Chapter 185: The Age of Lighting Up

Several people from the prospecting team did not disappoint Zhang Zhimu, and when they put two pieces of silver-white metal on Zhang Zhimu's desk, one of them said: "Mr. Zhang, you see if this is what you want, this is what we said and condensed in the smoke of ore burning." The larger ones are fired from lead ore, and the smaller ones are burned from copper ore.

Zhang Zhimu looked at these two pieces of zinc, not to mention how happy he was. These two pieces of zinc show that the two mines acquired are zinc-bearing ores, and such a good thing has been encountered by themselves. Zhang Zhimu said: "You have worked hard, and your work proves that the ore of our two mines contains zinc. Congratulations! ”

Zhang Zhimu's excitement also infected these people, and they were also smiling.

Zhang Zhimu said: "Now, I give you two tasks, one is that you have to find a way to screen out the zinc ore from the lead ore and copper ore, and the second is to redesign a smelting method for lead and copper, and separate the zinc when smelting lead and copper. ”

Zhang Zhimu drew a simple schematic diagram for them with a pencil, saying: "The new smelting method should adopt the ready-made experience of the smelter, and adopt the method of ore sintering, so that the crushed ore can also be used, and the smoke coming out of the ore after burning should be used, the first step is to condense the zinc in the smoke, and then the gas should be passed into the water, because the sulfur dioxide will be released by burning zinc sulfide and lead sulfide, and the sulfur dioxide will choke people and pollute the air when it is put into the air, and the sulfuric acid generated in the water will become a very useful thing." ”

Zhang Zhimu knew that these people could understand the steps he said, but they couldn't understand the chemical principles.

Seeing that these people finished taking notes, Zhang Zhimu said: "You can't understand the chemical principles I said. After fifteen, I'll give you a chemistry lesson, and you'll know what's going on when you're done. ”

These people, taking Zhang Zhimu's sketches, went out to study.

Li Di's construction of their power plant is still very smooth, and after commissioning, there is no problem with the generator driving ten electric motors. These motors are connected to 220 volts and the current is also doubled, because Zhang Zhimu left a large margin when designing, these motors have been working very well, which makes Li Yunhe very happy.

Zhang Zhimu tested that the current passing through each motor without load is 2.5 amperes. In this way, the power consumption of the motor is 2.5x220=550W.

Zhang Zhimu told Li Yunhe to quickly design a reducer, the speed of the motor output is reduced through the reducer, and the torque goes up, don't look at this small motor, after the speed is reduced, a large torque will be generated, and the torque will increase by 1,000 times if you reduce the speed by 1,000 times, and the torque will increase by 10,000 times.

Li Yunhe said: "Can you design a few more types of larger motors, we have to use them in different places." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "You don't have to look for me in the future, Li Di and they can do it." At this time, Li Di happened to come over, and Zhang Zhimu said to Li Di: "Li Yunhe said that you need motors of different powers, what can you do?" ”

Li Di said: "I was about to say this, the next step, we have to design motors of different powers, so that these steam engines in our kiln can be saved, and the work of a large steam engine can be solved by connecting a motor with a wire." ”

Li Yunhe patted Li Di on the shoulder and said, "I've been staring at the motor, that's the reason." You hurry up and design more motors of different sizes, and I organize people to design reducers of different sizes. ”

Zhang Zhimu reminded them: "You should pay attention to the problem of standardization, so that the motor and reducer can be as common as possible, at least in the size of the interface to be unified, Li Yunhe's task is to coordinate the standard." In the future, our screws and nuts will be standardized. In this way, the more things we can use will be. ”

Li Yunhe and Li Di both nodded and said, "Yes." ”

Zhang Zhimu said to them: "It's about to be fifteen, after a period of trial operation of your generator in the past few days, you will have to pull the electricity to the top of the tower on the kiln gang on the fifteenth day, and on the night of the fifteenth, we will light the arc lamp for everyone, so that everyone can see what is called electric light and artificial sun." ”

Li Yunhe said: "I have already asked someone to get the rack of the arc lamp, but it takes a lot of thick wires to pull the wires here. You also have to get some shelves and put up the wires, otherwise the electricity will be over. ”

Zhang Zhimu knew that Li Yunhe was talking about a telephone pole, but they didn't know the name. Zhang Zhimu drew a cross-like telephone pole for them with a pen and said: "You can make a batch of electric poles according to this shape, and we will use more of these things in the future." ”

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is a big festival for Chinese, and the north and south have their own many habits. In Yaogang, a place where people from the north and the south mingle, because everyone got a lot of silver a year ago, people have the conditions to show their habits. It's not just for the adults, it's for the kids. The hawkers were also put into the kiln by the sentry of the kiln to sell, and the kiln gang was made like a big bazaar. The hawkers all said that what was sold in Yaogang for a day was sold in Xiurong for several days. On the morning of the fifteenth, everyone hung up the lanterns, and those talents also wrote a lot of anagrams. In order to take care of everyone's lights at night, dinner starts early. Today's special case, everyone was issued a wine ticket, and each person could receive half a catty of liquor with the wine ticket. Huang Yukun later told Zhang Zhimu that those women couldn't drink liquor at all, and they all gave their wine tickets to the men they liked.

This made Zhang Zhimu think that there are many young men and young women in Yaogang now, and they should be encouraged to fall in love freely. But free love may be a more serious thing in this era than stealing in a previous life. However, Zhang Zhimu decided to encourage everyone to decide their own destiny, and he wanted to write an article on the harm of feudal etiquette and religion, so that everyone could emancipate their minds a little. Zhang Zhimu also knew that if he did so, he would be strongly opposed by those literati.

This fifteenth, the happiest seems to be Lu Chengxiang, because two days ago, he and Liu Yun brought back a long list of silver cars. So Lu Chengxiang changed the small buckle of the past, and he needed silver to engage in dragon and lion dances, and when he came to Lu Chengxiang, Lu Chengxiang did not hesitate, and repeatedly said: "We must do a good job and be lively." "If you want to play a Han boat, it's no problem to go to Lu Chengxiang, give the silver, and tell people to do a good job, he has to go to check; There are twisted Yangge, etc., as long as Lu Chengxiang can be lively, they will support it. The lantern riddles made by those literati need to be accompanied by all kinds of gifts, and they need silver, and Lu Chengxiang did not hesitate to give silver.

According to Li Mao's letter, the bandit cottage in Taiyue Mountain they took is a "century-old shop", and the gold and silver seized are definitely incomparable to cottages like Wild Boar Ridge, otherwise, Li Mao would not be very serious about letting Yaogang send someone to bring back the gold and silver.

As soon as Lu Chengxiang and Liu Yun reported, Zhang Zhimu was also surprised when he heard it, Lu Chengxiang said: "The inventory of all things was carried out by me and Liu Yun on the spot, and when we went, we saw that the seals signed by Li Mao, Li Jing, Liu Chenghuang, and Yang Wei were all complete. This time we arrived a total of 53,000 taels of gold, 360,000 taels of silver, and 23,800 taels of copper. There are still a lot of beads, the treasures were not counted at the time, Liu Yun and I supervised and sealed them in the box, and I will count them with Mr. Huang when I have time. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "How can they be a bandit with so much silver? The big dealers in Shanxi don't have as much money as they do. ”

Lu Chengxiang said: "Yes, these big sellers in Shanxi don't have much more silver than them, but it won't be less. However, bandits are not the same as traders, for hundreds of years, they basically only enter the silver and rarely give out the silver. In the past 100 years, they don't know how many businessmen they have robbed, how many big families they have robbed, 10,000 taels a year, and 1 million taels. ”

Zhang Zhimu sighed and said, "I don't know how many families died because of their broken family." This is what happened to them in the end, and they deserved it. ”

Lu Chengxiang said: "I didn't pull back all the gold and silver. We Yuncheng and Taiyuan and other shops close to there can directly pull gold and silver from there, and each ticket number must have a certain reserve of silver. Otherwise, we won't be able to open a ticket number. ”

Liu Yun then introduced: "Lin Feng and Wei Xiang, who were left in Taiyue Mountain by Liu Chenghuang and them, performed very well, and now the cottage is in good order by them. Now they are preparing the tools to build the road first, and when we send them the steam engine and the circular saw, they will be ready to cut the wood and process the wood. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Mr. Lu, the things in Taiyue Mountain should be prepared by Li Yunhe as soon as possible, and it is best to transport them before thawing, because the steam engine is too heavy, and it is best to drag it over on the ice and snow in winter, which is more convenient." When they see what we have, their hearts are reassured. ”

Liu Yun said: "Lin Feng and Wei Xiang proposed that they wanted to send a few people to the kiln to study, which was also a way for them to encourage the people on the mountain. After these people go back after learning, they can also become the core figures of cottage stability. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Colleagues who work outside are not careful, and the help we can provide to them will definitely meet their needs." ”

Liu Yun said: "Okay, I'll discuss this matter with Uncle Shi before arranging." ”

Those clever women from the north and south took the initiative to help cook in the canteen and made all kinds of fillings for the Lantern Festival. Everyone enjoyed it.

On the fifteenth day, the whole day was full of bustle, and the sound of gongs and drums continued. Those children, here to watch the excitement for a while, then ran to another place to watch the excitement. Those hawkers took this opportunity to sell their goods and make a lot of fun.

**Still at night, as soon as the sun sets, all kinds of lanterns are lit, and people linger in the lanterns and walk in the corridors. Li Yunhe had long wanted to light a carbon arc lamp, Zhang Zhimu said Wait a while, our lights will be a little bit, and no one will look at other lights.

Before this, I have long informed everyone that when lighting the carbon arc lamp at night, let everyone not use their eyes to look directly at the carbon arc lamp to avoid burning their eyes. Li Yunhe, Li Di and others standing on the tower all wore protective glasses for welding, and when they saw the signal sent to them by Zhang Zhimu, Li Yunhe asked Li Di to pull the electric brake on. As soon as the electric switch was pulled, the two electrodes of the carbon arc lamp burst into flames, and Li Yunhe hurriedly pulled a handle to pull the two electrodes away from a certain distance. After a burst of exclamations, people began to enjoy the sudden arrival of the day. Just as Zhang Zhimu expected, no one looked at the other lights at once. Many people looked at this monster with horror.

On the tower, Li Di left one of his people, and he adjusted the increased electrode distance after the ablation electrode to ensure that the carbon arc lamp worked continuously.

The people of the kiln came out to see this carbon arc lamp, and many people looked at this carbon arc lamp with trepidation, and they felt that this lamp was like a devil who came out of hell. Otherwise, how could it be as bright as the sun. Zhang Zhimu knows very well that today's carbon arc lamp is lighting up an era of electricity. In the next issue of "Kiln Gang Weekly", we must promote the arc lamp well. Tell everyone that the era of electricity has come. What Zhang Zhimu didn't expect was that later those literati did a lot of articles on carbon arc lamps and also carried out a lot of publicity on carbon arc lamps.

Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He found Zhang Zhimu who was holding Xiaohu to look at the lamp, they had only heard Zhang Zhimu talk about the carbon arc lamp before, and today was the first time they saw this thing. Apparently, the two of them had discovered the military usefulness of this thing.

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