In fact, this kind of loom belt and gear set transmission system is also completed, but Hong Tao has to say that he wants to keep improving, and would rather increase the manufacturing cost of the loom than destroy the signboard of Wujin Xing. New and conventional systems, such as lead screws and rebar pipes, must be developed that are smoother and more efficient.

Wang Datou raised his hands and feet to agree with this requirement of the horse, and now he doesn't have to work in person, he only needs to point fingers and look at the drawings to get the highest salary.

If he is willing to leave the Ugin shop, he will be paid more to become a master craftsman at any time. He knows very well what all this depends on, just three words, Ugin Xing! Without Wujinxing, there would be no king's head, so Wujinxing's reputation is his own reputation, and he must love it like his eyes.

It was also the novel ideas and products of the horses that made Wujin Xing the No. 1 iron-making and forging workshop in the Great Song Dynasty. Now the colt says that there is still new technology, so it must be followed up.

If you can't keep up with the technology and become a master craftsman, it's too embarrassing to let the apprentice know more than yourself. If that time really comes, Wang Datou must take the initiative to retire, and he can't occupy the pit and not.

The original boring machine and milling machine Hong Tao have seen, and participated in the design work and used it himself, as long as there is a material with the hardness of the tool steel according to the cat and the tiger to copy it is not too difficult, even if it is a little difficult can be overcome by groups of craftsmen.

Therefore, it is not impossible to manufacture rebar pipes and lead screws, the only thing needed is time and process, and the cost is not required by him now.

With so much emphasis on the R&D and production of the two parts, and even the construction of an entire workshop for them, can they really make the looms of the Song Dynasty plug in the wings of industrialization and greatly increase productivity?

The answer is no, Hong Tao is called taking off his pants and farting! The low-cost, easy-to-maintain belt and gear system can fully meet the transmission needs of the weaving machine, and these two seemingly unbelievable components are not needed at all.

Could it be that Hongtao is prepared for the new loom of the future? No, he doesn't understand the working principle of the loom at all, and he doesn't want to understand it, and there is only one purpose for vigorously developing these two kinds of mechanical originals, weapons!

What Hong Tao said, especially what he said seriously, whoever believes it will not be far from bad luck. He earnestly listed with the emperor and courtiers many reasons why he was least likely to rebel, and each of them sounded so reasonable and reasonable.

But this is not the case in the bones, it is true that the Wujin Store in Liangzhou cannot produce a large number of armor weapons, but it does not mean that the supply of Weiqiao Town is cut off, and the new army in Huangzhou must become a waste.

What Hong Tao is doing is another way back, and he is ready to gradually replace steel plate crossbows and siege crossbows with real thermal weapons.

In that case, there is no need for a large-scale industrial base at all, and the Huangzhou New Army can maintain a high combat effectiveness, and only rely on Liangzhou Wujin Xing to complete the replenishment of weapons and ammunition supply.

Of course, in a short period of time, the Huangzhou New Army was indeed subject to the Weiqiao Town Industrial Base. It is useless to develop muskets and artillery light, and it will take some time to secretly manufacture equipment, and there must be follow-up and cooperation from the chemical industry, all of which are indispensable.

This is also the reason why Hong Tao can only secretly engage in weapon development under the pretext of developing looms. He just bullied the ancients for not understanding guns, and Leng said that the main parts of the barrel and gun carriage were loom parts. No one will doubt it, let alone sneak around, just put it on the bright side for you to see, and after reading it, you have to praise our ingenuity!

But it is precisely for this reason that the development of muskets and artillery can no longer start with front-loading smoothbore guns and gradually upgrade to fixed-mounted rifled guns.

Hong Tao must abandon the concept of gradual progress, and must do it in one step. The Mongolian people can only be blinded once, and the plan of Ming Xiu plank road to darken Chen Cang can only be used once. Regardless of whether he succeeded or not, the emperor could only become more and more wary of himself, and would no longer give full trust.

Is the condition ripe for a direct rifled gun and a fixed load? If Hong Tao hadn't developed in the Golden River Empire once, it would definitely not be suitable. From the strength of the material to the primer of the ammunition, it is necessary to constantly test, explore and summarize before it is possible to achieve the goal.

But he already had a very complete experience, and he could grasp a lot of data that needed to be tested in advance according to his memory, and relatively speaking, this step would be bigger, and he wouldn't be hurt by it.

The principle of artillery and muskets is actually similar, solving the problem of barrel and primer, these two thermal weapons are basically successful, nothing more than enlargement of volume.

I really can't play rifled guns, and I can replace them with a breech-loading smoothbore gun for the time being. Hong Tao does not have too high requirements, as long as the new weapon is farther and more accurate than the catapult, it is a good weapon across the era.

But then again, this step is really not very easy to take, and the manufacture of the barrel alone is very, very difficult. Because there are no suitable craftsmen, even if the tools are not weaker than the Jinhe Empire, they cannot improve their efficiency, and they still have to experiment slowly.

In addition, there is no hope for the problem of the primer, the chemistry laboratory in Mawei City has been established for a relatively short time, and the four children, Wang 4, Wang 5, Wang 14, and Wang 15, plus a Gao Yu, have not been exposed to chemistry for a long time, and have not yet entered the period of independent creation, and can only parrot their words.

This work could not be completed in a few years, but fortunately, Hong Tao was not in a hurry, even if all the muskets and artillery were made now, there was no use.

Those things are more expensive than cold weapon warfare, with the current economic strength of the Northern Song Dynasty is not enough to build a large thermal weapon army, let alone on their own, the demand for copper alone can make them poor, where is the money to raise soldiers.

Therefore, military strength is linked to a country's economic strength, and if you want to become a military power, you must first become an economic power, and it is the foundation to set your heart into economic construction.

If you want to invade, let's make do with cold weapons first. Fighting partisans with aircraft carriers is not necessarily the most suitable.

If you want to develop the economy, there is a hard indicator, not commodities and capital, but roads. There is a slogan in later generations: if you want to get rich, you must first build roads, have fewer children and more trees.

The first half of this slogan should be true, no matter how good the product is, it is equal to not being able to transport it. If goods cannot be circulated at a lower cost, more added value will not be generated.

Now Huangzhou has special products, many of which are unique, but the road to the outside world in Huangzhou is too bad, at least five months of the year are impassable, and the rest of the months cannot guarantee the safety of traffic.

The problem of bandits can be basically ignored, the caravan is not a soft persimmon, small-scale bandits can not affect trade, large-scale bandits can not survive in the border area, and the fundamental reason for affecting the smooth flow of roads is the climate.

Don't mention the heavy snowfall, it doesn't need to be too big, a moderate snow can block the mountain road in and out of Huangzhou. In addition to snow, heavy summer rains can also cause landslides and mudslides, which are no less damaging to traffic than snow.

It's not just that the road from Lanzhou to Huangzhou is terrible, but the post road from Lanzhou to Liangzhou is not much better. Winter is still blocked by heavy snow, and summer is still unable to escape the fate of mud and hard to walk.

Seeing that there are more and more caravans in Huangzhou and Liangzhou, and they don't have the transportation capacity of the water tiger wings regardless of the cost, so Hong Tao gritted his teeth and built roads!

All other construction has been delayed, and manpower and material resources have been concentrated to build roads. First build the post road from Liangzhou to Lanzhou, where the mountains are not so steep, and the construction difficulty is much lower.

He was going to build not dirt roads, nor hardened roads, but stone roads. In the area covered by the soil layer, square stone strips half a meter high and one foot thick are arranged vertically to form a road surface, like a lead typesetting. When encountering rock formations, simply level them on the spot, and there is no need to make a big move.

Such a pavement has only one benefit, it is strong and durable. This pavement can be found in many European cities and historic towns and villages, and it can still be used for centuries without collapsing or cracking. The years can only leave shallow marks on the stone, slightly bumpy, but do not affect the main function.

There are good and bad, the defects of this stone road are also very obvious, its construction is relatively large, not only to mine stone, but also to dig trenches, than to build a gravel road cost much higher.