other general-purpose machine tools, although these machine tools have been greatly simplified by him, as much as possible to reduce the complexity of the parts, the accuracy is also as relaxed as possible, but he is very clear that when these machines are gradually manufactured, you can use these primitive machine tools, to continue to produce machine tools, through the continuous use of machines to manufacture machines, the future regeneration of machine tools will be more and more accurate, Eventually, the parts that can be produced will become more and more complex, until they gradually reach or approach the machine tools of later generations.

For Xiao Tianjian suddenly turned his energy to fiddling with these strange machines, the cabinet ministers expressed their worries, because for them, now the Great China and the DPRK are still in their infancy, Xiao Tianjian is busy fiddling with these strange and obscene things, which is likely to affect his interest in government affairs, and the Ming Dynasty has a lesson from the past, the most recent is the example of Zhu Youxiao, the emperor of the Ming Xi Sect, Ming Xizong is the emperor, and he is not interested in governing the country and the world, and the government is controlled by Wei Zhongxian, And he was only obsessed with carpentry work all day long, and as a result, Daming was tossed with black smoke and miasma.

So Lu Xiangsheng, the prime minister, couldn't sit still, so he hurriedly went into the palace to find Xiao Tianjian to say, Xiao Tianjian is now the king of a country, and he should not indulge in such so-called "things" that make machines, nor can he often mingle with those vulgar craftsmen all day long, which is really hurtful, but more to focus on government affairs.

After Xiao Tianjian heard this, he immediately laughed out loud and asked Lu Xiangsheng, "Lu Aiqing! I understand your concerns! Although I have been going to the machine factory from time to time recently, have you ever noticed that I have delayed the performance that I have handed over here? ”

After thinking about it for a while, Lu Xiangsheng found that this was not true, they presented Xiao Tianjian with some notes that needed him, the emperor, to make a decision, Xiao Tianjian did not delay, and quickly approved them, without delaying anything at all, so Xiao Tianjian's addiction to playing with machines did not affect Xiao Tianjian's handling of government affairs.

"Lu Aiqing, I am glad that you cabinet ministers can care so much about me, but I also ask you to rest assured, I will never lose my mind when I do these things, but these machines are too important for us in China, and you can't understand the importance of these machines yet, but I can tell you that with these machines, China will be invincible in this 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 when you first returned to Nanjing, the pocket watch I gave you and the chiming clock? You must know that these things now represent the highest achievements of Westerners, and they can exchange them for hundreds or even thousands of taels of silver in China outside China with just such a thing, and these things that I have recently fiddled with can make them look up to us China for decades or even hundreds of years to come!

If nothing else, let's just talk about the boring machine that I designed and manufactured first! Lu Aiqing doesn't know, with this boring machine, we can do a lot of things, the most basic is the cannon we made, whether it is in quality or range and power, will far exceed the Hongyi cannon made by Westerners, with this machine, we will have a great advantage in the future, whether on land or at sea, only in this way will we not be bullied by outsiders!

In addition, these machines can create a lot of things that you can't imagine, and in the future, they can enrich the country and strengthen the people.

The reason why Shu reorganized the cabinet is to hope that you, the pillars of the country, can take on more responsibilities for Shu, so that Shu can spare some time to do more things for us Chinese, life is just a few decades, Shu can't put all his energy on handling government affairs, Shu still has many things to do, I hope Lu Aiqing you can remember Shu's words!

If Lu Aiqing finds out that one day because of these things, I really fell into the situation of being a plaything, and abandoned government affairs for this reason, then I still remember that the horse whip I once gave to Lu Aiqing, Lu Aiqing could come to the palace with a whip to wake me up at that time!

But as long as I don't lose my mind as you said, then please share more for me! ”

After listening to Xiao Tianjian's words, although Lu Xiangsheng and other ministers still couldn't figure it out, how could these strange and ingenious things be so important to the Great Middle and North Korea as Xiao Tianjian said, but looking at the truth of what Xiao Tianjian said, and thinking about Xiao Tianjian's over the years, he has often done some unexpected things, and he is not like a person who can play things and lose his mind, so Lu Xiangsheng and the others had to bow to the ground, and then quit the palace after thanking him.

(Yesterday was off to a good start, and there was finally no grain and no harvest!) Thank you caojun417 for your tip! ）