Chapter 229 The sprout of Datang industry in the Western Regions

Although Chen Ying made sufficient preparations, the four-wheeled carriage and sleigh accompanying him were all modified, covering the walls of the carriage with cowhides, and the stove was burning inside, although the cold wind was howling outside, but the carriage was still warm like spring.

However, the bumps along the way can't be alleviated much. Even with spring steel as a shock absorbing device, the shock absorption effect of this sled is even inferior to that of later pickup trucks.

Although Li Xiuning is pregnant, she is in good spirits. Regardless of the cold wind, she opened the car window from time to time and looked at the ice and snow outside. Just after entering the territory of Huyang County, Li Xiuning found that there was a very large building complex in the distance, and the smoke was billowing out, and she said in surprise: "Chen Lang, do you see that there is no water in front of you?" ”

When Chen Ying heard this, he was also taken aback.

The weather is dry in winter, which is easy to cause fires, especially at this season, once a fire occurs, let alone being burned and burned to death, even if people run out, the cold weather may not last long.

Chen hurriedly opened the window of the car and looked at the smoke in the distance. However, because of the posture that is as thick as a bucket, like a roaring black dragon, soaring up to 90,000 miles, Chen Ying is no longer familiar with it. This is a chimney that was unique only to later smelters.

Chen Ying explained with a smile: "It's not a water walk, it should be a big workshop, why do you want to go over and have a look!" ”

At this moment, Zhou Qing, the commander of the guards, came to report: "Dadu Protector, Huyang County County Commander and County Cheng led all the officials of Huyang County to welcome Dadu Hu! ”

Chen Ying leaned out and looked at dozens or hundreds of people standing in the snow not far away, shivering from the cold. Chen Ying frowned, he didn't like this so-called mezzanine welcome, so he waved his hand and said, "Let Zhao Boying dismiss everyone and let him come by himself!" ”

Li Xiuning pointed to the factory building in the distance and said, "Chen Lang, let's go there and have a look!" ”

Chen Ying nodded and said, "Okay, let the county magistrate of Huyang County take us there!" ”

Hearing that Chen Ying was going to visit the workshop in Huyang County, Zhao Boying hurriedly whispered in front of his son, asking him to ride a horse and take a quick step ahead and go to the workshop to prepare.

Zhao Boying boarded Chen Ying's carriage. Chen Ying asked, "What kind of workshop is ahead?" ”

"Returning to Daduhu, it is a farm tool production workshop!" Zhao Boying said proudly: "This workshop has six fangs, which respectively produce hoes, curved plows, cocoons, sickles, keel waterwheels (an irrigation tool invented in the Han Dynasty), and Kongming cars (a means of transportation invented during the Three Kingdoms period)!" ”

Chen Ying nodded and said, "Take us to have a look!" ”

Coming to this huge workshop in Huyang County, Rao is Chen Ying is well-informed, and he didn't expect Zhao Boying to actually build such a workshop.

In the huge workshop, the blended alloy steel water flows slowly into the abrasives along the chute. The abrasive tool filled with alloy steel water, pulled by several ploughing oxen, along the track, slowly moving forward, skilled craftsmen, with thick cotton gloves, holding huge steel pliers, clamped a orange coulter, walked to a giant stamping machine, put the coulter down in the fixture, as the fixture was fixed, the craftsman stepped on the pedal, the giant stamping machine by the ploughing ox driven by the stretching die fell hard with a strong impact, and the flat coulter was pressed into an arc-shaped cone with a bang.

Zhao Boying explained to Chen Ying: "Although the Quyuan plough made by most of the people is easy to use, it is too complicated to make, and it is not easy to build, and it takes almost three days for skilled craftsmen to make a coulter, and now with this mechanism, half a pillar of incense can be made on a ......."

Of course, this processing method is still quite primitive, the machine is also backward, the production capacity is not high, so many machines, can only process more than 1,000 workpieces in a day, but in this era, such efficiency is already very scary. Chen Ying pointed at the animal power press curiously and said, "Where did you get this thing?" ”

Zhao Boying smiled awkwardly: "Do you remember the last time, I went to Shule with copper?" At that time, when I was sending the copper to the numismatic bureau in Shule to hand them over, one of my nephews, Zhao Zimao, accidentally saw the coinage ......"

Chen Ying secretly smacked his tongue, this Zhao Zimao is really a talent. The hydraulic press and the animal press are two completely different concepts, which is like seeing a musket and developing a cannon by the way.

What Chen Ying didn't know was that Zhao Boying had too many surprises for Chen Ying.

Then, Chen Ying followed Zhao Boying into another huge factory, which was used to produce keel waterwheels. The keel waterwheel began in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and was improved by the inventor Ma Jun during the Three Kingdoms period. Since then, it has played a huge role in agriculture.

However, because the keel waterwheel is wooden, it is much worse in terms of rotation efficiency and wear-resistant convenience. At this time, the keel waterwheel built in this workshop actually seemed to be like the motorcycle chain of later generations, but it was larger and all of them were similar castings, which were assembled to form the so-called keel.

The manufacture of this kind of steel keel waterwheel actually came up with the concept of a chain in later generations, which made Chen Ying really surprised. The most surprising thing for Chen Ying is the operation of producing seamless steel pipes, which is also a pouring method, these craftsmen actually dig a deep well more than three zhang deep in the ground with the abrasives of the steel pipes, manually place the abrasives, and then pour the molten steel directly into the abrasives. Due to the dry climate of the Western Regions, there is no so-called bubble problem.

The poured seamless steel pipes were brought to a boring tool, and as the horses galloped hard, there was a screeching sound and sparks flew everywhere...... This steel pipe is made of mild steel, which is relatively easy to cut, but despite being mild steel, it is also much cheaper than bronze.

Finally, after Zhao Boying's explanation, Chen Ying realized that these seamless steel pipes were actually used to make water pipes, and the Western Regions lacked water resources, and there was no bamboo that could be used here, but the steel resources were relatively rich, so people began to use steel pipes as water diversion pipes.

A seamless steel piece is three feet six feet, and the lathe cutter begins to cut out the outer screw mouth on the steel pipe. Then cut out the inner screw on the bushing......

Chen Ying looked at Zhao Boying and said, "How did you come up with the idea of making such a thing?" ”

In fact, this was definitely beyond Chen Ying's surprise. Whether it is a stamping machine or a machine tool, it is very primitive and inefficient, but it is undeniable that this has opened the industrial germ of the Tang Dynasty.

Zhao Boying smiled bitterly: "It's not that there are few people to make trouble, there is a lot of land in Huyang County, there are few people, so you can't plant it at all, little old man...... Xiaguan saw that the good land was wasted, and he was anxious, like the original three days with a coulter, and he couldn't fight a few times all year round, I heard that the organs could save effort, and the lower officials took people to engage in these organs, and now this Qujiang plough can make 300,000 sets a year, which is more than enough to supply the entire Western Regions, and there is also a keel waterwheel, one set in three days, and all the fields in Huyang County can use the water bone dragon cart in a year at most, and there is no need to look at God's eyes anymore! ”

Chen Ying sighed very much, the people of China are hardworking and intelligent, Chen Ying just opened up a new idea for them, so they ran farther and faster on a new road.

Now there are six small-scale workshops in Populus euphratica alone, which can only be regarded as family workshops in later generations, but in this era, it is already very scary.

With an annual output of 300,000 sets of curved ploughs, 200,000 sets of cocoons, and millions of sickles, you must know that the sickle can not only harvest crops, but also mow grass.

At this moment, only the crisp sound of the "bell" was heard, and the lathe came to an abrupt halt.

The craftsman in charge, Zhao Zimao, patted his thigh and sighed, "Hey...... It's broken again! ”

Chen Ying stepped forward to take a look, because the lathe was still rough, coupled with the quality of the high manganese steel alloy knife, the tool was finally broken.

Chen Ying looked at the knife that fell off and said: "It seems that the Gao Menggang knife is still not up to par, unless it can get tungsten steel, it will be no fun." ”

Zhao Zimao became interested, looked at Chen Ying and asked, "Tungsten steel?" What is tungsten steel? ”

"Tungsten is a very hard metal, and the knives made of alloy steel are extremely sharp, and they are resistant to high temperature and wear, which is one of the most ideal knives" Chen Ying smiled bitterly: "Don't look at me, I don't have the ability to get it out!" ”

Not to mention, as soon as he mentioned tungsten steel, Zhao Zimao looked at him in a daze, looking like he was going to eat people, which made Chen Ying's scalp numb...... There is no electricity these days, so where can he get tungsten steel? Even if you get tungsten, you can't process it.

There's no way, let's see the future, sooner or later I'll be able to figure it out.

Chen Ying is holding a seamless steel pipe, although this kind of steel pipe is cast from low-carbon steel, and there are differences in the thickness of the pipe wall, if the caliber of this seamless steel pipe is reduced and rifling is carved inside, can it be made into a musket?

Thinking of this, Chen Ying still shook his head.

The firearm is the devil in Pandora's box, Chen Ying didn't think about it at all, whether to release this devil or not.

Until he left Huyang County, Chen Ying did not make up his mind.

However, Huyang County opened Chen Ying's eyes, and then Chen Ying asked Guo Luo to investigate the industrial development of the prefecture and county, these data are actually in the hands of Menghu Yicong, and after receiving Guo Luo's intelligence summary, Chen Ying was dumbfounded again.

Today, there are more than 400 iron and steel workshops in the Western Regions, large and small, but except for the Huaergou iron and steel workshop under Chen Ying's rule and a few large steel mills used to make armor and galloping tracks, other private steel mills cannot make weapons. However, more than 400 steel mills still frightened Chen Ying.

Except for iron and steel, there are five or six hundred coal mines, but most of them are small coal mines with an annual output of less than 100,000 stones, which are used to supply the surrounding people.

Steel and coal have laid the foundation for Datang's industrial sprouts in the Western Regions.