287 The Power of Science

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After Li Zixiao arrived at Baihu Village, Li Tianba and Sun Tong personally brought people out to greet them.

Then, Li Zixiao did not enter the village directly, but under the leadership of Sun Tong, he went straight to the dam they were building.

This is also one of the main reasons why Li Zixiao came to inspect Baihu Village this time.

The dam in Baihu Village, Li Zixiao still attaches great importance to it.

When they went up to the creek, they found that the first dam had been completed.

The number of migrant workers building the dam has also decreased, and these people are already starting to build a second dam.

Li Zixiao expressed his satisfaction with the speed of the project here, which also made the old man Sun Tong breathe a sigh of relief.

And the waterwheel on the first dam, which is now in place, is being commissioned by several carpenters there, and has not yet been put into use.

And what should this waterwheel be used for, Sun Tong and they didn't dare to advocate without permission, so they waited for Li Zixiao to come here to settle this matter.

After Li Zixiao looked at this waterwheel, he saw that the workmanship of the waterwheel was very good.

Most of the waterwheels are made of mortise and tenon joints, with few iron nails, but they are very strong, which fully reflects the level of carpenters.

Li Zixiao nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "This waterwheel is very sturdy, it looks like it should be very durable."

Since our waterwheel has been done, we can't let it sit idle, find a way to connect the stone mill, and the first waterwheel will be used as a grinding surface, which can save us a lot of manpower. ”

"If the general says so, then it's decided, and then I'll arrange someone to do it."

After listening to the old man Sun Tong, he immediately nodded in agreement.

Now in the White Tiger Village, there are three people with the highest status here,

Needless to say, it is Li Tianba, the battalion general of the 'Tiger Battalion' who controls the defense of White Tiger Village.

The second is the old man Sun Tong, who is in charge of all the trivial matters of the cottage.

The old man Sun Tong is almost sixty years old, but now he is getting younger and younger, walking all over the cottage every day, smiling, and not feeling tired at all.

Third, it is Tie Pingliang, who is in charge of all the craftsmen and workshops in the cottage.

Li Tianba didn't bother to take care of anything except being in charge of the 'Tiger Ben Camp'.

And Tie Pingliang was devoted to the study of Lu Mi Gong and the study of the flintlock pistol, and he didn't have time to care about other things, so Sun Tong became the biggest housekeeper in Baihu Village.

And the old man Sun Tong really likes to take care of these things, and he is doing quite well, Li Zixiao is also happy to use Sun Tong, after all, this is an old man who follows him, and there is no need to worry about loyalty.

And Li Zixiao chose to use the first waterwheel to grind noodles, which is also for a reason.

Now the White Dragon Army has tens of thousands of mouths, and the food they eat every day is massive, and most of the food they recover from the people is raw grain.

Whether it's wheat, beans, or even sorghum, most of them have to be ground into flour and made into cakes before they can be eaten.

And the White Dragon Army provided so many people to eat every day, and they used to rely on manpower or animal power to grind noodles, which consumed too much manpower and material resources.

At present, if a large-scale hydraulic stone mill is built, this hydraulic stone mill can run without sleep.

In this way, a large amount of manpower and animal power can also be freed up to do something else.

Then Li Zixiao walked towards the blacksmith workshop in Houshan, and before he reached the blacksmith shop, he heard the clanging sound of iron in the blacksmith workshop from a distance.

When they entered the blacksmith's workshop, they saw that many craftsmen were still busy making agricultural tools.

Today's spring ploughing is underway, although they have already built a lot of farm tools in advance.

But after the spring plowing began this year, there was still a big gap, so Li Zixiao had to urgently order Tie Pingliang's side to immediately build another batch of farm tools.

Li Zixiao took a cursory look at the farm tools he had built, although some of the farm tools, because of the urgency of time, were a little rough to build, like the work of an apprentice.

But for farm tools, such products as long as they are strong and durable, as for the quality of the slowly improved.

In fact, what Li Zixiao didn't know was that these farm tools were really made by Tie Pingliang's apprentices, but he remembered Li Zixiao's instructions.

At any time, he must not leave behind the creation of new bird guns and armor, and he must see that all the soldiers of the White Dragon Army, including the soldiers of the new barracks, have a soldier armor before this summer.

In order to accomplish this goal, Tie Pingliang mobilized all the blacksmiths, worked day and night, stopped people without extinguishing the furnace, worked two shifts day and night, and worked overtime to build armor.

From the first time Li Zixiao asked Tie Pingliang so strictly, Tie Pingliang had a hunch that maybe Li Zixiao would make a big move at that time.

In order not to delay Li Zixiao's plan, Tie Pingliang asked his best and most skilled blacksmiths to build armor, and had to let the apprentices make those farm tools.

After all, the technical content of agricultural tools is low, and the technical requirements for craftsmen are also low, so it is perfectly okay to let those apprentices do it.

When Li Zixiao walked and watched, and walked to Tie Pingliang's exclusive fire gun workshop at the back, he saw a busy scene here.

Li Zixiao saw that a lot of semi-finished guns and swarthy half-finished pipes had been created here, lined up in a large row on the shelves.

At a cursory glance, there are at least three or four hundred of them, and they can be assembled after they are taken to the bore.

Since Tie Pingliang went up and listened to Li Zixiao's proposal, the craftsmen here have basically done a division of labor and realized the assembly line operation.

Everyone is responsible for the creation of a part, and the quality of various parts seems to be steadily improving, which is also the benefit of being proficient in industry.

As long as you are not extremely stupid, it is difficult to build a thing every day, and you can't practice it.

After Tie Pingliang saw Li Zixiao coming, he also ran over and grinned, accompanied Li Zixiao to look at these spare parts, with a proud face, and picked up some parts from time to time for Li Zixiao to check.

After Li Zixiao took a cursory look, he nodded with satisfaction, the work here made him very satisfied, and the progress was very fast.

At this time, Li Zixiao looked at Tie Pingliang and asked, "The drawing I drew for you last time, the kind of drilling machine on it, have you made it?" ”

After hearing Li Zixiao say this, Tie Pingliang was even more happy to close his mouth.

He said excitedly: "Hehe, it's done, the general is really talented, this kind of drilling machine, I haven't seen any small ones, and I have to understand it after watching it for a long time."

The general asked for it, so he put it in the back, and his subordinates arranged for someone to build a shed, which was used to house this kind of drilling machine, and the general could go over and have a look. ”

Li Zixiao immediately followed Tie Pingliang through this shed and into a newly built shed.

This shed has a large area, with an area of more than 200 square meters, and the main structure is directly built with thick wood with a bowl mouth, which is very simple.

But it is very sturdy, and the ventilation and lighting conditions are quite good, making the air quality here much better than the air quality in the blacksmith shop.

As soon as Li Zixiao came in, he saw that there were two horizontal manual drilling machines, and several craftsmen were busy around these two drilling machines.

After seeing Li Zixiao come in, these craftsmen immediately stopped what they were doing and hurried over to pay tribute to Li Zixiao.

Li Zixiao asked a craftsman here, "Master Lu, how does this drilling machine feel when you use it?" ”

The craftsman surnamed Lu replied respectfully: "It's easy to use, it's very easy to use, we were not familiar with the use of this thing at the beginning, and we drilled several guns."

But after a few days, we got the hang of it, and it was much easier to use than if we were to drill it by hand, and it was much quicker and easier.

In the past, we could drill out at most eight or nine pipes in a month.

Now this drilling machine, with the cooperation of several of us, can drill a suitable gun pipe almost a day, if the hand is smooth, overtime, you can also get two.

With this drilling machine, we have greatly accelerated the speed of building a new type of bird gun.

No, Master Tie is preparing to build a few more planes to speed up the speed at which we drill the pipes, and strive to complete the task assigned to us by the general as soon as possible.

And after a year, we have used this drilling machine to drill out 30 guns, and there are fewer and fewer scrapped guns.

Listening to Master Tie, this kind of drilling machine is still from the hands of the general, and it is even more admirable to us, the general is not only both civil and military, but I didn't expect to study these. ”

Li Zixiao couldn't help but blush when he heard the compliments of his blacksmith master, he just took advantage of more than 300 years of knowledge than them.

That's the power of science!

With Li Zixiao, Tie Pingliang was enlightened, and Tie Pingliang also had a lot of ideas in his mind, and he was preparing to improve this drilling machine.

This kind of drilling machine was built for the first time, and it was a wooden structure used, and there were many defects, which was also deliberately taken out by Li Zixiao after all, an old and backward drilling machine model.

Li Zixiao just wants to give some inspiration to these craftsmen of this era and stimulate their enthusiasm for creation, and Li Zixiao will never suppress the innovative spirit of these craftsmen.

For this reason, Li Zixiao specially allocated a sum of silver for Tie Pingliang to use, as long as the craftsman had a good idea and wanted to study or make some kind of tool.

As long as his idea is feasible and the plan is approved by Tie Pingliang, he can get some financial support from Tie Pingliang.

When he learned from Tie Pingliang about the creation of a new type of bird gun, because of the appearance of that kind of drilling machine, the speed was greatly accelerated, and Li Zixiao was overjoyed.

At this time, there was still a big gap in the new bird guns in the White Dragon Army, and Li Zixiao not only had to increase the number of bird guns in the White Dragon Army.

And before September this year, he completed the replacement of all the old and new bird guns in the White Dragon Army, and he let all the bird guns use the new bird guns before going north to fight the Tartars.

Those Tartars outside the pass were not comparable to those mountain bandits and guards, they were more fierce and well-equipped, even stronger than those along the coast at this time.

If he is not fully prepared, Li Zixiao will not dare to rashly confront the army of Tartars outside the Guan.

Li Zixiao hurriedly took out a bird's gun from it, put it in his hand and played with it.

These bird guns are all new bird guns newly created by Tie Pingliang, and they are very heavy, so that people can hold them and have a sense of security.

And the workmanship of these bird guns is quite good, the gap is complete, and a layer of animal fat is coated on it to prevent rust, just to be transported to the White Snake Village and sent to the army for use.

Li Zixiao was very happy after seeing it, and took a bird's gun to aim, then put it back in the box, and asked Tie Pingliang with a smile: "How many rods have been made in total?" ”

"A total of 130 strokes, and with the help of the drilling machine, the pipe can be built much faster.

At the end of this month, I can make more than 20 strokes, and I originally wanted to make 150 strokes at the end of this month and send them to the main village together.

I didn't expect the general to come over today, and I'll have someone wrap up these new bird guns and let the general take them back later. ”

Tie Pingliang hurriedly replied.

"I didn't expect your speed to be quite good, far beyond my expectations, it seems that you can really complete the task I gave you 600 strokes on the day I set, which is very good!

By the way, it is not enough to have a bird gun, and you also have to speed up the manufacture of projectiles, and I will also inform Wu Yao later, so that he can speed up the manufacture and storage of gunpowder.

This time, when I went back, I took these new bird guns back with me. ”

Li Zixiao was very satisfied with Tie Pingliang's work, he could see that Tie Pingliang's craftsmen here were very hard, and many people's eyes were bloodshot.

"General, I've thought about the creation of this thing, if we can also make it uniformly, it would be better, and the projectiles made in this way will be more regular." Tie Pingliang said suggestively.

"You can do it yourself." Li Zixiao said with authority.

"I see that many of your craftsmen here are not in good spirits, I guess you haven't rested for a long time, too rigid and easy to break, you should combine work and rest.

Today, I specially approve all the craftsmen and masters here, a day off, let you rest and rest, and by the way, each craftsman will send three taels of silver for food, and treat everyone.

One more day, one less day won't hinder much, so that everyone can come back with enough energy and get to work, and the efficiency will be faster. ”

"Long live the general, long live the general!"

As soon as Li Zixiao's words were finished, the entire blacksmith workshop resounded with the cheers of hundreds of craftsmen in unison, and they were overjoyed.

The two months of high-intensity work in a row made him tired, and now that Li Zixiao is here, he not only gives them a holiday, but also gives them a bounty, how can they not be happy.

"Alright, alright, stop shouting, hooray this thing is not nonsense."

Li Zixiao hurriedly waved his hand and motioned for everyone to stop.

The mass production of the new bird gun is definitely great news for Li Zixiao.

In this way, the miscellaneous bird guns they used could finally be withdrawn from the army.

This is a very important thing for the next step, the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the White Dragon Army.

If Tie Pingliang and the others followed, their current construction speed would almost be able to create 600 new bird guns by the end of August.

At that time, all the bird guns in the White Dragon Army can be equipped with new bird guns, and the number of fire guns and the proportion of fire guns in the army can be increased.

This will play a vital role in Li Zixiao's fall to the north to fight the Tartars, and when Li Zixiao wants to let the wild boar skin outside the gate see what is called the power of science and technology.

One by one, these wild boar skins have just come out of the mountains and forests, and they have just finished their lives like savages.

They still believe in the foolish idea of bow and arrow, riding and shooting invincible, and when the time comes, Li Zixiao will teach them how to behave.