The cost of raw materials for the textile mill comes from cotton, and cotton, the area occupied by the Holy King's Mansion is not very large, and the output is not very large. At present, according to the production scale www.biquge.info of the first textile factory, the two provinces can barely supply goods, and if they continue to add new textile factories, they need to buy cotton and other raw materials from other places.

Feng Yunshan asked Wu Chongyao to plan the supply of raw materials such as cotton in advance.

The first is to contact cotton merchants in Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Shandong and Jiangnan to purchase in batches and stock up on some cotton in advance. However, the output of the whole of China is not very high, Feng Yunshan thought that when more textile factories were built in the future, causing a huge shortage of cotton, he asked Wu Chongyao to directly contact cotton merchants in India, the United States and other places for supply. This can not only provide a large amount of cotton, but also rob the British textile industry of raw materials.

The second is self-reliance, encouraging the people in the Liangguang and Munan areas to grow cotton. This is a slow solution, but it is a long-term solution. Moreover, the textile industry of the entire holy country can not be controlled by others. Of course, it is mainly dependent on the increase in cotton prices to attract people to prefer to plant cotton.

In addition, Feng Yunshan thought that once there were more textile mills, the foreign cloth products and raw material cotton under the Nanyang Company would inevitably collide with the Western European textile industry led by Britain.

The Crimean War should be about to start, and in a few years, the British army will be able to wage war against China, and before that, it must be strong.

Thinking about it this way, in addition to strengthening the production of foreign cloth, the production of weapons and munitions factories should also be established as soon as possible.

At present, Nanyang No. 1 Steel Plant is already under construction, and it will not be long before it will be put into operation.

Because Prince Karl of Prussia and Consul Karenwei of Guangzhou brought a set of manufacturing drawings of the Charville MLE1842 firing smoothbore gun, Feng Yunshan proposed to cancel the drawings and equipment of the Charvail MLE1816 flintlock smoothbore gun originally purchased from the French.

With a better one, this old-fashioned certainly doesn't want anymore. However, the French minister Bourblon was not happy and protested, and Feng Yunshan, considering his own credit, proposed a replacement order to Bourblon, preferring to replace it with an extra 100,000 silver dollars and replace it with two special gear machine tools, which can process both cylindrical and bevel gears.

Burblon had no choice but to agree. He also realized that if France does not sell advanced equipment, other countries will still sell it, and now that the situation on the Crimean Peninsula is becoming more and more tense, the relationship between Britain and France is closer, and he does not have to care too much about the opinions of the British. Otherwise, he still has to think about these machine tools.

Prince Karl returned to Prussia not long after, but Karenway and a group of mechanics stayed, and the Prussian government sent him to the Holy Kingdom to help Feng Yunshan build an arsenal.

This time, Karenwei brought nearly 200 machines and equipment purchased by Feng Yunshan, as well as a group of mechanical technicians and engineers to build an arsenal, to help Feng Yunshan set up a medium-sized arsenal including a machine factory, a musket factory, a steam furnace factory, a foundry, a bullet and ammunition factory, a steel factory, a gunpowder factory, and a primer factory.

Although Feng Yunshan contracted the construction of the entire arsenal to Prussia, he did not completely rely on them, but sent dozens of machine manufacturing managers and craftsmen under the Ministry of Public Works of the Holy King's Mansion to follow the Prussian technicians and engineers, saying that they were helping, and they were really learning and checking.

A large number of steam engines, stamping machine tools, gantry planers, horizontal milling machines, forging machine tools, gear hobbing machines, cylinder boring machines, steam hammers, pipe drawing machines and other equipment were installed, and the stewards and craftsmen who followed the study found that there was little difference between this arsenal and the machine factory, and it was also a conventional machine, but it was used for different purposes, processing all kinds of parts, and then assembling them into firearms.

However, Prussian engineers say that this is only the core part of the arsenal, and there are many more. Sure enough, as time went on, the foundry behind it also rose, and the primer factory began to be built.

On this day, Kalunwei found Feng Yunshan and talked about the Arsenal: "Holy King, the Arsenal is formed, there is no big problem with the main part, as long as the machinery and equipment are installed in place, the workers can be familiar with it." However, the primer used for the firing pistol, your country does not have ready-made mercury to procure, you need to produce it yourself, or purchase more from Prussia. ”

Thunder garlic mercury? The white substance, which has a high sensitivity to flames, needles and impacts, is like the fire cap fire medicine of this era. Feng Yunshan understood that this thunder garlic mercury was still in his own hands, and he must produce it by himself, and it just so happened that he happened to know how to produce it.

He asked Karenway to ask some of the engineers in the Prussian arsenal, and he knew that mercury was produced by the reaction of concentrated nitric acid and mercury, and then ethanol.

It turns out that even in Europe, mercury is relatively rare, because it is rare and becomes valuable. The production of concentrated nitric acid is still more troublesome, and the production of mercury is more dangerous.

However, these are not problems for Feng Yunshan.

The sulfuric acid plant in Guiyang has accumulated a large amount of sulfuric acid, and it is worried that there is no place to consume it, and it is used to prepare concentrated nitric acid, which is just right. The only flaw is that there is not much saltpeter, and the saltpeter mine in the Jiuzhi Mountains is not enough to produce gunpowder, and it is enough for Nanyang Company to buy gunpowder everywhere.

Luckily, there was a lot of dirt to collect. Nanyang Company openly purchased soil nitrate in the two wide range, and mobilized the rural people to collect soil nitrate, which not only made up for the lack of nitrate, but also had a large surplus, which was purified and used to produce concentrated nitric acid, but it was just right.

With concentrated nitric acid, mercury is not to be worried, and there is a lot of anhydrous ethanol, so for the Holy Country, compared with Prussia, which is small and poor, the conditions for producing mercury are much better.

As a result, Feng Yunshan ordered to build a specialty chemical factory on his own, which was specially used to produce hazardous chemicals such as mercury, sulfuric acid, and concentrated nitric acid. The primer plant does not need to produce mercury in the garlic itself, and can pick up the goods directly from the specialty chemicals factory.

The problem of mercury in thunder garlic was solved, and the rest was smooth. Copper, there is something within the Holy Country, the copper ore in Guiyang is continuously provided, and the copper mine next to the Dabaoshan Iron Mine is a large amount, which is used to produce copper caps, accounting for only a small part of it.

Within a few days, Feng Yunshan provided hundreds of kilograms of mercury from thunder garlic.

Karenwei was surprised by how Feng Yunshan solved the problem of mercury in thunder garlic. In his opinion, it must have cost a huge amount of money to buy it from Europe or the United States, you know, the price of thunder garlic mercury is not low, hundreds of kilograms, this cost, but it is unimaginable, and he can't help but marvel at Feng Yunshan's wealth.

With Mercury Thunder, the primer plant was soon put into operation, producing primers for firing.

The gunpowder factory was even more convenient, and there was almost no need for the help of the Prussians, and only a few craftsmen transferred from Gyeyang made the gunpowder themselves.

The only slightly more difficult thing was the rifled barrel, which, however, was not too much of a problem in the hands of a mechanical engineer sent by the Pru Soldier Factory.

The stewards and craftsmen of the Ministry of Public Works hurriedly hurried to study, and they were able to operate the machine tools themselves, and the barrels processed and cast were all smoothbore barrels. As for the rifled barrel, Prussian engineers used to drill holes with steel rods, and then use a rifling machine to draw rifling, and through the knife setting on the rifling machine, different rifling wires were pulled.

The stewards and craftsmen of the Ministry of Public Works suddenly realized that it was still possible to do so.

It didn't take long for the first arsenal of the Holy Kingdom to be built, although it was still only producing foreign guns and primers, etc., but it was also a medium-sized arsenal. In the next step, Feng Yunshan and other Nanyang No. 1 Iron and Steel Works produced a certain amount of high-quality Krupp "tank steel" and continued to develop artillery research and development in the arsenal.

At present, the arsenal mainly produces the Charville MLE 1842 firing smoothbore gun. In addition, Feng Yunshan also asked Zeng Yuheng, vice minister of the Ministry of Public Works, to organize 12 foreign technicians recruited by Li Jianwei from Prussia and craftsmen who had originally escaped from the captive army to imitate the Mineer gun.

A month later, under the organization of Prussian technicians, the arsenal officially began large-scale production, producing nearly 50 high-imitation Charville MLE1842 firing smoothbore guns in one day, as well as sixteen or seven Migne guns, and countless primer gunpowder.

In this way, this No. 1 arsenal of the Holy Kingdom can produce 1,500 shots of shotbore guns and nearly 500 pieces of Minnes rifles every month. Although it may not seem like much, this is just the fact that the arsenal has just opened, it is not yet fully operational, and the workers are not yet skilled. After a while, it is estimated that the yield will be higher than this. (To be continued.) )